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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome to A Ball with eric Os.

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Speaker 1: I am eric Os, and it is good to have

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Speaker 1: you with us on our swan song of the twenty

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Speaker 1: nineteen season. With a tear in their eye, we give

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Speaker 1: you the final episode of A Ball for the twenty

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Speaker 1: nineteen season, talking about a playoff running Clinton lumber Kings

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Speaker 1: as we currently speak to you on August the twenty seventh,

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Speaker 1: just before the finale of a four game series with

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Speaker 1: the Wisconsin tim Bradlers. This week will be joined by

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Speaker 1: one of the lumber Kings outfielders, Davis Bradshaw. He's been

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Speaker 1: in the center of this lumber Kings success in the

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Speaker 1: had a ten game hitting streak, so a good guy

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Speaker 1: to catch up with and also a top prospect if

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Speaker 1: you go by Baseball America's preseason rankings. Bradshaw on the

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Speaker 1: top thirty and eleventh round pick of the twenty eighteen draft,

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Speaker 1: and we certainly appreciate catching up with him before yesterday's game,

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Speaker 1: which was game three of a four game series, a

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Speaker 1: win for the lumber Kings against the Wisconsin tim Brawlers,

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Speaker 1: single a affiliate of the Milwaukee Brewers. So as it

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Speaker 1: stands right now, when it comes to the playoff race,

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Speaker 1: which is what the lumber Kings have really just had

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Speaker 1: But the division is not out of question, of course.

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Speaker 1: We were talking to you about the Kane County Cougar

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Speaker 1: the lumber Kings, as it stands right now, the owner

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Speaker 1: August to twenty seventh, with just seven games left to play,

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Speaker 1: so not a whole lot of baseball left, but still

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Speaker 1: I guess in some regards a lot of baseball left,

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Speaker 1: because a lot has yet to be determined. Now the

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Speaker 1: lumber Kings are trying to do something that they have

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Speaker 1: not done since nineteen ninety nine, and now in their

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Speaker 1: first season of affiliation with the Miami Marlins. The lumber

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Speaker 1: ninety nine, when they were with the Cincinnati Rens. The

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Speaker 1: lumber Kings also trying to end a playoff drought that

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Speaker 1: goes back to twenty and sixteen when they had lost

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Speaker 1: in the Midwest League Championship Series to the Great Lakes Loons.

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Speaker 1: So very exciting times for the lumber Kings right now,

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Speaker 1: and the recent run of success over the last five

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Speaker 1: some truly dominant pitching performances to highlight because it came

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Speaker 1: against a very strong team that we well know because

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Speaker 1: they're in the playoffs. That's the Seed Rapids Colonels the

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Speaker 1: Single a affiliate of the Minnesota Twins. They came into

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Speaker 1: game homestand it was August twenty first through the twenty third,

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Speaker 1: and for the first time all season long, the lumber

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Speaker 1: Kings managed back to back shutout wins on the twenty

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Speaker 1: first of August and then the twenty second of August.

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Speaker 1: Truly phenomenal pitching top to down for the lumber Kings

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Speaker 1: truly convincing wins against the Rapids that culminated in a

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Speaker 1: series sweep which against the Cedar Rapids Kernels is something

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Speaker 1: that has not been said too often in lumber Kings

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Speaker 1: franchise history. We've thumbed through the media guide right after

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Speaker 1: that sweep had come to an end on Friday, August

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Speaker 1: tim Bratlers on Saturday Night. But the lumber Kings right

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Speaker 1: on their Sunday home games as a rebrand of the

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Speaker 1: A breakout performance from the like of Evan Edwards. We

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Speaker 1: the twenty fifth of August here in Clinton. Now, as

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Speaker 1: But it wasn't until the seventh until Edwards put really

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Speaker 1: part to a dominant pitching performance from Jake Walters, which

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Speaker 1: grand slam by Evan Edwards, this one hitting off the

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Speaker 1: had match Peyton Burdick for the most RBIs in a

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Speaker 1: single game by a lumber King this season, Edwards having

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Speaker 1: two home runs six RBIs in that dominant performance. It

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Speaker 1: this season, joining Will Banfield, who had done so in

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Speaker 1: well Edwards Grand Slam the first to come at home

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Speaker 1: the lumber Kinks three hole hitter, and really the only

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Speaker 1: Twelve game hitting streak for the lumber Kings from August

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Speaker 3: always want to keep the relationships really close.

436
00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:09,080
Speaker 1: In baseball world, well, it's a friendship, But do you

437
00:19:09,119 --> 00:19:10,800
Speaker 1: ever have to be on guard like, all right, I

438
00:19:10,880 --> 00:19:13,399
Speaker 1: can't say this because these are state secrets or whatnot.

