May 4, 2026 • 21 mins
Eddie tells us a story from over the weekend where he loses it while coaching a game. What makes it crazier is who he loses it at...
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So I've always said this before that you know, as
a literally coach, I've been a litterally coached now for
over ten years, and you coach your kid differently than
you coach other kids because you know your kid, and
you know also like what you can get away with.
Like I'm not gonna scream at another kid because they're
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not my kid. I don't care. But if it's my
kid and you're doing something to dick around or whatever,
that's gonna piss me off. And I feel also like
you should know as my kid, what is the what
is expected of you? So if you're going to do
something that is you, clearly you know I don't like
it's not that's on you. You're gonna get the tongue last.
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And so have I coached Jack harder than I have
coached the other kids? Yeah, because I expect more out
of him. You know, I think that's kind of normal. Yeah. Well,
this weekend at our game, I may have finally gone
too far. Oh we ain't done yet. It's time for
one podcast.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Completely uncensored and unacting filtered except for that part.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
The show's after show starts.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Now Thinking about that Eddie, It made me think when
we were at my dad's My dad passed away recently,
and we were at his.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Memorial softball game.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
And my dad was a softball coach to everybody, including
my sister and I. But I'm sitting there listening to
all these beautiful, wonderful words and all the players were
saying about my dad. He's the greatest coach ever. I still,
you know, thinks about the things that he said. A
real softy, his gentle, his gentle and sweet kind of soft.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Words, of his mauragement, his nature.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Eddie heard it all.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
It was, it was beautiful.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Well that's when I was thinking, and I'm sitting there.
He was a very nice, gentle loving man. But at
the same time on the softball field, he wasn't like
that to me when I was messing around.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
You, when I would screw up or do something wrong.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Hey, I'm just saying.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
The dad took his hat off through it on the ground.
I heard him say some cuss words under his breath,
what are you doing? So that's that's the that's the
version I would get. So you're right, parents coach up
their kids a whole lot more and they're harder on them.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yeah, or your dad coached you as well, would he
get in your ass?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
You know, not really really, I know it's surprising that
my dad.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
The only time my dad ever got mad at me
about sports was pee wee football. I played pee wee football,
and I was on a really bad team. And I'm
not saying this to brag, but I was the best
player on the team and the offensive line we had,
I was bigger than so I got the ship kicked
out of me for a full season concussion.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
When I was nine.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
It was bad, I go.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
So it like kind of scarred me from wanting to
play for a few years. And my dad was so
mad that I didn't want to play football for a
couple of years. Really punched a wall. I'll never forget
what I'll never forget. And from that and then my
mom wants to talk to him, and from that moment on,
he was He never did that again. And like so,
like when I'd make a mistake in baseball, he never
yelled at me, like because because like he was the coach,
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he wasn't the manager one of the coaches. But like
I don't know, I can't remember him. And we practiced
together all the time. We get into arguments, but like
I can't remember ever him ever screaming at me or
yelling at me. I remember the football thing, but that
was it. Like other coaches would yell and scream. I've
had coaches like rip me a new one, like crazy,
but like my dad never really did.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
That's surprising.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yeah, he never really yelled at any kids, which he
yelled at umpires, but he never really yelled at I
don't remember.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
I could. Maybe I'm miss I don't remember.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I just remember it. Yeah. Yeah, I've seen all kinds of,
you know, different coaching styles and things like that. I'm
not really a yeller. I'm not. I'm not the guy that's,
you know, gonna yell at you if you do something
wrong or anything like that.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Yell in general, I don't.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I don't have the energy to do it any more,
to be honest with you, But I pick and choose.
And I also, I'm always coaching, So you'll hear coach
you know that's always be coachable. But but same concept.
You'll you'll hear me constantly reminding kids what their job
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is or like, you know, how many ants are there?
What are we doing here? Come on, guys, that's kind
of stuff because they'll they'll lose focus immediately. I mean,
you know they're they're thinking about gaming, or thinking about girls,
or they're thinking of this age is weird, thirteen fourteen,
it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I was talking to my wife yesterday and our son
is is it's the great. It's he's six months old.
It's it's awesome, Like he's just jibber he's just grabbed
my face. And I said, I can't wait for him
to get a little bit older when he when he's
like gardening with my wife or something like that, or
playing playing t ball. But then I started thinking like,
I don't know if I ever wanted to be like
fifteen years old.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
I guess the worst attitude weird.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I oh, this is about to hit. Somebody's about to
I was like, I don't know if I want that.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Coach if I'm coaching him at fifteen years old and
I know he's better than what he's playing, Like, that's
gonna be so hard.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
I've been through that to me, like what are you doing? Yeah,
oh I've had I've had many of those conversations on
the drive home of like, dude, what are we doing
out here better than like if you're just going to
show up man, you know, be an idiot. Why am
I wasting my time my energy? That's happened many times.
