July 14, 2025 • 47 mins
Coach B and the Coachella Valley Sports Report brings you all the sports action for the Valley, by the Valley!
The Saturday, July 12, 2025 episode featured an exciting lineup of guests including: Palm Springs Power Players Andrew Rivas and Noah Arreola; and Palm Springs Power Broadcasters Charlie, Stephen and Johnny.
Coach B has been heard on FOX Sports affiliates like AM1350/Riverside, 910 AM/Phoenix, and 98.9 FM/Las Vegas and continues to deliver exclusive coverage of everything sports in the Coachella Valley, now on FOX Sports 1270 AM/Palm Springs.
Subscribe to the Coachella Valley Sports Report on FOX Sports 1270 AM/Palm Springs on the iHeartRadio app and stay connected to all the local action!
The Saturday, July 12, 2025 episode featured an exciting lineup of guests including: Palm Springs Power Players Andrew Rivas and Noah Arreola; and Palm Springs Power Broadcasters Charlie, Stephen and Johnny.
Coach B has been heard on FOX Sports affiliates like AM1350/Riverside, 910 AM/Phoenix, and 98.9 FM/Las Vegas and continues to deliver exclusive coverage of everything sports in the Coachella Valley, now on FOX Sports 1270 AM/Palm Springs.
Subscribe to the Coachella Valley Sports Report on FOX Sports 1270 AM/Palm Springs on the iHeartRadio app and stay connected to all the local action!
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Speaker 3 (00:53):
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the honor and the privilege of hosting their games all
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Speaker 2 (01:30):
Coachella Valley Sports Report.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Gentlemen, we have the broadcasters in studio for the Palm
Springs Power. Gentlemen, please introduce yourself to the Fox Sports
Radio audience.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Hello, I'm Johnny Maldonado. It's my first summer with the
Palm Springs Power, and tonight I'll be doing the play
by play for a game two of the in the
Valley Legends.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
There you go.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
Yeah, I'm Stephen Buckston. I grew up out of here.
This is actually my second season with the Power. I
worked with the Winner League this past Winner as well,
so been here for three seasons. This is my first
time working with you guys with Fox Sports. Yeah, it's
been a blast.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Now the voice man, don't try to take my job,
all of you guys, so don't try to take you
come in here sounding smooth.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
So and then go ahead and introduce yourself.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
Hell, I'm Charlie Gonzalez and I'm going to be the
public address announcer for tonight's game and the Palmsrus Power
on the Cusper. There's seven hundredth franchise victory and if
they get it tonight, it's going to be a special
special night.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Indeed, oh my goodness, seven hundred wins.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
That is something now, one thing that I love and
we we we have the team on before. You guys
are just like the players. You're looking to get to
the next level as well, and you rotate. So that's
one thing that's unique, and I don't think people understand
that is you you guys are not necessarily doing the
same thing every night. How exciting is that they'll learn
a little bit about everything about the Palm Springs Power.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
I mean, I think it's good if you're trying to
get into the sports business in general, because you know,
you try a little bit of everything. You know, do
the public announcement maybe you know, broadcasting, maybe not into
it unless you like public addressing the names, you know,
calling out the players. But I mean you get more experienced,
you know, like if you know better what you call
the it'll be a lot easier to apply for jobs
since you have these skills, right, So it'll be a
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lot of help in the future, I think absolutely.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
And yeah, it's honestly, like after last night, I can
officially say I've done every single job in the stadium.
The one thing I hadn't done is go to pick
up food for like the postgame meals. I actually have
not sold tickets, but I've done just about everything else.
I even I made the schedule for us for like
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broadcasting and just being able to sort out the the
innings and and the spots and play by play PA
all that and when so when we're running the PSCL
that we didn't have like the extra couple guys for
the for the main power broadcast days. But since that's
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all over, since everyone's all in one group, now we've
got the extra couple of roles and it's nice having
the couple extra hands. And I just never like realized
how how much work it was going to be to
disperse all those roles evenly while trying to get everyone
a couple of days off here and there.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Right, and then Charlie explaining the PSEL, explain that because
I know you've articulated to me before. So there's the
Palm Springs Power and then there's like other teams that
play all throughout the day. So I mean, you guys
are doing baseball all day.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
Yeah. So the Power Summer Collegiate League is a comprise
of eleven teams. The Lumberjacks won it this year, and
they play usually on just two fields, but occasionally three,
the main field at around nine am, the hybrid turf
field across the way at eight thirty, and then sometimes
at the beginning and the very end of the season,
the high school field which is across the street, and
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those teams they play nearly every day. Usually it's it's
six teams get to play per day at most, and
then the playoff comes around. Each team gets an automatic
bid and there there's a buy for the high seed,
and then it continues along the way, and this year
the team with the best record end up winning it all.
But we would have the two guys do the games
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in the morning and have one person scoring it on
the other fields, and then have maybe the last two,
if they're available, come in and do the Power game
that same night, and then maybe one who worked in
the morning would also stay. So there's five of us,
we were able to rotate it evenly. It's a lot
of work, but it was a lot of fun too
because you get to broadcast not just over YouTube, on
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the radio and also through the PSCL phone. There's a
lot of things or you learned how to do and
like hiccups we encountered along the way.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Right, And is there something like an aha moment where
you said, I didn't think of this because when you could,
I'll tell you doing a radio show and running a
radio station, it's it's a big difference. So was there
something you think you thinking, how does Andrew do this?
And Andrew Starkey is the owner of the team, you
think this, how does he deal with all of this?
Speaker 4 (06:02):
I would sorry, I would say maybe trying to do
with the scheduling for the PSCO and the Power because
I feel like, you know, it could conflict sometimes. But
then again, they do play in the mornings and the
Power play at night. But there are times where the
PSCO players do get the call up and to the Power.
So for example, if they pitched like maybe a couple
of days before, you might have to like kind of
like schedule that around their pitching schedule.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Oh wow, So I mean it can be a.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Little I would say different, only because they do pitch
for their team on the PSL and then maybe the
palm streams power doing it in the arm for example,
you know. But you know, I would say that's probably
like the one of the things that Park could make
it a little, you know, difficult to work around with
their pitching schedule and knowing that they pitched right before
coming up, right.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
I didn't realize that they can pitch for them and
then they're they're trying to get on the Power as well.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
So it's kind of unique seeing that. I mean, it's
pretty cool though they enjoy doing it. From what being
seen around.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Right, it was there AHA moment for either to you, gentlemen.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
I mean, honestly, like the only I don't know if
it was as much of an aha moment, But there
were a couple of times where you just see something
you hadn't seen before, like the Power played against the
PSCL All Star team on July fourth.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
What a game. What a game.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Honestly, that was the most fun I'd ever had calling
a game in my life. Right, and in the eighth inning,
actually it was a play involving the two guys we've
got waiting for the next segment. Andrew Reevos was on
third base and there was a ball put in play.