439
00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:15,440
Speaker 1: With my team. Do you ever have to find yourself

440
00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:19,560
Speaker 1: kind of governing yourself in those conversations, you know, not really.

441
00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:23,840
Speaker 3: You know, we usually we never really talk about stuff

442
00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:25,960
Speaker 3: we do in the baseball in the baseball world. You know,

443
00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:27,960
Speaker 3: we always just talk about outside of baseball world, because

444
00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:29,520
Speaker 3: it's always good to get your mind off baseball for

445
00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:32,239
Speaker 3: a little bit. But no, you never really you never

446
00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:34,200
Speaker 3: really talk about what you're gonna do, what's your game planing.

447
00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:35,399
Speaker 3: You never really talk about that stuff.

448
00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:37,800
Speaker 1: That's that's a good answer too, because if it was, well,

449
00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:39,399
Speaker 1: you got to watch out for the curveball, you know,

450
00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:41,040
Speaker 1: once you gets the head and count. So I imagine

451
00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:43,080
Speaker 1: that would meet a call from a coach at some point.

452
00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:45,960
Speaker 1: We're talking here with Davis Bradshaw, one of the lumber

453
00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:48,680
Speaker 1: Kings outfielders, and we were talking about those relationships that

454
00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:51,320
Speaker 1: you had built and also you know, mentioning going into college,

455
00:19:51,359 --> 00:19:53,359
Speaker 1: which is interesting because out of high school you were

456
00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:55,639
Speaker 1: drafted by the Milwaukee Brewers. I was wondering if you

457
00:19:55,680 --> 00:19:57,639
Speaker 1: could tell us about that decision, because that must have

458
00:19:57,680 --> 00:20:00,320
Speaker 1: been both a very exciting time which you found doubt

459
00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:02,240
Speaker 1: that the pro team was interested in you, and you

460
00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:04,200
Speaker 1: had an avenue for a professional career, and then the

461
00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:06,840
Speaker 1: tough decision to go into college, which obviously it worked

462
00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:09,200
Speaker 1: out because you get drafted by the Miami Marlins in

463
00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:11,680
Speaker 1: the eleventh round in twenty eighteen. But what went into

464
00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:13,680
Speaker 1: that decision, I mean early on, that's kind of scary

465
00:20:13,680 --> 00:20:14,600
Speaker 1: at such a young age.

466
00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:15,159
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was.

467
00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:19,880
Speaker 3: It was really scary, but it was also exciting. Senior year,

468
00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:22,159
Speaker 3: you know, I had pro scouts calm, you know, I

469
00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:25,200
Speaker 3: thought I had no chance of pro ball whatever. And

470
00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:27,919
Speaker 3: then when they drafted me, you know, Scott Nichols from

471
00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:30,359
Speaker 3: the Brewers called me, you know, like congratulation you got drafted.

472
00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:33,120
Speaker 3: I worked really hard, told him thank you so much

473
00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:35,800
Speaker 3: for you know, having support in me. And you know,

474
00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:37,520
Speaker 3: I sat down with my family and it was a really,

475
00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:39,560
Speaker 3: really tough decision. I didn't know if I wanted to

476
00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:41,800
Speaker 3: go to college because I told myself, if I get drafted,

477
00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:43,639
Speaker 3: I was gonna take it no matter what, because I

478
00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:45,920
Speaker 3: didn't know if it was gonna happen again, especially with

479
00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:49,960
Speaker 3: my my situation situation. But took a lot of thinking,

480
00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:53,000
Speaker 3: a lot of a lot of praying, and luckily I

481
00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:55,479
Speaker 3: chose the right decision to go to college and Miami

482
00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:56,920
Speaker 3: Marlins took a chance on me.

483
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Speaker 2: I hope hopefully it'll pay out. So we'll see parents

484
00:21:00,359 --> 00:21:01,080
Speaker 2: pretty excited too.

485
00:21:01,119 --> 00:21:02,920
Speaker 1: I mean usually parents are pretty happy when they find

486
00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:04,720
Speaker 1: out that their kids are gonna stay with school a

487
00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:06,440
Speaker 1: little bit longer. Right, They always want their kids to

488
00:21:06,440 --> 00:21:09,359
Speaker 1: be well educated. So was there was there some excitement relief?

489
00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:10,840
Speaker 1: I guess from your parents at that moment?

490
00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:13,160
Speaker 3: There was mom Mom wanted me to stay in school.

