August 31, 2026 • 44 mins
Lunchbox has a message for all the idiot parents who are ruining kids sports by having their kids play travel sports at a young age. BabyBox played All-Stars this summer which gave Lunchbox an inside look at travel baseball for 7 and 8 year olds and he has never been more disgusted with parents in America. Ray takes a trip down memory lane to when he was the best baseball player in his town but got a rude awakening when they went to the big city to play other Little Leagues.
Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soreloserspodcast
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Listen
Watch
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
So we won't have the sound effect. We ain't replaying this.
Oh my god, this is so that's so hot, dude.
I love Amy's been using a mouse that's Deadylais.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I don't think she uses it. I think someone else
maybe use this mouse. I don't know what this mouse
goes to. But we're in a side studio, y'all, so
this is gonna be very weird and strange and awkward.
We don't have audio, we don't have the sound effects
to start the show.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Is that correct?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Yes, that is accurate, coach, So are you just gonna
do it live without the bed?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
We are exactly thirty seven days away from the two
and twenty seven Sore Losers Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, brought to.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
You by Freely sever Lay, and we're gonna do it live.
We are the one, two three Sore Losers.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
What up, everybody? I lunchbox.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I know the most about sports, so I'll give you
the sports facts, my sports opinions, because I'm pretty much
a sports genius, y'all.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Has sison. I'm from the North. I'm in Alpha Male.
I live on the North side of Nashville with baser,
two acres, two kids, at Vandy. Die have a heart attack.
When I'm seventy two, justin on a dinghy on gun Lake,
probably betting. He's probably trying to get out to that
Gun Lake casino. They take two hundred from him every paycheck,
but one of these times he's gonna turn it around.
He keeps picking ten hitters a night to get a hit,
(01:29):
and about four of them do. So if that ain't
throwing away your money, I don't know what is over
to you, man, Coach. True, I'm gonna tell you something.
So Baby Box made the All Stars, and I told
you the first practice. I didn't fill you in on
everything else because I didn't know if you wanted to
hear about Little League baseball, if you wanted to hear
about the march to the championship, if we were gonna
(01:51):
win the championship.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I didn't even know how all Stars worked anymore. Back
in my day. You make the All Star team from Balcony's,
you play other All Star teams from the city. You
play Northwest Little League, Great Hills Little League, North Austin
Optimist Little League. You know all these other little leagues,
Dell Valley Little League, things like that, Great Town and
(02:13):
Country you played all these teams, and it was a tournament.
You play is double elimination.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Boom boom boom.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
You travel to their park, they travel to your part.
So I was excited when they said baby Box has
been selected to be on the All Star team. Thought
it was a little crazy. It's coach pitch. There's no
need to have All Stars for coach pitch, was my thought.
But I said, you know what, I asked him if
he wanted to do it. He said yes. I will
support his dreams and his aspirations to be an All Star.
(02:44):
So we have practices. I told you about the crazy
woman that I met at the first practice. There's more
on that to come later. More to come on that.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Why wouldn't those be the stories that you tell.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Well, there's more to come on that later, but I'm
just gonna tell you we we did All Stars and
we didn't play any other little leagues. No, we did
a couple tournaments. Oh, this Saturday, we're playing a tournament
out in Murphy's Boro.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Show up. We're playing at one o'clock. Can't wait.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
And I look at the tournament bracket and I look
up this team that we're playing, and I'm gonna tell
you what is ruining kids baseball, travel baseball. We were
playing travel baseball teams pause.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
So that means you're getting a vehicle and you go
play baseball.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
These are people that are playing every weekend, all the time.
I guarantee you they're practicing two to three times a
week for multiple hours. Because the first team on the
schedule on the season, their season record was fifty three
wins and twenty seven losses.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Cool. My question is this, how do you get in
the same league as them? This is all stars.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
I thought we were gonna play other little leagues, but
really it was just we're gonna play a couple tournaments
and we're gonna play against these travel teams. That's a scam.
I had no idea. I had no idea what it
was going into it. Afterwards, I would say we probably
wouldn't do it again because it was a waste of time.
The coaches were amazing, The coaches were nice, the kids
(04:20):
were fun, the kids were friendly. But you show up
and the team we were playing first, they had a doubleheader,
so they played before us, and.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
They were gonna play immediately. We were gonna play them next.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
And I watched this shortstop, dive, stop the ball, step
on second, throw it to first.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Double play. He he can do that. Eight years old,
the baby in my eyes.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
I was like, we are about to get slaughtered by
this team. We are going to get absolutely annihilated by
this team. And lo and behold we got run ruled
in about three innings. It a waste of time. It
was how do I say it, slaughterhouse? Yeah, slaughterhouse embarrassing.
(05:10):
They took us out behind the woodshed and put a
beating to us.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Did you guys have girls on your team?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
We had no girls on the team. Did they No,
they did not have girls on the team. But they
had I mean, slide mits. They had everything you could
ever possibly want. All the colors too, all the colors,
different armbands, like I've seen it at Dick's.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
They got snow cones, you got cupcakes, you got the chains.
Now the kids can buy it's all green yellow paint.
Because of these banana ballers dancing around in thongs.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
I mean, they had the arm sleeves, just like the
major leaguers. Jack Peterson, you know he's got his arm sleeve.
That's only what I could think of right now. I
don't know why maybe one Sodo wears one. I don't remember,
but it was an absolute butt kicking, and I'm like, well,
this is fun, this is so great. So then we
got to wait an hour and we got to play
another game, and we get absolutely slaughtered again. Games over
(06:07):
in three innings.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
That's good for the parents. You can get back to
the pool.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
I mean it is like, okay, well we drove all
the way out of here to play six innings, two games,
six innings. But here's my question. It doesn't make any sense.
Why have a run rule. Okay, they already won the game,
we can't come back and win. But why don't we
continue to play because the next game is not scheduled
for another forty minutes, so the field just sits empty
(06:33):
for forty minutes. I get it if it's kid pitch,
because you want to save the kid's arms. You don't
want them getting out there throwing unnecessary pitches.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
But this is.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Coach pitch, where you just gonna throw. The coach throws
the ball, the kids hit it. Why not let the
kids practice more?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Were any of the kids crying? No? Thank god? Did
what was the parents? What was the morale of the parents.
A lot of them aren't supportive. No, I wouldn't say
that they weren't supportive.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
No, did they go, Oh they were there. Crazy lady
showed up about halfway through the first game. So showed
up in the second inning.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
I wouldn't call her crazy lady. Isn't she divorcee? Okay,
divorce lady with a skirt ray divars. And she came
dolled up. She was dulled up, makeup, hair done. All
this Saturday's prime time, especially with all the dads off work.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Especially at a little league baseball field where there's a
lot of dads going around, and she is looking at
bita hook ray.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
She was wearing a push up. She was trying to
I don't know she needs a push up? Man? You
think she they stay up automatically. You think some of
these parents got pocket rockets, they got little mimosa in there, yety.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
I wouldn't be surprised if a few of them had that.
I mean I didn't get a sense of it. I
didn't smell any of it on them, So it wasn't
too much of a letdown. I mean, as long as
the parents' spirits were flying high. No, I mean we
were still in a good mood. The kids were having fun.
In between games. We were playing a whiffle ball game
over on the side.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Smart that always goes hand in hand with baseball in
the exact same day. There's no way that helps you
with baseball. Well, playing wiffleball, it's not with the lighter ball.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Here's the thing. We weren't gonna win. It didn't matter.
It didn't matter what you did. You could have given
us one hundred balls, you could have let us get
one hundred outs.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
We weren't gonna win the game. You do wiffle ball.
That ball is so heavy when you play with it.
That's the worst thing you could do. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
These guys are throwing cannons from third base and getting
them out at first first base and making the stretch
and they look amazing. But I was just so frustrated.
They just call the game after the freaking It's just stupid.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
You want to get your money's worth, and you know,
it's kind of like closing early trampoline park or any
put putt plays. You know you want the full none
of this closing the restaurant ten minutes early.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
But fine, we lose, Okay, So I between the games
I text the group and I say, hey, mL No.
I said, hey, we.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Got one more game.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Anybody want to get together with the kids afterwards and
just grab a dinner and a restaurant around here. Think
it'd be fun for the kids to just hang out,
you know what I mean? And what's city?
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Are you in? Martvey'sboro? I ain't crap out there. I
mean they got restaurants, gym's bar. Okay, we'll go to
Gym's bar. I don't care where we go. Go to
Gym's bar. You're finna find a solo cup filled up
with jungle juice. I mean they gotta have a Chick
fil A. I mean, I don't care where we go.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
I just thought it'd be fun to hang out as
a team instead of just getting our glass kick the
whole day.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Some of these smaller cities aren't gonna really have the
restaurant choice and options you're used to in the big
city of Nashville.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Okay, McDonald's. I don't care where we go. The whole
point is they have to have restaurants because people live
there and people eat food. Yes, Okay, So we go
into the second game and I'm like, here we go,
here we.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Go in my neck of the woods. If you were
to have gone out, you'd really just have the option
of a pizza place, right, That's fine, okay? And the
second game, same thing. Dudes are hitting bombs of the fence.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
We are getting as hungry, we are getting just absolutely smoked.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
We get run ruled.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Games over, and not one person has responded to my
text about getting together to grab dinner.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Ah, that second d awkward.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Not a single person has said, Oh, that sounds like
a great idea, that sounds like so much fun.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Are you saying current in present day now? Or you're
saying in the moment at the second game? Nobody's still nobody.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
It's been it's been an hour and forty five minutes
since I sent the text, and not one person has responded.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Maybe they're not the checking the phone type right, but
the game ends, everybody's packing up.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Still nobody has said a word about going to grab dinner.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
What about an in person version of the text thread?
