Carter Beck, Saskatoon Berries Outfielder | Good Sports EP4

Welcome to Good Sports! Sit down with Ryan Flaherty as he discusses this week in Saskatoon's exciting sports scene! Our feature interview for episode four is Saskatoon Berries Outfielder, Carter Beck!

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It's the name of the game. Oh, he's happy to
have Sean Carpinka's beautiful voice. Welcoming you into another episode
of a good sports Thanks sk for that great theme song.
It is episode four and we're very excited to be
back here with you inside the Different Avenue Media Network studios.

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My name is Ryan Flaherty. We've got a great show
for you today. Our guest, he is the leadoff hitter.
He is the homegrown star of the Saskatoon Berries, at
least homegrown within Saskatchewan, the pride of carn Duff. Carter
Beck gonna join us right here in this studio, and

(01:11):
I have a good word because you know, here's a
little behind the curtain. We've already we already shot, we
already recorded the interview, but I wanted to mention off
the top, Carter had a three home run game against
Moose Jaw. I'm gonna talk about that a little bit
as well later on. But we did the whole interview
we did never even came up in the conversation because
we had so many other great things to talk about.

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But he's just his exploits on the field are very impressive,
but he's also just an impressive guy off the field
as well, So I hope you will stick around for
that chat covering all sorts of bases. There's a little
baseball punfoia with Carter Beck. So that's our feature guest
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coming up. Let's, of course, though, as always, start off
with what's going on? Oh yes, love that love that

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love that intro. It is what's going on for week
four for episode four, and plenty is going on. Let's
start off with the Saskatchewan Ratlers of the Canadian Elite
Basketball League. They had an eventful couple of games, one
on the road and one at home, very different outcomes
in those two games against the top two teams in
the Western Conference. First, they traveled out to Calgary to

(03:28):
take on the Calgary Surge on June sixth, and it
was a tough game for much of the night for
the Rattlers, especially shooting from long range. They were five
of forty on their three point field goal attempts right
up until the end of the game, when they hit
three in a row to win. They were down almost well,

(03:49):
it was double digits. In fact, they won an eleven
zero run in the target score period with Calgary just
two points away from winning the game. The Rattlers reeled
off eleven straight to snatch a victory away from the Surge,
who had lost just once in their first six games
prior to their meeting with Saskatchewan. And yeah, as I mentioned,
the Rallers three point shooting was pretty woeful right up

(04:11):
until it wasn't and it came through at the most
important time of the game to spark that eleven zero run,
a stunning comeback for the Rallers which gave them their
second consecutive victory after losing Force right to open the season. So,
you know, some positive momentum for the Rattlers. Couple of
road wins coming home to host the Vancouver Bandits, and
this is the same team that beat them by forty

(04:33):
points in the first game of the season. It was
a little closer in their second meeting, but not much.
The Bandits they are just so good right now. They
are they seem to be the head and shoulders best
team at least in the West right now, and they
this time handed the Rallers a twenty five point loss
one oh one to seventy six. It was largely due

(04:55):
to just a really quick start by Vancouver. They led
the game fourteen or fifteen point after just one quarter
of play. It was a twenty point lead at the half.
The Rattlers did their best to stick around and hang around,
but they just couldn't mount any sort of a substantial comeback.
And so they are now two and five on the
season as we record this episode, and they will host

(05:17):
the Scarborough Shooting Stars on Friday at Sastel Center, that
is Friday the thirteenth. Ooh, I don't know if Jason's
going to be in the house or not, but the
Rattlers and Shooting Stars certainly will be. And then they'll
head out to Winnipeg on Sunday the fifteenth, and there
will be a familiar face in the Sea Bears lineup

(05:37):
in the form of Jalen Harris was a Rattler last
year for the first ten to eleven games of the
season before he headed off to China to play in
a league out there, but set the league single game
scoring record as a member of the Ratlers. Now he's
a member of the Sea Bears, who also as a
recording this episode, have two wins on the season, so

(05:58):
their neck and neck with the Ratlers in the Western
Conference standings, so that'll be a big game and a
reunion between the Ratlers and Jalen Harris. So those are
the two games coming up on the weekend as the
Ratlers try to bounce back after that tough loss to Vancouver.
So that's what's going on with the Rattlers. Let's talk
some Saskatoon berries, shall we. We're going to have Carter

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back on the show here in just a few minutes time.
But the Berries, they are buzzing. They are off to
a seven and two start as of recording, and they're
hosting Medicine Hat in a couple of games that will
have taken place by the time this episode goes live.
Then they're going on the road to visit the Brooks
Bombers Thursday and Friday, and then back home to take

(06:42):
on the Wyburn Beavers on Saturday and Sunday at Next
Gen Patch at Karen's Field. It's a six o'clock start
on Saturday and a one pm first pitch on Sunday
for those games against Weyburn. So Barry's rolling. They're having
a lot of fun right now now and they are
just hitting the cover off the ball as well. Our

(07:04):
guest Carter Beck three home runs in one game. How
about that against the Moose John Miller Express last Friday,
just an unreal performance. It was a twenty two to
four win for the Berries, just blitzed the Miller Express
and three home run game for Carter Beck, who has
also hit for the cycle as a member of the Berris.

(07:25):
He did that in the playoffs last year also against
Moose Jaw. So I think they are sick and tired
of seeing mister Beck on the opposing side of the diamond,
but they're gonna have to see him a few more
times as this season goes on. We'll see what sort
of exploits he has in store and the rest of
the Berries as well, as they are off to a
very good start indeed. So that's what's going on with

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the Saskatoon Berries. Let's move to football now, Saskatoon Valkyrie style,
the Western Women's Canadian Football League perennial powerhouse, once again
capping another undefeated regular season with a close victory over
the Manitoba Fearless sixteen to fourteen was the final in
that game at SMF Field, But the Valkyries did tweak

(08:12):
their lineup a little bit. They'd already clinched first place
in the conference, so they're giving some other players a
chance to get in as well, so hard to know
how close that game would have been if they had
all their starters playing the whole game, but either way,
a nice win to cap off the regular season and
some valuable experience from some players as well in some
different positions. And so now they get the weekend off

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because they finished first in the Eastern Conference. They will
wait as Regina and Manitoba battle out out in the
two versus three conference semifinal. They will host the winner
of that game June twenty first at SMF Field for
the right to play in the WWCFL championship game, which
still not sure where that's going to be played. It

(08:54):
will be somewhere in Alberta. The teams in the Alberta
half of the league are based in Calgary and Lethbridge,
so i'd assume it'd be one of those cities. But
TVD on that one will keep you posted, especially should
the Valkyries be playing in that game, and the way
they've gone so far this season, you have to think
they have a pretty good shot, but both Regina and
Manitoba have given them some tough tests, some tough battles

(09:16):
this season, so we will wait and see how that
game goes between Manitoba and Regina this weekend to find
out who the Valkyries will be hosting on June twenty first.
So that's what's going on with the Valks. Let's move
on to junior lacrosse. The Saskatchewan Swat continuing to search
for win number one on the year. They were out

(09:38):
on the road in Alberta last weekend in the Rocky
mount Lacrosse League with a couple of games. They dropped
a ten to eight decision against the Calgary Mountaineers and
then a fourteen to three loss at the hands of
the Yokatok's Raiders, who are definitely the top team in
the league this year. It's the Raiders, then you've got
the Mounties and the Miners from Edmonton sort of in

(10:01):
the next tier. The Swat. I think they're closer to
the Mounties and Minors than perhaps those two teams are
to the Raiders. That's just how good the Raiders are.
But we'll see how things shake out. The Swats still
have seven more games remaining, just two at home though,
and they are this coming weekend against the Raiders, so
we'll see how they measure up on home floor against

