Fresno State Bulldogs Baseball Hour for April 30, 2025, Celebrating Central Valley Honor Flight #31 Veterans

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
On the Bulldog Sports Network from Learfield, live from the
Fresno Yosemite International Airport. This is a special edition of
the Bulldog Baseball Hour as the Red, White, and Blue
Dogs welcome home Valley veterans from their honor flight to Washington,
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State Athletics. Here's your host, the Voice of the Bulldogs,
Paul Leffler.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Well, good evening.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
It's a very special day here in the Central Valley
and really everywhere for a reason we'll talk about later.
But it's a special day here because we get to
welcome home sixty seven veterans and their guardians and our
Central Valley Honor Flight team from their trip of a
lifetime to Washington, d C. The plane's not here yet,
but it's gonna be shortly. More on that in a moment.

(00:59):
For the next we're going to be talking not just
about the honor flight, but also.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Some Fresno State baseball.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
We've got two things going together, and we've got a
couple of Fresno State baseball players on their way here
that are going to be giving out some free tickets
for Fresno State baseball games. We actually have the athletic
director from Fresno State, Garrett Classy's going to join us
in a little while. But one of the cool things
about the honor flight every time we've done it, this
is our thirty first flight, and there hasn't been a
flight where we didn't have sailors from nas Lamore who

(01:27):
took their time to come join us, to put on
their uniform, to wait sometimes hours and hours for the
flight to get here, and then to create an unforgettable
moment for the veterans on this flight. And I think
we're going to set a record tonight. If those of
you who are here at the airport are looking around,
I think you're seeing more Navy whites than you've ever
seen before. I think we're gonna have a record number

(01:48):
of sailors from nas Lamore here tonight, which is really exciting.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
But we're going to talk to one of them right now.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
So AC two Mitchell is with us right now from Lahabra, California,
not too far away.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
How long you've been in the Navy. Now almost nine years, sir.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
Almost nine years. Where all have you been in those
nine years? Have you seen some of the world?

Speaker 4 (02:08):
I have?

Speaker 5 (02:09):
So I started off at Navy Great Lakes Boot Camp,
just like everybody else, went on to Pensacola for my
A school. My first command was NAS Fallon in Nevada.
I did a one year deployment to Bahrain out of Nevada,
went back, then went to the USS Carl Vinson out
of San Diego aircraft carrier, and now I'm here.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
More can you give for those of us who have
never been in some of those situations? Can you give
us a scope of some of the things you do
in the Navy, what your responsibilities are.

Speaker 6 (02:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:42):
So I'm an air traffic controller, and much like our
civilian counterparts, I'm going to be doing work in the
control tower, just like at an airport here in the
radar rooms, and my job is ensuring the safety of
flight through communication with them via radios and watching them
on radar screens.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
Is that a little more complicated on the carrier than
it is, say here at Fresno Yosemite International.

Speaker 4 (03:04):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (03:05):
Absolutely, because on the carrier your runway is always moving.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Here, you know, you can't.

Speaker 5 (03:09):
You can't move a piece of concrete, but our carriers
always moving, always turning, and it is definitely an added
layer of complexity.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
That's a good way of putting it. And let's hope
that this runway is not moving. That would mean we
had an earthquake or something out here.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
We don't want that.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
Nine years in the Navy, Well, thank you for serving,
yes a little tardy and saying that what was it
about this idea of the Honor flight that made you
decide to come on out today and hang out for.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
A few hours at the Fresnel Airport.

Speaker 5 (03:38):
I've always been inspired by the veterans that I know,
that ones that I've grown up around, that I've had
the chances to meet in the past, and I think
that the opportunity to give back to them and show
them some of that same support that they've shown me
is one of the most important things that I can do.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
Any of those veterans that you just referenced, that you
want to tell us about somebody that was particularly inspiring
to you or meaningful.

Speaker 5 (04:02):
Absolutely down in back near my hometown. Joe Warres. He
actually just turned one hundred and two. He is a
World War two veteran, and I used to when I
was a little kid. I used to go golfing. He
was a golf friend of my grandpa's, and I just
he was one of my big inspirations. A couple of
Vietnam bets that were also out there with us, but

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him in particular.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
I might need to get his number from you to
interview from my radio show where I talk to guys
like that.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
That'd be a fun one. Did he tell you much
about what he did in the war. He's told me
a little bit about it.

Speaker 5 (04:34):
Sometimes he's a little bit quiet, and I was a
little bit younger when he was telling me about it.
But I think I should actually give him a phone call.
That's a good idea, to give him a phone call,
reach out to him.

Speaker 3 (04:43):
You know, that's really the whole story here, is that
every one of these veterans has his story, just like
you have a story, and you're giving us a little
taste of it. The gentlemen who are on this plane
right now have been through some unreal things, and in
the last three days they've seen some really exciting things
for them, and the best is yet to come when
they get here tonight, when they see ac two, Mitchell,
and so many of his fellow sailors. One more question

(05:06):
that I'm going to talk to somebody else and come
back to you here. Was there something that some of
your fellow sailors said about this that grabbed your attention,
that said, you know what, I can't miss this tonight.

Speaker 5 (05:18):
For me, as soon as I heard that I had
an opportunity to come out here and honor our veterans,
it was just it was my own prerogative. I wanted
to come out here, and I want to do that.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
Awesome.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
Well, we've got somebody else here who I know, I
know loves to honor veterans. He's a little younger than
you are, Skyler shop you tell us how old you are?

Speaker 7 (05:36):
Fourteen years old?

Speaker 3 (05:37):
Fourteen years old and you've been coming to these since you.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
Were how old?

Speaker 4 (05:43):
Since I was thirteen?

Speaker 3 (05:45):
Was that the first one you came? I think you
might have been even younger than that. I know I
saw your dad out here a few times. And the
reason I asked Skyler to come up here because he's
doing something very cool to promote Central Valley Honor Flight
and raise awareness so more veterans know about the opportunity
to go visit their memorials and more people know that
they can contribute. It's all donations, all volunteers. Tell everybody

(06:07):
where you put the Central Valley Honor Flight logo?

Speaker 8 (06:10):
I put it on the hood of my race car.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
Is that cool? Or what?

Speaker 3 (06:14):
Anybody else have a race car? They want to put
our logo on the hood of No? Is he the
only one? What kind of race car is this?

Speaker 8 (06:21):
Light model stock car?

Speaker 2 (06:23):
And where do you race?

