August 6, 2025 • 50 mins
Logan Bell's story begins not in a town, but in a village—a one-square-mile dot on the map called Lisbon, Ohio. It's here where his baseball journey took root, nurtured by parents who somehow balanced demanding work schedules with never missing a game. When most people ask where Lisbon is located, he simply references Youngstown, a familiar landmark that anchors his small-town origins in something recognizable.
The rhythm of Logan's early life followed the seasons of sports—football in fall, basketball in winter, and baseball dominating the summers. But what stands out in our conversation isn't just the athletic achievements, but the deliberate efforts to maintain normalcy amid the demands of competition. From wing nights after practice to street hockey games with friends, these moments provided crucial balance and kept the pressures of performance in perspective.
His college baseball path reflects both perseverance and adaptability. Starting at Akron as a 17-year-old freshman surrounded by junior college transfers in their twenties forced early maturity. After partially tearing his UCL, Logan found his way to Bowling Green State University, reuniting with a coach who had first recruited him years earlier—a relationship that proved pivotal in his development both on and off the field. Now training in Florida while completing his master's degree, he's pursuing professional opportunities with an unwavering "no Plan B" mindset.
Throughout our discussion, Logan offers thoughtful perspectives on the changing landscape of college athletics, MLB economics, and the unique challenges faced by small-market teams. But most memorable is his closing message about pursuing dreams without apology: "If you have this idea of what you want to do and what you want to be, don't let anybody tell you that you can't be it." With supportive parents, loyal friends, and grounding faith, Logan demonstrates that sometimes the journey itself matters more than the destin
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
welcome everybody to another episode of the ride home
rants podcast.
This is, as always, your host,mike bono.
I have a great guest for ustoday.
He is actually the son of aformer guest of the show in
charles bell.
Uh, he's coming to us fromflorida, originally from lisbon,
ohio.
But logan bell joins the show.
(00:22):
Logan, thanks for joining.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Yeah, thank you for having me.
It's been a long time coming.
John had asked me to get on awhile ago and I was in season,
so it kind of made things tough,but I found a little break in
the schedule.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
You've got to find breaks in the schedule when you
can right.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
My schedule is jam-packed as tight as possible,
so I definitely get that withtrying to find the ways around
and to find time for yourself,but I'm glad you made some time
for us here.
So, like I said, you'reoriginally from Lisbon, ohio, so
tell everyone out there whatit's like in Lisbon and where it
(01:01):
is even at.
Not a lot of people know wherethat town's's out at and you
know what it was like growing upthere uh.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
So yeah, lisbon is, it's a, it's a village.
It's not even a town, that'sthe best about it.
So it's it's a square milevillage.
Um, it's kind of, I think, justsoutheast of Youngstown.
That's usually what I tellpeople whenever they ask where
I'm from and I say Lisbon, theygo where's that?
And I say Youngstown, yeah, um,but I mean I grew up with mom
(01:32):
and dad had an older sister whowent to Lisbon.
She was three years older thanme and played sports.
She played sports.
So we had a very hectic kind ofupcoming between her playing
basketball, running track, meplaying football, basketball and
baseball.
Uh, summer baseball kind oftook over, took over everybody's
(01:52):
summer and the whole house.
So it was just kind of gettingthrough that.
But I mean I love the villageof Lisbon.
It's the best.
I mean I couldn't have askedfor a better place to grow up
and a better place to go, go toschool and meet friends.
That I mean I still talk toguys today, like Justin Sweeney,
who graduated with me.
Him and I talk probably onceevery other week, once a month
(02:16):
at minimum, and just always endswith us just being like, hey,
like whenever I'm back in townor whenever he has time, let's
hang out.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Yeah, you've always got to keep those close friends
and I get it.
Being from a small town.
I grew up in a little town inWest Virginia, follinsby, west
Virginia.
Again, like you, one of thosetimes if you blink, you miss it,
nobody knows where it's at.
You've got a little bit betterwith having Youngstown that
(02:48):
close.
I have to go to a whole otherstate and tell people I'm close
to pittsburgh, so that's kind ofyou know telling people when
you grow up in west virginia andyou have to tell people you
know I'm about an hour outsideof pittsburgh, like people don't
have no idea where that's eventoo, so I get caught up doing
the same one.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Like I talk to people not from ohio yeah I'll either.
I'll either use like akron orCleveland.
Most of the time I usePittsburgh because it's just
easy to be like hey, like I'm anhour east of Pittsburgh, that's
it, or an hour west ofPittsburgh, it's easy.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, that's the easiest landmark for anybody to
that kind of.
You know Pittsburgh, farnsby,west Virginia, you know
Steubenville, ohio, that kind ofarea in the Ohio Valley.
I kind of lump Lisbon into that, even though it's closer to
(03:33):
Youngstown.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Yeah, I mean, I grew up with guys who were Steelers
fans.
Like that's the best part aboutLisbon is you get this like
this huge mix-up of Pittsburghand Clevelandveland people and
it's, it's the best yeah, yougot.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
You got a nice melting pot there for sure.
Um, you know, and you mentionedit there, that you were an
athlete growing up.
You know, uh, what sport othersports did you play and you know
how did you balance that.
You know, and try to being aregular teenager too as well,
because you know I was anathlete growing up, so I know
there was a balance to that.
You know how did, how did youbalance that, especially in such
(04:07):
a small town, cause sports kindof dominate in a small town.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Yeah, I mean it was tough like growing up.
So I I didn't start playingfootball till junior high.
I played flag football growingup but I played baseball and
basketball until then.
But I played baseball andbasketball until then and then
got into high school, playedfootball, baseball.
All four years playedbasketball.
My freshman, sophomore andsenior year kind of took a break
(04:33):
, my junior year to focus onbaseball, just for that winter
to kind of try and get things towork out.
And they ended up working out.
But I mean I my freshman year Ihad a great senior and junior
class ahead of me that I wasreally close with.
So like josh craig, joshliberati, uh, austin rutecky, um
(04:57):
jake liberati, colin sweeney,mark stanichka, like all those
guys I kind of grew up likearound so it was like it was
nice to have I kind of grew uplike around, so it was like it
was nice to have them to kind oftake me out of, like kind of
bring me to this idea of likerespecting the moment and kind
of learning to take it in when Icould.
(05:17):
Right, my freshman year we wentto the playoffs.
I was a, I was a holder on ateam that went nine and one Okay
, it kind of.
It kind of made me appreciateit a little more, especially
getting into my junior andsenior year, where I was relying
on other people to do the samething that I did three years ago
(05:38):
, right, um.
But once I got older it waskind of a little bit easier
because I turned.
So I'm I'm a little young formy grade, so I turned 16 going
into my junior year.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yeah, and that was when I'd gotten my license and
like I'd take, I'd take someyounger guys, we'd go, I mean,
every Thursday or Tuesday we'dgo to Wang night at B-dubs after
practice.
Like we'd kind of get out ofthis whole idea of like, oh,
we're doing this because we playsports together.
It's like no, we're doing thisbecause we're friends, right.
So we'd go up to youngstown, gobowl a little bit, go see a
(06:12):
movie, like things like that, tokind of get us away from this
whole like, oh, it's, it'ssports, it's sports, it's sports
right, we had that too growingup.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
you know there was a a close knit of us, kind of like
you, um, and it was everywednesday.
We'd go up to my buddy's house.
We lived out in the middle ofnowhere, we'd have a bonfire,
we'd order some wings and we'dcall it wing night, and it was
just a bunch of us and we wouldjust sit around a fire and just
decompress from you knowpractices and everything like
(06:44):
that and just kind of trying toto not think about oh well, we
got walk through tomorrow andthe game Friday night, and then
we got this and then we got that.
It was like no, we're justgoing to hang out and just be
teenagers and just be kids andjust have fun and and for lack
of a a better term do stupidshit around a fire, like that's
(07:07):
yeah, I mean, I mean we did thesame thing kind of once.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I kind of I was kind of go to school, go to practice,
do my homework, play videogames in high school yeah, uh.
But I got to like that's howcollege was for me.
I mean, like we had a greatgroup of guys that I got really
close with that.
I can't that I transferred intobg with that.
(07:32):
We were a very close-knit group.
We always did stuff together.
We I mean like we like duringmay when school would be out but
we're still playing baseball.
We'd we'd be in one of ourhousing areas and we'd I'd drive
around and guys would like holdon to the back of my truck on a
skateboard.
Yeah, we'd just do fun stuff.
(07:53):
That always was just like.
It always got rid of the whole.
Oh, we're athletes, blah, blah,blah.
Like we could be like just kidsand just hang out and have fun.
We'd play hockey in the streetLike we do all of it.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yeah, I still remember, like it was yesterday,
growing up playing streethockey with my buddies and just
kind of again just being kids,and you know, yeah, definitely
doing the stupid things with atruck, especially, you know,
getting into college and stillbeing I swam in college, at
(08:28):
Bethany College, and just beingout of season and being able to
be a teenager.
And just I remember one time wemade, somehow, a hot tub in the
bed of my truck, just threw atarp down, threw some water in
it, put a hose from the exhaustinto the end of the water revved
it hot tub.
(08:48):
You know the most unsafe thing.
Now that you're looking back asit as a 36 year, old, just being
a kid nobody to tell you noright, that was, that was the
best part of it.
But, yeah, definitely doingthat and growing up being an
athlete too as well, definitely,I think, helped me today, you
(09:09):
know, as a 36-year-old man witha 16-year-old trying to explain
to him but not trying to beupset too much when he does
stupid things, because I didstupid things at his age.