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Okatok's those games June fourteenth at Saturday, eight pm, and
then the rematch on Sunday, June fifteenth at one pm.
Both those games at Gordy how Kinsman Arena. So I
want to catch some good junior lacrosse action. Come on
out and catch the Swat taking on the Raiders a
couple of chances to see them their last two home
games of the regular season this weekend. That's what's going

(10:47):
on in Junior A lacrosse. How about the Saskatchewan Junior
Hockey League. Yes, I know it is the middle of June,
but excitement is building for the newest franchise in the SGHL,
well right in our backyard here just north of Saskatoon
in Warman, the warm and Wolverines. It was a big
weekend last weekend for them because they got the official

(11:10):
vote of approval, the stamp of approval from the league
officially voting to approve the introduction of the Walnert Warmon
Wolverines franchise. Because it's not just a it's not a
relocation in the traditional sense, of course. The Notre Dame
Hounds have ceased operations in the league. But it's not

(11:30):
like they're just picking up and moving their team here.
And so the Wolverines had to, you know, check off
some important boxes to get that official approval to enter
the league. And then part of that was of course
selling some season tickets. I think they had an initial
target of a thousand season tickets they needed to sell,
but also just establishing some of the baseline operations of
the organization and making sure the league felt confident that

(11:52):
this is going to be a team that is going
to be stable and well run. Every sign seems to
indicate that is certainly the case. So congratulations to the
wolver warm and Wolverines. You're officially a member of the SJHL.
And now the preparations really start to ramp up over
the next couple of months as they get set for

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their first season of play in the SGHL. And finally,
one more item that is going on that we're going
to mention here this week a little high school spring soccer. Yes,
the traditional soccer season for high school teams here in
Saskatchewan is in the fall, but in the last few

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years they've introduced spring soccer here in Sasatoon. The Triple
Sad it's a seven a side game version of the
game played on a smaller field, still an outdoor game,
it's still soccer, but again a smaller dimension of the field,
fewer players on the field, and it really was an opportunity.
It was brought in to really help some of the
smaller schools give them a chance to compete in soccer,

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because frankly, there are some schools in Sasatoon that just
don't have enough players or students who are interested in
playing soccer competitively to put a full you know, eleven v.
Eleven team on the pitch and really like you need
more than eleven players you need because that's going to
run everyone ragged. So it just wasn't realistic for some

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of the smaller schools. But you shrink down the field
and you you shrink down the number of players on
the field, and that opens the door for some of
the smaller schools to compete. So it's been really great
sort of innovation I think for the Triple I sad
over the last few years and they had their girls
in boys city finals this past week. It was the
Bethlehem Stars blanking Evan Hardy two nil to win the

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girls' final. That is their third straight for Bethlehem. They
went undefeated this year seven oh one to cap it
off with that win over Evan Hardy. On the boys side,
Mary and Graham defeating Ede fe and three two in
the boys final. The Falcons last won it in twenty
twenty two. So congratulations this to Bethlehem, Mary and Graham.

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You're at Triple SAD Spring Soccer champions for twenty twenty five.
And that's what's going on for episode four. Goods fun
all right. Time now to welcome in our featured guest
for this week's episode. And the list of his accomplishments
is so long I can't even rattle all them off,
but we'll just we'll give you the highlights here. How
about two time Baseball sask Male Athlete of the Year,

(14:24):
two time SPBL MVP. He was the first Team All
Conference this past season Indiana State University, and of course
he's the Western Canadian Baseball League's raining A Rookie of
the Year. You can only win that one once. I'm
told you can't win that two times. And also the
most outsanding Canadian in twenty twenty four. This guy should
have a endorsement deal with a long care company because

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all he does is a rake. It is Carter back. Carter,
thanks a lot for being here, Yeah a lot. That's
a lot to reel off there. It's been quite quite
the last few years for you on the baseball dime.
And let's talk just about about that though. Like the hitting,
because I mentioned it right off the top, that's a

(15:06):
big weapon for you. It's not your only skill set.
But where did you learn to hit a baseball like that?

Speaker 3 (15:12):
It definitely started like just when I was really young
with my dad, and I mean I've been following a
senior baseball team around since I was like three years
old to fifteen or whatever. And then I also have
you hitting in my backyard all the time. We had
a big poll in our front yard that we'd set
up like Christmas decorations on. I had one of those
spinny ball things like you hit it and it spins

(15:32):
around that comes back. I mean, I just go out
there after school and hit there for a couple hours
just because it was fun.

Speaker 2 (15:39):
It is it sounds like fun to me. We should
before I get too deep this, of course, if you're
not aware, Order is the outfielder for the sas tomb
Berri's I said what league's playing in, but I didn't
mentioned the team. Of course, it is a local sports show,
so that goes out saying outfielder, have you always played
in the outfielder? Like a lot of kids growing up,
did you play pretty much every position? I know you've
pitched as well. How did you end up in the outfield?

Speaker 3 (16:01):
I actually caught till I was like sixteen, and then
I moved to mostly third base and shortstop for a team,
and then I started playing outfield in college. I didn't
I played. Only time I played outfield until college was
with Team Sketchewan. Other than that, I had very very
minimal outfield experience.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
So what was the who was it that kind of
first puts you out there? And what was that conversation?

Speaker 1 (16:23):
Like?

Speaker 2 (16:23):
What was the rationale?

Speaker 3 (16:26):
Uh? Well, I mean I was an alright catcher, but
I wasn't a good enough catcher to play college defensively,
and honestly college is catching in college is not that
fun of a thing. And my infielding I just knew
wasn't good enough either. But outfield, I was pretty fast
and kids swing it pretty well, So I was like,
I don't know, I've always found outfield easy. I've been

(16:47):
taking tennis pop flies for my grapa since I was
five as well, every single time i'd see him. So
a little simpler out there and you just go out
and be athletic and kind of suited for me. And
I mean, I've come along and my outfieling is a
pretty rough start when I moved to the corner outfield anyways,
and you marry, but it's gotten a lot better.

Speaker 2 (17:07):
So, uh, I'm getting into like the like origins here,
but I should we should set the table a little
bit as well before we get too deep. And this
is just off the top because you know, we are
a news ish type of program as well, news ish
news adjacent weekly show, So before we get a little
bit more into the background of things too, let's let's
just take his step out and just just talk about

(17:29):
the start of this Barry season, because it's your second
year with the team, it's the second year for the team,
and it's been basically a mirror of last year's start. Right.
You guys were two and seven to start last year
year seven to two. As we are recording this episode
with a couple of big games coming up against Medicine Hat,
the team that you knocked out of the playoffs last

(17:50):
year in a bit of an upset. Some would say
the first top two teams in the league coming up
here in a couple of a couple of games. But
more I'm more curious just to know about the team
this year, because it looks like you've really, you know,
added some really big pieces to the lineup.

Speaker 3 (18:04):
Yeah, I mean, we're really good this year. We've got
a lot of I mean, we have a ton of
Division one talent on our team, which is always big.
And we have a lot of guys from very good
junior colleges, and we got some guys from D two's
and I mean all over the place, right, but we
got some of the team's best guys up here and
then a lot of Division one guys, like I said,

(18:25):
which helps tremendously in this league. And yeah, it's really
cool to see. I mean, you go up and look
at our lineup before a game, You're like, dang, I
mean Corey Waters sitting in the seven or eight hole
whatever he's hitting that. You're like, wow, we must be
pretty good if he's hitting all the way down there.
It's just really cool to see our how much our
lineup's changing, how good our order is for hitting wise,

(18:46):
and then on the staff side, I mean, every guy
we throw out of the pen feels like he's up
to ninety ninety one and it's like, dang, we do
got some arms this year too.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
How much of that is Joe Carnahan. I mean, he's
been around this league for so long, he has so
many contacts connections. I mean, we've seen you've managed to
pluck some guys from some other teams this year, and
especially looking at that pitching staff in particularly, I think
the top two strikeout guys from last season are now
berries as well. But what's What's how's Joe as a
as a coach? I mean, as someone with the amount

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of experience, amount of time he's had in this league.