Speaker 8 (06:24):
Madero Speedway and Roseville Speedway?

Speaker 3 (06:26):
In fact, I saw a video you had your first
race at Roseville recently, right.

Speaker 8 (06:31):
Yes, my first race I had out there and I
happened to win also, so it was really cool experience
for me and just trying to build sea time in
the car and just trying to do it for a
great cause that you know, all you guys do here
with Honor Flight. Just super happy to have you guys
on the car and we can continue our journey forward.

Speaker 3 (06:53):
How long do you think it would take if you
drove a veteran in your race car all the way
to Washington, DC.

Speaker 8 (06:58):
I'm not sure.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
Depends on if you had to obey the speed limit
or not. I guess yeah, So I have to ask
the question, right, I don't like. I asked if anyone
else had a race car they wanted to put the
logo on. There is no one else with a race
car that has the Central Valley Honor Flight logo. And
it was your idea. Why did you have that idea?
Why was that something that was so deeply on your heart?

Speaker 8 (07:19):
It was just my dad was telling about I was
telling me about you and Honor Flight and how and
how all this works. And when I first heard about it,
I was blown away that they do this for great
veterans that served our country and that we should always
give back to them. And I was just really touched

(07:40):
by what all you guys do, and I thought, you
know what, we need to get behind that cause and
we need to build it up and we can promote it.

Speaker 3 (07:50):
So the more races you win, the more interviews you
get to do about Honor Flight. Is that kind of
how it worse?

Speaker 4 (07:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (07:55):
Yeah, yeah, I've won three out of the four races
so far this season, and so yeah, my season's been
going pretty good and just means more and more exposure
for Honor Flight.

Speaker 3 (08:05):
So if you go on our Central Valley Honor Flight
Facebook page and scroll through the videos.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
You'll see a video of.

Speaker 3 (08:10):
Skyler in Victory Lane getting interviewed and he's talking about
Central Valley Honor Flight and our veterans that inspire him,
and who knows, maybe he's reaching a different generation of
people about our mission.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
Is there anything else you want to say.

Speaker 3 (08:24):
About Honor Flight or what you're doing in the race
car and what you hope it turns into.

Speaker 8 (08:28):
Well, right now, we're just we're really trying to get
the message out and hopefully as I grow through the
ranks of all the way to NASCAR, hopefully this program
will become more and more greater with more and more exposure,
and hopefully we can bring it all the way to

(08:49):
Daytona someday.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
How about that? How cool would that be? Huh? The
Daytona five hundred with Central Valley Honor Flight. Somewhere in
that car there.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
Might be a bigger sponsor that kind of moves us
to the rear bumper or something. But tell everybody, the
logo is on your car right.

Speaker 8 (09:01):
Now, right now, it's on the hood.

Speaker 3 (09:04):
And again you can find some videos of that on
our Facebook page, Central Valley on Our Flight. Is there
any other way that people can get in touch with
you if they want to support what you're doing or
go root you on at Madera or Rooseville.

Speaker 8 (09:16):
We have a Facebook page on our racing and it's
pretty good right now. And yeah, we're just really trying
to build everything up and promote it as much as
we can.

Speaker 3 (09:28):
I got to ask you one more question, Skyler, and
how old did you say you were again?

Speaker 8 (09:33):
Alice?

Speaker 4 (09:33):
I'm fourteen?

Speaker 2 (09:34):
Fourteen years old. Isn't that awesome? You guys?

Speaker 3 (09:37):
I think that's pretty cool. When's the next time? Maybe
some of these people here tonight want to go see
you race? The next time you raceing right up the
road in Madera. When's your next race?

Speaker 2 (09:46):
There?

Speaker 8 (09:46):
My race is this Saturday at Madera, and then the
following Saturday I have a race in Roosevelt.

Speaker 3 (09:53):
All right, So this Saturday in Madera, the next Saturday
in Roseville, and they know which car to root for? Yeah,
Central Val Honor Flight on the Hood. Thank you, Skyler
Ac two, Mitchell, have you ever heard anything like that before?

Speaker 2 (10:04):
No?

Speaker 5 (10:05):
I don't think I ever have. And that sounds like
something I might want to go check out this weekend.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
Hey, Hey, Saturday might have some sailors up at Madera
Speedway as well rooting on the Central Valley Honor flight
car at Skyler's Shoppy.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
So one thing you know, I wanted to ask.

Speaker 3 (10:18):
You ac two Mitchell, is what the rest of us
don't understand. There are a lot of people here who
have served. We have a lot of veterans who are
in the house getting ready to welcome these veterans home.
Some of the band members over there from the Clovist
Community Band or veterans themselves. There's a member of that
band who's actually on the flight right now as one
of our honored veterans. So I know there are a

(10:39):
lot of veterans in here, but there are a lot
of people here at the airport and listening on the radio.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
Who've never served.

Speaker 3 (10:44):
Is there something that you think might be a misconception
for those of us who don't wear the uniform, that
your your life is like that maybe we could understand
a little better.

Speaker 5 (10:55):
I would say one of the only real misconceptions that
I hear about in general is a lot of people
think that everyone in the military is exactly the same,
and that is part of the thing is keeping us
all within regulations so that we all have standards that
we have to meet, but that doesn't take away our individuality,

(11:16):
that doesn't take away our creativity, that doesn't take away
our ability to bring in new ideas. So we are
not just robots. We are still human beings.

Speaker 3 (11:26):
I like the way you said that. And one more question,
with regard to all the people here and all the
people listening, what's something that we can do that could
actually make a difference in the lives of you and
your fellow sailors where you would feel our support. What
could we do to show our support and belief in
you guys, and what you do.

Speaker 5 (11:46):
Just keep being good patriotic Americans out there. That's the
best thing for us is knowing that we have our
country minis alongside of us that we can be proud of,
and they're proud of us.

Speaker 3 (11:56):
I think he's a pretty good speaker. We may have
him host the rest of the show, I think, And
I guess you have to be a good speaker to
be an air traffic controller. Huh, that's correct, got to
be clear and concise. Well, thank you for serving, Thank
you for being here tonight. And before you guys go
back to welcome the veterans. We'll try to get all
the sailors up front and let this crowd hear from

(12:17):
you guys a little bit more.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
Thanks so much for being here. Yes, sir and Skyler
keep winning races.

