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Speaker 1: Well, this is it, guys. I'm about to embark on

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Speaker 1: my final season of coaching youth baseball. I have been

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Speaker 1: doing it for the past ten years, have coached my

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Speaker 1: our final year before he's done and he's gonna, you know,

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Speaker 1: how it goes. But it's it's a it's a long process.

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Speaker 1: You know. It's crazy to think about My first practice

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Speaker 1: is tomorrow. I already have my team and everything already

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Speaker 1: and then I'm basically going to have my second job,

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Speaker 1: which was what I call it until like July. You know.

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Speaker 1: So it's it's crazy. You do All Stars probably this

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Speaker 1: coach All Stars now being the last year. Like, how

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Speaker 2: Because I know this consumes all of your time, Like

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Speaker 2: you literally can't make plans, you can't play on a trip,

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Speaker 2: year because of this. Then I also know how much

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Speaker 2: you enjoy it, find it rewarding when you see kids succeed.

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Speaker 1: So like, how do you feel, I don't know, the

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Speaker 1: league really wants me to continue to coach, which I've considering.

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Speaker 1: It's it's a little weird to not have a kid

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Speaker 1: in the league and do it. But then again, I

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Speaker 1: know tons of coaches that are like that. I mean

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Speaker 1: a lot of the travel ball coaches don't have kids

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Speaker 1: this is a little different because I'm volunteering and it

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Speaker 1: is take. It is very time consuming, and I get

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Speaker 1: if I'll consider it, I've basically consider just because I

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Speaker 1: do enjoy it and it is very rewarding. But it's

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Speaker 1: quite a process. Well, I've seen people come and go

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Speaker 1: And I always wonder, like, why, why, you know what happened?

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Speaker 1: You know, you know your kids still in it, why

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Speaker 1: did you stop? And you know a lot of times

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Speaker 1: it could be work is different and you know my

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Speaker 1: schedule has changed or whatever it is. But Apparently, according

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Speaker 1: to this study, a lot of youth sport coaches are

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Speaker 1: leaving the sport, not because of that, but because of

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess they started to notice this trend to

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Speaker 2: the point where they decided we're going to look into

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Speaker 2: it and start servying youth sports coaches because they were

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Speaker 2: noticing like they don't.

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Speaker 1: Have any anymore.

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Speaker 2: Like it's like like you're having to ask guys like

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Speaker 2: Eddie who no longer have kids in the league, can

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Speaker 2: youth coaches. So they decided, let's do a study and

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Speaker 2: let's find the reason why are these people leaving, Why

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Speaker 2: are they no longer coaching, or why are they scared

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Speaker 2: to get involved at all? Just like Eddie said, random

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Speaker 2: reasons we're given here and there, jobs, schedule, family, travel, money, time,

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Speaker 2: all those things were represented. But there was one answer

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Speaker 2: that came up over and over again about why these

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Speaker 1: Parents of the kids on the team.

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Speaker 2: The number one reason they're quitting is because of the parents,

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Speaker 2: and they say, it's crazy the things they say, from

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Speaker 3: I can't imagine ever fighting somebody unless they like put

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Speaker 1: No other than that. What do you that's crazy?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know, I get I can understand

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Speaker 3: I can understand something happens you get mad. I get it.

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Speaker 3: But like physically fighting, that's so wild.

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Speaker 1: That Yeah, I'm sure it depends on both personalities. Coach, Like,

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Speaker 1: I've never really had massive issues with parents. I sort

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Speaker 1: of you know, uh, let them know my expectations right

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Speaker 1: my mantra, which is the four. Got a new mantra

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Speaker 1: this year. It's fine, I'm introducing something this year. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is breaking news.

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Speaker 2: I don't know the news cameras from.

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Speaker 1: So I got the four you know, the four face

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Speaker 1: which I've gone over many times.

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Speaker 1: Then there's a new mon sad that I'm going to

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Speaker 1: be introducing and it's going to happen tomorrow my first practice.

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Speaker 1: Do you want to say it? I can't. Okay, if

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Speaker 1: you want it, I'd love to hear it. ABC. Maybe

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Speaker 1: always be closing, No, always be coachable? Oh in my face,

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Speaker 1: leaning back on his always always be coachable. Listen, this

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Speaker 1: is this goes for everything, not just in in baseball.

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Speaker 1: It's a life. It's a life lesson, always be coachable.

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Speaker 1: You you ain't growing, You're dying?

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Speaker 3: Are you going to do that?

