July 25, 2025 • 23 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The topics and opinions expressed and the following show are
solely those of the hosts and their guests, and not
those of W FOURCY Radio. It's employees are affiliates. We
make no recommendations or endorsements for radio show programs, services,
or products mentioned on air or on our web. No
liability explicitor implied shall be extended to W four CY
Radio or its employees are affiliates. Any questions or comments
should be directed to those show hosts. Thank you for
(00:20):
choosing W FOURCY Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Why Johnny Hates Sports is a best selling book about
kids in sports. It chronicles why, at a very early age,
children are thrust into organized sports long before they have
the necessary skills to feel successful. Fathers and mothers are
asked to be their coach without having any training on
how to coach, and the leagues in which kids play
(00:49):
are governed by volunteers whose main focus becomes scoreboards, championships,
and all star games. Statistics show that close to seventy
percent of kids will have quit by the age of thirteen.
Most said it ceased to be fun, and that's why
Johnny Hates Sports.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Hey, good morning, everybody, and yeah, we are again. I
think about the twentieth week we're doing Why Johnny Hates
Sports and see his cap while biser No, I didn't
go to the Open in Britain or Ireland where it
was my son.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
John brought it back for me. It's the least he
could do for me.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
But I mend things around here. Just kidding. We're going
to get together with Ross Smith our cost in a minute,
but before we're going to show you a couple of
clips of Why Johnny Hates Sports, so one if you
can check them out, let's check it.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
This youth basketball coach is accused of sexually assaulting young
players who stayed the night at his home. Forty one
year old Aaron Hermstad taunt at Mastery School in Minneapolis
and coached basketball at hospitality House. According to a criminal complaint,
a child, now fourteen, says when he was eleven or twelve,
he stayed at his house woke up to his coach
(02:13):
assaulting him. A twelve year old tells investigators earlier this year,
Hermstad offered to pay him for a sexual act. His
charges include first and second degree criminal sexual conduct. Katie
Johnston for WCCO four News, you know.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
If you think that those stories are just a few
out there that happen. What about all the others that
you don't hear about. See what happens in his sports,
especially kids that are under the age of Well it
really doesn't matter, but let's talk about boys and sexual abuse.
(02:53):
You have pedophiles that rome and go through.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
The internet and looking around for opportunities.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
And you find out that kids are playing baseball and
you can be their coach, you can be around them,
and that's where the opportunity exists. I know it happened
in my family with John. When he was playing baseball.
He had a coach that used to drive him home.
(03:23):
I was busy working or whatnot. I thought, yeah, that's great.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Till one time he came home and I.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Said, where did you get that new glove? He said,
the coach whatever his name was, bought.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
It for me.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
I said, ain't happened. So you know what we found out.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
But Ross, I know, you know, in your experience of
playing baseball all the way up the line until you
got into, you know, signing with the Cardinals, do you
ever experience anything like that.
Speaker 7 (03:59):
Personally?
Speaker 8 (04:00):
Not myself, thank goodness. I did hear about it around me, No,
not at all.
Speaker 7 (04:07):
Nothing for me.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Yeah, I mean, you know, it's it's such a tricky,
tricky story and things that you hate to see happened.
But you know, we try to tell parents with our organization,
the National Alliance for Youth Sports, we try to tell them, Look,
when you sign your kid up, make sure that that
league has a checking system where they can check who
(04:33):
these people are coaching them. And so that's what we
need to do, and that's what every parent needs to
do to protect them. So we got we got another
one ross coming up for a little video of the
xcell one.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Let's look at that.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
One of the state's top high school softball players is transgender.
New at five Jonah Kaplan reports on a new lawsuit
calling for that athlete and the state policy to be benched.
Speaker 9 (05:01):
Minnesota leaders have been adamant against outside pressure from the
Trump administration regarding transgender athletes. Now, a new federal lawsuit
filed on behalf of three high school girls softball players
might be a whole new ball game.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
We do not agree with the Attorney General's position on
allowing males to participate in girls' sports here in Minnesota.
Speaker 9 (05:21):
According to the lawsuit, the girls were teammates with and
also opponents of a transgender female. One of the plaintiffs
argued the athlete in question pitched a one hit shutout
against them, leading her team to miss a state tournament.