Speaker 3 (12:22):
Huh, I will all right, Skyler, Shoppy and Ac two Mitchell,
who's from nas Lamore with I think about seventy five
of us close as friends in uniform here tonight waiting
for Central Valley Honor Flight number thirty one to touch down.
The plane just left Colorado Springs. It's going to be
here in Fresno right around seven o'clock, so you can
spread the word to your friends who aren't here yet

(12:43):
that that plane isn't here and they still have time
to make it. We'll have more on the timing when
we come back. It's a special edition of the Bulldog
Baseball Hour here at the Fresno Airport for Honor Flight
number thirty one, and we'll be right back on the
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Welcome back.

Speaker 3 (16:06):
We're at the Fresno Yosemite International Airport because Central Valley
Honor Flight thirty one is coming home tonight, and it's
a little behind schedule because they had to stop in
Colorado Springs, but they are in the air headed this way.

Speaker 2 (16:20):
They will be on the ground here right around.

Speaker 3 (16:23):
Seven o'clock, so in just a few minutes, we're going
to be joined by Fresno State Athletic Director Garrett Classy
and a couple Fresno State baseball players. They're going to
hand out some free tickets to the crowd gathering here.
But you never know who you're going to see when
you come to the airport here. And I don't know
if a radio headset flip it around the other way
will work around a tiara, But we're going to try

(16:45):
to find out right now, because we have at least
five tiaras in the house. Are there any more tiaras running?

Speaker 16 (16:51):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (16:51):
There are. I see some younger tiara wearing young ladies
that are coming in. This is what I love about
Central Valley Honor Flight. It really brings all of us together.
You just heard from I'm a sailor AC two Mitchell,
who's here with nas Lamore to welcome the veterans home tonight.
You heard from a young fourteen year old race car driver,
Skylar Shoppe, who puts the Honor Flight logo on his car.

(17:12):
But I want to know why all these tiaras are
here tonight. So I'm sure you're used to introducing yourself.
I want to tell everybody.

Speaker 2 (17:18):
Who you are.

Speaker 12 (17:19):
Yes, Hello, everyone, my name is Cambria Whitney and I'm
honored to serve as Miss Fresno County. I'm here with
my fellow title holders to say welcome home to our veterans.
We want to thank them from the bottom of our
hearts for their service and sacrifice for the best country
in the world.

Speaker 3 (17:35):
They've given us.

Speaker 12 (17:36):
So they've given so much for this country and we're
here today to celebrate them. This moment is also personal
for me. My grandfather was a World War Two veteran,
My grandfather was a Vietnam veteran, and my dad is
a proud Marine Corps veteran. And because of them and
these honor flights veterans, I understand the meaning of bravery
and commitment. We're so grateful for everything they've done and

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welcome home, Thank you to our heroes, and God bless America.

Speaker 3 (18:04):
Wow does anything else need to be said? I don't
know that was outstanding? How often do you I mean,
I know you don't get to go to an honor
flight every day, but how busy is it to be
miss Fresno County.

Speaker 12 (18:16):
I always say, whatever you put in is what you
get out of it. And so we all have been
to so many events together, and we have the honor
of serving our different counties, and so we've gone to
so many things. But this is my first veteran flight,
and I'm sure a few of them as well, And
so it's super exciting to be here and we're very

(18:38):
honored to welcome home these veterans.

Speaker 3 (18:41):
All right, well, they're going to be excited to see
you too. Usually we line the cheerleaders up right inside
the line. Here, we'll space you guys out so they
can see a miss something on the way. And I
say miss something because we've got so many. I can't
read all your sashes, but maybe Cambria, you can tell
me who what all pageant winners do we have here?

Speaker 12 (19:00):
Miss Madera County McKenzie. We have Miss Clovis Rachel, Miss
Heart of California Hayley, We have Miss City of Fresno, Ashland,
and we also are joined by our little Miss Clovises.
And so it's a non competitive group of young ladies
that get to be a part of our competition and
they have the opportunity to come serve alongside of us

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at a few of our events, and so we love
having them here. And yeah, they're a great add on
with all their crowns and sashes.

Speaker 3 (19:31):
The crowns and the sashes are here at the airport tonight.
Have you ever gotten your crown caught on something all
the time.

Speaker 12 (19:39):
That happens to us all the time. We're constantly fixing
each other's crowns and sashes. But that's why we love it.
It's the sisterhood of Miss America, and so we're always
here to help each other.

Speaker 2 (19:50):
All right.

Speaker 3 (19:51):
So we have some guys on this flight that I mean,
we have a guy who got shrapnel in his eye
in Vietnam. We've got some that were wounded in other ways.
Just make sure you don't get anybody's with the crown tonight.

Speaker 12 (20:01):
Yes, Sarah, we will make sure of that.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
And is there anything else you wanted to say about
the veterans in your family.

Speaker 3 (20:07):
I was touched by that you said your father was
in the Marine Corps, your grandfather Vietnam. It was your
great grandfather in World War Two? Yes, fantastic. Yes.

Speaker 12 (20:14):
So we know the commitment and bravery of all of
these veterans and we're just so grateful to be here
to welcome them home from their honor flight.

Speaker 3 (20:23):
Well, thank you, Thank you to all the pageant winners
for being here tonight. Can we give me a hand
all right? Well, we're hanging out here at the Fresno Airport.
If you're listening to us on the radio, you still
have time to get here. The plane's going to land
around seven o'clock. They'll be marching through probably around seven thirty,
so you have plenty of time to join us and
celebrate those who put their lives on the line for
the rest of us. When we come back from this break,

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the athletic director of Fresno State, Garrett Classy's going to
join us. Come hang out at the airport with us.
Welcome home sixty seven veterans from nine different counties in
twenty six valley hometowns honor Flight thirty one, and we'll
be right back.

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Speaker 3 (24:02):
You know, and I welcome back to the Bulldog Baseball Hour.
It's also the Honor Flight Hour because we're waiting for
our heroes. Sixty seven Valley veterans on Central Valley Honor
Flight number thirty one are on their way back. They
had to make a little pit stop in Colorado Springs.
I guess they waved to the Air Force Academy there.
But they're on their way to Fresno now. They'll be

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on the ground right after seven o'clock. If you get
here around seven even seven fifteen, probably seven point thirty,
you can still catch them marching through the terminal. We
already have a crowd growing. The Clovis Community Band is here.
We're going to hear them playing a little bit. We've
got dozens of sailors from nas Lamore ready to greet
the veterans. Even a bunch of pageant winners are here.
Miss Fresno County and Miss Fresno and Miss Clovis.

