November 11, 2024 • 14 mins
On today's P1 Podcast, Eddie tells us about how he entered negotions with his son about his grounding to ensure a better game
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So I think you guys are probably aware of this,
that I'm the disciplinarian in our house. That I get
in there, I get a weird joy out of disciplining
my kids. Yeah, like I get joy out of it.
Is that bad?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
I don't really, Yeah, I don't care.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
I don't care. I love saying no. It's like one
of my favorite things in the world. Even if I
don't mean it.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Stick with it.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
It's so good, it's so good. Normally I'm pretty cool, Emily,
don't get it twisted. I'm normally pretty cool. But when
I need to get in there and discipline, I will.
And I had a situation happened with my son Jack
over the weekend, but then I decided to negotiate.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
We ain't done yet.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
It's time for the past, completely uncensored and unacting filtered
except for that part the show's after show start now.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
So yeah, I'm a pretty big stickler when it comes
to you. If I say I'm going to do something,
I'm going to do it, especially when it comes to discipline.
Like you cannot say to somebody you know, hey, we're
going to leave the store if you keep acting like
that and then not leave the store. When they keep
acting like that. I also want that if if I
say to you you better watch yourself and then you
(01:22):
don't watch yourself, then I don't even know what to
say to that. I look at I'm crazy.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
I just go back to the dining table with your friends.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
But I think that sends a mixed message. That sends
a mixed message.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
What am I watching?
Speaker 1 (01:37):
What am I watching? I'm watching, I'm not watching. I'm
watching me get away with it. That's That's what I'm watching.
You know that doesn't make any sense. And so you know,
I'm very big on like if I say you better
watch yourself, motherfucker, you better watch because then I give
you the crazy dad eyes and then you don't want
that want that never hit my kids. But I really
wish I kind of would know you never have no
(01:59):
never Oh that didn't work either.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Okay, if it's worked, okay.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Okay, yes, okay, no, But I mean I'm you know,
you'll get in trouble if you mess around, fucking around
and find out, ship around and find.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Out well, and from my experience with your kids, they
know it, you know what I mean. Like you just
have to look. You just got to give a look.
Or a little bass in your voice over.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
There, I have to raise my voice. You're you're already done.
But usually I just look at you and go, yeah,
that's it, it's over.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
It's Eddie's kids and me and ter.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
I could give my daughter a look and she just
gives me a look right back, so you know, yeah,
it's different disrespect And then I start laughing and then
I forget. I know, it's what does your husband said?
Speaker 5 (02:57):
That's just a different household.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
But we're all different as parents.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
That is true for me.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
There's a better watch yourself, which we know doesn't work.
There's a lot of screaming that sounds like a mental institution.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
And then there's some arm grabbing in public. Will grab
his own arm.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Grab you stop.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I've asked him to stop doing something a couple of times.
It's happened. Recently.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
We were at a store and he was messing around.
It does for a second, and then then it goes, well,
he's going to hit.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
A point where yeah he's fourteen. Now whatever you say
is not going to matter.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
It's just noise to me.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
You need dad.
Speaker 7 (03:31):
Dad has to get in there. Like that's just the
way that it is. Like it love it hate it,
think it's sexist.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
It is what it is. If your kids will when
I hit.
Speaker 7 (03:39):
The point, my mom would h with the wooden spoon,
but once I hit like twelve, I would laugh at her.
But then if she said, I'm telling Dad completely.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, but that's the way it's always been at your house.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
That's your dynamic.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
Robert and Reid are like brothers, and they fight. And
so Robert actually looks at his dad that way. And
it's insane, by the way, because it's the.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Age he is now. But for the most part, Read
responds to me.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
It doesn't sound like no.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
I guess one percent of the time is better than zero.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
So yeah, so there there is any of these issues
at my house. They know that if I if I
get angry, that's a bad day for them. So and
it doesn't happen very often because I mean I've trained them,
you know, So, I mean that's what you do as parents.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Well you're supposed to, that's what you did, yes.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
From the very beginning. And so there was a situation
that did pop up over the weekend. My son and
his group of buddies, the D and D crew. Oh,
they love to get online, play roadblocks together and then
they like conference call each other, and so it's it
fucking drives me crazy because it's so stupid sounding to me.
