May 29, 2025 • 26 mins
Baseball fandom has its legends, and few are as storied or impactful as Florida State University's "Animals of Section B." Johnny Mac pulls back the curtain on this 47-year tradition that's become the heartbeat of Seminole baseball.
From their strategic K-Time chants that rattle opposing batters to the mysteriously effective fifth-inning rendition of "O Canada" that began during the 1988 Winter Olympics, these superfans have created quantifiable home-field advantage. The NCAA has even verified that FSU players perform better and opponents struggle when the Animals are in full force – proof that passionate fans can literally change the game.
The Animals represent something increasingly rare in modern sports – an organic, authentic fan culture that transcends generations. They've traveled to Omaha for College World Series appearances, brought their energy to away games nationwide, and welcomed countless children into their section to create the next generation of superfans. As Johnny explains their philosophy: "It's only weird if it doesn't work."
Whether you're a baseball enthusiast, a student of fan culture, or simply appreciate the ways communities form around shared passions, this conversation captures the magic that happens when dedication meets tradition. Ready to experience it yourself? As Johnny assures listeners, all are welcome in Section B – just show up and join the fun.
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Joy (00:03):
Thanks for tuning in to the Bring Joy Podcast.
We're in Season 5 and it's allabout baseball, talking big
leagues to the little leagues,yankees to the Conks and
everything in between.
I'll share my joy for the gamewith you and, whether you're a
fan of baseball or goodstorytelling, you'll be
entertained and each episodewill bring a little joy to your
day.
So sit back and relax.
Let's do this thing will bringa little joy to your day.
(00:25):
So sit back and relax.
Let's do this thing.
Johnny Mack, welcome to theBring Joy podcast.
Thank you, joey.
Glad to be on here.
I mentioned to you earlier whenwe were getting set up for this
.
I'm really excited to betalking to you.
I've been seeing you on TV fora few years now.
I watch all the FSU baseballgames and I've got a bucket list
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item to be part of the animalsone day.
So when I reached out and askedyou if you'd be on the podcast,
I was nervous, waiting to seewhat you say, and you answered
back right away and said youwere happy to do it.
So thanks for being here.
Johnny Mac (01:01):
No thanks for having me on.
Hey, anytime I get a chance totalk about Florida State
baseball, the animals of SectionB, I'm always ready to let
people know all about us and howwe support Florida State
baseball.
And just you know, especiallywith your bucket list man,
you're welcome to Florida StateSection B anytime you want to
come up.
Joy (01:18):
Thank you, I'm going to take you up on that offer.
Johnny Mac (01:26):
So tell me about the animals and how long have you
been part of the group?
Okay, so this year we'll markthe 47th year of the animals and
starting with just a bunch ofpeople's love for Florida state
baseball, when they would showup at games, you know, sit in a
group and just create acompetitive advantage for the,
for the baseball team here, someof us just cheering the whole
time coming up, you know, tryingto get in the other team's head
.
You know trying to do it, youknow, tastefully, but also
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trying to create a home fieldadvantage for our for Florida
State.
And so I've been sitting up insection B on a regular basis now
for probably about 15 years.
Joy (01:57):
That's awesome, that that's really cool, and so I'm.
I'm here in Key West andthere's quite a connection
between Key West and FSUbaseball, going back when I was
a kid.
The first guy that went to FSUwas Brooks Carrier in the mid to
late 70s, and then Jack andRandy Niles played for FSU in
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the 90s and then, more recently,stephen Wells around 2015,
around that time.
So I feel like there's aconnection between Key West and
FSU baseball.
Johnny Mac (02:33):
That's why.
Joy (02:34):
I'm always watching the games.
Johnny Mac (02:36):
No, that's good.
Yeah, you know the good thingabout the state of Florida.
You know some of the bestbaseball players in the country
live in the state of Florida andso when you can keep not just
homegrown talent but alsostate-grown talent here in the
state, especially at FloridaState, you know it's better for
everyone.
Joy (02:51):
Yeah, for sure.
In fact there's a kid that justcommitted.
He'll be a senior next year.
He's up at Coral Shores, whichis one of the keys closer to the
mainland.
His name is Donavan Thiery andI was going to tell you write
his name down, because he'll bethere not next year but the
following year and he's quite aplayer.
So we're lucky in Florida thatour boys get to play ball year
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round and we have so many goodschools.
But you know something specialabout the Knowles.
Johnny Mac (03:20):
Yes, there definitely is.
Well, we'll definitely keep hisname written down and you know
we'll start looking forward tohim getting here.
Joy (03:25):
So I wanted to ask you what's a zookeeper?
Johnny Mac (03:30):
So a zookeeper is a person basically who is in
charge of the animals.
You know, making sure theticket, the seating arrangements
filled up, making sure that youknow everybody gets to the
games, making sure everybody isinvolved with the games.
Just you know it's a lot to do.
You know they obviously startedbefore I became an animal.
You basically, you knowzookeepers just basically kind
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of who's in charge and just kindof getting everything together,
keeping everybody together,especially with the seats we
have 70 seats in our block andyou know, just keeping everybody
up to date, like where theirseats are, making sure everybody
, you know, gets their ticketspaid for on time.
It's a lot to deal with.
So Shannon Thomas right now isour current zookeeper, in the
line of the good zookeepers thatwe've had.
Joy (04:15):
Yeah, and I read that the animals have been around since
the 70s.
Johnny Mac (04:20):
Yeah, so, like I say , this is 47 years of Section B.
They started off as the animalsand Section B came because back
Hauser used to be, I say,numbered with letters and not
numbers.
Now we technically sit inSection 5, but basically
wherever we sit is Section B.
Joy (04:40):
Right, and I thought that was pretty cool that when the
stadium was redone and thesections are now numbered and
not letters, they still haveyour section as section B.
There's a big B there on thepylon to let everybody know that
that's where the animals go.
I thought that was a reallycool nod to the fans.
Johnny Mac (05:00):
Yeah, it was.
You know, they're just tryingto keep traditions going, which
this has been going for a longtime.
So yeah, it was nice to seethem throw that B up there over
the number five.
Joy (05:09):
That was really cool.
And so you mentionedcompetitive advantage earlier,
and the NCAA put out an articlein May first week of May that
talked about several teams D1schools that have a home field
advantage because of their fanbase, and, of course, the
animals were featured.
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So not only do you guys createan atmosphere that makes it fun
and enjoyable to go to the game,but they literally put numbers
to all the mayhem and show thatFSU players perform better and,
on the contrary, the opponentsnot so much.