491
00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:16,280
Speaker 3: She didn't want her baby to go away. That was

492
00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:18,760
Speaker 3: just happy for me. You know. He always told myself

493
00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:21,560
Speaker 3: that this world's not gonna come to you. You always

494
00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:23,680
Speaker 3: got to go take it. And you know, me and

495
00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:25,320
Speaker 3: my dad talk every day, Me and my mom talk

496
00:21:25,359 --> 00:21:27,040
Speaker 3: every day, and they just say how proud they are

497
00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:29,159
Speaker 3: of me, and you know, hope I can continue to

498
00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:30,160
Speaker 3: be the man I am today.

499
00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:32,679
Speaker 1: Yeah, we talked about this, I think with Thomas Jones,

500
00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:34,960
Speaker 1: and you know, even from a broadcast standpoint too. You know,

501
00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:36,919
Speaker 1: when you have a one hundred and forty game schedule

502
00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:38,920
Speaker 1: like the lumber Kings do and hoping that it'll be

503
00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:40,960
Speaker 1: more too with the playoff run, you got to have

504
00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:42,760
Speaker 1: someone that you can call home, as you mentioned, to

505
00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:44,600
Speaker 1: kind of get away from it. Just like I'm sure

506
00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:47,120
Speaker 1: you're not talking to your friends about the state secrets

507
00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:49,600
Speaker 1: on the Clint lumber Kings, probably not doing the same

508
00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:51,240
Speaker 1: thing with mom and dad. You want to talk about

509
00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:54,480
Speaker 1: other things too. How important is that mentally in the

510
00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:56,760
Speaker 1: grind of baseball to just have a you know, an

511
00:21:56,800 --> 00:21:58,880
Speaker 1: hour long phone call where you can just not even

512
00:21:58,920 --> 00:22:01,879
Speaker 1: talk about baseball and really your job essentially, you know,

513
00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:04,040
Speaker 1: because it's it's every day you get you wake up,

514
00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:06,400
Speaker 1: you go to the ballpark, game ends around you know, ten,

515
00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:08,480
Speaker 1: yesh the hower, you're home by eleven, and you wake

516
00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:10,000
Speaker 1: up and you do it all over again. So how

517
00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:12,159
Speaker 1: important are those phone calls when you go through a

518
00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:14,040
Speaker 1: grind like I mean, the lumber Kings are currently on

519
00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:16,520
Speaker 1: a twenty one straight game of baseball without a day off.

520
00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:19,639
Speaker 3: Oh, it's a It's very important because you always, you

521
00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:21,520
Speaker 3: always want to get your mind off baseball at some

522
00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:24,080
Speaker 3: point in the day, some point in time. You know,

523
00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:26,680
Speaker 3: you constantly think about baseball. You know, some some people

524
00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:28,800
Speaker 3: end up hating it and end up you know, just

525
00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:32,160
Speaker 3: wishing they wouldn't be here. Uh So, Yeah, every time

526
00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:33,760
Speaker 3: I take a phone call with my dad my mom,

527
00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:35,600
Speaker 3: you know, it's always important. You know, we never talk

528
00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:37,960
Speaker 3: about baseball. Maybe after the game, he'll be like, you know,

529
00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:39,760
Speaker 3: how'd you do? You know, I didn't listen to day

530
00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:42,240
Speaker 3: or was trying to give you good luck, and you know,

531
00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:43,879
Speaker 3: we talk about it for probably ten minutes and then

532
00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:46,959
Speaker 3: it's completely out of the conversation. I just think it's

533
00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:48,840
Speaker 3: very important for people to get their mind off baseball

534
00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:50,560
Speaker 3: for a little bit, especially one hundred and forty games.

535
00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:53,119
Speaker 3: You know, not everybody just should go one hundred and

536
00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:55,359
Speaker 3: ten percent until you actually own the baseball field.

537
00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:57,680
Speaker 1: So yeah, it seems like, you know, you couldn't really

538
00:22:57,720 --> 00:23:00,560
Speaker 1: talk about one subject in particular all day long, no

539
00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:03,040
Speaker 1: matter what it is, whether it's baseball or anything else.

540
00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:05,520
Speaker 1: You know, to focus on one thing would drive you insane,

541
00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:08,639
Speaker 1: especially with the scheduled demands that you have with a

542
00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:11,720
Speaker 1: full season affiliate like the Clinton lumber Kings. So you

543
00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:14,439
Speaker 1: decide to go to college. You then get drafted by

544
00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:17,320
Speaker 1: the Miami Marlins. Some relief, I'm sure too. You get

545
00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:19,680
Speaker 1: a high pick in the eleventh round of the twenty

546
00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:22,760
Speaker 1: eighteen draft. What was the mom and dad reaction like

547
00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:24,840
Speaker 1: then when they found out that, okay, he's for sure

548
00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:26,800
Speaker 1: going pro. He had done the college route a little

549
00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:28,680
Speaker 1: bit as well, and now he still gets to chase

550
00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:29,120
Speaker 1: this dream.