So yeah, it's a weird age. It's it's frustrating. You know,
there's a lot of stuff going on. But as far
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as my coaching style goes, I am very positive and
I'm also going to coach you up though, you know,
so if you can't handle being coached up, then I'm
not the guy for you. But I'm also not the
guy that's going to scream at you for making mistake.
You know, I'm going to remind you, hey, you got
to do this, or this is going to happen. That's
going to happen. But other than that, you know, or
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I'll tell you, you know, because i'm their base coach
and I can see your batting and what you're doing,
and I tell you you're late, you're on front, you're whatever.
So I'm going to be reminding you of things. But
I'm not a guy like what are you? What's wrong
with you? What are you doing? When come on? You
head out of your ass? Like I'm not that guy,
but I've heard those guys.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Are you like a run lapse or are you like,
I'm disappointed in you, Like what if?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
So it takes a lot. If you got to run,
you've really pissed me off. You go around, Yes, and
that's the only time that happened. You're not gonna You're
not gonna run if we lose, or you're not gonna run.
If you make an error, you're gonna run. If I've
told you multiple times to stop messing around and you're
still messing around, then take a lap, all right, And
that's very rare. I've actually made my son run more
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laps than I do anybody else, even though he doesn't
tick around that much. But if you do it, you
get no warning, Like if you're a jack, you get
no warning. That's the way it goes.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
That's what you mean by you different.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
It's not fair, but it's that's the way it is.
He knows you and knows the rules. Warning is already
in place exactly. You know, you're my assistant coach. You're in.
You're in, kid, she gets it. Never mind your back out,
you're back out. So there will be a conversation, you know,
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like if if I see what we did was wrong
and everything was wrong at the end of the game,
there's a obviously the the coach talk, you know, the
coach speech that happens after every game, and there's a
you know, come on, guys, like what are we doing?
You gotta do this. We said we were going to
do this. We didn't do this. You got you know,
like that's kind of stuff. It's mostly like again, a
lot of reminders of like this is what we're practicing,
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and if you don't do what we're we practice, then
that's on you. I can't go out there and execute
for you. All I can do. All I can do
is tell it, put you in place, and then it's
up to you, guys to make the play.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
You can lead a horse, let them work it out.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
To water.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
You can't force them to drink.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
No, it's close, but not great.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
What is.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
We can't make him drink anyway? Anyway, So there there's
been moments, of course I'm human, where I get upset,
and there may be in the dugout when the kids can't.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
See a kid or something no.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Where. It's a very similar situation with Emily's dad where
I may throw my hat in the dugout. Nobody see me,
nobody can see me. I'm pissed. Like, I know we're
better than that. What are we're doing in the hat
to throwing peet up, mumbling under my breath, that kind
of thing. But those are moments and it doesn't happen
very often. But you know, I'll get a little pissy
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at times, or a bad call by the umpire, I know,
you know, whatever, something will set me off, but nothing
too crazy. I'm not the guy that comes screaming out
of the dugout hair on fire. I will calmly walk hall,
time out, walk up a conversation. I know I'm right,
but whatever, those are the things that happen, and he'll
get frustrating. Those are totally normal. But again when it
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comes to your own kid, that it's different. Different.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I was I took I loved practicing and playing, so
I took it very serious, great and there wasn't a
lot of grab assing going on in my end.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
But like, you can't coach it. Not every kid's like that, right,
I get that.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Yeah, So like the most kids, a couple of kids,
and you just be like also to like when you
get to the more, when you get to like high
school and stuff, and that's not going on. But when
you're in the still in like the Little League world.
It's like, yeah, most kids aren't like that.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
That's gotta be so tough.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
To I tried to explain them the other day because
we had a terrible practice where everybody was dicking around
and was one of those kind of things. Explain to them, guys,
next level. When you go to high school, you just
get cut. There is no everybody plays, everybody has a
good time. I go, this is I'm trying to prepare
you for the next level. And if you don't want
to do it, so be it. I told them, I'll
(09:33):
just show Apparel'll sit on a bucket and you guys
can dick around also an hour.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I'm sure that the high school coaches and and and
the and those people there, they know what's coming up next.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
We have scouts, their scouts in the oh.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Yeah, they know you make a name for yourself at
this level.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
So if they're seeing you, you know, grab your junk
and fucking slap someone's ass and you know, grab a
fucking dandelion.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
The team. Yeah, he's right. These are the things that happened.
And so, uh yeah, this past weekend was crazy. We
had back to back games Friday, Saturday and so this
weird scheduling thing happened to me last week. To last
week we had Friday Saturday. This week we had Friday Saturday.
