LIVE with Lake Country DockHounds

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mm hmmmm.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
And before we're not live yet, are we? Brother? We
are okay?

Speaker 3 (00:06):
Well that that's okay because we have on our way
into Dockhound Stadium, Dominic, I ran into an old friend
of mine, Sergio.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
You know who he is.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
He's our chef here at Wisconsin Buran Company Park.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
That's right, Serge. And Sergio gave me his daughters. What
are the what are they called?

Speaker 1 (00:26):
King?

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Who said it? You just said that I did the
pro Oh yeah, because they didn't move their lips. And
to say it again, Diesel kinga Kentinetta, it's okay.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Or seventeen or fifteen?

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah, when's younger?

Speaker 3 (00:42):
Mexican gal turns fourteen or fifteen something like that, thirteen fourteen.
And so they're having a party and he gave me
an invitation. I know Sergio. He used to make Oh man,
did we have some fun back in the day.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Really really good guy, good chef.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
He makes some great dishes here, just unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
Just he's all in on cooking. He's very very he's skilled,
he's got skills. One time we were at another establishment
that he worked at here in Lake Country, and he
made a dish with he surprised all of us Ghost
Peppers Carolina Reaper Peppers.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
It was supposed to be like Hobbanaro's Jilapeno Hobbinaro something,
but he used ghost and.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Carolina Reaper did.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
So we were drinking a little bit. I mean, that's
part of it, and everybody didn't know. Everyone was going
after the first few bites, Oh that's hot. Holy and Sergio,
I love his little faces in the window and he's.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
You like that? You like that food? You liked it?

Speaker 3 (01:51):
It was hot, but it was great anyway. So I
got an invitation to his daughter's and it's coming soon August.
Second here, it's in Lake Country at the Lions Club. Okay,
so I don't know, just.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
I don't know why.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
And I will be in Gary, Indiana.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
You will be so you will not be attending the King.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
You will not be No, okay, well i'll pick that
up later. I'm not trying to be disrespectful, but I'm
kind of nervous. All right, let's hit it all right,
Here we go.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
That was definitely not the intro. All right, Here we go,
controlling transmission, controlling transmits. Here weep, here we go, we

(02:51):
are controlling, trying, controlling.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
Welcome to the Foreign four Podcast tonight, we have the privilege,
the honor. This is our first time here at Lake
Country Dockhound Stadium. This place is great. Next to me
is at a dominic stern, and across from me is
Adam Cootway Fellas. Welcome to the podcast and thanks for
having us out here.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
By God well, thanks for coming out here. And this
is a great opportunity to broaden our audience.

Speaker 3 (04:03):
Broaden our audience and just talk about the team in
general and what's going on. And we've got a newcomer
to the team. We'll get to Adam in a little bit.
He played, he was a Warhawk. He played with my
son at Whitewater and he was something fun to watch.
Just a great, great, great hitter.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Dominic. Let's start with some of the events coming up.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
The All Star break is going on right now for
the Dockhounds, and then some of the stuff you got
coming up starting Thursday, Thursday and evening with in.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
Evening with Pat Murphy. So that's tomorrow, if you're watching
this live, if you're listening to the recording, that is
tonight four to seven pm. I'm very privileged to be
the one who's talking with Pat Murphy. He'll be going
over some stories. He'll be talking about leadership, how coaching
has evolved from his time in the Division two Division
three ranks and then coaching at the university of another dame,

(04:57):
Arizona State University Baseball, and then now in professional baseball
with the San Diego Padres, and of course now with
the Milwaukee Brewers from being their bench coach and now
in his first year.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
Head coach manager manager.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
Well, yeah, skipper, Yes, that's how he likes to go
by and to win the National League Manager of the
Year in his first year as the skipper of the
Milwaukee Brewers. And then now they're having an even better
season than they were last year, and it.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
Would have been nice to get those free George websburgers.
So well, they had eleven in a row and they
lost what was the score last night?

Speaker 2 (05:32):
One and nothing? Yeah, one nothing, and then they came
back and one ten to two today.

Speaker 3 (05:37):
Yeah, so Burger. But eleven in a row and now
just starting a new streak. That'll be great to have
him on. Interesting guy, right, just a guy that was
in the wait. He he kind of played his cards
and did his thing and got the respect along the way.
And now he's skipper the Brewers. That's great, and.

Speaker 1 (05:56):
I'm very fascinated to talk to him because he and
my baseball journey kind of intertwined. I'm from San Diego,
so he was the interim manager for the San Diego
Padres in twenty fifteen. After managing in their minor leagues
for a couple of seasons, I went to Arizona State
where he managed, and now I'm here in Wisconsin where
he manages.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
Did you when twenty fifteen, ten years ago, were you
a high school kid at that time.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
When he took over as manager of the San Diego Padres.
I had just promoted from middle school to high school.

Speaker 3 (06:28):
Yeah, so a young fellow. But you were aware of
baseball back then. You're a baseball guy.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
It was a big deal when he became manager. It
was his first time becoming a major league manager. But
I had no idea that he was the manager at
Arizona State. I just knew he was the Tria manager
and he was getting a shot to be the manager
of a big league team.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
Interesting that it's going to be a great, great interview.
What's the setup for that?

Speaker 3 (06:50):
Is it going to be broadcast on the field or
are you just going to have him in a private booth.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
So it'll be here. This is our suite at Wisconsin
bre and Company Park. You can book out this suite
at our accouns games for the remainder of the season,
and we have a backdrop right there. Our best seats
in the house have been moved in here. There's going
to be some eight top tables like we're sitting out
right now, some four top tables that some families have reserved,
and some other people who have bought tickets for this event,

(07:16):
and we'll record some of it. It'll be posting on
some of our social media platforms, but for the most part,
this is an intimate and private event for fans to
have the opportunity.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
That's really really cool.

Speaker 3 (07:27):
I wonder to talk to him would be a journey, right,
It would be like to listen to this guy and
when he was a kid playing t ball or what
sporty liked.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
Maybe he was a football kid before he's a baseball kid.
It'll be very interesting to talk to him.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
He coached football and baseball at the same school. Not
sure a lot of people know that. No. Ata was
something we discussed tomorrow night.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
Yeah, that's be really really cool. Then Saturday, you guys
have something called Sticky Paul's Sticky Paws Barbecue Festival. Yes,
that is, and this is a Saturday this July twenty sixth.

Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yes, so in a couple of days. Whether you're watching
this live or if you're listening back to the recording,
it's an event that we have been planning for a
long time here with the doc Hounts. And there's going
to be a taping of Midwest Grilling with mad Dog
and Merrill. So for food fans who watch Food TV,
the Food Channel, they may know what that is. Yeah,

(08:24):
I'm not too familiar, but yeah, y have the barbecue.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
Yeah, definitely. They're very well known in this area for sure.
Good So that'll be a great show.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
And now, you guys, it's a is it more of
a rib fest kind of a rib That's what I saw.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
Ribs are the primary barbecue that we will be serving here,
and we have some local vendors who have purchased tickets
to serve to our fans and to the Lake Country area.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
Is it going to be inside the stadium?

Speaker 1 (08:53):
It will be outside on the field, Okay, but.

Speaker 2 (08:56):
This stadium's open for that event.

Speaker 1 (08:58):
Yes, it's not in a parking lot, so it'll be
out on the field.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
Cool in this field, I think almost, I bet you,
I don't know how many games this is rented for
when the Doc Houns aren't playing.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
Right now, there's little leaguers out there.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
Pretty much every day since the end of March, we've
had junior college, college, high school, and then even some
youth games.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
Yeah, the youth kids are out there now, that's great.
There's there's nothing.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
I don't want to use the word cute or cute,
but for those kids to be they feel like big
shots were.

Speaker 4 (09:28):
On that.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
Field.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
I wish I had when you're on the field, Adam,
did you ever play in a big time stadium when
you were like ten or eleven or twelve years old?

Speaker 1 (09:37):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (09:38):
No, I didn't, But I did play in the Timber
Ratlers down in Appleton when in high school, and I
felt big time.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
So as a high school player, you guys got the
Timber Rattler stadium.

Speaker 4 (09:48):
Yeah, yeah, I was able to play there and felt
big and felt like wow, like I could get used
to this and play here more so.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
It's fun. I'm sure that's what they're feeling right now.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
Oh, for sure. Those kids are playing on a big
league field. This is great. Did you get any hits
at that timber Adles Radlers game?

Speaker 1 (10:03):
Double double?

Speaker 2 (10:05):
You ripped down?

Speaker 4 (10:06):
Ye?

Speaker 2 (10:06):
Ye oh, that's awesome.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
Coolest kid on campus. The next day felt great, Yeah,
that's fun.

Speaker 3 (10:12):
We'll go we'll go through a few more of these
and then we'll come back to them because I want
to get Adam involved in this. And then we have
July Tuesday, July twenty ninth, there is something what is
that one?