551
00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:31,440
Speaker 2: Well Mom, you know, mom, Mom still wanted me to

552
00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:34,280
Speaker 2: go to college. Only nothing to change.

553
00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:36,760
Speaker 3: I was only all the way from home. She didn't

554
00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:39,719
Speaker 3: want me to go nowhere. Dall was just still excited,

555
00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:41,560
Speaker 3: you know, Dad always just he just told me, you know,

556
00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:43,760
Speaker 3: do what you want to do. You know, I still

557
00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:45,920
Speaker 3: thought about it. I even thought about going to college

558
00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:47,720
Speaker 3: for one more year. And now I finally told myself,

559
00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:49,880
Speaker 3: you know, this is my chance. You know I'm ap

560
00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:51,720
Speaker 3: prove everybody wrong that told me I couldn't do it.

561
00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:53,960
Speaker 3: And you know that still goes in my head. I

562
00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:56,680
Speaker 3: still got it on the phone today on my home screen.

563
00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:59,399
Speaker 3: Improve everybody wrong. So it was pretty exciting for them

564
00:23:59,480 --> 00:23:59,680
Speaker 3: and me.

565
00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:02,800
Speaker 1: And what was the reaction like when the Marlins welcome

566
00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:05,280
Speaker 1: you into that to the family, right, because you're one

567
00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:08,360
Speaker 1: of the very few baseball players that has a professional contract,

568
00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:10,840
Speaker 1: and let alone an affiliated contract, it comes right out

569
00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:13,639
Speaker 1: of college. What is the Marlins culture like in bringing

570
00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:15,800
Speaker 1: in that draft class. I guess from the twenty and

571
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:16,919
Speaker 1: eighteen season.

572
00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:18,960
Speaker 2: It's pretty much just like a family. You know, we

573
00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:20,160
Speaker 2: all we all still talk.

574
00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:22,560
Speaker 3: You know, Conor Scott, who started the season off really well,

575
00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:24,840
Speaker 3: me and him still talk every days.

576
00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:25,320
Speaker 1: You know.

577
00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:27,880
Speaker 3: It's just pretty much just building friendships and building family.

578
00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:30,479
Speaker 3: You know this in this affiliate. Obviously you want to win,

579
00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:34,119
Speaker 3: everybody wants to win. But it's also just pretty much

580
00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:36,040
Speaker 3: just getting the relationships out of baseball, you know, because

581
00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:37,879
Speaker 3: after the baseball world, you don't know what you're gonna do,

582
00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:40,720
Speaker 3: and these friendships, like I said, could turn around the event.

583
00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:42,480
Speaker 3: You know, they can call you and be like, hey,

584
00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:45,400
Speaker 3: you want to come work for me, or hey, vice versa.

585
00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:47,760
Speaker 3: So you know, it's always just important. You know, it's

586
00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:48,359
Speaker 3: a family here.

587
00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:51,399
Speaker 1: Well, we wouldn't have you with the lumber Kings at

588
00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:53,320
Speaker 1: the beginning of the season. So I was wondering if

589
00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:55,320
Speaker 1: you could tell us what the twenty and nineteen year

590
00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:57,560
Speaker 1: has been like. I'm sure a roller coaster because you know,

591
00:24:57,640 --> 00:24:59,600
Speaker 1: you came after opening Day and now all of a

592
00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:01,520
Speaker 1: sudden you look around and you're in a playoff run too.

593
00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:03,639
Speaker 1: So I'm wondering if you could put into words what

594
00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:05,159
Speaker 1: the twenty nineteen season has been like.

595
00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:07,200
Speaker 2: For Davis Bradshaw, Well, it started rough.

