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June 17, 2025 • 14 mins
On today's P1 Podcast, Eddie tells us about the end of season party he threw for the baseball team he coaches and what DIDN'T happen that caught him by surprise
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So that's it. Guys. Baseball season is in the books.
It's officially done because my last official thing was the
end of the season team party. Gotta have that. You
have it every year. I've been coaching now for eight years,
I believe eight years t ball every year. Yeah, yeah,

(00:22):
they wrote me in the T Ball I still don't
know how I continued after t ball. I mean, honestly,
it's the biggest ship show on the planet. It's like
hurting cats. And if you can get the kids to
run in the right direction, you're a great coach. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
When I when I have a son, I don't want
to coach you.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
It's tough. I can't.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
I don't know the patient for it.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Don't rope you in though they'll literally they go, hey,
do you know baseball? You'll of course say yes, and
all you're a coach. I no, like, why are you here?
So anyway, it's done. So now again I'm in that
weird spot where I don't have anything to do, which
is nice. But something happened at the team party, or

(01:02):
I guess I should say something didn't happen at the
team party last night for the first time ever. We
ain't done yet. It's time for the podcast, yet completely
uncensored and unting filtered except.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
For that part the party.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
The show's after show starts.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Yeah, this has been an interesting season, you know, because
the boys that I'm coaching now are thirteen and fourteen
year olds. These they're weirdos man at that age Emily
knows and a fourteen year old like they're they're in
a weird space where they're almost too cool for school.
They don't care about baseball that much. They want to play,

(01:50):
but like they want to talk about the dumbest shit,
and you know, they'll they're into girls now and so
they talk about girls really and like to get them
like fired up is impossible. Like I found that out.
Like I'm pretty good about firing the team up game time,
Like I got my whole thing and like we're gonna go.
Let's go. This year, I was fucking screaming in my

(02:14):
head off and I could not get them. They literally
just be like looking on to the distance and I'm
screaming and like we gotta gave we gotta do this,
you know, and they don't care. No, They're just like
all right, coach whatever.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
And at this age too, they're so all over the place,
Like you have some kids that are just starting probably puberty,
some kids that have already had fucking mustaches and they're
like seven feet tall.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
They'll stink, and so they're all at.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
Different levels with like energy, Like you're saying, like you
could go and you're gonna be debt.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Like my entire team this year was just you know, no,
no one of the four they didn't have no energy
no matter what I did. I know I would. I
would mid game one game, I made them run because
they were showing me no effort, no energy. You could
do that mid game, No, but I did. I was like,

(02:59):
fuck you guys, run, go, go to the pole and
back find some energy. Couldn't do it. I couldn't do it. Yeah,
it was so was different. It was a it was
a different season, different year. And uh, you know, the
last two years I won the championships. So of course
I awarded the team massive trophies, which I don't know
when you play baseball you probably remember getting the trophy

(03:20):
was awesome.

Speaker 4 (03:20):
Yeah, I have so many of them. Okay, it's really great.
It's always the best part.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
And then when you get older, you look back at
them and you're like man, Yeah, days.

Speaker 4 (03:29):
When I was doing my room, that's like all my
sports stuff. I was going through some of that stuff.
Still have the trophies. My wife mocked me and said,
what do you need these for?

Speaker 3 (03:39):
The trophies? Like a long time ago.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
I'm sorry, say that again.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
Did you pick through the trophies like I assume you'd be, like,
I'm going to keep the bigger ones and the more.

Speaker 4 (03:46):
Yeah, like all the participation trophies I got rid of,
but like the like the like the big trophies, and
like I had a couple of game balls. I threw
a no hitter in high school. So I still have
that ball and my dad wrote on it like what
the fine box score was, And I have the ball.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
It's in my room, which is cool. I mean, I
know hit her high school. That's pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
Incredible than the kid in the College World Series through.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Nineteen.

Speaker 4 (04:10):
You know, he had a perfect game, but he hit
the guy otherwise it would have been a perfect game.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
It's so hard. But yeah, so I have that stuff.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yeah, So, I mean it's cool to have some sort
of memento of the season. And so every year I
tend to get trophies for the kids and whatever. Well,
we're now in we're now past little league, this is
now juniors. And so we didn't win the championship this year.
Whatever he brought, some brought some energy. We made the

(04:38):
semi finals, we had a nice run in our t OC,
but we didn't win the championship. So I thought to myself,
I don't think I'm gonna do trophy this year. Really
it doesn't make sense for what again, I don't like
participation trophies again, Sky, this is all she would ever
have is participation ribbons and things like that, not even trophy.