It was weird.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Do you normally have two games a week? Yes, okay,
but they're just normally not so cleol.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
We have one weekday game, one weekend game, but they're
never back to back because we get pitching situations where
kids can only pitch a certain amount, and so once
you run into those kind of situations, it makes it
very difficult as a manager to like handle all that stuff.
And then you know kids, some of them are like
our thora and they're into it, and some of them
back to back games that's a nightmare, you know, trying
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to keep baying. It'd be great.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
We would we would do back to back games and
we would play withootball all day and then go play baseball.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Wow, you're a rare breathe though most kids aren't like that.
You get the top and kids who that's all they
live and breathe baseball. We actually cared about to them more.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Sometimes we would actually hurt our arms, and.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Let's see, that's not good. Definitely not good.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
We're in the era too, which wasn't like you guys
had video games back then, but like there's they're just
the phones and the fucking YouTube and all this all
the technology. Like some boys very give them two days
in a row where they can't do that.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Yeah, it was. It was one of those. So Friday
night we went out played our best game of the season,
just unbelievable, error free, just looked incredible. We beat the
first place team, nailed the four looked and I was like,
maybe we finally something's kicked in here like before our playoffs.
I was like, let's get it going. This is great.
(11:40):
So again we show Saturday. I'm expecting to see that team.
I'm looking at him and go, guys, if if I
didn't prove to you guys that when we're locked in
and you take it seriously, that that's what happens. Like
this are the results of what happens. So that's what
I'm trying to get across to you guys. Let's let's
do that. Let's keep playing like this, and they're okay,
(12:00):
it sounds good. All right, maybe we got something here.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Are you coach Eddie or just coach.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Mostly just coach? Yeah, yeah, trying to probably have them
don't even know my name is Eddie. Coach, Yeah, just coach. Uh.
And so we get going here, the game starts and
it is the complete opposite. Played a fucking disaster playing
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with football. It must have been or video games or whatever.
I don't know, but I mean literally, we went from
our best game of the season to literally the worst
inning of baseball we've played all year, where we gave
up eleven runs in one inning. The first thing. It's
like fifteen after three, ten after four or something like that. No, no,
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I mean it's a first inting. Literally everybody was just
ship in the bed, Like my third basement made an error,
my shortstop made two errors. And so what I what
I've been doing and kind of figured out, is that
my son Jack, he's had a really good season. He
like the light bulb kind of went on. He's played
really well. He's been knocking the ball like unbelievable. He's
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been hitting great, his fielding has been outstanding, and so
to the point of where I trust him, and I'm like, Okay,
if I need a playmate, I know Jack's going to
make the play. Feeling really good about him, So in
like the first inning, we usually because you're going to
see their best hitters in the top of the lineup.
And then the last inning, where I'm hoping we have
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the lead and we want to keep the win, I'm
going to put Jack at second base just to make
sure I have a good fielder all the way around.
And so I've been doing that lately and it's been
working and it's been great, and so I go, all right,
you know, jack'son at second. Well, Jack was in a
second and during this eleven run barrage, he makes an
error and it was a stupid error where it was
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like he tried, instead of just fielding the ball getting
in front of it like a standard baseball play, he
weirdly tried to like stab at it in like a
backhand motion, which was like the weirdest way to know.
It was just dumb and like and like he didn't
get in front of the ball, and just everything we do,
everything about it was.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Wrong, like like he flinched almost and wasn't paying attention.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
No, no, he just it was just a brain fart
and just did it incorrectly. Like literally, we will take
grounders often, I mean before every game, and you know,
and he's never fielded like this and because he knows
that's not that's not how we do it. And so
it was very odd and it was right in the
middle of this, you know, eleven run brage, and of
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course I yelled at him, Jack, come on, you gotta
get in front of it. You got to do blah
blah blah blah, like reminding him. And so, you know,
I could tell he was upset and embarrassed. But whatever,
it's I mean, he wasn't the we were losing blah
a lot, and there was a ton of errors.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Play the ball, don't let the ball play.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
You, Okay, do you drop? No, that's not one of
my saying, that's not one of my songs. It was
just stupid, and so it didn't help, you know, and
of course run score and things like that. So I'm
getting hotter and hotter and hotter as we're playing like
a million runs. Literally, we're playing like shit, and I
can't believe it. And I keep saying that to myself,
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like I can't believe what I'm seeing right now. I
can't believe it. I'm just muttering like a psychopath. Is
this like other team amazing? Like, okay, we we should
have beat them, We should have beat them, all right,
but it was one of those things just happen, and
so and of course our we're walking guys drinking on Friday. Well,
they went and celebrated the win the bars, but I
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was to hit up the bars. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
It's like barsity Blues when they go to the strip
club before the game.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
A million per million. Yes, so their teacher there was
the whole thing, you know. So the inning is still
going on, I mean literally like a forty five minute inning.