I don't want to make it awkward. I already threw
it out there. Hey guys, per my text. Anybody looking
to get something fingerlacking? Goosh, Hey, I know your kids
has gotta be hungry.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
We've been out here for five hours and we scored
a total of four runs and we got smoked both games.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Nothing.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
But I will say this that the second game, baby
Box is playing catcher and this dude hits it to
the outfield, past our left fielder, all the way to
the fence and he's round in the bases. They make
the relay to the shortstop. Baby Box gets out in
front of home plate. They throw it to him, he
(11:35):
catches it, tags him, but the dude knocks his glove,
ball flies out.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Dude, it was almost a Sports.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Center type play, right, I mean, he got out there,
they boom, bam bam, dude hits it out of his glove.
I'll call it safe and we lose fourteen to one. Okay,
we lost fourteen to one three innings. They called it
after three. Once again, no one's playing after us, but
(12:04):
we called the game for whatever reason. So no one
responds to the text. And then the two younger brothers
are like, Dad, can we go out on the field
and play? So me and the three box boys stayed
out on that field for an hour playing baseball. Random
kids just coming over and I'm pitching, they're hitting, Well,
what about your team. Did they leave? Everybody left? My
(12:25):
wife goes to the bathroom. She comes back, she goes,
what's kind of hawk? Where no one responded to you?
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (12:31):
And I'm like, she goes, I'm sorry that your dreams
didn't come true, that no one wanted to hang out.
I was like, it's not my dream, It's just I
thought that's what Little League baseball was about. I thought
we'd all go have some fun. Who cares like we
got to come back at eight o'clock in the morning.
Let's go eat, get to know each other. Say hi,
maybe these kids will become friends. I don't know. Maybe
(12:52):
the parents will like each other. Maybe the divorce say,
we'll find another dad to cling on to.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
How many people are in this text thread?
Speaker 2 (13:00):
There were eleven kids on the team, so probably twenty
two parents on the text thread, and not a single
one replied, oh for twenty two ray And so after
about an hour and fifteen minutes on the field, we're like,
all right, well, let's go eat.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
We gotta eat.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
We're starving, so we go grab something to eat. I
don't even know where we ate, and did we even
eat or do we just go straight for ice cream?
Speaker 1 (13:25):
It might have been an off brand place they're not
gonna have in Murphysboro. They ain't gonna have a lot
of your chains.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
I do believe. We just went and got ice cream.
That's good, you know, just give them some ice cream.
That'll be great. Who cares like we've been having snacks
all day? It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
So they played baseball all day and you went for
ice cream instead of a square meal. Yeah, well, you
guys should be ready for the next game. Then, like
what we do? None of the parents, there's no team chemistry,
belly full of ice cream.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Well, we don't play till the next morning. We played
our two games for the day. We got and smoked
both games. So now we're gonna play in the loser's
bracket the next day, no problem.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
What city is the next day? In Murphy'sboro? Eight am? Man, man,
eight am? Why do you guys stay the night there? What?
It's a thirty five minute drive. But then you get
turnt with the parents. I wonder if some of them did.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Nobody even responded to my text about going to eat.
Do you think they're gonna want to get turt with me?
You think they're gonna want to get turt with lunchbox.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Maybe Devor saying got herself a hotel room and she
was heading to the hotel bar, and maybe she was
heading downtown Murphysboro to go, you know, gims gyms. That's
a popular spot. Might have been going to Gym's. I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
But then we go to get ice cream and we're
sitting there and we're looking at the menu, and two
other families from the team pull up. So they had
obviously because we'd been playing baseball for the last hour
and fifteen minutes, so they definitely went to eat, and
then they went to get ice cream. So they went
to eat together, ignored by text messages. Then they they
(15:00):
see me at the ice cream place and they're like, hey,
some people just aren't social. So we ate our ice cream.
Then we got in the car and we drove on back. Man,
we drove on back to Nashville, zero to two, but
ready to take the tournament by storm. The next morning
(15:21):
at eight.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Am, you gotta come up through the bowels of the
loser's breath.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
That's right, you get knocked down. It's not about getting
knocked down, it's are you gonna get up? Are you
gonna answer that bell? At eight am the next morning.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
That'd be tough to actually answer that one.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
I mean, and the team we were going against the
next morning, their season record was only twenty and twelve,
so they'd only played thirty two games together. So we
had a shot, like this was us.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
We were ready.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
I'll tell you how it went after the break good segue,
great segue. So we get up the next morning at
eight am. Games So we're up at six, Gotta get
to there, gotta get there. We get there at like
seven forty, do the warm up. Here we go, games
(16:08):
over by eight twenty.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
What happened this time?
Speaker 2 (16:11):
We got to beat fourteen to three this bad We
got absolutely hammered again, this bad hammered.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Fourteen to three. And that's fine.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
And someone did text later that night, hey, yeah, maybe
we can grab breakfast after the game. What I'm like, great,
sounds good. So we get beat fourteen to three. Tournaments over. Wow,
that was amazing, so much fun. And then I replied
to the group, so we're still doing breakfast. Still haven't
(16:47):
heard back from anybody.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Yeah, these parents wanted to get back to Nashville. They're new,
they're not exactly feeling everything out. Maybe you got to
do a house party or something like that.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
So we went to the playground with the kids. We
went to the other baseball field, hit some ran around
the bases and had a good old time in Murphy's Borough.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
But we got absolutely slaughtered. Wait just you and your kids?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Yeah, just me and my kids. No, no, no, No
one else on the team wants to be associated with us.
No one wants to hang out with us. No one
wants to reply to text messages. Even when they suggest, hey,
maybe we should grab breakfast, they don't even want to
follow through with it.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
But are these people that you hung out with before? No,
these are all the All Star parents, So I don't
really know them. See that's how they're feeling. They don't
really know you.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
But that's how you get to know people. Is that's
how you build a community. That's how you make the
kids be friends. And maybe they'll be on the same
team next year. You don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Let's be real. Divorce probably only had the kid for
half the day. She had to get going. She probably
had other plans she had to get She definitely had
a date that night. I'm sure she was going to
do something a little off Broadway, maybe a convention spot.
Who knows, but divorce is not going to stick around Murphy'sborough.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
I wasn't looking for divorcee to hang around. Well, divorce,
it would have been nice to look at, because let
me tell you.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
A ron divorce. Honestly, if we could have checked back
in with her, she went and got absolutely plowed that
night just because she was taking out her anger of
the team getting killed. She did some drinking, I bet,
Yet the next day she was hung up. Drys ran hard.
Wouldn't be surprised. I think the dad had the kids
(18:19):
that weekend, because she showed up to the game without
the kids, like she was by herself. So I'm thinking
she did not have the kids that weekend.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
And so we played and then we uh went to
breakfast at some random Mexican food place in Murphysboro and
had some breakfast.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
What was the name? Laura went to college there? Baser? Really? Yes? Oh?
We went to the ice cream port bit do you
think I know Gems?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
I don't know, but this place, I mean, the service
was really slow, man, really slow. We ordered at the
counter and then we sat down and we waited and waited,
and the kids were getting groutch grouchy.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Yeah, there's probably a better option. Might have wanted to
do just McDonald's. Did you get all cute with breakfast?
You don't want to go to a mom and pop spot. Well,
we were trying to support the local economy. In Murphy'sboro,
there's a one by us. If you go there minimum
two hours. It's tough. The clientele pays in cash and quarters.
That explains a lot. Yeah, so it's one of those.
And actually they stopped doing pennies, and I was there
(19:19):
when I learned that. The guy, the restaurant owner, said, yeah,
we don't take pennies anymore. We're not obligated to take pennies.
They round up to the next nickel. That's not cool,
so they charge you an extra four cents, and the
guy was mad about it. I totally get that. That's
what I deal with country life. Sometimes I'm like, Okay,
I'll go to McDonald's tomorrow. What are we doing? What
is happening right now? They're literally they were literally having
(19:40):
a discussion about three cents.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Oh you go to McDonald's now and they don't have
someone to take your order. You got to use the kiosk.
It is so frustrating, really, I mean I'm you stand
there at the kiosks and you order, and then they
call your name. There is very rarely is there someone
at the cash register, and it is so annoying because
you're sitting there, like, what am I supposed to?
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Okay? I ordered this? Did my order go through? I
do this right? Do you have my order back there? Like?
I don't know. It didn't print a receipts, so I
don't know what if you got my order? Like, and
then people don't really know where to wait. Thinking about
at the airport now how it's set up. So you like,
do your order, but then do you drop back ten
feet or do you just stand there right at the kiosk?
(20:20):
Or do you approach the counter and then everybody crowds
around the counter and they crowd around the fountain drinks.
You're right, excuse me, I gotta get my my pop.
I got one of these cups, and I gotta fill
it on my own, Like I just did the kiosk
on my own. Apparently here you gotta do everything on
your own. I think I might need to make the
breakfast Sammy on my own. I have no idea to
go order for Billy for Billy excuse me. Excuse me,
(20:41):
that's me. Excuse me?
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Can I get thanks? Sorry, excuse me. You have to
fight through people to get up there. So yes, McDonald's
has gone to this whole Kiosks thing and it drives
me nuts.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
But that's not my point.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Yes, my point is this travel baseball is going to
kill these kids. It's you ruining youth sports. Those kids
think they are so good that beat us fourteen to one,
fourteen to three, and sixteen to four. They think they
are the most amazing baseball players ever. They played seventy
(21:14):
something games in six months this year. That is way
too much baseball. Half those kids, ninety percent of those
kids are going to hate baseball in about three years now.
Are they really good in advance for their age? Yes,
when a guy is throwing it straight down the middle,
it's easy to look amazing. But man, oh man, are
(21:36):
you guys doing the wrong thing for your kids? My guy, hey,
what did you do for your childhood? I played baseball
every weekend. My parents had me in tournaments from t
ball all the way till I was twelve.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
When I quit. It also is an eye opener. I mean,
you guys were worlds behind these other kids.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
No, I understand we are worlds behind. I get it,
they were a lot better than us. But it's just like,
how good do you want your kid to be at
six and seven years old that they're playing tournaments every weekend,
having practiced two times a week for two hours. Let
them go out and ride their bikes because they don't
ride their bikes. They've never been riding their bikes because
(22:15):
you know what, got a baseball tournament this weekend?