Another plaintiff claimed the pitcher hitter with a pitch causing
quote pain unlike she had ever experienced.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
One male can displace any female from a first place podium,
from a scholarship, and from any opportunity.
Speaker 10 (05:47):
And so these girls are bravely standing up and saying
enough is enough.
Speaker 9 (05:51):
Several parties are named in the lawsuit, including Attorney General
Keith Ellison and three metro school districts. It comes just
a month after Ellison himself sued the President, charging his
executive orders banning trans athletes from women's sports are unconstitutional
and violate Title nine if state lawmakers, including representatively thinking
this year, also struck down attempts to enforce those orders.
Speaker 11 (06:15):
The statistics for this athlete in question, I mean, clearly
show some superiority or some talent. The statistics show that
polls show that most of Americans support some sort of separation.
Speaker 9 (06:28):
So what is it that they get wrong? Well, what
is it that maybe people are missing on the issue.
Speaker 12 (06:33):
A lot of people don't know anybody who is trans,
especially trans kids, and what those experiences are like. And
I think we will not achieve that goal by further
alienating and removing trans people and trans youth from the
societies in which we live.
Speaker 9 (06:49):
In a statement, the ag said, quote, I will continue
to defend the rights of all students to play sports
with their friends and peers. Jona Kaplan WCCO News filing.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
The suit has been involved in several other lawsuits around
the country. Female Athletes United describes yourself as an advocacy
group for fairness, safety, and equal opportunity for women in sports.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Hey, Russ, you know this is a very touchy subject
to be talking about, but you know, we all have
our opinions, but I think it closed. My opinion of
it is is that you know, as a former high
school and college wrestler, every time I hear the.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Story about that, I think, you know, this.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Is a weird, weird situation of having to think that
trans athletes of playing sports like wrestling, I mean words.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
The advantage disadvantage.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
But to me, it's obvious when you see it that
if you have you know, a male person, now that
is in a female body.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
How can they compete equally.
Speaker 13 (08:02):
I mean, I know there's a lot of stuff scientifically
in medically and whatever, but it just never seems to
fit for me that that could be fairer.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
What do you think about it, Ross.
Speaker 7 (08:20):
Well, I think it's biological.
Speaker 8 (08:23):
I think in the genetic pool, when you as a
human you have a bigger bone structure, you have more
muscular structure, you have a severe advantage. Like again, these
are all opinionated thoughts, but I think that.
Speaker 7 (08:39):
Has a category to where it could be by itself.
Speaker 8 (08:47):
I believe that males belong with males and females belong
with females, and if they want to make another category,
then I feel like that's what they should do.
Speaker 7 (08:56):
I have no problem with that.
Speaker 8 (08:58):
The issue is given an award to someone that has
put in a maybe not as much time or not
as much effort as someone that has spent their entire
life trying to win first place, and they physically can't
because there's an advantage genetically on one side.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Yeah, I mean, you see the situation.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
I always reminded me of the swimming situation where the
swimmer or won by a significant amount of lanes and
I think with I think our native Rowdy Gains was
one that began all this issue of bringing it out
of the Supreme Court. But I mean, it just looks
(09:40):
so obvious that the female swimmer that came from a
male genetics had a great advantage. So I guess we'll
figure it all out in time. But it's just an
issue of our times. So we're going to switch on
(10:02):
to the next section and see what we got here
to talk about with Ross Smith.
Speaker 10 (10:11):
Extra hittings with friend and Ross.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
You know, Ross, I gotta admit I wasn't a baseball player,
but I loved baseball and all of my time was divided.
I was one of those athletes that my coach when
I was in high school made us practice wrestling.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Year round, and you know, you go through that whole experience.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
But I never had a chance to play baseball, but
I love baseball. Ironically, the Saint Louis Cardinals were my
favorite team for so many years, and here I am
talking to somebody that was signed by the Saint Louis Cardinals.
So uh, let's get into it, Ross and talk about baseball.
Speaker 7 (11:05):
Though.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Uh, I'm from Maryland and now I'm.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
An Orioles fan, but I'm also a Marlins fan, but
I'm pretty much an Orioles fan, and like a lot
of oriol you know fans today, I mean, they are
a tremendous disappointment for this season.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
I mean, what do you make of it?