Johnny Mac (05:47):
Yeah, I mean it definitely makes a competitive
advantage because you know theway it starts for us is
basically the first pitch of thegame.
We're up, we're ready until thelast pitch of the game.
You know, win or lose, we'rethere until the end of the game.
And you know some teams comingin here that play in front of
small crowds at home.
You don't want to average gameon a Tuesday night.
You know we'll get three orfour thousand people here where
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in some cities you go to youmight get three or four hundred.
So when you get up to bat andyou know you got two strikes on
you and you start hearing that Ktime ring throughout the
stadium, you know it just itkind of gets to you and just,
yeah, there, you go right there.
That's awesome.
I'm glad you got the hat man.
That's supporting a great cause.
Joy (06:27):
It is, and I don't want to wear it until this weekend, the
playoffs, and plus it's so cleanI don't want to get it dirty,
so I've been saving it for theplayoffs, but yeah go ahead.
That'll be a good time to breakit out.
Tell me about K-Time, becauseI've got a story for you.
Johnny Mac (06:45):
K-Time has been one of the cheers that's, you know,
been around the animals way wellbefore me and you know it's
just one of those things.
When you're up there, you knowour pitchers love it.
Our pitchers are used to it, Ithink when they come in as
freshmen.
And you know we try to keep itquiet as much as we can whenever
we're on the mound.
You's kind of like when yourteam was on offense in football.
You don't want the stadium loud, you want your boys in
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concentrate and everything likethat.
But whenever you've got aone-two count on the batter man,
it's coming.
Somebody in our section isgoing to belt out a K as long as
they can, and as soon as that'sover we start it with the K
time and we just keep it upuntil something happens with the
batter Strike out, fly out,ground out base, hit base on
balls, whatever it may be, butit keeps going through that same
batter until an outcome isreached.
Joy (07:31):
So I have.
I told you I have a story.
So I'm part of a fan club herefor our high school QS Conks and
we're called the K crew and ourbig thing is that we hang Ks
when our pitchers strike outbatters.
So we recently tried to emulateK time and we're doing pretty
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good.
But our catcher is Jackie NilesJack Niles' son, and he told us
about the third game in.
He said you guys need some work.
Johnny Mac (08:02):
So we're going to practice a little bit.
Hey, that's okay.
The fact that you're gettinginto it, man, means a lot
because you know at that earlyage in high school you know you
don't hear a lot of coordinatedchants like that in a high
school baseball game, but youknow the softball team does it
now, which sounds great comingout of that stadium.
We have kids that come sit inthis section that play baseball
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at other schools and they try totake it back to their schools.
Like it's fun to see thosetraditions getting carried.
That it means so much to peoplethat they want to try to do it
wherever they go.
Joy (08:35):
Yeah, they say that's the best form of flattery, right,
imitation.
That's right.
I think it's really cool.
You talked about softball.
We also started doing it at theLady Conks softball game.
So, yeah, all the way fromTallahassee to Key West, we're
doing K-Time.
Johnny Mac (08:52):
That's awesome.
That's awesome.
Joy (08:55):
It is really cool.
How many chance do you haveduring during the game?
How, what?
Johnny Mac (09:02):
so some of our regular chance.
Like you said, you have the ktime whenever, um, whenever we
get a 3-1 count on when we'rethere pitching and we're batting
.
If it gets to a 3-1 count, meand a couple guys, we lead off
with a walkie-talkie and awalkie-talkie on rag arm and
then the rest of the stadiumfollows up with get a hit, and
that just keeps going until, Imean, there's been several times
.
You know somebody hits five orsix foul balls in a row.
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That cheer can last for quite awhile.
So that and the K-time are twoof the most prevalent.
We also somebody makes an errorfor the opposing team.
We makes an error and, um, forthe opposing team.
We have a circus theme song thatwe sing and point over to the
circus uh, right on that rush,right outside right field of
dick hauser have, uh, you knowsomebody's in there pitching and
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they start, um, you know, theystart giving up three, four,
five, six, seven runs.
We start singing our ownversion.
It's called take me out of thisball game, which you know when
you're a pitcher.
When you're a pitcher, youdon't want to hear that coming
from the crowd when you'realready giving up a lot of runs,
and then, of course, in thefifth inning, bottom of the
fifth inning, when we're at home, top of the fifth on the road.
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That's when we break out ourrendition of O Canada.
Yes tell me about that.
Okay, so you know.
So back in 1988, the WinterOlympics were held in Canada,
and you know, when you win agold medal at the Olympics, they
play your team's nationalanthem.
Well with the, with the Olympicsbeing there.
Obviously Canadians are good atwinter sports because you know
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they have a lot.
You know, somebody from Floridais probably not going to win a
skiing gold medal, so you know.
So their, their Canadiannational national anthem got,
you know, sung more than once.
So at a baseball game it was,you know, one afternoon florida
state's playing.
They're getting beat.
A couple guys in the section upthere's the bottom of the fifth.
One of the guys just startshumming the canadian national
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anthem because he's heard it somuch, and I think maybe one or
two other guys going in.
All of a sudden, fsu winds uprallying, they wind up winning
the game.
So you know, the next day theycome out there, same thing
happens.
Man, we get down fifth inning.
These guys are like, hey, man,we might as well give it another
shot and sure enough, come backand win the game.
And so since 1988, the Canadiannational anthem.
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If any of us are in attendanceat the games, we break out the
flag and we sing the CanadianNational Anthem.
It's been done in awayballparks, we've done it in
Omaha.
Beware that an animal goes to agame, they usually try to carry
a flag with them, and so that'sone of the traditions that
people come and ask me aboutafter the game.
Where did that come from, andwhy would you stand up and sing
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the Canadian national anthem inthe middle of a baseball game?
Joy (11:36):
Right right.
Johnny Mac (11:37):
You know you'd be amazed at how many times it
works in the fifth inning whenthat comes out.
Joy (11:44):
And then all of a sudden the bats start getting hot.
Yeah, if it works, you know,don't change it.
Right?
That's part of baseball too,superstition, right?
If something's working don'tchange it.
We have a saying up there it'sonly weird if it doesn't work.
So, speaking of weird, theother thing is you guys have a
lot of props.
I've seen you in a gold jacket,a duck hat on.
Johnny Mac (12:03):
Yeah, so the gold jacket was the only thing I
wanted for Christmas three yearsago.