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Oh, gotta go to baseball practice. Hey, you want to
come over to spend the night? Sorry? Man, got a
baseball tournament in uh Shelbyville? Sorry? What did you do
all summer?
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (22:26):
I had sixteen baseball tournaments? Insane? But it's like, at
what point did they your kids get that far behind?
Was it you in the backyard? Did they get behind
with you? Would? Kid? I would have showed him how
to pick up that ball and hold it at home? Play, kid,
you gotta be strong, kid.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
He should have used two hands on that play. But
after that game it said fourteen to one on the scoreboard.
And before we left, Baby Box looked at me and goes, Dad,
we gotta go change the score. Like, what do you mean,
he goes it was really thirteen to one because I
got him out. I looked at him, I said, Bud,
(23:08):
I said, listen, if you want to go change that score,
you go change that score because I support you. He
goes because he knocked the ball out of my glove.
I said, hey, Bud, if that's what you think, if
that's the final score, then you can go ahead and
go change it. And he walked over there changed it
to thirteen to one, and he felt so good to go. See,
(23:28):
now that's the real score. He wasn't mad about getting smoked.
He wasn't mad about getting absolutely blowed out. He was
mad that it should have been thirteen to one instead
of fourteen to one, and he wanted to correct the wrong.
He wanted to make sure America knew that all of
Murphysboro at that tournament knew it was thirteen to one
(23:49):
and not fourteen to one.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Wow. I mean this was depressing but enlightening. But wow,
I thought we were ahead of the curve. I thought
we were on the up and up. We are our
kids are that behind in baseball.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
I mean, sorry, they play for about four or five
months out of the year. We'll play catch every once
in a while now that it's the off season. But
I'm telling you, these kids playing seventy games in the
first six months of the year, and so by the
end of the year, they're gonna played two hundred baseball games.
That is absolutely insane.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
So they're playing tournaments NonStop, NonStop.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
These kids we were playing, I'm telling you, they play
a tournament every freaking weekend.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
That's what the parents do. That's all they do.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
They sit out there at these tournaments all weekend, every weekend.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
I'm like, guys, how is that your life? What?
Speaker 2 (24:39):
How have you come this far that this is now
your life? I get it if they're seventeen eighteen and
they're trying to make it, But at six and seven
and eight years old, you are damn insane.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Yeah, I just figured out myself. Yeah, parents are definitely
packing coolers and yettis. There's no way they're doing tournaments
every weekend, not unwinding a little bit. Dude.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
These seven year old that we were playing against had
three different bats, three different bats. Travel ball is killing
youth sports. If you're one of those parents at six
or seven years old, you're an absolute idiot. We'll take
a break and We'll be right back, Dunzel back, dude.
And so that was my I didn't mean to go
(25:20):
on a rant about travel baseball. I know you haven't
experienced travel baseball, and I mean, this was just supposed
to be All Stars, but I just saw travel baseball
up close and personal, and I was like, dang, this
is crazy for seven year olds to be playing this
much baseball.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Well, and I mean not to get too deep with you,
but I think we know now. Back when I was
growing up, there was no such thing as the Internet,
and guys, we're gonna take a trip down memory lane.
So I didn't know if I was good or not.
In my town. I was the best player in my household.
I was the best player, better than your brother. Yeah,
(25:57):
I made All Stars now that I think of it,
like twelve eleven twelve. I would make All Stars a
year before him, and then he made it the when
we were both older. But and then I when we
were in an American legion and stuff like that, I
would start and he would like come off the bench.
But yeah, so I was better. So I always thought
I was pretty good. But then we'd go to the
state wide tournaments, which are happening now on TV. Yeah,
(26:17):
those ones, and I guess that's even regionals and nationals,
that's even way bigger. But we'd go to just the
state ones and we'd get beat twenty to nothing. And
I'd look at my dad and I'd be like, wow,
we suck in my town. I thought we were We're
the best team in town. So that's when we learned
we kind of sucked. And to me later in life
than I learned when I went to college, I was like, wow,
(26:38):
I suck like these guys. I and I learned people
played baseball year round. I played like two months of
the year because it was always winter. So but now
with the internet and back to what you were saying
with travel ball and see what people are paying, you
realize your kids, Like, your kids aren't gonna play professional baseball.
You realize that now, right, or do you think they
still have a chance.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Well, I think, I mean the chances are point zero
zero zero zero zero one percent. I'm not gonna say
they don't have any chance because they might be really good,
but they are not dominating.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
They are not.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
But when puberty hits is really when you can tell,
and there's a little bit of you can get better,
get better, get better, get better, and you can make it.
Because Justin Ruggiano, who went to my high school, he's
a year younger than me. He wasn't the best one
at our high school. He wasn't the best one in
his graduating class. He was good, really good. And then
(27:33):
he went to junior college, and then he went to
A and M, and then he was in the minors
and he just got better and better and better and
better and better, and he made it to major leagues.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Well, and he focused on his craft, you could say,
at the right time, correct. Where as he's kids in
travel ball, it's definitely not the time to do it.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
I don't think six and seven years old is the
time to concentrate on baseball specifically. I think it will
burn out. I knew at an earth age, like you said,
you knew you were the best at your league and
your your house. I knew in my household I was
the worst baseball player. I knew batter's box was better
than me. I knew my sister was better at softball
(28:12):
than I was at baseball.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Here try and hit this sock. I knew that I.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Was not gonna be a baseball player when I grew up.
I loved it, but I sucked at it. Batter's box
loved it, was good at it. My sister loved softball
and was good at it.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
We have a whole show of baseball players. Muffy softball player,
batters Box, elite college baseball player, me two week college
baseball player, Justin college baseball player. What yeah, he played
it a juco didn't know? Yeah, And then afterwards he
was playing that dumbass like adult league that like was
(28:51):
not the minor leagues of baseball, but it was pretty
dang close. They're thrown in the eighties, just grown men
throwing in the eighties at each other.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Right, but this is the first this is breaking news
that he played juco ball.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Yeah, wow, elite Okay. And the funny thing is we'd
always party at the pool and we'd never played catch together.
Have we played? I mean we've played with laundry balls
in the house, I don't think with gloves. Me and
Justin have ever played catch together? What position? Did Justin play? Pitcher? Really? Yeah?
(29:22):
Oh yeah, he's a heat thrower. I mean that was
way before he's putting down the kegs. I mean now
it's probably been five years since he played on that
minor team.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
That is very interesting that you learn something new every day.
We're a whole show of ballplayers except for me. I
wasn't a ballplayer. I sucked at baseball, but sucked.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
Kid.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
I tried to get you to love the game.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Kid, But it was beautiful to see you out there
and give it your all. And that one time we
were playing and I moved you to the left and
we were playing against Dell Valley and that guy, I mean,
we moved you and he hit it right to you.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
That was beautiful. Kid. Wait, was Kid one of those
people a coach that was like kid, Kid in left field,
move one half step to the left, kid.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
I don't know if he was. I don't know if
he was that coach all the time. But there was
one we were playing All Stars and we were about
Coney's Red and we were playing against Dell Valley and
this dude had roped one to the left field fence
his first time up, and the second time up, I'm
(30:29):
in left field this time. Maybe I was in left
field the first time. I don't know, but I remember
him going, Kid, moved three steps to your left. That's
where he hit it last time. And dude, he hit
it right to.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Me like boom. It was unbelievable. That was one of
those moments I was like, holy crap, I mean he
roped it. I said, that's what my dad would do,
right right right when I was playing the outfield at
some point. Yeah, I eventually became catcher all time because
that's how I knew I could play. And but right
(31:02):
right the whole crowd, everybody's looking. People on the field.
One quarter step to your left, okay, dad, thank you.
It's not even a full drag step. It was one
shoe to my left, all right, Ded, I'm pretty sure
I could have got there. Didn't make a difference. Who knows, dude,
he did all the time, so sure he was right.
(31:23):
At some points, I I do listen with my boys.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
I do catch myself saying, hey, guys, you are he's
left handed. You might want to scoot three steps to
your left. Scoot three steps to your left.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
He can't.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
That's where he went last time, right down right in
that hole right there. So if you take a couple
of steps, shade him this way. I do do that,
And it's so dumb because it's freaking six and seven
year olds but I still try to get him in
the right position.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Ray, It's all about the jump. Yeah, these Dominican Republic
kids are the ones that are getting the jumps. I
mean they can cover the ground. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
They don't need someone to tell them move left to right.
They just move themselves because they're so athletic.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
And I guess you can bet on the world Little
League World Series now yeah, I don't know the sites,
if it's polymarket or what the crap it is, but
literally came out and did a post on Instagram and
they go, hey, guys, we want to keep the love
in the game. This all kind of goes with your
travel baseball. This is it's disgusting. They're like, guys, we
don't want the betting on the Little League World Series.
Let's keep it adults, professional sports. These are just kids.
(32:22):
Please please don't bet. And all the comments are okay,
sounds good. All right, I'm gonna go a thousand on
Dominican Republic. Then let me tell you.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
When I saw that you could bet on that, I
literally thought people have a problem, Like if you are
betting on the Little League World Series, you need to
check into rehab.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Like that is absolutely disgusting. Should we pull it up
and see who is that?
Speaker 4 (32:49):
That is?
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Who's the favorite?
Speaker 2 (32:50):
That Californias favorite, dude, the fact, you know, and I
think Texas was the second favorite, at least for the
US side. I don't know about overall. I'm just telling
you that it is so gross. If you had ever
thought I'm gonna bet on eleven and twelve year old kids,
then you need you literally need to just stop and
(33:13):
like look at yourself in the mirror and realize you
have a problem. Like the NFL is just right around.