Speaker 1 (10:25):
It's our only in Wisconsin week theme. So that is
our next home stand, which is so that this Tuesday
through Thursday.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
Okay, that's everything right, Packers Bucks.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
Yes, the Bucks will take over our stadium and they're
on court. MCS and Bengo will be here, so they
were here last year. That was a lot of fun.
And then the next day on Wednesday, I think this
is going to be our most sought after promotion from
this week. We are giving away Packers tickets to I'm
not sure if we have designated the game at lambeau

(10:55):
Field this upcoming season, but fans will have an opportunity
to win three Packers.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
Is that going to be on Tuesday July twenty ninth.
Is that the giveaway.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
Wednesday, July thirtieth, KIM players on your parents can scan
the QR code and play the game. I'm sure you've
seen it up on the video board with the number
going up. So we do giveaways here at Wisconsin Brewing
Company Park, just another thing to add to our Dockhounds games,
primarily cruise giveaways. We've partnered with agave Go for this

(11:24):
event and it's been a great success over the last
two seasons. It keeps our fans engaged and it gives
them another reason to come out and watch players like
Adam and the Docounts.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
Yeah, there's always at these stadiums. There's always something going on,
whether it's a big giveaway, whether it's something coming up,
whether it's a food event, whether it's kids playing high school,
kids playing junior college is playing college playing. I think
it's a great thing to have this stadium in use
all the time. Gat great for the community.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
It has to be in use all the time. It
serves as a constant reminder to our community that hey,
we have stuff going on here, and if you want
to be a part of the community, come here. This
is the best place to be a part of Lake
Country is at Wisconsin bre and Company Park.

Speaker 3 (12:08):
And even though it's not one hundred percent all about baseball,
it kind of is right because you're at a baseball stage.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
It all ties back into it. And that's why we
have those events like Sticky Paws on Saturday. It's a
barbecue event, but you're at a baseball field. So our
fans are season ticket holders while the team's on the road,
and they can go back home and watch the game
that night on AA Baseball Dot TV, but they can
come be out on the field that they don't always
get to be on every day.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
All right, So, Adam Kotway, he was you grew up
where what area?

Speaker 1 (12:38):
I grew up in Cincinnati. Actually, so did you play ball?

Speaker 2 (12:41):
Little league?

Speaker 4 (12:42):
T ball?

Speaker 2 (12:43):
Start? Did you start with T ball? Give?

Speaker 4 (12:46):
T ball?

Speaker 1 (12:46):
No?

Speaker 4 (12:46):
I started with T ball, Gosh, as soon as I
can remember, I was playing T ball, little baketball, baseball, football,
and anything I could get my hands on, I was
playing it. But especially baseball is playing down in Cincinnati.

Speaker 3 (13:02):
Lso, and then when you did you move from Cincinnati
at high school age?

Speaker 4 (13:07):
Right before eighth grade year, I moved from Cincinnati to
the Green Bay Area to Piers, my hometown right now,
and that's uh so moved there when I was fourteen,
played uh throughout high school, travel ball, that kind of thing,
and in high school played two and then that led
me to Saint Norbert and the peer for my first

(13:29):
couple of years of college into uh before Whitewater.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
And then you transferred transferre to Whitewater. So what was
the reason?

Speaker 3 (13:36):
What was what would be the reason a guy like
you would transfer from Saint Norbert to Whitewater.

Speaker 4 (13:41):
I mean, I just kind of wanted a better baseball experience.
I I knew I wanted to play this game as long.
That was my goal is to play as long as
I can, whether that's to senior year of high school,
fifth year or fifth year of college, I mean, or
maybe a couple of years after college.

Speaker 1 (13:57):
I just wanted to see what I could do.

Speaker 4 (13:59):
And I felt like at st Over like great academic school,
but athletics weren't taking as seriously there as it is
out of school like Whitewater. Yes, maybe other places like that.

Speaker 2 (14:09):
And it was so much fun Dominic.

Speaker 3 (14:11):
If you would have seen Adam Whitewater Warhawk Adam play
and when he's at the plate hit. We had a
lot of hitters at Whitewater was so the last two years.
They went to the D three World Series. Two years
ago got to the finals and lost the last game,
and then this year twenty twenty five they won it.
All that do D three World Series and Cooter Everyone

(14:34):
called them Cooter back then, all those guys when he's up.

Speaker 2 (14:37):
The bathroom, Coonter Cooter. It was just great and what
a great nickname.

Speaker 3 (14:42):
But to watch him hit was a site to behold,
and Whitewater had we were stacked with hitters, right, I
mean if you look back on it, yeah, we were
just going in there.

Speaker 4 (14:53):
There was guys like Corman bomb Off some names that
he might be familiar with. Yes, Like just seeing those guys,
I was like, wow, can I can I compete with
those guys? I know I'm a good player, but we
got bats all around? Where am I going to fit in? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (15:06):
Right?

Speaker 3 (15:07):
So, and when you transfer from Saint Albert or from
anywhere to a school like Whitewater, what is it like
to get in there and you're the odd man out
sort of?

Speaker 2 (15:18):
Even though they accept you and embrace you, you have
to prove yourself besides to be a nice guy. And
a good teammate. You got to prove it on the field.

Speaker 1 (15:27):
Yeah. The main guy I worked with this bart Line,
Steve Bartline.

Speaker 4 (15:31):
He was the guy recruiting me coming in and he
kind of after my visit, sat me down and was like, hey, look,
I think you're a great player, but you can either
take this as one or two ways. You can put
your head down, work and grind and become a starter
or maybe just I don't know, fall in line and
get lost in the shuffle.

Speaker 1 (15:48):
Lost in the shuffle. Maybe you'll make the team, maybe
you won't.

Speaker 4 (15:50):
I mean that was an art thing at Whitewater is
it's kind of a tryout, Like you're not just guaranteed
a spot, and you're not guaranteed a starting space.

Speaker 2 (15:56):
Well because expectations are high and the players are great.

Speaker 1 (15:59):
Exactly, it gets kind of cutthroat.

Speaker 4 (16:01):
But I mean like that was the environment that I
really like thrived at and I was able to perform
at and get better at.

Speaker 1 (16:07):
And then I don't know, I just kind of cut
my head down.

Speaker 4 (16:11):
I was like trying to trying to make friends, but
at the end of the day, I was wanting to
be on a good, winning program team, So I was
just working.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
Hard, you fit imperfect.

Speaker 3 (16:20):
It was so much fun. You were on a you
were on like a Joe DiMaggio, Paul Mollet or streak.
For a while, it was unbelievable to watch him Dominic.
I'm serious.

Speaker 1 (16:30):
I've seen the stats and then I get to now
watch him against professionals, and I can only imagine what
it looked like on a day in and day out basis.
It was.

Speaker 2 (16:40):
It was unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (16:42):
I don't even know how when when you get in
a zone as a hitter, when you're getting at that level,
Whitewater is a great, great organization, it's a great team.
When you get in a zone as a hitter, how
does it work for Because some people it overwhelms them.
Some people get superstitious. Did you have any weird little
quirks or little things?

Speaker 4 (17:04):
I guess a weird thing was that I just wanted
to get away from the game, like I loved it
when I got there, I wanted to work. I was
one of the first guys showing up every day in
that morning before those games, just because I love to
be there, especially when you're hitting like I was. But
like after the games, after everything was settled down, I
was just eat dinner with my parents whenever they would

(17:24):
come to gether games, and then I would just kind
of just go to sleep and just not think about
what happened, try to clear mind.

Speaker 3 (17:31):
Going well, okay, that's a good point, because there was
a lot of guys that hung out, you know what
I mean. They hung out, so they would go out
for beers or do whatever. Did you ever, were you
a little bit separated from that sort of thing?

Speaker 1 (17:46):
I mean, we couldn't really do that on the weekends
during games.

Speaker 2 (17:50):
But well I shouldn't have said it like that, but
you know what I mean, like guys get together and
go to a baseball house or something. Were you a
little did you separate a little bit from that? A
little bit?

Speaker 4 (17:59):
I mean I lived by myself on campus for the
first year, so a little bit of it was just
brought on by that. But like, I don't know, I
guess I would say, like I did just kind of
want to be on my head. I mean I would
play video games after games or whatever and hang out
with those guys like that through that or maybe like
get at dinner with them, But it was kind of
just by myself focused on what I need to do.

Speaker 1 (18:21):
Not that I like wanted to be by myself, didn't
want to see anybody.

Speaker 2 (18:24):
Did you have one player?

Speaker 3 (18:25):
And I know some people won't know the names obviously
besides you because now you're a dockhound, But who was
one of the players that took you, like wanted to
be with you, be near you, help you, comfort you.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
I don't know if I'm saying it right.

Speaker 4 (18:41):
Yeah, sure, what you mean. I would say, like Eli Frank,
I mean we kind of knew had a good year
this last year or too.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
I would talk to him, hang out with him, see him.

Speaker 4 (18:52):
Guys like Skulling or Nazeria really really bond with especially that.
But I don't know, it was a good It was
a good group of guys for the most part. So
I mean it was really like whoever wanted to hang
out that day. Barrant, Kate Barrant was there, Joey Pettitt,
those guys, Logan Eisenbarth.

Speaker 1 (19:10):
They ended up being my roommates.