But it's definitely a balancewhen you get to that.
Um, but you actually played atuh you mentioned their Bowling
Green State University, um as asix year senior in baseball.
(09:33):
Uh, tell them what it was like,um, and you know at Bowling
Green playing baseball.
What did you get your uh degreein?
And I believe you have abachelor's and a master's degree
, correct?
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Yeah, so I'm working on my master's right now.
I've got one more class thisspring that I got to take and
then I got three in the fallthat once I get those three done
, we're done with school, wedon't have to worry about it
anymore, nice.
So I began at Akron.
So my recruitment was kind of afun little situation and so I
(10:08):
had ended up committing toMalone my junior year school and
then Coach Halleck, who coachedme at BG, took the job at
Bowling Green.
Actually, I found out that hewas going there senior night of
football.
My senior night.
At like 2 30 had just gotten outof school, like was at home
(10:32):
real quick.
Before I went back to thelocker room he gave me a call
and was like hey, just so youknow, like I'm taking the job
here.
Gave me all his reasoning,understand it at the time, like
totally got it.
Everything that I like believedin him I had.
I'd asked him at the time.
I was like well, can I comewith you?
(10:53):
And he was like I don't know atthe moment, like I gotta kind
of get things sorted out on myend before I even, because he
hadn't even been the coach yetand I hadn't even been announced
Right.
So ended up kind of decommittingfrom Malone in January and then
no in November and then startedthrowing again in the fall.
(11:16):
I remember one Sunday morningat no one Saturday morning after
a Friday night basketball game,I had a really good day and my
pitching coach in Canton postedit on Twitter and Coach Banfield
from Akron had reached out tocome to a camp and went to the
camp the next day, got a PWL andthat was it.
(11:38):
I mean, went there, had theCOVID season, which kind of
sucked, but it was nice for mebecause we were a first-year
program at Akron, so it had beencut in 2015 or 2012, one of the
two and had just been broughtback and I was part of the first
(11:59):
team to play there since and wehad 27 junior college kids, wow
.
So think about me year oldfreshman the first week of
school as a freshman in college.
I'm not 18 years old yeah I'mhanging out with 22 23 year olds
all the time yeah, that's.
(12:20):
That's a change so it was alittle bit of.
A little bit of a learningcurve for me, kind of had to
take myself out of my comfortzone and kind of grow up in a
way.
And COVID happened.
I hit the portal after partiallytearing my UCL and didn't end
up getting surgery but rehabbedthat summer, went to Texas and
(12:42):
played and had talked to coachhallock that summer and I
remember calling him one day andafter he had texted me that he
had room for me and I was like Icalled him that minute and I
said, hey, I'm coming, hadn'ttold my parents, hadn't talked
to, like I had not given anybodyany information on it and I
(13:02):
mean best decision I ever madein my life, I'd love playing for
him.
I mean I'd like you know, likethe like the hockey saying,
would you go to the wall for me?
Because I'd go to the wall foryou, like I'd go, I'd go to the
wall for that guy, like nomatter what any situation.
Like he was in my house when Iwas 15 years old recruiting me,
(13:24):
like there's things that justfor me it always meant, it
always made sense being therewith him.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Right and it's nice to have that, that coach that
you know you're familiar with,especially going into a program
like that.
Swimming was a little differentfor me.
I had a ton of D1 offers.
Uh, going into my senior yearfor swimming, um decided that
(13:54):
you know, I wasn't the bestfootball player but all of my
buddies played.
So you know I played football.
I love the sport of football.
I do, um, I kind of refer tomyself and I know it's two
different sports.
But, charlie from the MightyDucks, I make a better coach
than I did a player.
I know a lot about the game tobe a coach, but I was that
(14:17):
habitual backup and specialteamer all through high school.
I decided I put up with thecrap for three years.
What's one more year?
It's my senior year, football,we'll play football.
Um, first day of pads uh, we puton, hurt my shoulder, didn't
realize I did more damage than Ioriginally thought, actually
(14:40):
separated my shoulder and playedthe entire season on it, okay,
and lost my senior year ofswimming because the shoulder
was just shot.
At that point in time Everyonebut Bethany College dropped
their scholarship.
Naturally you get a swimmer andthey hear about a shoulder
injury.
That's the kiss of death.
So my recruiting was a littlebit different, mainly because
(15:04):
Bethany College was the place Istill wanted to swim, rehab the
shoulder, but my coach there was.
He's one of those guys.
I got to know him a little bitbetter going in there, coach
McGowan, and that you know myfreshman year he made me a
manager of the team so that Ididn't lose my scholarship and
(15:27):
got to keep it while I was stillrehabbing my shoulder so that I
could swim my sophomore yearAgain.
You know, just unfortunateinjuries kept me out of sports.
But you know it's, it's weirdwith the here.
You know being me, you, youhave fun, but you could post a
video on Twitter and anybodycould see that.
I didn't have that in the early2000s.
(15:50):
You know, graduating highschool in 2007.
There wasn't a lot.
You know my space was still athing.
You probably don't even knowwhat that is.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
I can gladly say I've heard of it.
Ok, I'll respect that.
I can gladly say I've heard ofit.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Okay, I'll respect that, but you know it really
wasn't you know that big of athing to where I could post
times or something like that ona Twitter, a Facebook, anything
like that and, you know, getnoticed.
You had to do a lot yourself.
And not saying that it's a badthing because I do think it's
(16:29):
helping a lot of athletes atsmaller towns and smaller
schools that literally the onlyreason these people don't go to
big schools or D1 schools isbecause nobody's heard of the
town they grew up in.
Yeah, and they're phenomenalathletes and it takes them going
(16:49):
to a junior college and thengetting noticed there to get any
recognition.
And junior college is great,but I feel like it hurts the
athlete because now they lose ayear of eligibility because they
went to JUCO a little bit.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Not anymore, though.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Yeah, COVID year and the transfer portal and
everything like that.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Well, it's just, even with the potential, potential
changing of d of juco, notcounting towards your ncaa
eligibility.
It's yeah, that is differentnow too, yeah I'd called coach
hallock when I was on the wayback from tampa on wednesday and
we were just talking about how,even compared to when I was
(17:21):
getting recruited, how much it'schanged compared to when I was
getting recruited, how much it'schanged.
And college sports is, I mean.
We could talk for hours on that.
Oh.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
I've had shows that have gone way longer than they
should have on here.
Just sitting here with a panelof guys just talking sports, and
it's just like, yeah, we'vebeen over an hour, we've got to
cut the show, or I'm going tohave way too many edits to do by
the end of this to try to cutit down to at least an hour, you
know, and it's just, it's oneof those things I could talk
about all day yeah and just thechanging of of just sports in
(17:54):
general and college sports.
You know, uh, used to be.
You know, and look at lebrongot, got recruited and drafted
right out of high school.
You know that's not a thinganymore.
You've got to go at least oneyear of D1 basketball to be
eligible for the draft, which Iagree with and I don't.
I think it should be more thanone year, but in the same sense,
(18:19):
I grew up in an era where guyswere coming right out of high
school.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
You know what?
Speaker 1 (18:24):
I mean.
So it is what it is, but justhow the sports world has changed
, especially with college sports, and the transfer portal was
huge, especially because youcould transfer but you had to
sit out a year.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Back in the day.
You know that would stop.
It was stopped people from justmoving around and now the, the
NIL deals and everything likethat.
I mean it's just it's.
It can get so complex and justhow everything can, can get
break, broken down, and just howeverything has changed and I
think it's most of it's for thebetter.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Yeah, I'd say it is.
I think the only, again, likethe only thing I see is that
you're going to run into thisissue where I'm a I'm a
mid-major sport guy.
I love mid-majors, I love theMac.
The Mac's awesome.
How can you expect many?
of those teams.
(19:21):
How can you expect them tocompete when oh, I'm a power for
school that can offer everyplayer on your team as much
money as I can ask?
But I also understand that'sthe thing that it it opens doors
for people that may not haveopened the doors right I mean.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
But you got some programs like alabama who have a
20 million dollar roster incollege.
Yeah, how do you compete withthat?
You don't as a mac or whackschool, like you, never.
I like the 12 team playoff.
I didn't think I would.
It was awesome, I didn't think.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
I would like the 12-team.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
I thought 18 was a sweet spot.
I feel like I had a great planfor it.
With the five Power, 5conferences, all the conference
champions automatically get abid to the playoffs.
Then if you have an undefeated,like Mac or whack or something
like that that you know thesemid-majors that don't get seen,
you have an undefeated teamthere throw them in there.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Yeah, I mean, look at like.
I mean boise was one of thoseteams, yeah, like, but boise had
a generational running backthat could do something.
I think if any of those teamshave a lightning in a bottle
chance, it's another position.
(20:45):
It's a wide receiver that cantake the top off and defense he
can run a slant, catch a ball,go for it all, take a dart, just
a regular screen.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
I'll say like I think a running back it's a little
bit tougher because you got thismuch space yeah you can't get
out of that space as a runningback no, um, I feel like you
know the running back, chrismccaffrey, is kind of changing
the running back position alittle bit in being more of a
(21:19):
wide receiver threat too as well.
But you're right, you knowyou're still going to line up in
the backfield, you still havefive yards to try to make
something happen and you'regoing up against 350, 400
pounders at the line.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
It's the same with baseball like murray state
lightning in a bottle yeah team.
