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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Something must have happened.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
It's not you, it's me.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
You're giving me the it's not you, it's me routine
I invented.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
It's not you, it's me. Nobody tells me it's them,
not me. If it's anybody, it's me. George, it's you.
You're a damn right, it's me.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Let's start with a new polling that shows the Democratic
Party has preached an all time low in popularity. The
latest NBC News national poll finds that a majority of
registered voters fifty five percent have a negative view of
the party, while twenty percent just over a quarter of
registered voters heavy pulsitive view of the party. That's the
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party's lowest rating in NBC News polling dating back to
nineteen ninety Meanwhile, though a new CNNSSRS poll finds the
Democratic Party's favorability rating at just twenty nine percent, a
record low going back to nineteen ninety two, and a
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drop of twenty points since January of twenty twenty one.
What's more, just sixty three percent of Democrats and Democratic
leaning Independents have a favorable view of their own party,
down nine points from January and eighteen points from the
start of the Biden administration.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
I know good.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
You know good, Baby, you know good. I just need
to say one thing I've been meaning to mention this.
A woman whose emails Joy eighty nine to ninety five,
thank you for sending this about softball's player of the
year being from Houston. Her name is Bree Ellis. So
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I went and looked up how good she was the
best season at the back of any softball player in history,
batting average of four eighty seven, on base percentage of
six point fifty nine, slugging percentage of one point two
two twenty five home runs. I don't know who they
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were playing, but it's one of the playoff games. And
a guy that I follow named John Boy has a
bit on it. J O m bo Wi. It's good storyteller,
just very entertaining sports analysis. And the first ten pitches
they pitch Briellis or they set up outside, they're not
letting her. They're not going to pitch to her. Games
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tied into the game, bases loaded, they can't walk her
now because or hit her. They hit her one time, sir,
fourth time at bat, they can't walk her or hit her,
or they'll have to or they'll lose on that basis.
So they throw her two balls and then they throw
a strike and she hits a grand slam, sweetest, smoothest
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swing I've ever seen in softball anyway. So she's from
the Houston area. I'm sure somebody we know knows that family,
and I just wanted to bring that to your attention.
Congrats to this young lady. She is a stud, pure
and simple. She is amazing and that's incredible. Let's go
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to Erica.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Erica.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
You're on the Michael Berry Show, Sweethart. We were talking
about Dan Patrick wanting to outlaw THHC in the state
of Texas. Your thoughts.
Speaker 6 (04:15):
My thoughts are Michael that I am totally against this bill.
I just think it's kind of Dan Patrick being a
modern day Carrie Nation. I'm a woman over sixty and
I use it regularly to help me sleep, and I
think there's a lot of other women who do that.
It's not so much to be high, but to help
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with those type of ailments. And tell me what you
can say on this, I use it's a low level
THHC and then it's by one brand is Wana, one
brand is Wild, and it's get shipped in from states
where it's legal, and it's very low THHC one one
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milligram or two milligram, and then the rest will be
CBG CBD.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Yeah, so balance, how do you get it? How do
you get it shipped to you? They're willing to ship
to you.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
Because because it's a hemp product, it can ship legally.
If it would be the Delta line, so that can
ship legally. And I would rather go to a local store,
but we're going to be sending money to the Blue
State if it's all transitions through. But these products can
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also be purchased at local, local vape doors as well
as long as you know, yes.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Erica, thank you, thank you for sharing that. Because that's
a voice, it's not her. There are more people using
some sort of medicinal product.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
You know, everybody hates the recreational user. I don't know
why they don't hate the recreational drinker. Seems silly, but
everybody hates the recreational user. There are a lot of
people who are using this product and that to this
earth product in a medicinal fashion. These are not junkies.
These are people that are using this in a medicinal fashion.
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You know. I'll tell you that the people who are
responsible for creating the greatest hatred of pot, and they
can't help themselves, is the people who smoke out in public.
The people whose goal it is to walk the streets
in a busy town and smoke a joint. Look at me,
I'm smoking a joint, smoking to joint outside. I can
smoke a joint outside. People hate them, including me. I
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hate them, and I'm gonna say garsmoker. The smell of
smoke is such a vile, nasty smell, and people smell
it and they are immediately enraged. They hate those people.
So their idea, which is irrational, but this is what
happens is I want it illegal. I want it so
that I don't ever have to walk through that and
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smell like that again. I don't ever want to smell
like that again. It's amazing in DC and how if
you go into a CVS or if you walk past
a bus stop, there are people who reak of it. Now.
One of the things Colorado has done to deal with
this having legalized it because there's a dispensary on every corner.
Is you cannot smoke in public. You can vape because
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that doesn't seem to bother people, and of course you
can do your gummies, but you cannot smoke a joint
out in public, and they do ticket people. They do
take that very seriously. That's what drives people to hate
any marijuana product is the people who smoke out in public.
That's number one, and then the second one is the
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little old ladies. Because I get this a lot to go, Michael.
People won't want to work if they got marijuana.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
They just won't want to work.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
I have news for you. People either want to work
or they don't do You know how many people get
up in the morning, crack a beer and don't leave
all day. People that don't want to work will find
something to do to fill the time and dull their brain.
It's not that their brain is dulled and therefore I
won't go to work. It's a person that starts with
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a problem, not a problem that finds a person. Rick, Mike, Mark,
Josh hang tight, sorry, Michael Barry Show. So what does
Bree Ellis do when she graduated? She's have to hang
it up. That seems sort of unfortunate. Yeah, she can
go coach. I get that, but you know, I'm not
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for creating a league just so somebody's got somewhere to go.