I mean, we are inches away from the NFL, so
you can just wait until that happens. But betting on
twelve year old kids, and if I mean because you
know that people are losing money and they are hitting
these kids, finding these kids Instagram and sending them messages
(33:34):
on TikTok, you are a freaking loser.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
If you bet on the Little League World Series Mexico
massive favorite over Australia, Ohio favorite over Nevada, California over Iowa, Japan,
huge favorite over at currosel who knows these lines. It's embarrassing.
(33:59):
Here's a Little League betting expert.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
It's gross and that shouldn't be available. It should be
illegal on all sites. No site should offer that, and
if you are a site that is offering it, you
need to reevaluate. You need to go into your office
and be like, look, guys, can we take down the
kids stuff. It's like, oh, I'm gonna bet on the
spelling beat, like when they do the script spelling beat.
Come on, man, let's not do that. Betting on kids
(34:23):
seems a little weird.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Speaking of betting, do we have time for a story?
I do have time for a story? All right? Were
you gonna tell a story? No? Go, because there's time
here and I believe it's a good story to fillage.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
Go.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
I have a friend and he's in Vegas and it's
the overnight guy got it, and he doesn't bet at all.
He goes out there and he does weird stuff. So
he'll go up to a slot machine. I mean, does
discount is betting, Yes, but he'll go up to a
slot machine with ten dollars and then just walk away.
That's it. He'll do weird stuff like that. He'll go
do a horse bet. So it's just if he sometimes
(34:56):
he'll go out there and not bet at all. That
doesn't seem like it's a good trip. And I'll ilse
say oh, hey, what'd you do? And he'll go, oh,
you went to a nice meal at Caesar's that I
go to or blage you and he goes winsaw Carrot Top.
I whoha, don't knock it. Carrot Top is hilarious. If
I ever come back from Vegas and say I went
(35:17):
to see Carrot Top somebody punched me in the face. No, no,
I no, do not sleep on how funny Carrot Top is.
Have you seen him lately? He looks terrible, that's the
funny part. Oh what he doesn't look well?
Speaker 2 (35:29):
I mean when I say terrible, like, I don't think
he looks anything like he used to look like. He's unrecognizable,
Like if you looked at his pictures, you would think
that is a different human being.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
It is not.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
I oh god, steroids and plastic surgery, I mean terroids
to the max. So, but go to his show, dude,
it's laugh out loud funny.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
So overnight guy goes, Me and him talk occasionally, see
if he's still out there? Who Carrot Top man? He is?
He played last night? This is the story. Okay, So
my buddy, is he goes, hey, man, you got a
time for a phone call, And he goes, hey, doing
a show, doing a meal at Bilagio out here by myself.
I'm like, where's your wife? But he's an overnight guy.
He's got all this odd hours and odd vacation time
(36:16):
he can take. And so he said, hey, I had
a couple of minutes before the carrat Top show. Sometimes
i'll do horse racing. So I swung by. Where was
it Mandela Bay? Maybe that's where he's staying. But he goes, well,
I wonder where carrat Top is. Maybe Caesar's or something,
maybe Luxer, Oh, Luxer, Okay, So it goes to Luxer
and he goes up to the window and he said, hey,
you guys got horse betting and I got this show
(36:37):
I'm going to. It looks like it's all shut down
for the night. And the guy goes, actually, there's still
some of those horses that run with the carriage on
the back.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Oh that's that is cool. Those are fun. I don't
know what that's called, but it's very interesting.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
So, like I said, this guy doesn't really bet, and
if he does, he bets a weird thing. We're I'll
bet carriage racing and put a dollar on it. But
it's kind of fun. So he said, his address growing
up was always seven three to one. And so if
he ever has a spare dollar or something he's near
a horse track, he always just doesn't even look at
the odds, doesn't look at the color of the horses.
He just bets seven three to one. It's an exacta,
(37:11):
got it? So he goes up to the window and
he doesn't exact. And it's called a box, so it
can go in any one of those orders. So it's
seven three one. It can be won three seven three,
seven to one. Yeah, correct. And so he did. What
he did is he did six dollars. And you're essentially
betting on any sequence. So he could have bet one
dollar on this exacta and it had been seventh, but
(37:33):
it would have had to be seven three to one. Instead,
he did the box, so he had to bet six dollars. Correct. Okay,
So the race starts in his vision. He's like in
his sixties. It's kind of getting worse than ours. Oh,
and so he said the whole time, seven's in the
way back. And apparently seven was ninety to one. Not good,
and they're not even close. One in three are the
(37:55):
first two horses. Oh my, far and away the whole
beginning of the race, and he's like, I'm only half
paying attention. I mean, you know me, it's six bucks.
I just threw it on there. I sat in the
chair and I told the lady at the desk, I'm
not even gonna watch. This is what he told me.
The overnight guy. Guys. You can't be overnight radio guys.
He told the lady at the desk, I'm not even
(38:16):
gonna watch the race. Just come over and tell me
if I won, and I'll give you a tip. What what?
Because I guess he couldn't see it that okay, so
he could he could tell though that one and three
were in the front. Half paying attention. He's just like, ah,
and then apparently the horse was a lavender. Now maybe
(38:36):
not the horse color, but the bib color. Yeah, so
it blends in with the dirt. Okay. Yes, So he
couldn't even tell the numbers and stuff. So the race
finishes that, he's like, you gotta be freaking kidding me.
One in three Hit seven finishes last, and he goes
up to the screen and he's like man, that lavender.
I thought I couldn't tell the numbers while I was
(38:56):
sitting down that lavender. I still can't tell, but I
swear it shows up there that the lavender is in
third place. Oh my gosh. So it was one, three seven,
and he's like, I can't tell and it's unofficial. So
he goes over to the desk and he goes, hey,
can you guys tell me the number. I can't read
that lavender. And she goes, well, it's got to be official.
It'll it'll be a second before it's in. And he's like,
(39:17):
well again, i'll give you a tip. I'm gonna go
sit down, just let me know. And so he sits
down and he said, before he even sat down, T shirt,
it's it's official. And he goes, usually when they go
official that quickly, there's not anything overturned. Apparently it was
a race in New York and he said he's seen
fishy stuff over the years. Oh yeah, that's all fishy, man.
So he said, especially with the chariot racing, and if
(39:40):
it's a long shot, that's always called chariot racing. Thank you.
I've never known the name. I just made that up.
Oh dude, I bet horses until it since I've been
with South Beach, and so he goes, well, she yelled
at him right away, and he said, in New York,
it's weird stuff. If it's an If a ninety to
one horse does well, all of a sudden, they a
horse for no reason at all. And so she was
(40:02):
it's official, and he goes, wow, that's crazy. And she
comes over and she goes, yeah, it hit and you
want a thousand dollars. Oh my god, that's unbelievable, and
so apparently, and so he gave her a twenty dollars tip. Okay,
(40:23):
And so then he went back to his room and
I guess it was nine hundred to one. I could
be wrong on these odds, forgive me. I was driving.
I tried to listen to the numbers as best I could.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
I love the fact that you talked to this guy
in the middle of the night on your drive into work.
Very interesting.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
And so he goes, I got back to the room
and it was his parents' address. Long story short, and
he wanted a better version of the ticket because he
wants to frame it because it was awesome. It's the
home address and it won a thousand dollars. Don't go
back down there. What don't tell me it got over?
Oh my god, no, no, no, no, he made the thousand. Okay,
(41:05):
he looks at the ticket and he thought it was
nine hundred to one, and that's how he won a thousand.
The ticket says eighteen hundred to one. And so he
goes back to the desk the next day and he
shows it to the people and they're like, oh, yeah,
you should have gotten two thousand dollars instead of one
(41:27):
thousand dollars. That girl messed it up. That's never happened before.
And they looked at it, looked into it, and I
guess because he did a one dollar bet. Our horse
racing bets on based off of two dollars. I don't know. Okay,
so horse, So he won a thousand, went home, woke
(41:49):
up in the morning, thought he won two thousand, went
back to the desk and they said, yeah, horse racing
bets are based off of two dollars. So yes, the
odds say eighteen to one. But since you only bet
one dollar on each one of those sequences, you want
a thousand. But yes, it is eighteen hundred to one.
(42:10):
Your average horse bet. You would have won two thousand,
So that's gambling. Talk about a roller coaster. That is
a roller coaster, dude, But that mother. Now he's trying.
He's going back to the sports book. They're gonna dque
him eventually, and he's gonna get the ticket. They said
that there's some boss person that can print out the
ticket and he's gonna frame it and put it in
(42:31):
his house. Freaking liser, that is. That's pretty funny.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
I thought you were gonna say they took his damn
money back, and I was like, no.
Speaker 1 (42:45):
No, no, overnight guys tried to run out of there
with his ticket after a dec So.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
We're gonna need a secret wallet hand over those big
bills we paid.
Speaker 1 (42:54):
You last night. Oh that's a good story. I like that.
All Right, you guys have a great Monday. We're out
of here. I don't know anything else you want to say. Yeah,
he went to carra Top and he had a back
row seat and he goes it was just one of
those nights in Vegas. They go, hey, are you with anybody?
And he goes, no, no, it's just being by myself
(43:14):
and they go third row. We're trying to fill it
a little bit. If you want to go up there
and sit five hundred dollars seat, But you can go
sit up there if you want. He was, what, I
don't have that ticket. I'm here in the back row,
and they go, oh no, no, you can just go
up there. Here, here's a wristband. So since he went
by himself, he got better seats. That's incredible, man, he
(43:34):
couldn't lose. I mean, hey, dude, that's what you call
a heater man.
Speaker 2 (43:38):
He won a five hundred dollars ticket and he won
a nine hundred dollars freaking horse race. I'm gonna book
my plane ticket to Vegas right now.
Speaker 1 (43:45):
I'm going. I'll be back. You guys have a great Monday.
We're out of here.
Speaker 2 (43:51):
Absolute psychos who gamble on the Little League World Series.