Speaker 3 (19:18):
I mean, he's awesome as a coach. I knew last
year too, Like we went through the Starlett to start
the year, but I knew we'd done up figuring out
away because Joe's always won. That's kind of his his thing.
He's always won games. And uh, I know last year
one time he said to me after the end of
the year, I mean, we had not a bad year
for our first year, but he said, we're not being
bad next year, and so that's what he thought. So

(19:39):
sure enough he went out and found a bunch of
guys and now, I mean it's early, but we're looking
really really good.

Speaker 2 (19:46):
How I'm always curious about this with baseball, especially because
it's you know, one at a time, you're up to bat, right,
everyone's got their position in the field, the pitcher's got
their jobs. Everyone's got their you know, their specific positions.
But yeah, we talked so much about chemistry, and I
think for some people they relate that more to you know,

(20:07):
hockey or basketball, where guys are all you know, the
action is continuous and you're having to sort of read
off each other and things like that. So what is chemistry?
What's the importance of chemistry in a baseball clubhouse? And
how does that translate onto the field?

Speaker 3 (20:20):
I mean, well you can you can really see it
with our team if you pay attention to the games, because,
like say, at Swift Current, even the game we lost
last night, but they scored one, we score one, they
score three, we score three. Just teams that have good
like camaraderie and whatnot within their team are able to
respond really well and always like find a way to
create runs. I mean, we've probably scored runs and more

(20:40):
innings than we haven't this year. I mean, actually I
have in the games i've been here anyways, when I've
paid attention, we have like had ornings we didn't score
a run. So just being able to can maybe come
more in that. But just to be able to continuously
put on runs and anytime they score, we score back
is a really big thing. Because hitting is contagious, and
when you got a bunch of guys like each other
and want to do good together, that hitting becomes even

(21:03):
more contagious. Sometimes if there's problems in your team, then
the hitting doesn't run down the whole line up. But
with our team, it's been run down the whole line
up really well.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
Because so much of his mental right, Like, it's it's
your mindset, it's how it's your approach. You know, we
hear those words a lot, we talk about baseball, the mindset,
the approach, but it's that speaks to confidence, right, And
so if you guys are tight, if you're getting along,
you're dapping each other up, whatever you ever want to
call it, you're gonna feel better, right, Yeah, whether you're
going out on the mound or you're going up to
the plate, you're going out to play your position in

(21:33):
the field. Is that kind of like?

Speaker 3 (21:34):
Yeah, I mean if the guy in the mound can
trust his defense, he's gonna pitch better. If the guy
in the batting under you can trust with the guy
behind him will get him, we'll get it done. If
he doesn't, I mean, everybody's gonna do a little better,
play a little looser. And when you got nine guys
in the field that you can trust at all times,
it's it makes everything a little easier.

Speaker 2 (21:50):
You talk about the batting or right, I want to
get too into the into the nitty gritting into the
weeds here, but like I understand, I was doing some
reading that. You know, you you hit leadoff for the barriers.
That's just kind of like last year was kind of
the first time.

Speaker 3 (22:01):
Yeah, I mean I never really what's the what's that adjustment?

Speaker 2 (22:04):
Because like being the first guy up, do you relish
that opportunity to kind of set a tone?

Speaker 3 (22:08):
Yeah, I actually love going first up, being the first
batter of the game, Like just she went around the
road and I get to be the very first batter
of the game. Yeah, that's one of my favorite things.
If I'm able to start it off with a hit
or a walk or whatever, just find a way to
get on base and at worst have a good long
at bat to make a pitcher throw six or seven
pitches hopefully and get them get them like, oh wow,

(22:28):
this isn't gonna be an easy game to get through. Yeah.
I enjoy it at times. Obviously, when you roll over
in your second pitch, it's like, oh, I don't have
to be the first batter of the game. But you know,
it's how it goes.

Speaker 2 (22:41):
That's baseball, right, Yeah. What for for folks that aren't that,
I mean, maybe they've come to a game, maybe they haven't,
but you just don't really know much about the Western
Canadian baseball Like I still almost call the WMB office.
That's old I am and I used to cover the
Mavericks back in the day when when I when it
was the w NBA when I lived in medicine hat.
But for folks who aren't familiar, like just give sort

(23:05):
of describe the level of of of athlete, level of
baseball that we're talking about here.

Speaker 3 (23:10):
I mean, it's it's getting a lot better. I mean
I feel like this year even compared to last year.
The top teams are the top teams are really good
in this league. It's you got a bunch of guys
who just you got both ends. You got guys who
have played full seasons that are coming up just to
play more baseball. And then you've got guys who haven't
really got their opportunities at school to come out and

(23:31):
play and get a chance to show up and just
play some baseball. Because as crazy as may see, there's
a lot of guys who go down to college baseball
and never play. So those guys finally get to come
up here and get a chance to play. And so
the quality of play in this league is really good.
I mean, it keeps getting better, and the top guys
everywhere are like really good. And yeah, I mean, I

(23:52):
don't know what level I compare it to in college,
but it's it's good. For sure.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
I've struck by, like especially since like it's like the
pre COVID and post COVID era almost for the league,
and even just you know, take away sort of the
caliber of players and sort of that sort of thing.
It's just like the league itself feels like it's been
kind of rejuvenated. You have these new teams like the Berries,
you know, and go back a few years about Silvan Lake, right,
they join the league. Brooks joins the league a few

(24:17):
years ago as well, And you know, I harken back
to you know, the Yellow Jackets days and there was
not a lot of people at the ballpark for those games.
Now you're getting almost sell up crowds every every game
for your games. What is that like for you? For
you and the rest of the Berries to play at
that park at next jam Patcher at Karen's Field.

Speaker 3 (24:38):
I mean, it's unreal when you get to play in
front of two thousand people. I mean there's a lot
of guys who come up here and never really played
in front of more than five six hundred people, and
now all of a sudden, your average night is almost
two thousand fans at home and they all love you
like I love you to death, want you to do
good and whatnot. So it's just it's really cool. I mean,
there's not I don't know if there's a better experien

(25:00):
into the wcb A to play. You could argue Okatok's
or Sylvan, but I think crowd wise, I mean, we're
more consistently full than anybody else I would say. So
it's just amazing out here.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
It's not fair to come over Okato because I got mountains,
like there's a whole like the setting there. I mean,
it's hard to really. I mean, if you go to
a game at Seamen Stadium, you'll understand what I'm talking about.
It is a kind of a crown jewel. But I
mean the improvements that have been made here. I mean
I can remember going to not even w NBL games,
but back when we had the Northern League way back
in the day. This might be before you were born

(25:32):
if I'm thinking about it, but there we had a
few you know, low A teams. Yeah, and I remember
going and even as a kid going like, you know,
this is pretty like the the stadium, the ballpark wasn't
much but much to uh to look at there. But
I mean what they've done here in Saskatoon, and that's
a big reason, I think, and everything that was done
to bring this Barry's team on has really kind of

(25:52):
struck the right chord with with the with the market
and it's been really cool to see everything take off
and it helps you guys had a good first year.
That that always sells some tickets too, right. I always
a little slow start, but you guys really had a
great sort of second half last year and you made
a playoff push. So how much did that fuel you
coming into this year? You know, with the way that
you guys kind of were able to round it off
last year.

Speaker 3 (26:12):
I mean it just led everybody who's coming back to like,
you want to win this year, Like, go on and
win the win the WCBL league. It's not just go
out and win a whole bunch of games. I mean,
everybody's goal here is to win the championship because we
want to bring it Saskatoon and we want to bring
it for the fans, and just to go out and win,
not just win a whole bunch of games, like not

(26:34):
going win forty games, but sure that'd be really cool
if we go and win forty games. What to go
on and win the next six games to get.