I think the WNBA it doesn't interest me, but obviously
it interests somebody. I think Caitlyn Clark's been good for it,
and then that little thug Angel Reese needs. The problem is
the league was a bunch of thugs before she got there,
and then she gets there. Now it's a bunch of
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white haters, and that's all it is. They're just mad
that this Larry Bird white girl is coming in there
and dominating, and they're angry about it. It's because we
black women. No, it's because you're thugs and the fans
of the w NBA don't identify with you. Okay, you're
all a bunch of fat, angry lesbians. And this young
woman comes in who looks like the girl next door
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and everybody can finally identify with that, and and you
don't like it, well, suck it up, buttercup or whatever
your your name. Your name is Angel Reese Rick, you're
on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Go ahead, sir, Yeah, I normally agree with Lieutenant Dan
on those things, but not on this one. And I'm
just gonna preface this, but I seen it. I've seen
the horrible side of addiction. Uh But I was teaching
Sunday school for my kids and some other kids a
number of years ago, and it was a little girl
and her mother was was just a horrible not a
horrible person, I'm gonna say, it's just terribly addicted that
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hard liquor. I mean every freaking day. And a few
years ago I came across her, I met her and
she was she'd been totally sober for about a year
or so. And asked her what did it? And she
was taking some low grade uh CBD oil, three to
four drops under the tongue. And asked her, waiting, if
you take more, does the work there? Saying no, there's
no need to. And it took about six months, but
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it just the desire went away, you know, And I
just think that's an amazing story there. Of course, you know,
other folks use it brother things, and I don't want
my kids being potheads and you know, drunks and stuff
like that, so I'm against all forms of addiction.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
But I think we sent it.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Dan's going barking up the wrong tree.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
This time, I do too. And here's the problem with this, Rick,
is there was nobody out here who was saying, you know,
you've got we have a biennial session every two years,
damn it. Get the THHC off the streets. There might
have been some neurotic mom in Dayton or Liberty, or
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maybe somebody in Midland. Okay, sure, but you've got a
lot of reliable Republican voters who are using this in
one way or another, who are going to say, wait
a second, I didn't send you to Austin to come
beat down my door and make my life worse. You
got a lot of people living in the final years
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of their life. You got a lot of people in
extreme pain. You got a lot of people without much money,
and they don't have the opportunity for all this. You
got a lot of people who got off of alcohol
and use this. Why are you gonna go poke them
in the eye? Why do that? Was this so damned important?
Is this your legacy?
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Is this?
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Because I'm gonna tell you what it's gonna do, It's
gonna cost Republicans the majority. This is what happens when
you've been the majority party for too long. You go
find fifty to fifty divisive issues that nobody was talking about.
You make it your biggest issue. You say, I'm gonna
get this passed on the strength of mind. I'm gonna
tell you this, I'm gonna work my ass off against you.
I am. I'm gonna work very hard against you. And
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that's unfortunate because we're agreed on ninety five percent of issues.
But when you elevate one issue like this, I'm gonna
wish Abbot. I wish this was Abbot's issue, because then
we'd know nothing to be done. But if if this
this is not your swan song, this is not your
strongest issue. Getting the lottery Commission shut down and sent
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to to regulatory that was great, that needed to be done.
But picking this fight it's it's gonna turn off a
lot of people who are regular voters, who are going
to say, you know, I don't like the Democrats, but
the Republicans did this. I'm gonna punish them. It's gonna
happen if this passes, that is going to happen. This
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is how you lose. People ask me all the time,
how do we lose races when everybody I know is
reasonable because we take stupid issues like this and we
make it the biggest issue, and our people go. And
the thing about it is people that agree with Dan
Patrick dan Patrick on nine to nine percent of issues
will go, you know what this is that this is
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Mike Pence level crap. This is the same mindset that
got us Amy Coney Barrett. When Amy Coney Barrett was nominated,
I said.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Woll whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
She is not what we want. She's against abortion, Michael,
She's gonna keep the abortion, okay. And then when she's
done that, what's she gonna do. She's against abortion. And
then when she's done that, she's will against abortion. And
what did she do? She voted on abortion. Now what
is she doing? She is against Trump on every issue.
She's a reliable devote but she's against abortion because we
picked one issue and made it the only issue. And
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anybody who questioned that, anybody who questioned that, You've got
to build a coalition of fifty one percent of people.
And part of that means there are issues that you
may not agree with the next guy on, but you
don't burn the house down over it. You just don't
let's go to Mark Mark. You're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
Go ahead, sir, Hey Michael Berry, first time, long time.
You veered off course a few times. So I'm gonna
come back to the center of female singers, female bangers.
I'm a child of the seventies and eighties, just like
you are. So you'll remember leader Ford of course, maybe yes,
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lead Afford, glorious old Roden from the Cranberrys. She was
amazing before her insignificant and before her death. And then
uh Chester Bennington from Lincoln Park, who died a few
years ago, has been replaced by a female singer named
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Emily Armstrong and she is amazing, an amazing replacement.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Now back to th HC and.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I Begain.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
I wasn't sure about I begain until I saw Rick
Perry on Joe Rogan's podcast Counting. I began, And from
what I understand, it's not a recreational drug.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
I began.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
It's not a fun trip.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
It's not a fun trip. From my understand it's it's
it needs to be done in a clinical environment with
people who know what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Yeah, yeah, I don't. It's not something that's going to
be abused by people in their apartment. It is apparently,
by all accounts, a very very bad trip that people
are willing to take to break PTSD or Michael's severe addiction.