It's ridiculous. Well, about two batters later, a ball gets
hit to Jack again. He did the exact fucking same thing.
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Now the spring in my head has sprung because I'm like,
wait a second, scared.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Oh shit, wait, I'm terrified.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Second, everybody else is ship in the bed. Okay, I
get it. Okay, you just fucked up one time. Not
happy about it, but it happens. Okay, you do the
same thing again, literally the exact same thing. I lost. Well,
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I'm already pissed. I'm already pissed that we're playing like this.
We shouldn't be playing like this. It's eleven runs, I mean,
it's just fucking crazy. And then he makes two errors
in the same inning, doing the exact same thing. You
didn't learn the first time. He didn't learn the first
after I just yelled at you. I mean I yelled
at you, had told you exactly what you did wrong.
What is going on? What is going on? Going on?
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How can you do it again? How can you do
it again?
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Is that what you're muttering to yourself?
Speaker 1 (17:10):
No? No, because I'd lost it. So if this is
another kid, I'm mad and I probably go dude, you
can't do that, like get in front of the ball.
That's probably the extent of it. It's not pleasant, but
it's also not I'm not like, come on, you idiot,
which is what I want to say. But is this
is my son? Oh? I can't. I can't believe what
I'm saying, what my eyes are. I can I go
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home right now?
Speaker 3 (17:35):
I don't even know if I can hear this.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
I walk out of the dugout, which which is really
not acceptable. You're supposed to kind of stay in the dugout.
If you're a coach. They don't want you walking out,
and they don't want other kids walking You're supposed to
stay in the dugout. I don't care toss me at
this point, I walked out of the dugout, my hands
are out to the side, and I start screwing at him.
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You did the same thing, You did the same thing.
You gotta be kidding me, You gotta be kidding me.
And I'm my voice, I'm not even close to the
octave that my voice was. It got to the point
where my voice cracked that I'm screaming at him so
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loud and going, what are you doing? What are you doing?
And I'm and I'm staying. I'm basically on the field
at this point, like just walking out there is the
game stopping, it's going on, But I mean, he just
committed this error. They just scored runs, and I'm I'm
fucking stopping.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Looking look at the psychopath.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
I am just beyond like, I'm it's beyond comprehension to
me that that happened.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
What's Jack doing when you do that?
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Just standing there looking at me like like he knows,
he knows, But he's also like I kept probably, I
can't believe my dad is screaming at me in the
middle of the game, embarrassing me to like nobody's business.
I get it, I get it. And I realized that
when I'm turning around walking back to doug out like,
oh there's people like people everybody saw that. You know.
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Part of me goes, I don't care like your kids
suck to like everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody's doing this
is just not just Jack to Sharon. But I'm also like, oh,
that's not Eddie, like like Edny Eddie doesn't like that.
But I mean emssed part of me there was a
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little bit of regret.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Eleven runs who gives a fun.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Yeah, that's kind of where I was at. Yeah, that's
kind of where I was at. I'm also there's regret
and there's also like fuck that. Yeah, look at the
way we're playing, Like you gotta be better.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Did later on after the game, did you like say
something to Jack or you just.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Haven't told him about it? It's always the drive home. Yeah,
drive home is the best or the worst. Yeah, it's
the best or the worst.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
I had a coach at high school that would scream
and yell like a psychopath, and then then if you
handle it well, like you just took it, and then
the next day, if you want we won, he would
pull me.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Aside and be like, hey, I just want to let
you handle yourself really well.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
He wouldn't apologize, but he'd say you handed yourself well,
and I go, thanks coach, and that would be it.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Woww Yeah, you know, I get in the truck and
I've calmed down, you know, so I'm good now, like whatever.
I'm mad we lost, but but i'm final score it
was like fifteen to five, so yeah, like a million no.
So weirdly enough, we actually played pretty good after that.
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I mean, you know, you lost well. I mean, believe me,
when that inning was over, I was still not happy
and rip them, you know, all the whole team all
a new one. But we've started to play better and
we started to do better. So you know, sometimes you
need a kick in the ass. That's the way that
you coach. Different ways to coach, So the right was
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a pleasant I was calm though, and I said to I, go, Jack,
that first play is kind of unacceptable at this point.
You know how to feel the baseball, you know, I go,
And I said that's minor ship, Like, come on, dude,
you know what you're doing. I go, but I understand it.
It's a brain fark. Errors happened.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
You know.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
I don't get mad at you for making an error.
Errors happened. I go, it's how you recover from an error,
So doing it twice in the same in the same
I go, that's madness. I go, who is that kid?
I go? What?
Speaker 3 (21:45):
What did you tell the parents that were following you home?
Speaker 1 (21:49):
No,
So I've always said this before that you know, as
a literally coach, I've been a litterally coached now for
over ten years, and you coach your kid differently than
you coach other kids because you know your kid, and
you know also like what you can get away with.