Speaker 4 (04:59):
Yeah yeah not great references, yeah, really relevant.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
So it was like, no, you know what, no trophies
this year. You don't we don't win. We win a championship,
you get a championship side trophy, but no championship, no trophy.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
So it's up to the coach to decide if their trophies.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
Are not Usually I also think the parents.

Speaker 3 (05:20):
I also thought it's like the league who like it
depends sided like, oh everybody gets a trophy or.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
I also think it is the lamest ship on earth
seeing these kids with rings.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
Oh that's troubable.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
Ring.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
That is the stupidest ship ever.

Speaker 4 (05:38):
I'm sorry, when rings are for majors n f L, like,
that's when you wear it.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
Get rings. The ball is big money, man, you get that.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
That's so gross.

Speaker 4 (05:50):
I hate like kids with rings and the point I'm like,
for a little walking ring, I want, I want a
trophy of the rings that.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
Off. So, yeah, we're at a weird stage, weird limbo age,
like there's all of it's kind of tricky and so
it is what it is. But for eight years now
in a row, there is something that happens at the
end every year where for me, I not only get
trophies for the kids, but I also make sure that

(06:25):
my coaches. There's always two coaches that are with you,
and I make sure I get them a little something
for helping me out. What does that look like? It
depends on who it is and what happened the last
two years. Because we won the championship, I got it.
I made them plaques like no rings. It was a
plaque that you know, said something about the team that
we were the champions. Whatever, just a little keepstick to have,

(06:48):
you know. Yeah, And so each coach got that. I
usually get the team mom something I could gift card.
You know.

Speaker 3 (06:54):
I was a couple a team on a couple of years.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
Did you get something I did? Yeah, I actually got.

Speaker 3 (07:01):
Multiple presents some of the parents, even to such an
outstanding there's no it, I was on it.

Speaker 1 (07:12):
You don't remember you have the ship in here, how
do you.

Speaker 3 (07:14):
Remember to probably put more effort towards that, no doubt.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
And then I usually get the whoever volunteers to be
the scorekeeper gift. Well, these are all things that like
I don't want on my plate. And if I can
get somebody who's good at scorekeeping and will do it
every game, fuck you earned it, trust me, like it's
a pain in the ass. So those are my gifts.
I make sure they get taken care of whatever. Then

(07:41):
every year for eight years, because I'm the manager, I
always get like a gift from the team and it's
usually the team mom that and so over the years
I've gotten all kinds of different stuff. I've gotten a
mug like a like a mug like this, like a
travel mug, you know, and it said District thirty three, UH,

(08:01):
Coach of the Year. I won the Coach of the
Year last year, so that was cool. That's well keepsake
to have. I've gotten plaques before.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
Sure you've gotten what I did. One year, I did
team a smaller team photo and then had all the
boys sign in a marker.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
Versions of that, Like there is this one thing that
has like little baseballs and each kid's baseball they signed
it and their numbers on it, and it's like kind
of floating. And yeah, there's all kinds of different coaches
gifts that you can get, and it's always kind of
team related stuff. It is what it is. Give carbon nice.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
I did one hundred dollars to my coach's favorite two
favorite restaurants. Last time.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
She buys her coach better gifts than parents.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yeah, you get money.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
From the get money from the parents, because I was like,
I got a d my birthday from the Okay gifts.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
He wrote a check once guy not Emily. So comes
down to it. You know, we have our team party
yesterday and is this like a backyard part? Not this time.
We've I've done them. We've done them all tens of
different places. Usually it is at a parent it's but
the parent has to offered up. Last year was great.
We did it at this person's house and they had

(09:16):
their own pizza oven. Pizza. Ever this well, this this
mom like took her pizza very seriously. So she had
like her Joe flown in from like Italy like that,
Like she didn't funk around. I tell you, it was
like some of the best pizza. And it's a wood
fire pizza alegit one and so we as the team party,
everybody got to make their own pizza. So it was great.