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Apparently there is professional women softball. I did not know
that there is an opportunity for Bree Ellis. I suppose
if she wants to to continue to play and to
earn money doing so. You know, my background with softball
is softball was something that people played, you know, because
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you married a Hispanic woman and all her brothers were
in a league on the weekend and you all went
there and they would all barbecue and hit home runs,
and that was softball, or softball was for the girls,
back when you didn't like girls. So you know, we
made fun of softball. So one day I'm making a
softball joke and my friend Joel BArch, who's the head
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of the Houston Museum of Natural Science and somebody that
I love, on the door. He gets very angry with me.
He said, you don't know anything about softball. It's a
great sport and if you ever watched it, you would
love it. Okay, Joel, getting a little testy, didn't think
anything of it. A couple months later, we had a
living room. I had my home study studio set up
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in the living room. So on the weekend, I'm working
and my wife put on women's college softball. I don't
know why. It was very out of character for her.
She never leaves the TV on the background, but she
likes women's softball, and so I'm not paying attention to it.
But you can't help but notice how much fun it
was to watch, especially the way the lefties dragged every hit,
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the shortened field, the pop of how hard they throw
the ball, and so since then we watch it, and
that's it. I think it's fair fascin. Little did I
know so this Briellis comes from Houston. I guess she
got Player of the Year. I watched this clip by
a guy named John Boy that I follow of what
a stud she is. They won't pitch to her until
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they finally have her have it where the bases are loaded,
the game is tied, they have to pitch to her.
They throw her two balls because they still don't want
to pitch to her. Third pitch over the plate, first
pitch she's seen, that's a strike. It was at thirteen
or fourteen pitches at this point, and they'd hit her earlier.
She goes yard grand slam. It's a beautiful, beautiful moment. Yeah,
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we do. We have her mom, which is Molly. Molly.
Welcome to the program.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Thank you for having me, Michael. I appreciate it, and
thank you for all the wonderful and nice things you're
saying about football, because it really is. It's the greatest
sport out there right now.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Well, I'm sure hi, Elia's great. I just never played
it or watched it, you know. And then you find people.
It turns out that there are people that do these
things and enjoy them. And who am I? You know,
they had the best masters in Orange this past weekend,
and I'm just as delight as I can for Orange.
But most people probably don't even know that. So tell
me about I was curious about from a parent's perspective
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because my kids just played through school, and I always say,
you know, when you see a guy get called up
by the astros and here's their first time to play,
and the parents are crying. You don't understand how many
thousand hours they drove, sat on bleachers, eight concession stands
food that kid didn't get there on their own. Those
parents have invested a fortune of time and money, and
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they'd have it no other way. But you got to
be very proud of your daughter right.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Now, outrageously proud, outrageously proud of my daughter. And you're
right to get a child to the elite like that.
It's a whole family buy in. The whole family has
to be in, or it just doesn't. It doesn't work.
Because I was when she started playing softball years old
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here in Houston, and was.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
That up at the scrap yard or where did she play?
Speaker 2 (19:07):
No? She played for SBMSA, which is slam Branch Memorial
Sports Association. Yeests, that's where she started, and they had
a summer ball league called the Heat, and that's kind
of where she got her start. But her older sister,
Emily played softball also, so Brianna would go up to
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the tournaments with us and watch Emily play, and so
she had It wasn't just that she walked in and
sort of playing on a tournament team. She had a
lot of idea of how the tournament teams worked and
told her dad, that's that's what I want to do.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Now, I'm sorry say that again. Who was Emily?
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Emily is my older daughter?
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Oh, Okay, so she was playing on a tournament team
as well.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
That is correct. There's four years difference between Emily and Brianna,
and Emily was playing tournament ball, and Brianna would go
up to the tournaments with us and watch and she
would tell her dad that's what I want to do.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
And so she played all the way through.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Did she play for her school, Memorial High School? Yes,
she did.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
And how did they do?
Speaker 2 (20:19):
They? They did pretty well, we did pretty well.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
And then she went from there to now. I got
one email from somebody that knew her from Auburn, but
I saw the clip of her argisents she started Auburn.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
She did. She started Auburn her freshman and sophomore year.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Now is she eligible for NIL deals? She is, absolutely
said he wanted to sponsor her. I don't know if
it's too late. Is she a senior.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
She is a senior, Yes, but she can still do
work on stuff.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Okay, Well, he's got a barbecue rub he's working on
and he needs a spokesman for it. So we had
to negotiate rates and all that sort of stuff. He's
got a couple hundred dollars least a couple of dollars.
So does she intend to play professionally from here, Yes, Michael.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
She has already been drafted by the Talents through the
AUSL Pro Softball League. Now, there have been pro softball
leagues in the past, and I don't know the reasons,
but they would go for a little while and it
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just they couldn't take off. And they have spent the
past year and a half working hard with MLB and
ESPN to make this softball league have the correct funding,
the correct administration behind it. The marketing has been phenomenal.
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They have currently have four teams right now and they
are not assigned to a specific city, but they'll be
playing twenty four games all over the United States. All
of them will be on ESPN and that so that's huge.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
That right there alone is huge. Just having an outlet.
You know, NBA basketball wasn't on primetime TV all the
way through the seventies into the eighties, so just getting exposure.
I mean, I didn't I didn't know who Briellis was
before I saw all this, and then you see it
and you know, huh, I'd watch her play. That's pretty interesting.
So having an ESPN deal goes a long way. I
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don't know if you followed the Savannah Bananas, but they're
the biggest, you know, Harlem globetrotter thing to come out.
They're they're they're filling stadiums. I mean, they have become
the hot thing. A lot of it is capitalization. You
got to have money for a league. You gotta have
talent that wants to play. You got to have a
fan base, and then you got to have a TV
deal and that's a lot of thing. Look, football leagues fail.