(04:52):
You know, he makes fucking dumb ass noises NonStop, and
he's like talking in weird voices. It's all nerds, you know.
But I mean whatever, I can't say anything me. I'm
wearing a marble shirt, Like, what am I going to say?
Quit being a nerd? Like I can't. But it's sucking
driving me crazy. So I have to listen to it,
and it makes me insane. So I'm already a little
(05:13):
heightened by it. And so on Friday, we were going
to dinner grand Nancy's birthday. Holy Ship.
Speaker 7 (05:24):
Posted about her birthday just twenty six, and my dad
said congratulations.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Dad commented on the post.
Speaker 7 (05:34):
My mom said happy birthday, and my dad said, congratulations.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Congratulations.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
He's congratulating depor that her mom turned eighty six.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
I don't know, congradulations, you're still alive. Anyway, So we
were going to dinner. My wife and grand Nancy were
going together separately, and then me and the kids were
going to meet them there at the at the restaurant.
And so I was getting stuff together. Jack was on
doing his thing with roadblocks, and I told him, Jack,
(06:04):
we're gonna be leaving, so get your shit together, basically.
And so I went and was finishing up doing this stuff,
and I could hear him like another two or three
minutes later, still playing, and so I walk back over.
That's when I give him the crazy Dad I and
I'm like, hey, now, and so then you.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Know, he doesn't give him right back, and you laugh.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
No, no, no, he immediately gets off then and you know,
closes the iPad and it gets freaked out or whatever.
And so then I tell him right then and there, Hey,
when I tell you get off, get off, that doesn't
mean another five minutes of playing. It doesn't mean another
three seconds of playing. It means get off. And so
you go, okay, we're on the same page, all right, Okay,
So next day comes around, he hits his time to
(06:49):
get on and play with his buddies and whatever, and
then they were I forget what exactly was happening. But
Deborah comes over and says Jack time to get off.
And she's not nearly as mean as I am. She
says Jack time to get off for Disney Princess. So
of course she doesn't listen, and then she comes popping
by it again for so number two. She comes over
(07:11):
and says, Jack, Now, now she's a little irritating Jack,
I said, get off. Okay. Boom boom boom. Another couple
of minutes go by. I still hear him from the
other room on with his buddies. Now I'm fucking we
just had a conversation about this yesterday, So I fucking
storm in there, rip the iPad out, hang up on
(07:35):
his friends. By the way, they have no clue what's
going on.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Oh my god, Jack, Jack, where you go?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Don't care? And say, all right, dude, what did we
talk about yesterday? I said, when you when you're told
to get off, get off. You were told twice the
day after we just talked about it, and you didn't
get off. Now you're grounded for two days. Oh why
did I pick two days?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
I was wondering, what does that mean? Two days grounding?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
What is off of the computer? So just he can
basically get electronics? Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, so s guy.
The reason I think I went two days because I
knew they had the day off today, so it was
a double ship. Yeah. So Sunday I knew we were
playing baseball day, so I really that wasn't gonna hurt
him enough.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
But today this is because that's what they want to
do all day.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Out of me. So no outside bro anyway, uh so
felt pretty good about it. I'm like, all right, done,
done through that iPad, away done. And so he was devastated.
I can see it. That's like the worst punishment for
any kid right now, losing your phone, losing the iPad,
that kind of thing. It's it's like the death penal.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
And abrupting the game like in the middle.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
I don't even know. I don't know it was in
the middle of a campaign. I don't know, I don't know.
I don't care.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
It's a good move though.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
I've done that with Read a bunch of times when
he does the same thing. I take the switch and
the switch just on the port and I just get to.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
A point.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
That's brutal. See, you gotta tell me that if you
tell me, like, hey, I'm about to get to a
saved I don't even know how rodbocks forts, to be honest,
it's an open ended thing, so I don't even it matters.
And so whatever you until you get off, get off.