So my mom graciously got it forme Because obviously, you know,
on Sunday we break out the golduniforms, so that gold jacket
goes with me every Sunday.
Now a few other people in thesection now have gold jackets.
You know we look pretty good upthere on Sundays.
The ducks we started a cheer,you know, several years ago.
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Whenever we load the bases up,we started ducks on the pond
cheer.
So I bring an inflatable duckthat I pick someone out every
game that they have to wear itif we load the bases.
And then people have startedincorporating duck hats and duck
beads.
You know it's kind of takenover a life of its own.
Joy (12:39):
Yeah, that's really cool.
We have something in the samescenario.
When there's conks on the bases, instead of saying ducks on the
pond, we say conks on the flats, like out in the ocean, the
flats.
Johnny Mac (12:51):
I like that.
That's good.
That's good.
Joy (12:53):
Yeah, so in the flats, I like that.
That's good, that's good, yeah,so, so, so, that's pretty cool.
And you talked about the camera, and the camera definitely
finds you guys, no matter ifit's like a local broadcast or
ESPN.
First you start hearing thechants, you're watching the
broadcast and you can hear thechants, and then the next thing,
you know, the camera finds youguys, sure enough.
Johnny Mac (13:14):
Well, it's really cool because with that, the
exposure that we get a lot ofthe ESPN commentators or
whatever usually ESPN becauseACC Network and ESPN do a lot of
the games here, they do theirhomework, they put in the time
and because it's been around for47 years, it's one of those
things like when some teams comein here and they don't know
what's going on.
When some teams come in hereand they don't know what's going
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on, their fans will come andtalk to us after the game and
they will come tailgate with usafter the game just to kind of,
you know, how does this start?
How do we get something goingat this at our stadium?
So the fact that it's beenaround for so long, but all the
announcers even when we went toOmaha, the cameras were in our
section most of the time lastyear, the games that we were
there, because, because I mean,they know we stand up from the
first pitch of the game and westay up there until the last
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pitch of the game.
Joy (14:00):
Speaking of Omaha, I was going to ask you you did get to
go to.
Omaha Was last year, your firstyear.
Johnny Mac (14:08):
No, last year was the third year.
My first year was 2017, whenthe team went out there, and I
also went in 2019 when it wasMike Martin when it was 11s last
year.
And then that being our firstyear back last year, was really
important to me to go out therewith that team because the year
before, you know, coming off theseason we had the year before,
was the first losing baseballseason in base florida state
baseball history.
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So for that team to do whatthey did, it was really special
last year.
The team was very special lastyear and, man, I just felt like,
you know, I needed to go outthere and be there and
experience that with them.
Joy (14:38):
Yeah, I was looking up tickets to Omaha and that's an
investment right there.
Johnny Mac (14:46):
Graciously.
Last year, you know, my sisterknew how bad I wanted to go and
she started to go fund me to getme out there.
And man, it was justoverwhelming the responses that
it got.
You know, within 24 hours wehad already reached more than
the goal she had set for me toget out there, and so it was
very humbling for people formerplayers, former players, parents
, you know, just friends thatI've known for years all knew
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how, what it meant to me to getout there and my sister doing
that for me and everybodycontributing was very humbling
and very amazing so do you haveany favorite memories to share,
since you've been an animalfavorite?
game there's several for me was2017, when you know that was the
first time that I was reallythat much involved with the
animals and regionals.
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You know we lost our first gameand battled back and won through
the losers bracket and then wonour super regional to go to
omaha.
My first trip out there wasreally special to me because
that was the first time I'd everbeen and just the way the team
fought back after losing thefirst game of regionals to have
to come through the loser'sbracket that was probably one of
my favorite ones.
There's several that I wouldprobably have to think about.
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I mean, Quincy Nieporte walkingoff the Gators in extra innings
back in 2017 was probably oneof the greatest moments that
I've seen Last year in SuperRegionals.
James Tibbs, hitting three homeruns in the second game of
Super Regionals to help send usto Omaha that was one of those
that I'll definitely neverforget, and there's so many of
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them.
You have to sit there and kindof think about well, remember
this and this and this, butthose are definitely a couple
that stick out to me.
Joy (16:17):
Yeah, I remember that game.
When Newport did that, they hada good team.
That was a good team.
I still got issues with LSUbecause they took us out.
Johnny Mac (16:27):
That was the year that LSU took us out of the
tournament right, Well, yeah,2017, we played LSU in the first
game and we lost to them.
Joy (16:37):
2017, we played LSU in the first game and we lost to them.
Talking about this year's team,the 2025 team is back in the
bracket.
We've got a chance out of 64teams and we're hosting a
tournament and I know that CoachJarrett is scheming up
strategies for the team and howthey're going to perform.
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What are the animals doing tobe ready for regionals?
Johnny Mac (17:03):
Just showing up and we always get together before
the game and basically it's justbringing the energy.
The regular season's over nowNone of that counts anymore.
You know we're getting toregionals.
Friday starts the road to Omaha, so what you're going to have
is a little more energy out ofthe crowd.
You know the season's a longseason, but now you know you got
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to the postseason, you'regetting to host regionals, so
the energy's going to be thereprobably more than it has been
all year.
Joy (17:31):
And I heard Coach Jarrett gave you guys a shout-out at his
press conference.
Johnny Mac (17:37):
Yeah, you know what the one good thing about having
him.
Well, there's a lot of goodthings about having him coach
here, but one of them is thefact that he played here, so he
knows what kind of energy theanimals bring, and he's very
gracious in thanking us and allthe fans.
And we are baseballknowledgeable.
We do pay attention to what'sgoing on in the game.
When a player from an opposingteam makes a diving catch, you
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know we stand up and clap forthat guy.
That's a nice play, but we arevery knowledgeable about the
game and we're involved with thewhole game.
You know our stadium doesn'tpipe in crowd noise to try to
get us going.
They don't need to.
Joy (18:10):
Right, right, y'all bring it.
Like you said from the firstpitch, you guys, you guys are on
your feet, cheering to the last.
Johnny Mac (18:17):
That's right.
I mean, we're involved thewhole way, you know.
So we come up with littlechants and cheers that we do for
each player and they'll tellyou how much it means to them,
especially when they're on theroad and you know they're like
man.
I was sitting up here waitingon you guys, but I forget that.
We're on the road now.
Joy (18:32):
Yeah, and you guys travel well in california.