Speaker 2 (26:40):
The that's the that's the key, I rebel HARKing back
once again to my time in medicine. Had I believe
it was twenty thirteen. I think they lost something like
seven games, but then Melville beat them in the championship
series and it was like, wow, we did all this
and what does those those last two wins or that
last win just couldn't quite get there. So it's like
it's you know, it's like in the in the majors, right,

(27:02):
you can have a hunterd wins season. But h yeah,
what what was the final? What was what did you
do in your last game of the season? Yeah, right,
that's the thing. Let's go back wind the clock back.
So Carnduff, Saskatchewan your hometown. I am pretty well traveled
with the province, but I have to admit I haven't
spent much time enough. I may have driven through a
couple of times. But for those who don't know, tuck

(27:24):
down in the southeast corner. You know, what is about
a five hour drive from south two? Is that right?
Four and a half and half five and a half, yeah,
because it's about five astavan yea, yeah, yeah, yeah, So
it's a way, it's a hike, it's a it's a
good way to realize just how big this province is,
right because we've got a lot more north. There's still
a long way to go. But tell me about about
just growing up in Carnduff and and and getting into

(27:44):
not just baseball, but becoming a you know, a big
just into sports in general. Well what planted those seeds?

Speaker 3 (27:50):
I mean, so in Cardiff Owers, like many small towns
in Sketchland, there's not a ton to do, right, So
I was playing every single sport I could. I mean,
when I was younger, if it was baseball season, and
it was at the ballpark pretty much every day, whether
I was watching senior baseball like I said earlier, practicing
or playing myself or going out and playing with the
ball with some guys my age. And then in the

(28:11):
winter it was hockey every day, I mean every weekend
go spend six seven hours at the rink playing shinny,
especially over Christmas breaks. And then once I got started
to get older, it was tracking the spring as well
as baseball, hockey all winter with I played with Stevan
volleyball in the fall. I mean, every single sport I
could do, I was. I was doing it, not just

(28:32):
not just to do it, also just to try and
become more athletic with each and everything. And started working
out too when I was like thirteen fourteen, started going
with my dad and then kind of just got addicted
to it and started going myself because I had, like
I said, not much to do in Krnduff and keeps
you out of trouble.

Speaker 2 (28:48):
I was gonna say, and you stay out of trouble
that way too, right, because there's the other way, there's
a whole other side of the tracks you could you
could go down for sure, quite literally, I'm sure as well,
being like your a naturally gifted athlete. And we'll talk.
I'm gonna talk ask a little bit more about that
in a moment, because you know, it's not just baseball
where you've had some some success. But I'm curious though,

(29:11):
being from such a small community, like do you do
you at what point you kind of realize that about
yourself because there's a sense that maybe like, oh maybe
I'm just for my town, Like I'm I'm good, but
I'm just compared to like the the kids right here,
but who knows about who's in Viagina or who's in Yeah,
at what point do you kind of realize, Okay, this
isn't just like I'm the you know good for my
you know, my geographical aream and like I actually am

(29:33):
a like I've got some real ability here.

Speaker 3 (29:36):
So growing up I was actually really lucky on baseball. Anyways,
we had three guys my age who made the Team
SaaS team and You thirteen. So it was always like
we always had competitive that was about like similar levels.
So like we knew we were good, but we didn't
like until we went out and made Team Sas, we're like, oh,
we're like that good. I mean, that was really cool
for three of us from small town Saskatchewan to make that.

(30:00):
That's kind of when I first kicked in that like, oh,
like there's a chance to be really good at this,
and then you just kind of keep going on. And
then my second year of You fifteen, it was the
COVID year, so that kind of messed things up. But
I hit like I don't know, I hit like five
fifty or something like some ridiculous thing, and I was
like throwing up to eighty three miles an hour off
the mountain. But it didn't really mean much because there

(30:22):
was no province wide competition. I mean, there was talks
like you could hear kind of what was going on
up in the north. Like I knew I was one
of the better players in the South with a couple
of guys, but like I didn't hear what was happening
up in Saskatoon and whatnot. And there's a ton of
people here, so like, who knows, maybe it could be
more average and you just don't really know that much stuff.
But then kind of as things have going on, my
first year of U eighteen, I had a good year,

(30:44):
and then my second year it was really good. And
that's kind of when I started really was like, yeah,
this is doing pretty well.

Speaker 2 (30:49):
So you start hearing that is at what point you
start hearing from schools.

Speaker 3 (30:54):
Ah. So I never really talked to too many schools
about high school. I also didn't reach out, which is
kind of on me, but I just kind of thought.
My thought process was if they want me bad enough,
they'll reach out. Yeah, and I kind of had the
lecture of being able to do that. But I had
a couple of schools reach out. I had well University
of Maria obviously, and then another one was Colby Community College.

(31:15):
But it's pretty much basically between Division two or junior college,
and I ended up siding on a Division two. But no,
I was always kind of hoping that i'd get some
more offers out of high school. But I think it
just made me realize if you're from Saskatchewan and not
that I did everything the way most people would playing
hockey and all that, but it's it's gonna be really

(31:36):
hard to get good offers out of high school in
Scatchewan just because kind of the way it is, nobody's
gonna take a risk on a guy they've never really
seen before. But like the thing about baseball, and it's
any sport, if you go have one good year, they know, like.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
Yeah, because I don't think there's not probably not a
lot of scouts that are making trips to Saskatchewan. They
might be watching a game online or something. I don't
I think, especially like baseball in particular as one of
those sports. So it's really hard to get a sense
of someone when you don't see them in person, right, Yeah,
you really get see the velocity either throwing or or
how they're reacting to different pitches in the in the

(32:10):
box or all these sorts of things. Right Yeah, So sure,
but being you know, that's sass baseball piece, because I
wanted to expand on that a little bit more because
I don't know, like, I think it took me quite
a long time, you know, well into adulthood before I
fully realized how much talent we have here. And maybe
that part of that is because I just I didn't

(32:31):
play I mean I played a little softball as a kid,
but I never played baseball as a soccer kid growing up.
But I it wasn't until I kind of left Saskatoons
as I am from here originally, But it wasn't until
I left Saskatoon and went to a place like Medicine
Hat where they had American Legion ball, where I thought,
oh it, Oh, where's what's baseball's level like in Saskatchewan.
Then I came home and I started to see all

(32:53):
these different things going on. So just like because we've
had I don't know, nine or ten Major leaguers from
this province, I think total all time, what is the
level of ball in this province?

Speaker 3 (33:03):
I mean it's really good for like Saskatchewan with dark
like I mean we have what a million four people,
which is not that many U for the amount of
people we have, like our SPBL leagues, like our Triple
A's are really good for that level. I mean, as
soon as you start trying to compare it to the US,
US is a different ballgame. I mean there's so many people.
But like for up here, it's really good and like

(33:24):
you can get away with playing the SPBL and being
really good in this PBL and go to college and
you might not play your first year, but you'll be
able to figure it out with And I mean there's
lots of examples. Right now we're playing Division two and
AI schools or junior college schools of guys that are
doing really well. And I mean it just kind of
shows like it's it's good here. It's not people might
think it's not that good, but like it's pretty good.

Speaker 2 (33:47):
One of the challenges, obviously, is the weather, right, like
you and like what did you do for you know,
during those months where you can't practice outside, like where
you have to head into Regina? Like what sort of
indo were options did you have? Do you have anything?

Speaker 3 (34:03):
Right in k So, we actually did gym at school,
or we did do that for a while. We did
the gym in Carnduff High School. And then my dad
has started and Trent Doran splayed back and Trent Dorance
they've started up a thing called Southeast Baseball Training on
a glen youw in Saskatchewan.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
Another was sprawling metropolis.

Speaker 3 (34:22):
Yeah, probably one hundred people maybe, but the old high
school gym there they use that they put a cage
up on the up on the I can't even think.

Speaker 2 (34:32):
Of the stage.