If you're playing a video game, you say, I gotta
get to the same point. I'm a gamer. I understand that,
but you got to communicate with me. I don't think
that's the roadblock.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Don't But his his animal could have just been about
to age up.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
I don't know what that even means.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
You don't know, plays with her and her Yeah, unless.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
They're playing that like Horror one where they go into
a cave from a bloody RV.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
You play roadblocks.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
With your daughter.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Yeah, we'll get three devices me the hobby.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
No, that's not together.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
I one time got a super rare animal. It was crazy.
I traded it for like five different animals. It was
amazing things. It was so rare.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
It was like you got to stop.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
But that that creepy one with the bloody r V.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
So anyway, that's where we're okay, granted for two days.
It is what it is. So we had a baseball
yesterday and we get in the car and I could
see he's sad about not being His energy is low,
you know, one of those ship. So we have a
bad attitude going into the game. Energy is low, which
(10:30):
means focus isn't going to be there. Where's Thathyr going
to be I have no idea, but I'm not having that.
I mean, like I we had lost the previous week.
I'm I'm a competitive guy, so I want to win.
Even though it's full ball, it doesn't matter. I still
want to win. So and we were playing my buddies team,
and so now I really want to go and so
(10:52):
I want to win this game. So Jack can't come
in here and just play like ship like because you
got your little fucking roadblocks taken away. You're not fucking
play like shit. Okay, it's not happening. So I go,
all right, I gotta figure something out here. What can
motivate this guy? And I went, huh, so sorry, here
we go, Jack. Here's where the negotiations gonna take place.
(11:13):
I said, Jack, if you have a good game today,
which means you know, you gotta play well, you got
a good attitude, ever a whole deal, and you get
at least two hits in the game, I'll take a
day off of your groundation.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Wow, what this is so unlike you?
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:33):
True, but I also know like this is a this
is an upper league, Like Jack getting two hits in
a game is I don't think he's done it all season.
He can get a hit and want a big deal.
He's got a really good on base percentage, but he's not, like,
I don't I don't think he's Maybe he's gotten two hits,
but it's it's very rare. So for him to get
two hits, I kind of thought it's probably not gonna happen.
(11:54):
But you know, we'll see what happens. I'll throw it
out there and he goes, okay. I go, that means
you've got to play really hard, dude, Like I mean,
I'm not messing around here, Like it's gotta be a
good game. He goes, all right, and I can see
now he's got a little peppin step.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
The focus is coming in.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
And the attitude is a lot better. I went, hu, see,
we'll see what happens. You know, let's let's see. So
what does this little fucker do. He comes out there
and fucking rakes and gets two hits. I'm like, you motherfucker, Like,
I can't believe it. I can't believe. Now, he did
(12:35):
have one error in the game, which he usually doesn't do,
you know, and so he did have an error. So
I'm like, is that a good game. I did mention
the two hits, but I said good game. So now
I'm confused that, like, do I be cool and say,
all right, he had overall you had a good game,
(12:56):
but you didn't have that one error.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
I'm kind of ant.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
But I don't know. I don't really know what to
do it because I've never done anything like this.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Yes, yes, if you said hits, it's got to be.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
A good game. Yeah, it's a good game.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Also, what does Devor think about you doing.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Negotiations? Okay, well she didn't even know I grounded exactly exactly.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Well, I think I might use this now he's getting
it's going to work. Our son needs to get some hits.
He plays folleyball right now too.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
And it's not lean over the plate. Just take a
couple of jobs.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
So your motivation isn't a good behavior, it's more hits
at the plate.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Emily doesn't like to be there.
Speaker 7 (13:43):
Guy, you got to learn if you're a good athlete,
you get away with a lot in life.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Just Emily, your next game is on your birthday Friday.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
I'm already gonna have to be there, and I'm not
going to be that happy because they're not that good.
Right now, I'm using my birthday night at the game,
which I want to support my child, but be nice
to see him do some things.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Can you say, do it for mama?