He's staying at third base. And Zach Durham, my color
guy for the night, and I were in the booth
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having no idea what's going on because they they waived
Andrew home yes, and so we're wondering what happens. I
talked to one of the umpires after the game, and
I realized that it was called a bock because you're
not allowed to have the You're not allowed to have
the pitcher on the mound at all, not even like
on the rubber, but on the dirt without the ball,
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and they let him get all the way to the
rubber and he's just standing there without the ball. I
didn't even realize it. I didn't see that happen. I
was trying to write some stuff down because I thought
the play was over. But it's just that kind of
thing where it's just a wacky, zany, just preposterous play
to end an incredible game. Not end, but like just
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how that game broke open, and how that kind of
top the lid off of a game where the power
were essentially playing the heel in front of a couple
thousand people. They were the bad guys that night. Really,
it was really entertaining to watch. It was an awesome
dynamic to see. But you just never think you're gonna
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see that kind of thing. And I mean, it's not
every day that I learned something new about baseball. I
feel like I've I've called a couple hundred games, I've
watched a million games in my life. I've been all
around it all the time, and I almost never have
to actually like learn something new.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Right, it was a great game.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
What about you, Charlie, Well, yeah, that Julian I thought
that play he was talking about that the third baseman
got in the way of him running, and you know
how they you can't the catcher can't do that at
home plate when someone's coming home. So that was my
initial thought. And then I spoke to Tyler more after
because we instead of the two usual two man crew,
we had a four umpire crew, and he yeah, he
told me it was a bock. He didn't have the
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ball on the mound. So but that that brought home
the tying run and then the walk off to win
at four to three, and then we had the spectacular
fireworks show. And that was something where if it was
a bock, it was very subtle, and it was I
had I missed it as well. Right, And that was
the last game we had with the working scoreboard. That's
gonna get fixed hopefully pretty soon.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Got you and tell me a little bit about so
I know you were talking about this on air, the
Power of gotta went out to get into the playoffs, right.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
Yeah, so the Power right now, I'm pretty sure the
records what nineteen and five officially, or is it we're
at twenty one and five on the year, Ok, twenty
one in five. It's the first This is a team
that just does not lose. There's been a couple of
Staples in the seat in the past decade or so
in the Valley, the PSCL All Star Game against the
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Power being the best game of the year, which it
always is. The last couple of years it went PSCL
wins it in the last inning, then walk off. Last
year the Power have a Leydening comeback to win at
six to five and then a walk off. This year,
the other Staples, Casey Dill, does not lose games. He
has something like it's approaching a nine hundred win percentage.
Speaker 7 (10:33):
With the Power.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
And this is the first year since twenty twenty one.
I want to say it was either twenty one or
twenty two that the Power lost five games in total.
So they're sitting at at five losses right now. They
don't have to win out, but they have to pretty
do pretty close to win out to get the number
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one or two seed in the CPCL, the California and
Premier Collegiate League, which would give them a playoff spot.
And it's not a position that this team has been in.
It's a lot of the guys are returners. Andrew Revoss,
he'll talk to him, he played with the Power last season.
And then there's a myriad of guys Mark Kirklan Dalton Thomas,
Mike Gonzalez, Johnny Young. They've all been there for years
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and years and years, but this is a spot that
they haven't been in. So it's essentially playing playoff baseball
for the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Right right. We'll see it.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
So on the playoffs, someone explained to me, because I
see on the schedule is it's just two games for
the playoffs.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
It'll be a three game series. As long as the
Power make it. It will be a game at home
for the Power, and then there should be two games
on the road. It'll be split between I'm pretty sure
it's split between who hosts which game, but it will
be at a road site and it'll be a doubleheader.
So let's say the Power win game one and then
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win game two. There's no need to play game three.
But last season they lost game one, then they won
Game two in a late and then come back and
then Noah Blife walked it off with a home run
to win it and win the CPCL Championship for the
second year in a row.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Back to back. So they are going for three. So
I'm excited about that. So that's good stuff.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Tell me.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
I know we were pressed up against the clock, but
tell me a little bit about your your journey, gentlemen,
How did you guys get here? I know you're a
local guy. What got you guys here? What got you
interested in the Palm Springs Power?
Speaker 4 (12:23):
I would say when I was in school at Chico State.
You know, I started writing for the school newspaper and
then covered sports and then kind of click that. You know,
I enjoy being around the games because I've done basketball, softball,
and baseball. I would say softless, more exciting. Well, I
wouldn't say more exciting, but there's a lot of actually
going on with like the where they were like they'd
run out the bucks trying to hit the ball. It's
pretty pretty wild stuff that happens there. But I would
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say I enjoy, you know, being around the games.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
It's fun.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
I grew up playing baseball my whole life too. It
was just trying to get the confidence to do it right.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
And I could tell what you call.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
I could tell you played because some of the things
you guys say they framed the pitch or it's above me.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
I was a basketball and football players.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
So I'll keep it short. I know we're kind of
pressed up against the clock. I grew up out here.
I went to Xavier, and I never had any sort
of thought that I would ever be doing any sort
of media thing. I had no idea what I wanted
to do out of high school. I was a computer
science major going into College of the Desert. Then calculus
kind of broke me. So I decided, and my coach
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throughout high school had told me like every day, Hey,
you need to go into some sort of broadcast. You
need to do something like that because I wouldn't stop
running my.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Mouth right been there.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
So I decided maybe this whole journalism thing isn't that bad.
I switched the degree. I went over to Arizona State's
Cronkeyed School, did a couple of years over there as well,
and I didn't even get a chance to like broadcast
games until my last semester or my last year there.
I did some football one of the better high school
teams out there, Desert Mountain, covered them all the way
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over to their playoff loss in the Open Division. And
then I just basically hammered down a bunch of hockey,
a couple of basketball games, and a little bit of
softball here and there. And in my last semester, I
didn't have anything lined up, so it was kind of
like a prayer I send out. I looked up everything
I can find. All I didn't realize when baseball jobs
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came out is like in September, October, November. You got
to hammer those applications. Then we're in like late February
and I'm looking up stuff and I find the Power
website because I thought, hey, the Power play games out
in Palm Springs. That would be an easy transition for me.
So I email our boss, Tyler Hughes and basically beg
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him for the job.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Right and I get a phone call.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
A couple weeks later, I get the job. I do
a summer over there. I shoot him in text again
ask if I could come back for the Winter League,
same drill, ask if I could come back for this summer.
And here we are. It's been an absolute blast, and
I couldn't thank them enough.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
There you go, congratulations on that. So I'm an antelope
g So we're rivals. So your brother's a great guy.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Kronky School.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
That's an amazing I've always envied them and wondered why
we don't have that at GCU.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
But the Kronky School is amazing.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
How about you, Charlie, Well, yeah, sort of similar to Steven.
I didn't have like the calling for broadcasts right out
of high school. It took me a few more years
and just attacked every opportunity I could once I found
my passion. My first gig was in the fall of
twenty twenty one when stuff reopened in small capacity after
the pandemic, and I just tried to move up to
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a different medium every step of the way. First I
started just juniors through the phone, was poor audio quality.
Then it was YouTube with like ordinary sound equipment. Then
last summer it was the radio in Missouri. And here
we are again YouTube simulcast over the radio. And so
I just want to keep climbing that ladder and we'll
see where see where it takes me.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
And I appreciate and Charlie, I know you get tired
of me texting you on game day. I'm always texted you,
I need this, I need that. So I appreciate you.
Thank you so much for being there and responding. I
certainly appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
You helped collaborate these interviews, so I certainly appreciate it.
So tonight we have a game tonight, seven o'clock. Who
are we playing tonight?
Speaker 5 (16:11):
It's the Inland Valley Legends today.
Speaker 8 (16:13):
Right.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Oh yeah, that's the one that they're in second place, right,
so we've got let's get this one.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
So let's beat these legends up.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
Yeah, And it's kind of part there's really it's almost
like an Inland Valley baseball complex. It's the Legends, the
Bucks and the Pirates. They've been really the only thorn
in the power side over the last couple of seasons.
The Bucks broke up the Powers fifty one game win
streak last season. They were also the first team to
beat them this season. The Legends have a bunch of
Division Division one guys from top to bottom on the roster.
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There's a couple former Power players that you'll see throughout
these rosters too, and it's really the three best teams
they'll play all season.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Well, let's beat them. Let's go ahead and give them.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Make sure you tune in tonight to Fox Sports twelve
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Speaker 2 (16:55):
You can hear you. Guys will be on the call tonight. Yes, sir,
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Speaker 6 (17:13):
In Andrew Reaves and Noah Ariola.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
There you go.