596
00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:09,200
Speaker 3: You know, I got hurt in spring trainding with my hamstring,

597
00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:11,440
Speaker 3: and uh, you know, I finally got told, you know,

598
00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:13,159
Speaker 3: you're gonna be with the lumber Kings, and then I

599
00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:15,000
Speaker 3: hurt my hamstring. You know, it was it was a

600
00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:16,720
Speaker 3: real downer, you know, knowing I couldn't be here with

601
00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:18,879
Speaker 3: my family, and uh, you know, I was trying to

602
00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:21,600
Speaker 3: trying really hard to get back and you know, get

603
00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:23,240
Speaker 3: back into it so I can come here and play

604
00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:26,760
Speaker 3: with them and be with them. And uh, after you know,

605
00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:28,800
Speaker 3: after I got done, got healthy or whatever, they called

606
00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:29,760
Speaker 3: me and they're like, you know you're gonna go to

607
00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:32,200
Speaker 3: the lumber Kings, And I got really exciting. Everybody start

608
00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:35,520
Speaker 3: calling text me, you know, I can't wait to see you. Uh.

609
00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:37,920
Speaker 3: And then now you know, a lot has changed. You

610
00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:40,680
Speaker 3: got the new draft guys, and you got new new relationships.

611
00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:42,840
Speaker 3: And then next thing, you know, you start talking about

612
00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:46,639
Speaker 3: a playoff run. Well hopefully for us, hopefully everything just

613
00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:49,560
Speaker 3: keeps going right and uh we just keep making this run.

614
00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:51,879
Speaker 1: Does it feel a little bit different too, because you're

615
00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:54,320
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen draft class where I guess you're the new guy,

616
00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:56,119
Speaker 1: right and then you get this new class in in

617
00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:58,399
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen and you're like, oh, well, now I'm the

618
00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:01,199
Speaker 1: grizzled veteran, I guess as opposed to having one more

619
00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:02,800
Speaker 1: year under of my belt than these guys. Is there

620
00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:04,680
Speaker 1: any kind of dynamic shift in that regard?

621
00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:05,800
Speaker 2: Uh? Not really.

622
00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:07,920
Speaker 3: You know what's gonna happen every year. The Draft's gonna

623
00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:09,800
Speaker 3: happen every year. You're gonna get new players, You're gonna

624
00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:12,840
Speaker 3: get new guys. The most important part is just to

625
00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:15,320
Speaker 3: know who you are, why they drafted you, and do

626
00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:16,920
Speaker 3: your game well.

627
00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:19,000
Speaker 1: You get assigned here to the Clinton lumber Kings, and

628
00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:21,240
Speaker 1: as we mentioned, kind of a cool place to be

629
00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:23,639
Speaker 1: because the lumber Kings are in this playoff run in

630
00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:26,520
Speaker 1: the second half in the Midwest Leagues Western Division, currently

631
00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:29,280
Speaker 1: occupying that wild cards. Standing in these important games against

632
00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:31,840
Speaker 1: the Wisconsin tim Bratlers. Hard to believe. I'm sure when

633
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:33,840
Speaker 1: I tell you this that there's only eight games left

634
00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:36,520
Speaker 1: on the regular season as we record this on August

635
00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:39,159
Speaker 1: the twenty sixth. You know, is there any goals that

636
00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:41,560
Speaker 1: you had coming into twenty nineteen season that maybe had

637
00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:43,920
Speaker 1: to readjust after those injuries and that where do you

638
00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:45,840
Speaker 1: feel like they're kind of shaping up. As we get

639
00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:47,600
Speaker 1: to the last week of the regular season.

640
00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:48,680
Speaker 2: They're kind of shaping up. You know.

641
00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:51,320
Speaker 3: My goal, my goal always, even for last year, was

642
00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:53,600
Speaker 3: always just to get on base, still bases, and help

643
00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:55,640
Speaker 3: my team win as much as you can. I'll play

644
00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:57,440
Speaker 3: in the outfield, do the best I can, get my

645
00:26:57,480 --> 00:26:59,199
Speaker 3: best reads, get my best routes, and.

646
00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:00,800
Speaker 2: Just help our pitcher out.

647
00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:01,080
Speaker 1: Uh.

648
00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:03,840
Speaker 2: I always just really just want to get on base,

649
00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:04,960
Speaker 2: you know. Average.

650
00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:06,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, everybody looks at average, but I always look on

651
00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:08,840
Speaker 3: base percentage. If I'm not getting on base, I don't

652
00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:09,919
Speaker 3: think I'm helping my team at all.

653
00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:10,280
Speaker 2: Yeah.

654
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:12,479
Speaker 1: I heard Mike Jacobs talk about that because we had

655
00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:14,720
Speaker 1: him on the podcast for episode number one and now

656
00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:16,960
Speaker 1: we've got Davis Bretschaw for our last episode two, so

657
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:19,879
Speaker 1: it's coming full circle. He was mentioning, you know, and

658
00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:23,040
Speaker 1: just averages. It wasn't something that he looked at too much.