Speaker 8 (11:30):
Well, I mean each season brings its ups and downs.
You never really know until you get you know fully
into it, and then while you're in the middle of
the seasons. A lot of times it depends on, you know,
the health of the entire team and the decisions that
some of the you know, business side of baseball, those minds,
the decisions that they make. You have ideas and plans
(11:51):
for what you want to get done throughout the year,
and and not not every year does it go your way.
So it's playing chess when a lot of guys are
playing checkers. So the Oriels have had a little bit
of a down year this year. But I do, you know,
have a little bit of insight of the people that
run the organization, and I got full faith in them
(12:12):
that you know, they're headed in the right direction. They
have the good pieces that they need. It just has
to come together at the right time and right now.
It just it doesn't seem that we seem to be
that time for Baltimore.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Yeah, I mean, I know what you're talking about coming
together at the right time and whatnot. But I mean
the Orioles have been classically lacking in building their farm
system and whatnot. Then they get different players that come
up and it doesn't do the work like it should.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
I mean, you know, they the only one that.
Speaker 7 (12:45):
They have is like.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
A Holiday who they got Matt Holiday's son, and he's
wanted to know him fairly well. But others like Thunderson
and other players. I mean, I know the pictures are injured,
but to have to be four eleven with your record
in the major leagues at this time of year, yeah,
(13:09):
that's bad.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
H So, yeah, it's got a.
Speaker 7 (13:13):
Good look for Baltimore in the city right now with
there playing.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Yeah, I mean, uh, other team, you.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
Got the uh, you got the Cardinals, the world in
the Marlin in your h in your fan base things. Look,
you're just an overall baseball.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Fan me for.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Well, yeah, the Marlins. Hey, you can't knock the Marlins.
Though they've they've done pretty good. It's surprisingly everybody thought
that they were gonna be, you know, occupying that cellar
this year, next year, and forever. But uh something he
needs to have turned something down and you know it's
(13:55):
just uh, they're they're coming back.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
But you look at teams like Atlanta. I mean, I
thought Atlanta would be pretty good and you know, but
they're not doing that well.
Speaker 8 (14:08):
We got I mean, it's us and down for every
team every year.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Oh okay, you know, I'm sorry, but I'm really having
a hard time hearing you and.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
I can't tell what's going on. It's on. I'm trying
to play off a few words that you had there.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
So you know, let's let's go to another story situation
of pitching. So you got Paul's Kings for the Pirates.
You know, can you make one of the best pictures
in baseball? And look at now the Pirates are back
in the cellar. So you know, that's such a sad
(14:49):
situation to me that there are they wasting this talent?
Uh oh, we lost your ross. I guess you're going
to a tunnel anyway. Talking about Paul Skins, I mean, yeah,
he's just such a great picture dominating out there that
(15:12):
I don't know how how you explain it to the
Pirate fans. But then you got what's his name? I
forget with the with the uh, you have Tarrott's schoogle. Wow,
what an amazing picture he is. I mean he's going
to be probably the cy Young Winner Award next year,
(15:37):
so we'll see what happens with that. Now, I got
one whilest thing, and I don't know where wal what
happened to Ross somewhere? He's in the roads and Georgia,
he said, going somewhere two hours away. And I'm in trouble, folks.
(15:58):
I'm in trouble because he's not there. But what I
wanted to talk to him about also was Juan Soda
And you know, whether they signing for like four hundred
and thirty million dollars for fifteen years and.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Is that going to work out? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
I mean the major league agents and scouts and owners
and everybody talk about money and what would happen with
all that money that they paid him and are going
to pay him for fifteen years? But I mean, he
has started the season not doing very well. And can
(16:39):
you imagine a guy that was, you know, achieved a
contract for four hundred and thirty million dollars that.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Didn't make the All Star team. That's amazing to.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Me that that, you know, but that's major League Baseball
and all of us fans of baseball that are paying
all those big price is to go watch a game.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Yeah, we're paying for all that.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
So yeah, that's kind of the take that we have
on Major League Baseball.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
That always going to do with Ross today.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
But you know, I don't know what else I could
talk about, So one we're going to have to bring
it into the next section and hope for the best
that Ross might be able to come in.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
So here's a little commercial.