Speaker 3 (34:33):
The stage. Yeah, put a cage on the stage and
then the bottoms used for throwing and whatnot, and they
play catch down there and it works pretty good. They
start that up in I think middle of February or
something like that. But I know personally, I always took
off like November to January, mid January before I started
in high school, especially just to give me two months
off clear my mind, not touch a ball on my

(34:54):
body heal. I honestly think that's really important while you're
young to take some time off and just let because
baseball is such a repetitive sport that if you don't
let those things get an actual break, it can break
you down. And that's why that's part of the reason
I think there's so many kids that end up hurt
young is you ask them, oh, I've just been playing
baseball for the last five years. They're not using their

(35:15):
body in other ways and never given it a rest.

Speaker 2 (35:17):
So that's a big perfect because I was gonna ask
about the other sports because you're taking time off baseball,
but you were playing in the meantime. You're playing hockey, right,
and you're playing volleyball, there's some track in there, so
uh that it's like cross training essentially.

Speaker 3 (35:31):
Right, Yeah, I mean, I my opinion on it as
any time you can play any other sports, it's gonna
make you a better athlete all around. It's gonna improve
your mental game obviously, and then it's just gonna improve
your motor skills. And the more you're able to do
just pick up and do things, the better you're gonna
be when somebody asks you to go change something and
you go try something new, You're just gonna be able
to pick it up right away. It's gonna make everything

(35:51):
a little easier.

Speaker 2 (35:52):
I mean, I talk about your you just having natural
athletic ability and all those other sports. And specifically, I
mean this guy won a provincial time check into the
tech Trathlon, which to me is like a perfect like
of course a baseball player would do. Like it's like
almost a great like encapsulation of skill sets or muscle

(36:12):
type movements that would serve you so well in baseball. Right,
So it's what shot put one hundred meter eight hundred
and long jump. So I mean I was, I was,
you know, doing the research, and that I could tell
that was a really important goal for you to win that,
But like how much did that help you in baseball?

(36:33):
Like compeeding in that in those events.

Speaker 3 (36:34):
I mean it was huge. Once I hit grade not seven,
eight or not seven, I think I start doing track
right and I was like chubbying slow, like slow slow,
one of the worst runners you'd seen. And sure enough
we had a really good track coach in card Duff
who ran at the at U of R, and she
helped me become a lot better runner. And that kind

(36:55):
of moved on and I started being a little faster
and I'm like, oh ah, and then kept moving on.
Then I think grade eleven track, I went to provincials
in the quad again they're tech trathlon like they call
it now, and I got I think I got sixth
place as a younger age in the like grade eleven
twelve group. I looked at my coach and said, I'm
winning it next year, and sure enough went back next

(37:17):
year and was able to win it. And I think
just the training for that track training some of the
best training you can do. It's sprints, and sprinting is
pretty much the most important thing and almost all sports
only one that sprinting is not the absolute most important,
like hockey because you're skating, but swimming for swimming, right,
you talk about football, baseball, soccer, I mean, you name it.

(37:39):
Sprindy's one of the biggest things. And Sprindy's going to
make you stronger and faster. Anytime you can be faster,
it's a good thing. So I think being able to
train like that get more athletic, explosive, and also like
training for shop put, just rotational strength and snapping my
hip through faster and all that stuff. I think it
really helped on the baseball side of things as well.

Speaker 2 (37:59):
And yeah, and you want further, I mean to me
further in sort of evidence that that event. And I
think I think quadrathlon is a better name for it
because that tells you how many events? Yeah, yeah, I agree, right,
And I was like tech, how many is it that tetrapac?
I don't know, but I think it's a funny little
an interesting footnote. The year. So it's twenty twenty three,
you win that provincial championship and who's second? Who comes

(38:22):
in runner up?

Speaker 3 (38:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (38:23):
Oakland Flidell, who was your teammate with the Berries last year? Right,
Like so another ballplayer, Uh, does you know, gets the
silver medal. There so more evidence to say, like this
is great baseball players quadrath are on tetrathlon. I won't
even call it. That's a great marriage, right, Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 3 (38:39):
Yeah, and it's perfect for all of us small town
kids because the big city guys who are actually doing
track since like and that's their sport. I mean, they're
going to win the one hundred meters, they're going to
win the single events, but if you put four together,
it gives us small town guys a chance to go
and win them too.

Speaker 2 (38:52):
Does the shot put mess with your throwing motion at like,
do you have to mentally reset because that's obviously a
much different No.

Speaker 3 (38:58):
I never had any issues with that. I mean it's
a totally different form of throwing. I actually ended up
my shot put that year was what kind of carried
me in it. I shot like thirteen to five something.

Speaker 2 (39:09):
You broke the record by like half a meter or something.

Speaker 3 (39:11):
Didn't you almost a whole meter? Yeah? Okay, under selling,
And I mean it would have been good enough for
silver and shot put that year in the shot put event,
but it was That's kind of the biggest thing for me.
It was the easiest thing that I knew I could
just gain a whole bunch in like sprinting, you're only
going to gain so much speed eight hundred meter. You
can get a lot better shape in a hurry, But

(39:33):
once you get to that top, I mean, everything else
is so much harder. Same with long jump, but shotput
being such a technical thing, like you can get your
form down to a science, and that's going to increase
you by like almost two meters, whereas you're not gonna
do any of that with other events.

Speaker 2 (39:48):
You got the lot, get a lot of you get
up a lot of points in that event, and so
to speak, right, yeah, all right, you mentioned briefly and
I will we'll just kind of we're gonna kind of
zip through this a little bit. But so University of
Mary one year there, that's in for those who don't know. Bismarck,
North Dakota. So that must have been nice, I'm sure to
you know, be fairly close to home. Yeah, it was
like closer. It's closer closer to home than Saskatoon, is right,

(40:11):
it was? Yeah? So yeah, I mean you must have
had some family friends in there for most of your games,
if not all your games at home.

Speaker 3 (40:17):
Right, Yeah, I mean any of the home games we
got to play, we had almost any of my had
family there. And I mean home games are sparse when
you're playing in as Mark, North Dakota in the spring.
But the chance we did get home games, I'd usually
have family out. And I know when I went to
like mine not it's miserable cold that day, but we
had quite the crew out and it was it was
awesome to be able to see just people from the

(40:38):
from Cardiff come out and visit those games just to
come watch.

Speaker 2 (40:41):
I liked the synchronicity too, because the campus there. I
was looking, I was looking at the map. I was
curious because I'm like, I've done threw out a few times,
but I had occasion to visit the University of Mary.
But you got the Missouri River right there, and now
you're playing for a team in the Missouri Valley Conference
in the Indi United State. What what led to that
to that move was that sort of pre planned where

(41:03):
when you went down for that first year where you're thinking, Okay,
have a good year and hopefully I can make that
jump to D one.

Speaker 3 (41:09):
Yeah, I mean in my head, it was always probably
gonna be two years. Like at Division two because I
didn't know how my first year was gonna go, obviously,
but I figured by my second year i'd be good
enough to move on. But sure enough, I went out
and had a really good first year, and I figured
this has to be good enough to get somewhere else.
So I decided to transfer. And it was also a

(41:29):
part like just hoping I could go to school somewhere
a little cheaper, honestly, And so I hit the portal
and I didn't have a ton of teams reach out.
I don't think I committed to any in the state
till the end of June last year, but or maybe
even early July, I can't remember. I think the MLB
drafted ended though, and that's when teams started reaching out.
But I was committed to Junior College for a week

(41:50):
because I didn't have the teams that was hope and
reach out, and I was pretty picky on like I
was going to go somewhere where hopefully i'd get everything
paid for and then and so I committed to Junior College.
It offered me really well, and then I was committed
there for a week and then all of a sudden,
I get a call from three Big Division one schools
and it's like, oh wow, these teams are like reaching
out now. And then sure enough Indiana State called and

(42:12):
they had a ton of success and gave me the
offer I was hoping for and ended up down there.