Johnny Mac (18:36):
A couple weeks ago, when we were playing in
california, there was a groupsitting right up front, right
behind home plate, and you couldhear them really good yeah, we
definitely have to give a shoutout and props to the uh greater
uh san francisco seminole clubman, they were fully involved in
going to that man.
They they were stayed incontact with us to kind of get
some ideas.
But man, they were all in ongoing to that game and, luckily
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for them, they got to seesoftball out there and they got
to see baseball.
You know, just following them,listening to them on the TV, man
was, you know, it felt like ahome game almost for us.
Yeah, we got to give them ashout-out, man, because they
brought it that game and theybrought the energy to the
stadium.
Joy (19:21):
It is really cool.
We um here in Key West, wewe're baseball people too.
We've got um winning traditions, um that go way back since,
since the 50s, that we've had 11state championships for our
high school, which is which ispretty cool for a little island
so far down here to have so manychampionships.
We're obviously pretty proud ofthat.
And, uh, we we travel well too,whether we're leaving from Key
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West and going following theboys or people that have left
Key West and re, you know,relocated to other areas around
the state.
If the Conks are playing, youlook around and and everybody
shows up.
So it's uh pretty cool when you, when you have a winning team
for so many years, like theKnowles and the Conks, it makes
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it easier to cheer for them,that's for sure.
You have big hopes for thisseason.
What are you feeling with thisteam?
Johnny Mac (20:11):
Oh man, I mean we got just as good a shot as
anybody.
Being Omaha, you know like.
I say the season's over with.
You know, maybe there's a gameor two here that you think about
, that you could have done thisand could have done that.
Well, none of that mattersanymore.
What matters right now isFriday at 3 o'clock and going
out there and starting the roadto Omaha Friday at 3.
Do you know if Jamie's pitching?
I haven't heard who's pitchingyet.
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That's usually the way therotation is set up.
You know the way we played lastweekend with the ACC tournament
.
I know that.
You know Jamie started a game,mendez started a game and then
Bellini came in to pitch reliefof the second game.
So he's the one who had thesmallest workload.
So I know he's going to beready to go.
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Anybody who starts is going tobe ready to go.
But going with what's going onall season, I would expect Jamie
to be the starter on Fridayafternoon, but it hadn't been
listed for sure, so I'm notpositive on that.
Joy (21:07):
Well, whoever gets a nod will be ready to step up, I'm
sure, and I'm looking forward toit.
It's going to be a greattournament.
There's some really cool teams.
I got to give a greattournament.
There's some really cool teams.
I got to give a shout out.
I do follow stetson also.
Um, I've got family thatrecently moved to the land and
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got season tickets to thehatters, so, um, they play good
baseball and I I follow them.
We actually went up last yearwhen Tallahassee, when the
knolls had the regionaltournament and stetson was in
that bracket and we got to go upand what a great atmosphere.
Yeah, yeah, it was a funatmosphere.
Johnny Mac (21:43):
You know we played Bethune-Cookman here early in
the year and they played ustough.
It was a 9-7 win on a Tuesdaynight here during the season.
You know Mississippi Statethey're going to have a good
team.
The one team I'm intriguedabout that I don't know much
about is Northeastern.
Yeah, but I've been followingthem, man.
I read some of their stuffafter they're done.
You know they've won, I believe, 27 games in a row, which is
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pretty hard to do in a game ofbaseball, and they have 192
stolen bases, which is prettyimpressive for a baseball team.
So I think we've got a prettytough bracket to get through
here.
Joy (22:16):
And that's any given day, right.
That tough bracket to getthrough here, and that's any
given day, right.
That's why they play the game.
But it's a double eliminationright, correct.
Johnny Mac (22:23):
If you come out of the winner's bracket, you can
win three games and you will winthe regional.
Joy (22:29):
You know you lose that one game, man it turns into having
to play about five more games.
Well, hopefully it'll end upwith the Noles back in Omaha and
getting a national championship.
I think that would be reallycool and I'm sure you guys are
already looking to see.
You know you can't get too farahead of yourselves, but if they
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get to Omaha you think you guysare going to make the trip.
Johnny Mac (22:54):
Oh yeah, I'm definitely going.
I got a good friend of mine,ken, and he's the one who taught
me into going the first time hehad actually talked to me,
trying to talk to me, to go backwhen it was at Rosenblatt which
is the one thing I regret isnever getting to see the World
Series at that stadium but backin 2017, he's like look man, you
never know how many chances yougot to do this, and so I'm like
you know what You're right,we're in.
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So I went.
What you're right, we're just,we're in.
Joy (23:20):
So I went in 2017, 19 and I've made it at my mission now,
anytime florida state goes tothe world series, I'm gonna go.
I love it.
I love it.
So listen, if, um, if I get upthere next season and, um, I
want to spend a weekend and seea whole series, can I?
Can I get a ticket to sit withthe animals?
What?
What's how anybody sit with theanimals or what's the
requirements?
Johnny Mac (23:39):
so the only requirement is that you just
come up there and just join in.
You know, the more the merrier.
You know the one good thing thelast several years a lot of
kids are getting involved withit, which we really appreciate,
you know, because sometimes kidsget a little bit nervous about
going up there and cheering andbeing the center of attention.
But, man, when they get upthere they love it.
They want to help out, theywant to do the cave time, they
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want to do all the cheers upthere.
And you know those, those areprospective future animals
coming up there.
One day they may be up thereleading that whole section.
We're going to have a spotwaiting on you.
Just just let me know whenyou're coming and we're going to
, we're going to get it done foryou.
Joy (24:14):
That sounds good and if you ever get to Key West you can
sit with me and my crew rightbehind home plate we call the K
crew and you can hang some K'swith us, have you been to Key
West.
Johnny Mac (24:28):
I've been to Key West once.
It's probably been about theone and only time I ever went
was about 15 years ago.
Two of my best friends gotmarried down there, so I made
the trip down there for thewedding.
But man, I'll tell you what.
It's one of those things you'relike, man, I can't wait to get
back down here, but look howlong it's been.
I still haven't been, but it'sone of those things, I'm gonna
make it back down there again Iwish you would come during
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baseball season.
Joy (24:51):
we, we, we play from march to may and hopefully late into
may, and you're welcome to comeand we play good baseball down
here.
We'd love to have you.
Johnny Mac (25:00):
Oh man, that'd be awesome.
Thank you for the invite.
Joy (25:03):
Johnny, thanks for joining me on the podcast.
I look forward to watching thistournament, seeing you and
listening to you on TV.
Tell all the animals that wegot a southernmost fan club down
here in Key West Go Noles.