Speaker 5 (14:07):
Do you think that would motivate mama?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Probably not.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Probably you got to threaten him with something like absolutely,
take away his bike.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Take away his e bike or something like that. I'm
doing this. I'm sure he's gonna do something from now
until then to get trouble down.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
He's doing something right now, probably
So I think you guys are probably aware of this,
that I'm the disciplinarian in our house. That I get
in there, I get a weird joy out of disciplining
my kids. Yeah, like I get joy out of it.
Is that bad?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
I don't really, Yeah, I don't care.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
I don't care. I love saying no. It's like one
of my favorite things in the world. Even if I
don't mean it.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Stick with it.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
It's so good, it's so good. Normally I'm pretty cool, Emily,
don't get it twisted. I'm normally pretty cool. But when
I need to get in there and discipline, I will.
And I had a situation happened with my son Jack
over the weekend, but then I decided to negotiate.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
We ain't done yet.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
It's time for the past, completely uncensored and unacting filtered
except for that part the show's after show start now.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
So yeah, I'm a pretty big stickler when it comes
to you. If I say I'm going to do something,
I'm going to do it, especially when it comes to discipline.
Like you cannot say to somebody you know, hey, we're
going to leave the store if you keep acting like
that and then not leave the store. When they keep
acting like that. I also want that if if I
say to you you better watch yourself and then you
(01:22):
don't watch yourself, then I don't even know what to
say to that. I look at I'm crazy.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
I just go back to the dining table with your friends.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
But I think that sends a mixed message. That sends
a mixed message.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
What am I watching?
Speaker 1 (01:37):
What am I watching? I'm watching, I'm not watching. I'm
watching me get away with it. That's That's what I'm watching.
You know that doesn't make any sense. And so you know,
I'm very big on like if I say you better
watch yourself, motherfucker, you better watch because then I give
you the crazy dad eyes and then you don't want
that want that never hit my kids. But I really
wish I kind of would know you never have no
(01:59):
never Oh that didn't work either.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Okay, if it's worked, okay.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Okay, yes, okay, no, But I mean I'm you know,
you'll get in trouble if you mess around, fucking around
and find out, ship around and find.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Out well, and from my experience with your kids, they
know it, you know what I mean. Like you just
have to look. You just got to give a look.
Or a little bass in your voice over.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
There, I have to raise my voice. You're you're already done.
But usually I just look at you and go, yeah,
that's it, it's over.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
It's Eddie's kids and me and ter.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
I could give my daughter a look and she just
gives me a look right back, so you know, yeah,
it's different disrespect And then I start laughing and then
I forget. I know, it's what does your husband said?
Speaker 5 (02:57):
That's just a different household.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
But we're all different as parents.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
That is true for me.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
There's a better watch yourself, which we know doesn't work.
There's a lot of screaming that sounds like a mental institution.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
And then there's some arm grabbing in public. Will grab
his own arm.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Grab you stop.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I've asked him to stop doing something a couple of times.
It's happened. Recently.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
We were at a store and he was messing around.
It does for a second, and then then it goes, well,
he's going to hit.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
A point where yeah he's fourteen. Now whatever you say
is not going to matter.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
It's just noise to me.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
You need dad.
Speaker 7 (03:31):
Dad has to get in there. Like that's just the
way that it is. Like it love it hate it,
think it's sexist.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
It is what it is. If your kids will when
I hit.
Speaker 7 (03:39):
The point, my mom would h with the wooden spoon,
but once I hit like twelve, I would laugh at her.
But then if she said, I'm telling Dad completely.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, but that's the way it's always been at your house.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
That's your dynamic.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
Robert and Reid are like brothers, and they fight. And
so Robert actually looks at his dad that way. And
it's insane, by the way, because it's the.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Age he is now. But for the most part, Read
responds to me.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
It doesn't sound like no.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
I guess one percent of the time is better than zero.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
So yeah, so there there is any of these issues
at my house. They know that if I if I
get angry, that's a bad day for them. So and
it doesn't happen very often because I mean I've trained them,
you know, So, I mean that's what you do as parents.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Well you're supposed to, that's what you did, yes.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
From the very beginning. And so there was a situation
that did pop up over the weekend. My son and
his group of buddies, the D and D crew. Oh,
they love to get online, play roadblocks together and then
they like conference call each other, and so it's it
fucking drives me crazy because it's so stupid sounding to me.