Speaker 10 (17:26):
In this best selling book, a child, while failing to
live up to his father's expectations, is shamed and humiliated
beyond belief. He vows to never allow his own son
to face the same.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
You know, I get asked all the time when people say,
when I wrote the book, why Johnny hates sports?
Speaker 4 (17:52):
Why does a Johnny hate sports?
Speaker 3 (17:55):
My kid plays baseball and he doesn't hate baseball, or
he doesn't hate sports. But I'm talking about what my
experience is and has been for a long number of years,
and that is I used to say that if you
walk in any bar and sit down and somebody's next
to you and say what's the first thing that you
(18:16):
think about kids playing baseball little league baseball, and the
first thing that comes out of them is, oh, to
damn parents. Yeah, you get rid of them, and you
get rid of all the problems that you'd have playing
or having little league baseball.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
And that's partially true. But let me explain what.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Happens, so any of you don't understand it, but those
of you that have kids playing little league could understand it.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
You know.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
It starts out by a league in a community is
looking for a place to play. They go to a
recreation department and they say, we'd like to use Southwest
Field for our baseball league, the Southwest Little League or
youth league or whatever league for next year, and they
sign up permit, go out, and then they look for
(19:09):
players and they have a sign up sheet in the
neighborhood sign up for well.
Speaker 13 (19:16):
Southwest Little League Baseball at Saturday.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Whatever, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
What happens is the parent comes over and there's Billy
or Mary or in his case, Johnny, and they go
over and they sign them up, and then the guy
at the desk says, thank you very much. Now over
in that next line over there is your coaching sign
up to sign and it says, you gotta be kidding me.
(19:49):
I got to coach. I've never coached baseball, I never
even played baseball.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to
do it.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
And then the guys said, well, I guess if you're
not doing it, then your son probably is not going
to be playing. Why not, Well, because we can't have
a leg unless we have coaches.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
And so here you go, mister Jones, we need you.
So he signs up. The coach.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
He gets out there, he starts getting these kids on
the field and now he's got them out there playing
and it's fun.
Speaker 13 (20:27):
You know.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
The games are gone and he say this is pretty easy,
and he looks at the scoreboards and then they don't
mean much until all the way halfway through the season.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Then it begins to be who's going to win this championship?
Speaker 3 (20:42):
And they say, oh, wait a minute, we got to
play better.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
And all of a.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Sudden, the coach turns from his dad who worked at
the hardware store, now becomes this professional baseball coach. He's
now telling kids what to do, when to do it,
how to do it, if to do it. He's turning
around yelling at parents who yell at him. He's screaming
to get the umpires and saying you couldn't see anything
(21:07):
if it was right in front of your face. And
so that's what happens. And so the league has to
deal with it, the parents have to deal with it,
the coach has to deal with it, but most importantly,
Johnny has to deal with it. And Johnny hates sports
(21:28):
to the tune of this. By the age of thirteen,
those kids, it would have been six years old when
they signed up, seventy percent of them quit.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
I'm not just saying they quit.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
There was a survey done to ask why did they
quit at the age of thirteen, and they said they
got tired of being yelled at and by the fact
of all of it, it was not fun for them anymore.
So what should be in a great fun experience for kids?
(22:03):
Seventy percent said it wasn't fun. They get tired of it.
So that's why Johnny hates sports. And that's why our
organization is created to help train parents and train coaches
and league administrators on how to run sports properly, so
that you could train them on what role is winning
(22:25):
playing sports for kids? Why do they come out for
sports in the first place. All the things can make
sports positive for kids. So I urge you in your
community if they don't have a chapter of the National
Lines for You Sports, which is a nonprofit organization that
urged them to create a program so that your kids
(22:47):
coach can be trained and have a background check and
all the things that make it important for them to
have a great experience. So I guess we're not going
to be able to get our friend ros Smith back
was we got him in the beginning and he was
on his way to who knows where. We're going to
(23:08):
have to close today's show with that, and I look
forward to talking to the next week, So you anytime,
have a great weekend.
Speaker 10 (23:18):
This program is sponsored by Sirdarff Publishing in the interest
for better sports for kids, Better kids for life.