Speaker 2 (24:43):
They're all here.

Speaker 3 (24:44):
So the bottom line is you should be here too
and come join us at the Fresno Yosemite International Airport.
Keep in mind McKinley Avenue's closed, so come in on
Clinton or Peach, but Peaches down to one lane. I'll
ask the gentleman joining us now, how he got here today.
Garrett Classy is Fresno State's athletic director. Did you have
to take a different route to the airport tonight?

Speaker 21 (25:03):
You know what, I've only been here nine months and
I'm kind of I plug it into my iPhone, whatever
rout it tells me I get here, and I'm you know,
I think I'm batting one thousand percent so far.

Speaker 2 (25:12):
Well good.

Speaker 3 (25:12):
I'm glad you made it, and thank you for being here.
I know you haven't been here for one of the
honor flights before, so you're getting your first taste tonight.
But I'm sure since you spent four years in athletics
administration in Washington, d C. That you have a sense
for what these veterans are seeing back there.

Speaker 21 (25:29):
I mean, it's an incredible place and there's no better
way to honor veterans to go out to DC and
really show them the monuments and and everything that's special
about patriotism freedom.

Speaker 6 (25:42):
I mean, you and I aren.

Speaker 21 (25:42):
On this radio show without these veterans on this flight,
and I think people forget that. And to be able
to spend four years there and see all those monuments,
go through the capital, meet a lot of amazing politicians,
it's just an incredible place.

Speaker 6 (25:55):
And I you know, I try not.

Speaker 21 (25:57):
To get too political on these things, but at the
end of the day, you know, we're best as Americans
as we bond together. And if we can't bond around
these veterans coming back from the honor flight, then there's
no business.

Speaker 6 (26:09):
Being part of this great country.

Speaker 21 (26:10):
I mean, we're their greatest country in the world for
a reason, and it's because of these sixty seven veterans
on this flight.

Speaker 3 (26:16):
Well, and that's music to myers, and that's what has
blown me away over the years.

Speaker 2 (26:19):
As we do this.

Speaker 3 (26:20):
I mean, we're in an all volunteer organization. It's all donations,
and not only do the people of the valley continue
to support it, but they always show up here. And
I tell everybody, some people may get sick of hearing
me say this, but anytime someone asked me about it,
I said, here's why you have to come to the
Central Valley Honor Flight homecoming because it probably about seven
thirty tonight when they come march and through.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
You're going to look around the room. It's going to
be standing room only.

Speaker 3 (26:41):
It's age zero, two, one hundred, every ethnicity, every tax bracket,
every religious belief, all the things that we argue over,
and no one's talking about that. They're all in agreement
that these veterans deserve our gratitude. And I know, you know,
there aren't too many things in our world anymore that
can bring people together like that.

Speaker 6 (26:56):
It's really Yeah.

Speaker 21 (26:58):
If patriotism is lost in the country, we don't have anything,
and so to bring everyone together. Doesn't matter what your
beliefs are in anything in life. This is what this
country's all about. I mean, all the way back to
the Revolutionary War. We aren't here without these brave veterans.
And I think people we don't spend enough time reflecting
on that. I think during these smultuous times that can

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be in this country, this is what we need to
reflect on. You know, there's a lot of blood, sweat
and tiers that win in building to what we are
as a country, and I think there's never a bad
time to honor, and in fact, we should do it more often.

Speaker 6 (27:29):
I don't think you can do it enough.

Speaker 3 (27:31):
He's Garrett Classy, Fresno State's athletic director. In a few minutes,
we're gonna have a couple of the stars of the
Bulldog baseball team, which is leading the Mountain West and
going into a big weekend series in Reno this weekend
against the Nevada Wolfpack.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
And you've got a lot of jobs, Garrett.

Speaker 3 (27:44):
You've got a lot of sports to keep up with,
and you're trying to figure out what's going on with
the conference affiliation. Presno State's going to move into the
PAC twelve two seasons from now. I know there's meetings happening,
there's speculation. You may not be able to tell us
everything you know, but is there something you can share
with people that might have you a little bit excited
about the future conference wise?

Speaker 21 (28:06):
I mean, everything about the future at Fresno State, whether
it's the academic side or athletics side, has me excited.
With the incredible leadership of President him and Asanavelbona comes
to PAC twelve specifically. You know, we've been working hard
on trying to get a television deal done, something that's
really going to create the exposure that we deserve at
Fresno State. That's why we partnered with the other Mountain
West schools to go to the PAC twelve. And as

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well as the revenue opportunities as we enter this new
era college athletics, being able to compete in revenue sharing
is going to be critical to our success here. And
I think the great thing that I always say about
Fresno State, We've won a lot of champions in the
past just with the people, and so if you go
with people, that's a pretty good recipe for success. And
so if we can do our job and bring the
revenue in that these student athletes deserve and field a

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team that this valley deserves, then we have a really
legitimate shot to compete for championships year in a year
out in the PAC twelve.

Speaker 3 (28:58):
Well, I'll tell you just since I've been to the
airport the last couple hours, I've had about six people
ask me how they thought the Bulldog football team was going.

Speaker 2 (29:05):
To be this fall.

Speaker 3 (29:06):
So there's a lot of interest out here there's no doubt,
and Fresno State's been a big part of Central Valley
Honor Flight from the beginning. We have a lot of
Fresno State grads on this flight, but we also have
a guy I want to talk to you about, Garrett,
and I don't want to put you on the spot.
The baseball guys will be here in a moment and
they won't let me ask you too many tough questions.
But here's one for you. So one of the vets

(29:26):
on this flight is a guy named Darryl Matthews. He's
eighty six years old. I think he's the most highly
decorated veteran on this flight. Retired from the Army as
a full colonel with twenty two Distinguished Flying Crosses and
two Bronze Stars from his time as a helicopter pilot
in Vietnam. He told me he flew an average of
one hundred and ten hours a week when he was
in Vietnam because he volunteered for all the missions nobody

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else wanted. But before that, from nineteen fifty eight to
sixty two, he was a star football player for the
University of Wyoming. Played for Bob Devaney, who, as you know,
since you worked at Nebraska up on national championships with
the corn Huskers. Correct and so, and Darryl said, Fanny,
by the way, Devanny, I'm sorry, Bob Davanny.

Speaker 6 (30:07):
I got corrected many times my first few months in Lincoln.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
You were at Nebraska'vanny.