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A lot of things fail, but but it sounds like
something that at least they're trying to make a go of.
And good for her she gets to play past college,
which is probably all she cares about, would be my guest.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Absolutely, it was really important for her that to what
we call continue to grow the game so that the
young girls that are playing that their goals aren't I
want to play D one college softball and that's it.
It's that I want to play for the pros, and
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I want to play with kat Osterman and I want
to play with Free Ellis. Those types of things, yes.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
But they're all right there, Molly, wait, wait right there.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
Sleep Because Michael Ferry, a.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Farrier Houston's own gree Ellis is named Player of the
Year after what I'm told statistically is the best year
offensively for any softball player in college softball history. She
batted at almost five hundred. She had twenty five home runs,
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slugging percentage off the charts, on base percentage almost two
thirds of the times she comes to bat, she gets
on base in one way or another, whether that's a
hit by pitch, I'm sure she had a lot of walks,
or of course she gets a hit. It's a pretty
pretty impressive thing. We tracked down her mother, Molly Ellis,
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who lives in Houston, and it's an interesting story. Molly.
There are lots of parents out there with young kids
playing sports, and some of them even playing softball. Do
you have just Emily and Brie. Yes, you know a
lot of things now that you didn't know then as
she's graduating college. What do you wish you had known
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when she started playing softball at six years old as
a mother?
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Oh, that is a great question, That's what I do.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
I asked that question. Heard the show before.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
No No, I am a long time listener, but have
been playing at Linda Dieter is one of our hardcore listeners,
who I guess is a good friend of yours and
sorority sister. Yes, all of that is. All of that
is true. So I think the things that I wish
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I had known back then was, you know, at ten
and twelve years old, everyone thinks that their kid is
going to go play in college, and we played tournaments
every single weekend. I probably would have, you know, eased
up and had more free time. And you know, it
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doesn't all have to belf off self off, but that's
also led by your kid. But your kid leads the road.
So if you're the one, you know, saying, come on,
we've got to go to practice, then you know it's
too much. She's the one, come on, we got to
go to practice. You know, it's a little bit different.
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But I think as they get older, the advice that
I would give to Molly Ellis and the other ones
is do a lot more research on the colleges and
the coaches. Ask questions, ask others, find out how many
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assistant coaches they've had, and you know, are they constantly
coming and going. Those types of things are really important
because at that time it's all a fairy tale. Michael
and you get caught up in everything and most the parents,
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we're all looking at the schools and education and all
that kind of stuff. But really focus also on who's
going to be coaching your child and make sure you
know a little bit more than just the you know,
nice sweet things that they're telling you if they're recruiting you.
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That's that's my biggest advice.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
So I looked this up and apparently Oklahoma is the powerhouse.
You know, they've they've won in five years, I think
four or five times, but Arkansas is a very strong
team as well. Was obviously she's player of the Year
and the dominant player in college softball this year. But
maybe she wasn't a couple of years ago. Was there
a reason she didn't go to Oklahoma?
Speaker 2 (27:40):
She wasn't interested. There are reasons that girls go to Oklahoma,
and she just wasn't interested in that. And at Oklahoma
it is and the tensity at a higher level than
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even Brianna practices at and she school is very important
to her. She really smart and education, what is her
major data and analytics.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
And what does she think she wants to do long
term post ball?
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Well, originally when she went into this, she wanted to
do the data and stats for the Astros. She our
whole family, but she in particular is a huge Astros fan.
But she has since turned her attention into not only
playing softball in the Pro League, but helping to grow
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the Pro League in the back office and eventually making
that her her career and doing data and analytics for
softball and things like that. She also would love to
be a broadcaster for softball, called softball games. So I
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think after she leaves, she's going to talk to Arkansas
because the Pro League is only three months, so she'll
do something else, and that hopefully would be calling softball games,
doing something else sports wise with the university and you know,
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other universities somewhere in the SEC.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Did she play year round as a kid, because that's
a battle. I hear Crockett is obsessed with soccer and
we have prevented him from playing year round because he
had to get high grades this semester and finish, you know,
and take the Act and all that. And he was
furious at us because all his friends play year round
and I don't think it's healthy to play you around.
I think it's important to break to break that up.
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For repetitive injuries and stuff. But anyway, did she play around.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
She did. She did since she was really, you know,
six or eight years old. Now, her father Ron said
to both the girls, Okay, you cannot just play softball.
You have I want you to play all the sports
before you pick one, and if you can't find a team,
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I will coach you. So the girls played basketball, they swam,
Brianna I think played volleyball one year. They both played soccer,
and Ron coach both of the girls soccer teams basketball teams,
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so that that was really important. Now, Michael, really just
depends on what your kid wants to do after high school.
Because reality is there's a place for everybody. There's a
place for a kid that really wants to play that
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maybe just doesn't have the talent. There are teams for that.
There are teams for I'm really good and I really
want to play, but I don't want to play year round.
There's just summer ball leagues. And then there are teams
that I am very talented, I want to play year
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round and I want to play in college, and there's
leagues for that. So there's leagues for everyone. College has
co ed and not co ed softball. What is it
called when you don't play professional? The oh you know
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the college where they go and play in college, the
different sports, the rex sports. They can play in college Interviewal,
thank you, Michael. They can play in college with your friends.
So there's a place for everyone. But in high school,
if your goal is to play D one softball or
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anything like that, you got to play year round. And
just quick note because I hear the music when high
school ball starts, travel ball ends. So
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
What happened?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Something must have happened.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
It's not you, it's me.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
You're giving me the it's not you, it's me routine
I invented.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
It's not you, it's me. Nobody tells me it's them,
not me. If it's anybody, it's me. George, it's you.