The topics and opinions expressed and the following show are
solely those of the hosts and their guests, and not
those of W FOURCY Radio. It's employees are affiliates. We
make no recommendations or endorsements for radio show programs, services,
or products mentioned on air or on our web. No
liability explicitor implied shall be extended to W four CY
Radio or its employees are affiliates. Any questions or comments
should be directed to those show hosts. Thank you for
(00:20):
choosing W FOURCY Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Why Johnny Hates Sports is a best selling book about
kids in sports. It chronicles why, at a very early age,
children are thrust into organized sports long before they have
the necessary skills to feel successful. Fathers and mothers are
asked to be their coach without having any training on
how to coach, and the leagues in which kids play
(00:49):
are governed by volunteers whose main focus becomes scoreboards, championships,
and all star games. Statistics show that close to seventy
percent of kids will have quit by the age of thirteen.
Most said it ceased to be fun, and that's why
Johnny Hates Sports.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Hey, good morning, everybody, and yeah, we are again. I
think about the twentieth week we're doing Why Johnny Hates
Sports and see his cap while biser No, I didn't
go to the Open in Britain or Ireland where it
was my son.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
John brought it back for me. It's the least he
could do for me.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
But I mend things around here. Just kidding. We're going
to get together with Ross Smith our cost in a minute,
but before we're going to show you a couple of
clips of Why Johnny Hates Sports, so one if you
can check them out, let's check it.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
This youth basketball coach is accused of sexually assaulting young
players who stayed the night at his home. Forty one
year old Aaron Hermstad taunt at Mastery School in Minneapolis
and coached basketball at hospitality House. According to a criminal complaint,
a child, now fourteen, says when he was eleven or twelve,
he stayed at his house woke up to his coach
(02:13):
assaulting him. A twelve year old tells investigators earlier this year,
Hermstad offered to pay him for a sexual act. His
charges include first and second degree criminal sexual conduct. Katie
Johnston for WCCO four News, you know.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
If you think that those stories are just a few
out there that happen. What about all the others that
you don't hear about. See what happens in his sports,
especially kids that are under the age of Well it
really doesn't matter, but let's talk about boys and sexual abuse.
(02:53):
You have pedophiles that rome and go through.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
The internet and looking around for opportunities.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
And you find out that kids are playing baseball and
you can be their coach, you can be around them,
and that's where the opportunity exists. I know it happened
in my family with John. When he was playing baseball.
He had a coach that used to drive him home.
(03:23):
I was busy working or whatnot. I thought, yeah, that's great.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Till one time he came home and I.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Said, where did you get that new glove? He said,
the coach whatever his name was, bought.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
It for me.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
I said, ain't happened. So you know what we found out.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
But Ross, I know, you know, in your experience of
playing baseball all the way up the line until you
got into, you know, signing with the Cardinals, do you
ever experience anything like that.
Speaker 7 (03:59):
Personally?
Speaker 8 (04:00):
Not myself, thank goodness. I did hear about it around me, No,
not at all.
Speaker 7 (04:07):
Nothing for me.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Yeah, I mean, you know, it's it's such a tricky,
tricky story and things that you hate to see happened.
But you know, we try to tell parents with our organization,
the National Alliance for Youth Sports, we try to tell them, Look,
when you sign your kid up, make sure that that
league has a checking system where they can check who
(04:33):
these people are coaching them. And so that's what we
need to do, and that's what every parent needs to
do to protect them. So we got we got another
one ross coming up for a little video of the
xcell one.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Let's look at that.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
One of the state's top high school softball players is transgender.
New at five Jonah Kaplan reports on a new lawsuit
calling for that athlete and the state policy to be benched.
Speaker 9 (05:01):
Minnesota leaders have been adamant against outside pressure from the
Trump administration regarding transgender athletes. Now, a new federal lawsuit
filed on behalf of three high school girls softball players
might be a whole new ball game.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
We do not agree with the Attorney General's position on
allowing males to participate in girls' sports here in Minnesota.
Speaker 9 (05:21):
According to the lawsuit, the girls were teammates with and
also opponents of a transgender female. One of the plaintiffs
argued the athlete in question pitched a one hit shutout
against them, leading her team to miss a state tournament.