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the part of the show. I love to get involved
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with the athletes. We have the athletes in studio. Gentlemen,
go ahead and introduce yourself to the Fox.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
You can go. If you need to adjust it, go
ahead and do it. Do your thing.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
It's it's it's it might you have you have to
work around with it, but go ahead and introduce yourself
to the Fox Spars Radio audience.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Hi.
Speaker 8 (21:31):
I'm Andrew Reavis. I'm currently going into my graduate year
at UC Riverside. I'll be studying Masters and finance over there,
and this is my second summer with the Palm Springs Power.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
So you didn't you didn't have to come far at all.
You're coming right over from from Riverside. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (21:47):
So I still have my house on the Riverside. It's
about an hour away, so not too far at all,
which is nice. And uh, it is a little further
from my actual hometown of Thousand Oaks, California. It's about
two and a half hours away, but I'm lucky that
i still have my place in Riverside, so I'm able
to come out here pretty easily.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
There you go, and introduce yourself, young man.
Speaker 7 (22:06):
My name is Noah he Minnesotola, and I actually didn't
play college ball, okay, and I am electrical engineer. I
went trade school from Westcovina, California, and I just got
the call recently to play with Power.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Did you play high school?
Speaker 7 (22:19):
Yeah, but it was a bad experience with coaching and
the staff didn't really have a good experience there and
kind of ruined my chances to play college ball.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (22:27):
So then I ended up playing here for the California
Winter League two years of age, and I just did
the collegiate league and I stood out with no college
experience as the top prospect, and now I got the
call for playing with Power.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
I had a terrible experience in schools as well, but
it was talent I had none, So no talent So
tell me a little bit about the.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Palm Springs power. What have you guys excited about. Have
you exceeded your expectations? Have you exceeded your goals? How's
it been for you? Other than the heat?
Speaker 8 (23:01):
Obviously it's very hot out here, but yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
So yeah from thousand it doesn't get that hot as
hot as it does out here.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (23:07):
Yeah, back home and since not hot at all. But right,
so far, I've been out here about maybe a week
and a half so far this summer, and it's been good.
We got a good group of guys. We had a
great team last year. We ended up winning the championship.
But yeah, I'm confident in the guys we have, and
I know we're getting close to that playoff run and
a few more games, we play a few more good
games and we'll be right there for the championship.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Well, let me make sure it.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
First of all, I'm glad you survived because last year
you must have been in the fourth of July game
that was one hundred and twenty four degrees correct.
Speaker 8 (23:36):
Yes, that was the first day I came out. That
whole couple of days was the hottest it was all summer.
Apparently it was like over one twenty. But while it's hot,
like we're able to adjust to it pretty quickly. Like
it's not it's bad.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
But you just yes and have to.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
I don't know what Andrew said the owner to keep
you here, because I'm from thousand and it's nice and
cool seventy eighty degrees.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
I'm surprised you didn't go back home.
Speaker 8 (24:00):
I just wanted to get my reps in, get some
of my bats, and I'm thankful that Star gave was
able to give me an opportunity.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Absolutely, And how about you, so this year this is
your first year here? Correct? Oh, yes, yes, you played
the Winter League. It's a little different temperature than the
Winter League, right, Harry.
Speaker 7 (24:16):
When I came out here for the Summer Collegiate League,
I was after the first game, I was like, oh
my god, like there's gonna be a long month long season, right,
And then towards the end, I was like, Okay, well,
you know, I gotta get ready at where I'm going
to decide for college if I get the opportunity to
play or professional ball. And then Casey, manager of Power,
gave me the cause that you want to stay two
July twenty I was.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Like yeah, why not.
Speaker 7 (24:37):
But then I realized that it's still going to get
worse than already is now when it comes to the weather.
But like my buddy Sor right here, he's just gonna
have to adapt to it absolutely.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
And what's your hometown again, West Covina, West Covenu, So yeah,
that's that's not too far from the I as well,
so it gets a little warm out there as well.
So this season, you guys are twenty one and five.
How are you guys feeling about this year? And in
that game we talked about this. I'll ask you two questions,
how are you feeling about this season? And then I
was here running the board and I heard that fourth
of July game. I was biting my nails, man, So
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I can only imagine what you guys were doing as
players or did you say, no, this is what we do,
We're going to get this.
Speaker 8 (25:12):
W Yeah, it was definitely a different experience. There were
we packed out the house. There were a lot of fans,
as we always love, and they're rooting for us from
any one to any nine, and luckily we're able to
give them a really good game on the fourth of July,
which proceeded with fireworks.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
So absolutely. How about yourself.
Speaker 7 (25:30):
I mean, I was on the All Stars, so I
was really hoping we beat.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
The Power and so you got the call up.
Speaker 7 (25:35):
Yeah, that's when I got the call up. But it
was a very close game, all to the bottom of
the ninth and there was probably some in my opinion,
I feel like there was a play that shouldn't have
been called by the umpires. But it happens, is baseball, right,
and uh yeah, you just can't do anything about it.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Right, I was biting on my nail.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
So you guys are now you have the Legends tonight,
you beat them yesterday, you have them again tonight and
it was a.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
You guys put a a pretty big, pretty big lead
on them.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
So to you have a couple of games that we
were talking in the last segment. They're not must win,
but you want to win those going into the playoffs.
What are you guys looking to do tonight or any adjustments,
because the one thing about baseball is it's it's driven
by the pitching. Whoever's on that mound can really dictate
the way the game goes. Do you guys, and now
I'll ask you that, do you guys come up and
you see a picture and now you play the season,
(26:24):
you say, oh, I'm gonna jack this one.
Speaker 8 (26:27):
Yeah. So on the Legends, we actually, uh, I have
some teammates and former teammates that are on that team.
One of my former teammates coaches it, and then a
couple of my teammates currently are on that team. So
I do have some reports on some of the guys,
But it just comes down to seeing what they have
for the day, seeing what we have for the day,
and making our adjustments ending by inning, right, because you're
(26:47):
not always going to be at your best, but it's
about what you can do with what you have for
that day.
Speaker 7 (26:51):
Absolutely, Yeah, just feeding off what he says is it's
a matter who wants a more game by game you know,
I know have a long way to a playoffs or
like towards the end of the season that we want
to become champs, but we still gotta that. That's that's
nothing to worry about. We have to get past the
games are upcoming right now before anything, so we should
just focus on our mindset. What type of pitching we're
(27:13):
in the beginning, how is the stats, how's his numbers,
where's his location? And then as innings progress, we'll start
picking up on him and start attacking early. And the runs.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
I love the answers. I love the answers. Professional not me.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Now, I gotta ask you, when you guys get a
good hit and you knock it out the park, what's
that bat.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Flip look like? Are you guys bat flipping? Are you
just walking? Are you having some respect? What are we
doing here?
Speaker 9 (27:36):
So?
Speaker 8 (27:36):
Usually, uh, when I hit a home run, I kind
of know when I get it, so I don't. I
don't bat flip as much. I'm more just pimpot in
the sense that I stand there and take a really
slow trot, jog, whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
I love it.
Speaker 8 (27:49):
Yesterday I was fortunate enough to hit a home run,
but h with the stadium being pretty large and that
nighttime air and wind, I didn't know that if I
got it, So that was just like a normal run
out of.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
The box, right.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
And that's one thing you say, because the stadium was
built by the Anaheim Angels, and when they built it,
it's built like a major league stadium. So when you
knock it out of the park, that's like a major
league home run. How do you feel about that? Knowing
you can jacket out of a major league stadium.
Speaker 8 (28:17):
It's a it's a pretty good feeling, to be honest.
I try to like hold it in a kno, but yeah,
it's it's always a good feeling to a home run
because it's not it's not an easy game. It's not
an easy feat to have. So I'm always thankful when
I'm able to connect with one like that.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
There you what about yourself?
