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May 18, 2025 • 12 mins
Mikaela discusses Ohio State Softball updates with producer Chris!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Chris, you move like a cheetah. It's amazing what I
just saw. Thank you, and Chris is taking care of
us today inside the studio, Chris Odd, so thank you.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Are you welcome?

Speaker 3 (00:16):
As he catches his breath. Hey, guys, happy Sunday.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Thanks for being with us on What Matters four seven
on this beautiful Sunday afternoon. And Chris is with me.
Ashley's back at the mother Ship. So two producers, you've
got me and we're gonna find out if Mindy is
gonna call in or not.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
It's man it.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
For those of you who follow the show and follow Cammy,
you probably know what this weekend has looked like. And
Chris has been following the season as well because he's
been helping Mindy out while she's been out of town
a couple of times. And we watched you and I
watched the weekend and what rolled out in Knoxville man

(01:01):
with softball and Ohio State ended their season this afternoon,
probably about two hours ago.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
Tennessee is going on to the Super Regional.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yeah, but in the broad spectrum of their season, Ohio
State has a lot to be proud.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Of, so so much to be proud of and you
saw the cutaway, and I saw the cutaway of Mindy
Tiers in the stadium, Randy armor around her shoulder.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
I believe it was really quick.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
And right before that, Cammi had tears the last game
of her career at Ohio State. And they and they
did so much this season. To your point, they that
team did so much.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
I mean that our first year head coach, and delete
and so many I don't even know all the categories
they led and they lit in so many categories this
year under a first their first year head coach, and
just like they you know, talk about turning the program
around like quickly.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yeah, I mean they changed their swings as right as
they got into the season. And this weekend they kept
talking on ESPN you about like the J curve with
some of the changes they made, and how Cammy was
actually I think she was talking with some of the
ESPN reporters or had been talking about the J curve
like you think you're getting worse until you.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
Really get better, go up that curve.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
And I mean they led the country if I'm not mistaken,
in home runs this year.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
It was about I don't know all all of them.
I know home runs was one that they led in
about five categories they did.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
I want to say RBIs, but I'm not a softball person.
I know enough to be dangerous, as I told my
son when I was like screaming in my living room today.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
But so like about five categories.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Yeah, that's what during the broadcast they said, I mean
all the broadcasts, as they said quite a bit was
they they've led the nation and like pretty much offensively
they or that, you know, if we want to relate
it to like football terms, they had the probably the
best offense in the country.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
You wo, which as you walked in and I was
walking in for these two hours of what matters, we
were talking to each other as we were getting set up,
and that tells you a lot about Tennessee. If they
were able to shut Ohio State out this afternoon and
they're pitching, I.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
Mean there, if you watch the game there that I
know her number was twenty three for Tennessee, but I
don't remember her name. She has got a fastball on
her like she's wow.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
So there. The first pitcher they had out there was Sage.
I want to say the name.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Her first name was Sage, and I cannot remember her
number and the second one was I think she goes
by Carly, but she might be Carlyn.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
But Marcus said, because he was watching the games with
me too, we just really enjoyed it this weekend seeing
Ohio State make their run, and he was saying the
pitching was incredible and that they knew Cammy like they
were pitching I want to say, at her. He said,
they're pitching at her knees. Marcus played baseball until the

(04:06):
first year, I want to say, of college.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
He played one year of college ball.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
And he said they're pitching at her knees. And I
can't remember if he said they were pitching outside and
attorneyes or inside and attornees. But it makes it really
hard for a hitter like Cammie, I think, to hit the.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
Ball, Yeah, and especially when it's going I mean, I
just remember the last the Glass girl pitching. She was
pitching him like seventy five eighty miles an hour, and
so just doing like the spot placement in the speed,
I mean, that's just it makes it even even harder.
So I can't imagine.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
I bet they'll go far in the tournament, but I
don't know anything about some of these other teams. I
just know that there's some really good girls ball out
there in this tournament. Yeah, but I would think Tennessee
if they continue to pitch like that, it'd be hard
to hit against him.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
Right, I mean, hey, that's you never know. I mean,
I forget who they play play next, but me in there.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
It's either Nebraska or I want to say, Eastern Louisiana
or Southern Louisiana, one of I don't even know what
the Louisiana schools are, but that was the bracket that
I saw going into the super Regional.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
They were going to play the winner of that game.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
Wow. And what I looked last night at the bracket,
just briefly because I was trying to figure out the
times for the game as well, was there was not
a lot of teams that get into the softball tournament.
I mean compared to like the NC like the basketball
tournament like it. Oh yeah it is not as it's
good when you get in, but if there's not many teams,
And that's just another like thing to just say, like

(05:39):
about the season as well, it's like you got into
this and not a lot of people teams get in.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
Because what basketball is it sixty four teams, Is that right?
I feel like we start at sixty four and so
these were regional tournaments and then they go to a
super regional and I don't know the rest of it,
but yeah, there's definitely not as many teams.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
Yes, it's said just it's incredible to do this under
a one first year head coach.

Speaker 3 (06:03):
Yeah two k.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
I mean she's that's saying something.