Speaker 3 (30:12):
So what Daryl told me about playing against Merlin Olsen,
he said that was like running into a brick wall.

Speaker 6 (30:18):
I'm sure.

Speaker 3 (30:18):
But his wife of sixty five years is going to
be here tonight. She may be here already, Laurel, his
daughter is with him on the flight. But when I
heard about his history as a Wyoming football star, I thought,
you know, Wyoming Cowboys are coming to Fresno November.

Speaker 2 (30:31):
Fifteenth this year.

Speaker 3 (30:33):
What do you think could we have that guy, the
former Wyoming Cowboy Darryl Matthews be the hero of the
game at a Fresno State football game.

Speaker 6 (30:40):
I don't see why not.

Speaker 21 (30:41):
I mean, obviously, we're gonna all band together, and when
you're a veteran, you're you're one of all.

Speaker 6 (30:46):
You're not just part of one particular team.

Speaker 21 (30:48):
And the one thing I've learned in nine months in
the valley, even if he played football Wyoming and he's
lived here a long time, he still supports the Bulldogs,
so as far as I'm concerned, he can be the
veteran of the game outstanding.

Speaker 2 (30:58):
You guys all heard that, right. I thought that was
a great answer.

Speaker 3 (31:01):
And we'll look forward to forty thousand people cheering for
Daryl on November fifteenth, but we all get to cheer
for him tonight. Garrett, thanks so much for coming out
and supporting the mission here. Thanks for see a couple
of these baseball guys who are trying to win a
Mountain West championship are going to join us in a minute.
Anything else you want to say to the Red Wave
that's getting geared up for the rest of this year
and the next school.

Speaker 21 (31:20):
Year, just that, Hey, I'm proud to see already a
packed house here and we still have an hour to
go before the honor flight gets home. But you know,
come on, check out this football team. They're competing hard.
Matt Ens is the real deal. He's going to win
the line of scrimmage. It's going to be a gritty,
blue collar team that's going to make the valley proud,
and so definitely come out and support these guys.

Speaker 6 (31:41):
Support the baseball team.

Speaker 21 (31:42):
We got one weekend series left, a lot of great
things happen in Fresno State, and you know, we've had
a lot of growth to do, but we have the
potential to get to where we want to be.

Speaker 3 (31:53):
The guy behind you wearing the red jacket used to
be on the Fresno State rodeo team. Right there, j Ventris,
he went on our last flight.

Speaker 2 (31:58):
I'm true story.

Speaker 3 (32:00):
Nice, I was just bragging on you, Jay, I said,
you used to be on the Fresno State rodeo team.
This is the Fresno State Athletic Director.

Speaker 6 (32:06):
Nice to meetcha.

Speaker 2 (32:07):
Hey, there you go.

Speaker 6 (32:08):
I bet you were at the Clobus rodeo last weekend too.

Speaker 3 (32:11):
He sure was with bells on and we want you
to come join us at the airport. The flight will
land around seven, hopefully marching through around seven thirty, so
you have time to join us. We're gonna hear from
the Clovis community man when we come back, and you'll
hear from a couple of diamond dogs.

Speaker 2 (32:24):
Garrett, thanks again.

Speaker 6 (32:25):
Thanks for having me.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
Paul Garrett, classy.

Speaker 3 (32:27):
Fresno State Athletic Director at the Bulldog Baseball Hour continues
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Welcome back to the Bulldog Baseball Hour. We're hanging out
here at the Fresno Yosemite International Airport because tonight's the
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first time that our valley has made it possible for
veterans to go visit their memorials. We've got sixty seven
veterans ranging in age from sixty nine to ninety four,
who've had the time of their lives, but they haven't
seen anything yet.

Speaker 2 (36:03):
Because when they get to this crowd and they.

Speaker 3 (36:06):
See I think about seventy five sailors from nas Lamore
and a red, white and blue crowd waiting for him,
it's gonna knock their socks off. Speaking of knocking socks off,
that's what the Bulldog baseball team's been doing lately, a
four game win streak, and we have two members of
that team with us here tonight at the airport. We
have sophomore Cam Schneider and red shirt freshman Caden Munster,

(36:27):
who have always been best friends. I understand you guys
like never disliked each other at all, right, no.

Speaker 4 (36:33):
Not from a very young age.

Speaker 3 (36:35):
Picked that microne up a little closer your mouth there, Kaiden.
But you guys in high school were pretty fierce rivals
from what I understand.

Speaker 23 (36:41):
Yeah, they're definitely some fierce rivals, just always having a
great time playing against each other because we grew up
from it feels like just from six years old on
playing ball together. So whenever you get to face each other,
it was fun. You never took it too seriously though,
Just always be smiling at one another.

Speaker 4 (36:59):
When he pitch and I was hitting. It was always
just a good time.

Speaker 2 (37:02):
Though you have anything to add to that, cam any rebuttals.

Speaker 7 (37:06):
He may have been out there for fun. I was
just trying to beat him, if I'm being honest here,
I wanted to win.

Speaker 3 (37:12):
But now you guys are on the same team, and
it's a pretty good team. It's a team that's leading
the Mountain West right now. Fresno State Baseball. You can
catch him at home again May sixth, May ninth, May tenth,
May eleventh, and May thirteenth, And right here, I have
some vouchers for free Fresno State tickets that I'm gonna
have the guys hand out before they leave here tonight.
But the reason I was really thrilled to hear you

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two could join us is not just to promote what
you guys are doing, because you're doing something special, but
to ask you about your connections to the military. And Kayden,
let's start with you, because I think your connection is
pretty fresh, isn't it.

Speaker 23 (37:45):
Yeah, my dad is serving right now in the military.

Speaker 4 (37:48):
He's part of the army right now.

Speaker 23 (37:50):
He's a lieutenant colonel and he's serving in Saudi Arabia
at the moment, so connection is pretty good with any
type of military. It's always been a good time right there.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
So basically your whole life he's been.

Speaker 23 (38:03):
In yes, sir, Yeah, what does that meant for you
as far as the time that you get to spend
spend with him and the things that maybe you've seen
or had to deal with that someone whose father isn't
in the military doesn't. I mean, the time that we
have together is definitely cherished more right now. It's definitely
been a weird time just because of him being so

(38:24):
far away. Definitely just a lot of FaceTime calls, a
lot of calls just trying to connect.

Speaker 4 (38:30):
And it does a great job too.