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Me?
Speaker 7 (28:34):
So I respect the game, obviously, I know pimping it
everyone wants to do it. You know, you don't get
home runs coming off to now when you got better pitching.
So uh, typically me, if the other teams getting a
little rowdy, then yes, I'll start pimping it. Start staring
at them, tossing back towards their doug out walk. But
just keep it more on a professional standpoint. Stare at
a little bit, get job going run. Think about two
(28:57):
because you may never know it can hit a bird
and then it can come down and you don't it's
gonna go out or not right right, So always thinking two,
possibly three?
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Right?
Speaker 3 (29:04):
So this will this will tell you a team that
I love and I love it when oh Tony hits
it and he just stands there and looks at I.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Mean, that's what I would do.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
They would throw the ball at me if I played baseball,
because I'd probably break dance if I hit a home
run if.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
That was me.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
And then this is one thing again, this is Fox
Sports twelve seven a m. We have the pump springs
power in studio. One thing that I always think about
is like when you have that picture and and it's
you against him and you have history, what do you
guys do you guys stare at each other?
Speaker 2 (29:32):
I mean, how does that? What is that like?
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Because it's just you two against each other. It's not
like football or whatever. It's just you two going against
each other. And everybody reacts to what the picture and
the hitter does.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
What is that like?
Speaker 3 (29:43):
When you guys are looking at each other, you walk
do you walk up to him and try to intimidate them?
What do you guys do in either one of you?
Speaker 8 (29:48):
I think it just depends on the relationship you have
with the picture. Like if I'm facing one of my teammates,
old teammates, whatever, and I have a good relationship with him,
it's gonna be all laughs. And like as soon as
I step in the box, and as soon as he
gets on the then we're gonna focus on.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
The pitch itself.
Speaker 8 (30:03):
But if it's more of like a relationship based on
like animosity and things like that, then uh, it's definitely
a different level of intensity. Like I'll still have that
same focus, but leading up to that, it's it's a
little more of almost like not anger, but that kind
of feeling towards the at bat, like you want it right,
you really do want to beat him in this situation?
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Was it just me?
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Or was I upset when the Padres hit or Tawny
was I was so upset when they did that?
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Was it just me? I mean it really yes? So
what about yourself?
Speaker 8 (30:33):
Me?
Speaker 7 (30:33):
So, I'm very competitive. I know they're my buddy, Like
you said, relationship wise, it could be it can go
both ways, but hats are turned it forward and I
don't know you and I'm here to play and we
can be friends after the game, but right now.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Like it's I don't know you. There you go.
Speaker 7 (30:49):
I'm gonna do what I can to get on base.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Hit the ball. I don't care if you throw ninety five.
Speaker 7 (30:54):
My job is to get on base and show them I'm,
you know, here to prove something out of myself.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
So I love it.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
And I'll ask you both. I know you guys, you'r
a UCR. And then I'll ask you, what are you
guys looking to do next? What are your goals? What
are your ambitions? Is what's going on with you guys next?
Speaker 8 (31:11):
So next year I'll be playing what could be my
last year of baseball in my career, so I'm gonna
enjoy that as much as I can. I'll be pursuing
my master's in finance, and following that, I'll be looking
to go into either banking like investment banking or asset management,
ideally working my way up to private equity venture capital
down the line. That's more down the road, more so
(31:32):
like four or five, six years down the line. But
I do want to be breaking to the finance market
and make a big impact in that sense.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
So you want to be the next one on a buffet.
It's basically what you're telling this. It's funds, but hits
funds and things like that with.
Speaker 8 (31:48):
Hedge funds, yep. A lot of investments, a lot of assets,
just handling those.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
I love numbers.
Speaker 8 (31:53):
I'm really good at numbers, and it's something I pick
up pretty easily, so I want to leverage that as
much as I'm able to in the future.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
I know a little bit about that, about the hedge
funds and things like that, a little bit. I'm sure
you know a lot more than me. What about yourself?
Speaker 9 (32:05):
Me?
Speaker 7 (32:05):
So I have opportunities to play college ball right now
since I already got my degree. I got it last October,
so I still have my eligibility for college and base
How I did off the summer league is going to
determine what I want to do now on pursuing less
sport as a career. I want my shot. I never
got the opportunity to do that. So whatever colleges is
going to give me my numbers and opportunities that can
(32:26):
show out just like what I'm doing here in the league,
and to be able to play for power you know,
hopefully you know when it comes draft time, or play
independent ball professionally and have my lesto engineering as a
backup plan.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
Right And that's one thing about baseball that's so unique
is because I remember when I was in high school,
one of my teachers said he played like minor league
baseball in Australia.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
I mean, there's baseball all over the world to do that.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
You guys interested in going to the minor league round or
is that you want to go in the bank, you
want to take over the world.
Speaker 8 (32:55):
I would playing internationally would definitely be a great experience.
If enough opportunity presents itself, I'll definitely take advantage of it.
But it just depends on where I'm at by the
end of this next year, because I don't want to
set myself too far behind in terms of my professional career,
because those few years after graduate school it's like hard
to make those up, right, Right, that's a period where
(33:17):
you can learn a lot, gain a lot of experience,
and use it for your future.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
So it sounds like you've got plenty. I like it.
I have to get your number, you can start doing
my taxes.
Speaker 7 (33:28):
Yeah, international, Like what he says, if it's an opportunity this,
you know you can't pass off for then Yeah, but
definitely which still stay in the loop of our education.
So if we're to pursue, for me, example, I'm going
to pursue pro ball like that and be in the
minor league system, it's going to force me to go
in for a master's degree from my electrical engineering so
I can stay within the loop. If baseball doesn't work out,
(33:49):
then I can become a master.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
That's the most important.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
I always told my kids they play sports, my favorite
college for them is free So and you know, the
Dodgers are putting a team in Ontario, so they're building
a beautiful stadium down there that's going to be absolutely gorgeous.
So thank you gentlemen for coming in. Do me a
favor and introduce yourself once again so everyone can know
who they're listening to here on Fox Sports twelve seventy am.
Speaker 8 (34:10):
This is Andrew Reeves. I'm currently going into my graduate
year at UCR. It's my second summer here with the
Power and I'm from Thousand Oaks, California.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
It sounds like Andrew wants to take my job. It's
just not fair, but go ahead.
Speaker 8 (34:21):
And I no.
Speaker 7 (34:22):
Hi met a Siola and I am a leschco engineer
with no college experience and got the college to play
with power and known as the top prospect for the
Horderball League.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
You know, I was I'm glad you said that. You
said it earlier, but thinking about that, what does that
mean to you to come out here and you said,
you did winter ball, you dominated that, and now you're
the number one prospect. I mean that's got to be
really really impressive.
Speaker 7 (34:46):
Yeah, honestly, like it's a feeling that I cannot express
myself too much about it. It's just knowing that I
didn't have that type of level of experience, Like I'm
going against college guys some professional guys as well, right,
and I have to really work three times harder now
to get my name out. And that's what I did
in the summer league, and I'm proud of it. And
(35:07):
I thank my dad for practicing me all those times
and just having them moral support from them, especially my
mom as well and my family. That's saying that, you know,
just because you went to college doesn't mean you don't
have the talent to playball, you know, right right, It's
what you can do once you step in that box.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Congratulate, Yeah, congratulation.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
And that's one of those things, like I said, just
because you have a college degree, which I do, doesn't
mean you're actually smart. So on proof of that proof
college is about just sticking to it. So and I
think my school got tired of me being there and
they wanted me to leave, but gentlemen, Thank you so
much once again for coming in. We certainly appreciate it.