Speaker 2 (42:18):
They just needed a new coach to get in place
before you could go right exactly. The new coaches coming
and they got their own ideas. All they want to
how they want to construct the team, contruct the roster,
and how that recruiting is all gonna go. So how
do you like? How was how was your first year?
I just overall experience being in Tara Hat. I believe
we're gonna go with that pronunciation Tara Hot, Indiana. I
was near there actually last year on my way back

(42:39):
homeway had a trip down to Florida for opening Day
and back in the car, but so I think I
may have cruised right past or through Tara Hate. But yeah,
what's what's what was that first year like for you
that you just kind of wrapped up there?

Speaker 3 (42:53):
I mean Division one baseball is crazy, it's a different
it's a different animal all on its own, But it
was really cool there. I mean the facilities we had,
which in the Division one world, the facilities were maybe
average at best, but like to me, they're like unreal
crazy stuff. Our weight room was just fantastic. I mean
we got shakes at the protein shakes, then every lift

(43:15):
we wanted, and like sixteen racks with every way everything
with Indiana state on every logo, and so that's just
was crazy. Our own hitting facility was basically just for baseball,
and then obviously access to the field ball day pretty
much every day. And yeah, so that whole thing was
just different. The experience of campus life on a big

(43:38):
Division one school too, it's a totally different ballgame. I
mean we had we have only like eight to ten
thousand students, so nothing crazy, but like there's Greek life,
like that's the thing. There's frats, their sororities, all stuff.
Is a Canadian kid from Cardival like never really like
thought that was the thing in the movies only sure, yeah, exactly.

(43:58):
So there's just a it's a bit of like a
culture shock almost when you go down to those schools.
But I really enjoyed it, and it's really cool when
you get to those Division one schools too. How like
all the athletes are like kind of rooting for each
other and like athletes, hang out with athletes a lot,
and it's kind of just a cool whole situation. And
then also seeing how just like students on campus are like,
oh wow, baseball team and you just feel like you're

(44:21):
you're just another guy at school doing it, but people
really look up to it.

Speaker 2 (44:25):
Is it a good crew? You've got a good team there.
How are the guys?

Speaker 3 (44:28):
Oh it was good, I mean we were We had
quite the year to figure things out. I mean, new
coaching staff, four or five returnings at best. Uh So
there was a whole it's a whole year figuring stuff
out and late in the portal for our coaches too
to try and find guys. And I mean the season
kind of reflected that a bit, trying to figure it out.
But I think going in the next year, we got

(44:49):
some returning with quite quite a few returning guys, and
hopefully your coaches can go out and find some some
big arms and bats in the portal to help us
get better. And I think we have a lot better
chance to do good next year.

Speaker 2 (45:00):
For yourself personally, like is this you know every kid
grows up, you got those big league dreams. I mean,
you're every It seems like to me, you know, watching
you keep every time you move up a level, you
just keep producing and keep performing at or above the
level you did the year before. How much how much
is that a driver for you? Do you still like?

(45:22):
Cause year, I mean baseball terms, you're a young guy,
h it's a it's a sport that you know, maturation
It takes a while compared to we're so used to
all we get kids going in and the NHL at
eighteen or things like that. But baseball is a whole
different animal, and especially for I think for position players. Yeah,
there's a there's a real naturation and growth. Sometimes pictures
you can sell all those guys throwing ninety and you

(45:42):
know whatever. Yeah, he's got some natural But so I
guess my question is like, is that still like how
do you think that that's a that's a dream, that's
a goal for you? How do you how do you
manifest that? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (45:53):
So the really cool thing for me over the last
like three four months is that it's the dreams I
turned more into like a real goal of like next year,
things go well, I should be able to get drafted, uh,
and then you know you start your start your steps
up from there. But I think one thing that's always

(46:14):
drove me is, like I've said this for it sucks
to suck, right, So no matter no matter what the
sport is, I've always tried to push my absolutely hardest
to be one of the best players on my team,
no matter what it was. And I think that's kind
of helped me through every level and I move up.
I mean, if I'm not one of the best guys,
it drives me sure to get to the top where
I am one of our best guys. Like I want
to be someone guys can count on. And yeah, with

(46:36):
the season I had too, it's really cool to see
next year, like next year is a huge year. If
I go out and pretty much do talking to some people,
if I do as I did or better, it should
be pretty hopeful come July next year for that stuff.
And it's really cool to be able to just be
talking about.

Speaker 2 (46:53):
Well because when you do what you're doing at the
division I level, like that to me is the key, right, Yeah,
div when you're playing you're hitting against D one pitching. Yeah,
that's that's where the proof is in the pudding, because
that's that the margin becomes thinner in terms of like
guys at the top end of D one that and
then you know you're going into the to the minor

(47:13):
leagues or something like that. So that's really cool to see,
you take it. I mean, we see I mean just
last week, Jacob Melton, you know, former Okatoke's dog cracks
the Astros Houston Astros lineup and he's you know, he's
he's showing off his his skill set. But do you
take how much inspiration do you take from guys like that,
because you know it's he's not the only guy to
come out of the WCBL And yeah, there's a lot

(47:36):
there takes time to get there, but how much does
that feel you?

Speaker 3 (47:40):
I mean, it's really cool to be able to see that.
And uh, I think one thing that's really driving to
me on the other side of things is it's been
a long time since a kid from Skatchewan's made it,
especially on the offensive side. He had a couple of pitchers,
but there hasn't been a hitter in there for a while,
so I mean, it'd be really cool. I mean, I'm
still a long long ways away from that yet, but
it'd be really cool to keep chasing it and see

(48:01):
what happens for it.

Speaker 2 (48:03):
Yeah, did you get did you get I mean, he's
not on the staff this year, but had you been
Andrew Albers here at all last year, you know about
that sort of thing of like what I mean, he's
a pitcher, so I mean it's a different trajectory, a
different pathway. But did you have any revice or ever
asking for any advice about the navigating that?

Speaker 1 (48:20):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (48:21):
Not a ton really actually because at the time still
like none of it was really like there's a chance
this stuff, but like I still was a year away
from even talking about much of it, because I mean
there hadn't been a ton yet for me to happen.
I mean I'd had some people reach out and talk
about things, but nothing really mattered until this year happened.
And then like to prove myself at the Division one
level obviously, But no, I might actually reach out to

(48:44):
him sometime in the near future, just talk to some
things about that, because there's some stuff I got to
get figured out for things. And yeah, I mean I
think I might reach out to some of those guys
who have been through it already and from sketchewan know
the process and whatnot.

Speaker 2 (48:58):
I think, Yeah, yeah, I was thinking and so as
you said there's been a while since a non pitchure,
and I was trying to actually think of who that
is as I go albers. Yeah, Dustin Mullikan. Okay, we're
talking pictures here. I know, I kind of come up
with the name. It might be Terry Puell for all
I know. Which is now we're going back to, you know,
the seventies and eighties out of Melville. All right, I

(49:18):
want to, Uh, we're kind of running a little short time,
but I want to I got some quick hit I
call it Quick Hits the baseball themed episodes. So we'll
do a little a little rapid fire. Though we're not
gonna I was gonna say start the clock. We don't
actually have a clock. So just some fun stuff here,
some some uh sort of around the baseball world and

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maybe some other associated things. So if your game for that, sure,
let's hit some quick cats. All right. Uh Now I
will start with ballpark questions. First of all, your favorite
ballpark that you've ever played in, favorite borlo park to
play in.

Speaker 3 (49:51):
My probably the coolest one I ever played in was
East Carolina. We played ECU in the CU on a
Saturday night game, and they had like probably six thousand
fans out there nearly and just the outfield's completely aligned
with fans that like arm resting height, so they're all
in your ear all game, just chirping you. I mean,
they search up every they know everything about you too,
so you're hearing some things. I mean I heard some

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good jokes out there. One was like, there's one about
a canoe. There's some moose jokes that are like, oh,
you must suck so bad it hockey you ended up
playing baseball. There was a whole bunch of jokes like
that that was like, oh wow, you guys really know
your stuff. So that was really cool.