Like I'm not gonna scream at another kid because they're
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not my kid. I don't care. But if it's my
kid and you're doing something to dick around or whatever,
that's gonna piss me off. And I feel also like
you should know as my kid, what is the what
is expected of you? So if you're going to do
something that is you, clearly you know I don't like
it's not that's on you. You're gonna get the tongue last.
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And so have I coached Jack harder than I have
coached the other kids? Yeah, because I expect more out
of him. You know, I think that's kind of normal. Yeah. Well,
this weekend at our game, I may have finally gone
too far. Oh we ain't done yet. It's time for
one podcast.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Completely uncensored and unacting filtered except for that part.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
The show's after show starts.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Now Thinking about that Eddie, It made me think when
we were at my dad's My dad passed away recently,
and we were at his.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Memorial softball game.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
And my dad was a softball coach to everybody, including
my sister and I. But I'm sitting there listening to
all these beautiful, wonderful words and all the players were
saying about my dad. He's the greatest coach ever. I still,
you know, thinks about the things that he said. A
real softy, his gentle, his gentle and sweet kind of soft.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Words, of his mauragement, his nature.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Eddie heard it all.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
It was, it was beautiful.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Well that's when I was thinking, and I'm sitting there.
He was a very nice, gentle loving man. But at
the same time on the softball field, he wasn't like
that to me when I was messing around.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
You, when I would screw up or do something wrong.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Hey, I'm just saying.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
The dad took his hat off through it on the ground.
I heard him say some cuss words under his breath,
what are you doing? So that's that's the that's the
version I would get. So you're right, parents coach up
their kids a whole lot more and they're harder on them.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yeah, or your dad coached you as well, would he
get in your ass?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
You know, not really really, I know it's surprising that
my dad.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
The only time my dad ever got mad at me
about sports was pee wee football. I played pee wee football,
and I was on a really bad team. And I'm
not saying this to brag, but I was the best
player on the team and the offensive line we had,
I was bigger than so I got the ship kicked
out of me for a full season concussion.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
When I was nine.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
It was bad, I go.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
So it like kind of scarred me from wanting to
play for a few years. And my dad was so
mad that I didn't want to play football for a
couple of years. Really punched a wall. I'll never forget
what I'll never forget. And from that and then my
mom wants to talk to him, and from that moment on,
he was He never did that again. And like so,
like when I'd make a mistake in baseball, he never
yelled at me, like because because like he was the coach,
(03:05):
he wasn't the manager one of the coaches. But like
I don't know, I can't remember him. And we practiced
together all the time. We get into arguments, but like
I can't remember ever him ever screaming at me or
yelling at me. I remember the football thing, but that
was it. Like other coaches would yell and scream. I've
had coaches like rip me a new one, like crazy,
but like my dad never really did.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
That's surprising.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yeah, he never really yelled at any kids, which he
yelled at umpires, but he never really yelled at I
don't remember.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
I could. Maybe I'm miss I don't remember.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I just remember it. Yeah. Yeah, I've seen all kinds of,
you know, different coaching styles and things like that. I'm
not really a yeller. I'm not. I'm not the guy that's,
you know, gonna yell at you if you do something
wrong or anything like that.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Yell in general, I don't.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I don't have the energy to do it any more,
to be honest with you, But I pick and choose.
And I also, I'm always coaching, So you'll hear coach
you know that's always be coachable. But but same concept.
You'll you'll hear me constantly reminding kids what their job
(04:07):
is or like, you know, how many ants are there?
What are we doing here? Come on, guys, that's kind
of stuff because they'll they'll lose focus immediately. I mean,
you know they're they're thinking about gaming, or thinking about girls,
or they're thinking of this age is weird, thirteen fourteen,
it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I was talking to my wife yesterday and our son
is is it's the great. It's he's six months old.
It's it's awesome, Like he's just jibber he's just grabbed
my face. And I said, I can't wait for him
to get a little bit older when he when he's
like gardening with my wife or something like that, or
playing playing t ball. But then I started thinking like,
I don't know if I ever wanted to be like
fifteen years old.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
I guess the worst attitude weird.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I oh, this is about to hit. Somebody's about to
I was like, I don't know if I want that.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Coach if I'm coaching him at fifteen years old and
I know he's better than what he's playing, Like, that's
gonna be so hard.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
I've been through that to me, like what are you doing? Yeah,
oh I've had I've had many of those conversations on
the drive home of like, dude, what are we doing
out here better than like if you're just going to
show up man, you know, be an idiot. Why am
I wasting my time my energy? That's happened many times.