(04:52):
You know, he makes fucking dumb ass noises NonStop, and
he's like talking in weird voices. It's all nerds, you know.
But I mean whatever, I can't say anything me. I'm
wearing a marble shirt, Like, what am I going to say?
Quit being a nerd? Like I can't. But it's sucking
driving me crazy. So I have to listen to it,
and it makes me insane. So I'm already a little
(05:13):
heightened by it. And so on Friday, we were going
to dinner grand Nancy's birthday. Holy Ship.
Speaker 7 (05:24):
Posted about her birthday just twenty six, and my dad
said congratulations.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Dad commented on the post.
Speaker 7 (05:34):
My mom said happy birthday, and my dad said, congratulations.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Congratulations.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
He's congratulating depor that her mom turned eighty six.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
I don't know, congradulations, you're still alive. Anyway, So we
were going to dinner. My wife and grand Nancy were
going together separately, and then me and the kids were
going to meet them there at the at the restaurant.
And so I was getting stuff together. Jack was on
doing his thing with roadblocks, and I told him, Jack,
(06:04):
we're gonna be leaving, so get your shit together, basically.
And so I went and was finishing up doing this stuff,
and I could hear him like another two or three
minutes later, still playing, and so I walk back over.
That's when I give him the crazy Dad I and
I'm like, hey, now, and so then you.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Know, he doesn't give him right back, and you laugh.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
No, no, no, he immediately gets off then and you know,
closes the iPad and it gets freaked out or whatever.
And so then I tell him right then and there, Hey,
when I tell you get off, get off, that doesn't
mean another five minutes of playing. It doesn't mean another
three seconds of playing. It means get off. And so
you go, okay, we're on the same page, all right, Okay,
So next day comes around, he hits his time to
(06:49):
get on and play with his buddies and whatever, and
then they were I forget what exactly was happening. But
Deborah comes over and says Jack time to get off.
And she's not nearly as mean as I am. She
says Jack time to get off for Disney Princess. So
of course she doesn't listen, and then she comes popping
by it again for so number two. She comes over
(07:11):
and says, Jack, Now, now she's a little irritating Jack,
I said, get off. Okay. Boom boom boom. Another couple
of minutes go by. I still hear him from the
other room on with his buddies. Now I'm fucking we
just had a conversation about this yesterday, So I fucking
storm in there, rip the iPad out, hang up on
(07:35):
his friends. By the way, they have no clue what's
going on.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Oh my god, Jack, Jack, where you go?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Don't care? And say, all right, dude, what did we
talk about yesterday? I said, when you when you're told
to get off, get off. You were told twice the
day after we just talked about it, and you didn't
get off. Now you're grounded for two days. Oh why
did I pick two days?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
I was wondering, what does that mean? Two days grounding?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
What is off of the computer? So just he can
basically get electronics? Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, so s guy.
The reason I think I went two days because I
knew they had the day off today, so it was
a double ship. Yeah. So Sunday I knew we were
playing baseball day, so I really that wasn't gonna hurt
him enough.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
But today this is because that's what they want to
do all day.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Out of me. So no outside bro anyway, uh so
felt pretty good about it. I'm like, all right, done,
done through that iPad, away done. And so he was devastated.
I can see it. That's like the worst punishment for
any kid right now, losing your phone, losing the iPad,
that kind of thing. It's it's like the death penal.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
And abrupting the game like in the middle.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
I don't even know. I don't know it was in
the middle of a campaign. I don't know, I don't know.
I don't care.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
It's a good move though.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
I've done that with Read a bunch of times when
he does the same thing. I take the switch and
the switch just on the port and I just get to.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
A point.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
That's brutal. See, you gotta tell me that if you
tell me, like, hey, I'm about to get to a
saved I don't even know how rodbocks forts, to be honest,
it's an open ended thing, so I don't even it matters.
And so whatever you until you get off, get off.