(09:36):
It was perfect, you know. And so it's you know,
can be at somebody's house, but we've had him at
you know, pizza parlors before, things like that. Yeah, honestly,
could be wherever, you know, wherever you have it. So yeah,
this time it wasn't was that like a bar restaurant
that is like attached to an arcade, and so it

(09:57):
was kind of perfect for you know everybody. You know,
it is what it is, and so we had it there.
So it's you know, getting late time parties about to end.
So I'm going to hand out my stuff, uh this year,
and I always make a big speech to the kids,
always make the big speech of like what a great
season we had, you know this and this A lot
of times when I had trophies individually, I bring up

(10:17):
the kid and I say something individually that's what you
got it. You know, I'll say, hey, Tyler, come on
up here, buddies. You know what an amazing season you had.
You know, your attitude was was a little questionable at times.
You know, you brought the team down a few times,
but overall you were my best players. So I'm going
to give you. Here you go, here's a trophy.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
The kid say something.

Speaker 1 (10:42):
Off the step. I gotta get through twelve kids.

Speaker 4 (10:45):
My attitude was low because people didn't have attitudes. They
weren't paying as gret as I thought they should.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
No trophies this year, No big speech at the end
of the season. I gave a pretty big speech because
a lot of these kids are moving on to high
school and so you know, I gave them the hey,
go do great things. Take the four.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
How many of the kids will make the high school team?

Speaker 1 (11:10):
Uh? Probably out of the kids who I know who
are going to continue to play, probably all of them.
I had a good squad and they're all pretty good,
so we'll see. I mean, if if five of them
go out four two five, we'll probably because they have
a freshman team too. Yeah, you know. Anyway, Uh So,

(11:31):
no big speeches this year, no trophies, no no big,
you know thing toada about it. But I got to
go hand out my gifts because I still got everybody gifts.
I got hand my coaches and their gifts. I had
my team mom her gift. I have my scorekeeper of
their gift. And now it's time. Here we go. All right, Well, yeah, gift.

Speaker 4 (11:50):
Card blacks maybe like a wooden bat with your name
on it.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
Got that before with it with the team on it. Yeah,
so we go, okay, looking around waiting. There we go,
nothing happening any minute. I'm sure there's somebody's gonna.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
Somebody's gonna come up to you. Maybe they gave it
to your wife.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
Hey, dev do this. They hand me a card. Okay,
there we go.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
Open up.

Speaker 3 (12:21):
Yeah, yep, let's go.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
Where are we going?

Speaker 1 (12:24):
Well, the team, the boys signed it. All the team there,
so the four boys that didn't.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
Show up ahead of time, it's just right there.

Speaker 1 (12:35):
They wrote some really nice things in the card. I
was actually kind of impressed.

Speaker 4 (12:38):
I just put like a nice note and it was
thanks for the year.

Speaker 1 (12:44):
Coachy one co one kid said he's gonna remember it forever.
I went.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
These kids say things, I mean.

Speaker 1 (12:53):
You, I changed his life.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
Kids do ship like that when they say things like that.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
Actually the opposite. I thought it was just gonna say
his name name. Yeah, there was. Every single one of
them wrote something like how I changed their life? You
fuck you fuck that's what I do? Okay, Holy loved it,

(13:27):
very emotional. I loved it great. Anything else you yeah,
you would think that there's anything else change their lives?

Speaker 3 (13:36):
That's coming next life changer.

Speaker 1 (13:39):
Party party is over.

Speaker 2 (13:40):
People are starting to.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
Yeah, I don't all right, well check check you later.

Speaker 2 (13:46):
What's T mom doing.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
In charge of T Mom's a little busy there. Her
and her family are moving to Florida and they're leaving
in like a week. So she's been she's been slammed,
and I get it, okay, but uh no coaches get this, Edie, wow,
got nothing. We got the card, very very nice, very special.

Speaker 3 (14:12):
This is unacceptable.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
This is from a team. Team should have let.

Speaker 3 (14:18):
Me get in there.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
What does that?

Speaker 3 (14:19):
I feel like I would have done tea mom duties
I would have got I wanted to be his I
wanted to do.

Speaker 1 (14:26):
You don't think that would have been a little odd
of Like, guys, here's my team mom. She doesn't have
a kid on the team, but she's my team.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
Mom, you would have gotten a gift card in that card.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
That would have been nice. That would have been nice.
I don't know. Do I take it personally
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