Speaker 23 (38:32):
He watches all of our game so we definitely have
a pre game in post game text no matter how much,
how well, how bad I do, So it's always good
with that. And also it just helps with a lot
of like the work ethic that I have.

Speaker 4 (38:47):
Him being in the army's definitely.

Speaker 23 (38:48):
Instilled some things in me that you don't really bow
down from a challenge and you go there and you
fight every single day.

Speaker 4 (38:54):
So he definitely instilled down to me and it's been
paying off.

Speaker 2 (38:58):
So and you were.

Speaker 3 (38:58):
Facing that left the other day as a left handed
batter and you hit that opposite field home run to
the bullpen and left field. That was kind of like
nothing compared to the stuff you've dealt with with him
or heard him talk about.

Speaker 23 (39:10):
Oh Man, Cam can also help me with this one.
He was able to come back for some time at
the beginning of the year, and he was with us
when we went down to TCU and took me and
Cam and j T Guerrero out to dinner, and Cam
and JT had a bunch of questions and I knew
the stories already, but the things that he was saying

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over the dinner table, you would never think of a
normal conversation like that. So when you hear those things
on a day to day basis is kind of crazy.
Just to fathom what he has to go through day
and day out.

Speaker 3 (39:45):
Well, I've got to ask the follow up question with
Cam now, as long as it's something that you know
is not national security or isn't safe for radio. Sounds
like you heard some things from Caden's dad, Lieutenant Colonel
Munster that opened your eyes a little bit.

Speaker 7 (39:58):
I did just I mean goes on on a day
to day, especially when he was on the ground. I mean,
some of the things that these guys have to endure
is just you can't even imagine it. We complained about
having to wake up or early, complained about having to
go to class, and these dudes are fine for our freedom.
And he told us a few fun stories. He fell

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off the back of a truck that was probably my
favorite one, but I mean countless other stories and I
was lucky to hear all of them.

Speaker 3 (40:28):
Yeah, I'm sorry I missed that. I was at TCU too.
I should have been a fly on the wall trying
to eavestrop. So Kayden back to you know, getting text
from him before and after games. So what time is it, like,
you know, this last weekend you homered him back to
back days? What time is it for him in Saudi
a radio when he's Arabia when he's sending you that
postgame text.

Speaker 23 (40:48):
So for him, I think it's about fourteen hours ahead
of time. But the really cool part of these last
two games with the two homers that I hit was
actually his birthday. So the first one that I hit
on Saturday, it was his birthday.

Speaker 4 (41:06):
In Saudi Arabia.

Speaker 23 (41:06):
Time, So that was the first homer on his birthday,
and then the next day on Sunday, it was his
birthday in the US, and then I went the homer
that day, so he had two birthday bombs. So he
was all fired up for that.

Speaker 2 (41:18):
Did you guys all hear that story? How crazy is that?

Speaker 3 (41:21):
Especially because it, I mean, I'm not picking on you here,
it had been a little while since you.

Speaker 23 (41:25):
Got absolutely, Oh yeah, no, it definitely needed to start happening.

Speaker 4 (41:29):
So I picked a pretty good day, two good days
to do that.

Speaker 3 (41:32):
So when you hit that first one, were you thinking
it was his birthday in Saudi Arabia? Had that occurred
to you?

Speaker 2 (41:38):
Yet?

Speaker 4 (41:39):
It really didn't.

Speaker 23 (41:40):
I honestly forgot about the time difference in that time,
just because we're here trying to compete at that time,
so I didn't really think of it. And then I
get the postgame text and it's, hey, thanks for the
birthday bomb. And then I get the text the next day, Hey,
thanks for the birthday bomb.

Speaker 4 (41:56):
So it was pretty cool.

Speaker 3 (41:58):
I doubt I'm guaranteed right now there's not another player
in college baseball who homered on his father's birthday in
Saudi Arabia where he was and then again the next
day on.

Speaker 2 (42:08):
His birthday here. Yeah, that's really awesome.

Speaker 3 (42:12):
And Cam you've got a connection to the military too.
I want to We're gonna have to squeeze in one
more commercial break, but I want to get to that
when we come back.

Speaker 2 (42:21):
Before that, I'm talking about.

Speaker 3 (42:23):
Honor Flight and the veterans, but some people may want
to hear a little baseball too. What do you think
is clicking for this team right now? Because you just
had to sweep at home over Washington State, finished it
off where Mercy Rule Sunday went up and on a
Tuesday night, which hasn't been your guys, Forte through a
shutout on the road at Pacific.

Speaker 2 (42:39):
What's happening with this team right now?

Speaker 7 (42:42):
Honestly, we're just embracing winning. We're taking in all the
criticism that we've had throughout the year, things that we've
not done well, and as of right now, I don't
want to speak too early, but I think we're in
a really good place and a place we need to
be to continue to win. I think that this of
the struggles we had earlier on in the year, we've

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been able to adapt and overcome. And I think that
where we are right now is where we need to be.
If not, we might even be a little bit ahead
of that.

Speaker 3 (43:12):
Kaden, anything you want to add to that out of
things that you're seeing or feeling or experiencing with your teammates.

Speaker 23 (43:17):
I think that we're finally We've always been a close
group where I think we're coming together to find ways
to win, even in days that.

Speaker 4 (43:25):
We don't really do what we're supposed to.

Speaker 23 (43:27):
Do, like some days that we come out we're kind
of flat, but you know, hey, we got to fight.

Speaker 4 (43:32):
We got to figure out.

Speaker 23 (43:32):
Ways to win ball games the way that we really
don't usually do. So I think we're just bit by
bit finding the places that we need to fit into
as individuals and putting together as a team aspect. And
it's really working right now. And I think that it's
just going to keep building and we're gonna get hot
at the right time, and it's gonna be a dangerous
Bulldogs team to play.

Speaker 2 (43:54):
I've seen a few of those before.

Speaker 3 (43:55):
It's kind of fun when that happens, and I can
feel it coming to We're talking to Cam Schneider and
Monster from the Fresno State baseball team. They're home May sixth, ninth, tenth, eleventh,
and thirteenth. Those are the last five home games. We
have some free tickets for the home games that we're
gonna give away tonight here at the Fresno Yosemite International Airport.

Speaker 2 (44:12):
Come join us.

Speaker 3 (44:13):
We're only on the radio till six, but the flight's
gonna land right after seven. They'll be marching through seven
thirty seven, forty five something like that. We'd love to
see you here at the Fresno Yosemite International Airport. Keep
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Welcome back to the Bulldog Baseball hour. The hour's flying by,
and our veterans are flying home. They had to make
a pit stop in Colorado Springs. Hey, the baseball team

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didn't even go to Colorado Springs this year, but our
honor flight did unexpectedly.