659
00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:25,119
Speaker 1: So does that something that you notice from a coaching

660
00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:26,920
Speaker 1: standpoint that you know, you guys kind of think the

661
00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:28,760
Speaker 1: same way and the way the game can be played

662
00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:31,280
Speaker 1: that you know, average is this kind of ancient stat

663
00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:33,920
Speaker 1: that used to measure something that the numbers are telling

664
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:37,160
Speaker 1: you isn't necessarily there that on base percentage is actually

665
00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:39,800
Speaker 1: a better barometer for this because it actually measures how

666
00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:42,280
Speaker 1: often a guy gets on base. And that's got to

667
00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:45,119
Speaker 1: be some kind of help writer, at least some comfort

668
00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:48,200
Speaker 1: in knowing that your manager yet totally agree with you, Davis. So, yeah,

669
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:49,720
Speaker 1: I get on base that way, and that's what I'm

670
00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:51,480
Speaker 1: looking at. They give you a little bit of comfort

671
00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:53,080
Speaker 1: at all, because I'm sure it comes from the top

672
00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:54,560
Speaker 1: down two in the Marlins organization.

673
00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:56,600
Speaker 3: It gives you a release off your shoulders. You know,

674
00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:58,680
Speaker 3: you look up, I'm thinking I'm hitting like two forty

675
00:27:58,720 --> 00:27:59,600
Speaker 3: on the year or whatever it is.

676
00:27:59,640 --> 00:27:59,880
Speaker 2: I don't.

677
00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:02,439
Speaker 3: I try not to look at stats as much as possible. Uh,

678
00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:04,680
Speaker 3: but yeah, it's it's a comfort level. And just know

679
00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:06,960
Speaker 3: you ain't got to worry about average anymore. You always

680
00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:08,719
Speaker 3: got to worry about getting on base helping your team win.

681
00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:11,040
Speaker 3: The more you the more you don't put average in this,

682
00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:12,120
Speaker 3: the better you're gonna play.

683
00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:14,439
Speaker 1: And how was it just going back to the way

684
00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:17,080
Speaker 1: your season had started in twenty nineteen, you mentioned the

685
00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:19,560
Speaker 1: hamstring injury. From what I've heard that you know, hamstring,

686
00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:21,000
Speaker 1: there's not a whole lot you can do with it.

687
00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:22,840
Speaker 1: It's just a lot of re or you know, taking

688
00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 1: your time and letting it heal. It's got to be

689
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:27,760
Speaker 1: so frustrating as an athlete because you want to go,

690
00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:29,280
Speaker 1: you want to go out there, you want to play,

691
00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:31,280
Speaker 1: and then they're told that no, you need to sit

692
00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:33,040
Speaker 1: down and do nothing, and you feel like you're not

693
00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:35,120
Speaker 1: doing anything. You're just kind of letting your body work.

694
00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:37,600
Speaker 1: I mean, what is that frustration level like for you?

695
00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:38,920
Speaker 1: You know when the season begins.

696
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:42,960
Speaker 3: Man, it frustrated me a lot. My trainers always told

697
00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:45,000
Speaker 3: me because I was always ready to go. You know,

698
00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:46,959
Speaker 3: my hamstring still be tight, and I'll be like, all right,

699
00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:49,040
Speaker 3: I'm ready. I'm still ready to go, and they were like, no,

700
00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:50,760
Speaker 3: you gotta sit down, you gotta wait for it. Man.

701
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:53,360
Speaker 3: It frustrated me, Like especially if for someone who hasn't

702
00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:55,920
Speaker 3: you know, can't really sit down, can't stop moving. I mean, heck,

703
00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:57,720
Speaker 3: I'm still moving my leg I'm just sitting there talking to.

704
00:28:57,720 --> 00:28:59,360
Speaker 2: You right calories.

705
00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:02,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was really frustrating just knowing that I couldn't

706
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:04,200
Speaker 3: really do nothing, couldn't really go out there with the

707
00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:08,040
Speaker 3: guys full round. You know, it's a feeling that I

708
00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:10,640
Speaker 3: don't want any ballplayer in the world to feel that feeling,

709
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:12,520
Speaker 3: just a horrible feeling.

710
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:15,160
Speaker 1: But it also has to put some things in perspective

711
00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:17,080
Speaker 1: a little bit too. Right that you do get healthy,

712
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:18,720
Speaker 1: you get it signed there, and I mean you have

713
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:20,880
Speaker 1: to put in the work also to get the hamstring

714
00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:22,680
Speaker 1: right and ready to go, especially for a guy who

715
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:25,000
Speaker 1: makes his living off his legs and his speed like that.