You're a damn right, it's me.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Let's start with a new polling that shows the Democratic
Party has preached an all time low in popularity. The
latest NBC News national poll finds that a majority of
registered voters fifty five percent have a negative view of
the party, while twenty percent just over a quarter of
registered voters heavy pulsitive view of the party. That's the
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party's lowest rating in NBC News polling dating back to
nineteen ninety Meanwhile, though a new CNNSSRS poll finds the
Democratic Party's favorability rating at just twenty nine percent, a
record low going back to nineteen ninety two, and a
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drop of twenty points since January of twenty twenty one.
What's more, just sixty three percent of Democrats and Democratic
leaning Independents have a favorable view of their own party,
down nine points from January and eighteen points from the
start of the Biden administration.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
I know good.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
You know good, Baby, you know good. I just need
to say one thing I've been meaning to mention this.
A woman whose emails Joy eighty nine to ninety five,
thank you for sending this about softball's player of the
year being from Houston. Her name is Bree Ellis. So
(02:40):
I went and looked up how good she was the
best season at the back of any softball player in history,
batting average of four eighty seven, on base percentage of
six point fifty nine, slugging percentage of one point two
two twenty five home runs. I don't know who they
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were playing, but it's one of the playoff games. And
a guy that I follow named John Boy has a
bit on it. J O m bo Wi. It's good storyteller,
just very entertaining sports analysis. And the first ten pitches
they pitch Briellis or they set up outside, they're not
letting her. They're not going to pitch to her. Games
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tied into the game, bases loaded, they can't walk her
now because or hit her. They hit her one time, sir,
fourth time at bat, they can't walk her or hit her,
or they'll have to or they'll lose on that basis.
So they throw her two balls and then they throw
a strike and she hits a grand slam, sweetest, smoothest
(03:46):
swing I've ever seen in softball anyway. So she's from
the Houston area. I'm sure somebody we know knows that family,
and I just wanted to bring that to your attention.
Congrats to this young lady. She is a stud, pure
and simple. She is amazing and that's incredible. Let's go
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to Erica.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Erica.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
You're on the Michael Berry Show, Sweethart. We were talking
about Dan Patrick wanting to outlaw THHC in the state
of Texas. Your thoughts.
Speaker 6 (04:15):
My thoughts are Michael that I am totally against this bill.
I just think it's kind of Dan Patrick being a
modern day Carrie Nation. I'm a woman over sixty and
I use it regularly to help me sleep, and I
think there's a lot of other women who do that.
It's not so much to be high, but to help
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with those type of ailments. And tell me what you
can say on this, I use it's a low level
THHC and then it's by one brand is Wana, one
brand is Wild, and it's get shipped in from states
where it's legal, and it's very low THHC one one
(05:00):
milligram or two milligram, and then the rest will be
CBG CBD.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Yeah, so balance, how do you get it? How do
you get it shipped to you? They're willing to ship
to you.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
Because because it's a hemp product, it can ship legally.
If it would be the Delta line, so that can
ship legally. And I would rather go to a local store,
but we're going to be sending money to the Blue
State if it's all transitions through. But these products can
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also be purchased at local, local vape doors as well
as long as you know, yes.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Erica, thank you, thank you for sharing that. Because that's
a voice, it's not her. There are more people using
some sort of medicinal product.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
You know, everybody hates the recreational user. I don't know
why they don't hate the recreational drinker. Seems silly, but
everybody hates the recreational user. There are a lot of
people who are using this product and that to this
earth product in a medicinal fashion. These are not junkies.
These are people that are using this in a medicinal fashion.
(06:10):
You know. I'll tell you that the people who are
responsible for creating the greatest hatred of pot, and they
can't help themselves, is the people who smoke out in public.
The people whose goal it is to walk the streets
in a busy town and smoke a joint. Look at me,
I'm smoking a joint, smoking to joint outside. I can
smoke a joint outside. People hate them, including me. I
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hate them, and I'm gonna say garsmoker. The smell of
smoke is such a vile, nasty smell, and people smell
it and they are immediately enraged. They hate those people.
So their idea, which is irrational, but this is what
happens is I want it illegal. I want it so
that I don't ever have to walk through that and
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smell like that again. I don't ever want to smell
like that again. It's amazing in DC and how if
you go into a CVS or if you walk past
a bus stop, there are people who reak of it. Now.
One of the things Colorado has done to deal with
this having legalized it because there's a dispensary on every corner.
Is you cannot smoke in public. You can vape because
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that doesn't seem to bother people, and of course you
can do your gummies, but you cannot smoke a joint
out in public, and they do ticket people. They do
take that very seriously. That's what drives people to hate
any marijuana product is the people who smoke out in public.
That's number one, and then the second one is the
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little old ladies. Because I get this a lot to go, Michael.
People won't want to work if they got marijuana.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
They just won't want to work.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
I have news for you. People either want to work
or they don't do You know how many people get
up in the morning, crack a beer and don't leave
all day. People that don't want to work will find
something to do to fill the time and dull their brain.
It's not that their brain is dulled and therefore I
won't go to work. It's a person that starts with
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a problem, not a problem that finds a person. Rick, Mike, Mark,
Josh hang tight, sorry, Michael Barry Show. So what does
Bree Ellis do when she graduated? She's have to hang
it up. That seems sort of unfortunate. Yeah, she can
go coach. I get that, but you know, I'm not
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for creating a league just so somebody's got somewhere to go.