So yeah, it's a weird age. It's it's frustrating. You know,
there's a lot of stuff going on. But as far
(05:15):
as my coaching style goes, I am very positive and
I'm also going to coach you up though, you know,
so if you can't handle being coached up, then I'm
not the guy for you. But I'm also not the
guy that's going to scream at you for making mistake.
You know, I'm going to remind you, hey, you got
to do this, or this is going to happen. That's
going to happen. But other than that, you know, or
(05:38):
I'll tell you, you know, because i'm their base coach
and I can see your batting and what you're doing,
and I tell you you're late, you're on front, you're whatever.
So I'm going to be reminding you of things. But
I'm not a guy like what are you? What's wrong
with you? What are you doing? When come on? You
head out of your ass? Like I'm not that guy,
but I've heard those guys.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Are you like a run lapse or are you like,
I'm disappointed in you, Like what if?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
So it takes a lot. If you got to run,
you've really pissed me off. You go around, Yes, and
that's the only time that happened. You're not gonna You're
not gonna run if we lose, or you're not gonna run.
If you make an error, you're gonna run. If I've
told you multiple times to stop messing around and you're
still messing around, then take a lap, all right, And
that's very rare. I've actually made my son run more
(06:21):
laps than I do anybody else, even though he doesn't
tick around that much. But if you do it, you
get no warning, Like if you're a jack, you get
no warning. That's the way it goes.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
That's what you mean by you different.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
It's not fair, but it's that's the way it is.
He knows you and knows the rules. Warning is already
in place exactly. You know, you're my assistant coach. You're in.
You're in, kid, she gets it. Never mind your back out,
you're back out. So there will be a conversation, you know,
(06:54):
like if if I see what we did was wrong
and everything was wrong at the end of the game,
there's a obviously the the coach talk, you know, the
coach speech that happens after every game, and there's a
you know, come on, guys, like what are we doing?
You gotta do this. We said we were going to
do this. We didn't do this. You got you know,
like that's kind of stuff. It's mostly like again, a
lot of reminders of like this is what we're practicing,
(07:15):
and if you don't do what we're we practice, then
that's on you. I can't go out there and execute
for you. All I can do. All I can do
is tell it, put you in place, and then it's
up to you, guys to make the play.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
You can lead a horse, let them work it out.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
To water.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
You can't force them to drink.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
No, it's close, but not great.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
What is.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
We can't make him drink anyway? Anyway, So there there's
been moments, of course I'm human, where I get upset,
and there may be in the dugout when the kids can't.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
See a kid or something no.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Where. It's a very similar situation with Emily's dad where
I may throw my hat in the dugout. Nobody see me,
nobody can see me. I'm pissed. Like, I know we're
better than that. What are we're doing in the hat
to throwing peet up, mumbling under my breath, that kind
of thing. But those are moments and it doesn't happen
very often. But you know, I'll get a little pissy
(08:22):
at times, or a bad call by the umpire, I know,
you know, whatever, something will set me off, but nothing
too crazy. I'm not the guy that comes screaming out
of the dugout hair on fire. I will calmly walk hall,
time out, walk up a conversation. I know I'm right,
but whatever, those are the things that happen, and he'll
get frustrating. Those are totally normal. But again when it
(08:44):
comes to your own kid, that it's different. Different.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I was I took I loved practicing and playing, so
I took it very serious, great and there wasn't a
lot of grab assing going on in my end.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
But like, you can't coach it. Not every kid's like that, right,
I get that.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Yeah, So like the most kids, a couple of kids,
and you just be like also to like when you
get to the more, when you get to like high
school and stuff, and that's not going on. But when
you're in the still in like the Little League world.
It's like, yeah, most kids aren't like that.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
That's gotta be so tough.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
To I tried to explain them the other day because
we had a terrible practice where everybody was dicking around
and was one of those kind of things. Explain to them, guys,
next level. When you go to high school, you just
get cut. There is no everybody plays, everybody has a
good time. I go, this is I'm trying to prepare
you for the next level. And if you don't want
to do it, so be it. I told them, I'll
(09:33):
just show Apparel'll sit on a bucket and you guys
can dick around also an hour.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I'm sure that the high school coaches and and and
the and those people there, they know what's coming up next.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
We have scouts, their scouts in the oh.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Yeah, they know you make a name for yourself at
this level.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
So if they're seeing you, you know, grab your junk
and fucking slap someone's ass and you know, grab a
fucking dandelion.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
The team. Yeah, he's right. These are the things that happened.
And so, uh yeah, this past weekend was crazy. We
had back to back games Friday, Saturday and so this
weird scheduling thing happened to me last week. To last
week we had Friday Saturday. This week we had Friday Saturday.
It was weird.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Do you normally have two games a week? Yes, okay,
but they're just normally not so cleol.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
We have one weekday game, one weekend game, but they're
never back to back because we get pitching situations where
kids can only pitch a certain amount, and so once
you run into those kind of situations, it makes it
very difficult as a manager to like handle all that stuff.