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Speaker 1: That might be a little heavy for thirteen year olds

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Speaker 3: Were you like your coaches hat on and you're in

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Speaker 3: your and you're in your office and you have a

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Speaker 3: thinking a thing, and you thought, if you ain't growing,

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Speaker 1: That just came to me, to be honest with you,

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Speaker 1: just the ABC thing I've I've been looking forward to

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Speaker 1: dropping that. Bad boy. I'm basically a motivational speaker. To

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Speaker 1: then off this point, you know you want to you

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Speaker 1: want to bring me in to a boardroom and talk

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Speaker 1: to your staff. And I dropped the four on them.

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Speaker 1: They'll be blown away. And then I drop a B

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Speaker 1: C on them. That's there. They're gonna have record sales records.

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Speaker 1: You talk to our sales department. Yeah, they don't listen

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Speaker 1: to me. It's crazy, but but that's that's being dropped ABC,

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Speaker 1: thing about what what? Thank you? Thank you very much,

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much. I appreciate that. Is that you

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Speaker 1: draft your teams and when you draft when I the

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Speaker 1: my personal strategy for drafting his team is I don't

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Speaker 1: necessarily draft the kid. I draft the parents. Yes, because

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Speaker 1: guy's unbelieve you could give me trouble. I ain't got

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Speaker 3: Because honestly, I could see that happen.

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Speaker 1: Yeah I should have. Yeah, I uh, because I'll get

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Speaker 1: you there as a player. I'll get you there. I

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Speaker 1: don't care. As long as you know you're coachable, I'll

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Speaker 1: get you there balling out. You got, you're gonna give

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Speaker 1: me trouble. You're only yeah, You're gonna you're yeah. But

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Speaker 1: you're also probably not coachable. You got a bad attitude,

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Speaker 1: you're you, you got yeah. I know here, you know

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Speaker 1: I won't have it. I won't have it, won't have it.

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Speaker 3: So Eddie, there's a two month old Vista right now

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Speaker 3: he's gonna be playing like the kid.

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Speaker 1: Don't like the dad. Dad will give me issues. But

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Speaker 1: dad is going to think he knows what he's doing.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna tell me, you know, oh, my son should

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Speaker 1: I mean, you're talking about see more of a right fielder,

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Speaker 3: Running right, and he'll you're coaching him up and he's gonna, well,

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Speaker 3: my dad said, actually that I need to do this,

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Speaker 3: he's gonna say that. Okay, if my son doesn't listen

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Speaker 3: to the coach, now, you're not going to get in there.

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Speaker 3: I'd like to eventually. I don't want to be the

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Speaker 3: never the manager because it made him crazy.

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Speaker 1: So he was just a coach. He was.

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Speaker 3: I'd have to try and see how it goes.

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Speaker 1: You've got to have a lot of patience, which is

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Speaker 3: For me, is you know, so a coach would but

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Speaker 3: but I would tell my son, he's gonna know you

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Speaker 3: always listen to the head coach, even if you don't

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know it is. It's it is a lot.

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Speaker 1: And you know, honestly we we our league has a

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Speaker 1: don't need to do that. I would want an umpire.

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Speaker 1: I see bad calls all the time. But it's again,

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Speaker 1: And guess what, your kid ain't playing in the major Yeah,

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Speaker 1: It's okay. But I mean that that's what gets really crazy. Uh,

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Speaker 1: some of the things. I mean, I've seen parents follow

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Speaker 1: wrong with you? These are kids, and so yeah, I

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Speaker 1: know who I'm dealing with. You know, you'll you'll get

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Speaker 1: well I'm taking that kid because I like that said parents.

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Speaker 1: They're cool and they'll help me. You know. It's things

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Speaker 1: like that. So you know, Emily, Emily was the team mom.

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Speaker 1: You know, so a couple of years must have been

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Speaker 1: rough for that team. Hey, that was a good team mom.

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Speaker 1: You stick at the snack bar. I did both.

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Speaker 3: I did both, do it all, do it all incredible,

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Speaker 3: keep score too complicated?

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Speaker 1: What you gotta pay much attention? You're yelling at the coach?

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Speaker 1: Would ye my son? Okay, yeah I would. And again

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Speaker 1: we don't need that. We got it. We got it.

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Speaker 1: You can yell them at home, paying attention. You know,

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Speaker 1: we got it. Look alive, Thanks mom, Thanks mom, Thanks mom.

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Speaker 1: We got it, Thanks mom, We got it, Thanks mom,

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Speaker 1: got it. He was he was that kid said, oh

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Speaker 1: now they're now they're fighting, not seeing it was to

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Speaker 1: be surprising, not at all.

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Speaker 2: Up.

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Speaker 1: I think you to do that here.

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Speaker 3: Yeah,