I think the WNBA it doesn't interest me, but obviously
it interests somebody. I think Caitlyn Clark's been good for it,
and then that little thug Angel Reese needs. The problem is
the league was a bunch of thugs before she got there,
and then she gets there. Now it's a bunch of
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white haters, and that's all it is. They're just mad
that this Larry Bird white girl is coming in there
and dominating, and they're angry about it. It's because we
black women. No, it's because you're thugs and the fans
of the w NBA don't identify with you. Okay, you're
all a bunch of fat, angry lesbians. And this young
woman comes in who looks like the girl next door
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and everybody can finally identify with that, and and you
don't like it, well, suck it up, buttercup or whatever
your your name. Your name is Angel Reese Rick, you're
on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Go ahead, sir, Yeah, I normally agree with Lieutenant Dan
on those things, but not on this one. And I'm
just gonna preface this, but I seen it. I've seen
the horrible side of addiction. Uh But I was teaching
Sunday school for my kids and some other kids a
number of years ago, and it was a little girl
and her mother was was just a horrible not a
horrible person, I'm gonna say, it's just terribly addicted that
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hard liquor. I mean every freaking day. And a few
years ago I came across her, I met her and
she was she'd been totally sober for about a year
or so. And asked her what did it? And she
was taking some low grade uh CBD oil, three to
four drops under the tongue. And asked her, waiting, if
you take more, does the work there? Saying no, there's
no need to. And it took about six months, but
(10:07):
it just the desire went away, you know, And I
just think that's an amazing story there. Of course, you know,
other folks use it brother things, and I don't want
my kids being potheads and you know, drunks and stuff
like that, so I'm against all forms of addiction.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
But I think we sent it.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Dan's going barking up the wrong tree.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
This time, I do too. And here's the problem with this, Rick,
is there was nobody out here who was saying, you know,
you've got we have a biennial session every two years,
damn it. Get the THHC off the streets. There might
have been some neurotic mom in Dayton or Liberty, or
(10:45):
maybe somebody in Midland. Okay, sure, but you've got a
lot of reliable Republican voters who are using this in
one way or another, who are going to say, wait
a second, I didn't send you to Austin to come
beat down my door and make my life worse. You
got a lot of people living in the final years
(11:07):
of their life. You got a lot of people in
extreme pain. You got a lot of people without much money,
and they don't have the opportunity for all this. You
got a lot of people who got off of alcohol
and use this. Why are you gonna go poke them
in the eye? Why do that? Was this so damned important?
Is this your legacy?
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Is this?
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Because I'm gonna tell you what it's gonna do, It's
gonna cost Republicans the majority. This is what happens when
you've been the majority party for too long. You go
find fifty to fifty divisive issues that nobody was talking about.
You make it your biggest issue. You say, I'm gonna
get this passed on the strength of mind. I'm gonna
tell you this, I'm gonna work my ass off against you.
I am. I'm gonna work very hard against you. And
(11:48):
that's unfortunate because we're agreed on ninety five percent of issues.
But when you elevate one issue like this, I'm gonna
wish Abbot. I wish this was Abbot's issue, because then
we'd know nothing to be done. But if if this
this is not your swan song, this is not your
strongest issue. Getting the lottery Commission shut down and sent
(12:12):
to to regulatory that was great, that needed to be done.
But picking this fight it's it's gonna turn off a
lot of people who are regular voters, who are going
to say, you know, I don't like the Democrats, but
the Republicans did this. I'm gonna punish them. It's gonna
happen if this passes, that is going to happen. This
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is how you lose. People ask me all the time,
how do we lose races when everybody I know is
reasonable because we take stupid issues like this and we
make it the biggest issue, and our people go. And
the thing about it is people that agree with Dan
Patrick dan Patrick on nine to nine percent of issues
will go, you know what this is that this is
(12:54):
Mike Pence level crap. This is the same mindset that
got us Amy Coney Barrett. When Amy Coney Barrett was nominated,
I said.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Woll whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
She is not what we want. She's against abortion, Michael,
She's gonna keep the abortion, okay. And then when she's
done that, what's she gonna do. She's against abortion. And
then when she's done that, she's will against abortion. And
what did she do? She voted on abortion. Now what
is she doing? She is against Trump on every issue.
She's a reliable devote but she's against abortion because we
picked one issue and made it the only issue. And
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anybody who questioned that, anybody who questioned that, You've got
to build a coalition of fifty one percent of people.
And part of that means there are issues that you
may not agree with the next guy on, but you
don't burn the house down over it. You just don't
let's go to Mark Mark. You're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
Go ahead, sir, Hey Michael Berry, first time, long time.
You veered off course a few times. So I'm gonna
come back to the center of female singers, female bangers.
I'm a child of the seventies and eighties, just like
you are. So you'll remember leader Ford of course, maybe yes,
(14:02):
lead Afford, glorious old Roden from the Cranberrys. She was
amazing before her insignificant and before her death. And then
uh Chester Bennington from Lincoln Park, who died a few
years ago, has been replaced by a female singer named
(14:24):
Emily Armstrong and she is amazing, an amazing replacement.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Now back to th HC and.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
I Begain.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
I wasn't sure about I begain until I saw Rick
Perry on Joe Rogan's podcast Counting. I began, And from
what I understand, it's not a recreational drug.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
I began.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
It's not a fun trip.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
It's not a fun trip. From my understand it's it's
it needs to be done in a clinical environment with
people who know what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Yeah, yeah, I don't. It's not something that's going to
be abused by people in their apartment. It is apparently,
by all accounts, a very very bad trip that people
are willing to take to break PTSD or Michael's severe addiction.
(15:23):
Apparently there is professional women softball. I did not know
that there is an opportunity for Bree Ellis. I suppose
if she wants to to continue to play and to
earn money doing so. You know, my background with softball
is softball was something that people played, you know, because
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you married a Hispanic woman and all her brothers were
in a league on the weekend and you all went
there and they would all barbecue and hit home runs,
and that was softball, or softball was for the girls,
back when you didn't like girls. So you know, we
made fun of softball. So one day I'm making a
softball joke and my friend Joel BArch, who's the head
(16:10):
of the Houston Museum of Natural Science and somebody that
I love, on the door. He gets very angry with me.
He said, you don't know anything about softball. It's a
great sport and if you ever watched it, you would
love it. Okay, Joel, getting a little testy, didn't think
anything of it. A couple months later, we had a
living room. I had my home study studio set up
(16:30):
in the living room. So on the weekend, I'm working
and my wife put on women's college softball. I don't
know why. It was very out of character for her.
She never leaves the TV on the background, but she
likes women's softball, and so I'm not paying attention to it.
But you can't help but notice how much fun it
was to watch, especially the way the lefties dragged every hit,
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the shortened field, the pop of how hard they throw
the ball, and so since then we watch it, and
that's it. I think it's fair fascin. Little did I
know so this Briellis comes from Houston. I guess she
got Player of the Year. I watched this clip by
a guy named John Boy that I follow of what
a stud she is. They won't pitch to her until
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they finally have her have it where the bases are loaded,
the game is tied, they have to pitch to her.
They throw her two balls because they still don't want
to pitch to her. Third pitch over the plate, first
pitch she's seen, that's a strike. It was at thirteen
or fourteen pitches at this point, and they'd hit her earlier.
She goes yard grand slam. It's a beautiful, beautiful moment. Yeah,
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we do. We have her mom, which is Molly. Molly.
Welcome to the program.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Thank you for having me, Michael. I appreciate it, and
thank you for all the wonderful and nice things you're
saying about football, because it really is. It's the greatest
sport out there right now.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Well, I'm sure hi, Elia's great. I just never played
it or watched it, you know. And then you find people.
It turns out that there are people that do these
things and enjoy them. And who am I? You know,
they had the best masters in Orange this past weekend,
and I'm just as delight as I can for Orange.
But most people probably don't even know that. So tell
me about I was curious about from a parent's perspective
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because my kids just played through school, and I always say,
you know, when you see a guy get called up
by the astros and here's their first time to play,
and the parents are crying. You don't understand how many
thousand hours they drove, sat on bleachers, eight concession stands
food that kid didn't get there on their own. Those
parents have invested a fortune of time and money, and
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they'd have it no other way. But you got to
be very proud of your daughter right.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Now, outrageously proud, outrageously proud of my daughter. And you're
right to get a child to the elite like that.
It's a whole family buy in. The whole family has
to be in, or it just doesn't. It doesn't work.
Because I was when she started playing softball years old
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here in Houston, and was.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
That up at the scrap yard or where did she play?
Speaker 2 (19:07):
No? She played for SBMSA, which is slam Branch Memorial
Sports Association. Yeests, that's where she started, and they had
a summer ball league called the Heat, and that's kind
of where she got her start. But her older sister,
Emily played softball also, so Brianna would go up to
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the tournaments with us and watch Emily play, and so
she had It wasn't just that she walked in and
sort of playing on a tournament team. She had a
lot of idea of how the tournament teams worked and
told her dad, that's that's what I want to do.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Now, I'm sorry say that again. Who was Emily?
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Emily is my older daughter?
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Oh, Okay, so she was playing on a tournament team
as well.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
That is correct. There's four years difference between Emily and Brianna,
and Emily was playing tournament ball, and Brianna would go
up to the tournaments with us and watch and she
would tell her dad that's what I want to do.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
And so she played all the way through.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Did she play for her school, Memorial High School? Yes,
she did.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
And how did they do?
Speaker 2 (20:19):
They? They did pretty well, we did pretty well.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
And then she went from there to now. I got
one email from somebody that knew her from Auburn, but
I saw the clip of her argisents she started Auburn.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
She did. She started Auburn her freshman and sophomore year.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Now is she eligible for NIL deals? She is, absolutely
said he wanted to sponsor her. I don't know if
it's too late. Is she a senior.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
She is a senior, Yes, but she can still do
work on stuff.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Okay, Well, he's got a barbecue rub he's working on
and he needs a spokesman for it. So we had
to negotiate rates and all that sort of stuff. He's
got a couple hundred dollars least a couple of dollars.
So does she intend to play professionally from here, Yes, Michael.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
She has already been drafted by the Talents through the
AUSL Pro Softball League. Now, there have been pro softball
leagues in the past, and I don't know the reasons,
but they would go for a little while and it
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just they couldn't take off. And they have spent the
past year and a half working hard with MLB and
ESPN to make this softball league have the correct funding,
the correct administration behind it. The marketing has been phenomenal.
(21:50):
They have currently have four teams right now and they
are not assigned to a specific city, but they'll be
playing twenty four games all over the United States. All
of them will be on ESPN and that so that's huge.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
That right there alone is huge. Just having an outlet.
You know, NBA basketball wasn't on primetime TV all the
way through the seventies into the eighties, so just getting exposure.
I mean, I didn't I didn't know who Briellis was
before I saw all this, and then you see it
and you know, huh, I'd watch her play. That's pretty interesting.
So having an ESPN deal goes a long way. I
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don't know if you followed the Savannah Bananas, but they're
the biggest, you know, Harlem globetrotter thing to come out.
They're they're they're filling stadiums. I mean, they have become
the hot thing. A lot of it is capitalization. You
got to have money for a league. You gotta have
talent that wants to play. You got to have a
fan base, and then you got to have a TV
deal and that's a lot of thing. Look, football leagues fail.
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A lot of things fail, but but it sounds like
something that at least they're trying to make a go of.
And good for her she gets to play past college,
which is probably all she cares about, would be my guest.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Absolutely, it was really important for her that to what
we call continue to grow the game so that the
young girls that are playing that their goals aren't I
want to play D one college softball and that's it.
It's that I want to play for the pros, and
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I want to play with kat Osterman and I want
to play with Free Ellis. Those types of things, yes.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
But they're all right there, Molly, wait, wait right there.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
Sleep Because Michael Ferry, a.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Farrier Houston's own gree Ellis is named Player of the
Year after what I'm told statistically is the best year
offensively for any softball player in college softball history. She
batted at almost five hundred. She had twenty five home runs,
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slugging percentage off the charts, on base percentage almost two
thirds of the times she comes to bat, she gets
on base in one way or another, whether that's a
hit by pitch, I'm sure she had a lot of walks,
or of course she gets a hit. It's a pretty
pretty impressive thing. We tracked down her mother, Molly Ellis,
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who lives in Houston, and it's an interesting story. Molly.
There are lots of parents out there with young kids
playing sports, and some of them even playing softball. Do
you have just Emily and Brie. Yes, you know a
lot of things now that you didn't know then as
she's graduating college. What do you wish you had known
(24:50):
when she started playing softball at six years old as
a mother?
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Oh, that is a great question, That's what I do.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
I asked that question. Heard the show before.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
No No, I am a long time listener, but have
been playing at Linda Dieter is one of our hardcore listeners,
who I guess is a good friend of yours and
sorority sister. Yes, all of that is. All of that
is true. So I think the things that I wish
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I had known back then was, you know, at ten
and twelve years old, everyone thinks that their kid is
going to go play in college, and we played tournaments
every single weekend. I probably would have, you know, eased
up and had more free time. And you know, it
(25:50):
doesn't all have to belf off self off, but that's
also led by your kid. But your kid leads the road.
So if you're the one, you know, saying, come on,
we've got to go to practice, then you know it's
too much. She's the one, come on, we got to
go to practice. You know, it's a little bit different.
(26:12):
But I think as they get older, the advice that
I would give to Molly Ellis and the other ones
is do a lot more research on the colleges and
the coaches. Ask questions, ask others, find out how many
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assistant coaches they've had, and you know, are they constantly
coming and going. Those types of things are really important
because at that time it's all a fairy tale. Michael
and you get caught up in everything and most the parents,
(26:53):
we're all looking at the schools and education and all
that kind of stuff. But really focus also on who's
going to be coaching your child and make sure you
know a little bit more than just the you know,
nice sweet things that they're telling you if they're recruiting you.
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That's that's my biggest advice.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
So I looked this up and apparently Oklahoma is the powerhouse.
You know, they've they've won in five years, I think
four or five times, but Arkansas is a very strong
team as well. Was obviously she's player of the Year
and the dominant player in college softball this year. But
maybe she wasn't a couple of years ago. Was there
a reason she didn't go to Oklahoma?
Speaker 2 (27:40):
She wasn't interested. There are reasons that girls go to Oklahoma,
and she just wasn't interested in that. And at Oklahoma
it is and the tensity at a higher level than
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even Brianna practices at and she school is very important
to her. She really smart and education, what is her
major data and analytics.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
And what does she think she wants to do long
term post ball?
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Well, originally when she went into this, she wanted to
do the data and stats for the Astros. She our
whole family, but she in particular is a huge Astros fan.
But she has since turned her attention into not only
playing softball in the Pro League, but helping to grow
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the Pro League in the back office and eventually making
that her her career and doing data and analytics for
softball and things like that. She also would love to
be a broadcaster for softball, called softball games. So I
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think after she leaves, she's going to talk to Arkansas
because the Pro League is only three months, so she'll
do something else, and that hopefully would be calling softball games,
doing something else sports wise with the university and you know,
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other universities somewhere in the SEC.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Did she play year round as a kid, because that's
a battle. I hear Crockett is obsessed with soccer and
we have prevented him from playing year round because he
had to get high grades this semester and finish, you know,
and take the Act and all that. And he was
furious at us because all his friends play year round
and I don't think it's healthy to play you around.
I think it's important to break to break that up.
(29:56):
For repetitive injuries and stuff. But anyway, did she play around.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
She did. She did since she was really, you know,
six or eight years old. Now, her father Ron said
to both the girls, Okay, you cannot just play softball.
You have I want you to play all the sports
before you pick one, and if you can't find a team,
(30:24):
I will coach you. So the girls played basketball, they swam,
Brianna I think played volleyball one year. They both played soccer,
and Ron coach both of the girls soccer teams basketball teams,
(30:45):
so that that was really important. Now, Michael, really just
depends on what your kid wants to do after high school.
Because reality is there's a place for everybody. There's a
place for a kid that really wants to play that
(31:05):
maybe just doesn't have the talent. There are teams for that.
There are teams for I'm really good and I really
want to play, but I don't want to play year round.
There's just summer ball leagues. And then there are teams
that I am very talented, I want to play year
(31:26):
round and I want to play in college, and there's
leagues for that. So there's leagues for everyone. College has
co ed and not co ed softball. What is it
called when you don't play professional? The oh you know
(31:47):
the college where they go and play in college, the
different sports, the rex sports. They can play in college Interviewal,
thank you, Michael. They can play in college with your friends.
So there's a place for everyone. But in high school,
if your goal is to play D one softball or
(32:10):
anything like that, you got to play year round. And
just quick note because I hear the music when high
school ball starts, travel ball ends. So
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