716
00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:27,880
Speaker 1: So does that ever give you a little bit of perspective.

717
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:30,400
Speaker 1: I guess on the health that you were given when

718
00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:32,600
Speaker 1: you were healthy. I guess like you are now at

719
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:34,080
Speaker 1: the stretch run in twenty nineteen.

720
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:37,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, when they told me that I was coming here,

721
00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:39,560
Speaker 3: and you know that you're fully healthy. No, it's just

722
00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:42,600
Speaker 3: like a really energizing you know, ready to play, ready

723
00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 3: to be with the guys. Just all I can really

724
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:48,560
Speaker 3: say is just stay as healthy as much as possible

725
00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:50,120
Speaker 3: and spring training, take care of yourself.

726
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:53,280
Speaker 2: Just always take care of yourself. Honestly, that'd be my

727
00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:53,840
Speaker 2: final answer.

728
00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:56,160
Speaker 1: Or not, Well, we'll let you go with this because,

729
00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:58,600
Speaker 1: as we said, we didn't have you on the roster

730
00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:00,800
Speaker 1: for opening day, so we had our guys fill out

731
00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:02,800
Speaker 1: a bunch of questionnaires so I could have something to

732
00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:04,959
Speaker 1: talk about during my three hour tap dance, as our

733
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:07,240
Speaker 1: old grounds keeper used to call it. So, what are

734
00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:08,760
Speaker 1: some of the hobbies that you have when you do

735
00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:11,440
Speaker 1: get to indulge? We usually asked this of our the

736
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:14,120
Speaker 1: guys on the final question of our podcast side of things.

737
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:16,280
Speaker 1: When you get a chance to get away from baseball,

738
00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:18,400
Speaker 1: is there anything that you like to do? Any hobbies

739
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:20,600
Speaker 1: that you maybe are able to participate in. Probably the

740
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:23,160
Speaker 1: off season more so than the regular season, just considering

741
00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:25,280
Speaker 1: that you know, you only have six of those. During

742
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:27,880
Speaker 1: the regular season, usually you're marked for sleep. But what

743
00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:29,200
Speaker 1: are some of the things you like to do away

744
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:29,800
Speaker 1: from baseball?

745
00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:30,200
Speaker 2: Uh?

746
00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:32,800
Speaker 3: Well, well, away from baseball, I'm a big hunter. Love

747
00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:34,920
Speaker 3: to hunt, you No, I've always in the off season.

748
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:37,200
Speaker 3: Last year, that's pretty much all I do was hunt, hunt, hunt,

749
00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:40,840
Speaker 3: pretty much, it's hunt and then just stay with friends.

750
00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:41,000
Speaker 1: You know.

751
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 3: I always go back to my hometown friends and you know,

752
00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:45,440
Speaker 3: just see them. You know, it's because I hate to

753
00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:47,520
Speaker 3: lose relationships over stuff like this. You know, I have

754
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:50,920
Speaker 3: buddies come visit me, family come visit me. But other

755
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:52,680
Speaker 3: than that, it's pretty much just hunt and stay with

756
00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:53,160
Speaker 3: my friends.

757
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:55,120
Speaker 1: We gotta get you guys got to get a group together.

758
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:56,720
Speaker 1: Are a lot of hunters on this team. We were

759
00:30:56,760 --> 00:30:59,040
Speaker 1: talking about that with Tyler Kolloch and Remy Reid and

760
00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:01,840
Speaker 1: Connor Scott too before as well. So has there ever

761
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:04,080
Speaker 1: been any talk of a lumber King's hunting party going

762
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 1: out at some point, you know, just Amarlin's prospect hunting

763
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:08,720
Speaker 1: party going out during the off season.

764
00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:12,240
Speaker 2: We've definitely talked about it. Okay, we have definitely talked

765
00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:12,600
Speaker 2: about it.

766
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:15,320
Speaker 1: We got to make it happen then, because there's too

767
00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:17,640
Speaker 1: many people, maybe it have to be broken up into

768
00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:20,080
Speaker 1: different groups. Considering how large of it grow that it

769
00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:23,240
Speaker 1: seems like it is. Davis Bradshaw, we appreciate you taking

770
00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:24,840
Speaker 1: the time to talk with us here on the podcast

771
00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:25,320
Speaker 1: side of things.

772
00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:26,360
Speaker 2: I appreciate you having you.