Speaker 2 (50:26):
Do you like do you is that you sounds like
you're a guy who enjoys that kind of environment, like
you know, Kevin having a little something to bounce off
of a little bit.

Speaker 3 (50:35):
Yeah, I mean I've always liked I mean ever since hockey.
Obviously you learned that in hockey, but I do enjoy
when I get a chance to play in front of that.
I mean we put Tennessee and Vanderbilt too this year,
and those were similar environments type where everybody's just like
on you out to get you.

Speaker 2 (50:51):
All right, favorite park to watch a game have you
have you I mean, you're always playing, so I don't
know how much you've got a chance.

Speaker 3 (50:56):
But like, yeah, I haven't had a chance to watch
a ton of games, but any level, any level, I
don't know, that'd be tough. I mean, like I said,
I've barely watched any baseball in person last years. I
didn't mind when we watched uh, I'll just go with this.
When we watched a gold medal game in Ontario, Ontario

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versus who did they play? Alberta at the Well and
Jackfish Stadium. It was pretty cool because we had at
count of the summer games. I mean, it was completely
packed and just pretty cool environment. That was my first
time kind of being on the other side of watching
a team win in that situation, so you don't.

Speaker 2 (51:33):
Get it all the time. To get out, you know,
maybe go ahead to Saint Louis or Chicago or no.

Speaker 3 (51:37):
I mean the only place I've watched MLB games is
at Twins Stadium. Yeah, it was really nice. I was
young at the time. But next fall, since we're only
like two and a half hours from Chicago, I'm planning
to get to Wrigley on a Sundays.

Speaker 2 (51:50):
It's still on my list I've been in nineteen Yeah, no,
no bragging there, but the Chicago's are still on my list.
My first baseball road trip actually was going to go
to White Sox, but they I got rained Out's the
only time I've ever been rained out on a baseball trip.
But it's not bad place to be if you can't
get to the ball game. All right, So so what's
like you you mentioned going to Chatogo. What's number one
on your ballpark bucket list? Like, if you if you could,

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there's one.

Speaker 3 (52:14):
I mean, I want to get to Fenway at some
point too. Obviously, I've never actually been to the Rogers
Center either, which I was supposed to go my Canad's
Future showcase, but yeah, we kind of got uh screwed over,
I guess a little bit on that one. We ended
up having that in Ottawa, but it was still good.
So I'd like to get to those. I don't know,

(52:35):
Reglarly is going to be pretty cool. I mean, that's
what I wanted to experience for sure, and the fact
that I'm going to get into an next fall is
pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (52:41):
I'm saving a lot of the good ones for like last,
because even though I've been nineteen, I haven't done Fenway Yankee. Yeah,
there's a few iconic ones there for sure. You definitely
are on the list. All right, what's the best ballpark food?

Speaker 3 (52:55):
I mean, you can never go wrong with a hot dog, right, Like,
it's just hard to beat that when we've got two
dollars hot dogs.

Speaker 2 (53:01):
I was gonna say, there's the promo for wien or
Wednesday coming up. Obviously this show's gonna be on Thursday.
But every home game at Karen's Field on wednes Wednesday
night home games is the two dollars hot Dogs Wednesday,
so you gotta get out for that. Baseball is a
good reason to go too. But as we've seen, the
Blue Jays have done very well with their Tuesday night
hot dog for sure. Yeah, it's nothing like.

Speaker 3 (53:21):
A good dog get people out to the ballpark, and
they just they just taste better at the ballpark.

Speaker 2 (53:25):
Yeah, they do, they really do.

Speaker 3 (53:27):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (53:28):
What's your must have dugout item? Like, I know it's
accessory or something you got to have in the dugout
or some some pixture that's in the dugout.

Speaker 3 (53:35):
What I do not like it when we don't have
a helmet rack. I can't lie because something that I
always like to do. I mean, usually I'll put my
helmet where I hit in the batting order, so whatever
I just I'll look at it and decide how my
in my head and like nobody else knows this is
going on or whatever, but in my head, there's one
spot I can put my helmet every time, and I
like to be able to have it and put it there.

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So if I'm hitting lead off, it's usually in like
the top left corner because that's what size one for
the day. And yeah, so.

Speaker 2 (54:03):
If you don't have the helmet racked, then you're kind
of just it's yeah, yeah, interesting. Interesting. All Right, rank
these plays for me. I'm not gonna list a whole bunch,
but in order of sort of excitement level from least
to most exciting, I'm gonna give you four, all right,
home run, triple, steal a home, or a absolute robbery catch.

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Whether it's a home run robbery or a diving grab.

Speaker 3 (54:31):
I'd probably go steal a home because that's just electric
and where they ever happens. Unreal catch would be number two,
and then probably home run than triple, even though triples
are more rare at home run still just a home run,
but personally for me, the biggest one there would probably
be making like big catches, because you get way less

(54:54):
chances to make a big catch than you do other stuff,
and it's really cool when you're able to do that.

Speaker 2 (54:58):
I like it. I like it because they're all exciting
in the way. But the rarity, the scarcity factor definitely
plays a role too. How much one gets the dug
out the most fired it gets your team.

Speaker 3 (55:06):
I mean definitely the stole, steal home, you steal home,
the dugout's going crazy.

Speaker 2 (55:10):
Yeah, I can almost see it starting about to happen, right,
they know, yeah, they see the signals. Yeah, I like
it all right, this might be a little tougher. But
who is the you always hear about you Todd gask athletes,
Like who do you model your game after? Those sorts
of things. It's a little bit slightly different version of
that question is who would you say is the major
league version of you who most reminds you of your

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game only you play.

Speaker 3 (55:35):
I mean watching one guy I really look up to
in the major leagues, like Dalton bar Show. Yes, I
mean I'm I want to be that good of a defender.
I mean, he's the best defender in the world right now.
But that's like kind of my goal. He can hit
it really well too at times, but if it's not
going well for him, he does his defense. It's like
the best in the major leagues. So he's the guy
I really looked up to. I mean a couple other

(55:56):
guys is like Corbyn Carroll or oh why am I
blanking on his name right now? In the Reds Jared
Duran okay, minus that whatever little thing he had. Yeah,
but as a player on the field, that's another guy
like I really look up to those smaller I mean,
Jared Brown's bigger, but like Corbyn Carroll's smaller guy at

(56:18):
all the bar show same thing. We're like same size
and similar play styles, so that those are kind of
my guys.

Speaker 2 (56:23):
You know what I hadn't I didn't spend a lot
of time pondering at what you might say. But as
soon as you said, Varsha, like that makes total sense.
I mean position is the same you guys are. You
have a similar build too, and yeah, absolutely, I like
that one catch he made earlier this year where he
kind of stumbled and turned around.

Speaker 3 (56:38):
Yeah, I mean, come on, yeah, he's he's unreal there.

Speaker 2 (56:41):
I mean it might not be catching the year now,
after all, we saw Denzel Clark.

Speaker 1 (56:44):
Dude.

Speaker 3 (56:45):
Yes, yeah, hey, I've.

Speaker 2 (56:46):
Been saying on Tuesday, Oh my goodness or Monday. Excuse me,
that was ridiculous. Uh, there's a good Canadian ball player.
Oh yeah, a couple more here. Uh what uh what
goes into what makes a good walk up song?

Speaker 3 (56:58):
Uh? My opinion on them is that they gotta be
a little fun. I mean, they gotta be something the
crowd's gonna enjoy too, because really you're not listening to
it that much on your way up to the bucks.
But I love my one for the Berries. It's a
ton of fun. How bad can I be from the Lorex?
I think it's just so it's so much fun, and uh,
the crowd kind of loves it, and it's what I

(57:19):
can get away with because I've been pretty good. So
but yeah, I like to keep in fun and something
that's like not super calm and usually nice.