And then you know kids, some of them are like
our thora and they're into it, and some of them
back to back games that's a nightmare, you know, trying
(10:44):
to keep baying. It'd be great.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
We would we would do back to back games and
we would play withootball all day and then go play baseball.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Wow, you're a rare breathe though most kids aren't like that.
You get the top and kids who that's all they
live and breathe baseball. We actually cared about to them more.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Sometimes we would actually hurt our arms, and.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Let's see, that's not good. Definitely not good.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
We're in the era too, which wasn't like you guys
had video games back then, but like there's they're just
the phones and the fucking YouTube and all this all
the technology. Like some boys very give them two days
in a row where they can't do that.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Yeah, it was. It was one of those. So Friday
night we went out played our best game of the season,
just unbelievable, error free, just looked incredible. We beat the
first place team, nailed the four looked and I was like,
maybe we finally something's kicked in here like before our playoffs.
I was like, let's get it going. This is great.
(11:40):
So again we show Saturday. I'm expecting to see that team.
I'm looking at him and go, guys, if if I
didn't prove to you guys that when we're locked in
and you take it seriously, that that's what happens. Like
this are the results of what happens. So that's what
I'm trying to get across to you guys. Let's let's
do that. Let's keep playing like this, and they're okay,
(12:00):
it sounds good. All right, maybe we got something here.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Are you coach Eddie or just coach.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Mostly just coach? Yeah, yeah, trying to probably have them
don't even know my name is Eddie. Coach, Yeah, just coach. Uh.
And so we get going here, the game starts and
it is the complete opposite. Played a fucking disaster playing
(12:27):
with football. It must have been or video games or whatever.
I don't know, but I mean literally, we went from
our best game of the season to literally the worst
inning of baseball we've played all year, where we gave
up eleven runs in one inning. The first thing. It's
like fifteen after three, ten after four or something like that. No, no,
(12:49):
I mean it's a first inting. Literally everybody was just
ship in the bed, Like my third basement made an error,
my shortstop made two errors. And so what I what
I've been doing and kind of figured out, is that
my son Jack, he's had a really good season. He
like the light bulb kind of went on. He's played
really well. He's been knocking the ball like unbelievable. He's
(13:12):
been hitting great, his fielding has been outstanding, and so
to the point of where I trust him, and I'm like, Okay,
if I need a playmate, I know Jack's going to
make the play. Feeling really good about him, So in
like the first inning, we usually because you're going to
see their best hitters in the top of the lineup.
And then the last inning, where I'm hoping we have
(13:32):
the lead and we want to keep the win, I'm
going to put Jack at second base just to make
sure I have a good fielder all the way around.
And so I've been doing that lately and it's been
working and it's been great, and so I go, all right,
you know, jack'son at second. Well, Jack was in a
second and during this eleven run barrage, he makes an
error and it was a stupid error where it was
(13:53):
like he tried, instead of just fielding the ball getting
in front of it like a standard baseball play, he
weirdly tried to like stab at it in like a
backhand motion, which was like the weirdest way to know.
It was just dumb and like and like he didn't
get in front of the ball, and just everything we do,
everything about it was.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Wrong, like like he flinched almost and wasn't paying attention.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
No, no, he just it was just a brain fart
and just did it incorrectly. Like literally, we will take
grounders often, I mean before every game, and you know,
and he's never fielded like this and because he knows
that's not that's not how we do it. And so
it was very odd and it was right in the
middle of this, you know, eleven run brage, and of
(14:38):
course I yelled at him, Jack, come on, you gotta
get in front of it. You got to do blah
blah blah blah, like reminding him. And so, you know,
I could tell he was upset and embarrassed. But whatever,
it's I mean, he wasn't the we were losing blah
a lot, and there was a ton of errors.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Play the ball, don't let the ball play.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
You, Okay, do you drop? No, that's not one of
my saying, that's not one of my songs. It was
just stupid, and so it didn't help, you know, and
of course run score and things like that. So I'm
getting hotter and hotter and hotter as we're playing like
a million runs. Literally, we're playing like shit, and I
can't believe it. And I keep saying that to myself,
(15:18):
like I can't believe what I'm seeing right now. I
can't believe it. I'm just muttering like a psychopath. Is
this like other team amazing? Like, okay, we we should
have beat them, We should have beat them, all right,
but it was one of those things just happen, and
so and of course our we're walking guys drinking on Friday. Well,
they went and celebrated the win the bars, but I
(15:41):
was to hit up the bars. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
It's like barsity Blues when they go to the strip
club before the game.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
A million per million. Yes, so their teacher there was
the whole thing, you know. So the inning is still
going on, I mean literally like a forty five minute inning.