Johnny Mac (25:18):
Go Knolls, Joey, thanks for having me on man, I
really enjoyed this.
Like I say anytime I get totalk about Florida State
baseball and the animals, man,it just helps get our name out
there and just helps show us theappreciation that we have for
Florida State and Florida Statebaseball.
Joy (25:30):
Absolutely.
You're a great ambassador forthe game.
Thank you, johnny.
Have a good night.
Yeah, thank you, you have agreat night too.
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Thanks for tuning in to the Bring Joy Podcast.
We're in Season 5 and it's allabout baseball, talking big
leagues to the little leagues,yankees to the Conks and
everything in between.
I'll share my joy for the gamewith you and, whether you're a
fan of baseball or goodstorytelling, you'll be
entertained and each episodewill bring a little joy to your
day.
So sit back and relax.
Let's do this thing will bringa little joy to your day.
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So sit back and relax.
Let's do this thing.
Johnny Mack, welcome to theBring Joy podcast.
Thank you, joey.
Glad to be on here.
I mentioned to you earlier whenwe were getting set up for this
.
I'm really excited to betalking to you.
I've been seeing you on TV fora few years now.
I watch all the FSU baseballgames and I've got a bucket list
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item to be part of the animalsone day.
So when I reached out and askedyou if you'd be on the podcast,
I was nervous, waiting to seewhat you say, and you answered
back right away and said youwere happy to do it.
So thanks for being here.
Johnny Mac (01:01):
No thanks for having me on.
Hey, anytime I get a chance totalk about Florida State
baseball, the animals of SectionB, I'm always ready to let
people know all about us and howwe support Florida State
baseball.
And just you know, especiallywith your bucket list man,
you're welcome to Florida StateSection B anytime you want to
come up.
Joy (01:18):
Thank you, I'm going to take you up on that offer.
Johnny Mac (01:26):
So tell me about the animals and how long have you
been part of the group?
Okay, so this year we'll markthe 47th year of the animals and
starting with just a bunch ofpeople's love for Florida state
baseball, when they would showup at games, you know, sit in a
group and just create acompetitive advantage for the,
for the baseball team here, someof us just cheering the whole
time coming up, you know, tryingto get in the other team's head
.
You know trying to do it, youknow, tastefully, but also
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trying to create a home fieldadvantage for our for Florida
State.
And so I've been sitting up insection B on a regular basis now
for probably about 15 years.
Joy (01:57):
That's awesome, that that's really cool, and so I'm.
I'm here in Key West andthere's quite a connection
between Key West and FSUbaseball, going back when I was
a kid.
The first guy that went to FSUwas Brooks Carrier in the mid to
late 70s, and then Jack andRandy Niles played for FSU in
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the 90s and then, more recently,stephen Wells around 2015,
around that time.
So I feel like there's aconnection between Key West and
FSU baseball.
Johnny Mac (02:33):
That's why.
Joy (02:34):
I'm always watching the games.
Johnny Mac (02:36):
No, that's good.
Yeah, you know the good thingabout the state of Florida.
You know some of the bestbaseball players in the country
live in the state of Florida andso when you can keep not just
homegrown talent but alsostate-grown talent here in the
state, especially at FloridaState, you know it's better for
everyone.
Joy (02:51):
Yeah, for sure.
In fact there's a kid that justcommitted.
He'll be a senior next year.
He's up at Coral Shores, whichis one of the keys closer to the
mainland.
His name is Donavan Thiery andI was going to tell you write
his name down, because he'll bethere not next year but the
following year and he's quite aplayer.
So we're lucky in Florida thatour boys get to play ball year
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round and we have so many goodschools.
But you know something specialabout the Knowles.
Johnny Mac (03:20):
Yes, there definitely is.
Well, we'll definitely keep hisname written down and you know
we'll start looking forward tohim getting here.
Joy (03:25):
So I wanted to ask you what's a zookeeper?
Johnny Mac (03:30):
So a zookeeper is a person basically who is in
charge of the animals.
You know, making sure theticket, the seating arrangements
filled up, making sure that youknow everybody gets to the
games, making sure everybody isinvolved with the games.
Just you know it's a lot to do.
You know they obviously startedbefore I became an animal.
You basically, you knowzookeepers just basically kind
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of who's in charge and just kindof getting everything together,
keeping everybody together,especially with the seats we
have 70 seats in our block andyou know, just keeping everybody
up to date, like where theirseats are, making sure everybody
, you know, gets their ticketspaid for on time.
It's a lot to deal with.
So Shannon Thomas right now isour current zookeeper, in the
line of the good zookeepers thatwe've had.
Joy (04:15):
Yeah, and I read that the animals have been around since
the 70s.
Johnny Mac (04:20):
Yeah, so, like I say , this is 47 years of Section B.
They started off as the animalsand Section B came because back
Hauser used to be, I say,numbered with letters and not
numbers.
Now we technically sit inSection 5, but basically
wherever we sit is Section B.
Joy (04:40):
Right, and I thought that was pretty cool that when the
stadium was redone and thesections are now numbered and
not letters, they still haveyour section as section B.
There's a big B there on thepylon to let everybody know that
that's where the animals go.
I thought that was a reallycool nod to the fans.
Johnny Mac (05:00):
Yeah, it was.
You know, they're just tryingto keep traditions going, which
this has been going for a longtime.
So yeah, it was nice to seethem throw that B up there over
the number five.
Joy (05:09):
That was really cool.
And so you mentionedcompetitive advantage earlier,
and the NCAA put out an articlein May first week of May that
talked about several teams D1schools that have a home field
advantage because of their fanbase, and, of course, the
animals were featured.
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So not only do you guys createan atmosphere that makes it fun
and enjoyable to go to the game,but they literally put numbers
to all the mayhem and show thatFSU players perform better and,
on the contrary, the opponentsnot so much.
Johnny Mac (05:47):
Yeah, I mean it definitely makes a competitive
advantage because you know theway it starts for us is
basically the first pitch of thegame.
We're up, we're ready until thelast pitch of the game.
You know, win or lose, we'rethere until the end of the game.
And you know some teams comingin here that play in front of
small crowds at home.
You don't want to average gameon a Tuesday night.
You know we'll get three orfour thousand people here where
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in some cities you go to youmight get three or four hundred.
So when you get up to bat andyou know you got two strikes on
you and you start hearing that Ktime ring throughout the
stadium, you know it just itkind of gets to you and just,
yeah, there, you go right there.