Speaker 2 (57:27):
I like that. That's a real uh that's a real
uh out of left field part of the pun. But
little Doctor Seuss going on there? All right, You're playing
at Indiana State University there the Sycamores. What is a sycamore.

Speaker 3 (57:38):
It's a tree. Okay, it's very similar to a maple tree.
I mean our trainer this year actually got a tattoo
of a sycamore leaf, but ended up being a maple
leaf because they didn't know the difference.

Speaker 2 (57:47):
So it was a little Canadian shout out, yeah exactly.
The trainer he didn't even realize it. They didn't realize it.
Do you have like, you know, Stanford has like a
tree mask? Do you guys have a tree mask? Like?
What's your mascot?

Speaker 1 (57:59):
Do you we have? Uh?

Speaker 3 (58:02):
Sycamore? Sam's his name. He's like, uh, I don't even
know what animal he Probably it's some kind of like
I think he's a dog. I think is what it is,
but you can you can't really tell too much. It's
a it's he's blue and with the with the mascot
whole head and whatnot.

Speaker 2 (58:17):
So it's an animal of indeterminate origin. Yeah, yeah, there
we go. All right, Just last couple for you, Uh,
favorite berry fruit edition? What's your ah?

Speaker 3 (58:30):
Probably like a fresh strawberry?

Speaker 2 (58:32):
Wrong with that, yeah, And then the other side of
that is non fruit edition favorite berry. You could you
can go anywhere you want with this. A person a band.
I don't know what, Oh, just something I haven't thought of.

Speaker 3 (58:41):
Ah, yeah, I don't even know where i'd go with that.
I mean, I do love our sweetberry Pie song instead
of cherry Pie. It's it's pretty awesome to have that
have that. Some of the guys will be like, this
is ridiculous, but I think it's awesome the fact that
they did that.

Speaker 2 (58:58):
There we go. I I was gonna say, halle Berry
my favorite barrier. Yes, I'm aging myself there a little
bit there. Yeah, still still still a good choice. All right, Well, Carter,
thank you for bearing with all of my questions. We
picked a little bit of a left hand turn there
at the end, but I really appreciate it. Uh, It's
been really fun to watch you kind of grow and

(59:18):
develop and and really take off and see this baseball
thing just completely can continue to rise for you. So
I know, Barry fans love having you back this year
and loved the way that you play as well. Just
the fun and the joy that you play with. I
think that's really infectious as well. So continued success and
we'll have to hit you back on here when after

(59:40):
you get drafted. So so let's mark that down.

Speaker 3 (59:42):
Yeah, hopefully that happens.

Speaker 2 (59:44):
Yeah, all right, that is Carter Backs ask too, and
Berry's hosting medicine hat this week. And then the Wayburn
Beavers are coming to town from not too far away
from Cardiff in fact, So there you go, four straight
home games. Some of those will already be complete the
when you see this, So go to see the Wayburn
games on Friday and Saturday before the Berries hit the road.

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So thanks a lot to Carter for being here. There's
more good sports coming up. Good's fun, man. I could
talk to Carter Beck for much longer than that. Of course,
we didn't even get to the three home run game
against Moose Jaw my bad. But it's just so many
great things to talk about with Carter, and just really
appreciate him taking some time out of his pregame routine,

(01:00:27):
I guess if you will. Of course, we're recording this
on a on a Barries game day, no surprise there.
They play, you know, five six days a week, so
we appreciate him finding some time for us to join
us here in the studio. It's been a whirl win
for mister back of course, coming back from his college
season and jumping right into the lineup with the Berries,
so it hasn't a lot of time to breathe. So
we really do appreciate that he's willing to carve out

(01:00:49):
some time to join us here on the show. So
best of luck to Carter and the Berries as they
carry on. Of course, we'll be keeping up with the
Berries as the season continues right through August, and we'll
see if they can take that next step to a
championship perhaps this season. And a correction too, because I
mentioned right at the end there on the schedule, I

(01:01:10):
was trying to go off my memory and that's always
a risky proposition. So just to make sure we have
the schedule right for the Berries. They are on the road,
as Carter was correct, and I'm glad he knows it
because he's on the team. Thursday and Friday they are
in Brooks, Alberta to take on the Bombers. Then they
are back here in Saskatoon to host Weyburn Saturday and

(01:01:31):
Sunday six o'clock and one o'clock. I know I mentioned
that in What's going On, but I just want to
reiterate that because in the interview I got that wrong.
So once again, it's Saturday and Sunday, hosting the Wayburn
Beavers at a next end patch at Karen's Field six
o'clock Saturday, one o'clock Sunday. Okay, I think I've now
got that information out clearly and concisely. Well maybe not concisely,

(01:01:52):
but clearly. And before we wrap up the show, of course,
we got to get to our good sport of the
week and this year we're going to the gridiron this year.
This week we're going to the grid iron for Jorganhose,
remember the Saskatchewan rough Riders from right here in Saskatoon.
A proud graduate of Saint Joseph High School and a
former remember of the Saskatoon Hilltops. Jorgan played his one

(01:02:14):
hundred and fiftieth career Canadian Football League game in the
Riders season opener against Ottawa last Friday. All one hundred
and fifty of those games, excuse me, played in green
and white for Jorgan, who's the long snapper for the
rough Riders. And it's a great example of you know,

(01:02:35):
if you're good at something, you find something that you
are good at, find your niche and you really horn
a hone in on that you can take you a
lot of places. Because long snapping is a very specific
ski skill set in football, and Jorganhos has refined it
to the point that he has made him an essential
piece of the rough Riders team for the last decade.

(01:02:56):
And to reach that one hundred and fifty game milestone
so a really impressive accomplishment. And of course for a
hometown kid, we're always cheering on our local boys on
that Saskatchewan rough Rider team, and what a treat it
must be for him to get to play one hundred
and fifty games for the team he grew up cheering for.
And you know he's now paying that forward because he's

(01:03:19):
training up teaching up other young players in the art
the fine art of long snapping. And so the Jordan
Who's school of snapping is producing more CFL talent as
the years go on. In case you're wondering, you're like, oh,
one hundred and fifty games is a lot of games
to play in the CFL. I wonder well that would
compared to say maybe the Riders all time games played

(01:03:40):
records A way to go there. The record is actually
another Saskatoon born player, Gene Mkowski. He played two hundred
and eighty four games for the Green and White. So
for if Jorgan Who's has any chance to threaten that record,
he still have to play another basically have to play
every game this season and then play another six and

(01:04:01):
a half seasons healthy like not without missing a game,
So that would basically pick him to season eighteen to
threaten that record. So I don't know who knows what
the future holds, but I mean one hundred and fifty
games is still very very impressive, and to do it
all with one team and your hometown or your home
province team no less, has got to be pretty cool thing. Indeed,
so we salute Jordan Who's for reaching that one hundred

(01:04:23):
fifty game played milestone. He is our good Sport of
the week. Good's fun and that wraps up this edition
of Good Sports. Thanks so much again to Carter Beck
for joining us. Thanks to everyone here at Different Avenue
Media Network for supporting this venture, for being part of
the journey. It's been a lot of fun so far
and it will be more fun as we continue on.

(01:04:43):
Please join us next week to find out who we're
gonna have in the studio with us. A couple of
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(01:05:04):
coming in store as the week's carry on. I'm Ryan Flarerty,
Thanks so much for watching be a good sport.

Speaker 1 (01:05:12):
Whatever makes you happy, what gets you out of bend,
whatever kicks the cop website, you'll join in instead of
victorious day dream. That's a glory of fame by me.

Speaker 2 (01:05:34):
All on the same

Speaker 1 (01:05:35):
Team is the name of the game.