773
00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:54,400
Speaker 1: And welcome back to a ball with Eric Jos. You

774
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:57,440
Speaker 1: just heard from one of the lumber King's talented outfield

775
00:31:57,520 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 1: corps and Davis Bradshaw. We appreciate him taking some time

776
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:02,840
Speaker 1: to talk with us before game three of a four

777
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:05,640
Speaker 1: game series with the Wisconsin tim Bratlers back on August

778
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:08,920
Speaker 1: to twenty sixth, which spoiler alert unless you have it recorded,

779
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:11,680
Speaker 1: it was a win for the lumber Kings brats out

780
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:13,720
Speaker 1: of the eleventh round pick by the Miami Marlins in

781
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:17,480
Speaker 1: the twenty eighteen draft of Mississippi Native and the lumber Kings.

782
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:20,000
Speaker 1: During this stretched drive will talk about what they have

783
00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:23,240
Speaker 1: left on their regular season and also the competition. Because

784
00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:25,560
Speaker 1: things are so tight, lots of things are in play.

785
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:28,560
Speaker 1: The lumber Kings, sitting seven games left in the regular season,

786
00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:31,400
Speaker 1: have three scenarios. They could win the wild Card, which

787
00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:33,480
Speaker 1: is where they stand right now a four game lead

788
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:37,400
Speaker 1: against the Wisconsin tim Bratleers, or they could win the Division.

789
00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:39,760
Speaker 1: Kent County Kilgary's have a one game lead at the

790
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:42,440
Speaker 1: time of this recording on August the twenty seventh, And

791
00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:45,040
Speaker 1: of course there's still a possibility the lumber Kings miss

792
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:47,240
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Now we'll knock on wood that that is

793
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:50,040
Speaker 1: not the case for the lumber Kings in twenty nineteen.

794
00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:53,200
Speaker 1: So going over the schedule that the lumber Kings have remaining,

795
00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:56,200
Speaker 1: you would think it would be rather favorable. We record

796
00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:58,640
Speaker 1: this on August to twenty seventh, which is before the

797
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:01,760
Speaker 1: final meeting between the lumber Kings and Wisconsin tim Bratlers

798
00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:04,800
Speaker 1: in the twenty nineteen season. From there, the lumber Kings

799
00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:07,080
Speaker 1: will head on the road for a three game series

800
00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:09,760
Speaker 1: against the Burlington BS Single, a affiliate of the Los

801
00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:13,320
Speaker 1: Angeles Angels, August the twenty eighth through the thirtieth of August.

802
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:16,240
Speaker 1: Then they will come home the final series of the

803
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:19,040
Speaker 1: regular season against the Puria Chiefs, the team the lumber

804
00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:22,360
Speaker 1: Kings have won eleven straight games against their the Single,

805
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:25,000
Speaker 1: a affiliate of the Saint Louis Cardinals. It is their

806
00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:28,840
Speaker 1: longest winning streak against the Chiefs in franchise history. In fact,

807
00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:31,440
Speaker 1: that the lumber Kings, it's their longest winning streak against

808
00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:34,440
Speaker 1: any opponent in franchise history eleven straight games. I mean

809
00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:36,440
Speaker 1: it goes all the way back to the very beginning

810
00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:39,000
Speaker 1: of June, and the lumber Kings will try to extend

811
00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:41,680
Speaker 1: it and maybe even judging by the three game series

812
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:44,320
Speaker 1: sweep they add in Peoria August tenth through the twelfth,

813
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:46,520
Speaker 1: they could add to it and make it fourteenth straight.

814
00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:49,080
Speaker 1: Who knows where the lumber Kings could potentially clinch a

815
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:51,720
Speaker 1: playoff berth. That series will come to an end on

816
00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:54,520
Speaker 1: September the second, So the lumber Kings have a very

817
00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:57,880
Speaker 1: favorable schedule left because both of those teams remaining once

818
00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:01,240
Speaker 1: they get past Wisconsin under five hundred in the second half,

819
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:04,440
Speaker 1: not the case for Kane County or Wisconsin. In fact,

820
00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 1: the lumber Kings will, I imagine, relish the site when

821
00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:10,200
Speaker 1: they're in Burlington and see the out of town scoreboard

822
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:12,800
Speaker 1: with the Kane County Cougars and Wisconsin tim b Ratlers

823
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:16,200
Speaker 1: locking horns for a three game series in Wisconsin, so

824
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:18,799
Speaker 1: they'll be beating up on each other. Lumber Kings may

825
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:21,799
Speaker 1: be hoping for the Wisconsin tim Ratlers to beat Kane

826
00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:23,640
Speaker 1: County just to give them a little bit of help

827
00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 1: as the Cougars will wind down their series with the

828
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:29,400
Speaker 1: Quad Cities River Bandits. