August 14, 2025 • 59 mins
The moment Sylvia Racinos walked into our studio, twenty years of friendship filled the room with laughter, inside jokes, and the electric energy that comes from shared history. As our first-ever female guest in 131 episodes, Sylvia brought a fresh perspective while helping us unpack a story of coincidence, community, and commitment that spans decades.
What makes this episode special isn't just the nostalgia—though there's plenty as we reminisce about 90s LA nightlife at spots like Villa Sorriso and McMurphy's—but rather how life's random connections create meaningful purpose. Despite growing up just neighborhoods apart in Northeast LA, Sylvia and Migg actually met by chance in Vegas at the Hard Rock Hotel. That coincidental meeting blossomed into a friendship that now supports dozens of young baseball players through Baron's Baseball Academy.
The heart of our conversation explores how Baron's has become more than just a baseball program—it's a community lifeline providing structure, skills, and belonging to kids regardless of their talent level. While many travel baseball teams only accept elite players, Baron's welcomes anyone with the desire to learn, creating opportunities in a neighborhood where organized sports weren't always accessible.
Sylvia shares touching insights about her son Jayden's transformation from a shy, uncertain player into a confident young athlete, alongside stories about weekend tournaments, parent commitments, and the family atmosphere that develops when communities rally around their children. Most compelling is hearing how coaches from the neighborhood—many Sotomayor High School graduates—are creating the youth programs they wish they'd had growing up.
Between Vegas jackpot stories, memories of infamous club incidents (including a friend crashing into a luxury car dealership), and heartfelt moments discussing Sylvia's clothing line honoring her late son, this episode reminds us why community matters. It's about second chances, unexpected connections, and creating something meaningful for the next generation.
Subscribe now and join us next episode when we visit the fields of Baron's Baseball Academy to see firsthand how this grassroots program is changing lives one swing at a time.
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Mig (00:12):
Welcome back to the Drifting on Arroyo Podcast.
This is Mig, this is Lano, andno RK67.
That boy is working again.
Yeah, don't be sad, that guy'sa jerk.
I was in Vegas this pastweekend.
(00:33):
Any of our drifters out therethat follow Instagram saw that
your boy, the degenerate bear,struck again in another jackpot.
Lano (00:47):
You didn't say how much, not it?
Oh yeah, not the 13 grand, isit?
No, oh oh, it didn't show howmuch, but on the, not in the
description, but I just see thetop where the dragon laying the
red.
Oh, I didn't.
They didn't play the wholething.
Mig (00:57):
Huh, yeah, oh, I hit for 1400.
Oh okay, wow, yeah, so um whatcasino is that?
Yeah, there you go, mandalayBay.
Lano (01:12):
Oh, in Vegas yeah.
Mig (01:14):
And the thing is I wasn't really planning on going this
weekend but the only reason Iwent is cause um, rick was going
with um, with uh, hisgirlfriend and uh.
On their side.
They had uh, they were goinglike for a bachelorette,
bachelor party kind of deal, youknow where, where they were
celebrating, but at separate uhairbnbs.
(01:37):
And the thing is he wanted tostay sunday night because that
was his anniversary for him andhis girl.
How many years is that?
I'm not sure I didn't ask Morethan that.
Well, as a girlfriend, Wellofficially, officially.
Lano (01:53):
Because you was dating her for a while or hanging out with
her for a while Officially I'mnot sure it might be two or
three Until some late night bikeride.
Mig (02:05):
I remember she needed a ride home and that was it A
romantic, moonlit Bike ride.
But, um, he had asked me if Icould get him a room and I was
like, well, yeah, dude, I toldhim, but the only problem with
that is that you know, I have tobe there to check in, you know,
because I can't.
You know there's only, I can'tfigure out any other way to
check in without me being there.
So I told him well, you knowwhat I could do is I could book
(02:26):
the room, because I can't figureout any other way to check in
without me being there.
So I told him well, you knowwhat I could do is I could book
the room from Friday to Monday,but I'll leave Sunday and just
leave you keys and you andVanessa can stay there.
You don't have the room forSunday, and you know, just check
out Monday.
Lano (02:43):
Because nowadays, like check out, it's just like An app
or a phone call.
Mig (02:46):
Yeah, dude, I do everything .
Yeah, I do everything on theapp.
Lano (02:49):
Yeah, you don't gotta go to the counter, so it's more
easy.
Mig (02:51):
Yeah so, but the problem is that when you do it on the app,
you need the.
You need your phone For thekeys or to get access to To get
on the elevators to go up in theroom.
And if you want to get likekeys you need a qr code that
(03:13):
comes out on the phone andthat's in your app.
So I still got to figure out howto like that's checking in,
right, that's checking in,manipulating that yeah but, um,
what I was able to do is I wasable to put his name down as a
guest as a guest, so he would beable to.
Get his own set of keys.
Huh, yeah, so he would be ableto make any changes or making
(03:38):
whatever.
You know like go to the frontcounter and ask for keys, so I
wonder if I could do that nexttime for him.
Oh, and ask for keys, so Iwonder if I could do that Next
time from.
Lano (03:45):
Oh yeah, he can ask for some Extra keys.
Yeah, for Vanessa.
Mig (03:46):
You know, and then I don't gotta go.
I could do all the check inShit and everything On my phone.
So I'll probably try that Nexttime and see if that works.
If not, then I don't know.
Lano (03:55):
Mandalay Bay.
Mig (03:56):
Mandalay Bay.
Lano (03:58):
That's considered the older ones now, right yeah?
Mig (04:01):
now right, uh, like one of the, yeah, one of the older ones
.
Lano (04:03):
Yeah, how's it maintained?
Still looking good andeverything it's still good.
Mig (04:06):
Yeah, yeah, it's not.
Lano (04:09):
Uh, it's not a shithole like the luxor when I, when I
saw this um before the showstarted, I thought um, this was
in the golf trip, this is this.
Uh, ricky made a trip right, no, no, the golf trip is uh next
month end of september and wedon't know if um ricky won any
money or anything nah, he didn'teven.
Mig (04:28):
I don't even think they stepped foot.
Well, they did step foot in thecasinos, but just to go to the,
the clubs and stuff and partyso my wife wants to go out there
.
Lano (04:39):
She wants to see a show at the sphere that's what I need
to start doing more, man.
Mig (04:42):
I need to start going like checking out shows and stuff and
everything.
I keep my ass out of thecasinos and gambling.
Lano (04:48):
Well, after you won this, you should have like bought.
Well, yeah, dude, but how far?
Mig (04:52):
how far in between is that dude that I win?
Yeah, you know, it's like Igotta keep myself more occupied
with with other shit, you knowit's like it's too far in
between because um I guess thethe fears the sphere is showing
them, like the wizard of oz,like something really.
Well, there there was one thingthere was one thing that I
didn't want to bring up with youguys but that I talked to rick
(05:13):
about out there, that he hefigured out on his own, but I
had been wanting to bring it uplike the past few shows with you
guys is that there's um,there's a john w, really yeah,
dude, it looks pretty badass man, and I seen it and I seen some
of those influencers that Ifollow from Vegas.
They went through it and it'spretty badass because it's like
(05:38):
a series of escape rooms.
But it's all, john.
Lano (05:41):
Wick themed.
Mig (05:41):
You know of all the movies, Rooms, you know, but it's All
John Wick themed, you know ofall the movies.
So you go, you go through itand, like you're figuring out
All these, all these, um, Iguess, puddles, puddles, puzzles
or riddles.
Like an escape room you know sothrough through each um, through
each one.
You know you gotta, you gottafigure it out.
(06:03):
And what's cool is that theysay that all the people that
work there are like superdedicated to the characters in
the movie and they all act likethey're characters in the movie.
You know so like the conciergeacts just like the concierge.
You know Like the gun sommelieracts just like the gun
sommelier in there andeverything.
And they say it's awesome, man,like if you're really like a
(06:26):
fan of the on the movies, theysay you gotta do it no, it looks
pretty cool.
Lano (06:32):
I'm reading the description yeah.
Mig (06:34):
So it's kind of.
It's kind of like um, like uh,escape room, kind of like um
speakeasy kind of deal.
You know it's like you can getdrinks in there also, and you
know it's just like it's cool.
You know that's why they callit an experience, you know,
because, like it's everythingyeah yeah, that area 15 what is
(06:55):
um, where's that or where isthis at?
It's, it's, uh, it's rightthere, it's like it's right in
vegas.
It's this big, like warehouselooking thing that just says
Area 15 on the side.
Sylvia (07:05):
And I was wondering what it was.
Mig (07:07):
And it's just like this big warehouse thing that just has
like different, like weird offthe wall kind of restaurant and
like stores and stuff and barsand just like weird kind of
attractions.
Lano (07:25):
No, it looks pretty cool, it does dude.
Let me see how much tickets arefor this.
Mig (07:34):
It's just something I should have looked up and I
should have done that.
Lano (07:41):
There's about $70.
About $68 for general admissionsee, that's not bad dude.
Keep yourself occupied for anhour or so, or especially if
you're gonna like be part of thewhole, like experience the show
and stuff you see, you can addon a beverage package you know,
so you drink as you're goingthrough there yeah I think, I
think it's worth it no, that'scool I mean, especially if
(08:04):
you're a fan of the movie, youknow.
I remember Rick was telling usabout he's a super huge fan of
the Titanic and then he told usabout the Titanic experience at
Luxor.
Mig (08:15):
At the Luxor.
Yeah, you see, like shit, likethat, you know.
Lano (08:20):
Cause me like if I go I'm taking the family.
We can't just be at the casinoall day long.
Mig (08:26):
There were so many kids that were there.
I couldn't believe how manykids were there, like running
around screaming all over theplace.
Sylvia (08:34):
It was crazy.
Lano (08:36):
It didn't bother you it didn't bother you.
Mig (08:38):
I mean like yes and no, you know, cause I was like kind of
like what the hell, dude?
It's like what happened, it'slike what's going on.
Lano (08:44):
This was in the casino area or just everywhere outside.
Mig (08:47):
Um, I kind of not not the whole casino, but like near the
elevators, cause I guess youknow they're going up and down
to the room.
Yeah, you know they're going to, of course, the pools and
everything you know, but like inthe hallways and everything,
they're all like running up anddown, you know, and it's like
(09:08):
it's like I started wondering.
It's like dude, it's like it'slike what's going on in vegas,
you know, because it kind ofseems like it's kind of emptying
out, you know, but now peopleare starting to take their kids
more and everything.
It's like it almost seems likeit's more of, um, a family
destination.
Lano (09:27):
Now, I remember they're going that way, but then it it
stopped.
Well, yeah because they weren'tmaking money remember I sent
you this video on this.
Um, some guy, he went to thispool.
Yeah, stadium club.
Yeah, you've been.
You've seen that, you've beenthere or that pool it's like in
old vegas, but just looks it'llbe cool to watch like a super
bowl or a game there.
Oh yeah, that shit looksawesome.
(09:47):
This is like I saw this.
You know that thing's open yearround.
Right that's what I saw yeah,they have.
Mig (09:53):
They have those pools heated so even in the winter,
like when it's like 40 degreesoutside, you can still be in the
water and the water is heatedyeah, I saw a video popped up on
YouTube and I was like what isthis?
Lano (10:04):
It's like some massive Sports book pool area.
Mig (10:09):
I mean, if you're crazy enough to get in there, when is
that cold?
Lano (10:11):
but Well speaking of that's pretty crazy, cold nights
Baseball season.
We have a special guest today.
Mig (10:23):
We did promise you A couple episodes ago that we were going
to have a special guest today.
We did promise you A coupleepisodes ago that we were going
to have a special guest on, andwe finally delivered.
Lano (10:34):
And we're still.
We're still planning on goingout on the field right and do a
recording, or no?
Mig (10:39):
Yes, we want to show you guys what Barron's Baseball
Academy is all about and to talkabout it a little bit and a
little bit about our backgroundand our friendship and how far
back we go, because we go backquite a bit.
(11:00):
You can hear by that laugh.
It's a pretty dubious laughbecause we've been through some
shit and we've known each otherfor a long time my very good
friend, my very dear friend,sylvia racinos hello welcome
hello, hello, thank you.
(11:22):
Thank you for having me it's apleasure, it's an honor.
Thank you for coming on theshow Of course Overdue.
Way overdue.
Sylvia (11:29):
I forgive you.
Mig (11:32):
It's always a pleasure having a guest on the show, and
this is the first female gueston our show in our three-year
history.
Lano (11:40):
This is episode 131.
Sylvia (11:43):
We're going to make it A good episode then.
Yes, hopefully we're going tomake it A good episode.
Lano (11:47):
Attract some more female.
Mig (11:49):
And for you drifters out there, for you hardcore drifters
, when we had our giveaway, ourvery first ever giveaway.
She is our winner.
Lano (11:57):
Oh, was it her Of our yeah .
Mig (11:59):
Of our t-shirt.
Sylvia (12:01):
Giveaway.
I even tagged you guys when Iwore it, I don't know if you
guys ever seen that.
Mig (12:05):
Maybe me.
She answered her triviaquestion.
She was the first one to answerit, I think it was like a
karate kid right.
I don't even remember and Istill owe them a shot.
Sylvia (12:15):
You guys still owe me a shot.
Lano (12:18):
We don't have anything now .
Huh, this would be the time todrink it.
Mig (12:22):
I'll make good on that shot .
This would have been the timeto drink it.
Lano (12:24):
That's right.
I'll make good on that shot.
Mig (12:25):
This would be the time to drink it.
Lano (12:26):
So first time me meeting Sylvia.
So how did you guys meet?
Where are you from, like whatarea?
And then what schools?
I'm assuming you guys met inschool or no.
Sylvia (12:35):
No.
Mig (12:39):
No, that's actually the funny thing, dude.
It's like for us growing up sonear each other, because she
grew up in the Eagle Rock area,you know, and of course we grew
up in the Heine Park area, lano,I'm not sure if you know, but
he went to what was the name ofthat school Cathedral Cathedral.
(13:00):
So he's a cathedral boy.
So nah, no, no, so he's acathedral boy.
So Nah, so he's a cathedral boy.
Yeah, so she was in Iraq.
I was, frankly, in cathedral,you know, but the funny thing is
that we didn't meet Until wewere in our 20s.
(13:21):
Mid 20s, late 20s, I think late20s, late 20s, in Vegas, if you
can believe that dude FunnyAfter Mid twenties, late
twenties, I think.
Sylvia (13:25):
Late twenties, late twenties In Vegas, oh wow, if
you can believe that dude Funny,crazy, crazy story dude.
Lano (13:34):
So, um, well, I'm class of 96, you're class of 92, right?
92, 92, 92 also.
Sylvia (13:43):
No 93.
Lano (13:45):
Oh, okay, so you're 93.
When you're younger than me,he's a youngin.
Do people still go by like Highschool, like graduations?
I didn't go to college orfinish college.
I always say the high school,what year did you graduate?
Blah, blah, blah.
Mig (13:59):
It probably depends.
I'm sure people that Did go tocollege use their college year
as their graduation.
Lano (14:07):
Now, since we're in school , like, did you guys get class
rings or no?
Like did you buy them?
You bought your class ring no.
Sylvia (14:14):
I didn't get either, nah .
Lano (14:16):
I always thought like, why am I getting a class ring for
high school if I'm going tograduate college?
But then I never graduatedcollege, but yeah.
Sylvia (14:23):
I kind of stayed away from it.
Mig (14:24):
I got a championship ring.
Lano (14:26):
Football Yep All-City 3A.
Sylvia (14:29):
That's even better.
Mig (14:32):
Oh nice, the last 3A championship that.
No, it was my sophomore year.
Oh, sophomore year.
Lano (14:40):
Is that the last championship?
Frank was at no 3A, oh 3A, wow.
Mig (14:43):
Is that the last championship Franklin's had?
No 3A, oh, 3a, wow.
Yeah, the last year thatGonzalez coached there in 89.
Lano (14:53):
I don't think I've ever seen your ring.
Where do you keep it?
Mig (14:57):
Yes sir, it's in a little tin box in my drawer.
Lano (14:59):
Okay, I want to see it next time I'm over there.
So you guys are in Vegas, how?
Mig (15:09):
did you guys by bump into each other?
You want to tell it, or should?
Sylvia (15:12):
I Go ahead.
Mig (15:15):
So we're in Vegas, we're in the Hard Rock Hotel.
That is no longer there.
Lano (15:20):
That's what I was going to say.
Oh, it's not there no more.
Mig (15:22):
No, they knocked it down.
Oh wow, it's the Virgin HotelCasino now.
Longer there, that's what I wasgonna say.
No, they knocked it down.
Oh wow, it's, uh, the virginhotel casino now yeah sad, good
times yeah
Lano (15:29):
good times, but isn't now like treasure island's going
down?
They're bringing the hardbackback right well, yeah, they're
building.
They're building a new one thenew one right where treasure
island is okay, but it'll neverbe the same, yeah okay, so you
guys are out there.
Mig (15:40):
Anyways, we're, we're out there.
I was with r Rick and, um, Iforget who else was with us.
Oh, dennis.
Sylvia (15:51):
I think Dennis was with.
Yeah, dude.
Mig (15:53):
Dennis was with us and um, so we're at the Hard Rock.
Sylvia (15:57):
Dennis Motel 6.
Lano (15:59):
Yeah, you know, dennis.
Mig (16:03):
Yeah, she knows, dennis, steve, and there's a story why
we can't.
Sylvia (16:06):
Tell six.
Mig (16:07):
And um and so, um, actually , I didn't meet Sylvia at first.
I met her friend, jessie,jessica, you know.
So we we started Talking firstand she had mentioned that she
was there With her friend Sylvia, you know, and, but she had
said that sylvia was in thebathroom and so we were there,
(16:30):
you know, we were talking andmaybe like 15, 20 minutes had
gone by and then I stopped and Istarted thinking I'm like boy,
I'm like where's your friend?
I'm like I'm it's already beenlike 20 minutes and like did you
say you came with your friendand she was like, yeah, but she
was in the bathroom, I don'tknow.
(16:50):
I'm like, well, you want to golook for her?
I'm like, did you even give ashit about her?
Lano (16:57):
I'm like, so we go to the bathroom and look for her.
Mig (16:59):
And this one she was gone, Like gone, Like passed out.
This one, she was gone, Likegone, Like passed out, Like
drunk.
Sylvia (17:05):
So when Jesse walked into the bathroom pretty much
just like every woman in there,right, we're all pretty much
drunk and it was like a couch.
So I was sitting on the couchlike this Right, Bien borracha,
right, and she's like what areyou doing?
And I'm just like I'm justchilling, like what are you
(17:30):
doing?
And I'm just like I'm justchilling, like what are you
doing.
She's like I've been standingout there for 15, 20 minutes
waiting for you and blah, blah,blah.
So we got out and Pretty muchafter that it was just I'm like.
And then I looked at me likethe houses, who are we?
Who are you talking to?
I can't leave her.
I couldn't leave her alone forlike 50 minutes because he was
(17:50):
already like talking to a lot ofpeople, but oh yeah, that was
her and um, ever since then,yeah, just we're friends.
Mig (17:56):
It's been what a little about 20 years 20 years yeah
yeah, yeah it was like back in,uh, like oh5 huh, I think so,
wow, yeah so.
Where the?
Lano (18:06):
hell is a Tom Com, so you guys would have been Like late
20s, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Wow.
Sylvia (18:11):
Well, yeah, because we celebrated A lot of birthdays
together as well, yeah, prettymuch partied.
Yeah, that was the other thing,because our birthdays Are
pretty near each other.
March, April yeah.
Lano (18:23):
So at that time that's when you guys were just chatting
you found the shoes From theneighborhood or just like.
Mig (18:28):
Well, yeah, pretty much down the street.
We hung out a lot.
You know, Pretty much everyweekend.
We were out partying Everyweekend back then.
Sylvia (18:35):
Yeah, literally we met that weekend, and the following
weekend we went out, and theweekend after that we would go
to Villasorizzo in Pasadena.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Mig (18:44):
It's cause the weekend after it was like it was your
birthday, and then the weekendafter that it was Jesse's
birthday and then the weekendafter that it was my birthday.
Lano (18:54):
So it was like so, partying in Vegas One week, the
following In LA, then a birthdaybirthday, and then the reason.
Weying in Vegas one week, thefollowing in LA, then a birthday
birthday, and then the reasonwe were in Vegas.
Mig (19:05):
I don't know why they were in Vegas, but the reason we were
in Vegas was because they werehaving the monster truck finals
and I had gone with my sisterand all the kids, all my nieces
and nephews Well, my niececesand nephews, we took them so we
could see the Monster Truckfinals and it was awesome, you
know, because they had this bigstadium.
Lano (19:26):
I was going to say where is it UNLV?
Mig (19:27):
UNLV.
Sylvia (19:28):
Stadium the football stadium.
Mig (19:29):
And it was awesome because you know, we were able to see
them the way we'd never seenthem before because they ran
like the full length of thefootball stadium.
Lano (19:39):
And before we were only used to seeing them, like in the
small arenas.
Mig (19:41):
You know where they're only like you know, and then jumping
there, but this time they'relike the full length of the the
football fields that we'rereally able to open it up and
haul ass and do some sick jumpsand everything man but I
remember my dad used to used togo to a couple of those and it
was always like half the yeah, Iwas like that's it, but it was
cool, though no, but as a kidyou're like, yeah, yeah, this
time's it, but it was cool,though no.
Sylvia (19:59):
But as a kid you're like , oh, cool, cool cool yeah, in
Vegas, man.
Mig (20:01):
it was such a good time, man.
It was like my sister loved itso much and like she wanted to
make it a tradition that we goevery year, but then, like the
year or so after, it's like theystopped doing it Because they
started moving it around todifferent locations and
everything, and they didn't doit in vegas anymore and I was
like so we got to experience oneyeah, we grew up watching
(20:21):
monster trucks, like saturdaymorning or no, or like how do we
see it on tv?
well, not, I mean, they justadvertise it.
Lano (20:30):
Oh advertise, but we never like yeah, I remember like
seeing bigfoot, like that wasbigfoot was.
He was the big one but like ingravedigger, but like I remember
watching it Like on TV I don'tknow if it was Saturday
afternoon or I remember rightaround Christmas time they would
always advertise the motocrossand the monster truck shows.
So you have, because I have athree year old and one year old.
(20:54):
How old are your kids?
Sylvia (20:57):
So my oldest Just turned 31, my middle one Not with us,
no more, he would 26, uh, inseptember.
And then my little one isjayden, who just turned 13 in
july, and he's the one who's apart of the um parents baseball
is so.
Lano (21:17):
Is there still saturday morning cartoons or anything, or
no?
Sylvia (21:20):
I don't know what that looks like because I'm always on
the field or in the tournament.
Lano (21:23):
You're always up and awake outside, but that I remember.
I believe so yes, I don't know,because now it's like people
don't even watch like local TV,like five and four, it's all
streaming.
I don't think it is in thesense of how we were dude
because we were limited withchannels.
Mig (21:41):
Yeah, you know, it's like we didn't have 500 channels out
there to choose from, right,right right, we had to watch
whatever was out there, and sowe had, like saturday morning,
cartoons either on channel 5, 4,4, 2, 7, or 11.
Sylvia (22:01):
Yeah.
Mig (22:02):
You know it's like now.
They got like, they gotNickelodeon, they got freaking
Like channels dedicated.
Lano (22:08):
You know they got the the.
Mig (22:09):
Cartoon Network, you know, they got Boomerang.
Disney, they got Boomerang.
Sylvia (22:14):
The older.
Lano (22:15):
Cartoon, you know they got all kinds of different channels
that they can watch.
I'm just trying to have mydaughters kind of grow up the
way I grew up.
Mig (22:25):
Everything's changing, having to watch the classics.
Everything's changing.
Playing the classics and havingto watch that.
Sylvia (22:31):
There you go, do it.
Lano (22:33):
It's funny because I'll put on an old movie and they get
into it.
I put on Short Circuit theother day.
Sylvia (22:40):
Remember the little robot Like I put on a short
circuit the other day.
Remember the little robot?
Yeah, I remember that movie.
Lano (22:43):
That's a good one, yeah, and like I mean my
three-year-old and two, they'rejust like staring at it, like
all into it.
So I was like, okay, thisCharlie 5 stays alive.
It saves me about Any VS Arisostories, because I remember a
lot of stuff would happen outthere, any that I remember.
I remember there would befights.
(23:07):
She knows Ralph, right, I meanRalph and Dennis.
Mig (23:10):
Well, she definitely knows, dennis.
Lano (23:12):
There would always be some fist fights.
Sylvia (23:14):
There was this other guy that for the life of me I can't
remember.
Lano (23:17):
James Belizean Tall Short.
Sylvia (23:25):
Gary, was there a Gary?
Mig (23:27):
Charles, no, charles was the only one.
Did you have a friend namedGary?
Gary no.
Lano (23:31):
Ralph.
We had a Ralph, then it's aDanny.
Sylvia (23:36):
No, but he would come out with a Gino.
Oh, I know Gino.
Mig (23:41):
Okay, trust me, I know Gino .
Sylvia (23:42):
Okay, trust me, I know Gino.
Who doesn't know Gino?
Lano (23:47):
Shout out to G.
Well, we had one incident whenI mean it's old news, I guess,
but Ralph, he took off and thenhe went straight into the the
Roughneck dealership, likeacross the street we're all
saying bye, and he just does aU-turn right into the dealership
like across the street.
Oh yeah, we're all sayingbuying this, doesn't you turn
right into the dealership?
Glass, right.
Mig (24:05):
Oh that shit, that shit was crazy man.
Sylvia (24:08):
I'll fast forward the cops there.
Mig (24:11):
Oh, they were on them they were on them quick, we scattered
right, see, the thing is Idon't know, was he acting stupid
, like trying to drive away?
Acting dumb and everything?
Lano (24:23):
He lost control, I think that was the day when there was
a fight and they turned on allthe lights and stuff Like a
brawl happened.
Mig (24:29):
Well, his now wife was with him, was she?
Yes, that's the whole thing.
That's why he got caught.
His wife was with him, his nowwife, and the thing is well.
I guess it was a fight and theyall got in his car and he tried
getting away and as he wasspeeding away, I guess he lost
(24:53):
control and crashed into therusnik, into the building like a
luxury car dealership.
Yeah, and so he crashed and Iremember the wife had a friend
and they were trying to hook meup with her.
So you know we had each other'snumbers because we we had gone
(25:13):
out a couple times and, um, Iremember her calling me and she
was all frantic, you know,because um, she was saying that
they had crashed, you know, andthey're gonna kind of go get the
friend or anyway, no, thefriend and you're gonna go get
them, you know, and go help them, you know, because she doesn't
know what to do.
And you know she was like cryinghysterically and everything.
I'm trying to figure out whatthe hell's going on.
(25:35):
Like, what are you talkingabout?
Well, ralph tells us after,because ralph is, and the ralph
tells us after that that he waslike yeah, man, he's like, the
only reason he got caught, thislittle fucker, is because, like,
when he crashed, he actuallythought of just fucking taking
(25:55):
off, but then he remembered hewas there with his girlfriend
who was in the car with him.
Yes, oh man and so he was likecaught in, like like the moral
thing or shit.
Should I?
Am, I gonna stay, am I gonna go, and like I don't know what to
do.
So he's like go.
(26:16):
Well, that's what he wanted todo, but his girl was like no, so
he stayed and he got caught andboom, dui, dui, yeah he took
care of all that stuff.
Changed his life.
He took it on the chin and nimodo.
Lano (26:35):
Got a lawyer, did all the stuff and then paid the fine and
all that stuff, and now he'svery rich.
Sylvia (26:40):
Yeah two girls.
There you go, worked out.
Lano (26:42):
Yeah, two girls.
Yeah, one's a high schoolwrestler, the other one's into
like the arts and stuff.
Yeah.
And they go to Igorok.
She goes to Igorok.
I think she's going to be asenior now.
Senior wrestler.
Yeah huh yeah.
Mig (26:57):
I guess that instantly must have turned him into a great
husband and a great dad causeyeah, and then Ralphie, he went
with me to Cathedral, I don'tthink it was Ralphie, though nah
.
I want to say it was James.
He was James, was it?
Lano (27:15):
Roger tall like white complected who was the guy that
was hanging out with Dennis?
He had the SS Super SportImpala, was it him?
I don't know, cause he was tall.
I think his name was Charlesalso, oh, rick's friend, charles
, I thought it was.
Mig (27:35):
Dennis, did he call him Spick?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, nah.
Lano (27:38):
I don't think it was him.
Sylvia (27:41):
I know, I have it was him.
I know.
I have pictures of himsomewhere.
I know because you used to talkto him too.
Mig (27:51):
Did he look like he was biracial?
It was probably James, becausehe's a Belizean.
Belizean, no.
Lano (28:00):
No, I thought we had like a golf.
Mig (28:07):
Colored eyes.
Sylvia (28:10):
I don't remember.
Lano (28:11):
The one in the white.
Well, this is him now.
Sylvia (28:15):
Oh no, it was not him.
Mig (28:16):
No, oh, that's James.
It's none of those guys, that's.
Sylvia (28:18):
Rick Roger.
I wonder who then.
It was not him.
No.
Lano (28:20):
Oh, that's James.
It's none of those guys, right?
That's.
Mig (28:21):
Rick Roger.
I wonder who then?
Sylvia (28:27):
I can't remember who he used to roll back to.
There's a story behind it, butI don't want to go to that story
.
That's why I was asking.
Lano (28:32):
I thought it was someone that I was scared of Are you
protecting him or are youprotecting you?
Sylvia (28:36):
No, someone else.
Well those days it was a vs,ready for sorry.
So, and then?
Lano (28:46):
McGillicuddy's, or was it McGillicuddy's?
That was another one too, or um?
Sylvia (28:48):
I'm where that place come through so many?
No, no, no, no, there was no onthe opposite corner was it.
Lano (28:57):
I think it's the same location, but I think it
switched names all the time.
Sylvia (29:02):
There was another one that we used to go to In
Pasadena.
Lano (29:06):
Barney's.
No, not Barney's.
We used to always go for the.
Sylvia (29:10):
No, it wasn't Barney's.
I guess it was like an Irishpub as well, and they used to
have dancing in the back.
Lano (29:18):
Oh, um, not the 35, or no no, was it dublin's?
Sylvia (29:26):
no, not that's on sunset , isn't it?
Mig (29:29):
yeah, it's on.
That's on sunset.
No, no, it was in pasadena.
Sylvia (29:32):
It was next to dominicals, but it wasn't yeah,
I know I could.
Mig (29:37):
I could feel people right now screaming at us.
Yeah, the freaking name of thisplace I was thinking of Asul,
but that was Alhambra no.
Sylvia (29:46):
I think that's still there.
Mig (29:50):
Oh, what was it that's going to be bugging me now?
Sylvia (29:55):
But you know what I'm talking about, right?
Mig (29:56):
Yeah, yeah, I know exactly what you're talking about.
What site is it on Like closeto you?
Know what I'm talking?
Lano (30:00):
about right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know exactly what
you're talking about.
What side is it on?
Mig (30:03):
Like close to a VS Resort, I think it was no well, it was
In the middle Like a lake.
Lano (30:09):
Mm-hmm.
Sylvia (30:12):
Aren't you going to look it up?
You usually do.
Lano (30:16):
I don't think it's there anymore.
I don't think it's thereanymore.
I don't know a name, or just aclub on Lake, I don't know.
Sylvia (30:20):
Or you could put next to Domenico's, because it was like
right next door All right,we'll see.
Mig (30:27):
What the hell was that place called?
That place was good too.
Sylvia (30:32):
It was good.
Lano (30:37):
Damn it, Damn this.
Is this bad memory?
This is all new stuff.
Sylvia (30:50):
I just got to see.
Lano (30:54):
This has like Magnolia bar .
This has.
Mig (31:00):
You ever on Instagram see that that page?
House Party in the 90s?
Yes, whenever they ask thatquestion, aid yourself by Naming
the clubs you used to go to.
Sylvia (31:15):
But we can't even remember.
Mig (31:17):
I remember and every time, every time I ask that question,
I always put down, like caddiesI put down Bobby McGee's.
Lano (31:28):
Oh.
Sylvia (31:28):
Bobby McGee's was in Burbank, I remember that too.
Lano (31:30):
We used to go to the Chalet a lot in Ingarock.
Oh, the Chalet, that was ourspot.
We used to go there.
Mig (31:36):
That was our pre-game.
Yeah, we all want to warm upright there.
Mcmurphy's.
Lano (31:42):
McMurphy's.
There it is McMurphy's Irishbar, popular on the that's what
it was.
Mig (31:52):
There we go.
Sylvia (31:53):
That was another one.
Lano (31:54):
Google AI found it for us In the 90's.
Sylvia (32:01):
Good times man Good times.
I don't think we ever went to.
Did we ever go to Ixtapa?
No right.
Mig (32:10):
I think we did, but I don't think it was called Ixtapa.
It was called something else.
Sylvia (32:15):
Yeah, you're right.
Mig (32:17):
They changed the name on it I was going to say Lucky
Baldwins.
Lano (32:22):
But yeah, mcmurphy.
So you guys have been justkeeping in touch ever since.
Mig (32:31):
That's actually funny too, because we had actually kind of
like drifted apart and it wasjust like out of the blue.
I guess you were going throughyour phone and, uh, she was
looking up on numbers and shecame across my number and
wondered if it was still a goodnumber I remember when I was
(32:51):
texting.
Sylvia (32:51):
I was like, hi, is this miggy?
And then he replied with hey,sylvia.
So I I'm like Mickey, what's up?
Mig (33:01):
I was like, yeah, it's me, what's up it's been a few years
now.
Lano (33:05):
Yeah, so I always say Mickey, but I wasn't sure if you
were like insulted when wecalled you Mickey, nah, but you
know him as Mickey huh.
Sylvia (33:11):
Oh yeah, oh, yeah, Okay.
Lano (33:12):
Yeah, because I know he gets all upset.
Yeah, I don't think we've evercalled Rick Ricky.
It's always been Rick yeah.
Sylvia (33:22):
Yeah.
Mig (33:24):
Yeah, I don't really care.
Lano (33:25):
It doesn't really matter to me.
Like me, I've had the samenumber since I got my first
phone.
You guys have the same number,yeah, so keep in touch, I've
never switched numbers.
Sylvia (33:35):
Yeah, my number has never changed.
Some people switch numbers allthe time.
I've had it since I was like, Ithink, in like 19.
Lano (33:40):
Yeah, I wouldn't want to like change it.
Sylvia (33:42):
I won't say what age I'm now, but let's just say it's,
it's.
Lano (33:45):
It's been a while it's been a while through everything,
yeah, so um, I guess we shouldtalk about the barons, though,
or?
Barons baseball, barons,baseball, baseball.
So, um, that feels, I want tosay maybe 20 years old.
Is that the one on legion parkwhere?
Sylvia (34:05):
you guys play well, we practice at uh rose hills is.
Lano (34:10):
Is that um?
Is that over here el sereno, oris that over here?
Sylvia (34:13):
uh, yeah, I guess it's like borderline el sereno okay,
so that's the roses I'm thinking, but when?
Lano (34:17):
But?
Sylvia (34:17):
when we play Northeast LA Little League we do play up
in that field.
It's called Nella Little Leagueand yeah, that's called the.
It's in something field yeah,it's a I don't, I just it's just
(34:38):
nella, we just call it nella,yeah, so you guys practice at
rose hills, but the games arelike over there, okay, okay
unless we're like, um, unlesswe're doing scrimmages or um,
we're doing evaluations, like weare doing this.
uh, actually, this sunday, allof our barons are going to be
out there doing evaluations.
It's something that we coachevery year Evaluate the players
(34:59):
to see where they're at, wherethey've improved from the last
time that we were there.
So we'll be out there thisSunday pretty much all day.
Lano (35:08):
And this Little League is part of the nationwide Little
League that you see in the.
Sylvia (35:13):
Little League World Series and all that stuff.
Lano (35:14):
No, like it's a feeder, it goes into there or no it's a
little league, but not like.
Not like the one you'rethinking like if they win a
championship right.
Sylvia (35:24):
So we have several different age groups and, um,
you know each.
They do tournaments.
So the more they win, you know,the further they get out.
Uh, further they go, um, butthat's also.
But that's like in season.
Uh, for example, they like umnettle little league for spring.
Uh, we had the tlc springchampions, we had the all-stars.
(35:46):
So the further, the more thatyou play, the more that you win,
the further that you go out,and then at some point you start
playing other regions, right,yeah?
Mig (35:54):
but like being named an academy, you guys playing like a
bunch of different othertournaments and different
leagues and everything right.
Lano (36:01):
It's like you're not just restricted, just to like oh, no,
no no, northeast so right sothat's like a club club team, is
that they call it?
Sylvia (36:08):
baron's uh, baron's baseball academy is itself, so
we're a different entity fromthe northeast la little league.
That's where we go to play fallball.
Or what if the okay whatevertheir coaches play, but uh,
barron's, it's its own entity,right, yeah?
And then, aside from doingtravel, we also um break ball.
(36:29):
We just finished a season atmonastee summer uh which is
extra practice for the boys, andthen we're going to start up at
actually edwards.
Mig (36:37):
We're going to have three, which is minors and jupiter's,
yeah, so you're pretty much likeopen to anyone that would want
to join.
Sylvia (36:48):
Right like anybody, they can make it yeah, well, they do
have to come to tryouts.
Mig (36:52):
Well, that's what I'm saying anybody that can like
physically travel there, theydon't necessarily have to come
to tryouts.
Well, that's what I'm sayingAnybody that can physically
travel there.
Sylvia (36:59):
They don't necessarily have to be from the neighborhood
no, not at all.
Okay, and we also welcome girlsas well.
We actually do have one girl onthe team.
Her name is Bea, so she comesto practice out with the Barons,
but she is actually a member ofthe Icons, which is also a
travel team, and she actuallyjust came back from cooperstown.
Um yeah, she was out there for aweek and that is one of our
(37:21):
goals.
Um, next summer.
We're taking well the coachesare taking I believe it's our 11
?
U to cooperstown, so it's likea whole week of nothing but
baseball.
So that's the goal and theyweren't next.
Lano (37:33):
They see, like the museum or the Hall of Fame and stuff.
Sylvia (37:38):
It's huge.
I mean it's like baseballfields and the parents will get
to stay, yeah, all camp together, well, in a bunk room or
whatever.
Mig (37:50):
So it's like a baseball camp then Pretty much.
Oh, that's cool.
You guys have to look it up on.
Sylvia (37:54):
YouTube.
It's pretty cool.
My son watches the YouTube allthe much.
Oh, that's cool.
You guys have to look it up onYouTube.
It's pretty cool.
My son watches YouTube all thetime Okay.
It's pretty, pretty cool.
It's like a.
Mig (38:01):
That's awesome.
Sylvia (38:03):
You know it's baseball dream to go there.
So we're going to be doing alot of fundraising.
Mig (38:13):
And then I want to congratulate your boys team,
because I do follow your feed OnInstagram and I saw that your
boys came in second Right.
Sylvia (38:23):
They did In this past weekend.
Mig (38:25):
In the tournament that they played in.
So you guys are very proud ofyour Barons For coming in second
in that tournament.
Sylvia (38:32):
We were in Yucaipa this Saturday.
Typically we do For the mostpart we we do tournaments on
Sundays.
Mig (38:40):
Okay.
Sylvia (38:40):
So it was actually changed to do it on that
Saturday, which was actuallyreally good.
So, yeah, we were out there inYucaipa, it was pretty hot out
there.
So they played two games backto back, won both.
Last game, the championship.
We came up short, but you know,they played well, they were
confident, they were out there,they did what they had to do and
(39:02):
we came in second, but that'sokay.
That's all you can ask for thepoint is that you know they
played well, they did good andwe're super proud that they came
.
You know that they made it tothe championship.
Mig (39:14):
That's awesome yeah.
Sylvia (39:15):
So that's our 12U, and now they're going up to 13U, so
that was kind of like a good wayto transition Exactly.
Lano (39:24):
It was pretty cool and that's the age like 12-year-olds
or 13U 12 and under Okay, 12and under yeah.
Sylvia (39:31):
So now they move up to 13 and then 14.
Lano (39:41):
So how many different teams like age groups?
Sylvia (39:43):
do they have?
Lano (39:43):
We're big, I think the youngest right now that we have
are probably 8 or 9-year-olds upto 18.
So there's, like I'm just likefive different Barron teams,
different ages, different groups.
Sylvia (39:53):
Yeah, I guess I could say that I mean well, you see,
when you went that day, yeah,it's a pretty huge.
Mig (40:01):
It's a big group.
It's a big group.
Lano (40:06):
When you said there's like tryouts, so like some kids
won't make it on the team, orare they?
Sylvia (40:08):
just like you know.
The thing is that with CoachChewy he welcomes anybody.
Right there's a kid that mightwant to play baseball never
played baseball before and hebasically pretty much just from
the basic up until he needs to.
So I remember where Jadenstarted.
(40:29):
We actually started with LittleLeague first and then we
transitioned into travel, sowe've actually been with the
barons for a year, and just thechange from when he first
started to now it's awesome,like you could see it right
improvements absolutely so.
That's what uh barons um academyis all about, like, wants to
(40:50):
help those kids that want toplay, is not going to just turn
them away just because they'renot great in baseball, right.
So it's the kids in theneighborhood that don't know
where to go to play baseball.
They're welcome at the.
Mig (41:03):
They're welcome at barons academy absolutely yeah see
that's cool, because that'ssomething that I didn't have as
a kid, you know it's like, so Ijust ended up playing just on
the streets yeah, you know, Ithink we all did right when we
were that young you know, but ifI would have like something
organized like that to be ableto join, yeah, who knows what
(41:23):
could have come of it.
Yeah, you know it's like, butthat's cool.
And and did Jaden like, how didhe express interest in in
playing?
Was it just like his buddiesplaying and dragged them into it
, or?
Sylvia (41:37):
actually he started playing okay.
So the boys that um, so mygrandson, anthony, um and jayden
, they actually sorry, let mebacktrack anthony started
playing at rio, okay, and heplayed coach pitch, so jayden
would.
So I would go to all the gamesand I would tell jayden that's
going.
Jayden was just like oh, mom, Idon't want to go, like I'm
(41:58):
bored, blah blah, and so thatsummer he's like you know, I'm
on my thing, I want to try it.
I'm like okay, we can do this.
Mig (42:05):
So how old was he?
Sylvia (42:06):
he's probably about nine okay um.
So he finally decided to do it,and he's been hooked on it ever
since, and of course it was hisfirst time playing rec ball
yeah, so he wasn't good, um, buthe was super nervous.
I remember it was just like wefound out who our coach was and
we had like one practice andthat saturday we had a game.
Mig (42:28):
So he goes up and he's like what?
Sylvia (42:30):
do, I do, I'm like just getting your stance, like a boss
coming to just swing.
And after that first swing hewas so nervous he didn't know
what to do.
I know per guy, and I'm justlike you got this kid right and
but in my head I'm like, oh mygod, we're screwed.
I love you son, I love you son.
But he, once he swung, he waslike okay, like okay, I got this
(42:50):
.
You know as, yeah, you know as,the more he played he got
better.
But that summer, after, afterthe season ended, he was like so
determined, right, determinedto be like get better.
And he did, like he was hittingthe park, the batting cages,
with his dad and he came.
When he came back, it was likea big improvement.
And you know, of course it'salways room for improvement.
(43:12):
But, there's definitely beenhuge improvement from when he
started.
So now, and um, you know a lotof that is because he joins the
Barons and you know we havethere's like five different
coaches and five differentstyles of coaching.
Uh, but the goal is, you know,improve their skills,
fundamentals.
Mig (43:32):
And how did you find out about the Barons, or how did?
Sylvia (43:44):
how did you find out about the barons?
Or how did how did yourinvolvement start?
So the barons?
Well, so the way that thathappened is, as we actually one
of my friends her name ismelissa, um, her son plays with
jayden as well.
Her name is steven.
So she sent me a screenshot, uh, from the nila little league
instagram that there was goingto be evaluations.
So I'm like okay.
So I I said jayden, I'm like gocheck this out.
I'm like it's right here.
Never even knew that there waslike um travel.
Lano (44:04):
I'm not saying no, no, not travel um little league in the
area right I always heard of it,but actually what never knew
where it was, so but normallyit's just like a park league or
something right like uh, I meannormally like the baseball, like
a like right here at likecypress park or something just
like a park league in the summertimes.
Only like not too many peoplehave like actual, like little
(44:25):
league, like um, yeah.
So the cypress park is morelike rec, yeah um.
Sylvia (44:31):
So we ended up going, we ended up doing, we went to the
evaluations and, um, he ended upon the barons.
So from there on, we basicallyum told coach dre that we were
interested in doing travel, andit just started from there.
And now we're here nice.
Lano (44:50):
Yeah, now having um, your, your boy, in it, have noticed
any like?
Um like, does it transfer overto school?
Or good habits, like him beinglike in a structure, like going
to practice every day, is helike he wakes up early in the
morning?
Now, I mean, does he like, hasthings changed?
Like his grades improve?
His grades have always beengood.
Sylvia (45:10):
Yeah, so I've never had a problem with that.
He, in order, of course, tostay in baseball, he does have
to keep his grades up, because Imean, and those are your rules,
or the league rules Both.
But not even the league.
It's more of the coaches.
If the coaches know that theydon't have good grades, then you
know, it's like school comesfirst.
Mig (45:30):
But do you notice, is there any like discipline that
carries over from like thebaseball into like his normal
life?
Sylvia (45:41):
Like, say like keeping his room clean or organized, or
Is he a morning?
Lano (45:44):
person.
He wakes up and go because hehas practice?
Sylvia (45:47):
No, no, no.
So practices are always in theafternoon, right, but anything
that has to do with, you know,cleaning the room, no, but when
it has to do with baseball it'sroom no, but when it has to do
with baseball.
Lano (45:58):
It's straight.
Yeah, is he like?
Sylvia (45:59):
he's your typical.
Lano (46:00):
13 year old socially was.
Was he shy before and now he'sable to like talk to other kids.
Actually, jayden is actuallyvery shy.
Sylvia (46:06):
He was very shy, he was very you know to himself he
could be a little awkward, okay,actually.
Um, he actually wanted to cometoday and I was just like dude,
listen to me, they're going toask you questions.
You'll just be like I'm likeyou can't do that.
He goes.
No, mom, I got it, I got it.
I'm like no, maybe next time.
But he was like so hyped up andI was just, but I know him
already, that's what he says andwhen he gets to what he's going
(46:26):
to do, he just stays quiet andyou can ask him a question and
he'll look at you and he won'tanswer so I'm like constantly
having to like judge right Istill want to go out, like to
the field and record like somebaseball shots.
Mig (46:38):
All right well jayden buddy , if you're listening and I hope
you are dude, because youshould be listening to this
because your mom's on.
I want you on this show, dude Iwant to have you on here and I
want to talk to you.
I want to hear your two cents,and I want to have your mom on
here too.
So no shyness, we're just gonnachop it up, man, we're gonna be
(46:58):
cool, we're gonna be just chill.
Lano (47:02):
I want to hear your side of the stories or when we go to
the field, we'll be the the bigyeah, when we're on the field,
we'll be the big interview inyour comfortable settings.
Sylvia (47:10):
So that's what I told them.
I said why don't you wait untilthey come to?
You know, um, watch thepractice, and you know they can
talk to you?
He's like, oh yeah, I guess wecan do that, but we'll see,
because once it's once baseballstarts, it's like he doesn't
listen to anyone.
Oh yeah, he's in his own.
Lano (47:27):
All right, so you ready buddy Coming for you now, Like
I'm a new parent, I have athree-year-old and a
one-year-old, and all this islike down the road, my future as
a parent.
Like how much time are youputting in like a week for?
Like the practices, the games?
Sylvia (47:48):
Oh, it's a seven-day thing.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Lano (47:51):
So it's another shift, another work shift, pretty much,
oh yeah, like.
Sylvia (47:54):
I always, when I get off work, I'll pick up Jaden, and
then I'm like so I park whatever.
And here comes the parents.
I'm like all right, I'mclocking into the job that I
don't get paid for, because I'malso, I'm actually one of the
team moms for the Barons, alongwith the other team mom,
Stephanie.
Lano (48:11):
Her son plays also for the baroness ball and team mom like
snacks everything or rideseverything.
Sylvia (48:16):
You guys are no, no, no, no, no, that's, that's wreck
ball that's soccer, mom, shitdude so we pretty much, uh,
stephanie, okay, well, first ofall, coach chewy, um, he's very
demanding in a good way, right,so we're basically his
(48:36):
secretaries, right, um, but no,so what stephanie and I do?
We pretty much take care of thecalendar, you know, post the
practices, we post on instagramas much as we can, um, and just
do what needs to be done, like,um, make sure that the kids get
registered, um, you know, orcoordinate the tournaments,
things like that, answerparents' questions and sometimes
(48:58):
, and also as well when we'redoing evaluations or tryouts, we
are like the main people thatparents come to make sure the
paperwork is all in order.
So we kind of keep it allorganized and then, that way, he
can just focus on coaching.
That's what I do, along withStephanie.
It's a hard job, guy now, um,you mentioned like tournaments
(49:19):
and registration.
Lano (49:20):
Do all these tournaments have like fees?
You guys gotta pay.
You guys raising money or theparents are, like you know,
pulling out their pockets.
Um, how does it work?
Sylvia (49:27):
so we yes, for the most part, parents do pay and,
depending on the tournament, itdepends on the fee as well.
So so we have one-daytournaments, we have two-day
tournaments and then we havethree-day tournaments.
We go to Yucaipa, chino Hills,just depends where Chui puts us.
That's where we're going.
(49:51):
I think probably the closesthas been Montebello.
At shore, lots of tournamentsthere.
So tomorrow some of our barons,who are also icons, are going
to be in Chino playing.
It's like a summer league thatthey are doing, so they'll be
out there.
Hopefully they win, and you know, yeah, actually, as a matter of
fact, our Barons too I believeit's our 11th is going to be out
there tomorrow as well.
(50:11):
You're saying places that likethink baseball, like you kite.
Lano (50:18):
But you know like, oh for sure, there's areas you think
like these are like, andactually this weekend when we
played um.
Sylvia (50:23):
When we played, uh the tournament, there was actually a
team from tahachapi oh yeah anduh, where else?
I think it was that.
Yeah, I think it wastahachapiipi, so it was like we
were in Ukiah, but it was like atwo and a half to three hour
drive for them.
Lano (50:37):
Wow, yeah, that's like north.
Sylvia (50:39):
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, I was having a screamingmatch with the coach.
It was like getting louder.
I'm like, oh hell, no, I'mgoing to get louder.
Yeah, it was like back andforth.
Mig (50:50):
Yeah, and for trips like that.
Would you like charter like abus or something?
Sylvia (50:55):
No, Just like caravan.
No, I mean whatever you, justwhatever you drive.
Lano (51:00):
Every parent brings their own kid.
Pretty much Wow.
Sylvia (51:03):
I pack up the Highlander with you know, got the wagon
going have the canopy because itwas hot out there yeah, it was
hot Con la hielera unascervecitas because you know we
got to keep hydrated you,because you know we gotta keep
hydrated, you gotta conservewater, exactly.
And then you know, but the goodthing is is that with um, our
(51:26):
barons, like all the parents, welove to eat and so we just have
like a huge picnic there, niceand yeah, so we all just get
together, put up the canopiesand we just chill and wait for
the next game.
It's fun.
We're like a big, big family,so that's what's also good.
We're very family oriented fun,but exhausting.
Lano (51:43):
It's very exhausting every weekend pretty much well that's
like, um, I'm trying to pick asport, or I'm dreading, like the
commitment myself.
You got me, it's just for thekids.
You gotta do for the kids onceit.
Sylvia (51:55):
Well, you know, once you get in in it, you don't know,
you, the kids, you got to do itfor the kids.
Once you get in it, you don'teven know what to do, because
this weekend he doesn't have atournament.
He has evaluations on Sunday.
But when actually Chewy says wehave a weekend off, I'm like
yeah, all right, cool.
But then when I'm there I'mlike what do we do?
Mig (52:11):
Because all I know is baseball right.
Sylvia (52:12):
All we know is baseball right.
All we know is baseball.
Mig (52:14):
Yeah.
Sylvia (52:15):
You know.
So the moms are kind of like ohokay, so, but that's just like
I miss it when I'm not, and thenI'm complaining when I'm doing
it.
But it's all fun, yeah, heenjoys it, I enjoy it, it's good
for him, and so your son.
Lano (52:33):
He goes to Eagle Rock High or no?
No, he goes to irving.
He'll be an eighth grader.
Yeah, he starts.
It is like high school baseballin the future, or no is?
Sylvia (52:39):
that is the goal.
That's the goal, okay, I wasn'tsure.
Lano (52:41):
It's like high school sports still a big deal, or no?
Sylvia (52:43):
yeah so clubs actually when, once he finishes irving,
he's actually gonna be going tofranklin?
Um, because I believe, uh,coach joey is actually going to
be going to franklin.
So a lot of the barons have tobe going to Franklin for the
baseball program, because theydo have a good baseball team.
Mig (52:58):
Oh, they do.
Okay, yeah, cool, we had one ofour friends, danny.
Lano (53:02):
He played baseball Remember.
Mig (53:04):
Oh, he did, huh.
Lano (53:05):
Yeah, he played baseball.
Mig (53:05):
For the JVs.
I thought it was varsity, yeah.
Lano (53:08):
I'm not sure.
I don't remember We'd alwayswait for him on the like Q he
was.
What is it left field?
We're always on the oppositestreet and we used to just hang
out watch him play.
Oh okay, it's right there inthe street where his position
was.
Sylvia (53:20):
Yeah.
Lano (53:22):
Now so it'll be high school and a baron still, or
just one or the other.
Sylvia (53:28):
Well, I think that once he gets into high school, I mean
, he'll still be a Baron, buthe'll be playing high school.
Lano (53:38):
So I think there's like a you age out, huh, pretty much
Also Barons.
They don't have like a teenage.
Thank you I couldn't think ofthe word you age out.
Barons doesn't have a teenageteam or like 16 and they still
do.
Sylvia (53:50):
I believe they still do play tournaments, but Actually
supposed to Not sure how thewhole situation works there, so
I leave that up to the coaches.
That's the whole coach thing,but yeah, it's pretty fun.
Lano (54:07):
I was trying to figure out the structure and stuff.
Mig (54:12):
So your girl's going to be Lady Barons, or what dude I
don't know, we'll see.
Lano (54:17):
Whatever she likes to do, the.
Mig (54:18):
Lady Barons are actually Softball and fast pitch right,
correct?
Sylvia (54:22):
So, aside from Barons Baseball Academy we just
launched, probably like maybe amonth ago, if something about
there, lady Barons, and we'reactually gonna be doing a 12U.
Our 12U softball girls aregonna to be doing the league in
Burbank.
And that starts in September,yeah, and then we have the
(54:43):
little ones too, so anybodyinterested joining the Lady
Barons softball got to look usup on Instagram.
Lano (54:50):
Oh yeah, so like, what's your handle?
Is it just Barons?
I?
Sylvia (54:55):
have not.
We have not launched anythingfor Lady Barron's yet.
I'm still working on it, butright now we do have.
It's Barron's Baseball Academyand that's on Instagram.
Mig (55:05):
On Instagram Correct, all right.
So Barron's Baseball Academy onInstagram.
At Barron's Baseball Academy,look it up, we got kids that
want to play.
I've met these coaches.
These are good dudes.
They do a great job.
They're great with the kids,they run great practices.
Sylvia (55:31):
Structured practices Strict practices.
Mig (55:40):
Strict.
Oh yeah, that's a good thing.
No, yeah, no.
I mean, I've been there, I'vewitnessed it and uh, they, they
do a good job.
They do a great job.
Is this it or no?
Sylvia (55:49):
no, it's not no um?
Lano (55:54):
are the coaches all like like from the community or the
neighborhood?
Sylvia (55:57):
they are, yeah actually um two, three of the coaches, uh
, coach chewy, coach dray andcoach josh.
They all went to sotomayor oh,that's always the high school I
always forget about because overthere that was because it's so
new yeah, but I heard it's likefive different schools inside
the campus or something likethat one of our bands actually
(56:19):
goes to Sotomayor and I guessthey now it's just called
Sotomayor and I think there'sonly.
I'm not sure if it's like oneor two something.
I didn't catch the whole story,but it's not like there used to
be five or four on campus?
Lano (56:33):
yeah, because it used to be e-cow.
Sylvia (56:35):
So my son, joshua, actually used to go to e-cows.
Lano (56:37):
So that's not longer there because he went to soto yeah
okay, um, so lady bears comingout soon.
Sylvia (56:45):
Um oh no, they're already established oh, status.
Lano (56:48):
So waiting for the website ?
Um, when is like, um, like thenew season or the new cycle
starts for like tryouts and allthat stuff?
Sylvia (56:55):
so we are having evaluations this sunday, as I
mentioned um, at the northeastla little league uh field, so
we're pretty much going to bethere all day.
It is 25 for evaluations uh,but you, um, you can make that.
We also do uh whole tryouts onmondays and Wednesdays at Rose
(57:16):
Hills from 6 to 9.
So it just depends on your age.
Lano (57:22):
Is this like the beginning of the new baseball year or
just like year-round?
Sylvia (57:25):
You guys are recruiting.
We're always recruiting.
Okay, because Barron's travelis year-round.
Lano (57:32):
Okay.
Sylvia (57:34):
Now, when just the Little League, that is a season.
So right now we're going intofall, which I believe starts in
September.
Lano (57:47):
Anything else you want to add?
Mig (57:48):
You were working on getting a website together.
Sylvia (57:51):
That is going to be that we're going to go live at the
end of August.
Mig (57:56):
Okay.
Sylvia (57:57):
Yeah, still working on that, Still working on the
tweaks.
Okay, so when It'll be up soon?
Mig (58:01):
So when that website's available, we'll post it.
We'll post it on our show.
Sylvia (58:05):
On our Instagram.
Mig (58:07):
We'll talk about it on the show.
We'll make sure to promote it,so anybody out there that's
interested they can.
Lano (58:12):
Hopefully we can get out there too.
Sylvia (58:13):
check you guys out yes, we would love to have you guys
out there absolutely and also Iwanted um promote one more
website of yours the defective29 line oh yes of clothing line
which is in honor of your son,that oh, that's right, you lost
way too young.
Mig (58:33):
You know it was a tragic story, you know, but um.
Sylvia (58:38):
Yes, thank you.
Yeah, so it's at defective 29,which is in honor of my son,
joshua.
Mig (58:43):
Yeah, so you guys check it out, check out the clothing line
, and uh, support, you know,just check it out and um See if
you like anything on there.
And uh, grab some gear man,some pretty cool stuff on there.
And grab some gear man, somepretty cool stuff on there.
And with that, we are done.
Sylvia (59:03):
Thank you for having me, guys.
Mig (59:04):
We'll see you guys next time.
Lano (59:06):
It's always fun having a guest, you guys call in so I can
come back, not so official.
Mig (59:13):
The phone number is 323 207 0012.
That's 323 207 0012.
Let us know how we did, let usknow how you like the show and
(59:33):
keep on drifting, yo Peace.
Welcome back to the Drifting on Arroyo Podcast.
This is Mig, this is Lano, andno RK67.
That boy is working again.
Yeah, don't be sad, that guy'sa jerk.
I was in Vegas this pastweekend.
(00:33):
Any of our drifters out therethat follow Instagram saw that
your boy, the degenerate bear,struck again in another jackpot.
Lano (00:47):
You didn't say how much, not it?
Oh yeah, not the 13 grand, isit?
No, oh oh, it didn't show howmuch, but on the, not in the
description, but I just see thetop where the dragon laying the
red.
Oh, I didn't.
They didn't play the wholething.
Mig (00:57):
Huh, yeah, oh, I hit for 1400.
Oh okay, wow, yeah, so um whatcasino is that?
Yeah, there you go, mandalayBay.
Lano (01:12):
Oh, in Vegas yeah.
Mig (01:14):
And the thing is I wasn't really planning on going this
weekend but the only reason Iwent is cause um, rick was going
with um, with uh, hisgirlfriend and uh.
On their side.
They had uh, they were goinglike for a bachelorette,
bachelor party kind of deal, youknow where, where they were
celebrating, but at separate uhairbnbs.
(01:37):
And the thing is he wanted tostay sunday night because that
was his anniversary for him andhis girl.
How many years is that?
I'm not sure I didn't ask Morethan that.
Well, as a girlfriend, Wellofficially, officially.
Lano (01:53):
Because you was dating her for a while or hanging out with
her for a while Officially I'mnot sure it might be two or
three Until some late night bikeride.
Mig (02:05):
I remember she needed a ride home and that was it A
romantic, moonlit Bike ride.
But, um, he had asked me if Icould get him a room and I was
like, well, yeah, dude, I toldhim, but the only problem with
that is that you know, I have tobe there to check in, you know,
because I can't.
You know there's only, I can'tfigure out any other way to
check in without me being there.
So I told him well, you knowwhat I could do is I could book
(02:26):
the room, because I can't figureout any other way to check in
without me being there.
So I told him well, you knowwhat I could do is I could book
the room from Friday to Monday,but I'll leave Sunday and just
leave you keys and you andVanessa can stay there.
You don't have the room forSunday, and you know, just check
out Monday.
Lano (02:43):
Because nowadays, like check out, it's just like An app
or a phone call.
Mig (02:46):
Yeah, dude, I do everything .
Yeah, I do everything on theapp.
Lano (02:49):
Yeah, you don't gotta go to the counter, so it's more
easy.
Mig (02:51):
Yeah so, but the problem is that when you do it on the app,
you need the.
You need your phone For thekeys or to get access to To get
on the elevators to go up in theroom.
And if you want to get likekeys you need a qr code that
(03:13):
comes out on the phone andthat's in your app.
So I still got to figure out howto like that's checking in,
right, that's checking in,manipulating that yeah but, um,
what I was able to do is I wasable to put his name down as a
guest as a guest, so he would beable to.
Get his own set of keys.
Huh, yeah, so he would be ableto make any changes or making
(03:38):
whatever.
You know like go to the frontcounter and ask for keys, so I
wonder if I could do that nexttime for him.
Oh, and ask for keys, so Iwonder if I could do that Next
time from.
Lano (03:45):
Oh yeah, he can ask for some Extra keys.
Yeah, for Vanessa.
Mig (03:46):
You know, and then I don't gotta go.
I could do all the check inShit and everything On my phone.
So I'll probably try that Nexttime and see if that works.
If not, then I don't know.
Lano (03:55):
Mandalay Bay.
Mig (03:56):
Mandalay Bay.
Lano (03:58):
That's considered the older ones now, right yeah?
Mig (04:01):
now right, uh, like one of the, yeah, one of the older ones
.
Lano (04:03):
Yeah, how's it maintained?
Still looking good andeverything it's still good.
Mig (04:06):
Yeah, yeah, it's not.
Lano (04:09):
Uh, it's not a shithole like the luxor when I, when I
saw this um before the showstarted, I thought um, this was
in the golf trip, this is this.
Uh, ricky made a trip right, no, no, the golf trip is uh next
month end of september and wedon't know if um ricky won any
money or anything nah, he didn'teven.
Mig (04:28):
I don't even think they stepped foot.
Well, they did step foot in thecasinos, but just to go to the,
the clubs and stuff and partyso my wife wants to go out there
.
Lano (04:39):
She wants to see a show at the sphere that's what I need
to start doing more, man.
Mig (04:42):
I need to start going like checking out shows and stuff and
everything.
I keep my ass out of thecasinos and gambling.
Lano (04:48):
Well, after you won this, you should have like bought.
Well, yeah, dude, but how far?
Mig (04:52):
how far in between is that dude that I win?
Yeah, you know, it's like Igotta keep myself more occupied
with with other shit, you knowit's like it's too far in
between because um I guess thethe fears the sphere is showing
them, like the wizard of oz,like something really.
Well, there there was one thingthere was one thing that I
didn't want to bring up with youguys but that I talked to rick
(05:13):
about out there, that he hefigured out on his own, but I
had been wanting to bring it uplike the past few shows with you
guys is that there's um,there's a john w, really yeah,
dude, it looks pretty badass man, and I seen it and I seen some
of those influencers that Ifollow from Vegas.
They went through it and it'spretty badass because it's like
(05:38):
a series of escape rooms.
But it's all, john.
Lano (05:41):
Wick themed.
Mig (05:41):
You know of all the movies, Rooms, you know, but it's All
John Wick themed, you know ofall the movies.
So you go, you go through itand, like you're figuring out
All these, all these, um, Iguess, puddles, puddles, puzzles
or riddles.
Like an escape room you know sothrough through each um, through
each one.
You know you gotta, you gottafigure it out.
(06:03):
And what's cool is that theysay that all the people that
work there are like superdedicated to the characters in
the movie and they all act likethey're characters in the movie.
You know so like the conciergeacts just like the concierge.
You know Like the gun sommelieracts just like the gun
sommelier in there andeverything.
And they say it's awesome, man,like if you're really like a
(06:26):
fan of the on the movies, theysay you gotta do it no, it looks
pretty cool.
Lano (06:32):
I'm reading the description yeah.
Mig (06:34):
So it's kind of.
It's kind of like um, like uh,escape room, kind of like um
speakeasy kind of deal.
You know it's like you can getdrinks in there also, and you
know it's just like it's cool.
You know that's why they callit an experience, you know,
because, like it's everythingyeah yeah, that area 15 what is
(06:55):
um, where's that or where isthis at?
It's, it's, uh, it's rightthere, it's like it's right in
vegas.
It's this big, like warehouselooking thing that just says
Area 15 on the side.
Sylvia (07:05):
And I was wondering what it was.
Mig (07:07):
And it's just like this big warehouse thing that just has
like different, like weird offthe wall kind of restaurant and
like stores and stuff and barsand just like weird kind of
attractions.
Lano (07:25):
No, it looks pretty cool, it does dude.
Let me see how much tickets arefor this.
Mig (07:34):
It's just something I should have looked up and I
should have done that.
Lano (07:41):
There's about $70.
About $68 for general admissionsee, that's not bad dude.
Keep yourself occupied for anhour or so, or especially if
you're gonna like be part of thewhole, like experience the show
and stuff you see, you can addon a beverage package you know,
so you drink as you're goingthrough there yeah I think, I
think it's worth it no, that'scool I mean, especially if
(08:04):
you're a fan of the movie, youknow.
I remember Rick was telling usabout he's a super huge fan of
the Titanic and then he told usabout the Titanic experience at
Luxor.
Mig (08:15):
At the Luxor.
Yeah, you see, like shit, likethat, you know.
Lano (08:20):
Cause me like if I go I'm taking the family.
We can't just be at the casinoall day long.
Mig (08:26):
There were so many kids that were there.
I couldn't believe how manykids were there, like running
around screaming all over theplace.
Sylvia (08:34):
It was crazy.
Lano (08:36):
It didn't bother you it didn't bother you.
Mig (08:38):
I mean like yes and no, you know, cause I was like kind of
like what the hell, dude?
It's like what happened, it'slike what's going on.
Lano (08:44):
This was in the casino area or just everywhere outside.
Mig (08:47):
Um, I kind of not not the whole casino, but like near the
elevators, cause I guess youknow they're going up and down
to the room.
Yeah, you know they're going to, of course, the pools and
everything you know, but like inthe hallways and everything,
they're all like running up anddown, you know, and it's like
(09:08):
it's like I started wondering.
It's like dude, it's like it'slike what's going on in vegas,
you know, because it kind ofseems like it's kind of emptying
out, you know, but now peopleare starting to take their kids
more and everything.
It's like it almost seems likeit's more of, um, a family
destination.
Lano (09:27):
Now, I remember they're going that way, but then it it
stopped.
Well, yeah because they weren'tmaking money remember I sent
you this video on this.
Um, some guy, he went to thispool.
Yeah, stadium club.
Yeah, you've been.
You've seen that, you've beenthere or that pool it's like in
old vegas, but just looks it'llbe cool to watch like a super
bowl or a game there.
Oh yeah, that shit looksawesome.
(09:47):
This is like I saw this.
You know that thing's open yearround.
Right that's what I saw yeah,they have.
Mig (09:53):
They have those pools heated so even in the winter,
like when it's like 40 degreesoutside, you can still be in the
water and the water is heatedyeah, I saw a video popped up on
YouTube and I was like what isthis?
Lano (10:04):
It's like some massive Sports book pool area.
Mig (10:09):
I mean, if you're crazy enough to get in there, when is
that cold?
Lano (10:11):
but Well speaking of that's pretty crazy, cold nights
Baseball season.
We have a special guest today.
Mig (10:23):
We did promise you A couple episodes ago that we were going
to have a special guest today.
We did promise you A coupleepisodes ago that we were going
to have a special guest on, andwe finally delivered.
Lano (10:34):
And we're still.
We're still planning on goingout on the field right and do a
recording, or no?
Mig (10:39):
Yes, we want to show you guys what Barron's Baseball
Academy is all about and to talkabout it a little bit and a
little bit about our backgroundand our friendship and how far
back we go, because we go backquite a bit.
(11:00):
You can hear by that laugh.
It's a pretty dubious laughbecause we've been through some
shit and we've known each otherfor a long time my very good
friend, my very dear friend,sylvia racinos hello welcome
hello, hello, thank you.
(11:22):
Thank you for having me it's apleasure, it's an honor.
Thank you for coming on theshow Of course Overdue.
Way overdue.
Sylvia (11:29):
I forgive you.
Mig (11:32):
It's always a pleasure having a guest on the show, and
this is the first female gueston our show in our three-year
history.
Lano (11:40):
This is episode 131.
Sylvia (11:43):
We're going to make it A good episode then.
Yes, hopefully we're going tomake it A good episode.
Lano (11:47):
Attract some more female.
Mig (11:49):
And for you drifters out there, for you hardcore drifters
, when we had our giveaway, ourvery first ever giveaway.
She is our winner.
Lano (11:57):
Oh, was it her Of our yeah .
Mig (11:59):
Of our t-shirt.
Sylvia (12:01):
Giveaway.
I even tagged you guys when Iwore it, I don't know if you
guys ever seen that.
Mig (12:05):
Maybe me.
She answered her triviaquestion.
She was the first one to answerit, I think it was like a
karate kid right.
I don't even remember and Istill owe them a shot.
Sylvia (12:15):
You guys still owe me a shot.
Lano (12:18):
We don't have anything now .
Huh, this would be the time todrink it.
Mig (12:22):
I'll make good on that shot .
This would have been the timeto drink it.
Lano (12:24):
That's right.
I'll make good on that shot.
Mig (12:25):
This would be the time to drink it.
Lano (12:26):
So first time me meeting Sylvia.
So how did you guys meet?
Where are you from, like whatarea?
And then what schools?
I'm assuming you guys met inschool or no.
Sylvia (12:35):
No.
Mig (12:39):
No, that's actually the funny thing, dude.
It's like for us growing up sonear each other, because she
grew up in the Eagle Rock area,you know, and of course we grew
up in the Heine Park area, lano,I'm not sure if you know, but
he went to what was the name ofthat school Cathedral Cathedral.
(13:00):
So he's a cathedral boy.
So nah, no, no, so he's acathedral boy.
So Nah, so he's a cathedral boy.
Yeah, so she was in Iraq.
I was, frankly, in cathedral,you know, but the funny thing is
that we didn't meet Until wewere in our 20s.
(13:21):
Mid 20s, late 20s, I think late20s, late 20s, in Vegas, if you
can believe that dude FunnyAfter Mid twenties, late
twenties, I think.
Sylvia (13:25):
Late twenties, late twenties In Vegas, oh wow, if
you can believe that dude Funny,crazy, crazy story dude.
Lano (13:34):
So, um, well, I'm class of 96, you're class of 92, right?
92, 92, 92 also.
Sylvia (13:43):
No 93.
Lano (13:45):
Oh, okay, so you're 93.
When you're younger than me,he's a youngin.
Do people still go by like Highschool, like graduations?
I didn't go to college orfinish college.
I always say the high school,what year did you graduate?
Blah, blah, blah.
Mig (13:59):
It probably depends.
I'm sure people that Did go tocollege use their college year
as their graduation.
Lano (14:07):
Now, since we're in school , like, did you guys get class
rings or no?
Like did you buy them?
You bought your class ring no.
Sylvia (14:14):
I didn't get either, nah .
Lano (14:16):
I always thought like, why am I getting a class ring for
high school if I'm going tograduate college?
But then I never graduatedcollege, but yeah.
Sylvia (14:23):
I kind of stayed away from it.
Mig (14:24):
I got a championship ring.
Lano (14:26):
Football Yep All-City 3A.
Sylvia (14:29):
That's even better.
Mig (14:32):
Oh nice, the last 3A championship that.
No, it was my sophomore year.
Oh, sophomore year.
Lano (14:40):
Is that the last championship?
Frank was at no 3A, oh 3A, wow.
Mig (14:43):
Is that the last championship Franklin's had?
No 3A, oh, 3a, wow.
Yeah, the last year thatGonzalez coached there in 89.
Lano (14:53):
I don't think I've ever seen your ring.
Where do you keep it?
Mig (14:57):
Yes sir, it's in a little tin box in my drawer.
Lano (14:59):
Okay, I want to see it next time I'm over there.
So you guys are in Vegas, how?
Mig (15:09):
did you guys by bump into each other?
You want to tell it, or should?
Sylvia (15:12):
I Go ahead.
Mig (15:15):
So we're in Vegas, we're in the Hard Rock Hotel.
That is no longer there.
Lano (15:20):
That's what I was going to say.
Oh, it's not there no more.
Mig (15:22):
No, they knocked it down.
Oh wow, it's the Virgin HotelCasino now.
Longer there, that's what I wasgonna say.
No, they knocked it down.
Oh wow, it's, uh, the virginhotel casino now yeah sad, good
times yeah
Lano (15:29):
good times, but isn't now like treasure island's going
down?
They're bringing the hardbackback right well, yeah, they're
building.
They're building a new one thenew one right where treasure
island is okay, but it'll neverbe the same, yeah okay, so you
guys are out there.
Mig (15:40):
Anyways, we're, we're out there.
I was with r Rick and, um, Iforget who else was with us.
Oh, dennis.
Sylvia (15:51):
I think Dennis was with.
Yeah, dude.
Mig (15:53):
Dennis was with us and um, so we're at the Hard Rock.
Sylvia (15:57):
Dennis Motel 6.
Lano (15:59):
Yeah, you know, dennis.
Mig (16:03):
Yeah, she knows, dennis, steve, and there's a story why
we can't.
Sylvia (16:06):
Tell six.
Mig (16:07):
And um and so, um, actually , I didn't meet Sylvia at first.
I met her friend, jessie,jessica, you know.
So we we started Talking firstand she had mentioned that she
was there With her friend Sylvia, you know, and, but she had
said that sylvia was in thebathroom and so we were there,
(16:30):
you know, we were talking andmaybe like 15, 20 minutes had
gone by and then I stopped and Istarted thinking I'm like boy,
I'm like where's your friend?
I'm like I'm it's already beenlike 20 minutes and like did you
say you came with your friendand she was like, yeah, but she
was in the bathroom, I don'tknow.
(16:50):
I'm like, well, you want to golook for her?
I'm like, did you even give ashit about her?
Lano (16:57):
I'm like, so we go to the bathroom and look for her.
Mig (16:59):
And this one she was gone, Like gone, Like passed out.
This one, she was gone, Likegone, Like passed out, Like
drunk.
Sylvia (17:05):
So when Jesse walked into the bathroom pretty much
just like every woman in there,right, we're all pretty much
drunk and it was like a couch.
So I was sitting on the couchlike this Right, Bien borracha,
right, and she's like what areyou doing?
And I'm just like I'm justchilling, like what are you
(17:30):
doing?
And I'm just like I'm justchilling, like what are you
doing.
She's like I've been standingout there for 15, 20 minutes
waiting for you and blah, blah,blah.
So we got out and Pretty muchafter that it was just I'm like.
And then I looked at me likethe houses, who are we?
Who are you talking to?
I can't leave her.
I couldn't leave her alone forlike 50 minutes because he was
(17:50):
already like talking to a lot ofpeople, but oh yeah, that was
her and um, ever since then,yeah, just we're friends.
Mig (17:56):
It's been what a little about 20 years 20 years yeah
yeah, yeah it was like back in,uh, like oh5 huh, I think so,
wow, yeah so.
Where the?
Lano (18:06):
hell is a Tom Com, so you guys would have been Like late
20s, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Wow.
Sylvia (18:11):
Well, yeah, because we celebrated A lot of birthdays
together as well, yeah, prettymuch partied.
Yeah, that was the other thing,because our birthdays Are
pretty near each other.
March, April yeah.
Lano (18:23):
So at that time that's when you guys were just chatting
you found the shoes From theneighborhood or just like.
Mig (18:28):
Well, yeah, pretty much down the street.
We hung out a lot.
You know, Pretty much everyweekend.
We were out partying Everyweekend back then.
Sylvia (18:35):
Yeah, literally we met that weekend, and the following
weekend we went out, and theweekend after that we would go
to Villasorizzo in Pasadena.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Mig (18:44):
It's cause the weekend after it was like it was your
birthday, and then the weekendafter that it was Jesse's
birthday and then the weekendafter that it was my birthday.
Lano (18:54):
So it was like so, partying in Vegas One week, the
following In LA, then a birthdaybirthday, and then the reason.
Weying in Vegas one week, thefollowing in LA, then a birthday
birthday, and then the reasonwe were in Vegas.
Mig (19:05):
I don't know why they were in Vegas, but the reason we were
in Vegas was because they werehaving the monster truck finals
and I had gone with my sisterand all the kids, all my nieces
and nephews Well, my niececesand nephews, we took them so we
could see the Monster Truckfinals and it was awesome, you
know, because they had this bigstadium.
Lano (19:26):
I was going to say where is it UNLV?
Mig (19:27):
UNLV.
Sylvia (19:28):
Stadium the football stadium.
Mig (19:29):
And it was awesome because you know, we were able to see
them the way we'd never seenthem before because they ran
like the full length of thefootball stadium.
Lano (19:39):
And before we were only used to seeing them, like in the
small arenas.
Mig (19:41):
You know where they're only like you know, and then jumping
there, but this time they'relike the full length of the the
football fields that we'rereally able to open it up and
haul ass and do some sick jumpsand everything man but I
remember my dad used to used togo to a couple of those and it
was always like half the yeah, Iwas like that's it, but it was
cool, though no, but as a kidyou're like, yeah, yeah, this
time's it, but it was cool,though no.
Sylvia (19:59):
But as a kid you're like , oh, cool, cool cool yeah, in
Vegas, man.
Mig (20:01):
it was such a good time, man.
It was like my sister loved itso much and like she wanted to
make it a tradition that we goevery year, but then, like the
year or so after, it's like theystopped doing it Because they
started moving it around todifferent locations and
everything, and they didn't doit in vegas anymore and I was
like so we got to experience oneyeah, we grew up watching
(20:21):
monster trucks, like saturdaymorning or no, or like how do we
see it on tv?
well, not, I mean, they justadvertise it.
Lano (20:30):
Oh advertise, but we never like yeah, I remember like
seeing bigfoot, like that wasbigfoot was.
He was the big one but like ingravedigger, but like I remember
watching it Like on TV I don'tknow if it was Saturday
afternoon or I remember rightaround Christmas time they would
always advertise the motocrossand the monster truck shows.
So you have, because I have athree year old and one year old.
(20:54):
How old are your kids?
Sylvia (20:57):
So my oldest Just turned 31, my middle one Not with us,
no more, he would 26, uh, inseptember.
And then my little one isjayden, who just turned 13 in
july, and he's the one who's apart of the um parents baseball
is so.
Lano (21:17):
Is there still saturday morning cartoons or anything, or
no?
Sylvia (21:20):
I don't know what that looks like because I'm always on
the field or in the tournament.
Lano (21:23):
You're always up and awake outside, but that I remember.
I believe so yes, I don't know,because now it's like people
don't even watch like local TV,like five and four, it's all
streaming.
I don't think it is in thesense of how we were dude
because we were limited withchannels.
Mig (21:41):
Yeah, you know, it's like we didn't have 500 channels out
there to choose from, right,right right, we had to watch
whatever was out there, and sowe had, like saturday morning,
cartoons either on channel 5, 4,4, 2, 7, or 11.
Sylvia (22:01):
Yeah.
Mig (22:02):
You know it's like now.
They got like, they gotNickelodeon, they got freaking
Like channels dedicated.
Lano (22:08):
You know they got the the.
Mig (22:09):
Cartoon Network, you know, they got Boomerang.
Disney, they got Boomerang.
Sylvia (22:14):
The older.
Lano (22:15):
Cartoon, you know they got all kinds of different channels
that they can watch.
I'm just trying to have mydaughters kind of grow up the
way I grew up.
Mig (22:25):
Everything's changing, having to watch the classics.
Everything's changing.
Playing the classics and havingto watch that.
Sylvia (22:31):
There you go, do it.
Lano (22:33):
It's funny because I'll put on an old movie and they get
into it.
I put on Short Circuit theother day.
Sylvia (22:40):
Remember the little robot Like I put on a short
circuit the other day.
Remember the little robot?
Yeah, I remember that movie.
Lano (22:43):
That's a good one, yeah, and like I mean my
three-year-old and two, they'rejust like staring at it, like
all into it.
So I was like, okay, thisCharlie 5 stays alive.
It saves me about Any VS Arisostories, because I remember a
lot of stuff would happen outthere, any that I remember.
I remember there would befights.
(23:07):
She knows Ralph, right, I meanRalph and Dennis.
Mig (23:10):
Well, she definitely knows, dennis.
Lano (23:12):
There would always be some fist fights.
Sylvia (23:14):
There was this other guy that for the life of me I can't
remember.
Lano (23:17):
James Belizean Tall Short.
Sylvia (23:25):
Gary, was there a Gary?
Mig (23:27):
Charles, no, charles was the only one.
Did you have a friend namedGary?
Gary no.
Lano (23:31):
Ralph.
We had a Ralph, then it's aDanny.
Sylvia (23:36):
No, but he would come out with a Gino.
Oh, I know Gino.
Mig (23:41):
Okay, trust me, I know Gino .
Sylvia (23:42):
Okay, trust me, I know Gino.
Who doesn't know Gino?
Lano (23:47):
Shout out to G.
Well, we had one incident whenI mean it's old news, I guess,
but Ralph, he took off and thenhe went straight into the the
Roughneck dealership, likeacross the street we're all
saying bye, and he just does aU-turn right into the dealership
like across the street.
Oh yeah, we're all sayingbuying this, doesn't you turn
right into the dealership?
Glass, right.
Mig (24:05):
Oh that shit, that shit was crazy man.
Sylvia (24:08):
I'll fast forward the cops there.
Mig (24:11):
Oh, they were on them they were on them quick, we scattered
right, see, the thing is Idon't know, was he acting stupid
, like trying to drive away?
Acting dumb and everything?
Lano (24:23):
He lost control, I think that was the day when there was
a fight and they turned on allthe lights and stuff Like a
brawl happened.
Mig (24:29):
Well, his now wife was with him, was she?
Yes, that's the whole thing.
That's why he got caught.
His wife was with him, his nowwife, and the thing is well.
I guess it was a fight and theyall got in his car and he tried
getting away and as he wasspeeding away, I guess he lost
(24:53):
control and crashed into therusnik, into the building like a
luxury car dealership.
Yeah, and so he crashed and Iremember the wife had a friend
and they were trying to hook meup with her.
So you know we had each other'snumbers because we we had gone
(25:13):
out a couple times and, um, Iremember her calling me and she
was all frantic, you know,because um, she was saying that
they had crashed, you know, andthey're gonna kind of go get the
friend or anyway, no, thefriend and you're gonna go get
them, you know, and go help them, you know, because she doesn't
know what to do.
And you know she was like cryinghysterically and everything.
I'm trying to figure out whatthe hell's going on.
(25:35):
Like, what are you talkingabout?
Well, ralph tells us after,because ralph is, and the ralph
tells us after that that he waslike yeah, man, he's like, the
only reason he got caught, thislittle fucker, is because, like,
when he crashed, he actuallythought of just fucking taking
(25:55):
off, but then he remembered hewas there with his girlfriend
who was in the car with him.
Yes, oh man and so he was likecaught in, like like the moral
thing or shit.
Should I?
Am, I gonna stay, am I gonna go, and like I don't know what to
do.
So he's like go.
(26:16):
Well, that's what he wanted todo, but his girl was like no, so
he stayed and he got caught andboom, dui, dui, yeah he took
care of all that stuff.
Changed his life.
He took it on the chin and nimodo.
Lano (26:35):
Got a lawyer, did all the stuff and then paid the fine and
all that stuff, and now he'svery rich.
Sylvia (26:40):
Yeah two girls.
There you go, worked out.
Lano (26:42):
Yeah, two girls.
Yeah, one's a high schoolwrestler, the other one's into
like the arts and stuff.
Yeah.
And they go to Igorok.
She goes to Igorok.
I think she's going to be asenior now.
Senior wrestler.
Yeah huh yeah.
Mig (26:57):
I guess that instantly must have turned him into a great
husband and a great dad causeyeah, and then Ralphie, he went
with me to Cathedral, I don'tthink it was Ralphie, though nah
.
I want to say it was James.
He was James, was it?
Lano (27:15):
Roger tall like white complected who was the guy that
was hanging out with Dennis?
He had the SS Super SportImpala, was it him?
I don't know, cause he was tall.
I think his name was Charlesalso, oh, rick's friend, charles
, I thought it was.
Mig (27:35):
Dennis, did he call him Spick?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, nah.
Lano (27:38):
I don't think it was him.
Sylvia (27:41):
I know, I have it was him.
I know.
I have pictures of himsomewhere.
I know because you used to talkto him too.
Mig (27:51):
Did he look like he was biracial?
It was probably James, becausehe's a Belizean.
Belizean, no.
Lano (28:00):
No, I thought we had like a golf.
Mig (28:07):
Colored eyes.
Sylvia (28:10):
I don't remember.
Lano (28:11):
The one in the white.
Well, this is him now.
Sylvia (28:15):
Oh no, it was not him.
Mig (28:16):
No, oh, that's James.
It's none of those guys, that's.
Sylvia (28:18):
Rick Roger.
I wonder who then.
It was not him.
No.
Lano (28:20):
Oh, that's James.
It's none of those guys, right?
That's.
Mig (28:21):
Rick Roger.
I wonder who then?
Sylvia (28:27):
I can't remember who he used to roll back to.
There's a story behind it, butI don't want to go to that story
.
That's why I was asking.
Lano (28:32):
I thought it was someone that I was scared of Are you
protecting him or are youprotecting you?
Sylvia (28:36):
No, someone else.
Well those days it was a vs,ready for sorry.
So, and then?
Lano (28:46):
McGillicuddy's, or was it McGillicuddy's?
That was another one too, or um?
Sylvia (28:48):
I'm where that place come through so many?
No, no, no, no, there was no onthe opposite corner was it.
Lano (28:57):
I think it's the same location, but I think it
switched names all the time.
Sylvia (29:02):
There was another one that we used to go to In
Pasadena.
Lano (29:06):
Barney's.
No, not Barney's.
We used to always go for the.
Sylvia (29:10):
No, it wasn't Barney's.
I guess it was like an Irishpub as well, and they used to
have dancing in the back.
Lano (29:18):
Oh, um, not the 35, or no no, was it dublin's?
Sylvia (29:26):
no, not that's on sunset , isn't it?
Mig (29:29):
yeah, it's on.
That's on sunset.
No, no, it was in pasadena.
Sylvia (29:32):
It was next to dominicals, but it wasn't yeah,
I know I could.
Mig (29:37):
I could feel people right now screaming at us.
Yeah, the freaking name of thisplace I was thinking of Asul,
but that was Alhambra no.
Sylvia (29:46):
I think that's still there.
Mig (29:50):
Oh, what was it that's going to be bugging me now?
Sylvia (29:55):
But you know what I'm talking about, right?
Mig (29:56):
Yeah, yeah, I know exactly what you're talking about.
What site is it on Like closeto you?
Know what I'm talking?
Lano (30:00):
about right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know exactly what
you're talking about.
What side is it on?
Mig (30:03):
Like close to a VS Resort, I think it was no well, it was
In the middle Like a lake.
Lano (30:09):
Mm-hmm.
Sylvia (30:12):
Aren't you going to look it up?
You usually do.
Lano (30:16):
I don't think it's there anymore.
I don't think it's thereanymore.
I don't know a name, or just aclub on Lake, I don't know.
Sylvia (30:20):
Or you could put next to Domenico's, because it was like
right next door All right,we'll see.
Mig (30:27):
What the hell was that place called?
That place was good too.
Sylvia (30:32):
It was good.
Lano (30:37):
Damn it, Damn this.
Is this bad memory?
This is all new stuff.
Sylvia (30:50):
I just got to see.
Lano (30:54):
This has like Magnolia bar .
This has.
Mig (31:00):
You ever on Instagram see that that page?
House Party in the 90s?
Yes, whenever they ask thatquestion, aid yourself by Naming
the clubs you used to go to.
Sylvia (31:15):
But we can't even remember.
Mig (31:17):
I remember and every time, every time I ask that question,
I always put down, like caddiesI put down Bobby McGee's.
Lano (31:28):
Oh.
Sylvia (31:28):
Bobby McGee's was in Burbank, I remember that too.
Lano (31:30):
We used to go to the Chalet a lot in Ingarock.
Oh, the Chalet, that was ourspot.
We used to go there.
Mig (31:36):
That was our pre-game.
Yeah, we all want to warm upright there.
Mcmurphy's.
Lano (31:42):
McMurphy's.
There it is McMurphy's Irishbar, popular on the that's what
it was.
Mig (31:52):
There we go.
Sylvia (31:53):
That was another one.
Lano (31:54):
Google AI found it for us In the 90's.
Sylvia (32:01):
Good times man Good times.
I don't think we ever went to.
Did we ever go to Ixtapa?
No right.
Mig (32:10):
I think we did, but I don't think it was called Ixtapa.
It was called something else.
Sylvia (32:15):
Yeah, you're right.
Mig (32:17):
They changed the name on it I was going to say Lucky
Baldwins.
Lano (32:22):
But yeah, mcmurphy.
So you guys have been justkeeping in touch ever since.
Mig (32:31):
That's actually funny too, because we had actually kind of
like drifted apart and it wasjust like out of the blue.
I guess you were going throughyour phone and, uh, she was
looking up on numbers and shecame across my number and
wondered if it was still a goodnumber I remember when I was
(32:51):
texting.
Sylvia (32:51):
I was like, hi, is this miggy?
And then he replied with hey,sylvia.
So I I'm like Mickey, what's up?
Mig (33:01):
I was like, yeah, it's me, what's up it's been a few years
now.
Lano (33:05):
Yeah, so I always say Mickey, but I wasn't sure if you
were like insulted when wecalled you Mickey, nah, but you
know him as Mickey huh.
Sylvia (33:11):
Oh yeah, oh, yeah, Okay.
Lano (33:12):
Yeah, because I know he gets all upset.
Yeah, I don't think we've evercalled Rick Ricky.
It's always been Rick yeah.
Sylvia (33:22):
Yeah.
Mig (33:24):
Yeah, I don't really care.
Lano (33:25):
It doesn't really matter to me.
Like me, I've had the samenumber since I got my first
phone.
You guys have the same number,yeah, so keep in touch, I've
never switched numbers.
Sylvia (33:35):
Yeah, my number has never changed.
Some people switch numbers allthe time.
I've had it since I was like, Ithink, in like 19.
Lano (33:40):
Yeah, I wouldn't want to like change it.
Sylvia (33:42):
I won't say what age I'm now, but let's just say it's,
it's.
Lano (33:45):
It's been a while it's been a while through everything,
yeah, so um, I guess we shouldtalk about the barons, though,
or?
Barons baseball, barons,baseball, baseball.
So, um, that feels, I want tosay maybe 20 years old.
Is that the one on legion parkwhere?
Sylvia (34:05):
you guys play well, we practice at uh rose hills is.
Lano (34:10):
Is that um?
Is that over here el sereno, oris that over here?
Sylvia (34:13):
uh, yeah, I guess it's like borderline el sereno okay,
so that's the roses I'm thinking, but when?
Lano (34:17):
But?
Sylvia (34:17):
when we play Northeast LA Little League we do play up
in that field.
It's called Nella Little Leagueand yeah, that's called the.
It's in something field yeah,it's a I don't, I just it's just
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nella, we just call it nella,yeah, so you guys practice at
rose hills, but the games arelike over there, okay, okay
unless we're like, um, unlesswe're doing scrimmages or um,
we're doing evaluations, like weare doing this.
uh, actually, this sunday, allof our barons are going to be
out there doing evaluations.
It's something that we coachevery year Evaluate the players
(34:59):
to see where they're at, wherethey've improved from the last
time that we were there.
So we'll be out there thisSunday pretty much all day.
Lano (35:08):
And this Little League is part of the nationwide Little
League that you see in the.
Sylvia (35:13):
Little League World Series and all that stuff.
Lano (35:14):
No, like it's a feeder, it goes into there or no it's a
little league, but not like.
Not like the one you'rethinking like if they win a
championship right.
Sylvia (35:24):
So we have several different age groups and, um,
you know each.
They do tournaments.
So the more they win, you know,the further they get out.
Uh, further they go, um, butthat's also.
But that's like in season.
Uh, for example, they like umnettle little league for spring.
Uh, we had the tlc springchampions, we had the all-stars.
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So the further, the more thatyou play, the more that you win,
the further that you go out,and then at some point you start
playing other regions, right,yeah?
Mig (35:54):
but like being named an academy, you guys playing like a
bunch of different othertournaments and different
leagues and everything right.
Lano (36:01):
It's like you're not just restricted, just to like oh, no,
no no, northeast so right sothat's like a club club team, is
that they call it?
Sylvia (36:08):
baron's uh, baron's baseball academy is itself, so
we're a different entity fromthe northeast la little league.
That's where we go to play fallball.
Or what if the okay whatevertheir coaches play, but uh,
barron's, it's its own entity,right, yeah?
And then, aside from doingtravel, we also um break ball.
(36:29):
We just finished a season atmonastee summer uh which is
extra practice for the boys, andthen we're going to start up at
actually edwards.
Mig (36:37):
We're going to have three, which is minors and jupiter's,
yeah, so you're pretty much likeopen to anyone that would want
to join.
Sylvia (36:48):
Right like anybody, they can make it yeah, well, they do
have to come to tryouts.
Mig (36:52):
Well, that's what I'm saying anybody that can like
physically travel there, theydon't necessarily have to come
to tryouts.
Well, that's what I'm sayingAnybody that can physically
travel there.
Sylvia (36:59):
They don't necessarily have to be from the neighborhood
no, not at all.
Okay, and we also welcome girlsas well.
We actually do have one girl onthe team.
Her name is Bea, so she comesto practice out with the Barons,
but she is actually a member ofthe Icons, which is also a
travel team, and she actuallyjust came back from cooperstown.
Um yeah, she was out there for aweek and that is one of our
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goals.
Um, next summer.
We're taking well the coachesare taking I believe it's our 11
?
U to cooperstown, so it's likea whole week of nothing but
baseball.
So that's the goal and theyweren't next.
Lano (37:33):
They see, like the museum or the Hall of Fame and stuff.
Sylvia (37:38):
It's huge.
I mean it's like baseballfields and the parents will get
to stay, yeah, all camp together, well, in a bunk room or
whatever.
Mig (37:50):
So it's like a baseball camp then Pretty much.
Oh, that's cool.
You guys have to look it up on.
Sylvia (37:54):
YouTube.
It's pretty cool.
My son watches the YouTube allthe much.
Oh, that's cool.
You guys have to look it up onYouTube.
It's pretty cool.
My son watches YouTube all thetime Okay.
It's pretty, pretty cool.
It's like a.
Mig (38:01):
That's awesome.
Sylvia (38:03):
You know it's baseball dream to go there.
So we're going to be doing alot of fundraising.
Mig (38:13):
And then I want to congratulate your boys team,
because I do follow your feed OnInstagram and I saw that your
boys came in second Right.
Sylvia (38:23):
They did In this past weekend.
Mig (38:25):
In the tournament that they played in.
So you guys are very proud ofyour Barons For coming in second
in that tournament.
Sylvia (38:32):
We were in Yucaipa this Saturday.
Typically we do For the mostpart we we do tournaments on
Sundays.
Mig (38:40):
Okay.
Sylvia (38:40):
So it was actually changed to do it on that
Saturday, which was actuallyreally good.
So, yeah, we were out there inYucaipa, it was pretty hot out
there.
So they played two games backto back, won both.
Last game, the championship.
We came up short, but you know,they played well, they were
confident, they were out there,they did what they had to do and
(39:02):
we came in second, but that'sokay.
That's all you can ask for thepoint is that you know they
played well, they did good andwe're super proud that they came
.
You know that they made it tothe championship.
Mig (39:14):
That's awesome yeah.
Sylvia (39:15):
So that's our 12U, and now they're going up to 13U, so
that was kind of like a good wayto transition Exactly.
Lano (39:24):
It was pretty cool and that's the age like 12-year-olds
or 13U 12 and under Okay, 12and under yeah.
Sylvia (39:31):
So now they move up to 13 and then 14.
Lano (39:41):
So how many different teams like age groups?
Sylvia (39:43):
do they have?
Lano (39:43):
We're big, I think the youngest right now that we have
are probably 8 or 9-year-olds upto 18.
So there's, like I'm just likefive different Barron teams,
different ages, different groups.
Sylvia (39:53):
Yeah, I guess I could say that I mean well, you see,
when you went that day, yeah,it's a pretty huge.
Mig (40:01):
It's a big group.
It's a big group.
Lano (40:06):
When you said there's like tryouts, so like some kids
won't make it on the team, orare they?
Sylvia (40:08):
just like you know.
The thing is that with CoachChewy he welcomes anybody.
Right there's a kid that mightwant to play baseball never
played baseball before and hebasically pretty much just from
the basic up until he needs to.
So I remember where Jadenstarted.
(40:29):
We actually started with LittleLeague first and then we
transitioned into travel, sowe've actually been with the
barons for a year, and just thechange from when he first
started to now it's awesome,like you could see it right
improvements absolutely so.
That's what uh barons um academyis all about, like, wants to
(40:50):
help those kids that want toplay, is not going to just turn
them away just because they'renot great in baseball, right.
So it's the kids in theneighborhood that don't know
where to go to play baseball.
They're welcome at the.
Mig (41:03):
They're welcome at barons academy absolutely yeah see
that's cool, because that'ssomething that I didn't have as
a kid, you know it's like, so Ijust ended up playing just on
the streets yeah, you know, Ithink we all did right when we
were that young you know, but ifI would have like something
organized like that to be ableto join, yeah, who knows what
(41:23):
could have come of it.
Yeah, you know it's like, butthat's cool.
And and did Jaden like, how didhe express interest in in
playing?
Was it just like his buddiesplaying and dragged them into it
, or?
Sylvia (41:37):
actually he started playing okay.
So the boys that um, so mygrandson, anthony, um and jayden
, they actually sorry, let mebacktrack anthony started
playing at rio, okay, and heplayed coach pitch, so jayden
would.
So I would go to all the gamesand I would tell jayden that's
going.
Jayden was just like oh, mom, Idon't want to go, like I'm
(41:58):
bored, blah blah, and so thatsummer he's like you know, I'm
on my thing, I want to try it.
I'm like okay, we can do this.
Mig (42:05):
So how old was he?
Sylvia (42:06):
he's probably about nine okay um.
So he finally decided to do it,and he's been hooked on it ever
since, and of course it was hisfirst time playing rec ball
yeah, so he wasn't good, um, buthe was super nervous.
I remember it was just like wefound out who our coach was and
we had like one practice andthat saturday we had a game.
Mig (42:28):
So he goes up and he's like what?
Sylvia (42:30):
do, I do, I'm like just getting your stance, like a boss
coming to just swing.
And after that first swing hewas so nervous he didn't know
what to do.
I know per guy, and I'm justlike you got this kid right and
but in my head I'm like, oh mygod, we're screwed.
I love you son, I love you son.
But he, once he swung, he waslike okay, like okay, I got this
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.
You know as, yeah, you know as,the more he played he got
better.
But that summer, after, afterthe season ended, he was like so
determined, right, determinedto be like get better.
And he did, like he was hittingthe park, the batting cages,
with his dad and he came.
When he came back, it was likea big improvement.
And you know, of course it'salways room for improvement.
(43:12):
But, there's definitely beenhuge improvement from when he
started.
So now, and um, you know a lotof that is because he joins the
Barons and you know we havethere's like five different
coaches and five differentstyles of coaching.
Uh, but the goal is, you know,improve their skills,
fundamentals.
Mig (43:32):
And how did you find out about the Barons, or how did?
Sylvia (43:44):
how did you find out about the barons?
Or how did how did yourinvolvement start?
So the barons?
Well, so the way that thathappened is, as we actually one
of my friends her name ismelissa, um, her son plays with
jayden as well.
Her name is steven.
So she sent me a screenshot, uh, from the nila little league
instagram that there was goingto be evaluations.
So I'm like okay.
So I I said jayden, I'm like gocheck this out.
I'm like it's right here.
Never even knew that there waslike um travel.
Lano (44:04):
I'm not saying no, no, not travel um little league in the
area right I always heard of it,but actually what never knew
where it was, so but normallyit's just like a park league or
something right like uh, I meannormally like the baseball, like
a like right here at likecypress park or something just
like a park league in the summertimes.
Only like not too many peoplehave like actual, like little
(44:25):
league, like um, yeah.
So the cypress park is morelike rec, yeah um.
Sylvia (44:31):
So we ended up going, we ended up doing, we went to the
evaluations and, um, he ended upon the barons.
So from there on, we basicallyum told coach dre that we were
interested in doing travel, andit just started from there.
And now we're here nice.
Lano (44:50):
Yeah, now having um, your, your boy, in it, have noticed
any like?
Um like, does it transfer overto school?
Or good habits, like him beinglike in a structure, like going
to practice every day, is helike he wakes up early in the
morning?
Now, I mean, does he like, hasthings changed?
Like his grades improve?
His grades have always beengood.
Sylvia (45:10):
Yeah, so I've never had a problem with that.
He, in order, of course, tostay in baseball, he does have
to keep his grades up, because Imean, and those are your rules,
or the league rules Both.
But not even the league.
It's more of the coaches.
If the coaches know that theydon't have good grades, then you
know, it's like school comesfirst.
Mig (45:30):
But do you notice, is there any like discipline that
carries over from like thebaseball into like his normal
life?
Sylvia (45:41):
Like, say like keeping his room clean or organized, or
Is he a morning?
Lano (45:44):
person.
He wakes up and go because hehas practice?
Sylvia (45:47):
No, no, no.
So practices are always in theafternoon, right, but anything
that has to do with, you know,cleaning the room, no, but when
it has to do with baseball it'sroom no, but when it has to do
with baseball.
Lano (45:58):
It's straight.
Yeah, is he like?
Sylvia (45:59):
he's your typical.
Lano (46:00):
13 year old socially was.
Was he shy before and now he'sable to like talk to other kids.
Actually, jayden is actuallyvery shy.
Sylvia (46:06):
He was very shy, he was very you know to himself he
could be a little awkward, okay,actually.
Um, he actually wanted to cometoday and I was just like dude,
listen to me, they're going toask you questions.
You'll just be like I'm likeyou can't do that.
He goes.
No, mom, I got it, I got it.
I'm like no, maybe next time.
But he was like so hyped up andI was just, but I know him
already, that's what he says andwhen he gets to what he's going
(46:26):
to do, he just stays quiet andyou can ask him a question and
he'll look at you and he won'tanswer so I'm like constantly
having to like judge right Istill want to go out, like to
the field and record like somebaseball shots.
Mig (46:38):
All right well jayden buddy , if you're listening and I hope
you are dude, because youshould be listening to this
because your mom's on.
I want you on this show, dude Iwant to have you on here and I
want to talk to you.
I want to hear your two cents,and I want to have your mom on
here too.
So no shyness, we're just gonnachop it up, man, we're gonna be
(46:58):
cool, we're gonna be just chill.
Lano (47:02):
I want to hear your side of the stories or when we go to
the field, we'll be the the bigyeah, when we're on the field,
we'll be the big interview inyour comfortable settings.
Sylvia (47:10):
So that's what I told them.
I said why don't you wait untilthey come to?
You know, um, watch thepractice, and you know they can
talk to you?
He's like, oh yeah, I guess wecan do that, but we'll see,
because once it's once baseballstarts, it's like he doesn't
listen to anyone.
Oh yeah, he's in his own.
Lano (47:27):
All right, so you ready buddy Coming for you now, Like
I'm a new parent, I have athree-year-old and a
one-year-old, and all this islike down the road, my future as
a parent.
Like how much time are youputting in like a week for?
Like the practices, the games?
Sylvia (47:48):
Oh, it's a seven-day thing.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Lano (47:51):
So it's another shift, another work shift, pretty much,
oh yeah, like.
Sylvia (47:54):
I always, when I get off work, I'll pick up Jaden, and
then I'm like so I park whatever.
And here comes the parents.
I'm like all right, I'mclocking into the job that I
don't get paid for, because I'malso, I'm actually one of the
team moms for the Barons, alongwith the other team mom,
Stephanie.
Lano (48:11):
Her son plays also for the baroness ball and team mom like
snacks everything or rideseverything.
Sylvia (48:16):
You guys are no, no, no, no, no, that's, that's wreck
ball that's soccer, mom, shitdude so we pretty much, uh,
stephanie, okay, well, first ofall, coach chewy, um, he's very
demanding in a good way, right,so we're basically his
(48:36):
secretaries, right, um, but no,so what stephanie and I do?
We pretty much take care of thecalendar, you know, post the
practices, we post on instagramas much as we can, um, and just
do what needs to be done, like,um, make sure that the kids get
registered, um, you know, orcoordinate the tournaments,
things like that, answerparents' questions and sometimes
(48:58):
, and also as well when we'redoing evaluations or tryouts, we
are like the main people thatparents come to make sure the
paperwork is all in order.
So we kind of keep it allorganized and then, that way, he
can just focus on coaching.
That's what I do, along withStephanie.
It's a hard job, guy now, um,you mentioned like tournaments
(49:19):
and registration.
Lano (49:20):
Do all these tournaments have like fees?
You guys gotta pay.
You guys raising money or theparents are, like you know,
pulling out their pockets.
Um, how does it work?
Sylvia (49:27):
so we yes, for the most part, parents do pay and,
depending on the tournament, itdepends on the fee as well.
So so we have one-daytournaments, we have two-day
tournaments and then we havethree-day tournaments.
We go to Yucaipa, chino Hills,just depends where Chui puts us.
That's where we're going.
(49:51):
I think probably the closesthas been Montebello.
At shore, lots of tournamentsthere.
So tomorrow some of our barons,who are also icons, are going
to be in Chino playing.
It's like a summer league thatthey are doing, so they'll be
out there.
Hopefully they win, and you know, yeah, actually, as a matter of
fact, our Barons too I believeit's our 11th is going to be out
there tomorrow as well.
(50:11):
You're saying places that likethink baseball, like you kite.
Lano (50:18):
But you know like, oh for sure, there's areas you think
like these are like, andactually this weekend when we
played um.
Sylvia (50:23):
When we played, uh the tournament, there was actually a
team from tahachapi oh yeah anduh, where else?
I think it was that.
Yeah, I think it wastahachapiipi, so it was like we
were in Ukiah, but it was like atwo and a half to three hour
drive for them.
Lano (50:37):
Wow, yeah, that's like north.
Sylvia (50:39):
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, I was having a screamingmatch with the coach.
It was like getting louder.
I'm like, oh hell, no, I'mgoing to get louder.
Yeah, it was like back andforth.
Mig (50:50):
Yeah, and for trips like that.
Would you like charter like abus or something?
Sylvia (50:55):
No, Just like caravan.
No, I mean whatever you, justwhatever you drive.
Lano (51:00):
Every parent brings their own kid.
Pretty much Wow.
Sylvia (51:03):
I pack up the Highlander with you know, got the wagon
going have the canopy because itwas hot out there yeah, it was
hot Con la hielera unascervecitas because you know we
got to keep hydrated you,because you know we gotta keep
hydrated, you gotta conservewater, exactly.
And then you know, but the goodthing is is that with um, our
(51:26):
barons, like all the parents, welove to eat and so we just have
like a huge picnic there, niceand yeah, so we all just get
together, put up the canopiesand we just chill and wait for
the next game.
It's fun.
We're like a big, big family,so that's what's also good.
We're very family oriented fun,but exhausting.
Lano (51:43):
It's very exhausting every weekend pretty much well that's
like, um, I'm trying to pick asport, or I'm dreading, like the
commitment myself.
You got me, it's just for thekids.
You gotta do for the kids onceit.
Sylvia (51:55):
Well, you know, once you get in in it, you don't know,
you, the kids, you got to do itfor the kids.
Once you get in it, you don'teven know what to do, because
this weekend he doesn't have atournament.
He has evaluations on Sunday.
But when actually Chewy says wehave a weekend off, I'm like
yeah, all right, cool.
But then when I'm there I'mlike what do we do?
Mig (52:11):
Because all I know is baseball right.
Sylvia (52:12):
All we know is baseball right.
All we know is baseball.
Mig (52:14):
Yeah.
Sylvia (52:15):
You know.
So the moms are kind of like ohokay, so, but that's just like
I miss it when I'm not, and thenI'm complaining when I'm doing
it.
But it's all fun, yeah, heenjoys it, I enjoy it, it's good
for him, and so your son.
Lano (52:33):
He goes to Eagle Rock High or no?
No, he goes to irving.
He'll be an eighth grader.
Yeah, he starts.
It is like high school baseballin the future, or no is?
Sylvia (52:39):
that is the goal.
That's the goal, okay, I wasn'tsure.
Lano (52:41):
It's like high school sports still a big deal, or no?
Sylvia (52:43):
yeah so clubs actually when, once he finishes irving,
he's actually gonna be going tofranklin?
Um, because I believe, uh,coach joey is actually going to
be going to franklin.
So a lot of the barons have tobe going to Franklin for the
baseball program, because theydo have a good baseball team.
Mig (52:58):
Oh, they do.
Okay, yeah, cool, we had one ofour friends, danny.
Lano (53:02):
He played baseball Remember.
Mig (53:04):
Oh, he did, huh.
Lano (53:05):
Yeah, he played baseball.
Mig (53:05):
For the JVs.
I thought it was varsity, yeah.
Lano (53:08):
I'm not sure.
I don't remember We'd alwayswait for him on the like Q he
was.
What is it left field?
We're always on the oppositestreet and we used to just hang
out watch him play.
Oh okay, it's right there inthe street where his position
was.
Sylvia (53:20):
Yeah.
Lano (53:22):
Now so it'll be high school and a baron still, or
just one or the other.
Sylvia (53:28):
Well, I think that once he gets into high school, I mean
, he'll still be a Baron, buthe'll be playing high school.
Lano (53:38):
So I think there's like a you age out, huh, pretty much
Also Barons.
They don't have like a teenage.
Thank you I couldn't think ofthe word you age out.
Barons doesn't have a teenageteam or like 16 and they still
do.
Sylvia (53:50):
I believe they still do play tournaments, but Actually
supposed to Not sure how thewhole situation works there, so
I leave that up to the coaches.
That's the whole coach thing,but yeah, it's pretty fun.
Lano (54:07):
I was trying to figure out the structure and stuff.
Mig (54:12):
So your girl's going to be Lady Barons, or what dude I
don't know, we'll see.
Lano (54:17):
Whatever she likes to do, the.
Mig (54:18):
Lady Barons are actually Softball and fast pitch right,
correct?
Sylvia (54:22):
So, aside from Barons Baseball Academy we just
launched, probably like maybe amonth ago, if something about
there, lady Barons, and we'reactually gonna be doing a 12U.
Our 12U softball girls aregonna to be doing the league in
Burbank.
And that starts in September,yeah, and then we have the
(54:43):
little ones too, so anybodyinterested joining the Lady
Barons softball got to look usup on Instagram.
Lano (54:50):
Oh yeah, so like, what's your handle?
Is it just Barons?
I?
Sylvia (54:55):
have not.
We have not launched anythingfor Lady Barron's yet.
I'm still working on it, butright now we do have.
It's Barron's Baseball Academyand that's on Instagram.
Mig (55:05):
On Instagram Correct, all right.
So Barron's Baseball Academy onInstagram.
At Barron's Baseball Academy,look it up, we got kids that
want to play.
I've met these coaches.
These are good dudes.
They do a great job.
They're great with the kids,they run great practices.
Sylvia (55:31):
Structured practices Strict practices.
Mig (55:40):
Strict.
Oh yeah, that's a good thing.
No, yeah, no.
I mean, I've been there, I'vewitnessed it and uh, they, they
do a good job.
They do a great job.
Is this it or no?
Sylvia (55:49):
no, it's not no um?
Lano (55:54):
are the coaches all like like from the community or the
neighborhood?
Sylvia (55:57):
they are, yeah actually um two, three of the coaches, uh
, coach chewy, coach dray andcoach josh.
They all went to sotomayor oh,that's always the high school I
always forget about because overthere that was because it's so
new yeah, but I heard it's likefive different schools inside
the campus or something likethat one of our bands actually
(56:19):
goes to Sotomayor and I guessthey now it's just called
Sotomayor and I think there'sonly.
I'm not sure if it's like oneor two something.
I didn't catch the whole story,but it's not like there used to
be five or four on campus?
Lano (56:33):
yeah, because it used to be e-cow.
Sylvia (56:35):
So my son, joshua, actually used to go to e-cows.
Lano (56:37):
So that's not longer there because he went to soto yeah
okay, um, so lady bears comingout soon.
Sylvia (56:45):
Um oh no, they're already established oh, status.
Lano (56:48):
So waiting for the website ?
Um, when is like, um, like thenew season or the new cycle
starts for like tryouts and allthat stuff?
Sylvia (56:55):
so we are having evaluations this sunday, as I
mentioned um, at the northeastla little league uh field, so
we're pretty much going to bethere all day.
It is 25 for evaluations uh,but you, um, you can make that.
We also do uh whole tryouts onmondays and Wednesdays at Rose
(57:16):
Hills from 6 to 9.
So it just depends on your age.
Lano (57:22):
Is this like the beginning of the new baseball year or
just like year-round?
Sylvia (57:25):
You guys are recruiting.
We're always recruiting.
Okay, because Barron's travelis year-round.
Lano (57:32):
Okay.
Sylvia (57:34):
Now, when just the Little League, that is a season.
So right now we're going intofall, which I believe starts in
September.
Lano (57:47):
Anything else you want to add?
Mig (57:48):
You were working on getting a website together.
Sylvia (57:51):
That is going to be that we're going to go live at the
end of August.
Mig (57:56):
Okay.
Sylvia (57:57):
Yeah, still working on that, Still working on the
tweaks.
Okay, so when It'll be up soon?
Mig (58:01):
So when that website's available, we'll post it.
We'll post it on our show.
Sylvia (58:05):
On our Instagram.
Mig (58:07):
We'll talk about it on the show.
We'll make sure to promote it,so anybody out there that's
interested they can.
Lano (58:12):
Hopefully we can get out there too.
Sylvia (58:13):
check you guys out yes, we would love to have you guys
out there absolutely and also Iwanted um promote one more
website of yours the defective29 line oh yes of clothing line
which is in honor of your son,that oh, that's right, you lost
way too young.
Mig (58:33):
You know it was a tragic story, you know, but um.
Sylvia (58:38):
Yes, thank you.
Yeah, so it's at defective 29,which is in honor of my son,
joshua.
Mig (58:43):
Yeah, so you guys check it out, check out the clothing line
, and uh, support, you know,just check it out and um See if
you like anything on there.
And uh, grab some gear man,some pretty cool stuff on there.
And grab some gear man, somepretty cool stuff on there.
And with that, we are done.
Sylvia (59:03):
Thank you for having me, guys.
Mig (59:04):
We'll see you guys next time.
Lano (59:06):
It's always fun having a guest, you guys call in so I can
come back, not so official.
Mig (59:13):
The phone number is 323 207 0012.
That's 323 207 0012.
Let us know how we did, let usknow how you like the show and
(59:33):
keep on drifting, yo Peace.
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