You're a freaking loser. Absolute loser. I mean, but I'll
bet you five dollars that Texas wins
Speaker 1 (44:00):
It all Mexico minus five hundred over Kirasole
So we won't have the sound effect. We ain't replaying this.
Oh my god, this is so that's so hot, dude.
I love Amy's been using a mouse that's Deadylais.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I don't think she uses it. I think someone else
maybe use this mouse. I don't know what this mouse
goes to. But we're in a side studio, y'all, so
this is gonna be very weird and strange and awkward.
We don't have audio, we don't have the sound effects
to start the show.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Is that correct?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Yes, that is accurate, coach, So are you just gonna
do it live without the bed?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
We are exactly thirty seven days away from the two
and twenty seven Sore Losers Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, brought to.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
You by Freely sever Lay, and we're gonna do it live.
We are the one, two three Sore Losers.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
What up, everybody? I lunchbox.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I know the most about sports, so I'll give you
the sports facts, my sports opinions, because I'm pretty much
a sports genius, y'all.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Has sison. I'm from the North. I'm in Alpha Male.
I live on the North side of Nashville with baser,
two acres, two kids, at Vandy. Die have a heart attack.
When I'm seventy two, justin on a dinghy on gun Lake,
probably betting. He's probably trying to get out to that
Gun Lake casino. They take two hundred from him every paycheck,
but one of these times he's gonna turn it around.
He keeps picking ten hitters a night to get a hit,
(01:29):
and about four of them do. So if that ain't
throwing away your money, I don't know what is over
to you, man, Coach. True, I'm gonna tell you something.
So Baby Box made the All Stars, and I told
you the first practice. I didn't fill you in on
everything else because I didn't know if you wanted to
hear about Little League baseball, if you wanted to hear
about the march to the championship, if we were gonna
(01:51):
win the championship.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I didn't even know how all Stars worked anymore. Back
in my day. You make the All Star team from Balcony's,
you play other All Star teams from the city. You
play Northwest Little League, Great Hills Little League, North Austin
Optimist Little League. You know all these other little leagues,
Dell Valley Little League, things like that, Great Town and
(02:13):
Country you played all these teams, and it was a tournament.
You play is double elimination.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Boom boom boom.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
You travel to their park, they travel to your part.
So I was excited when they said baby Box has
been selected to be on the All Star team. Thought
it was a little crazy. It's coach pitch. There's no
need to have All Stars for coach pitch, was my thought.
But I said, you know what, I asked him if
he wanted to do it. He said yes. I will
support his dreams and his aspirations to be an All Star.
(02:44):
So we have practices. I told you about the crazy
woman that I met at the first practice. There's more
on that to come later. More to come on that.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Why wouldn't those be the stories that you tell.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Well, there's more to come on that later, but I'm
just gonna tell you we we did All Stars and
we didn't play any other little leagues. No, we did
a couple tournaments. Oh, this Saturday, we're playing a tournament
out in Murphy's Boro.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Show up. We're playing at one o'clock. Can't wait.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
And I look at the tournament bracket and I look
up this team that we're playing, and I'm gonna tell
you what is ruining kids baseball, travel baseball. We were
playing travel baseball teams pause.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
So that means you're getting a vehicle and you go
play baseball.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
These are people that are playing every weekend, all the time.
I guarantee you they're practicing two to three times a
week for multiple hours. Because the first team on the
schedule on the season, their season record was fifty three
wins and twenty seven losses.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Cool. My question is this, how do you get in
the same league as them? This is all stars.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
I thought we were gonna play other little leagues, but
really it was just we're gonna play a couple tournaments
and we're gonna play against these travel teams. That's a scam.
I had no idea. I had no idea what it
was going into it. Afterwards, I would say we probably
wouldn't do it again because it was a waste of time.
The coaches were amazing, The coaches were nice, the kids
(04:20):
were fun, the kids were friendly. But you show up
and the team we were playing first, they had a doubleheader,
so they played before us, and.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
They were gonna play immediately. We were gonna play them next.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
And I watched this shortstop, dive, stop the ball, step
on second, throw it to first.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Double play. He he can do that. Eight years old,
the baby in my eyes.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
I was like, we are about to get slaughtered by
this team. We are going to get absolutely annihilated by
this team. And lo and behold we got run ruled
in about three innings. It a waste of time. It
was how do I say it, slaughterhouse? Yeah, slaughterhouse embarrassing.
(05:10):
They took us out behind the woodshed and put a
beating to us.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Did you guys have girls on your team?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
We had no girls on the team. Did they No,
they did not have girls on the team. But they
had I mean, slide mits. They had everything you could
ever possibly want. All the colors too, all the colors,
different armbands, like I've seen it at Dick's.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
They got snow cones, you got cupcakes, you got the chains.
Now the kids can buy it's all green yellow paint.
Because of these banana ballers dancing around in thongs.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
I mean, they had the arm sleeves, just like the
major leaguers. Jack Peterson, you know he's got his arm sleeve.
That's only what I could think of right now. I
don't know why maybe one Sodo wears one. I don't remember,
but it was an absolute butt kicking, and I'm like, well,
this is fun, this is so great. So then we
got to wait an hour and we got to play
another game, and we get absolutely slaughtered again. Games over
(06:07):
in three innings.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
That's good for the parents. You can get back to
the pool.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
I mean it is like, okay, well we drove all
the way out of here to play six innings, two games,
six innings. But here's my question. It doesn't make any sense.
Why have a run rule. Okay, they already won the game,
we can't come back and win. But why don't we
continue to play because the next game is not scheduled
for another forty minutes, so the field just sits empty
(06:33):
for forty minutes. I get it if it's kid pitch,
because you want to save the kid's arms. You don't
want them getting out there throwing unnecessary pitches.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
But this is.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Coach pitch, where you just gonna throw. The coach throws
the ball, the kids hit it. Why not let the
kids practice more?
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Were any of the kids crying? No? Thank god? Did
what was the parents? What was the morale of the parents.
A lot of them aren't supportive. No, I wouldn't say
that they weren't supportive.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
No, did they go, Oh they were there. Crazy lady
showed up about halfway through the first game. So showed
up in the second inning.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
I wouldn't call her crazy lady. Isn't she divorcee? Okay,
divorce lady with a skirt ray divars. And she came
dolled up. She was dulled up, makeup, hair done. All
this Saturday's prime time, especially with all the dads off work.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Especially at a little league baseball field where there's a
lot of dads going around, and she is looking at
bita hook ray.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
She was wearing a push up. She was trying to
I don't know she needs a push up? Man? You
think she they stay up automatically. You think some of
these parents got pocket rockets, they got little mimosa in there, yety.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
I wouldn't be surprised if a few of them had that.
I mean I didn't get a sense of it. I
didn't smell any of it on them, So it wasn't
too much of a letdown. I mean, as long as
the parents' spirits were flying high. No, I mean we
were still in a good mood. The kids were having fun.
In between games. We were playing a whiffle ball game
over on the side.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Smart that always goes hand in hand with baseball in
the exact same day. There's no way that helps you
with baseball. Well, playing wiffleball, it's not with the lighter ball.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Here's the thing. We weren't gonna win. It didn't matter.
It didn't matter what you did. You could have given
us one hundred balls, you could have let us get
one hundred outs.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
We weren't gonna win the game. You do wiffle ball.
That ball is so heavy when you play with it.
That's the worst thing you could do. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
These guys are throwing cannons from third base and getting
them out at first first base and making the stretch
and they look amazing. But I was just so frustrated.
They just call the game after the freaking It's just stupid.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
You want to get your money's worth, and you know,
it's kind of like closing early trampoline park or any
put putt plays. You know you want the full none
of this closing the restaurant ten minutes early.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
But fine, we lose, Okay, So I between the games
I text the group and I say, hey, mL No.
I said, hey, we.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Got one more game.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Anybody want to get together with the kids afterwards and
just grab a dinner and a restaurant around here. Think
it'd be fun for the kids to just hang out,
you know what I mean? And what's city?
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Are you in? Martvey'sboro? I ain't crap out there. I
mean they got restaurants, gym's bar. Okay, we'll go to
Gym's bar. I don't care where we go. Go to
Gym's bar. You're finna find a solo cup filled up
with jungle juice. I mean they gotta have a Chick
fil A. I mean, I don't care where we go.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
I just thought it'd be fun to hang out as
a team instead of just getting our glass kick the
whole day.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Some of these smaller cities aren't gonna really have the
restaurant choice and options you're used to in the big
city of Nashville.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Okay, McDonald's. I don't care where we go. The whole
point is they have to have restaurants because people live
there and people eat food. Yes, Okay, So we go
into the second game and I'm like, here we go,
here we.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Go in my neck of the woods. If you were
to have gone out, you'd really just have the option
of a pizza place, right, That's fine, okay? And the
second game, same thing. Dudes are hitting bombs of the fence.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
We are getting as hungry, we are getting just absolutely smoked.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
We get run ruled.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Games over, and not one person has responded to my
text about getting together to grab dinner.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Ah, that second d awkward.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Not a single person has said, Oh, that sounds like
a great idea, that sounds like so much fun.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Are you saying current in present day now? Or you're
saying in the moment at the second game? Nobody's still nobody.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
It's been it's been an hour and forty five minutes
since I sent the text, and not one person has responded.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Maybe they're not the checking the phone type right, but
the game ends, everybody's packing up.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Still nobody has said a word about going to grab dinner.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
What about an in person version of the text thread?
I don't want to make it awkward. I already threw
it out there. Hey guys, per my text. Anybody looking
to get something fingerlacking? Goosh, Hey, I know your kids
has gotta be hungry.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
We've been out here for five hours and we scored
a total of four runs and we got smoked both games.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Nothing.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
But I will say this that the second game, baby
Box is playing catcher and this dude hits it to
the outfield, past our left fielder, all the way to
the fence and he's round in the bases. They make
the relay to the shortstop. Baby Box gets out in
front of home plate. They throw it to him, he
(11:35):
catches it, tags him, but the dude knocks his glove,
ball flies out.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Dude, it was almost a Sports.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Center type play, right, I mean, he got out there,
they boom, bam bam, dude hits it out of his glove.