We have game tonight on July twelfth. We're playing the
Inland Valley Legends, the Legends. I know we said it before,
(35:50):
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Let's go ahead and do that again tonight. If you
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Speaker 2 (36:12):
Palm Springs Power Thank you, gentlemen again for coming in.
We certainly appreciate you. We look forward.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
I'm gonna keep watching you now I can see, I
can put a name to the face and see you.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
So when I hear you guys slapping out home runs tonight,
see they were here at twelve seventy eight year so
I certainly appreciate that. Thank you so much, and once
again we're gonna get out of here now. Thank you
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Speaker 2 (01:30):
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Speaker 3 (01:33):
Gentlemen, we have the broadcasters in studio for the Palm
Springs Power. Gentlemen, please introduce yourself to the Fox Sports
Radio audience.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Hello, I'm Johnny Maldonado. It's my first summer with the
Palm Springs Power, and tonight I'll be doing the play
by play for a game two of the in the
Valley Legends.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
There you go.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
Yeah, I'm Stephen Buckston. I grew up out of here.
This is actually my second season with the Power. I
worked with the Winner League this past Winner as well,
so been here for three seasons. This is my first
time working with you guys with Fox Sports. Yeah, it's
been a blast.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Now the voice man, don't try to take my job,
all of you guys, so don't try to take you
come in here sounding smooth.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
So and then go ahead and introduce yourself.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
Hell, I'm Charlie Gonzalez and I'm going to be the
public address announcer for tonight's game and the Palmsrus Power
on the Cusper. There's seven hundredth franchise victory and if
they get it tonight, it's going to be a special
special night.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Indeed, oh my goodness, seven hundred wins.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
That is something now, one thing that I love and
we we we have the team on before. You guys
are just like the players. You're looking to get to
the next level as well, and you rotate. So that's
one thing that's unique, and I don't think people understand
that is you you guys are not necessarily doing the
same thing every night. How exciting is that they'll learn
a little bit about everything about the Palm Springs Power.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
I mean, I think it's good if you're trying to
get into the sports business in general, because you know,
you try a little bit of everything. You know, do
the public announcement maybe you know, broadcasting, maybe not into
it unless you like public addressing the names, you know,
calling out the players. But I mean you get more experienced,
you know, like if you know better what you call
the it'll be a lot easier to apply for jobs
since you have these skills, right, So it'll be a
(03:10):
lot of help in the future, I think absolutely.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
And yeah, it's honestly, like after last night, I can
officially say I've done every single job in the stadium.
The one thing I hadn't done is go to pick
up food for like the postgame meals. I actually have
not sold tickets, but I've done just about everything else.
I even I made the schedule for us for like
(03:33):
broadcasting and just being able to sort out the the
innings and and the spots and play by play PA
all that and when so when we're running the PSCL
that we didn't have like the extra couple guys for
the for the main power broadcast days. But since that's
(03:55):
all over, since everyone's all in one group, now we've
got the extra couple of roles and it's nice having
the couple extra hands. And I just never like realized
how how much work it was going to be to
disperse all those roles evenly while trying to get everyone
a couple of days off here and there.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Right, and then Charlie explaining the PSEL, explain that because
I know you've articulated to me before. So there's the
Palm Springs Power and then there's like other teams that
play all throughout the day. So I mean, you guys
are doing baseball all day.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
Yeah. So the Power Summer Collegiate League is a comprise
of eleven teams. The Lumberjacks won it this year, and
they play usually on just two fields, but occasionally three,
the main field at around nine am, the hybrid turf
field across the way at eight thirty, and then sometimes
at the beginning and the very end of the season,
the high school field which is across the street, and
(04:48):
those teams they play nearly every day. Usually it's it's
six teams get to play per day at most, and
then the playoff comes around. Each team gets an automatic
bid and there there's a buy for the high seed,
and then it continues along the way, and this year
the team with the best record end up winning it all.
But we would have the two guys do the games
(05:09):
in the morning and have one person scoring it on
the other fields, and then have maybe the last two,
if they're available, come in and do the Power game
that same night, and then maybe one who worked in
the morning would also stay. So there's five of us,
we were able to rotate it evenly. It's a lot
of work, but it was a lot of fun too
because you get to broadcast not just over YouTube, on
(05:34):
the radio and also through the PSCL phone. There's a
lot of things or you learned how to do and
like hiccups we encountered along the way.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Right, And is there something like an aha moment where
you said, I didn't think of this because when you could,
I'll tell you doing a radio show and running a
radio station, it's it's a big difference. So was there
something you think you thinking, how does Andrew do this?
And Andrew Starkey is the owner of the team, you
think this, how does he deal with all of this?
Speaker 4 (06:02):
I would sorry, I would say maybe trying to do
with the scheduling for the PSCO and the Power because
I feel like, you know, it could conflict sometimes. But
then again, they do play in the mornings and the
Power play at night. But there are times where the
PSCO players do get the call up and to the Power.
So for example, if they pitched like maybe a couple
of days before, you might have to like kind of
like schedule that around their pitching schedule.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Oh wow, So I mean it can be a.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Little I would say different, only because they do pitch
for their team on the PSL and then maybe the
palm streams power doing it in the arm for example,
you know. But you know, I would say that's probably
like the one of the things that Park could make
it a little, you know, difficult to work around with
their pitching schedule and knowing that they pitched right before
coming up, right.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
I didn't realize that they can pitch for them and
then they're they're trying to get on the Power as well.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
So it's kind of unique seeing that. I mean, it's
pretty cool though they enjoy doing it. From what being
seen around.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Right, it was there AHA moment for either to you, gentlemen.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
I mean, honestly, like the only I don't know if
it was as much of an aha moment, But there
were a couple of times where you just see something
you hadn't seen before, like the Power played against the
PSCL All Star team on July fourth.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
What a game. What a game.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Honestly, that was the most fun I'd ever had calling
a game in my life. Right, and in the eighth inning,
actually it was a play involving the two guys we've
got waiting for the next segment. Andrew Reevos was on
third base and there was a ball put in play.
He's staying at third base. And Zach Durham, my color
guy for the night, and I were in the booth
(07:34):
having no idea what's going on because they they waived
Andrew home yes, and so we're wondering what happens. I
talked to one of the umpires after the game, and
I realized that it was called a bock because you're
not allowed to have the You're not allowed to have
the pitcher on the mound at all, not even like
on the rubber, but on the dirt without the ball,
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and they let him get all the way to the
rubber and he's just standing there without the ball. I
didn't even realize it. I didn't see that happen. I
was trying to write some stuff down because I thought
the play was over. But it's just that kind of
thing where it's just a wacky, zany, just preposterous play
to end an incredible game. Not end, but like just
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how that game broke open, and how that kind of
top the lid off of a game where the power
were essentially playing the heel in front of a couple
thousand people. They were the bad guys that night. Really,
it was really entertaining to watch. It was an awesome
dynamic to see. But you just never think you're gonna
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see that kind of thing. And I mean, it's not
every day that I learned something new about baseball. I
feel like I've I've called a couple hundred games, I've
watched a million games in my life. I've been all
around it all the time, and I almost never have
to actually like learn something new.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Right, it was a great game.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
What about you, Charlie, Well, yeah, that Julian I thought
that play he was talking about that the third baseman
got in the way of him running, and you know
how they you can't the catcher can't do that at
home plate when someone's coming home. So that was my
initial thought. And then I spoke to Tyler more after
because we instead of the two usual two man crew,
we had a four umpire crew, and he yeah, he
told me it was a bock. He didn't have the
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ball on the mound. So but that that brought home
the tying run and then the walk off to win
at four to three, and then we had the spectacular
fireworks show. And that was something where if it was
a bock, it was very subtle, and it was I
had I missed it as well. Right, And that was
the last game we had with the working scoreboard. That's
gonna get fixed hopefully pretty soon.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Got you and tell me a little bit about so
I know you were talking about this on air, the
Power of gotta went out to get into the playoffs, right.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
Yeah, so the Power right now, I'm pretty sure the
records what nineteen and five officially, or is it we're
at twenty one and five on the year, Ok, twenty
one in five. It's the first This is a team
that just does not lose. There's been a couple of
Staples in the seat in the past decade or so
in the Valley, the PSCL All Star Game against the
(10:11):
Power being the best game of the year, which it
always is. The last couple of years it went PSCL
wins it in the last inning, then walk off. Last
year the Power have a Leydening comeback to win at
six to five and then a walk off. This year,
the other Staples, Casey Dill, does not lose games. He
has something like it's approaching a nine hundred win percentage.