Speaker 4 (19:11):
So I was just hanging out with them and joining
their presence and kind of whatever that day brought.

Speaker 1 (19:16):
Just hung out with them after days like that.

Speaker 3 (19:18):
Yeah, interesting, because everyone does it different dominic. There's guys
that are great players, D one, D two, and D
three players, and everyone has a little bit of a
different I don't know if you call it a program,
but a different routine.

Speaker 1 (19:31):
Everyone's wired differently. Yeah, And that's the beauty of what
I try and do is tell the story of the
Lake Country doc counts on a nightly basis, and here's
what makes this guy click, and here's what makes this
other player click. And it's important stuff like that that
some of the fans don't realize and they want to
know that stuff, and I'm the medium for finding that out,

(19:53):
other than waiting down by the gate, which you can
do here and maybe having a chat with them after
the game.

Speaker 3 (19:59):
How did you get in to your broadcasting or your journalism,
slash sports beat, what just whatever you would call?

Speaker 2 (20:05):
What's your title here?

Speaker 1 (20:06):
By the way, I am the broadcaster for the Late
Country Dockhounds, but I'm also a group sales account manager.
This offseason, I stayed out here in Wisconsin, went through
my first winter of my life.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
Oh, I bet that was fun.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
It was mild. Everybody has told me, oh it was
a mild winter.

Speaker 2 (20:23):
It actually was right.

Speaker 1 (20:24):
But to California boy and Arizona State rat it was.
It was brutal. I mean, there's no other way to
say it. Yeah, there was.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
Well Couter was a Green Bay guy for a while.

Speaker 1 (20:34):
Yea. Oh so I did make it up to a
Packers game, so that was absolutely awesome. But there was
a twenty five day stretch where it was, oh, today's
the coldest day of my life. Oh, today's the coldest
day of my life. And it just kept going.

Speaker 2 (20:47):
Down and I went against into fifteen twelve five seven.
Also today it's two below zero, and you go, what
is below zero? I'm from California. I don't know what
that is.

Speaker 1 (20:59):
There was that one wretch, like the third week of January,
where the real feel got into the thirty the negative
thirties out here, and I wanted to just sit in
my house and not leave my bed.

Speaker 2 (21:12):
But did you come here to work? Did you have
the proper attire? Did you have like a winter coat?
Did you have boots? Do do kids wear boots? I
would wear that. I don't mean to call you kids.
I would. I will own a pair of boots.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
I did not buy a pair of boots. I was
fortunate that my brother went to Washington State University and
he now lives back in San Diego. They shipped my
younger brother's winter gear up to me, which is funny,
but it was needed and it saved me money because
my first couple of paychecks, the majority of my money
that wasn't being spent on rent and food went to

(21:47):
making sure that my wardrobe attire was proper.

Speaker 2 (21:50):
And you know, when I was a kid, when I
was young, younger than you guys, but junior high high school, everybody,
all the guys wore boots, winter boots, and now kids
don't wear them. Oh dad, those are dorky. Those are lame.

Speaker 1 (22:05):
Me and Griffin, he is our other import. He's from Kentucky.
He moved here for the off season for the first
time as well. He and I we would wear boots.
Nobody else in the office wore boots.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
See but that right because but cool our feet.

Speaker 1 (22:19):
It kept us warm.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
Well, it's just it's smart. You don't salt and slush
and whatever.

Speaker 3 (22:25):
There was times when when the Warhawks played early in
the season, and that was practice and stuff, and before
you guys would go to Florida. Pensacola was the last
four years, three or four years when my son Nick
played with you.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
Where did you guys go. Last year we.

Speaker 1 (22:41):
Went to Ashbury. I think it's how you say it
in Kentucky.

Speaker 2 (22:46):
Okay, so you didn't go to Florida.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
We did go to Florida, but that was the week after.

Speaker 2 (22:49):
So you started in Kentucky and then.

Speaker 1 (22:51):
Went to Kentucky, and then the next week we went
to Pensacola.

Speaker 3 (22:54):
For because when when they start playing and it's still,
it's still cold. It might not be January winter cold,
but it's you know. I went up and saw Nick
and some of the players, and he lived in a
baseball house, and those kids would I'd bring them pizza,
or we'd go do something, or they're having trouble with
something whatever, a dryer hose broke or something.

Speaker 2 (23:15):
So I'd go up there and the baseball kids would
be there. It's cold, it's February.

Speaker 1 (23:20):
All of this was completely foreign to me, the completely foreign.

Speaker 3 (23:24):
Right, because if you don't, if you've never been here
and you've never witnessed or experienced the cold, it's miserable.

Speaker 1 (23:30):
Yes, And the idea of spring break was always a
funny concept to me, And I was fortunate that as
a baseball lover, I went to school at Arizona State,
which was by design for baseball and for all my
spring breaks. I wanted to stay local and go to
spring training games, and everybody else wanting to go other places. Florida, California,
why not? Why not spend my spring my spring break here?

(23:52):
And then I come here and it's miserable and the
opportunity to go to weatherwise, it's miserable. Yes, weatherwise it's miserable.
You don't see the sun, and even if you do
see the sun, it's still ten degrees. And then I
finally got it, and my dad was like, you understand now,
and that's why Florida and going to Daytona Beach is

(24:12):
the big thing, and it all made sense. Yeah, well,
there was a couple of times.

Speaker 4 (24:17):
I know, my first year at yo Are the first
time we went to Florida was the first time we
were outside all year. We were indoors all year, and
so it was kind of flour and seeing a fly
ball with like a big sky and it's not.

Speaker 3 (24:28):
Yeah, and it's sixty degrees, it's not twenty eight degrees
or even even cooler than that. Some of the guys
at the baseball house when we used to go there
in the winter, they didn't wear boots. Like I see
someone come in and one of the guys was at
the gym and they got their their backpack or their duffel.

Speaker 2 (24:45):
Bag with them, and I'd see them come in the
house and they'd stop their feet get the slush off,
and I would It would drive me nuts. I would say,
why don't you wear boots? What do you stoop?

Speaker 3 (24:55):
But it's not my son, so I can't. But I'm
thinking in my head, how dumb are you? But kids
just don't wear boots. Now, I'll get off the boot thing.
I'm just telling you that it's so weird, like young
people just don't wear because it's lame.

Speaker 1 (25:09):
It's it's all told specifically to wear boots, and I did.

Speaker 2 (25:12):
Okay, well, Cooter, I don't think you're a boot guy.
I'm just saying that's.

Speaker 1 (25:17):
Okay, snowfalls, I'm not wearing boots.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
You're good.

Speaker 3 (25:20):
You're a good baseball player. Let's go through someone. Now,
you saw his stats right from Whitewater and as he
got to the Dockhounds. I'd like to get to next
on how you advance or how you graduate from Whitewater,
and then how this next level works.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
Is it recruitment to someone call you? Do you call them?
Is there film involved or whatever? But we'll get to
that in a minute. Some of the stuff that went
again when Adam Cootway was a Warhawk, everybody, oh, you know,
and they had some good years, really really good years,
the last two World Series in a D three category.

Speaker 3 (25:55):
But when Cooter was up to bat, everyone would just
go Adam, Adam. And I know, I know it's weird
to hear this, but I'm telling you the truth. I'll say,
someone go, Adam's up.

Speaker 2 (26:04):
Or was some of the younger kids, the teenagers and
their brothers or their cousins or whoever, they go, Hey,
Couter's up now, and everybody would stop. You'd go up
to the plate and just do his thing. There was
a time. Okay, so twenty two homers last year, right,
that's a school record. Twenty two homers in twenty twenty five. Yep.

Speaker 3 (26:25):
And then let's see what else you you hit four
to twenty three. Oh, that's your career batting average, because
it really I thought.

Speaker 2 (26:33):
It was like high threes.

Speaker 3 (26:35):
No, it's stupid, Holy cow, four to twenty three career
batting average. Yep, that's crazy. I Honestly, I thought it
was for one year. I figured you'd be in the
three seventy five range, four to twenty three.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
That is crazy. Well, what year did you break your
the bone in your wrist? Twenty four four.

Speaker 1 (26:55):
Twenty But you did come back, right, he came back. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (26:59):
I played the first two games of that year and
then I came back against La Crosse whenever.

Speaker 2 (27:04):
That was what's what's the name of the bone in
your wrist.

Speaker 1 (27:06):
The handmate bone. So it's kind of like a little
like like hook kind.

Speaker 2 (27:10):
Of thing is in it on the outside on your
pinky side of the wrist.

Speaker 1 (27:13):
A little bit.

Speaker 4 (27:14):
I got a scar at the palm bottom palm my hand,
and basically it's like a little hook and that hook
can break and mine completely shattered in half. It's common
baseball injury.

Speaker 2 (27:24):
Did you need surgery?

Speaker 4 (27:25):
It needed surgery. Yeah, So that was a weird story.
So broke it in Texas. We went it down to
San Antonio, and then we went to Florida. Uh, broke
it the second game in Texas, and then we got
about a week stretch until we go to Pensacola, and
I'm trying to fight through it.