It's ridiculous. Well, about two batters later, a ball gets
hit to Jack again. He did the exact fucking same thing.
(16:08):
Now the spring in my head has sprung because I'm like,
wait a second, scared.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Oh shit, wait, I'm terrified.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Second, everybody else is ship in the bed. Okay, I
get it. Okay, you just fucked up one time. Not
happy about it, but it happens. Okay, you do the
same thing again, literally the exact same thing. I lost. Well,
(16:44):
I'm already pissed. I'm already pissed that we're playing like this.
We shouldn't be playing like this. It's eleven runs, I mean,
it's just fucking crazy. And then he makes two errors
in the same inning, doing the exact same thing. You
didn't learn the first time. He didn't learn the first
after I just yelled at you. I mean I yelled
at you, had told you exactly what you did wrong.
What is going on? What is going on? Going on?
(17:06):
How can you do it again? How can you do
it again?
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Is that what you're muttering to yourself?
Speaker 1 (17:10):
No? No, because I'd lost it. So if this is
another kid, I'm mad and I probably go dude, you
can't do that, like get in front of the ball.
That's probably the extent of it. It's not pleasant, but
it's also not I'm not like, come on, you idiot,
which is what I want to say. But is this
is my son? Oh? I can't. I can't believe what
I'm saying, what my eyes are. I can I go
(17:34):
home right now?
Speaker 3 (17:35):
I don't even know if I can hear this.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
I walk out of the dugout, which which is really
not acceptable. You're supposed to kind of stay in the dugout.
If you're a coach. They don't want you walking out,
and they don't want other kids walking You're supposed to
stay in the dugout. I don't care toss me at
this point, I walked out of the dugout, my hands
are out to the side, and I start screwing at him.
(18:01):
You did the same thing, You did the same thing.
You gotta be kidding me, You gotta be kidding me.
And I'm my voice, I'm not even close to the
octave that my voice was. It got to the point
where my voice cracked that I'm screaming at him so
(18:22):
loud and going, what are you doing? What are you doing?
And I'm and I'm staying. I'm basically on the field
at this point, like just walking out there is the
game stopping, it's going on, But I mean, he just
committed this error. They just scored runs, and I'm I'm
fucking stopping.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Looking look at the psychopath.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
I am just beyond like, I'm it's beyond comprehension to
me that that happened.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
What's Jack doing when you do that?
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Just standing there looking at me like like he knows,
he knows, But he's also like I kept probably, I
can't believe my dad is screaming at me in the
middle of the game, embarrassing me to like nobody's business.
I get it, I get it. And I realized that
when I'm turning around walking back to doug out like,
oh there's people like people everybody saw that. You know.
(19:16):
Part of me goes, I don't care like your kids
suck to like everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody's doing this
is just not just Jack to Sharon. But I'm also like, oh,
that's not Eddie, like like Edny Eddie doesn't like that.
But I mean emssed part of me there was a
(19:37):
little bit of regret.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Eleven runs who gives a fun.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Yeah, that's kind of where I was at. Yeah, that's
kind of where I was at. I'm also there's regret
and there's also like fuck that. Yeah, look at the
way we're playing, Like you gotta be better.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Did later on after the game, did you like say
something to Jack or you just.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Haven't told him about it? It's always the drive home. Yeah,
drive home is the best or the worst. Yeah, it's
the best or the worst.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
I had a coach at high school that would scream
and yell like a psychopath, and then then if you
handle it well, like you just took it, and then
the next day, if you want we won, he would
pull me.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Aside and be like, hey, I just want to let
you handle yourself really well.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
He wouldn't apologize, but he'd say you handed yourself well,
and I go, thanks coach, and that would be it.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Woww Yeah, you know, I get in the truck and
I've calmed down, you know, so I'm good now, like whatever.
I'm mad we lost, but but i'm final score it
was like fifteen to five, so yeah, like a million no.
So weirdly enough, we actually played pretty good after that.
(20:44):
I mean, you know, you lost well. I mean, believe me,
when that inning was over, I was still not happy
and rip them, you know, all the whole team all
a new one. But we've started to play better and
we started to do better. So you know, sometimes you
need a kick in the ass. That's the way that
you coach. Different ways to coach, So the right was
(21:05):
a pleasant I was calm though, and I said to I, go, Jack,
that first play is kind of unacceptable at this point.
You know how to feel the baseball, you know, I go,
And I said that's minor ship, Like, come on, dude,
you know what you're doing. I go, but I understand it.
It's a brain fark. Errors happened.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
You know.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
I don't get mad at you for making an error.
Errors happened. I go, it's how you recover from an error,
So doing it twice in the same in the same
I go, that's madness. I go, who is that kid?
I go? What?
Speaker 3 (21:45):
What did you tell the parents that were following you home?
Speaker 1 (21:49):
No,
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