They were hot, they wereplaying really well, they were
good all year.
Like you're not going to getmany of those teams at at this
point and you know I, I knowthey get you know swept.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
But you know everyone kind of expected that.
I mean I definitely was likethere's no way they're going to
be competitive against LSU.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Yeah, I mean Coastal like.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
That's who it was.
Yeah, coastal.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Yeah, they were like.
I wouldn't even consider thatteam a mid-major team to me.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Not anymore.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
They've won the natty .
They probably have a littlemore of a budget than most
mid-majors.
I think it's going to be a lotmore difficult for your
run-of-the-mill any mid-major.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Take a mid-major like take the MAAC champion, every
year it's.
It's difficult to get out ofthat that first regional.
Because if, especially now, theguy that they start against you
, that the host of the regional,is typically their Friday guy,
that's their, that's their horse.
(22:52):
Yeah, he's making a lot ofmoney to be their horse.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
oh, absolutely, your team's not making that amount of
money yeah, like I, you knowwhat, and I I equate that to to
now.
You know we had to talk aboutthis with our um mob round table
we had on here and just that.
You know, these big uh cityteams that are spending more
(23:16):
money on one player than most ofthese small teams have as an
entire organization, and I can'tbelieve to say, but Pittsburgh
is a small market team, they are.
And yeah, it just blows my mind.
I always think of Pittsburgh,as you know, being a big city
and it's really not when you'vegot teams like new york and la
that are spending 350 milliondollars on a shortstop, when
(23:39):
that's like the entirety ofpittsburgh's roster it's even
crazier when they're spending300 million on a shortstop, but
they're already paying the rightfielder 450, yeah yeah I, I
said it too as well.
I mean, uh, pitchers in themajor league starting pitchers
in the major league makes stupidmoney.
(24:01):
Clayton Kershaw had like a 400or $500 million contract to
pitch every five days.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
I mean, look at the money that.
I mean if you think, like, atthe end of the day, the probably
the top five over the last whenthey were signing contracts
verlander, scherzer, degrom likethose guys think about how much
money they got paid, a lot likeit.
(24:27):
Those like, if you takeprobably the top five starting
pitchers in baseball in the last10 years, like if you take
probably the top five startingpitchers in baseball in the last
10 years, probably over abillion dollars in total
contracts, he's probably pushingtwo billion.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
I would say yeah, one is yeah, it's good, it's well
over one.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Like.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I think it's going to have to pay Scooble.
Yeah, you know what?
What kills me is schemes forthe Pirates.
You know, the dude's agenerational talent with a four
and eight record.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
He has no run support .
Speaker 1 (25:01):
He has no run support in Pittsburgh because they
can't get any of these playersto come and play for them and
it's sad.
As a Pittsburgh fan, I am aPirates fan.
It's hard to say and hard toadmit out loud, but I do.
I am a Pirates fan.
It's hard to say and hard toadmit out loud, but I do.
But every time I see thatSkeen's pitch or I see a
highlight, it's like well, goodto have you for the couple of
(25:21):
years that we're going to haveyou.
Then I'll see you in New York,boston, la or somewhere else,
because you're not going to stayhere.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
There's no way Same with the guards.
Right now it's just like we gotlucky that jose was willing to
take a pay cut to stay incleveland.
But imagine if they had theability to offer lindor the same
money or right even be able tooffer the money to keep that 16
team or the 17 team in cleveland.
(25:48):
But now, like I get on, I I seetrade like mock, mock trades
for clausas and Kwan.
Yeah, and I'm like we losethose guys.
It's going to be hard to cheerfor him.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Right, I mean it's it's.
It's tough to cheer for thepirates, uh, but I think
everyone on the pirates needs tojust sit down and talk to
Andrew McCutcheon.
He left Pittsburgh uh, reallynot on his own accord, really
wasn't much.
Some team offered him moneylet's go see if I can actually
(26:22):
win a pennant somewhere and hecame back and other teams were
still offering him more moneynow, as near the end of his
career, to go and play there andhe says, no, I'm staying in
Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
This my home yeah, like I want to win here, huh and
like not even to say that thosepittsburgh teams were better
than you're not.
They're really not like.
The dude won an mvp, yeah, youcan't.
You can't win an mvp on a 80win team or on a 70 win team.
No, like they had.
They were in the wild card.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
They were like they had that was fun to be a parts
fan those years I mean that'show it was with the guards.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
like we went to game one of the world series.
I remember I remember when gameseven, when davis hit that home
run to tie it up in the eighth,I remember going around my
house and waking everybody up,yeah.
And like, hey, it's a tie gamebecause they had all went to bed
.
Like I remember, like that's amoment for me in life that I'll
(27:23):
never forget.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Right, you know, even though it was a wild card game,
I'll never forget that forPittsburgh because that was the
first time I've seen them in theplayoffs in my entire life, you
know.
So it's fun to see.
I hope they get back there.
I hope they can build a teamaround Skeens with the salary
cap that they have and it's noteven a salary cap.
(27:46):
They just don't want to pay theluxury tax and they can't.
They don't have the money to doit, and I get it.
But you know, it's just.
I'm hoping that he can actuallybring them back.
I was shocked what they did inthe draft not really picking any
hitters and going back to pitchLike the pitching's.
Fine, we have one of the lowestERAs in the league and we got a
(28:09):
sub 500 record by like 20 gamesrecord in like by like 20 games
.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Yeah, it's tough to as a as a like um organization,
to sit there and be like, oh, wedon't need to draft hitters
when you have a guy who has a0.9 era right now for the month
of july or something.
It's something outrageous it's0.9 for july yeah, and he hasn't
won a game in july yeah likehow can you sit back as an
organization and be like, oh,this is a good idea, this is the
right thing to do for him,right?
Speaker 1 (28:41):
yeah, like I just I don't understand it and like I
get where.
Pittsburgh is one of thosecities, man, where they will
love you no matter what, butthey're going to be vocal about
it.
Like seeing fans at PNC parkholding up signs telling nothing
to sell a team.
Like that's Pittsburgh, they'llstill come, they'll still
(29:03):
support you, but they're goingto tell you how they feel and
they're going to not hold backand I love it.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Oh, it's great.
I mean, I think, at the end ofthe day, like fans, have the
right to do that I want to seegood baseball.
Yeah, Like as a as a fan who Ibuy in, like I'm watching every
game.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Right.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Like as much as I hate turning on a guardians game
right now, well before the last10 games before the break,
he'll turn it on Right, BecauseI wanted to see him.
I wanted to see one of the bestto ever be in cleveland play
the game of baseball yeah, and I, I like I, I wish I could get
(29:44):
where I live now.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
I wish I could get pirates games.
I don't, uh.
But yeah, the blackouts, I meancleveland is here, um, and
cincinnati I get them, whichblows my mind, being in central
Ohio, because literally it isthe same distance to Pittsburgh
as it is to Cleveland and as itis to Cincinnati, it's two and a
half hours.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
It's.
It's definitely confusing.
I was sitting, I was sittinghere the other day trying to
watch games and it was the daybefore the all started before
the home run derby.
And I'm sitting here and I'mlike I'm trying to flip on games
, like trying to find them.
None of them are on, like anyyoutube tv, like there's no
mainstream of major leaguebaseball that day no, I mean
(30:28):
there's like sling tv or like uh, the one, the, the one, betting
app.
It's not hard rock, but theyhave like a, it's they own, they
own bally's now oh, I know, isit.
It's not mgm um handle yep likeI'm on there trying to watch
games.
Like why can't I just sit downlike every other n fan on
(30:53):
Sundays?
Speaker 1 (30:54):
and watch a baseball game.
I get it.
I mean, I know like they havelike, well, there's MLB TV that
you can get, it's like.
But I'm already paying for howmany streaming services now,
like I don't want to pay foranother one just to be able to
watch, yeah, a baseball game.
Like I'll try to find it.
Like I keep hoping like everynow and again esbn plus is gonna
screw up and put on a pirate'sgame so that I can, I can watch
(31:18):
a, watch a bucko's game.
But you know it's, it is whatit is like.
I catch the highlights, but youknow my esbn app's always going
off with updates in that.
So I get it that way.
Um, and I know we got way offtopic there and on off track.
No, you're good man, that's thepoint of this show anyways.
But you know, like I said atthe beginning, you know we had
(31:39):
your dad as a former guest onthe show.
Tell us a little bit about whatit's like being the son of
Charles Bell.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Oh man, it's the best it's.
I mean, at the end of the day,there's nobody I'd rather have
as a father and as a role modelgrowing up.
I mean the dude's the hardestworker that you'll ever meet.
He goes to work at threeo'clock in the morning.
He doesn't get done until 8 pm.
He's like he.
(32:07):
He helped build that business,rl Craig, into what it is today
and he spent so many hours doingwhat he did, while also being
the best father he he could ever.
You could ever ask for going togames, being the most supportive
dad, being a dad that when youneeded some, when you needed a
little kick in the ass, but uh,I mean I talked to him.
(32:34):
I mean I talk to him every day.
He's my dad.
But every Monday, wednesday andFriday when I'm driving back
from Tampa, I give him a calland he always finds time for me
while he's working and I meanI'll get texts at 5 o'clock in
the morning when he gets up, orlike I'll get him at 10 pm
before he to bed.
Like it's a dude that I, he'sjust, he's a guy man.
(32:56):
He, yeah, he's he.