Another plaintiff claimed the pitcher hitter with a pitch causing
quote pain unlike she had ever experienced.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
One male can displace any female from a first place podium,
from a scholarship, and from any opportunity.
Speaker 10 (05:47):
And so these girls are bravely standing up and saying
enough is enough.
Speaker 9 (05:51):
Several parties are named in the lawsuit, including Attorney General
Keith Ellison and three metro school districts. It comes just
a month after Ellison himself sued the President, charging his
executive orders banning trans athletes from women's sports are unconstitutional
and violate Title nine if state lawmakers, including representatively thinking
this year, also struck down attempts to enforce those orders.
Speaker 11 (06:15):
The statistics for this athlete in question, I mean, clearly
show some superiority or some talent. The statistics show that
polls show that most of Americans support some sort of separation.
Speaker 9 (06:28):
So what is it that they get wrong? Well, what
is it that maybe people are missing on the issue.
Speaker 12 (06:33):
A lot of people don't know anybody who is trans,
especially trans kids, and what those experiences are like. And
I think we will not achieve that goal by further
alienating and removing trans people and trans youth from the
societies in which we live.
Speaker 9 (06:49):
In a statement, the ag said, quote, I will continue
to defend the rights of all students to play sports
with their friends and peers. Jona Kaplan WCCO News filing.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
The suit has been involved in several other lawsuits around
the country. Female Athletes United describes yourself as an advocacy
group for fairness, safety, and equal opportunity for women in sports.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Hey, Russ, you know this is a very touchy subject
to be talking about, but you know, we all have
our opinions, but I think it closed. My opinion of
it is is that you know, as a former high
school and college wrestler, every time I hear the.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Story about that, I think, you know, this.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Is a weird, weird situation of having to think that
trans athletes of playing sports like wrestling, I mean words.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
The advantage disadvantage.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
But to me, it's obvious when you see it that
if you have you know, a male person, now that
is in a female body.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
How can they compete equally.
Speaker 13 (08:02):
I mean, I know there's a lot of stuff scientifically
in medically and whatever, but it just never seems to
fit for me that that could be fairer.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
What do you think about it, Ross.
Speaker 7 (08:20):
Well, I think it's biological.
Speaker 8 (08:23):
I think in the genetic pool, when you as a
human you have a bigger bone structure, you have more
muscular structure, you have a severe advantage. Like again, these
are all opinionated thoughts, but I think that.
Speaker 7 (08:39):
Has a category to where it could be by itself.
Speaker 8 (08:47):
I believe that males belong with males and females belong
with females, and if they want to make another category,
then I feel like that's what they should do.
Speaker 7 (08:56):
I have no problem with that.
Speaker 8 (08:58):
The issue is given an award to someone that has
put in a maybe not as much time or not
as much effort as someone that has spent their entire
life trying to win first place, and they physically can't
because there's an advantage genetically on one side.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Yeah, I mean, you see the situation.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
I always reminded me of the swimming situation where the
swimmer or won by a significant amount of lanes and
I think with I think our native Rowdy Gains was
one that began all this issue of bringing it out
of the Supreme Court. But I mean, it just looks
(09:40):
so obvious that the female swimmer that came from a
male genetics had a great advantage. So I guess we'll
figure it all out in time. But it's just an
issue of our times. So we're going to switch on
(10:02):
to the next section and see what we got here
to talk about with Ross Smith.
Speaker 10 (10:11):
Extra hittings with friend and Ross.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
You know, Ross, I gotta admit I wasn't a baseball player,
but I loved baseball and all of my time was divided.
I was one of those athletes that my coach when
I was in high school made us practice wrestling.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Year round, and you know, you go through that whole experience.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
But I never had a chance to play baseball, but
I love baseball. Ironically, the Saint Louis Cardinals were my
favorite team for so many years, and here I am
talking to somebody that was signed by the Saint Louis Cardinals.
So uh, let's get into it, Ross and talk about baseball.
Speaker 7 (11:05):
Though.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Uh, I'm from Maryland and now I'm.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
An Orioles fan, but I'm also a Marlins fan, but
I'm pretty much an Orioles fan, and like a lot
of oriol you know fans today, I mean, they are
a tremendous disappointment for this season.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
I mean, what do you make of it?