If you're playing a video game, you say, I gotta
get to the same point. I'm a gamer. I understand that,
but you got to communicate with me. I don't think
that's the roadblock.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Don't But his his animal could have just been about
to age up.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
I don't know what that even means.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
You don't know, plays with her and her Yeah, unless.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
They're playing that like Horror one where they go into
a cave from a bloody RV.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
You play roadblocks.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
With your daughter.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Yeah, we'll get three devices me the hobby.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
No, that's not together.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
I one time got a super rare animal. It was crazy.
I traded it for like five different animals. It was
amazing things. It was so rare.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
It was like you got to stop.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
But that that creepy one with the bloody r V.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
So anyway, that's where we're okay, granted for two days.
It is what it is. So we had a baseball
yesterday and we get in the car and I could
see he's sad about not being His energy is low,
you know, one of those ship. So we have a
bad attitude going into the game. Energy is low, which
(10:30):
means focus isn't going to be there. Where's Thathyr going
to be I have no idea, but I'm not having that.
I mean, like I we had lost the previous week.
I'm I'm a competitive guy, so I want to win.
Even though it's full ball, it doesn't matter. I still
want to win. So and we were playing my buddies team,
and so now I really want to go and so
(10:52):
I want to win this game. So Jack can't come
in here and just play like ship like because you
got your little fucking roadblocks taken away. You're not fucking
play like shit. Okay, it's not happening. So I go,
all right, I gotta figure something out here. What can
motivate this guy? And I went, huh, so sorry, here
we go, Jack. Here's where the negotiations gonna take place.
(11:13):
I said, Jack, if you have a good game today,
which means you know, you gotta play well, you got
a good attitude, ever a whole deal, and you get
at least two hits in the game, I'll take a
day off of your groundation.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Wow, what this is so unlike you?
Speaker 5 (11:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:33):
True, but I also know like this is a this
is an upper league, Like Jack getting two hits in
a game is I don't think he's done it all season.
He can get a hit and want a big deal.
He's got a really good on base percentage, but he's not, like,
I don't I don't think he's Maybe he's gotten two hits,
but it's it's very rare. So for him to get
two hits, I kind of thought it's probably not gonna happen.
(11:54):
But you know, we'll see what happens. I'll throw it
out there and he goes, okay. I go, that means
you've got to play really hard, dude, Like I mean,
I'm not messing around here, Like it's gotta be a
good game. He goes, all right, and I can see
now he's got a little peppin step.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
The focus is coming in.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
And the attitude is a lot better. I went, hu, see,
we'll see what happens. You know, let's let's see. So
what does this little fucker do. He comes out there
and fucking rakes and gets two hits. I'm like, you motherfucker, Like,
I can't believe it. I can't believe. Now, he did
(12:35):
have one error in the game, which he usually doesn't do,
you know, and so he did have an error. So
I'm like, is that a good game. I did mention
the two hits, but I said good game. So now
I'm confused that, like, do I be cool and say,
all right, he had overall you had a good game,
(12:56):
but you didn't have that one error.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
I'm kind of ant.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
But I don't know. I don't really know what to
do it because I've never done anything like this.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Yes, yes, if you said hits, it's got to be.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
A good game. Yeah, it's a good game.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Also, what does Devor think about you doing.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Negotiations? Okay, well she didn't even know I grounded exactly exactly.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Well, I think I might use this now he's getting
it's going to work. Our son needs to get some hits.
He plays folleyball right now too.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
And it's not lean over the plate. Just take a
couple of jobs.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
So your motivation isn't a good behavior, it's more hits
at the plate.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Emily doesn't like to be there.
Speaker 7 (13:43):
Guy, you got to learn if you're a good athlete,
you get away with a lot in life.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Just Emily, your next game is on your birthday Friday.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
I'm already gonna have to be there, and I'm not
going to be that happy because they're not that good.
Right now, I'm using my birthday night at the game,
which I want to support my child, but be nice
to see him do some things.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Can you say, do it for mama?
Speaker 5 (14:07):
Do you think that would motivate mama?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Probably not.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Probably you got to threaten him with something like absolutely,
take away his bike.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Take away his e bike or something like that. I'm
doing this. I'm sure he's gonna do something from now
until then to get trouble down.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
He's doing something right now, probably
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