It's honestly really funnybecause he's like snapchat got
really big when I was in highschool and he still has streaks
like snapchat streaks withfriends of mine that are like
over a thousand days, over a1500 days like, and he's a
(33:18):
twitter guy like he's a huge, heloves tweeting, turf the style,
and like one one of my, one ofthe guys that I played with this
past year, who is a sophomorenow.
He texted me and was like guesswho?
I just got added by on snapchatand I was like oh god.
And he said my dad's snapchat.
(33:39):
I was like oh gosh, I was likethis guy yeah, I, I get that a
hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
You know, growing up, you know my my dad, being a
steel mill worker, showed youknow that work, but he never
missed the game, he never misseda practice.
He never missed a practiceanything like that.
So I get that 100%.
It was great to talk to yourdad on here and have him on as a
guest, so I'm super pumped thatwe got to be able to make this
happen and get you on here tooas well.
But you know what's next forLogan here?
(34:12):
You know schools wind down.
You're in graduate school.
You're getting close to the endof uh that and uh baseball.
I mean, is it over for you oryou know what's next?
Speaker 2 (34:24):
that's the funny thing is I get.
I get asked like all the timelike hey, like what's going on?
Like you got a job yet blah,blah, blah, like everyone's like
always kind of like on my heelsabout like what I'm doing and
at the end of the day I'm flyingby the tail of my seat.
I'm just going like I'm, I'm in, I'm in Vero Beach right now,
(34:44):
uh, training three times a weekin Tampa at driveline baseball,
trying to uh give this body onemore chance at playing the game.
I want to.
I want to take advantage ofstill being somewhat young and
try and play somewhere in theStates, hopefully, or even
overseas.
I'd love.
I've always been a guy thatlikes to travel Like.
(35:04):
I played three summers inCalifornia, I played one summer
in Texas.
I wouldn't mind going over toEurope and playing baseball,
it'd be awesome.
And so that's kind of.
That's kind of where I'm atright now.
I'm golfing three days a week,throwing baseballs three days a
week and hanging out.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Yeah, I'm rooting for you for that.
Uh, man, like I, I always loveit when people follow and chase
their dreams and do what theywant to do.
Um, as someone who's beenchasing a dream of being a
standup comedian for the past 13years, I get that a hundred
percent.
You know you want to, you wantto do it, it's what you want to
do, and I'm glad to see thatthere's somebody with no give up
(35:46):
in their system and and we'lldo whatever it takes to make the
dream come true.
And and I love seeing thatattitude in anybody for sure and
you got a fan in me and Johnny,I know that for sure.
But you know, since we went ona little bit of a baseball rant
here, kind of a way to wind downthe show here, I need a
(36:08):
prediction from you for theWorld Series in October.
What do we get?
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Yeah, See the baseball fan in me.
Would love to see Philly'sTigers.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Because I just like Philadelphia, I like seeing
their guys, I love how they playthe game.
And then I know all of my BGfriends would be really happy if
the Tigers got in.
All of my BG friends would bereally happy if the Tigers got
in.
But I'd love to see like Scoobwill give up seven earned runs
every day Because it's just likeI mean, it's all, it's all they
(36:47):
get.
It's just like I remember wewould like we talked so much
trash during the series lastyear and like now they're just
beating everybody in boat racingthe central.
But.
But it'd also be great to seeanother, to see a small market
team get in yeah, but there'ssomething.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
There's something about bryce harper getting that
chance.
Yeah, getting that guy in theworld series dude's an animal
and you know I hate I you know,being a pittsburgh fan, I hate
everything philadelphia, youknow, but I hate, you know,
being a Pittsburgh fan.
I hate everything Philadelphia,you know, but I don't mind
Bryce Harper.
The dude's just a maniac and Ilove it.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
And they're a younger team.
They're just like, and theyhave they're.
I wouldn't say they're a smallmarket, they're definitely not.
I mean, bryce Harper got a lotof money, trey Turner got paid a
lot of money.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
I got some guys that are getting a nice check.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
I'd love to see a small market team like the
Tigers get in.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Yeah, for sure.
I don't even care who it is atthis point in time, just to see
a small market team make it thatfar would be phenomenal.
I keep holding out hope thatone year the Pirates will do it,
and it's definitely not gonnabe this year.
I mean, I I've been saying allyear and it's just, it's just
the Pirates fan of me.
It's like, well, we normallystart out hot and then we tank
(38:08):
in the end of this season.
So now we just started outtanking, so maybe after the
all-star break now we're gonnabring that fire back and we're
gonna make, make a run.
It's not going to happen, uh,but you know, that's, that's the
dream I'm holding on to youknow, I mean, that was the thing
.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
The guards got hot right there before the break and
it's like man, they, they havethe team that could do it, they
have a bullpen.
They have a bullpen, that'sgood enough.
They have starting pitching,that's good enough.
They just need the defense tobe a lot better than what it was
in the month of June.
Yeah, just hope Carlos Santanacan keep swinging it and keep
(38:47):
everyone else healthy.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Right, that's, that's the key there.
But, logan, we are running downhere near the end of the
episode I do need to get thissegment in, because Johnny will
kill me if I don't get thissegment in and that is the Fast
55, and that is five randomquestions from the wonderful
manager of the podcast, johnnyFitty Falcone.
For the new listeners out there, these are kind of rapid fire,
(39:11):
but you can elaborate if youfeel like you have to.
Logan, these have nothing to doexcept for maybe one of them,
uh, with what we've been talkingabout.
Uh, for the entirety of theshow.
So, if you're ready, we'll goget started with the fast 35.
Let's do it okay, questionnumber one uh, what's a better
way to get a car to stop?
(39:33):
A red light or a stop sign?
Speaker 2 (39:36):
I don't know.
I don't know okay.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
Yeah, I didn't think I read that right, because he
sends the okay for the the newlisteners out there.
Johnny sends me these questionsday of.
I don't get time to prep thesequestions before anything, so
this is me reading them for thefirst time, so excuse me for if
I mess these up.
(40:00):
Question number two, thoughwhat's a worse name for a pet
cat?
Eli or Jeff.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
I'm gonna go Eli.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
I blame Jeff, but yeah, I got five cats.
I get it.
Yeah, it's fine.
Neither one, none of my cats,have real names, so it is what
it is.
Question number three what'sthe best flavored wing sauce?
Speaker 2 (40:35):
I'm a garlic parmesan guy.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
I love it I, me too, I I can't get it.
I get it everywhere there'swigs I found.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
I found a rub that I could use on chicken breasts
that make some taste garlic,parmesan and I'm set.
I don't need anything else allright.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
question number four Are pencils overrated or
underrated?
Speaker 2 (41:01):
Underrated.
They're the best.
There's nothing like writingwith a good pencil.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
I gotcha.
I'm more of a pen guy, but Iget it.
And, last but not least, thisis the only thing that has to do
with what we've been talkingabout for the entirety of the
show.
But the best MLB pitcher of alltime is.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
I'm going to go starter and closer.
Okay, Just so I can cover baseshere.
I would say closers definitelyMariano Rivera.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
That's a given.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
Got to go with him.
Starting-wise, I'd bouncearound a few guys.
No one Ryan.
He's the guy that reinventedbaseball, pretty much.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
No one's going to catch that record.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
No, never, pretty much no one's gonna catch that
record.
No, never, um, but this might.
This might be a bad answer, butroy halliday was, oh my god
about.
Roy halliday was one of, like,one of the ones that I just
always loved to see.
Speaker 1 (42:14):
Okay, always had good stats, I mean hey, not mad at
it, I completely forgot aboutroy holiday.
To be honest with you, uh, thatwas the fast 55, uh, for
everybody out there.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
He took it a little easy on you, logan, I'm gonna
say that now, um well, he usedto beat me in in madden and NCAA
football all the time when Iwas younger, so he kind of owed
me that.
Yeah, he used to stay at ourhouse on Friday after games.
Yeah, and he never took it easyon me.
Speaker 1 (42:50):
So well, you know what you know being how it is
now.
You know I don't take it If myson and I play.
I don't take it easy on son andI play video games.
Speaker 2 (42:58):
I don't take it easy at all.
No, I won't.
I won't on mine no, like it's.
Speaker 1 (43:03):
I still.
I still remember when he wasreal young playing mario kart
with him and uh, it's like no,dude, I'm not gonna let you win.
Like no, pick up the sticks,we're going again.
Like that.
That would be like I wasplaying with one of my buddies
and it's yeah Now.
So yeah, you, you'll get there.
You can't let him win, youcan't take it easy on him.
(43:25):
But, logan, I do give everyguest this opportunity at the
end of every show.
Speaker 2 (43:31):
I'm going to give you about a minute, if there's
anything you want to get outthere, anything you've got going
on that you want to promote, oreven if it's just a good
message.
I'm going to give you about aminute and the floor is yours.
Honestly, I just want to.
The main thing that I can sayis, if you have this idea of
what you want to do and what youwant to be, don't let anybody
(43:51):
tell you that you can't be it.
I grew up a small town kidplaying baseball.
Everyone's always asked me oh,what's plan B?
There isn't a plan B.
This is the only plan there is.
And if you have and find agreat support system Like I have
two parents that, no matterwhat, any time of the day, I
could call them they're going topick up the phone and find time
(44:11):
for me, and I have friends thatare the same way and I mean
it's all.
It's all nothing, though,without finding your faith.
And that's kind of the biggestthing that drives me is how can
I pursue that?