Speaker 8 (11:30):
Well, I mean each season brings its ups and downs.
You never really know until you get you know fully
into it, and then while you're in the middle of
the seasons. A lot of times it depends on, you know,
the health of the entire team and the decisions that
some of the you know, business side of baseball, those minds,
the decisions that they make. You have ideas and plans
(11:51):
for what you want to get done throughout the year,
and and not not every year does it go your way.
So it's playing chess when a lot of guys are
playing checkers. So the Oriels have had a little bit
of a down year this year. But I do, you know,
have a little bit of insight of the people that
run the organization, and I got full faith in them
(12:12):
that you know, they're headed in the right direction. They
have the good pieces that they need. It just has
to come together at the right time and right now.
It just it doesn't seem that we seem to be
that time for Baltimore.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Yeah, I mean, I know what you're talking about coming
together at the right time and whatnot. But I mean
the Orioles have been classically lacking in building their farm
system and whatnot. Then they get different players that come
up and it doesn't do the work like it should.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
I mean, you know, they the only one that.
Speaker 7 (12:45):
They have is like.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
A Holiday who they got Matt Holiday's son, and he's
wanted to know him fairly well. But others like Thunderson
and other players. I mean, I know the pictures are injured,
but to have to be four eleven with your record
in the major leagues at this time of year, yeah,
(13:09):
that's bad.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
H So, yeah, it's got a.
Speaker 7 (13:13):
Good look for Baltimore in the city right now with
there playing.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Yeah, I mean, uh, other team, you.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
Got the uh, you got the Cardinals, the world in
the Marlin in your h in your fan base things. Look,
you're just an overall baseball.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Fan me for.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Well, yeah, the Marlins. Hey, you can't knock the Marlins.
Though they've they've done pretty good. It's surprisingly everybody thought
that they were gonna be, you know, occupying that cellar
this year, next year, and forever. But uh something he
needs to have turned something down and you know it's
(13:55):
just uh, they're they're coming back.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
But you look at teams like Atlanta. I mean, I
thought Atlanta would be pretty good and you know, but
they're not doing that well.
Speaker 8 (14:08):
We got I mean, it's us and down for every
team every year.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Oh okay, you know, I'm sorry, but I'm really having
a hard time hearing you and.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
I can't tell what's going on. It's on. I'm trying
to play off a few words that you had there.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
So you know, let's let's go to another story situation
of pitching. So you got Paul's Kings for the Pirates.
You know, can you make one of the best pictures
in baseball? And look at now the Pirates are back
in the cellar. So you know, that's such a sad
(14:49):
situation to me that there are they wasting this talent?
Uh oh, we lost your ross. I guess you're going
to a tunnel anyway. Talking about Paul Skins, I mean, yeah,
he's just such a great picture dominating out there that
(15:12):
I don't know how how you explain it to the
Pirate fans. But then you got what's his name? I
forget with the with the uh, you have Tarrott's schoogle. Wow,
what an amazing picture he is. I mean he's going
to be probably the cy Young Winner Award next year,
(15:37):
so we'll see what happens with that. Now, I got
one whilest thing, and I don't know where wal what
happened to Ross somewhere? He's in the roads and Georgia,
he said, going somewhere two hours away. And I'm in trouble, folks.
(15:58):
I'm in trouble because he's not there. But what I
wanted to talk to him about also was Juan Soda
And you know, whether they signing for like four hundred
and thirty million dollars for fifteen years and.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Is that going to work out? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
I mean the major league agents and scouts and owners
and everybody talk about money and what would happen with
all that money that they paid him and are going
to pay him for fifteen years? But I mean, he
has started the season not doing very well. And can
(16:39):
you imagine a guy that was, you know, achieved a
contract for four hundred and thirty million dollars that.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Didn't make the All Star team. That's amazing to.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Me that that, you know, but that's major League Baseball
and all of us fans of baseball that are paying
all those big price is to go watch a game.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Yeah, we're paying for all that.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
So yeah, that's kind of the take that we have
on Major League Baseball.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
That always going to do with Ross today.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
But you know, I don't know what else I could
talk about, So one we're going to have to bring
it into the next section and hope for the best
that Ross might be able to come in.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
So here's a little commercial.