I'll call it safe and we lose fourteen to one. Okay,
we lost fourteen to one three innings. They called it
after three. Once again, no one's playing after us, but
(12:04):
we called the game for whatever reason. So no one
responds to the text. And then the two younger brothers
are like, Dad, can we go out on the field
and play? So me and the three box boys stayed
out on that field for an hour playing baseball. Random
kids just coming over and I'm pitching, they're hitting, Well,
what about your team. Did they leave? Everybody left? My
(12:25):
wife goes to the bathroom. She comes back, she goes,
what's kind of hawk? Where no one responded to you?
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (12:31):
And I'm like, she goes, I'm sorry that your dreams
didn't come true, that no one wanted to hang out.
I was like, it's not my dream, It's just I
thought that's what Little League baseball was about. I thought
we'd all go have some fun. Who cares like we
got to come back at eight o'clock in the morning.
Let's go eat, get to know each other. Say hi,
maybe these kids will become friends. I don't know. Maybe
(12:52):
the parents will like each other. Maybe the divorce say,
we'll find another dad to cling on to.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
How many people are in this text thread?
Speaker 2 (13:00):
There were eleven kids on the team, so probably twenty
two parents on the text thread, and not a single
one replied, oh for twenty two ray And so after
about an hour and fifteen minutes on the field, we're like,
all right, well, let's go eat.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
We gotta eat.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
We're starving, so we go grab something to eat. I
don't even know where we ate, and did we even
eat or do we just go straight for ice cream?
Speaker 1 (13:25):
It might have been an off brand place they're not
gonna have in Murphysboro. They ain't gonna have a lot
of your chains.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
I do believe. We just went and got ice cream.
That's good, you know, just give them some ice cream.
That'll be great. Who cares like we've been having snacks
all day? It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
So they played baseball all day and you went for
ice cream instead of a square meal. Yeah, well, you
guys should be ready for the next game. Then, like
what we do? None of the parents, there's no team chemistry,
belly full of ice cream.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Well, we don't play till the next morning. We played
our two games for the day. We got and smoked
both games. So now we're gonna play in the loser's
bracket the next day, no problem.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
What city is the next day? In Murphy'sboro? Eight am? Man, man,
eight am? Why do you guys stay the night there? What?
It's a thirty five minute drive. But then you get
turnt with the parents. I wonder if some of them did.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Nobody even responded to my text about going to eat.
Do you think they're gonna want to get turt with me?
You think they're gonna want to get turt with lunchbox.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Maybe Devor saying got herself a hotel room and she
was heading to the hotel bar, and maybe she was
heading downtown Murphysboro to go, you know, gims gyms. That's
a popular spot. Might have been going to Gym's. I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
But then we go to get ice cream and we're
sitting there and we're looking at the menu, and two
other families from the team pull up. So they had
obviously because we'd been playing baseball for the last hour
and fifteen minutes, so they definitely went to eat, and
then they went to get ice cream. So they went
to eat together, ignored by text messages. Then they they
(15:00):
see me at the ice cream place and they're like, hey,
some people just aren't social. So we ate our ice cream.
Then we got in the car and we drove on back. Man,
we drove on back to Nashville, zero to two, but
ready to take the tournament by storm. The next morning
(15:21):
at eight.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Am, you gotta come up through the bowels of the
loser's breath.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
That's right, you get knocked down. It's not about getting
knocked down, it's are you gonna get up? Are you
gonna answer that bell? At eight am the next morning.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
That'd be tough to actually answer that one.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
I mean, and the team we were going against the
next morning, their season record was only twenty and twelve,
so they'd only played thirty two games together. So we
had a shot, like this was us.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
We were ready.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
I'll tell you how it went after the break good segue,
great segue. So we get up the next morning at
eight am. Games So we're up at six, Gotta get
to there, gotta get there. We get there at like
seven forty, do the warm up. Here we go, games
(16:08):
over by eight twenty.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
What happened this time?
Speaker 2 (16:11):
We got to beat fourteen to three this bad We
got absolutely hammered again, this bad hammered.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Fourteen to three. And that's fine.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
And someone did text later that night, hey, yeah, maybe
we can grab breakfast after the game. What I'm like, great,
sounds good. So we get beat fourteen to three. Tournaments over. Wow,
that was amazing, so much fun. And then I replied
to the group, so we're still doing breakfast. Still haven't
(16:47):
heard back from anybody.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Yeah, these parents wanted to get back to Nashville. They're new,
they're not exactly feeling everything out. Maybe you got to
do a house party or something like that.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
So we went to the playground with the kids. We
went to the other baseball field, hit some ran around
the bases and had a good old time in Murphy's Borough.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
But we got absolutely slaughtered. Wait just you and your kids?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Yeah, just me and my kids. No, no, no, No
one else on the team wants to be associated with us.
No one wants to hang out with us. No one
wants to reply to text messages. Even when they suggest, hey,
maybe we should grab breakfast, they don't even want to
follow through with it.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
But are these people that you hung out with before? No,
these are all the All Star parents, So I don't
really know them. See that's how they're feeling. They don't
really know you.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
But that's how you get to know people. Is that's
how you build a community. That's how you make the
kids be friends. And maybe they'll be on the same
team next year. You don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Let's be real. Divorce probably only had the kid for
half the day. She had to get going. She probably
had other plans she had to get She definitely had
a date that night. I'm sure she was going to
do something a little off Broadway, maybe a convention spot.
Who knows, but divorce is not going to stick around Murphy'sborough.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
I wasn't looking for divorcee to hang around. Well, divorce,
it would have been nice to look at, because let
me tell you.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
A ron divorce. Honestly, if we could have checked back
in with her, she went and got absolutely plowed that
night just because she was taking out her anger of
the team getting killed. She did some drinking, I bet,
Yet the next day she was hung up. Drys ran hard.
Wouldn't be surprised. I think the dad had the kids
(18:19):
that weekend, because she showed up to the game without
the kids, like she was by herself. So I'm thinking
she did not have the kids that weekend.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
And so we played and then we uh went to
breakfast at some random Mexican food place in Murphysboro and
had some breakfast.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
What was the name? Laura went to college there? Baser? Really? Yes? Oh?
We went to the ice cream port bit do you
think I know Gems?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
I don't know, but this place, I mean, the service
was really slow, man, really slow. We ordered at the
counter and then we sat down and we waited and waited,
and the kids were getting groutch grouchy.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Yeah, there's probably a better option. Might have wanted to
do just McDonald's. Did you get all cute with breakfast?
You don't want to go to a mom and pop spot. Well,
we were trying to support the local economy. In Murphy'sboro,
there's a one by us. If you go there minimum
two hours. It's tough. The clientele pays in cash and quarters.
That explains a lot. Yeah, so it's one of those.
And actually they stopped doing pennies, and I was there
(19:19):
when I learned that. The guy, the restaurant owner, said, yeah,
we don't take pennies anymore. We're not obligated to take pennies.
They round up to the next nickel. That's not cool,
so they charge you an extra four cents, and the
guy was mad about it. I totally get that. That's
what I deal with country life. Sometimes I'm like, Okay,
I'll go to McDonald's tomorrow. What are we doing? What
is happening right now? They're literally they were literally having
(19:40):
a discussion about three cents.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Oh you go to McDonald's now and they don't have
someone to take your order. You got to use the kiosk.
It is so frustrating, really, I mean I'm you stand
there at the kiosks and you order, and then they
call your name. There is very rarely is there someone
at the cash register, and it is so annoying because
you're sitting there, like, what am I supposed to?
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Okay? I ordered this? Did my order go through? I
do this right? Do you have my order back there? Like?
I don't know. It didn't print a receipts, so I
don't know what if you got my order? Like, and
then people don't really know where to wait. Thinking about
at the airport now how it's set up. So you like,
do your order, but then do you drop back ten
feet or do you just stand there right at the kiosk?
(20:20):
Or do you approach the counter and then everybody crowds
around the counter and they crowd around the fountain drinks.
You're right, excuse me, I gotta get my my pop.
I got one of these cups, and I gotta fill
it on my own, Like I just did the kiosk
on my own. Apparently here you gotta do everything on
your own. I think I might need to make the
breakfast Sammy on my own. I have no idea to
go order for Billy for Billy excuse me. Excuse me,
(20:41):
that's me. Excuse me?
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Can I get thanks? Sorry, excuse me. You have to
fight through people to get up there. So yes, McDonald's
has gone to this whole Kiosks thing and it drives
me nuts.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
But that's not my point.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Yes, my point is this travel baseball is going to
kill these kids. It's you ruining youth sports. Those kids
think they are so good that beat us fourteen to one,
fourteen to three, and sixteen to four. They think they
are the most amazing baseball players ever. They played seventy
(21:14):
something games in six months this year. That is way
too much baseball. Half those kids, ninety percent of those
kids are going to hate baseball in about three years now.
Are they really good in advance for their age? Yes,
when a guy is throwing it straight down the middle,
it's easy to look amazing. But man, oh man, are
(21:36):
you guys doing the wrong thing for your kids? My guy, hey,
what did you do for your childhood? I played baseball
every weekend. My parents had me in tournaments from t
ball all the way till I was twelve.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
When I quit. It also is an eye opener. I mean,
you guys were worlds behind these other kids.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
No, I understand we are worlds behind. I get it,
they were a lot better than us. But it's just like,
how good do you want your kid to be at
six and seven years old that they're playing tournaments every weekend,
having practiced two times a week for two hours. Let
them go out and ride their bikes because they don't
ride their bikes. They've never been riding their bikes because
(22:15):
you know what, got a baseball tournament this weekend?