That's awesome.
I'm glad you got the hat man.
That's supporting a great cause.
Joy (06:27):
It is, and I don't want to wear it until this weekend, the
playoffs, and plus it's so cleanI don't want to get it dirty,
so I've been saving it for theplayoffs, but yeah go ahead.
That'll be a good time to breakit out.
Tell me about K-Time, becauseI've got a story for you.
Johnny Mac (06:45):
K-Time has been one of the cheers that's, you know,
been around the animals way wellbefore me and you know it's
just one of those things.
When you're up there, you knowour pitchers love it.
Our pitchers are used to it, Ithink when they come in as
freshmen.
And you know we try to keep itquiet as much as we can whenever
we're on the mound.
You's kind of like when yourteam was on offense in football.
You don't want the stadium loud, you want your boys in
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concentrate and everything likethat.
But whenever you've got aone-two count on the batter man,
it's coming.
Somebody in our section isgoing to belt out a K as long as
they can, and as soon as that'sover we start it with the K
time and we just keep it upuntil something happens with the
batter Strike out, fly out,ground out base, hit base on
balls, whatever it may be, butit keeps going through that same
batter until an outcome isreached.
Joy (07:31):
So I have.
I told you I have a story.
So I'm part of a fan club herefor our high school QS Conks and
we're called the K crew and ourbig thing is that we hang Ks
when our pitchers strike outbatters.
So we recently tried to emulateK time and we're doing pretty
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good.
But our catcher is Jackie NilesJack Niles' son, and he told us
about the third game in.
He said you guys need some work.
Johnny Mac (08:02):
So we're going to practice a little bit.
Hey, that's okay.
The fact that you're gettinginto it, man, means a lot
because you know at that earlyage in high school you know you
don't hear a lot of coordinatedchants like that in a high
school baseball game, but youknow the softball team does it
now, which sounds great comingout of that stadium.
We have kids that come sit inthis section that play baseball
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at other schools and they try totake it back to their schools.
Like it's fun to see thosetraditions getting carried.
That it means so much to peoplethat they want to try to do it
wherever they go.
Joy (08:35):
Yeah, they say that's the best form of flattery, right,
imitation.
That's right.
I think it's really cool.
You talked about softball.
We also started doing it at theLady Conks softball game.
So, yeah, all the way fromTallahassee to Key West, we're
doing K-Time.
Johnny Mac (08:52):
That's awesome.
That's awesome.
Joy (08:55):
It is really cool.
How many chance do you haveduring during the game?
How, what?
Johnny Mac (09:02):
so some of our regular chance.
Like you said, you have the ktime whenever, um, whenever we
get a 3-1 count on when we'rethere pitching and we're batting
.
If it gets to a 3-1 count, meand a couple guys, we lead off
with a walkie-talkie and awalkie-talkie on rag arm and
then the rest of the stadiumfollows up with get a hit, and
that just keeps going until, Imean, there's been several times
.
You know somebody hits five orsix foul balls in a row.
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That cheer can last for quite awhile.
So that and the K-time are twoof the most prevalent.
We also somebody makes an errorfor the opposing team.
We makes an error and, um, forthe opposing team.
We have a circus theme song thatwe sing and point over to the
circus uh, right on that rush,right outside right field of
dick hauser have, uh, you knowsomebody's in there pitching and
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they start, um, you know, theystart giving up three, four,
five, six, seven runs.
We start singing our ownversion.
It's called take me out of thisball game, which you know when
you're a pitcher.
When you're a pitcher, youdon't want to hear that coming
from the crowd when you'realready giving up a lot of runs,
and then, of course, in thefifth inning, bottom of the
fifth inning, when we're at home, top of the fifth on the road.
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That's when we break out ourrendition of O Canada.
Yes tell me about that.
Okay, so you know.
So back in 1988, the WinterOlympics were held in Canada,
and you know, when you win agold medal at the Olympics, they
play your team's nationalanthem.
Well with the, with the Olympicsbeing there.
Obviously Canadians are good atwinter sports because you know
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they have a lot.
You know, somebody from Floridais probably not going to win a
skiing gold medal, so you know.
So their, their Canadiannational national anthem got,
you know, sung more than once.
So at a baseball game it was,you know, one afternoon florida
state's playing.
They're getting beat.
A couple guys in the section upthere's the bottom of the fifth.
One of the guys just startshumming the canadian national
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anthem because he's heard it somuch, and I think maybe one or
two other guys going in.
All of a sudden, fsu winds uprallying, they wind up winning
the game.
So you know, the next day theycome out there, same thing
happens.
Man, we get down fifth inning.
These guys are like, hey, man,we might as well give it another
shot and sure enough, come backand win the game.
And so since 1988, the Canadiannational anthem.
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If any of us are in attendanceat the games, we break out the
flag and we sing the CanadianNational Anthem.
It's been done in awayballparks, we've done it in
Omaha.
Beware that an animal goes to agame, they usually try to carry
a flag with them, and so that'sone of the traditions that
people come and ask me aboutafter the game.
Where did that come from, andwhy would you stand up and sing
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the Canadian national anthem inthe middle of a baseball game?
Joy (11:36):
Right right.
Johnny Mac (11:37):
You know you'd be amazed at how many times it
works in the fifth inning whenthat comes out.
Joy (11:44):
And then all of a sudden the bats start getting hot.
Yeah, if it works, you know,don't change it.
Right?
That's part of baseball too,superstition, right?
If something's working don'tchange it.
We have a saying up there it'sonly weird if it doesn't work.
So, speaking of weird, theother thing is you guys have a
lot of props.
I've seen you in a gold jacket,a duck hat on.
Johnny Mac (12:03):
Yeah, so the gold jacket was the only thing I
wanted for Christmas three yearsago.
So my mom graciously got it forme Because obviously, you know,
on Sunday we break out the golduniforms, so that gold jacket
goes with me every Sunday.
Now a few other people in thesection now have gold jackets.
You know we look pretty good upthere on Sundays.
The ducks we started a cheer,you know, several years ago.
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Whenever we load the bases up,we started ducks on the pond
cheer.
So I bring an inflatable duckthat I pick someone out every
game that they have to wear itif we load the bases.
And then people have startedincorporating duck hats and duck
beads.
You know it's kind of takenover a life of its own.
Joy (12:39):
Yeah, that's really cool.
We have something in the samescenario.
When there's conks on the bases, instead of saying ducks on the
pond, we say conks on the flats, like out in the ocean, the
flats.