Speaker 3 (06:07):
It really is.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
So it's so hard to see it end, and especially
someone who sat across from Mindy through high school ball
and now college ball at OSU. And I know Cammy
has amazing, amazing things in her future and some really
great plans, but it's still really hard when something like
this comes to the end.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
Oh yeah, I mean especially and I know it's not
the way they wanted to go out, but they they
still you know, they still played their hearts out no
matter what they're on the on the field, and you know,
it just things happen, you know, things just happened the
way they did and like it. I mean, if they

(06:49):
would have won, they would have played another game, So
I wonder that's I was. I thought that would have
been interesting. But you know, they still, like I said,
they shouldn't take anything away from the season.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
The season was historic. Shar Ohio State.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
Coach K's got a lot to build, got a lot
to build on.

Speaker 3 (07:09):
She does, she absolutely does.

Speaker 1 (07:12):
And I kept yelling Jessie and she was hitting the
ball earlier this weekend. And you know, there's so many,
so many good stories out of this year. And I
hope that I know Cammy knows it. I hope Mindy
knows it.

Speaker 3 (07:24):
And if we hear from her.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
There's no co host today because it was kind of
you know, Iffy like when their journey would end or
if it would continue.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
So there's no co host today.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
So I'll be talking with Chris, maybe get Ashley on
the mic some too, back up Mothership again because we
may hear from her.

Speaker 3 (07:41):
We don't know. Yeah, we'll find out.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
It's just up in the air.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
She might be in the mountains where the Mountains of
Tennessee right now.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
We said, yeah, and as one who's driven through there before,
you don't have reception sometimes, yeah, you might.

Speaker 3 (07:52):
Not be able to get out. That is totally true.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
Marcus's aunt and uncles who live in Dayton, which is
so interesting, right because he's from Tech. They have a
house on Lake Norris, and when we get to a
certain point at Lake Norris, there is no signal zero.

Speaker 3 (08:10):
You were on SOS. You have to get on their
Wi Fi.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
It's a must to have any kind of movement on
your phone.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
And so you've experienced the same.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's driving through Tennessee and a
couple not really much as Kentucky, but in Tennessee when
I was heading to Nashville a few times. Yes, just
when you get when you get into some mountain areas
that that you you have no signal sometimes or if
you're lucky, you got that one little bar.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
And of course during one of those moments, my mother
decides to call me, asking how if everything's going. And
then it's like thirty minutes later when I can call
her back because I finally have you know, the bars
to get enough signal.

Speaker 1 (08:50):
So you better hope you put your directions in your
maps on your phone before you hit no bars.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
That's oh no, that's that's what I did, because the
map will still work.

Speaker 3 (08:58):
Yes, it was well just but if it's if it's not.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
Then you're cruising down the mountains with nomap correct.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
And usually there's about only one way.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
I mean it splits off sometimes you got to backtrack,
but yeah, that is Tennessee in a nutshell when it
comes to driving it.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
Yeah, but it is beautiful to look at, so it
you know, you kind of as long as you're keeping
your eyes on the road first of all. But you
know that's just from auto sparks. That's you know, that's
that's what that's for them.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
Well, we've got we've got a busy show today despite
Mindy driving back and again we will see if she
calls in. The Columbus Metropolitan Library is in and you guys,
it's a really exciting time because in the next week
and a half the Summer Reading Challenge launches at CML,
and many of you have kids or grandkids that might
be participating. We're going to talk to Benzanitski, who has

(09:48):
been with the Columbus Metropolitan Library for many years and
knows this Summer Reading Challenge up and down back of
his hand. So we'll talk about what activities are coming up,
what live activities will be happening on Saturday, May thirty
first at each library campus, including a big one at Maine,

(10:08):
and then we'll talk a little bit about what the
Summer Reading Challenge looks like I mean, it's fifteen minutes
a day for kids to participate. I think they can
do that in the summer, and I think it's really
good for them in the summer. So we will talk
to him about that. And then the Columbus Book Festival
is also just around the corner. They've got some great headliners.
And honestly, this was a one time thing my understanding,

(10:31):
that turned into multiple years now because it went over
so well the first time they did it, people really responded.
So we will talk to the Columbus Metropolitan Library. Also
on the show today, Open Arms Counseling, and Hirst is
going to talk to us about a really interesting, really
interesting conversation that The New York Times actually started this

(10:53):
last week having to do with boys and young men
falling by behind. The New York Times article was it's
not just a feeling. Data shows boys and young men
are falling behind in the terms of educational achievement, mental health,
and transitions to adulthood.

Speaker 3 (11:13):
This data shows that these guys are not thriving.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
And so Mindy has a son in his early twenties.
I have a son in his mid teens. And then
a younger son who's about to be thirteen in a
few months. We thought this was a really interesting conversation
to have because many of you at home might have
kids or grandkids in your.

Speaker 4 (11:33):
Life that look that way. So what's at the root
of that. We're going to talk about it, take a
look at it, and what can you do about it.
And then we were going to do a travel segment
because Mindy was traveling, so we'll see if she calls
in if not, we're going to talk about what do
you miss most when you're traveling, what's typically on your
bedside table that you need to have with you? And

(11:54):
you know what, I got to ask Benzanitsky that question
because he is a world traveler, so I'm going to
be very curious.

Speaker 3 (11:59):
I have to ask him that during the library segment.
So much to come.

Speaker 1 (12:03):
Thanks for spending some time with us on this beautiful
Sunday afternoon.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
This is what matters on six' TEN wt
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