Speaker 7 (10:33):
With the Power.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
And this is the first year since twenty twenty one.
I want to say it was either twenty one or
twenty two that the Power lost five games in total.
So they're sitting at at five losses right now. They
don't have to win out, but they have to pretty
do pretty close to win out to get the number
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one or two seed in the CPCL, the California and
Premier Collegiate League, which would give them a playoff spot.
And it's not a position that this team has been in.
It's a lot of the guys are returners. Andrew Revoss,
he'll talk to him, he played with the Power last season.
And then there's a myriad of guys Mark Kirklan Dalton Thomas,
Mike Gonzalez, Johnny Young. They've all been there for years
(11:16):
and years and years, but this is a spot that
they haven't been in. So it's essentially playing playoff baseball
for the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Right right. We'll see it.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
So on the playoffs, someone explained to me, because I
see on the schedule is it's just two games for
the playoffs.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
It'll be a three game series. As long as the
Power make it. It will be a game at home
for the Power, and then there should be two games
on the road. It'll be split between I'm pretty sure
it's split between who hosts which game, but it will
be at a road site and it'll be a doubleheader.
So let's say the Power win game one and then
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win game two. There's no need to play game three.
But last season they lost game one, then they won
Game two in a late and then come back and
then Noah Blife walked it off with a home run
to win it and win the CPCL Championship for the
second year in a row.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Back to back. So they are going for three. So
I'm excited about that. So that's good stuff.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Tell me.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
I know we were pressed up against the clock, but
tell me a little bit about your your journey, gentlemen,
How did you guys get here? I know you're a
local guy. What got you guys here? What got you
interested in the Palm Springs Power?
Speaker 4 (12:23):
I would say when I was in school at Chico State.
You know, I started writing for the school newspaper and
then covered sports and then kind of click that. You know,
I enjoy being around the games because I've done basketball, softball,
and baseball. I would say softless, more exciting. Well, I
wouldn't say more exciting, but there's a lot of actually
going on with like the where they were like they'd
run out the bucks trying to hit the ball. It's
pretty pretty wild stuff that happens there. But I would
(12:45):
say I enjoy, you know, being around the games.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
It's fun.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
I grew up playing baseball my whole life too. It
was just trying to get the confidence to do it right.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
And I could tell what you call.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
I could tell you played because some of the things
you guys say they framed the pitch or it's above me.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
I was a basketball and football players.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
So I'll keep it short. I know we're kind of
pressed up against the clock. I grew up out here.
I went to Xavier, and I never had any sort
of thought that I would ever be doing any sort
of media thing. I had no idea what I wanted
to do out of high school. I was a computer
science major going into College of the Desert. Then calculus
kind of broke me. So I decided, and my coach
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throughout high school had told me like every day, Hey,
you need to go into some sort of broadcast. You
need to do something like that because I wouldn't stop
running my.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Mouth right been there.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
So I decided maybe this whole journalism thing isn't that bad.
I switched the degree. I went over to Arizona State's
Cronkeyed School, did a couple of years over there as well,
and I didn't even get a chance to like broadcast
games until my last semester or my last year there.
I did some football one of the better high school
teams out there, Desert Mountain, covered them all the way
(13:52):
over to their playoff loss in the Open Division. And
then I just basically hammered down a bunch of hockey,
a couple of basketball games, and a little bit of
softball here and there. And in my last semester, I
didn't have anything lined up, so it was kind of
like a prayer I send out. I looked up everything
I can find. All I didn't realize when baseball jobs
(14:15):
came out is like in September, October, November. You got
to hammer those applications. Then we're in like late February
and I'm looking up stuff and I find the Power
website because I thought, hey, the Power play games out
in Palm Springs. That would be an easy transition for me.
So I email our boss, Tyler Hughes and basically beg
(14:37):
him for the job.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Right and I get a phone call.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
A couple weeks later, I get the job. I do
a summer over there. I shoot him in text again
ask if I could come back for the Winter League,
same drill, ask if I could come back for this summer.
And here we are. It's been an absolute blast, and
I couldn't thank them enough.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
There you go, congratulations on that. So I'm an antelope
g So we're rivals. So your brother's a great guy.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Kronky School.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
That's an amazing I've always envied them and wondered why
we don't have that at GCU.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
But the Kronky School is amazing.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
How about you, Charlie, Well, yeah, sort of similar to Steven.
I didn't have like the calling for broadcasts right out
of high school. It took me a few more years
and just attacked every opportunity I could once I found
my passion. My first gig was in the fall of
twenty twenty one when stuff reopened in small capacity after
the pandemic, and I just tried to move up to
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a different medium every step of the way. First I
started just juniors through the phone, was poor audio quality.
Then it was YouTube with like ordinary sound equipment. Then
last summer it was the radio in Missouri. And here
we are again YouTube simulcast over the radio. And so
I just want to keep climbing that ladder and we'll
see where see where it takes me.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
And I appreciate and Charlie, I know you get tired
of me texting you on game day. I'm always texted you,
I need this, I need that. So I appreciate you.
Thank you so much for being there and responding. I
certainly appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
You helped collaborate these interviews, so I certainly appreciate it.
So tonight we have a game tonight, seven o'clock. Who
are we playing tonight?
Speaker 5 (16:11):
It's the Inland Valley Legends today.
Speaker 8 (16:13):
Right.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Oh yeah, that's the one that they're in second place, right,
so we've got let's get this one.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
So let's beat these legends up.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
Yeah, And it's kind of part there's really it's almost
like an Inland Valley baseball complex. It's the Legends, the
Bucks and the Pirates. They've been really the only thorn
in the power side over the last couple of seasons.
The Bucks broke up the Powers fifty one game win
streak last season. They were also the first team to
beat them this season. The Legends have a bunch of
Division Division one guys from top to bottom on the roster.
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There's a couple former Power players that you'll see throughout
these rosters too, and it's really the three best teams
they'll play all season.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Well, let's beat them. Let's go ahead and give them.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
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You can hear you. Guys will be on the call tonight. Yes, sir,
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with the athletes. We have the athletes in studio. Gentlemen,
go ahead and introduce yourself to the Fox.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
You can go. If you need to adjust it, go
ahead and do it. Do your thing.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
It's it's it's it might you have you have to
work around with it, but go ahead and introduce yourself
to the Fox Spars Radio audience.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Hi.
Speaker 8 (21:31):
I'm Andrew Reavis. I'm currently going into my graduate year
at UC Riverside. I'll be studying Masters and finance over there,
and this is my second summer with the Palm Springs Power.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
So you didn't you didn't have to come far at all.
You're coming right over from from Riverside. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (21:47):
So I still have my house on the Riverside. It's
about an hour away, so not too far at all,
which is nice. And uh, it is a little further
from my actual hometown of Thousand Oaks, California. It's about
two and a half hours away, but I'm lucky that
i still have my place in Riverside, so I'm able
to come out here pretty easily.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
There you go, and introduce yourself, young man.
Speaker 7 (22:06):
My name is Noah he Minnesotola, and I actually didn't
play college ball, okay, and I am electrical engineer. I
went trade school from Westcovina, California, and I just got
the call recently to play with Power.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Did you play high school?
Speaker 7 (22:19):
Yeah, but it was a bad experience with coaching and
the staff didn't really have a good experience there and
kind of ruined my chances to play college ball.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (22:27):
So then I ended up playing here for the California
Winter League two years of age, and I just did
the collegiate league and I stood out with no college
experience as the top prospect, and now I got the
call for playing with Power.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
I had a terrible experience in schools as well, but
it was talent I had none, So no talent So
tell me a little bit about the.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Palm Springs power. What have you guys excited about. Have
you exceeded your expectations? Have you exceeded your goals? How's
it been for you? Other than the heat?
Speaker 8 (23:01):
Obviously it's very hot out here, but yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
So yeah from thousand it doesn't get that hot as
hot as it does out here.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (23:07):
Yeah, back home and since not hot at all. But right,
so far, I've been out here about maybe a week
and a half so far this summer, and it's been good.
We got a good group of guys. We had a
great team last year. We ended up winning the championship.
But yeah, I'm confident in the guys we have, and
I know we're getting close to that playoff run and
a few more games, we play a few more good
games and we'll be right there for the championship.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Well, let me make sure it.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
First of all, I'm glad you survived because last year
you must have been in the fourth of July game
that was one hundred and twenty four degrees correct.
Speaker 8 (23:36):
Yes, that was the first day I came out. That
whole couple of days was the hottest it was all summer.
Apparently it was like over one twenty. But while it's hot,
like we're able to adjust to it pretty quickly. Like
it's not it's bad.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
But you just yes and have to.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
I don't know what Andrew said the owner to keep
you here, because I'm from thousand and it's nice and
cool seventy eighty degrees.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
I'm surprised you didn't go back home.
Speaker 8 (24:00):
I just wanted to get my reps in, get some
of my bats, and I'm thankful that Star gave was
able to give me an opportunity.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Absolutely, And how about you, so this year this is
your first year here? Correct? Oh, yes, yes, you played
the Winter League. It's a little different temperature than the
Winter League, right, Harry.
Speaker 7 (24:16):
When I came out here for the Summer Collegiate League,
I was after the first game, I was like, oh
my god, like there's gonna be a long month long season, right,
And then towards the end, I was like, Okay, well,
you know, I gotta get ready at where I'm going
to decide for college if I get the opportunity to
play or professional ball. And then Casey, manager of Power,
gave me the cause that you want to stay two
July twenty I was.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Like yeah, why not.
Speaker 7 (24:37):
But then I realized that it's still going to get
worse than already is now when it comes to the weather.
But like my buddy Sor right here, he's just gonna
have to adapt to it absolutely.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
And what's your hometown again, West Covina, West Covenu, So yeah,
that's that's not too far from the I as well,
so it gets a little warm out there as well.
So this season, you guys are twenty one and five.
How are you guys feeling about this year? And in
that game we talked about this. I'll ask you two questions,
how are you feeling about this season? And then I
was here running the board and I heard that fourth
of July game. I was biting my nails, man, So
(25:07):
I can only imagine what you guys were doing as
players or did you say, no, this is what we do,
We're going to get this.
Speaker 8 (25:12):
W Yeah, it was definitely a different experience. There were
we packed out the house. There were a lot of fans,
as we always love, and they're rooting for us from
any one to any nine, and luckily we're able to
give them a really good game on the fourth of July,
which proceeded with fireworks.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
So absolutely. How about yourself.
Speaker 7 (25:30):
I mean, I was on the All Stars, so I
was really hoping we beat.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
The Power and so you got the call up.
Speaker 7 (25:35):
Yeah, that's when I got the call up. But it
was a very close game, all to the bottom of
the ninth and there was probably some in my opinion,
I feel like there was a play that shouldn't have
been called by the umpires. But it happens, is baseball, right,
and uh yeah, you just can't do anything about it.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Right, I was biting on my nail.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
So you guys are now you have the Legends tonight,
you beat them yesterday, you have them again tonight and
it was a.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
You guys put a a pretty big, pretty big lead
on them.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
So to you have a couple of games that we
were talking in the last segment. They're not must win,
but you want to win those going into the playoffs.
What are you guys looking to do tonight or any adjustments,
because the one thing about baseball is it's it's driven
by the pitching. Whoever's on that mound can really dictate
the way the game goes. Do you guys, and now
I'll ask you that, do you guys come up and
you see a picture and now you play the season,
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you say, oh, I'm gonna jack this one.
Speaker 8 (26:27):
Yeah. So on the Legends, we actually, uh, I have
some teammates and former teammates that are on that team.
One of my former teammates coaches it, and then a
couple of my teammates currently are on that team. So
I do have some reports on some of the guys,
But it just comes down to seeing what they have
for the day, seeing what we have for the day,
and making our adjustments ending by inning, right, because you're
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not always going to be at your best, but it's
about what you can do with what you have for
that day.
Speaker 7 (26:51):
Absolutely, Yeah, just feeding off what he says is it's
a matter who wants a more game by game you know,
I know have a long way to a playoffs or
like towards the end of the season that we want
to become champs, but we still gotta that. That's that's
nothing to worry about. We have to get past the
games are upcoming right now before anything, so we should
just focus on our mindset. What type of pitching we're
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in the beginning, how is the stats, how's his numbers,
where's his location? And then as innings progress, we'll start
picking up on him and start attacking early. And the runs.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
I love the answers. I love the answers. Professional not me.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Now, I gotta ask you, when you guys get a
good hit and you knock it out the park, what's
that bat.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Flip look like? Are you guys bat flipping? Are you
just walking? Are you having some respect? What are we
doing here?
Speaker 9 (27:36):
So?
Speaker 8 (27:36):
Usually, uh, when I hit a home run, I kind
of know when I get it, so I don't. I
don't bat flip as much. I'm more just pimpot in
the sense that I stand there and take a really
slow trot, jog, whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
I love it.
Speaker 8 (27:49):
Yesterday I was fortunate enough to hit a home run,
but h with the stadium being pretty large and that
nighttime air and wind, I didn't know that if I
got it, So that was just like a normal run
out of.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
The box, right.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
And that's one thing you say, because the stadium was
built by the Anaheim Angels, and when they built it,
it's built like a major league stadium. So when you
knock it out of the park, that's like a major
league home run. How do you feel about that? Knowing
you can jacket out of a major league stadium.
Speaker 8 (28:17):
It's a it's a pretty good feeling, to be honest.
I try to like hold it in a kno, but yeah,
it's it's always a good feeling to a home run
because it's not it's not an easy game. It's not
an easy feat to have. So I'm always thankful when
I'm able to connect with one like that.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
There you what about yourself?
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Me?
Speaker 7 (28:34):
So I respect the game, obviously, I know pimping it
everyone wants to do it. You know, you don't get
home runs coming off to now when you got better pitching.
So uh, typically me, if the other teams getting a
little rowdy, then yes, I'll start pimping it. Start staring
at them, tossing back towards their doug out walk. But
just keep it more on a professional standpoint. Stare at
a little bit, get job going run. Think about two
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because you may never know it can hit a bird
and then it can come down and you don't it's
gonna go out or not right right, So always thinking two,
possibly three?
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Right?
Speaker 3 (29:04):
So this will this will tell you a team that
I love and I love it when oh Tony hits
it and he just stands there and looks at I.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Mean, that's what I would do.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
They would throw the ball at me if I played baseball,
because I'd probably break dance if I hit a home
run if.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
That was me.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
And then this is one thing again, this is Fox
Sports twelve seven a m. We have the pump springs
power in studio. One thing that I always think about
is like when you have that picture and and it's
you against him and you have history, what do you
guys do you guys stare at each other?
Speaker 2 (29:32):
I mean, how does that? What is that like?
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Because it's just you two against each other. It's not
like football or whatever. It's just you two going against
each other. And everybody reacts to what the picture and
the hitter does.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
What is that like?
Speaker 3 (29:43):
When you guys are looking at each other, you walk
do you walk up to him and try to intimidate them?
What do you guys do in either one of you?
Speaker 8 (29:48):
I think it just depends on the relationship you have
with the picture. Like if I'm facing one of my teammates,
old teammates, whatever, and I have a good relationship with him,
it's gonna be all laughs. And like as soon as
I step in the box, and as soon as he
gets on the then we're gonna focus on.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
The pitch itself.
Speaker 8 (30:03):
But if it's more of like a relationship based on
like animosity and things like that, then uh, it's definitely
a different level of intensity. Like I'll still have that
same focus, but leading up to that, it's it's a
little more of almost like not anger, but that kind
of feeling towards the at bat, like you want it right,
you really do want to beat him in this situation?
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Was it just me?
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Or was I upset when the Padres hit or Tawny
was I was so upset when they did that?
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Was it just me? I mean it really yes? So
what about yourself?
Speaker 8 (30:33):
Me?
Speaker 7 (30:33):
So, I'm very competitive. I know they're my buddy, Like
you said, relationship wise, it could be it can go
both ways, but hats are turned it forward and I
don't know you and I'm here to play and we
can be friends after the game, but right now.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Like it's I don't know you. There you go.
Speaker 7 (30:49):
I'm gonna do what I can to get on base.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Hit the ball. I don't care if you throw ninety five.
Speaker 7 (30:54):
My job is to get on base and show them I'm,
you know, here to prove something out of myself.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
So I love it.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
And I'll ask you both. I know you guys, you'r
a UCR. And then I'll ask you, what are you
guys looking to do next? What are your goals? What
are your ambitions? Is what's going on with you guys next?
Speaker 8 (31:11):
So next year I'll be playing what could be my
last year of baseball in my career, so I'm gonna
enjoy that as much as I can. I'll be pursuing
my master's in finance, and following that, I'll be looking
to go into either banking like investment banking or asset management,
ideally working my way up to private equity venture capital
down the line. That's more down the road, more so
(31:32):
like four or five, six years down the line. But
I do want to be breaking to the finance market
and make a big impact in that sense.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
So you want to be the next one on a buffet.
It's basically what you're telling this. It's funds, but hits
funds and things like that with.
Speaker 8 (31:48):
Hedge funds, yep. A lot of investments, a lot of assets,
just handling those.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
I love numbers.
Speaker 8 (31:53):
I'm really good at numbers, and it's something I pick
up pretty easily, so I want to leverage that as
much as I'm able to in the future.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
I know a little bit about that, about the hedge
funds and things like that, a little bit. I'm sure
you know a lot more than me. What about yourself?
Speaker 9 (32:05):
Me?
Speaker 7 (32:05):
So I have opportunities to play college ball right now
since I already got my degree. I got it last October,
so I still have my eligibility for college and base
How I did off the summer league is going to
determine what I want to do now on pursuing less
sport as a career. I want my shot. I never
got the opportunity to do that. So whatever colleges is
going to give me my numbers and opportunities that can
(32:26):
show out just like what I'm doing here in the league,
and to be able to play for power you know,
hopefully you know when it comes draft time, or play
independent ball professionally and have my lesto engineering as a
backup plan.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
Right And that's one thing about baseball that's so unique
is because I remember when I was in high school,
one of my teachers said he played like minor league
baseball in Australia.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
I mean, there's baseball all over the world to do that.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
You guys interested in going to the minor league round or
is that you want to go in the bank, you
want to take over the world.
Speaker 8 (32:55):
I would playing internationally would definitely be a great experience.
If enough opportunity presents itself, I'll definitely take advantage of it.
But it just depends on where I'm at by the
end of this next year, because I don't want to
set myself too far behind in terms of my professional career,
because those few years after graduate school it's like hard
to make those up, right, Right, that's a period where
(33:17):
you can learn a lot, gain a lot of experience,
and use it for your future.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
So it sounds like you've got plenty. I like it.
I have to get your number, you can start doing
my taxes.
Speaker 7 (33:28):
Yeah, international, Like what he says, if it's an opportunity this,
you know you can't pass off for then Yeah, but
definitely which still stay in the loop of our education.
So if we're to pursue, for me, example, I'm going
to pursue pro ball like that and be in the
minor league system, it's going to force me to go
in for a master's degree from my electrical engineering so
I can stay within the loop. If baseball doesn't work out,
(33:49):
then I can become a master.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
That's the most important.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
I always told my kids they play sports, my favorite
college for them is free So and you know, the
Dodgers are putting a team in Ontario, so they're building
a beautiful stadium down there that's going to be absolutely gorgeous.
So thank you gentlemen for coming in. Do me a
favor and introduce yourself once again so everyone can know
who they're listening to here on Fox Sports twelve seventy am.
Speaker 8 (34:10):
This is Andrew Reeves. I'm currently going into my graduate
year at UCR. It's my second summer here with the
Power and I'm from Thousand Oaks, California.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
It sounds like Andrew wants to take my job. It's
just not fair, but go ahead.
Speaker 8 (34:21):
And I no.
Speaker 7 (34:22):
Hi met a Siola and I am a leschco engineer
with no college experience and got the college to play
with power and known as the top prospect for the
Horderball League.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
You know, I was I'm glad you said that. You
said it earlier, but thinking about that, what does that
mean to you to come out here and you said,
you did winter ball, you dominated that, and now you're
the number one prospect. I mean that's got to be
really really impressive.
Speaker 7 (34:46):
Yeah, honestly, like it's a feeling that I cannot express
myself too much about it. It's just knowing that I
didn't have that type of level of experience, Like I'm
going against college guys some professional guys as well, right,
and I have to really work three times harder now
to get my name out. And that's what I did
in the summer league, and I'm proud of it. And
(35:07):
I thank my dad for practicing me all those times
and just having them moral support from them, especially my
mom as well and my family. That's saying that, you know,
just because you went to college doesn't mean you don't
have the talent to playball, you know, right right, It's
what you can do once you step in that box.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Congratulate, Yeah, congratulation.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
And that's one of those things, like I said, just
because you have a college degree, which I do, doesn't
mean you're actually smart. So on proof of that proof
college is about just sticking to it. So and I
think my school got tired of me being there and
they wanted me to leave, but gentlemen, Thank you so
much once again for coming in. We certainly appreciate it.
We have game tonight on July twelfth. We're playing the
Inland Valley Legends, the Legends. I know we said it before,
(35:50):
the Inland Valley Legends. You guys slapped them around last night.
Let's go ahead and do that again tonight. If you
can't be there at the ballpark at Palm Spring Stadium,
make sure you check it out tonight on Fox Sports
twelve seventy a m. If you can't hear it on
Terrestrio Radio, then you can always go on the iHeartRadio
app and listen to it anywhere in the world for
the Fox Sports twelve seventy a m.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Palm Springs Power Thank you, gentlemen again for coming in.
We certainly appreciate you. We look forward.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
I'm gonna keep watching you now I can see, I
can put a name to the face and see you.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
So when I hear you guys slapping out home runs tonight,
see they were here at twelve seventy eight year so
I certainly appreciate that. Thank you so much, and once
again we're gonna get out of here now. Thank you
for listening to the Coachella Valley Sports Report.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
On Fox Sports Radio Herd on Fox Sports twelve seventy
eight M Palm Springs, and we're streaming twenty four to
seven on.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
The iHeartRadio app. I am your host, Coach B. Thank
you for.
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