Speaker 1 (44:29):
Dude, that's awesome.
I'm all for helping people uhpromote, but when there's a good
message like that to end theshow, there's no better way for
that, and you are a hundred%right with everything you just
said there too as well.
But that is actually going todo it for this week's episode of
the Ride Home Rants podcast.
Again, I want to thank my guest, logan Bell, for coming on.
This was a lot of fun to get tosit and talk with you and talk
(44:53):
a lot of baseball and everythinglike that and what you got
going on.
Appreciate you coming on and asTalk a lot of baseball and
everything like that and whatyou got going on.
Appreciate you coming on and,as always, if you enjoyed the
show, be a friend, tell a friend.
If you didn't tell them anyways, because they might like it
just because you didn't.
That's going to do it for meand I will see y'all next week.
welcome everybody to another episode of the ride home
rants podcast.
This is, as always, your host,mike bono.
I have a great guest for ustoday.
He is actually the son of aformer guest of the show in
charles bell.
Uh, he's coming to us fromflorida, originally from lisbon,
ohio.
But logan bell joins the show.
(00:22):
Logan, thanks for joining.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Yeah, thank you for having me.
It's been a long time coming.
John had asked me to get on awhile ago and I was in season,
so it kind of made things tough,but I found a little break in
the schedule.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
You've got to find breaks in the schedule when you
can right.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
My schedule is jam-packed as tight as possible,
so I definitely get that withtrying to find the ways around
and to find time for yourself,but I'm glad you made some time
for us here.
So, like I said, you'reoriginally from Lisbon, ohio, so
tell everyone out there whatit's like in Lisbon and where it
(01:01):
is even at.
Not a lot of people know wherethat town's's out at and you
know what it was like growing upthere uh.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
So yeah, lisbon is, it's a, it's a village.
It's not even a town, that'sthe best about it.
So it's it's a square milevillage.
Um, it's kind of, I think, justsoutheast of Youngstown.
That's usually what I tellpeople whenever they ask where
I'm from and I say Lisbon, theygo where's that?
And I say Youngstown, yeah, um,but I mean I grew up with mom
(01:32):
and dad had an older sister whowent to Lisbon.
She was three years older thanme and played sports.
She played sports.
So we had a very hectic kind ofupcoming between her playing
basketball, running track, meplaying football, basketball and
baseball.
Uh, summer baseball kind oftook over, took over everybody's
(01:52):
summer and the whole house.
So it was just kind of gettingthrough that.
But I mean I love the villageof Lisbon.
It's the best.
I mean I couldn't have askedfor a better place to grow up
and a better place to go, go toschool and meet friends.
That I mean I still talk toguys today, like Justin Sweeney,
who graduated with me.
Him and I talk probably onceevery other week, once a month
(02:16):
at minimum, and just always endswith us just being like, hey,
like whenever I'm back in townor whenever he has time, let's
hang out.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Yeah, you've always got to keep those close friends
and I get it.
Being from a small town.
I grew up in a little town inWest Virginia, follinsby, west
Virginia.
Again, like you, one of thosetimes if you blink, you miss it,
nobody knows where it's at.
You've got a little bit betterwith having Youngstown that
(02:48):
close.
I have to go to a whole otherstate and tell people I'm close
to pittsburgh, so that's kind ofyou know telling people when
you grow up in west virginia andyou have to tell people you
know I'm about an hour outsideof pittsburgh, like people don't
have no idea where that's eventoo, so I get caught up doing
the same one.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Like I talk to people not from ohio yeah I'll either.
I'll either use like akron orCleveland.
Most of the time I usePittsburgh because it's just
easy to be like hey, like I'm anhour east of Pittsburgh, that's
it, or an hour west ofPittsburgh, it's easy.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, that's the easiest landmark for anybody to
that kind of.
You know Pittsburgh, farnsby,west Virginia, you know
Steubenville, ohio, that kind ofarea in the Ohio Valley.
I kind of lump Lisbon into that, even though it's closer to
(03:33):
Youngstown.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Yeah, I mean, I grew up with guys who were Steelers
fans.
Like that's the best part aboutLisbon is you get this like
this huge mix-up of Pittsburghand Clevelandveland people and
it's, it's the best yeah, yougot.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
You got a nice melting pot there for sure.
Um, you know, and you mentionedit there, that you were an
athlete growing up.
You know, uh, what sport othersports did you play and you know
how did you balance that.
You know, and try to being aregular teenager too as well,
because you know I was anathlete growing up, so I know
there was a balance to that.
You know how did, how did youbalance that, especially in such
(04:07):
a small town, cause sports kindof dominate in a small town.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Yeah, I mean it was tough like growing up.
So I I didn't start playingfootball till junior high.
I played flag football growingup but I played baseball and
basketball until then.
But I played baseball andbasketball until then and then
got into high school, playedfootball, baseball.
All four years playedbasketball.
My freshman, sophomore andsenior year kind of took a break
(04:33):
, my junior year to focus onbaseball, just for that winter
to kind of try and get things towork out.
And they ended up working out.
But I mean I my freshman year Ihad a great senior and junior
class ahead of me that I wasreally close with.
So like josh craig, joshliberati, uh, austin rutecky, um
(04:57):
jake liberati, colin sweeney,mark stanichka, like all those
guys I kind of grew up likearound so it was like it was
nice to have I kind of grew uplike around, so it was like it
was nice to have them to kind oftake me out of, like kind of
bring me to this idea of likerespecting the moment and kind
of learning to take it in when Icould.
(05:17):
Right, my freshman year we wentto the playoffs.
I was a, I was a holder on ateam that went nine and one Okay
, it kind of.
It kind of made me appreciateit a little more, especially
getting into my junior andsenior year, where I was relying
on other people to do the samething that I did three years ago
(05:38):
, right, um.
But once I got older it waskind of a little bit easier
because I turned.
So I'm I'm a little young formy grade, so I turned 16 going
into my junior year.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yeah, and that was when I'd gotten my license and
like I'd take, I'd take someyounger guys, we'd go, I mean,
every Thursday or Tuesday we'dgo to Wang night at B-dubs after
practice.
Like we'd kind of get out ofthis whole idea of like, oh,
we're doing this because we playsports together.
It's like no, we're doing thisbecause we're friends, right.
So we'd go up to youngstown, gobowl a little bit, go see a
(06:12):
movie, like things like that, tokind of get us away from this
whole like, oh, it's, it'ssports, it's sports, it's sports
right, we had that too growingup.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
you know there was a a close knit of us, kind of like
you, um, and it was everywednesday.
We'd go up to my buddy's house.
We lived out in the middle ofnowhere, we'd have a bonfire,
we'd order some wings and we'dcall it wing night, and it was
just a bunch of us and we wouldjust sit around a fire and just
decompress from you knowpractices and everything like
(06:44):
that and just kind of trying toto not think about oh well, we
got walk through tomorrow andthe game Friday night, and then
we got this and then we got that.
It was like no, we're justgoing to hang out and just be
teenagers and just be kids andjust have fun and and for lack
of a a better term do stupidshit around a fire, like that's
(07:07):
yeah, I mean, I mean we did thesame thing kind of once.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I kind of I was kind of go to school, go to practice,
do my homework, play videogames in high school yeah, uh.
But I got to like that's howcollege was for me.
I mean, like we had a greatgroup of guys that I got really
close with that.
I can't that I transferred intobg with that.
(07:32):
We were a very close-knit group.
We always did stuff together.
We I mean like we like duringmay when school would be out but
we're still playing baseball.
We'd we'd be in one of ourhousing areas and we'd I'd drive
around and guys would like holdon to the back of my truck on a
skateboard.
Yeah, we'd just do fun stuff.
(07:53):
That always was just like.
It always got rid of the whole.
Oh, we're athletes, blah, blah,blah.
Like we could be like just kidsand just hang out and have fun.
We'd play hockey in the streetLike we do all of it.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yeah, I still remember, like it was yesterday,
growing up playing streethockey with my buddies and just
kind of again just being kids,and you know, yeah, definitely
doing the stupid things with atruck, especially, you know,
getting into college and stillbeing I swam in college, at
(08:28):
Bethany College, and just beingout of season and being able to
be a teenager.
And just I remember one time wemade, somehow, a hot tub in the
bed of my truck, just threw atarp down, threw some water in
it, put a hose from the exhaustinto the end of the water revved
it hot tub.
(08:48):
You know the most unsafe thing.
Now that you're looking back asit as a 36 year, old, just being
a kid nobody to tell you noright, that was, that was the
best part of it.
But, yeah, definitely doingthat and growing up being an
athlete too as well, definitely,I think, helped me today, you
(09:09):
know, as a 36-year-old man witha 16-year-old trying to explain
to him but not trying to beupset too much when he does
stupid things, because I didstupid things at his age.
But it's definitely a balancewhen you get to that.
Um, but you actually played atuh you mentioned their Bowling
Green State University, um as asix year senior in baseball.
(09:33):
Uh, tell them what it was like,um, and you know at Bowling
Green playing baseball.
What did you get your uh degreein?
And I believe you have abachelor's and a master's degree
, correct?
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Yeah, so I'm working on my master's right now.
I've got one more class thisspring that I got to take and
then I got three in the fallthat once I get those three done
, we're done with school, wedon't have to worry about it
anymore, nice.
So I began at Akron.
So my recruitment was kind of afun little situation and so I
(10:08):
had ended up committing toMalone my junior year school and
then Coach Halleck, who coachedme at BG, took the job at
Bowling Green.