Speaker 2 (47:45):
They had to get a.

Speaker 3 (47:46):
Little more fuel so they'd make it all the way
to Fresno. They are currently scheduled to land at seven
sixteen pm. Now they might make up a little time.
It might be a little earlier, but that means if
you're not here yet, that you still have time to
get here and cheer form. As soon as they land,
our volunteers will get them lined up. They should be
marching through the terminal about thirty minutes after that, so

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we'll keep it posted, but hope you can come join
us here at the airport. We already have VFW Post
nineteen eighty one here. They'll lead our procession. We've got
the Fresno Stag in Thistlefife and drum bagpipers who were here,
more sailor chamenies, the more than we've ever had before.
Thanks again to the athletic director Garrett Classy for coming out.
We've got two Fresno State Diamond Dogs two Mountain West

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leading Fresno State Diamond Dogs Caden Munster and Cam Schneider
are here and guys last well, let's see two home
series ago, the Air Force Falcons were here and on
the first game, it was the Thursday before Easter, there
was a flyover, pretty low and slow flyover, and you
guys were both standing on the field for that. What

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did that feel like to be down on that field
that you guys are on every day, but have that happen.

Speaker 23 (48:53):
That was one of the coolest moments of my life
in a baseball field. All I can remember is I'm
standing right next to Jack Anchor ra Sin.

Speaker 4 (49:04):
He's right there.

Speaker 23 (49:04):
He's all fired up as a star normal and you
can just tell on his face that it was different
just because of the flyover. I mean, everyone there was
all fired up. Honestly, I didn't think they were gonna
be that low. So when you just heard it felt
everything right. There was the best moment of the year
for sure.

Speaker 2 (49:21):
Cam, could you feel it in your toes?

Speaker 7 (49:23):
I could feel it everywhere. I'm staying up in the
outfield staring at the flag, and all of a sudden,
I feel the feet shaken, ground shaking, look up and
there's America right there. And oh no, it felt like
I was playing in the World Series at that moment.
It was really special.

Speaker 3 (49:37):
Well, maybe we'll get to do it again sometime. And actually,
now that you mentioned that, I guess you're the closest
guy to the flag when you guys stand for the anthem,
I am as the left fielder. Yeah, that was two
T thirty eights that flew over the baseball game. We've
got an Allegiant air A three twenty flying home with
our precious cargo of sixty seven veterans. They're gonna be
here in less than an hour and a half, so
you still have time to come join us. These guys

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are gonna be handing out some vouchers for free Bulldog
baseball tickets and a few but Cam, I want to
take some time to hear about your connection to the military.
I had a real interesting conversation with your grandparents in
one of the games a couple of weeks ago. We
don't have to get into all of that, but it
sounds like you have a member of your family that
did some pretty incredible things for our country.

Speaker 6 (50:19):
He did he did.

Speaker 7 (50:20):
He was a paratrooper during World War two, believed two
Purple Hearts, Bronze Star, Silver Star. He did some very
special things for this country and for the rest of
my family, and he's a hero in our family, and
I'm sure many other families would agree with that statement.

Speaker 2 (50:40):
So this is your great grandfather, great grandfather.

Speaker 3 (50:43):
Have you ever read or heard any of the stories
of some of the things that he did.

Speaker 7 (50:47):
I have a few stories passed down for my grandmother
of just kind of the person that he was outside
of the military, great family man. He was also the
sheriff of Fresno, loved the community, loved America, and there's
nothing that guy wouldn't do for my family. So I'm
sad I was never able to meet him, but his
stories still live on and through in our family.

Speaker 3 (51:10):
We're talking to Cam Schneider and Caden Munster, two starters
on the Mountain West leading Fresno State baseball team, who
has its next home game May the six. You can
get tickets at go Bulldogs dot com, or you might
get some free ones here at the airport tonight as
we await the landing of Central Valley on her flight
number thirty one. So Cam, when Cayden was talking about
his dad, who's a lieutenant colonel active duty right now

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in the US Army, visiting you guys in Fort Worth
and falling off the back of a truck was a
story that got your attention. When you think about your
great grandfather jumping behind enemy lines on D Day in
the dark of night and living to tell about it,
can you picture yourself in those shoes, because he was

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probably about the same age you are right now.

Speaker 6 (51:55):
Yeah, he was.

Speaker 7 (51:58):
If we needed it, I would do the same thing
that he did. I can't say I would have done
as well as he did or with the amount of
bravery that he did. But I mean, just hearing the
stories of what those men and women had to go through,
it's I can't even imagine it. And you know, we're
very lucky for what they did for us.

Speaker 3 (52:18):
It's really hard to and that's something that always gets
me is how old these people were. I mean, we
had guys that lied about their age, went in like fifteen,
sixteen years old. How old are you guys now, twenty
twenty twenty. Yeah, those guys that look like you are
younger that were out there fighting these wars, and a
lot of the veterans on this flight were drafted when
they were eighteen, right finished high school, drafted to go

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to Vietnam at A gentleman on this flight who entered
the service right when he turned seventeen, got his mom
to sign for him.

Speaker 2 (52:48):
Crazy stories.

Speaker 3 (52:51):
So, as you guys come down the home stretch of
the baseball season, you've got six year last nine games
in conference on the road, You've got a three game
lead in the Mountain West right now, what are your expectations?
What are you guys focused on as you try to
finish this job you've set out on.

Speaker 23 (53:08):
I mean, the biggest thing to focus on is taken
care of our home field. This series next week Gains
Santjose is important just to make sure that we take
care of our home field and take care of business,
but also to play really good games away. It's hard
to play hard to win college baseball games. It's even
harder to win them on the road, and even harder
to win them in elevation that we're not used to.

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So it's definitely gonna take a lot of fight, a
lot of grit from our guys, which I think we have,
and just go out there and compete every single day
and find ways to win.

Speaker 7 (53:40):
I think we honestly, we need to win. We've got
to continue to win, keep carrying forward. Winning two out
of three this weekend or even the sweep this week
it would be a huge momentum boost for us. And
then obviously coming back the weekend after that to our
home field. The Diamond Dogs don't like losing at home,
and we won't lose at home. So being able to

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take care of this weekend the weekend after that, and
continuing to carry it forward is going to be It's
going to be huge for us to just keep going.