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Oh, gotta go to baseball practice. Hey, you want to
come over to spend the night? Sorry? Man, got a
baseball tournament in uh Shelbyville? Sorry? What did you do
all summer?
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (22:26):
I had sixteen baseball tournaments? Insane? But it's like, at
what point did they your kids get that far behind?
Was it you in the backyard? Did they get behind
with you? Would? Kid? I would have showed him how
to pick up that ball and hold it at home? Play, kid,
you gotta be strong, kid.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
He should have used two hands on that play. But
after that game it said fourteen to one on the scoreboard.
And before we left, Baby Box looked at me and goes, Dad,
we gotta go change the score. Like, what do you mean,
he goes it was really thirteen to one because I
got him out. I looked at him, I said, Bud,
(23:08):
I said, listen, if you want to go change that score,
you go change that score because I support you. He
goes because he knocked the ball out of my glove.
I said, hey, Bud, if that's what you think, if
that's the final score, then you can go ahead and
go change it. And he walked over there changed it
to thirteen to one, and he felt so good to go. See,
(23:28):
now that's the real score. He wasn't mad about getting smoked.
He wasn't mad about getting absolutely blowed out. He was
mad that it should have been thirteen to one instead
of fourteen to one, and he wanted to correct the wrong.
He wanted to make sure America knew that all of
Murphysboro at that tournament knew it was thirteen to one
(23:49):
and not fourteen to one.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Wow. I mean this was depressing but enlightening. But wow,
I thought we were ahead of the curve. I thought
we were on the up and up. We are our
kids are that behind in baseball.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
I mean, sorry, they play for about four or five
months out of the year. We'll play catch every once
in a while now that it's the off season. But
I'm telling you, these kids playing seventy games in the
first six months of the year, and so by the
end of the year, they're gonna played two hundred baseball games.
That is absolutely insane.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
So they're playing tournaments NonStop, NonStop.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
These kids we were playing, I'm telling you, they play
a tournament every freaking weekend.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
That's what the parents do. That's all they do.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
They sit out there at these tournaments all weekend, every weekend.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
I'm like, guys, how is that your life? What?
Speaker 2 (24:39):
How have you come this far that this is now
your life? I get it if they're seventeen eighteen and
they're trying to make it, But at six and seven
and eight years old, you are damn insane.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Yeah, I just figured out myself. Yeah, parents are definitely
packing coolers and yettis. There's no way they're doing tournaments
every weekend, not unwinding a little bit. Dude.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
These seven year old that we were playing against had
three different bats, three different bats. Travel ball is killing
youth sports. If you're one of those parents at six
or seven years old, you're an absolute idiot. We'll take
a break and We'll be right back, Dunzel back, dude.
And so that was my I didn't mean to go
(25:20):
on a rant about travel baseball. I know you haven't
experienced travel baseball, and I mean, this was just supposed
to be All Stars, but I just saw travel baseball
up close and personal, and I was like, dang, this
is crazy for seven year olds to be playing this
much baseball.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Well, and I mean not to get too deep with you,
but I think we know now. Back when I was
growing up, there was no such thing as the Internet,
and guys, we're gonna take a trip down memory lane.
So I didn't know if I was good or not.
In my town. I was the best player in my household.
I was the best player, better than your brother. Yeah,
(25:57):
I made All Stars now that I think of it,
like twelve eleven twelve. I would make All Stars a
year before him, and then he made it the when
we were both older. But and then I when we
were in an American legion and stuff like that, I
would start and he would like come off the bench.
But yeah, so I was better. So I always thought
I was pretty good. But then we'd go to the
state wide tournaments, which are happening now on TV. Yeah,
(26:17):
those ones, and I guess that's even regionals and nationals,
that's even way bigger. But we'd go to just the
state ones and we'd get beat twenty to nothing. And
I'd look at my dad and I'd be like, wow,
we suck in my town. I thought we were We're
the best team in town. So that's when we learned
we kind of sucked. And to me later in life
than I learned when I went to college, I was like, wow,
(26:38):
I suck like these guys. I and I learned people
played baseball year round. I played like two months of
the year because it was always winter. So but now
with the internet and back to what you were saying
with travel ball and see what people are paying, you
realize your kids, Like, your kids aren't gonna play professional baseball.
You realize that now, right, or do you think they
still have a chance.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Well, I think, I mean the chances are point zero
zero zero zero zero one percent. I'm not gonna say
they don't have any chance because they might be really good,
but they are not dominating.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
They are not.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
But when puberty hits is really when you can tell,
and there's a little bit of you can get better,
get better, get better, get better, and you can make it.
Because Justin Ruggiano, who went to my high school, he's
a year younger than me. He wasn't the best one
at our high school. He wasn't the best one in
his graduating class. He was good, really good. And then
(27:33):
he went to junior college, and then he went to
A and M, and then he was in the minors
and he just got better and better and better and
better and better, and he made it to major leagues.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Well, and he focused on his craft, you could say,
at the right time, correct. Where as he's kids in
travel ball, it's definitely not the time to do it.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
I don't think six and seven years old is the
time to concentrate on baseball specifically. I think it will
burn out. I knew at an earth age, like you said,
you knew you were the best at your league and
your your house. I knew in my household I was
the worst baseball player. I knew batter's box was better
than me. I knew my sister was better at softball
(28:12):
than I was at baseball.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Here try and hit this sock. I knew that I.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Was not gonna be a baseball player when I grew up.
I loved it, but I sucked at it. Batter's box
loved it, was good at it. My sister loved softball
and was good at it.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
We have a whole show of baseball players. Muffy softball player,
batters Box, elite college baseball player, me two week college
baseball player, Justin college baseball player. What yeah, he played
it a juco didn't know? Yeah, And then afterwards he
was playing that dumbass like adult league that like was
(28:51):
not the minor leagues of baseball, but it was pretty
dang close. They're thrown in the eighties, just grown men
throwing in the eighties at each other.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Right, but this is the first this is breaking news
that he played juco ball.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Yeah, wow, elite Okay. And the funny thing is we'd
always party at the pool and we'd never played catch together.
Have we played? I mean we've played with laundry balls
in the house, I don't think with gloves. Me and
Justin have ever played catch together? What position? Did Justin play? Pitcher? Really? Yeah?
(29:22):
Oh yeah, he's a heat thrower. I mean that was
way before he's putting down the kegs. I mean now
it's probably been five years since he played on that
minor team.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
That is very interesting that you learn something new every day.
We're a whole show of ballplayers except for me. I
wasn't a ballplayer. I sucked at baseball, but sucked.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
Kid.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
I tried to get you to love the game.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Kid, But it was beautiful to see you out there
and give it your all. And that one time we
were playing and I moved you to the left and
we were playing against Dell Valley and that guy, I mean,
we moved you and he hit it right to you.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
That was beautiful. Kid. Wait, was Kid one of those
people a coach that was like kid, Kid in left field,
move one half step to the left, kid.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
I don't know if he was. I don't know if
he was that coach all the time. But there was
one we were playing All Stars and we were about
Coney's Red and we were playing against Dell Valley and
this dude had roped one to the left field fence
his first time up, and the second time up, I'm
(30:29):
in left field this time. Maybe I was in left
field the first time. I don't know, but I remember
him going, Kid, moved three steps to your left. That's
where he hit it last time. And dude, he hit
it right to.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Me like boom. It was unbelievable. That was one of
those moments I was like, holy crap, I mean he
roped it. I said, that's what my dad would do,
right right right when I was playing the outfield at
some point. Yeah, I eventually became catcher all time because
that's how I knew I could play. And but right
(31:02):
right the whole crowd, everybody's looking. People on the field.
One quarter step to your left, okay, dad, thank you.
It's not even a full drag step. It was one
shoe to my left, all right, Ded, I'm pretty sure
I could have got there. Didn't make a difference. Who knows, dude,
he did all the time, so sure he was right.
(31:23):
At some points, I I do listen with my boys.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
I do catch myself saying, hey, guys, you are he's
left handed. You might want to scoot three steps to
your left. Scoot three steps to your left.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
He can't.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
That's where he went last time, right down right in
that hole right there. So if you take a couple
of steps, shade him this way. I do do that,
And it's so dumb because it's freaking six and seven
year olds but I still try to get him in
the right position.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Ray, It's all about the jump. Yeah, these Dominican Republic
kids are the ones that are getting the jumps. I
mean they can cover the ground. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
They don't need someone to tell them move left to right.
They just move themselves because they're so athletic.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
And I guess you can bet on the world Little
League World Series now yeah, I don't know the sites,
if it's polymarket or what the crap it is, but
literally came out and did a post on Instagram and
they go, hey, guys, we want to keep the love
in the game. This all kind of goes with your
travel baseball. This is it's disgusting. They're like, guys, we
don't want the betting on the Little League World Series.
Let's keep it adults, professional sports. These are just kids.
(32:22):
Please please don't bet. And all the comments are okay,
sounds good. All right, I'm gonna go a thousand on
Dominican Republic. Then let me tell you.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
When I saw that you could bet on that, I
literally thought people have a problem, Like if you are
betting on the Little League World Series, you need to
check into rehab.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Like that is absolutely disgusting. Should we pull it up
and see who is that?
Speaker 4 (32:49):
That is?
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Who's the favorite?
Speaker 2 (32:50):
That Californias favorite, dude, the fact, you know, and I
think Texas was the second favorite, at least for the
US side. I don't know about overall. I'm just telling
you that it is so gross. If you had ever
thought I'm gonna bet on eleven and twelve year old kids,
then you need you literally need to just stop and
(33:13):
like look at yourself in the mirror and realize you
have a problem. Like the NFL is just right around.
I mean, we are inches away from the NFL, so
you can just wait until that happens. But betting on
twelve year old kids, and if I mean because you
know that people are losing money and they are hitting
these kids, finding these kids Instagram and sending them messages
(33:34):
on TikTok, you are a freaking loser.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
If you bet on the Little League World Series Mexico
massive favorite over Australia, Ohio favorite over Nevada, California over Iowa, Japan,
huge favorite over at currosel who knows these lines. It's embarrassing.