Actually, I found out that hewas going there senior night of
football.
My senior night.
At like 2 30 had just gotten outof school, like was at home
(10:32):
real quick.
Before I went back to thelocker room he gave me a call
and was like hey, just so youknow, like I'm taking the job
here.
Gave me all his reasoning,understand it at the time, like
totally got it.
Everything that I like believedin him I had.
I'd asked him at the time.
I was like well, can I comewith you?
(10:53):
And he was like I don't know atthe moment, like I gotta kind
of get things sorted out on myend before I even, because he
hadn't even been the coach yetand I hadn't even been announced
Right.
So ended up kind of decommittingfrom Malone in January and then
no in November and then startedthrowing again in the fall.
(11:16):
I remember one Sunday morningat no one Saturday morning after
a Friday night basketball game,I had a really good day and my
pitching coach in Canton postedit on Twitter and Coach Banfield
from Akron had reached out tocome to a camp and went to the
camp the next day, got a PWL andthat was it.
(11:38):
I mean, went there, had theCOVID season, which kind of
sucked, but it was nice for mebecause we were a first-year
program at Akron, so it had beencut in 2015 or 2012, one of the
two and had just been broughtback and I was part of the first
(11:59):
team to play there since and wehad 27 junior college kids, wow
.
So think about me year oldfreshman the first week of
school as a freshman in college.
I'm not 18 years old yeah I'mhanging out with 22 23 year olds
all the time yeah, that's.
(12:20):
That's a change so it was alittle bit of.
A little bit of a learningcurve for me, kind of had to
take myself out of my comfortzone and kind of grow up in a
way.
And COVID happened.
I hit the portal after partiallytearing my UCL and didn't end
up getting surgery but rehabbedthat summer, went to Texas and
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played and had talked to coachhallock that summer and I
remember calling him one day andafter he had texted me that he
had room for me and I was like Icalled him that minute and I
said, hey, I'm coming, hadn'ttold my parents, hadn't talked
to, like I had not given anybodyany information on it and I
(13:02):
mean best decision I ever madein my life, I'd love playing for
him.
I mean I'd like you know, likethe like the hockey saying,
would you go to the wall for me?
Because I'd go to the wall foryou, like I'd go, I'd go to the
wall for that guy, like nomatter what any situation.
Like he was in my house when Iwas 15 years old recruiting me,
(13:24):
like there's things that justfor me it always meant, it
always made sense being therewith him.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Right and it's nice to have that, that coach that
you know you're familiar with,especially going into a program
like that.
Swimming was a little differentfor me.
I had a ton of D1 offers.
Uh, going into my senior yearfor swimming, um decided that
(13:54):
you know, I wasn't the bestfootball player but all of my
buddies played.
So you know I played football.
I love the sport of football.
I do, um, I kind of refer tomyself and I know it's two
different sports.
But, charlie from the MightyDucks, I make a better coach
than I did a player.
I know a lot about the game tobe a coach, but I was that
(14:17):
habitual backup and specialteamer all through high school.
I decided I put up with thecrap for three years.
What's one more year?
It's my senior year, football,we'll play football.
Um, first day of pads uh, we puton, hurt my shoulder, didn't
realize I did more damage than Ioriginally thought, actually
(14:40):
separated my shoulder and playedthe entire season on it, okay,
and lost my senior year ofswimming because the shoulder
was just shot.
At that point in time Everyonebut Bethany College dropped
their scholarship.
Naturally you get a swimmer andthey hear about a shoulder
injury.
That's the kiss of death.
So my recruiting was a littlebit different, mainly because
(15:04):
Bethany College was the place Istill wanted to swim, rehab the
shoulder, but my coach there was.
He's one of those guys.
I got to know him a little bitbetter going in there, coach
McGowan, and that you know myfreshman year he made me a
manager of the team so that Ididn't lose my scholarship and
(15:27):
got to keep it while I was stillrehabbing my shoulder so that I
could swim my sophomore yearAgain.
You know, just unfortunateinjuries kept me out of sports.
But you know it's, it's weirdwith the here.
You know being me, you, youhave fun, but you could post a
video on Twitter and anybodycould see that.
I didn't have that in the early2000s.
(15:50):
You know, graduating highschool in 2007.
There wasn't a lot.
You know my space was still athing.
You probably don't even knowwhat that is.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
I can gladly say I've heard of it.
Ok, I'll respect that.
I can gladly say I've heard ofit.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Okay, I'll respect that, but you know it really
wasn't you know that big of athing to where I could post
times or something like that ona Twitter, a Facebook, anything
like that and, you know, getnoticed.
You had to do a lot yourself.
And not saying that it's a badthing because I do think it's
(16:29):
helping a lot of athletes atsmaller towns and smaller
schools that literally the onlyreason these people don't go to
big schools or D1 schools isbecause nobody's heard of the
town they grew up in.
Yeah, and they're phenomenalathletes and it takes them going
(16:49):
to a junior college and thengetting noticed there to get any
recognition.
And junior college is great,but I feel like it hurts the
athlete because now they lose ayear of eligibility because they
went to JUCO a little bit.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Not anymore, though.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Yeah, COVID year and the transfer portal and
everything like that.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Well, it's just, even with the potential, potential
changing of d of juco, notcounting towards your ncaa
eligibility.
It's yeah, that is differentnow too, yeah I'd called coach
hallock when I was on the wayback from tampa on wednesday and
we were just talking about how,even compared to when I was
(17:21):
getting recruited, how much it'schanged compared to when I was
getting recruited, how much it'schanged.
And college sports is, I mean.
We could talk for hours on that.
Oh.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
I've had shows that have gone way longer than they
should have on here.
Just sitting here with a panelof guys just talking sports, and
it's just like, yeah, we'vebeen over an hour, we've got to
cut the show, or I'm going tohave way too many edits to do by
the end of this to try to cutit down to at least an hour, you
know, and it's just, it's oneof those things I could talk
about all day yeah and just thechanging of of just sports in
(17:54):
general and college sports.
You know, uh, used to be.
You know, and look at lebrongot, got recruited and drafted
right out of high school.
You know that's not a thinganymore.
You've got to go at least oneyear of D1 basketball to be
eligible for the draft, which Iagree with and I don't.
I think it should be more thanone year, but in the same sense,
(18:19):
I grew up in an era where guyswere coming right out of high
school.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
You know what?
Speaker 1 (18:24):
I mean.
So it is what it is, but justhow the sports world has changed
, especially with college sports, and the transfer portal was
huge, especially because youcould transfer but you had to
sit out a year.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Back in the day.
You know that would stop.
It was stopped people from justmoving around and now the, the
NIL deals and everything likethat.
I mean it's just it's.
It can get so complex and justhow everything can, can get
break, broken down, and just howeverything has changed and I
think it's most of it's for thebetter.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Yeah, I'd say it is.
I think the only, again, likethe only thing I see is that
you're going to run into thisissue where I'm a I'm a
mid-major sport guy.
I love mid-majors, I love theMac.
The Mac's awesome.
How can you expect many?
of those teams.
(19:21):
How can you expect them tocompete when oh, I'm a power for
school that can offer everyplayer on your team as much
money as I can ask?
But I also understand that'sthe thing that it it opens doors
for people that may not haveopened the doors right I mean.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
But you got some programs like alabama who have a
20 million dollar roster incollege.
Yeah, how do you compete withthat?
You don't as a mac or whackschool, like you, never.
I like the 12 team playoff.
I didn't think I would.
It was awesome, I didn't think.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
I would like the 12-team.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
I thought 18 was a sweet spot.
I feel like I had a great planfor it.
With the five Power, 5conferences, all the conference
champions automatically get abid to the playoffs.
Then if you have an undefeated,like Mac or whack or something
like that that you know thesemid-majors that don't get seen,
you have an undefeated teamthere throw them in there.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Yeah, I mean, look at like.
I mean boise was one of thoseteams, yeah, like, but boise had
a generational running backthat could do something.
I think if any of those teamshave a lightning in a bottle
chance, it's another position.
(20:45):
It's a wide receiver that cantake the top off and defense he
can run a slant, catch a ball,go for it all, take a dart, just
a regular screen.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
I'll say like I think a running back it's a little
bit tougher because you got thismuch space yeah you can't get
out of that space as a runningback no, um, I feel like you
know the running back, chrismccaffrey, is kind of changing
the running back position alittle bit in being more of a
(21:19):
wide receiver threat too as well.
But you're right, you knowyou're still going to line up in
the backfield, you still havefive yards to try to make
something happen and you'regoing up against 350, 400
pounders at the line.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
It's the same with baseball like murray state
lightning in a bottle yeah team.
They were hot, they wereplaying really well, they were
good all year.
Like you're not going to getmany of those teams at at this
point and you know I, I knowthey get you know swept.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
But you know everyone kind of expected that.
I mean I definitely was likethere's no way they're going to
be competitive against LSU.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Yeah, I mean Coastal like.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
That's who it was.
Yeah, coastal.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Yeah, they were like.
I wouldn't even consider thatteam a mid-major team to me.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Not anymore.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
They've won the natty .
They probably have a littlemore of a budget than most
mid-majors.
I think it's going to be a lotmore difficult for your
run-of-the-mill any mid-major.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Take a mid-major like take the MAAC champion, every
year it's.
It's difficult to get out ofthat that first regional.