Johnny Mac (12:51):
I like that.
That's good.
That's good.
Joy (12:53):
Yeah, so in the flats, I like that.
That's good, that's good, yeah,so, so, so, that's pretty cool.
And you talked about the camera, and the camera definitely
finds you guys, no matter ifit's like a local broadcast or
ESPN.
First you start hearing thechants, you're watching the
broadcast and you can hear thechants, and then the next thing,
you know, the camera finds youguys, sure enough.
Johnny Mac (13:14):
Well, it's really cool because with that, the
exposure that we get a lot ofthe ESPN commentators or
whatever usually ESPN becauseACC Network and ESPN do a lot of
the games here, they do theirhomework, they put in the time
and because it's been around for47 years, it's one of those
things like when some teams comein here and they don't know
what's going on.
When some teams come in hereand they don't know what's going
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on, their fans will come andtalk to us after the game and
they will come tailgate with usafter the game just to kind of,
you know, how does this start?
How do we get something goingat this at our stadium?
So the fact that it's beenaround for so long, but all the
announcers even when we went toOmaha, the cameras were in our
section most of the time lastyear, the games that we were
there, because, because I mean,they know we stand up from the
first pitch of the game and westay up there until the last
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pitch of the game.
Joy (14:00):
Speaking of Omaha, I was going to ask you you did get to
go to.
Omaha Was last year, your firstyear.
Johnny Mac (14:08):
No, last year was the third year.
My first year was 2017, whenthe team went out there, and I
also went in 2019 when it wasMike Martin when it was 11s last
year.
And then that being our firstyear back last year, was really
important to me to go out therewith that team because the year
before, you know, coming off theseason we had the year before,
was the first losing baseballseason in base florida state
baseball history.
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So for that team to do whatthey did, it was really special
last year.
The team was very special lastyear and, man, I just felt like,
you know, I needed to go outthere and be there and
experience that with them.
Joy (14:38):
Yeah, I was looking up tickets to Omaha and that's an
investment right there.
Johnny Mac (14:46):
Graciously.
Last year, you know, my sisterknew how bad I wanted to go and
she started to go fund me to getme out there.
And man, it was justoverwhelming the responses that
it got.
You know, within 24 hours wehad already reached more than
the goal she had set for me toget out there, and so it was
very humbling for people formerplayers, former players, parents
, you know, just friends thatI've known for years all knew
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how, what it meant to me to getout there and my sister doing
that for me and everybodycontributing was very humbling
and very amazing so do you haveany favorite memories to share,
since you've been an animalfavorite?
game there's several for me was2017, when you know that was the
first time that I was reallythat much involved with the
animals and regionals.
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You know we lost our first gameand battled back and won through
the losers bracket and then wonour super regional to go to
omaha.
My first trip out there wasreally special to me because
that was the first time I'd everbeen and just the way the team
fought back after losing thefirst game of regionals to have
to come through the loser'sbracket that was probably one of
my favorite ones.
There's several that I wouldprobably have to think about.
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I mean, Quincy Nieporte walkingoff the Gators in extra innings
back in 2017 was probably oneof the greatest moments that
I've seen Last year in SuperRegionals.
James Tibbs, hitting three homeruns in the second game of
Super Regionals to help send usto Omaha that was one of those
that I'll definitely neverforget, and there's so many of
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them.
You have to sit there and kindof think about well, remember
this and this and this, butthose are definitely a couple
that stick out to me.
Joy (16:17):
Yeah, I remember that game.
When Newport did that, they hada good team.
That was a good team.
I still got issues with LSUbecause they took us out.
Johnny Mac (16:27):
That was the year that LSU took us out of the
tournament right, Well, yeah,2017, we played LSU in the first
game and we lost to them.
Joy (16:37):
2017, we played LSU in the first game and we lost to them.
Talking about this year's team,the 2025 team is back in the
bracket.
We've got a chance out of 64teams and we're hosting a
tournament and I know that CoachJarrett is scheming up
strategies for the team and howthey're going to perform.
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What are the animals doing tobe ready for regionals?
Johnny Mac (17:03):
Just showing up and we always get together before
the game and basically it's justbringing the energy.
The regular season's over nowNone of that counts anymore.
You know we're getting toregionals.
Friday starts the road to Omaha, so what you're going to have
is a little more energy out ofthe crowd.
You know the season's a longseason, but now you know you got
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to the postseason, you'regetting to host regionals, so
the energy's going to be thereprobably more than it has been
all year.
Joy (17:31):
And I heard Coach Jarrett gave you guys a shout-out at his
press conference.
Johnny Mac (17:37):
Yeah, you know what the one good thing about having
him.
Well, there's a lot of goodthings about having him coach
here, but one of them is thefact that he played here, so he
knows what kind of energy theanimals bring, and he's very
gracious in thanking us and allthe fans.
And we are baseballknowledgeable.
We do pay attention to what'sgoing on in the game.
When a player from an opposingteam makes a diving catch, you
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know we stand up and clap forthat guy.
That's a nice play, but we arevery knowledgeable about the
game and we're involved with thewhole game.
You know our stadium doesn'tpipe in crowd noise to try to
get us going.
They don't need to.
Joy (18:10):
Right, right, y'all bring it.
Like you said from the firstpitch, you guys, you guys are on
your feet, cheering to the last.
Johnny Mac (18:17):
That's right.
I mean, we're involved thewhole way, you know.
So we come up with littlechants and cheers that we do for
each player and they'll tellyou how much it means to them,
especially when they're on theroad and you know they're like
man.
I was sitting up here waitingon you guys, but I forget that.
We're on the road now.
Joy (18:32):
Yeah, and you guys travel well in california.
Johnny Mac (18:36):
A couple weeks ago, when we were playing in
california, there was a groupsitting right up front, right
behind home plate, and you couldhear them really good yeah, we
definitely have to give a shoutout and props to the uh greater
uh san francisco seminole clubman, they were fully involved in
going to that man.
They they were stayed incontact with us to kind of get
some ideas.
But man, they were all in ongoing to that game and, luckily
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for them, they got to seesoftball out there and they got
to see baseball.
You know, just following them,listening to them on the TV, man
was, you know, it felt like ahome game almost for us.
Yeah, we got to give them ashout-out, man, because they
brought it that game and theybrought the energy to the
stadium.
Joy (19:21):
It is really cool.
We um here in Key West, wewe're baseball people too.