Speaker 3 (54:08):
I like the way you're thinking, and I know the
fans do too. We've got just a few minutes left
here at the airport. We're talking to a couple of
Fresno State Diamond Dogs. Cam Schneider, the left fielder, Caden Munster,
the first baseman, or as his teammates call him, Cam,
go aheads, tell everybody what you call this guy.

Speaker 6 (54:22):
This is Munchie. Sit next to me.

Speaker 3 (54:26):
So Steve Hosey, who you guys know, well, he's a
former assistant coach there, former All American there, played for
the Giants. Does your guys chapels on Sunday mornings and
does a lot of the ballgames with us on the
radio and TV, and the other day Munch he was
saying that he thought we could put together an nil
deal for you for a breakfast cereal called the Munch Crunch.

Speaker 4 (54:46):
I'd be down. That'd be great.

Speaker 25 (54:48):
Actually, Yeah, So the question I wanted to ask would
be what would the ingredients be if there were a
Caiden Munster breakfast cereal known as the Munch Crunch.

Speaker 2 (54:58):
What would be in that cereal?

Speaker 23 (55:00):
I would like to think of it as kind of
a fuse between cinnamon toast crunch and a frost of flake,
so it's a little bit lighter, but also you still
get the cinnamon, so when you drink it with the
milk after, it's good.

Speaker 2 (55:14):
So nothing healthy at all on.

Speaker 4 (55:16):
Absolutely not, I mean.

Speaker 23 (55:19):
Absolutely, there's no reason why to have a healthy cereal
for sure. But it tastes good though, so it would
be all right.

Speaker 3 (55:25):
So no valley grown almonds, pistachios, raisins, none of that stuff.

Speaker 23 (55:29):
I mean, we could add those in there, but the
main get the cinnamon.

Speaker 2 (55:33):
Okay, a Munch crunch for sure. Yeah. Now we got
to find something for Cam though.

Speaker 7 (55:39):
I mean it seemed like Munch had that one already
already planned out.

Speaker 3 (55:44):
Yeah, it sounds like something he's tried at home before. Yeah,
for sure, you have made that combination I have.

Speaker 23 (55:49):
Yeah, it's it was really good. Actually pretty sweet, Yeah,
pretty sweet. Definitely not the best for you, but definitely
was a good snack.

Speaker 3 (55:58):
But if it helps you hit bombs, it helps you
hit bomb.

Speaker 4 (56:00):
That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (56:02):
Yeah, And you know, one more question.

Speaker 3 (56:04):
We've been going back and forth from the military stuff
with the honor flight tonight in baseball, and sometimes it
seems a little forced or cliche to compare the two,
but ultimately it's about performing under pressure, right And Kate,
and I'm wondering for you, with your father being career
military lieutenant colonel and still serving on the other side
of the world right now, are there ever some maybe

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military stories that he shared with you to help you
put what you're doing in baseball in perspective.

Speaker 4 (56:33):
Absolutely.

Speaker 23 (56:34):
I mean, for the first couple of years of his service,
he was out on the grounds, he was in part
of the Iraqi War, and he just tells stories about
how his day was, day in, day out in those times,
and you think about having a big opportunity to go
score runs and at the end of the day, it's
definitely not as much pressure as well he was going through,

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I mean sleeping and trying to catch as much sleep
as possible if enemies all over them. It's just at
the end of the day, it's insane what we take
for granted here when there's a lot of people out
there that are just protecting and doing anything they can
just protect us.

Speaker 3 (57:15):
It does definitely put it in perspective. And maybe you
should ask your dad if he has any other guys
in his command that have birthdays coming up, and you
can pull the same trick for him where you hit
him on the Saudi Arabian birthday and the American.

Speaker 4 (57:28):
Birth that'll be a great idea for sure.

Speaker 2 (57:31):
Guys.

Speaker 3 (57:31):
I really appreciate you coming out. I've got some tickets
here that we'll have you hand out to the crowd.
Maybe get a picture with you and all the sailors,
and it sounds like you have time to hang out
for a while and maybe shake the hands of some
of these veterans as they come through. Absolutely, I would
like that a lot. Well cool, I think they're gonna
like that a lot as well. We're gonna hear from
the Clovist Community Band. We're gonna have all kinds of

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stuff going on here at the airport. So if you're
not with us yet, we'd love to see you here.
Let's set a record for the biggest crowd we've ever had.
How about that. Remember if you're coming, skip McKinley, it's closed.
Come in on Clinton or on Peach And I guess
we have about one minute left, guys, so I'll put
you on the spot because there's probably a lot of
people here. I'm not going to ask for a show

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of hands, but I'm guessing there's a lot of people
here who haven't been to a Fresno State baseball game
yet this year, So can you tell them what they're
missing missing?

Speaker 23 (58:22):
A lot of fun out there. I mean, we get
a pretty rowdy crowd out there. It's a lot of
fun to play for him. I mean, it's a lot
of Valley pride and we definitely take that so heart
and we play as hard as we can for you guys.

Speaker 7 (58:33):
Come on, just work for the community. We're not just
playing for ourselves. We're playing for Fresnoe. We're playing for
the Bulldogs. So it's always great to have a lot
of people out there. It's a tight knit community in
Our games, in my opinion, are a lot of fun,
not just for the players, but for the fans.

Speaker 2 (58:47):
I think he's right. And the food's pretty good too.

Speaker 3 (58:50):
You can't hear the Clovist Community Band at Pete Biden
Field at Bob Bennett Stadium, but you can hear him
here at the Presno Yosemite International Airport tonight. I think
we have about thirty seconds left. Is that enough to
hear a few notes? Dan? Yeah, sure, and then we'll
throw the crowd.

Speaker 2 (59:05):
What do you got for us? Let's see.

Speaker 3 (59:07):
I'm putting Dan Linstrom on the spot. All right, let's
see what he's got. See if our microphones will pick
it up. Just a sneak peek. Oh, here they come.

Speaker 2 (59:26):
Now.

Speaker 3 (59:26):
The flags are waving all over Fresno Yosemite International Airport.
The Blue Star Moms came out with those flags. The
band is playing. They're just getting warmed up. They're gonna
be playing all night. Playing. Will be on the ground
at about seven fifteen, marching through by seven forty five.
Come join us here at the Fresno Yosemite International Airport
and thanks for listening to the Bulldog Baseball hour on

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the Bulldog Sports Network.

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