Because if, especially now, theguy that they start against you
, that the host of the regional,is typically their Friday guy,
that's their, that's their horse.
(22:52):
Yeah, he's making a lot ofmoney to be their horse.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
oh, absolutely, your team's not making that amount of
money yeah, like I, you knowwhat, and I I equate that to to
now.
You know we had to talk aboutthis with our um mob round table
we had on here and just that.
You know, these big uh cityteams that are spending more
(23:16):
money on one player than most ofthese small teams have as an
entire organization, and I can'tbelieve to say, but Pittsburgh
is a small market team, they are.
And yeah, it just blows my mind.
I always think of Pittsburgh,as you know, being a big city
and it's really not when you'vegot teams like new york and la
that are spending 350 milliondollars on a shortstop, when
(23:39):
that's like the entirety ofpittsburgh's roster it's even
crazier when they're spending300 million on a shortstop, but
they're already paying the rightfielder 450, yeah yeah I, I
said it too as well.
I mean, uh, pitchers in themajor league starting pitchers
in the major league makes stupidmoney.
(24:01):
Clayton Kershaw had like a 400or $500 million contract to
pitch every five days.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
I mean, look at the money that.
I mean if you think, like, atthe end of the day, the probably
the top five over the last whenthey were signing contracts
verlander, scherzer, degrom likethose guys think about how much
money they got paid, a lot likeit.
(24:27):
Those like, if you takeprobably the top five starting
pitchers in baseball in the last10 years, like if you take
probably the top five startingpitchers in baseball in the last
10 years, probably over abillion dollars in total
contracts, he's probably pushingtwo billion.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
I would say yeah, one is yeah, it's good, it's well
over one.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Like.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I think it's going to have to pay Scooble.
Yeah, you know what?
What kills me is schemes forthe Pirates.
You know, the dude's agenerational talent with a four
and eight record.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
He has no run support .
Speaker 1 (25:01):
He has no run support in Pittsburgh because they
can't get any of these playersto come and play for them and
it's sad.
As a Pittsburgh fan, I am aPirates fan.
It's hard to say and hard toadmit out loud, but I do.
I am a Pirates fan.
It's hard to say and hard toadmit out loud, but I do.
But every time I see thatSkeen's pitch or I see a
highlight, it's like well, goodto have you for the couple of
(25:21):
years that we're going to haveyou.
Then I'll see you in New York,boston, la or somewhere else,
because you're not going to stayhere.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
There's no way Same with the guards.
Right now it's just like we gotlucky that jose was willing to
take a pay cut to stay incleveland.
But imagine if they had theability to offer lindor the same
money or right even be able tooffer the money to keep that 16
team or the 17 team in cleveland.
(25:48):
But now, like I get on, I I seetrade like mock, mock trades
for clausas and Kwan.
Yeah, and I'm like we losethose guys.
It's going to be hard to cheerfor him.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Right, I mean it's it's.
It's tough to cheer for thepirates, uh, but I think
everyone on the pirates needs tojust sit down and talk to
Andrew McCutcheon.
He left Pittsburgh uh, reallynot on his own accord, really
wasn't much.
Some team offered him moneylet's go see if I can actually
(26:22):
win a pennant somewhere and hecame back and other teams were
still offering him more moneynow, as near the end of his
career, to go and play there andhe says, no, I'm staying in
Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
This my home yeah, like I want to win here, huh and
like not even to say that thosepittsburgh teams were better
than you're not.
They're really not like.
The dude won an mvp, yeah, youcan't.
You can't win an mvp on a 80win team or on a 70 win team.
No, like they had.
They were in the wild card.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
They were like they had that was fun to be a parts
fan those years I mean that'show it was with the guards.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
like we went to game one of the world series.
I remember I remember when gameseven, when davis hit that home
run to tie it up in the eighth,I remember going around my
house and waking everybody up,yeah.
And like, hey, it's a tie gamebecause they had all went to bed
.
Like I remember, like that's amoment for me in life that I'll
(27:23):
never forget.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Right, you know, even though it was a wild card game,
I'll never forget that forPittsburgh because that was the
first time I've seen them in theplayoffs in my entire life, you
know.
So it's fun to see.
I hope they get back there.
I hope they can build a teamaround Skeens with the salary
cap that they have and it's noteven a salary cap.
(27:46):
They just don't want to pay theluxury tax and they can't.
They don't have the money to doit, and I get it.
But you know, it's just.
I'm hoping that he can actuallybring them back.
I was shocked what they did inthe draft not really picking any
hitters and going back to pitchLike the pitching's.
Fine, we have one of the lowestERAs in the league and we got a
(28:09):
sub 500 record by like 20 gamesrecord in like by like 20 games
.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Yeah, it's tough to as a as a like um organization,
to sit there and be like, oh, wedon't need to draft hitters
when you have a guy who has a0.9 era right now for the month
of july or something.
It's something outrageous it's0.9 for july yeah, and he hasn't
won a game in july yeah likehow can you sit back as an
organization and be like, oh,this is a good idea, this is the
right thing to do for him,right?
Speaker 1 (28:41):
yeah, like I just I don't understand it and like I
get where.
Pittsburgh is one of thosecities, man, where they will
love you no matter what, butthey're going to be vocal about
it.
Like seeing fans at PNC parkholding up signs telling nothing
to sell a team.
Like that's Pittsburgh, they'llstill come, they'll still
(29:03):
support you, but they're goingto tell you how they feel and
they're going to not hold backand I love it.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Oh, it's great.
I mean, I think, at the end ofthe day, like fans, have the
right to do that I want to seegood baseball.
Yeah, Like as a as a fan who Ibuy in, like I'm watching every
game.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Right.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Like as much as I hate turning on a guardians game
right now, well before the last10 games before the break,
he'll turn it on Right, BecauseI wanted to see him.
I wanted to see one of the bestto ever be in cleveland play
the game of baseball yeah, and I, I like I, I wish I could get
(29:44):
where I live now.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
I wish I could get pirates games.
I don't, uh.
But yeah, the blackouts, I meancleveland is here, um, and
cincinnati I get them, whichblows my mind, being in central
Ohio, because literally it isthe same distance to Pittsburgh
as it is to Cleveland and as itis to Cincinnati, it's two and a
half hours.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
It's.
It's definitely confusing.
I was sitting, I was sittinghere the other day trying to
watch games and it was the daybefore the all started before
the home run derby.
And I'm sitting here and I'mlike I'm trying to flip on games
, like trying to find them.
None of them are on, like anyyoutube tv, like there's no
mainstream of major leaguebaseball that day no, I mean
(30:28):
there's like sling tv or like uh, the one, the, the one, betting
app.
It's not hard rock, but theyhave like a, it's they own, they
own bally's now oh, I know, isit.
It's not mgm um handle yep likeI'm on there trying to watch
games.
Like why can't I just sit downlike every other n fan on
(30:53):
Sundays?
Speaker 1 (30:54):
and watch a baseball game.
I get it.
I mean, I know like they havelike, well, there's MLB TV that
you can get, it's like.
But I'm already paying for howmany streaming services now,
like I don't want to pay foranother one just to be able to
watch, yeah, a baseball game.
Like I'll try to find it.
Like I keep hoping like everynow and again esbn plus is gonna
screw up and put on a pirate'sgame so that I can, I can watch
(31:18):
a, watch a bucko's game.
But you know it's, it is whatit is like.
I catch the highlights, but youknow my esbn app's always going
off with updates in that.
So I get it that way.
Um, and I know we got way offtopic there and on off track.
No, you're good man, that's thepoint of this show anyways.
But you know, like I said atthe beginning, you know we had
(31:39):
your dad as a former guest onthe show.
Tell us a little bit about whatit's like being the son of
Charles Bell.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Oh man, it's the best it's.
I mean, at the end of the day,there's nobody I'd rather have
as a father and as a role modelgrowing up.
I mean the dude's the hardestworker that you'll ever meet.
He goes to work at threeo'clock in the morning.
He doesn't get done until 8 pm.
He's like he.
(32:07):
He helped build that business,rl Craig, into what it is today
and he spent so many hours doingwhat he did, while also being
the best father he he could ever.
You could ever ask for going togames, being the most supportive
dad, being a dad that when youneeded some, when you needed a
little kick in the ass, but uh,I mean I talked to him.
(32:34):
I mean I talk to him every day.
He's my dad.
But every Monday, wednesday andFriday when I'm driving back
from Tampa, I give him a calland he always finds time for me
while he's working and I meanI'll get texts at 5 o'clock in
the morning when he gets up, orlike I'll get him at 10 pm
before he to bed.
Like it's a dude that I, he'sjust, he's a guy man.
(32:56):
He, yeah, he's he.
It's honestly really funnybecause he's like snapchat got
really big when I was in highschool and he still has streaks
like snapchat streaks withfriends of mine that are like
over a thousand days, over a1500 days like, and he's a
(33:18):
twitter guy like he's a huge, heloves tweeting, turf the style,
and like one one of my, one ofthe guys that I played with this
past year, who is a sophomorenow.
He texted me and was like guesswho?
I just got added by on snapchatand I was like oh god.
And he said my dad's snapchat.
(33:39):
I was like oh gosh, I was likethis guy yeah, I, I get that a
hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
You know, growing up, you know my my dad, being a
steel mill worker, showed youknow that work, but he never
missed the game, he never misseda practice.
He never missed a practiceanything like that.
So I get that 100%.