(33:59):
Here's a Little League betting expert.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
It's gross and that shouldn't be available. It should be
illegal on all sites. No site should offer that, and
if you are a site that is offering it, you
need to reevaluate. You need to go into your office
and be like, look, guys, can we take down the
kids stuff. It's like, oh, I'm gonna bet on the
spelling beat, like when they do the script spelling beat.
Come on, man, let's not do that. Betting on kids
(34:23):
seems a little weird.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Speaking of betting, do we have time for a story?
I do have time for a story? All right? Were
you gonna tell a story? No? Go, because there's time
here and I believe it's a good story to fillage.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
Go.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
I have a friend and he's in Vegas and it's
the overnight guy got it, and he doesn't bet at all.
He goes out there and he does weird stuff. So
he'll go up to a slot machine. I mean, does
discount is betting, Yes, but he'll go up to a
slot machine with ten dollars and then just walk away.
That's it. He'll do weird stuff like that. He'll go
do a horse bet. So it's just if he sometimes
(34:56):
he'll go out there and not bet at all. That
doesn't seem like it's a good trip. And I'll ilse
say oh, hey, what'd you do? And he'll go, oh,
you went to a nice meal at Caesar's that I
go to or blage you and he goes winsaw Carrot Top.
I whoha, don't knock it. Carrot Top is hilarious. If
I ever come back from Vegas and say I went
(35:17):
to see Carrot Top somebody punched me in the face. No, no,
I no, do not sleep on how funny Carrot Top is.
Have you seen him lately? He looks terrible, that's the
funny part. Oh what he doesn't look well?
Speaker 2 (35:29):
I mean when I say terrible, like, I don't think
he looks anything like he used to look like. He's unrecognizable,
Like if you looked at his pictures, you would think
that is a different human being.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
It is not.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
I oh god, steroids and plastic surgery, I mean terroids
to the max. So, but go to his show, dude,
it's laugh out loud funny.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
So overnight guy goes, Me and him talk occasionally, see
if he's still out there? Who Carrot Top man? He is?
He played last night? This is the story. Okay, So
my buddy, is he goes, hey, man, you got a
time for a phone call, And he goes, hey, doing
a show, doing a meal at Bilagio out here by myself.
I'm like, where's your wife? But he's an overnight guy.
He's got all this odd hours and odd vacation time
(36:16):
he can take. And so he said, hey, I had
a couple of minutes before the carrat Top show. Sometimes
i'll do horse racing. So I swung by. Where was
it Mandela Bay? Maybe that's where he's staying. But he goes, well,
I wonder where carrat Top is. Maybe Caesar's or something,
maybe Luxer, Oh, Luxer, Okay, So it goes to Luxer
and he goes up to the window and he said, hey,
you guys got horse betting and I got this show
(36:37):
I'm going to. It looks like it's all shut down
for the night. And the guy goes, actually, there's still
some of those horses that run with the carriage on
the back.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Oh that's that is cool. Those are fun. I don't
know what that's called, but it's very interesting.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
So, like I said, this guy doesn't really bet, and
if he does, he bets a weird thing. We're I'll
bet carriage racing and put a dollar on it. But
it's kind of fun. So he said, his address growing
up was always seven three to one. And so if
he ever has a spare dollar or something he's near
a horse track, he always just doesn't even look at
the odds, doesn't look at the color of the horses.
He just bets seven three to one. It's an exacta,
(37:11):
got it? So he goes up to the window and
he doesn't exact. And it's called a box, so it
can go in any one of those orders. So it's
seven three one. It can be won three seven three,
seven to one. Yeah, correct. And so he did. What
he did is he did six dollars. And you're essentially
betting on any sequence. So he could have bet one
dollar on this exacta and it had been seventh, but
(37:33):
it would have had to be seven three to one. Instead,
he did the box, so he had to bet six dollars. Correct. Okay,
So the race starts in his vision. He's like in
his sixties. It's kind of getting worse than ours. Oh,
and so he said the whole time, seven's in the
way back. And apparently seven was ninety to one. Not good,
and they're not even close. One in three are the
(37:55):
first two horses. Oh my, far and away the whole
beginning of the race, and he's like, I'm only half
paying attention. I mean, you know me, it's six bucks.
I just threw it on there. I sat in the
chair and I told the lady at the desk, I'm
not even gonna watch. This is what he told me.
The overnight guy. Guys. You can't be overnight radio guys.
He told the lady at the desk, I'm not even
(38:16):
gonna watch the race. Just come over and tell me
if I won, and I'll give you a tip. What what?
Because I guess he couldn't see it that okay, so
he could he could tell though that one and three
were in the front. Half paying attention. He's just like, ah,
and then apparently the horse was a lavender. Now maybe
(38:36):
not the horse color, but the bib color. Yeah, so
it blends in with the dirt. Okay. Yes, So he
couldn't even tell the numbers and stuff. So the race
finishes that, he's like, you gotta be freaking kidding me.
One in three Hit seven finishes last, and he goes
up to the screen and he's like man, that lavender.
I thought I couldn't tell the numbers while I was
(38:56):
sitting down that lavender. I still can't tell, but I
swear it shows up there that the lavender is in
third place. Oh my gosh. So it was one, three seven,
and he's like, I can't tell and it's unofficial. So
he goes over to the desk and he goes, hey,
can you guys tell me the number. I can't read
that lavender. And she goes, well, it's got to be official.
It'll it'll be a second before it's in. And he's like,
(39:17):
well again, i'll give you a tip. I'm gonna go
sit down, just let me know. And so he sits
down and he said, before he even sat down, T shirt,
it's it's official. And he goes, usually when they go
official that quickly, there's not anything overturned. Apparently it was
a race in New York and he said he's seen
fishy stuff over the years. Oh yeah, that's all fishy, man.
So he said, especially with the chariot racing, and if
(39:40):
it's a long shot, that's always called chariot racing. Thank you.
I've never known the name. I just made that up.
Oh dude, I bet horses until it since I've been
with South Beach, and so he goes, well, she yelled
at him right away, and he said, in New York,
it's weird stuff. If it's an If a ninety to
one horse does well, all of a sudden, they a
horse for no reason at all. And so she was
(40:02):
it's official, and he goes, wow, that's crazy. And she
comes over and she goes, yeah, it hit and you
want a thousand dollars. Oh my god, that's unbelievable, and
so apparently, and so he gave her a twenty dollars tip. Okay,
(40:23):
And so then he went back to his room and
I guess it was nine hundred to one. I could
be wrong on these odds, forgive me. I was driving.
I tried to listen to the numbers as best I could.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
I love the fact that you talked to this guy
in the middle of the night on your drive into work.
Very interesting.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
And so he goes, I got back to the room
and it was his parents' address. Long story short, and
he wanted a better version of the ticket because he
wants to frame it because it was awesome. It's the
home address and it won a thousand dollars. Don't go
back down there. What don't tell me it got over?
Oh my god, no, no, no, no, he made the thousand. Okay,
(41:05):
he looks at the ticket and he thought it was
nine hundred to one, and that's how he won a thousand.
The ticket says eighteen hundred to one. And so he
goes back to the desk the next day and he
shows it to the people and they're like, oh, yeah,
you should have gotten two thousand dollars instead of one
(41:27):
thousand dollars. That girl messed it up. That's never happened before.
And they looked at it, looked into it, and I
guess because he did a one dollar bet. Our horse
racing bets on based off of two dollars. I don't know. Okay,
so horse, So he won a thousand, went home, woke
(41:49):
up in the morning, thought he won two thousand, went
back to the desk and they said, yeah, horse racing
bets are based off of two dollars. So yes, the
odds say eighteen to one. But since you only bet
one dollar on each one of those sequences, you want
a thousand. But yes, it is eighteen hundred to one.
(42:10):
Your average horse bet. You would have won two thousand,
So that's gambling. Talk about a roller coaster. That is
a roller coaster, dude, But that mother. Now he's trying.
He's going back to the sports book. They're gonna dque
him eventually, and he's gonna get the ticket. They said
that there's some boss person that can print out the
ticket and he's gonna frame it and put it in
(42:31):
his house. Freaking liser, that is. That's pretty funny.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
I thought you were gonna say they took his damn
money back, and I was like, no.
Speaker 1 (42:45):
No, no, overnight guys tried to run out of there
with his ticket after a dec So.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
We're gonna need a secret wallet hand over those big
bills we paid.
Speaker 1 (42:54):
You last night. Oh that's a good story. I like that.
All Right, you guys have a great Monday. We're out
of here. I don't know anything else you want to say. Yeah,
he went to carra Top and he had a back
row seat and he goes it was just one of
those nights in Vegas. They go, hey, are you with anybody?
And he goes, no, no, it's just being by myself
(43:14):
and they go third row. We're trying to fill it
a little bit. If you want to go up there
and sit five hundred dollars seat, But you can go
sit up there if you want. He was, what, I
don't have that ticket. I'm here in the back row,
and they go, oh no, no, you can just go
up there. Here, here's a wristband. So since he went
by himself, he got better seats. That's incredible, man, he
(43:34):
couldn't lose. I mean, hey, dude, that's what you call
a heater man.
Speaker 2 (43:38):
He won a five hundred dollars ticket and he won
a nine hundred dollars freaking horse race. I'm gonna book
my plane ticket to Vegas right now.
Speaker 1 (43:45):
I'm going. I'll be back. You guys have a great Monday.
We're out of here.
Speaker 2 (43:51):
Absolute psychos who gamble on the Little League World Series.
You're a freaking loser. Absolute loser. I mean, but I'll
bet you five dollars that Texas wins
Speaker 1 (44:00):
It all Mexico minus five hundred over Kirasole
Hosts And Creators
Lunchbox
Raymundo
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
The Bobby Bones Show
Listen to 'The Bobby Bones Show' by downloading the daily full replay.