Speaker 1 (27:43):
I'm like I have no idea what's going on my hand?

Speaker 2 (27:45):
Did it bruise? Did it?

Speaker 1 (27:46):
Oh? I mean the Sunday, the last day we were
there in Texas, my hand was just.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
Puffed up and I was like, then there's no way
you can swing a bat.

Speaker 4 (27:55):
I was like wow, like and yeah, I was barely
holding onto it with my left hand, the bottom hand.
And then I was like, something's something a little wrong.
Then maybe like I jammed my finger or something. And
uh So I went down to Florida and Quin Stutter,
the guy that puts on the big Pensacola Blue Jaho's
we play at the Blue Wahou Stadium. He was like, Hey,

(28:16):
I got some people at the Andrews Institute. Just go there,
check it out, take a look. And I guess that's
the benefit of going to White Water when he got
some of the people there that have those connections and everything.

Speaker 1 (28:26):
And so I was able to get in.

Speaker 4 (28:30):
I think Sundays once I first doctor student Monday at
the meeting with Andrews, and then Wednesday I was having
the surgery on her off day.

Speaker 2 (28:39):
So and you had surgery right in Florida, and right
in Florida, you know what I thought? You left with
your folks to go out the surgery.

Speaker 1 (28:45):
No, we were thinking about it there. The doctor was like, hey,
do you know anybody that can do this? And we
were like, no, we have no idea.

Speaker 2 (28:52):
Well I got a guy.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
Yeah, so he was like, well, we can do it
right in house, right here, so we can do it
in two days. And I was like, perfect, let's go.

Speaker 4 (29:00):
Let's do it because it's about a six to eight
week recovery process and all you can do is just
wait until it heals.

Speaker 3 (29:07):
And so we're talking mid March now, yeah, when this happens,
because right that's the Florida trip is usually mid mid
to the third week of March mid March.

Speaker 4 (29:15):
Broke it last weekend in February, so it was about
mid of April. After about that six d eight week
mark is when I was first possible to come back
in so and then it was kind of a little
bit tweaked. I would say I was kind of bathing it,
but just because I haven't swung a bat in eight weeks.
Against Lacrosse, I was just releasing everything with one hand,

(29:39):
right hand.

Speaker 2 (29:40):
And well, you were tentative because you didn't want to
get reinjured.

Speaker 4 (29:43):
Probably, well, you can't reinjure it, but I just haven't
swum it back for a while. So it was kind
of weird just with how just how stiff my wrist
was from that and who would have known a little
hook bone can do that. Yeah, But I was able
to come back kind of by play off time. Usually
you don't want to get in the swing of things
by playoffs, but playoffs is when I really just hit

(30:05):
the hit the gear.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
And now you will May right now, late May is
is playoff time.

Speaker 1 (30:10):
Mid May mid May is playoff time.

Speaker 4 (30:12):
So we're able to go all the way to the
World Series, as you said, but kind of rehabbing right
before that and then going straight into it, and then
I was able to have a good year in the
World Series that twenty twenty four, making the alternament team,
and so who would have thought at the beginning of
the year going.

Speaker 2 (30:31):
Yeah, devastating. So if you and if you get hurt
that early and it's needs surgery, it's something that needs surgery,
that's like mentally, I bet for a ballplayer, mentally, that's like,
oh no, what has seriously right?

Speaker 1 (30:45):
I mean, well, my mom was like kind of in tears.

Speaker 4 (30:47):
She was like, oh my gosh, what's gonna I mean,
you know how moms are, but my mom was especially concerned,
like how is it? What's the future looking like, what's
going to happen? And once I heard that it was
like six to eight, I was like, I mean, it
stinks because this is a majority of the D three season.

Speaker 1 (31:01):
It's not that long as D one.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
But we'll be how many games is there? Like forty
five and my right, forty eight.

Speaker 1 (31:08):
I think it's forty total in the regular season.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
But then Florida to the Florida trip is not included
in that.

Speaker 4 (31:17):
It is it is, so it's only forty games, and
then the playoffs that can add like up to eighteen or.

Speaker 3 (31:23):
Okay or whatever, right, because it's usually if you go deep,
it's over fifty games, right, That's what I remember. Yeah,
So but just think of that, Dominic. Think of twenty
two homers in forty games.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
It's very impressive, and it has to be to make
that jump from the Division three level to the professional ranks. Here. Yeah,
these guys have pitched at Triple A earlier this year,
or they were in Major League Baseball within the last
two to three years. So let me have to be
an impressive player to jump from the division.

Speaker 3 (31:56):
Definitely, And I'm telling you Cooter was just a humble guy,
nose to the grindstone, always working, but still having a
lot of fun and being so confident is I think
that was the thing that people when you went up
and you know it was your turn to bat, you're
going up to the plate, there's a there's a level
of confidence that you can get from some players, even

(32:18):
at a D three level, and Whitewater is a high
D three school.

Speaker 1 (32:21):
It's our fans have noticed that from Adam just talking
to some of them postgame, pregame on off days, they've
noticed it, and they noticed the energy that he has
brought the team. When he joined the Doc Hounds, we
were at our low point of the season. We were
still above five hundred. We have been for every day
this season. We've been in first or second place for
the entirety of the season.

Speaker 3 (32:42):
But well, you're how many you're four the Doc cons Okay,
and that's the best you've ever been at the All
Star break just in franchise history, well four years only.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
But yes, yes, I always get I don't want to
say crap, but from the other broadcasters in our leaguecause
we're the newest team in the league, and you have
to put everything in the context. So the fact that
we were fourteen games above five hundred at the All
Star break, when the highest we had been above five
hundred so as many wins as losses was seven games,

(33:12):
and that was ninety nine games through last year, is
very impressive and it speaks to how strong this team is.
But when Adam joined us, our offense was at a
low point, and the night that he made his first
start was the night that our offense completely changing.

Speaker 2 (33:27):
Don't that funny?

Speaker 3 (33:27):
How just just one more piece to the puzzle and
then everyone you know, and a lot of it goes
in streaks.

Speaker 2 (33:33):
I know, there's a lot of things that have to happen,
but it goes like that, doesn't it? In baseball? Yes,
kind of.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
We had the lowest scoring offense in our league to
that point, we were still above five hundred in second place.
And he came in game one of our doubleheader and
he walked in the seventh inning to extend the game,
and it was okay. He didn't try and be the hero,
wasn't afraid of the moment. Then he got the start
in game two and with two outs. He had a
game tying single when we were down early when we

(33:59):
could have been swept by the last place team in
the other division. And the next day he hit his
first pro home run and it was okay, this this
kid can play and he's not afraid and theirs.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
Oh great to get a hold of that first one.

Speaker 4 (34:14):
It was also in the second of bat too, and
I swung and missed on one of them, and I
was like, gosh, if he throws that again, I'm gonna
I'm gonna hit it hard. And then he threw me
a curveball and it struck out, so I was like, well, shoot, well,
at least I know how it's going to be.

Speaker 1 (34:26):
It's not all highs.

Speaker 2 (34:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (34:28):
And then sure enough the next that bat he threw
me that fastball again and I was like, I'm hammering it.

Speaker 2 (34:33):
You got a hold? Where'd you hit it in the stadium.
This is a great stadium, by the way, Yes, what what?

Speaker 4 (34:38):
What?

Speaker 2 (34:38):
What's down the lines? I can't read the number.

Speaker 1 (34:40):
Three twenty down the line. It is three ninety to
right center field, which is where Adam hit it. It
wasn't dead right center, but that is the deepest part
of our Park, So I believe it was a three
hundred and ninety five foot home run. I didn't get
the exact distance, but it wasn't a cheap Wisconsin Brewing
Company Park home run. He hit it to the deepest
part of the yard.

Speaker 2 (35:00):
Well, that's Cooter for you. Some of these stats.

Speaker 3 (35:03):
Twenty two homers in a single season, that's a Warhawk record,
four to twenty three career batting.

Speaker 2 (35:10):
Average, that's a Warhawk record. What is this one? You
hit four seventy seven and twenty twenty three in the
whole year, four to seventy seven, nearly five hundred, and
that's against some good pitching. I mean we have in
our Stevens point, right, we have ash Gosh, there's some
really good D three teams in this I would say
Wisconsin has the best D three baseball program all in

(35:35):
the whole state. And there's southern states that start earlier,
play more games. But in D three, Wisconsin is good.
And you hit four seventy seven and twenty twenty three.
Nick was still on the team. He was Nick was
a senior that year, right, Nick was a senior. And
that's when you guys lost. Who'd we lose? We lost

(35:56):
a point or we lost to Lacrosse.

Speaker 4 (35:58):
Lacrosse we love. I think we played in six times
and lost all six times, and we had a tough
one against Lacrosse, and it happens. And I heard that's
the reason we didn't make the playoffs too, is because
that was because we just couldn't beat teams like that
in the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (36:11):
I know we have. We had a good regular season.
There were some there were some smoke and hitters.

Speaker 3 (36:15):
But everything's got to go right pitching and hitting, Adam,
Let's get to a few more of these.

Speaker 2 (36:21):
So we have. We let off with Thursday, July.

Speaker 3 (36:25):
Twenty fourth, Manager, that's Pat Murphy Night, and that'll be
in here right in the in the suite, Yes, and
then Sticky Pause Barbecue Fest.

Speaker 2 (36:34):
That's Saturday, July twenty sixth.

Speaker 3 (36:36):
Tuesday July twenty ninth, that's the Bucks takeover and you're
giving away packer tickets to next day, which is Wednesday,
the thirtieth of July. All right, what about we're on
August sixth.

Speaker 1 (36:49):
Yes, this is our Life's of Beach theme week. It's
one of our more popular themes.

Speaker 2 (36:54):
Do you have the players wear speedos and hit Can
we do something like that or is it the gals?
The gals might like it.

Speaker 1 (37:01):
You know, I haven't been on all of our meetings
since the season has started while I'm traveling, But I
don't believe that's in the carts. Okay, I wear the
coconut bra thing. I don't know. That would be an
awesome design jersey if we did that, that would be
so fantastic.

Speaker 2 (37:14):
Okay, idea, what what is what is that? The promotion though?
What what is it?

Speaker 1 (37:20):
So it's some new merch that we offer and the
Hawaiian shirts that are generally popular. We decorate the ballpark,
the balls and stuff. Yeah, just some lays, some some
trees will go up around the park, and I believe
we will be wearing some special theme game jerseys. So
for the Only in Wisconsin Week, which is this upcoming

(37:41):
Tuesday through Thursday, we'll be wearing camouflage jerseys, which I
know were very popular ones. We wore our USA flag
jerseys for the Fourth of July week, and we'll wear
a sort of beach Hawaiian shirt themed jersey. Oh and
that is very very popular.

Speaker 2 (37:58):
Yeah yeah, And it's fun and summertime, right, life.

Speaker 1 (38:01):
Speech, you have to embrace the summer while you have it,
because the winner it's it's coming in a couple of months.

Speaker 2 (38:06):
And you're gonna you're gonna bust those boots out. Yes,
some will, you will, I will sooner than you'd like
to for sure. Here's something Steeze O, my producer, Steeze.
I don't want to ignore you ever, my partner. But Steeze,
how about this one. And we're not going to say anything.

Speaker 3 (38:26):
Negative or positive, but we're here at the Dockhound Stadium Friday,
August fifteenth. Rivalry series Doc Couns versus the Milkman. Well,
we're Doc Hound, We're we're Doc Hound fans.

Speaker 2 (38:43):
Right, right, right. We've never got hired to do a
show at the at the Milkman's. But just that's a
big deal because that's that's that is a local rivalry,
even it's a little bit of a little bit away.
It's it is Franklin, Wisconsin and econom Awk, Wisconsin.

Speaker 1 (38:57):
It's one of two interstate matt that we have in
the American Association, and it is the closest proximity between
two teams in our league. And what's neat is we
don't sell out every game the Milkmen, they don't sell
out every game as much as both franchises would like to.
But when these games come around, the two teams can
a little bit depend on fans from the other team

(39:20):
coming to support host families, fans families of players. They
come to Wisconsin and Company Park to support the Milkmen,
and their money is green too, So that's great.

Speaker 2 (39:32):
And well, I'll tell you on that I'm a dock
Coins fan on that Astizo that on that rivalry series.
We're Doc Houns fans. Oh for sure. Okay, four and
four podcasts is saying it.

Speaker 1 (39:44):
I love that.

Speaker 2 (39:45):
I'm serious about it. I'm not kidding, y'ud.

Speaker 1 (39:48):
I would hope you'd be Doc Counts fans.

Speaker 3 (39:49):
Well, we definitely are. I got something, Adam, When were you?
When was your first game here with the Doc Hons?
Was it the today is July twenty third, Wednesday nineteenth?

Speaker 1 (40:01):
It was the ninth and nineteenth. Eli Frank got married.
That's how I know. The day before I was out
a wedd's.

Speaker 2 (40:07):
That's a Whitewater guy, the water guy. So yeah, did
he get married already? He married out players. It's weird
to see these guys when they come in and are
twenty you know, well, eighteen or nineteen. You transferred from
Shton Orberts. You came in at twenty right, twenty three
was my first year.

Speaker 1 (40:24):
Twenty two?

Speaker 2 (40:25):
No, your age twenty years old?

Speaker 1 (40:28):
Oh yeah, I came in.

Speaker 2 (40:29):
Yeah was twenty okay, yep, so you're you're These are
young guys, yeah, and now they're getting married. Just kind
of a weird thing. Like me being an older guy,
I'm thinking, don't get married yet.

Speaker 3 (40:43):
Not not that it's not right for everybody, but it's
just weird to see some of these baseball guys. I
saw him when they were young kids, and now they're
bigger guys, they're men, and they're getting married. Just to
everything's progression, right.

Speaker 1 (40:55):
It's wild to watch it. I remember my first season here.
I was actually Franklin Field getting ready for our game
against the Milkman when my friend called me and asked
me to be a groomsman in his wedding. I was
twenty one at the time. I was kind of an
eye opening realization that, oh wow, I'm really growing up.
I'm going to be a groomsman.

Speaker 3 (41:14):
Life's coming, right, Life's coming at you. It doesn't stop,
but interesting. So Frank got married.

Speaker 1 (41:20):
Frank got married the day before. So yeah, I was
there watching that, and.

Speaker 2 (41:24):
Then your first came here and at dock Klnk.

Speaker 1 (41:27):
Stadium was day the next day, the nineteenth son of
a God, June nineteenth, a.

Speaker 3 (41:33):
Month ago, A month and a couple of days, Yes,
wild wild stuff. Do you know a couple of trivia
questions for you?

Speaker 1 (41:41):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (41:41):
All right, Cooter, all right. So the mascot here at
dock Hound Stadium is what's his name?

Speaker 1 (41:48):
Louis. I don't know the rest of it, though, Louis.
I know we talked about this before.

Speaker 3 (41:53):
But Louis B sluggin, Louis B slugging Louis B the
letter B period and then sluggin.

Speaker 2 (41:59):
And he wears the number five on his jersey. Do
you know why he wears the number five? Forget again?
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (42:05):
We did. We didn't give over this. Oh we didn't
go no good. I don't know why.

Speaker 2 (42:08):
Okay, can I tell him?

Speaker 1 (42:09):
Yeah? Absolutely, trust me, Dom, I have full trust in you,
Mitch Well.

Speaker 3 (42:14):
Doccount Stadium is in oconom Walk and there's five o's
the letter O in oconom Walk.

Speaker 2 (42:21):
I know it's quirky. I know it's something different.

Speaker 1 (42:24):
They call it the land of the five o's here, it's.

Speaker 2 (42:26):
The five o's out here in o'conom Walk. It's five
o's all the way.

Speaker 1 (42:29):
The travel team for O'connomwalk Baseball is the five five o's.

Speaker 2 (42:34):
Yes, so you didn't know that.

Speaker 3 (42:35):
I mean, you're you're a green Bay Saint Norbert, Cincinnati
to green Bay Saint Norbert to Whitewater now doc Count Stadium.

Speaker 2 (42:43):
That's something that we told you. I don't want to
have to tell you again. Cooler.

Speaker 1 (42:46):
I'm not even sure if Demetrius Sims, our third year shortstop,
knows that.

Speaker 2 (42:51):
Well.

Speaker 4 (42:51):
I do.

Speaker 3 (42:52):
I did from I know when this stadium was being built.
I hang out in Okachi once in a while, and
I knew a couple of people that were investors and
were in on this whole thing, and I learned some
really cool stuff. I don't remember everything, but for some reason,
I remember that that's something I remember.

Speaker 1 (43:12):
It's unique about not only Lake Country, but about O'connomwalk
because there were other cities in this area that the
Dockhounds try to come to first before O'connowalk, and O'conomwock
was the city that brought Dockhounds baseball to life.

Speaker 2 (43:26):
So what does that mean they touted them, they welcomed them.

Speaker 1 (43:30):
They just getting approval for the stadium, buying land and
being able to bring people in.

Speaker 2 (43:36):
And what a great traffic, what a great site.

Speaker 3 (43:39):
It's right by Wisconsin, Harley Davidson, It's right off the highway.
It's literally one minute off the highway. It's just really convenient.
It's a great stadium.

Speaker 1 (43:48):
It's the perfect location because there are people west of
here who probably don't associate with Milwaukee at all, but
this is the closest professional team they have. And then
there are people who live in the western portions of
Milwaukee County, or in Brookfield or in Waka Shan don't
want to go to Milwaukee just because they don't want
to deal with the hassle, the parking, traffic, the traffic,

(44:10):
all of that. So they can come here. They can
pay five dollars for parking. Part of that money goes
to a charity for that night, and then they can
come in and be right behind the dugout at a
Doghounts game. Well, they can be up here in the
club and food.

Speaker 3 (44:23):
And that is definitely a deal. I don't normally like
to I don't like to talk negative about different things.
There's people that don't want to go in the Milwaukee area.
They don't want to their kid has something at heller Field. Yes,
so that's right by Amfamfield now formerly Miller Park. But

(44:44):
they're like, oh, I got to come all the way
from wherever.

Speaker 2 (44:47):
Just say they're West Benton, Say they're Merten, Say they're
econom Walks. Say there and their team book something at
heller Field. Work on something here because you guys have
this for rent, yes, right, I mean we rent part
of this.

Speaker 1 (45:02):
We rent our field. There were some days during the
off season where there would be a field rental starting
at ten all the way until ten evm. Yeah, yeah,
ten am to ten pm. We'd have four games.

Speaker 3 (45:13):
Yes, But I mean for people watching this, if you're
booking your little league game, or you got a couple,
maybe you're in a league somewhere wherever, you can do
it out here, and it is really easy in and
out and it's a beautiful stadium.

Speaker 1 (45:27):
It's perfect for anyone in Parking and admission for those
games completely free. Our concession stands it's open, but you
can bring in your food. There's nobody checking for anything
in terms of oh you can't bring in snacks. You
can't bring in water. For the high school games and
for anything younger than that, we do not sell alcohol.
But when Brian and Stratton College play most of their

(45:48):
home games here, we're selling alcohol. Yeah, there's a lot
of people who are twenty one years old.

Speaker 2 (45:52):
And like I said, it's just so easy.

Speaker 3 (45:54):
It's an easy ride from anywhere you want.

Speaker 2 (45:58):
It's right off ninety four.

Speaker 3 (46:00):
All right, let's get to We just did the Friday
August fifteenth through the seventeen, that's the rivalry series.

Speaker 1 (46:07):
And then during that on the Saturday night game, which
our Saturdays are at five thirty five and we have
pregame music starting at four o'clock down in our right
field kid zone. But that Saturday night, after the game,
we will have a live drone show. And it was
talking about it with Adam before the game. He's never
seen a drone show, but we've done two here at
Wisconsin Bring.

Speaker 2 (46:26):
They're pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (46:27):
They're very cool.

Speaker 2 (46:28):
They are They are cooler than you think it would be.

Speaker 1 (46:30):
And they don't have the sound that would turn some
people away from fireworks as well.

Speaker 3 (46:35):
Yeah, it's just it's it's really interesting. They fly in
formation that you wonder It's a wondrous thing. How they
do that, how they program those things. I'll tell you what, Adam,
It's way cooler than wearing winter boots. If you're not
into winter boots, I respect that, But a drone show
is way.

Speaker 1 (46:50):
Cooler than like videos online and Twitter.

Speaker 2 (46:53):
And when you see a live man, never see it
right here.

Speaker 1 (46:56):
The picture doesn't do it just.

Speaker 2 (46:59):
And that is so that's Friday. What is that? That's Saturday,
August sixteenth, Saturday of the Rivalry Series.

Speaker 3 (47:04):
Correct, now, we missed a couple of dates. I want
to go back August fourth. Major League Hall of Famer
Ted Simmons.

Speaker 1 (47:13):
Yes, he's the fourth leg of our Brewers Legend series
that we've been doing here for Doc Hounds games. We
had Jim Ganner here opening day June twentieth, we had
Rolly Fingers here, and then during our last home stand
on July fourteenth, we had Robin Youut. For our second year,
Ted Simmons will be the final leg of that SIMBA well.
Throughout the first pitch, he'll be interacting with some fans.

(47:34):
Some of our season ticket holders have already won beating
greets with Ted Simmons. It's a cool opportunity to blend
the Brewers, which the MLB team in this area, the
team that almost everybody really resonates with, with Doc Hounds baseball.
This is stuff that the Milkman and really no other
team in our league do have a close relationship with
an MLB team like we have here because of some

(47:56):
of the connections we have in our front office.

Speaker 3 (47:57):
Yeah, and I think that Milwaukee Bay small Brewers Baseball.
I think that they are so relatable to everyone around
here because it's not Chicago, it's not New York, it's
not Houston, it's not LA It's Milwaukee.

Speaker 1 (48:12):
It's the smallest market in Major League Baseball.

Speaker 2 (48:15):
Right, smallest market. People don't know that.

Speaker 3 (48:17):
But you can actually see these old timers and you
can read up their stats. I did something when my
son went to Whitewater. My wife was a big baseball
fan when she was growing up, a Brewer fan, and
we were talking about We were talking to Nick, he
was a freshman at Whitewater and we were going through
the Brewers lineup and he didn't he heard of robgn

(48:39):
out of let me, I'm serious, but isn't that crazy?

Speaker 2 (48:44):
It is crazy? And he's a baseball kid he's a
baseball kid. But that's from forty years ago, right.

Speaker 1 (48:49):
He's one of the thirty three members of the three
thousand hit club. It's like mind blowing to me that
some local baseball players don't know who that is.

Speaker 3 (48:57):
Well, you know, he knew he heard of Robignell, but
he didn't really know his stats. He heard of Oh
my god, I think he heard a Cecil Cooper. So
I'll ask you, Jim Gantner, what position did he play?

Speaker 1 (49:11):
Cooter put me on spotier. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (49:14):
I know that's okay.

Speaker 1 (49:15):
Was he a piccher? No? No, no, but that's okay
because born in Ohio, he gets some slack thing.

Speaker 3 (49:20):
I know. No, but I'm saying that. I'm not trying
to I'm trying not trying to mess with you. But
that's two generations ago. That's a long time ago, so
I don't expect you to know. But isn't that weird
how the older people know the names, right, and they
and then you, being a broadcaster, you obviously know the names.
But Cooter is a baseball player, man, he's on a
dockhound the hell of a hitter.

Speaker 1 (49:42):
I'm a professional baseball broadcaster. But if you would have
told me the last game of the season, which was
I don't know, September sixth last year, Jim Gantner is
going to be here on opening Day next year, would
have said, who. Well, then I had to learn about
him and you see, oh, he's born in Wisconsin, he
went to UW on the lock and he was drafted
by the Brewers, played his entire career at the Brewers.

(50:04):
That's absolutely awesome from the fans here.

Speaker 3 (50:06):
And and that's a small market connection, right, that's totally
that's just something that you just know.

Speaker 1 (50:11):
And being Yank, he's the Cubs, the Dodgers, they don't
have those guys.

Speaker 2 (50:15):
They don't have it.

Speaker 3 (50:15):
They don't have I think they don't have the connection.
I think it's almost too big to grasp. And then
Milwaukee you can.

Speaker 1 (50:24):
And they have bigger figures in their history and that's
certain they resonate with. But the Brewers, and I'm a
Padres fan, don't have that. We don't have that. We
have those guys who stuck with us their entire career,
and that's everything.

Speaker 3 (50:37):
So Cooder Jim Gantner War number seventeen. He was a
second baseman for the Milwaukee Brewers and that's just I'm
an old guy, so I know that stuff.

Speaker 2 (50:46):
All right. Guess this one. Ted Simmons what position?

Speaker 1 (50:52):
But not not Simmons, No, I never even heard of.

Speaker 3 (50:54):
All right, Ted Simmons, simba. He was a thick legged,
pretty big hinder. He had a big caboose, big caboose.
He was a power catcher for the Milwaukee Brewers War
number twenty. Yes, Ted Lewis Cardinals as well, and he
played for the Cars. But that's just another one that
my kid never heard. He wouldn't know who Ted Simmons was.

(51:15):
And he's a ball he plays ball, he loves baseball.

Speaker 1 (51:18):
If you would have told me before I came out
to the Midwest and twenty twenty two, if Ted Simmons
was a Hall of Famer, I wouldn't have known that.
But now I know he's a Hall of Famer. Knew
he caught. But for fans of the Brewers, that's one
of their greatest players ever.

Speaker 3 (51:33):
Yeah, yep, agreed, Just wild how the time passes, right,
Things go by and life goes on.

Speaker 2 (51:42):
But the old Brewers, especially the eighty two World Series Brewers.

Speaker 3 (51:46):
If you're if you're if you're an old guy and
you look back and you read about it and you
think about it, It's like, we should have won that
World Series. If Frawley Fingers wasn't hurt, we would have
won that World Series.

Speaker 1 (51:57):
Took it to seven games, took it.

Speaker 3 (51:59):
To seven games, and we were missing our MVP picture,
Rolly Fingers. All right, So Simba is going to be
here on August fourth and then August fifth.

Speaker 1 (52:10):
This is our Louis Scarecrow bobblehead giveaway to our first
one thousand fans the Wizard of Oz and for those
in the Lake Country or Milwaukee area who aren't familiar
with the lore of the Wizard of Oz. The city
of O'connomwalk was the first city to screen The Wizard
of Oz yep eighty six years ago. Last year was
the eighty fifth.

Speaker 2 (52:29):
There's statues in downtown O'condomwalk. You got a girlfriend, Adam, No,
I don't know. You don't, well, you're going to have
one after the season's over, probably maybe before it's over,
maybe before it's over.

Speaker 3 (52:39):
But go down to the downtown o'condom Walk there's statues
of the Wizard of Oz and there's a little yellow
brick road that But that was the first, just think
of o'connom Walk, Wisconsin in nineteen forty six, when was
The Wizard of Oz nineteen forty seven, the first city
in the country that the movie aired that the movie
was given a try. Iile run o'conom Walk crazy, right.

Speaker 1 (53:02):
Do you know why that is?

Speaker 2 (53:04):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (53:05):
But one of the newest member of our full time staff,
Susan her great uncle or some relation.

Speaker 2 (53:14):
Was a midget. Was one of the.

Speaker 1 (53:18):
Road that wrote wrote The Wizard of Oz really yes, wild,
So I'm not sure if the connection is there. That
why I got screened in O'conomwalk, but eighty six years ago.

Speaker 3 (53:27):
But wouldn't you think it would have been again, Chicago,
La New York. It would have been some or Kansas,
just somewhere else other than oconom Walk, Wisconsin.

Speaker 2 (53:35):
Crazy crazy. And that's Louis Scarecrow. So that is Louis b. Sluggan.

Speaker 3 (53:40):
And he's just going to have the scarecrow kind of
a vibe with his bobblehead. I should have been a
dog face.

Speaker 1 (53:47):
Yes, it's his dog face.

Speaker 2 (53:49):
He's got Doc Holn face.

Speaker 1 (53:50):
Yeah, and he's got a scarecrow outfit on.

Speaker 2 (53:53):
And that's a good giveaway.

Speaker 1 (53:55):
He's dressed as the Scarecrow for that game, and for
that game we will play is the Lake Country Flying Monkeys.
We played an entire weekend in June as the Flying Monkeys.
But it's our alter ego in a way to honor
the fact that The Wizard of Oz was originally screened
in Oconomo offt that's fun. It is fun.

Speaker 2 (54:14):
That's a great promo.

Speaker 1 (54:15):
There's other teams in our league to have their alternate identities,
and some I think do a good job of tying it.
There are others that either I don't know what it
is or it doesn't have a tie and they just
picked some random team name. But for us to have
that connection to the area, it's mostly the city. It's
less so late country. It has a reason to you know.

Speaker 3 (54:37):
To be here, to be here, Yes, definitely, I love it.
And then the last thing, August twenty second fireworks. Yes,
that's a big deal, and that's a big, big fireworks show.

Speaker 1 (54:48):
We did a one earlier on July third, because the
fourth of July we didn't want to I don't want
to say compete, but we pull people away from the cities.

Speaker 2 (54:57):
That's family, family stuff going on at parks and you know,
lakes and stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (55:02):
So that entire weekend we played day games. But on
the third of July we had a six thirty five
game and a postgame fireworks show, and that was the
first one we have done this season. We did one
last year. What was really neat about the final weekend
of our season last year was we had a firework
show and a drone show lined up because we finally
got approval from the city to be able to do that,

(55:24):
and thankfully they gave us clearance to do that. We
were playing the Milkmen, so it was a perfect storm.
We were also went away from clinching our first postseason birth, which,
as we talked about, it's short history, but for our
fans and for the it's a big deal. Hundred percent.

Speaker 2 (55:40):
Yes, it's a big deal. And in just four years
you're you're in the postseason. Yeah, and we're we have
a place.

Speaker 1 (55:47):
We have fourteen and a half game gap with forty
games to go between us and the last playoff spot.
So uh, it would have to be a collapse to nooffs.
We are looking you're looking good. You hate to jinx anything,
but I don't believe in jinxes. I don't either. In
a lot of players fans that.

Speaker 3 (56:02):
Fireworks show is immediately following the game. August twenty second.

Speaker 1 (56:06):
Yes, and it's the best game to be at, not
just because of the fireworks show, but the fans. They
stay the entire game and they are engaged with the game.
So for us to be able to clinch and.

Speaker 3 (56:16):
Bring the kids, this is such a family friendly place
always for us, which people know, but.

Speaker 1 (56:21):
Totally and for us to clinch with the fans being
forced to stay to watch the show, it kept them
into the game and it was a really tight game
and we're able to knock our rival out of the
playoff and clinch our first ever postseason birth Nice Adam.

Speaker 3 (56:36):
How did it go when you finished up your Whitewater career?
So now you are did you have contact with the
Doc Holins before you ended your play at Whitewater a
little bit?

Speaker 1 (56:48):
I mean with Voe the head coach.

Speaker 2 (56:51):
He knew coach vol that's the Whitewater Warhawks coach.

Speaker 4 (56:55):
He knew Kelnick, and he was good buddies with them
from my understanding then, so he was in contact with them,
like hey, like take note of this.

Speaker 2 (57:05):
I got this guy. This guy like so there had
to be some front office or somebody here from the
doc Couns in contact and then they saw either film
or they went to a couple of games or something.

Speaker 1 (57:17):
The way that our league generally works is the manager
is in charge of player personnel. But what's need about
the Lake Country doc Couns. In addition to what our
manager Ken Huckby does, he has his connections Tom Kellnick,
father of MLB player Jared Kelnick, he has his connections
primarily locally, and then Jack Jennings. He works with those two,

(57:38):
and he has connection with certain players and certain organizations
and agents, and they're able to go and grab guys
out of college like Adam, go get guys who were
former major leaguers. We have a couple on the team
right now, a couple last year, and guys who get
released from affiliate Minor League baseball, and we give them
another opportunity to either get into affiliate, get back to affiliate.

(58:02):
And for other players, they get the opportunity to play
internationally in Mexico, Japan, or Korea and Taiwan.

Speaker 3 (58:11):
Really really interesting because I don't know the ins and
outs of all that. So when this started, Adams, so
you have you're still you're still playing at Whitewater, right,
you guys are going in You're you're in the playoffs?

Speaker 2 (58:21):
Was it before them? Do you remember the timing?

Speaker 4 (58:25):
It was mainly before playoffs. I also had a family
friend back in Cincinnati named Joe Speed. He kind of
worked as my agent. He was an agent, but then
with him going out of the game, he was like, hey,
I'll help you with this. And he knew kell Nick too,
so it was kind of two sides coming at Konick
like hey, you probably should sign this guy. So it

(58:45):
kind of pushed him a little bit. But then, uh,
kind of throughout I mean, you're in the World Series.
You can't really be focusing about.

Speaker 2 (58:53):
Well that's what I was going to ask.

Speaker 1 (58:54):
You can't be focusing about.

Speaker 3 (58:55):
But I was going to ask for some that might
be a distraction. How did you handle it? Like if
you you already have it on your mind and you
figure out I'm going to try to stockhounse thing and
see where it goes from there.

Speaker 1 (59:06):
Well, I mean, like it wasn't like, uh, set in stone,
so I was in a way it was kind of like,
I know, but the care in front of you. Yeah,
So but I don't know.

Speaker 4 (59:16):
I mean in a way just with I mean, last
year of college, you're in the World Series. We've been
wanting to do that the whole year, win the whole thing.
It kind of never really crossed my mind after like
once I got there and East Lake, it was.

Speaker 2 (59:30):
Kind of like, so that was it.

Speaker 4 (59:31):
You were just focused on focused on that. I mean,
my roommate there too, was Sculling, Matt Sculling.

Speaker 3 (59:36):
So two best hitters roommates and best hitters on the team.
So Scholan has what a stellar career.

Speaker 4 (59:42):
He had and he's on the Dogs too, so he
was just so it was like he had other pro worries,
but we were just focused.

Speaker 1 (59:50):
So it's nice to have somebody with that same experience
share and so.

Speaker 3 (59:54):
You guys know that we can't we can't be distracted.
You can't think about anything except for in this moment.

Speaker 4 (01:00:01):
Yeah, but then we also did things while there in
the World Series. Sure, went to the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame, that kind of thing.

Speaker 3 (01:00:07):
Oh no, no, no, I know you you were still
you were still relaxing and trying to have a well
rounded life, and baseball was.

Speaker 4 (01:00:15):
Your So in a way, it was just a lot
going on where it wasn't like, hey, what am I
going to do now? And then I'm in grad school too,
so it's like, we'll shoot the most important weekend of
my life and I got to do some assignment. I'm
not going to be thinking about doc counds. I got
to think about this right now. So it was kind
of just focusing everything at once.

Speaker 2 (01:00:33):
But I didn't get the idea of how it actually
worked with who reaches out to who and so how
that works with so coach Bowl from the warholl reached
one of your best advocates.

Speaker 3 (01:00:45):
Man, he was so proud to have you on that team.
Ya just a just unbelievable any great coach too.

Speaker 1 (01:00:51):
Yeah, good guy.

Speaker 4 (01:00:52):
He was one of the first guys I told that
after getting off the phone with killing Nick signing the contract,
I was like, hey, bo, can.

Speaker 2 (01:00:59):
You talk and asked you for free tickets?

Speaker 4 (01:01:01):
Yet uh no, Well he knows a guy kilmix, so
he gets freaked. But I I made sure a little
more pull than out of this. I made sure to
text him. I was like, hey, I can get your
free tickets if you want, just.

Speaker 1 (01:01:13):
But like, yeah it was, but yeah, it was.

Speaker 4 (01:01:16):
It was a good whole experience unable to come here,
and it was a little bit surprising because like, obviously
you're in talks, but then it was like, wow, it's
happening quick. I mean, oh, less than a week after
we wanted all as getting told hey, we want to
sign you.

Speaker 1 (01:01:33):
So it was like wow, so cool. And I'll add
in some details there because I'm fortunate that I get
some insider information with my job and Tom and Jack
had mentioned that there's this player at Whitewater that we're
really interested in, and to this point we hadn't brought
in any D three players straight out of college, so

(01:01:54):
there's always some skepticism there. But then you look at
his numbers and you said, all right, this kid can hit,
this kid can play. And they had their eyes on
you and they really wanted to and that's why you
got here so quickly after your college career ended.

Speaker 4 (01:02:07):
Yeah. And one of the cool things of kind of
just like kell Nick letting me know that, hey, we
want you, this is why you're here, is he told
me like, hey, I believe a good hitter can hit
at any levels. So you're here at a professional level.
You're a professional hitter. You're not a D three hitter.
Trying to compete with these guys. You're not trying to
compete with these D one or minor league guys, MLB

(01:02:28):
bounce back guys. You're a professional hitter at the same
level as these guys, and we believe in you and
you can get it done.

Speaker 3 (01:02:34):
So that But but I think more importantly, you believe
in yourself. You've always believed you had to them to
have these statistics at Whitewater, which is a hell of
a good baseball program, So you had to.

Speaker 2 (01:02:45):
But it's so good to have that exactly, people kind.

Speaker 4 (01:02:48):
Of propping up else than yourself. Yeah, just kind of
because you put a picture on the mound.

Speaker 1 (01:02:54):
It's like, yeah, I can I can get a hit
off him. I can get it with a bat.

Speaker 2 (01:02:58):
And I would say this, I would say all the
studs that played, you know, watching for the last however
many years now, it's been six that I've been watching
Whitewater baseball.

Speaker 3 (01:03:09):
Guys come and go. But there's great, great hitters, but
a lot of them that's it. After Whitewater. They're done, right.
They're going to work. They're going to go work in
a factory. They're going to be an electrician, they're going
to be an accountant, do whatever. A lot of them
can't get to this level and hit because the pitching
is at the next level. Then but you do, you

(01:03:29):
can do it, and you do it all right, that's it, that's.

Speaker 1 (01:03:32):
One hundred percent. Well, it's really neat, is that the professionals.
And this is what how Adam sticks is he he
hits the mistake that he gets less frequently from these
pitchers or is able to take the pitch that some
of the other players.

Speaker 3 (01:03:46):
And three fastballs are a little bit fastball, they are
a little more faster, and curve balls are a little
more curvier.

Speaker 1 (01:03:53):
Their spins a little more social. Yeah, that's the little
nerdier stuff that I talk about on the broadcast and
that these guys talk about in the club house as well.
It's just a it's a little bit of a difference.
But if you don't have that little bit of an
extra edge that Adam does have, you can't make that
jump successfully.

Speaker 2 (01:04:09):
Yeah. I love it, Cooter. It's been great to see
you again. Nick is watching this? Or Nick? You played
with my son?

Speaker 1 (01:04:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:04:18):
Do you want to say hi to them?

Speaker 4 (01:04:19):
Hi?

Speaker 1 (01:04:19):
Nick? Nick?

Speaker 2 (01:04:22):
Nick comes here to games.

Speaker 1 (01:04:23):
By the way, so I'll make sure to get them tickets, then.

Speaker 2 (01:04:27):
We can buy our own tickets. I don't want you
to get in trouble just yet, but the next couple
of years when you're the superstar here in Dockhound Stadium.
I'm just kidding.

Speaker 3 (01:04:35):
Well, we just support you and the doc Hound's great organization.

Speaker 2 (01:04:40):
It's great to meet you, Dominic.

Speaker 1 (01:04:41):
Thank you for having us on this podcast.

Speaker 2 (01:04:43):
Mitch, all right, thank you, thank you. Cooter. Do you
want to say, oh, you don't else I was going
to ask. I don't want two more minutes, Diesel, do
your thing.

Speaker 3 (01:04:50):
Okay, what was your biggest Okay, it could be little league,
It could be something in high school. It could be
something that it doesn't even have to beat anything.

Speaker 2 (01:05:00):
To do with baseball. It could be in your life.

Speaker 3 (01:05:02):
It could be a car accident, someone that you saved,
someone that you But what what was? What are some
couple of your biggest moment's proudest moments, something that defined
you as a human as a baseball player. Maybe a
grandfather's I don't want to say it, but you know
how someone's passing someone's.

Speaker 1 (01:05:24):
You can honor them in your play and that can
provide a little extra motivization.

Speaker 2 (01:05:28):
Motivization, motivation, motivation, just motivation, not motivization evation.

Speaker 3 (01:05:33):
But but you know what I mean, Adam so like
to get to get to this level. There's always things
that you remember. You think about a moment of sadness
that you that you rose up and you you conquered
or something.

Speaker 2 (01:05:45):
Is it was there anything or is it was your
life just a progression.

Speaker 4 (01:05:48):
I mean it was more of a regression. I wouldn't
say there. I've had a I've had a loving family.
I mean, I've been way more fortunate and blessed than everybody,
uh or than a lot of people can say. So
I want to say that I've overd or achieved these
great feats through all these great but I mean, like
I would just say through the support of my family,
being able to take that progression step by step and

(01:06:11):
being able to cure their confidence in me and knowing that, hey,
like this is something I want to do and they're like,
go for it, don't have asset, go for it, have
fun with it.

Speaker 3 (01:06:21):
So well, I will say this, when Nick graduated Whitewater,
he could have played one more year and you guys
went to the World Series. You lost the last game,
but you went and I told him, I said, you
know what, you're not going to play ball anymore. Stay
on the team, play one more year because you're not
going to get this back. You're never going to be

(01:06:43):
able to get this back. You guys got a good team,
You're close.

Speaker 2 (01:06:46):
And he's like, I know, but this I know.

Speaker 3 (01:06:49):
And we talked about it as a family, and he
decided there's so many good players, I'm going to see
less playing time, which is part of it, you know
what I mean. He wasn't an actual starter at that point.
I don't think I think, yeah, Donovan, I think Branda
took it.

Speaker 2 (01:07:05):
But anyway, but he was.

Speaker 3 (01:07:06):
He was a contributor. But he decided, he thought about
it long and hired and he said, I'm going to
move on and my time is over. I had a
hell of a had a hell of a run. He
looks back on that and he often says, I wish
I would have played one more year. So when you
want it, when this is in your blood and you
want to do it, you gotta do it. You got
to see where this ends, Cooter. You don't know, I
mean from here, you don't know you could hit here.

(01:07:30):
You're hitting this and you hit three hundred, then you're
over three hundred. Next thing you know, you're somewhere else dominic.
It can happen, and.

Speaker 1 (01:07:36):
I'll speak from my own experience. I went to a
showcase after my freshman year of high school and I
was being I was sitting on the bench to some
younger players. I was getting smoked both at the plate
and on the mound, and that was my realization that
I wasn't good enough and I had to figure out
a new way to stay in baseball. But I wanted
to play it as I wanted to play out my

(01:07:58):
career through high school. And I hurt myself after my
junior year, but I went to physical therapy three times
a week and I was able to play my senior
year and play really well, despite the fact that there
was a month long period where I didn't see the
field and I thought about quitting. Was it worth it?
And I stuck it out, and it would be it's
worth it every day of the week, absolutely, because thank goodness,

(01:08:18):
I did. At that point my career was over. But
the ball stops rolling for everyone at some point. For
others it's in their thirties, for some it's in their
mid twenties and as long as the ball is able
to keep rolling, keep doing it, and everything else will
work its way out.

Speaker 2 (01:08:35):
It will Cooder, keep pushing. Brother.

Speaker 3 (01:08:38):
Thank you and it's great to see you again. By
the way, great to see your smile. Thanks for joining
us on the podcast.

Speaker 2 (01:08:44):
Steezo. We're gonna leave. We can't.

Speaker 3 (01:08:47):
Can we play a baseball song? No, because there's copyright
stuff Hunter, so we can't do that. But man, I'm
looking forward to following your career and joining here. I'll
come to a few games here. I'd like to sticky
pause barbecue thing.

Speaker 2 (01:09:04):
Steeze. I'm in, they got ribs, I'm in, all right.
Thanks again, Adam, Thanks and Dominic, thanks for having me.
Thanks for being here, Steven support support the Doc Hounds,
great stadium. First place team fourteen over you. You guys
are three and a half ahead of the second place team.

Speaker 1 (01:09:21):
Yes, the Chicago Dogs. We just swept them. It was
a series going into the All Star break. The winner
of the series was going to be in first place.

Speaker 2 (01:09:27):
Was Skulling traveling with the team at that time?

Speaker 1 (01:09:30):
He was on the team.

Speaker 2 (01:09:30):
Did you get to say hi to him? I got
to say that's pretty cool that is pretty cool, all right,
thanks for watching. We'll see you next week of Stated

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Game of Stated Game,