Speaker 10 (17:26):
In this best selling book, a child, while failing to
live up to his father's expectations, is shamed and humiliated
beyond belief. He vows to never allow his own son
to face the same.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
You know, I get asked all the time when people say,
when I wrote the book, why Johnny hates sports?
Speaker 4 (17:52):
Why does a Johnny hate sports?
Speaker 3 (17:55):
My kid plays baseball and he doesn't hate baseball, or
he doesn't hate sports. But I'm talking about what my
experience is and has been for a long number of years,
and that is I used to say that if you
walk in any bar and sit down and somebody's next
to you and say what's the first thing that you
(18:16):
think about kids playing baseball little league baseball, and the
first thing that comes out of them is, oh, to
damn parents. Yeah, you get rid of them, and you
get rid of all the problems that you'd have playing
or having little league baseball.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
And that's partially true. But let me explain what.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Happens, so any of you don't understand it, but those
of you that have kids playing little league could understand it.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
You know.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
It starts out by a league in a community is
looking for a place to play. They go to a
recreation department and they say, we'd like to use Southwest
Field for our baseball league, the Southwest Little League or
youth league or whatever league for next year, and they
sign up permit, go out, and then they look for
(19:09):
players and they have a sign up sheet in the
neighborhood sign up for well.
Speaker 13 (19:16):
Southwest Little League Baseball at Saturday.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Whatever, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
What happens is the parent comes over and there's Billy
or Mary or in his case, Johnny, and they go
over and they sign them up, and then the guy
at the desk says, thank you very much. Now over
in that next line over there is your coaching sign
up to sign and it says, you gotta be kidding me.
(19:49):
I got to coach. I've never coached baseball, I never
even played baseball.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to
do it.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
And then the guys said, well, I guess if you're
not doing it, then your son probably is not going
to be playing. Why not, Well, because we can't have
a leg unless we have coaches.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
And so here you go, mister Jones, we need you.
So he signs up. The coach.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
He gets out there, he starts getting these kids on
the field and now he's got them out there playing
and it's fun.
Speaker 13 (20:27):
You know.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
The games are gone and he say this is pretty easy,
and he looks at the scoreboards and then they don't
mean much until all the way halfway through the season.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Then it begins to be who's going to win this championship?
Speaker 3 (20:42):
And they say, oh, wait a minute, we got to
play better.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
And all of a.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Sudden, the coach turns from his dad who worked at
the hardware store, now becomes this professional baseball coach. He's
now telling kids what to do, when to do it,
how to do it, if to do it. He's turning
around yelling at parents who yell at him. He's screaming
to get the umpires and saying you couldn't see anything
(21:07):
if it was right in front of your face. And
so that's what happens. And so the league has to
deal with it, the parents have to deal with it,
the coach has to deal with it, but most importantly,
Johnny has to deal with it. And Johnny hates sports
(21:28):
to the tune of this. By the age of thirteen,
those kids, it would have been six years old when
they signed up, seventy percent of them quit.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
I'm not just saying they quit.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
There was a survey done to ask why did they
quit at the age of thirteen, and they said they
got tired of being yelled at and by the fact
of all of it, it was not fun for them anymore.
So what should be in a great fun experience for kids?
(22:03):
Seventy percent said it wasn't fun. They get tired of it.
So that's why Johnny hates sports. And that's why our
organization is created to help train parents and train coaches
and league administrators on how to run sports properly, so
that you could train them on what role is winning
(22:25):
playing sports for kids? Why do they come out for
sports in the first place. All the things can make
sports positive for kids. So I urge you in your
community if they don't have a chapter of the National
Lines for You Sports, which is a nonprofit organization that
urged them to create a program so that your kids
(22:47):
coach can be trained and have a background check and
all the things that make it important for them to
have a great experience. So I guess we're not going
to be able to get our friend ros Smith back
was we got him in the beginning and he was
on his way to who knows where. We're going to
(23:08):
have to close today's show with that, and I look
forward to talking to the next week, So you anytime,
have a great weekend.
Speaker 10 (23:18):
This program is sponsored by Sirdarff Publishing in the interest
for better sports for kids, Better kids for life.
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