It was great to talk to yourdad on here and have him on as a
guest, so I'm super pumped thatwe got to be able to make this
happen and get you on here tooas well.
But you know what's next forLogan here?
(34:12):
You know schools wind down.
You're in graduate school.
You're getting close to the endof uh that and uh baseball.
I mean, is it over for you oryou know what's next?
Speaker 2 (34:24):
that's the funny thing is I get.
I get asked like all the timelike hey, like what's going on?
Like you got a job yet blah,blah, blah, like everyone's like
always kind of like on my heelsabout like what I'm doing and
at the end of the day I'm flyingby the tail of my seat.
I'm just going like I'm, I'm in, I'm in Vero Beach right now,
(34:44):
uh, training three times a weekin Tampa at driveline baseball,
trying to uh give this body onemore chance at playing the game.
I want to.
I want to take advantage ofstill being somewhat young and
try and play somewhere in theStates, hopefully, or even
overseas.
I'd love.
I've always been a guy thatlikes to travel Like.
(35:04):
I played three summers inCalifornia, I played one summer
in Texas.
I wouldn't mind going over toEurope and playing baseball,
it'd be awesome.
And so that's kind of.
That's kind of where I'm atright now.
I'm golfing three days a week,throwing baseballs three days a
week and hanging out.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Yeah, I'm rooting for you for that.
Uh, man, like I, I always loveit when people follow and chase
their dreams and do what theywant to do.
Um, as someone who's beenchasing a dream of being a
standup comedian for the past 13years, I get that a hundred
percent.
You know you want to, you wantto do it, it's what you want to
do, and I'm glad to see thatthere's somebody with no give up
(35:46):
in their system and and we'lldo whatever it takes to make the
dream come true.
And and I love seeing thatattitude in anybody for sure and
you got a fan in me and Johnny,I know that for sure.
But you know, since we went ona little bit of a baseball rant
here, kind of a way to wind downthe show here, I need a
(36:08):
prediction from you for theWorld Series in October.
What do we get?
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Yeah, See the baseball fan in me.
Would love to see Philly'sTigers.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Because I just like Philadelphia, I like seeing
their guys, I love how they playthe game.
And then I know all of my BGfriends would be really happy if
the Tigers got in.
All of my BG friends would bereally happy if the Tigers got
in.
But I'd love to see like Scoobwill give up seven earned runs
every day Because it's just likeI mean, it's all, it's all they
(36:47):
get.
It's just like I remember wewould like we talked so much
trash during the series lastyear and like now they're just
beating everybody in boat racingthe central.
But.
But it'd also be great to seeanother, to see a small market
team get in yeah, but there'ssomething.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
There's something about bryce harper getting that
chance.
Yeah, getting that guy in theworld series dude's an animal
and you know I hate I you know,being a pittsburgh fan, I hate
everything philadelphia, youknow, but I hate, you know,
being a Pittsburgh fan.
I hate everything Philadelphia,you know, but I don't mind
Bryce Harper.
The dude's just a maniac and Ilove it.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
And they're a younger team.
They're just like, and theyhave they're.
I wouldn't say they're a smallmarket, they're definitely not.
I mean, bryce Harper got a lotof money, trey Turner got paid a
lot of money.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
I got some guys that are getting a nice check.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
I'd love to see a small market team like the
Tigers get in.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Yeah, for sure.
I don't even care who it is atthis point in time, just to see
a small market team make it thatfar would be phenomenal.
I keep holding out hope thatone year the Pirates will do it,
and it's definitely not gonnabe this year.
I mean, I I've been saying allyear and it's just, it's just
the Pirates fan of me.
It's like, well, we normallystart out hot and then we tank
(38:08):
in the end of this season.
So now we just started outtanking, so maybe after the
all-star break now we're gonnabring that fire back and we're
gonna make, make a run.
It's not going to happen, uh,but you know, that's, that's the
dream I'm holding on to youknow, I mean, that was the thing
.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
The guards got hot right there before the break and
it's like man, they, they havethe team that could do it, they
have a bullpen.
They have a bullpen, that'sgood enough.
They have starting pitching,that's good enough.
They just need the defense tobe a lot better than what it was
in the month of June.
Yeah, just hope Carlos Santanacan keep swinging it and keep
(38:47):
everyone else healthy.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Right, that's, that's the key there.
But, logan, we are running downhere near the end of the
episode I do need to get thissegment in, because Johnny will
kill me if I don't get thissegment in and that is the Fast
55, and that is five randomquestions from the wonderful
manager of the podcast, johnnyFitty Falcone.
For the new listeners out there, these are kind of rapid fire,
(39:11):
but you can elaborate if youfeel like you have to.
Logan, these have nothing to doexcept for maybe one of them,
uh, with what we've been talkingabout.
Uh, for the entirety of theshow.
So, if you're ready, we'll goget started with the fast 35.
Let's do it okay, questionnumber one uh, what's a better
way to get a car to stop?
(39:33):
A red light or a stop sign?
Speaker 2 (39:36):
I don't know.
I don't know okay.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
Yeah, I didn't think I read that right, because he
sends the okay for the the newlisteners out there.
Johnny sends me these questionsday of.
I don't get time to prep thesequestions before anything, so
this is me reading them for thefirst time, so excuse me for if
I mess these up.
(40:00):
Question number two, thoughwhat's a worse name for a pet
cat?
Eli or Jeff.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
I'm gonna go Eli.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
I blame Jeff, but yeah, I got five cats.
I get it.
Yeah, it's fine.
Neither one, none of my cats,have real names, so it is what
it is.
Question number three what'sthe best flavored wing sauce?
Speaker 2 (40:35):
I'm a garlic parmesan guy.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
I love it I, me too, I I can't get it.
I get it everywhere there'swigs I found.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
I found a rub that I could use on chicken breasts
that make some taste garlic,parmesan and I'm set.
I don't need anything else allright.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
question number four Are pencils overrated or
underrated?
Speaker 2 (41:01):
Underrated.
They're the best.
There's nothing like writingwith a good pencil.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
I gotcha.
I'm more of a pen guy, but Iget it.
And, last but not least, thisis the only thing that has to do
with what we've been talkingabout for the entirety of the
show.
But the best MLB pitcher of alltime is.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
I'm going to go starter and closer.
Okay, Just so I can cover baseshere.
I would say closers definitelyMariano Rivera.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
That's a given.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
Got to go with him.
Starting-wise, I'd bouncearound a few guys.
No one Ryan.
He's the guy that reinventedbaseball, pretty much.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
No one's going to catch that record.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
No, never, pretty much no one's gonna catch that
record.
No, never, um, but this might.
This might be a bad answer, butroy halliday was, oh my god
about.
Roy halliday was one of, like,one of the ones that I just
always loved to see.
Speaker 1 (42:14):
Okay, always had good stats, I mean hey, not mad at
it, I completely forgot aboutroy holiday.
To be honest with you, uh, thatwas the fast 55, uh, for
everybody out there.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
He took it a little easy on you, logan, I'm gonna
say that now, um well, he usedto beat me in in madden and NCAA
football all the time when Iwas younger, so he kind of owed
me that.
Yeah, he used to stay at ourhouse on Friday after games.
Yeah, and he never took it easyon me.
Speaker 1 (42:50):
So well, you know what you know being how it is
now.
You know I don't take it If myson and I play.
I don't take it easy on son andI play video games.
Speaker 2 (42:58):
I don't take it easy at all.
No, I won't.
I won't on mine no, like it's.
Speaker 1 (43:03):
I still.
I still remember when he wasreal young playing mario kart
with him and uh, it's like no,dude, I'm not gonna let you win.
Like no, pick up the sticks,we're going again.
Like that.
That would be like I wasplaying with one of my buddies
and it's yeah Now.
So yeah, you, you'll get there.
You can't let him win, youcan't take it easy on him.
(43:25):
But, logan, I do give everyguest this opportunity at the
end of every show.
Speaker 2 (43:31):
I'm going to give you about a minute, if there's
anything you want to get outthere, anything you've got going
on that you want to promote, oreven if it's just a good
message.
I'm going to give you about aminute and the floor is yours.
Honestly, I just want to.
The main thing that I can sayis, if you have this idea of
what you want to do and what youwant to be, don't let anybody
(43:51):
tell you that you can't be it.
I grew up a small town kidplaying baseball.
Everyone's always asked me oh,what's plan B?
There isn't a plan B.
This is the only plan there is.
And if you have and find agreat support system Like I have
two parents that, no matterwhat, any time of the day, I
could call them they're going topick up the phone and find time
(44:11):
for me, and I have friends thatare the same way and I mean
it's all.
It's all nothing, though,without finding your faith.
And that's kind of the biggestthing that drives me is how can
I pursue that?
Speaker 1 (44:29):
Dude, that's awesome.
I'm all for helping people uhpromote, but when there's a good
message like that to end theshow, there's no better way for
that, and you are a hundred%right with everything you just
said there too as well.
But that is actually going todo it for this week's episode of
the Ride Home Rants podcast.
Again, I want to thank my guest, logan Bell, for coming on.
This was a lot of fun to get tosit and talk with you and talk
(44:53):
a lot of baseball and everythinglike that and what you got
going on.
Appreciate you coming on and asTalk a lot of baseball and
everything like that and whatyou got going on.
Appreciate you coming on and,as always, if you enjoyed the
show, be a friend, tell a friend.
If you didn't tell them anyways, because they might like it
just because you didn't.
That's going to do it for meand I will see y'all next week.
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