We've got um winning traditions, um that go way back since,
since the 50s, that we've had 11state championships for our
high school, which is which ispretty cool for a little island
so far down here to have so manychampionships.
We're obviously pretty proud ofthat.
And, uh, we we travel well too,whether we're leaving from Key
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West and going following theboys or people that have left
Key West and re, you know,relocated to other areas around
the state.
If the Conks are playing, youlook around and and everybody
shows up.
So it's uh pretty cool when you, when you have a winning team
for so many years, like theKnowles and the Conks, it makes
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it easier to cheer for them,that's for sure.
You have big hopes for thisseason.
What are you feeling with thisteam?
Johnny Mac (20:11):
Oh man, I mean we got just as good a shot as
anybody.
Being Omaha, you know like.
I say the season's over with.
You know, maybe there's a gameor two here that you think about
, that you could have done thisand could have done that.
Well, none of that mattersanymore.
What matters right now isFriday at 3 o'clock and going
out there and starting the roadto Omaha Friday at 3.
Do you know if Jamie's pitching?
I haven't heard who's pitchingyet.
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That's usually the way therotation is set up.
You know the way we played lastweekend with the ACC tournament
.
I know that.
You know Jamie started a game,mendez started a game and then
Bellini came in to pitch reliefof the second game.
So he's the one who had thesmallest workload.
So I know he's going to beready to go.
(20:55):
Anybody who starts is going tobe ready to go.
But going with what's going onall season, I would expect Jamie
to be the starter on Fridayafternoon, but it hadn't been
listed for sure, so I'm notpositive on that.
Joy (21:07):
Well, whoever gets a nod will be ready to step up, I'm
sure, and I'm looking forward toit.
It's going to be a greattournament.
There's some really cool teams.
I got to give a greattournament.
There's some really cool teams.
I got to give a shout out.
I do follow stetson also.
Um, I've got family thatrecently moved to the land and
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got season tickets to thehatters, so, um, they play good
baseball and I I follow them.
We actually went up last yearwhen Tallahassee, when the
knolls had the regionaltournament and stetson was in
that bracket and we got to go upand what a great atmosphere.
Yeah, yeah, it was a funatmosphere.
Johnny Mac (21:43):
You know we played Bethune-Cookman here early in
the year and they played ustough.
It was a 9-7 win on a Tuesdaynight here during the season.
You know Mississippi Statethey're going to have a good
team.
The one team I'm intriguedabout that I don't know much
about is Northeastern.
Yeah, but I've been followingthem, man.
I read some of their stuffafter they're done.
You know they've won, I believe, 27 games in a row, which is
(22:05):
pretty hard to do in a game ofbaseball, and they have 192
stolen bases, which is prettyimpressive for a baseball team.
So I think we've got a prettytough bracket to get through
here.
Joy (22:16):
And that's any given day, right.
That tough bracket to getthrough here, and that's any
given day, right.
That's why they play the game.
But it's a double eliminationright, correct.
Johnny Mac (22:23):
If you come out of the winner's bracket, you can
win three games and you will winthe regional.
Joy (22:29):
You know you lose that one game, man it turns into having
to play about five more games.
Well, hopefully it'll end upwith the Noles back in Omaha and
getting a national championship.
I think that would be reallycool and I'm sure you guys are
already looking to see.
You know you can't get too farahead of yourselves, but if they
(22:50):
get to Omaha you think you guysare going to make the trip.
Johnny Mac (22:54):
Oh yeah, I'm definitely going.
I got a good friend of mine,ken, and he's the one who taught
me into going the first time hehad actually talked to me,
trying to talk to me, to go backwhen it was at Rosenblatt which
is the one thing I regret isnever getting to see the World
Series at that stadium but backin 2017, he's like look man, you
never know how many chances yougot to do this, and so I'm like
you know what You're right,we're in.
(23:15):
So I went.
What you're right, we're just,we're in.
Joy (23:20):
So I went in 2017, 19 and I've made it at my mission now,
anytime florida state goes tothe world series, I'm gonna go.
I love it.
I love it.
So listen, if, um, if I get upthere next season and, um, I
want to spend a weekend and seea whole series, can I?
Can I get a ticket to sit withthe animals?
What?
What's how anybody sit with theanimals or what's the
requirements?
Johnny Mac (23:39):
so the only requirement is that you just
come up there and just join in.
You know, the more the merrier.
You know the one good thing thelast several years a lot of
kids are getting involved withit, which we really appreciate,
you know, because sometimes kidsget a little bit nervous about
going up there and cheering andbeing the center of attention.
But, man, when they get upthere they love it.
They want to help out, theywant to do the cave time, they
(23:59):
want to do all the cheers upthere.
And you know those, those areprospective future animals
coming up there.
One day they may be up thereleading that whole section.
We're going to have a spotwaiting on you.
Just just let me know whenyou're coming and we're going to
, we're going to get it done foryou.
Joy (24:14):
That sounds good and if you ever get to Key West you can
sit with me and my crew rightbehind home plate we call the K
crew and you can hang some K'swith us, have you been to Key
West.
Johnny Mac (24:28):
I've been to Key West once.
It's probably been about theone and only time I ever went
was about 15 years ago.
Two of my best friends gotmarried down there, so I made
the trip down there for thewedding.
But man, I'll tell you what.
It's one of those things you'relike, man, I can't wait to get
back down here, but look howlong it's been.
I still haven't been, but it'sone of those things, I'm gonna
make it back down there again Iwish you would come during
(24:50):
baseball season.
Joy (24:51):
we, we, we play from march to may and hopefully late into
may, and you're welcome to comeand we play good baseball down
here.
We'd love to have you.
Johnny Mac (25:00):
Oh man, that'd be awesome.
Thank you for the invite.
Joy (25:03):
Johnny, thanks for joining me on the podcast.
I look forward to watching thistournament, seeing you and
listening to you on TV.
Tell all the animals that wegot a southernmost fan club down
here in Key West Go Noles.
Johnny Mac (25:18):
Go Knolls, Joey, thanks for having me on man, I
really enjoyed this.
Like I say anytime I get totalk about Florida State
baseball and the animals, man,it just helps get our name out
there and just helps show us theappreciation that we have for
Florida State and Florida Statebaseball.
Joy (25:30):
Absolutely.
You're a great ambassador forthe game.
Thank you, johnny.
Have a good night.
Yeah, thank you, you have agreat night too.
Okay, I'm joy newlish and Iappreciate you tuning into my
podcast.
My purpose is to bring joy intomy life and the lives of others
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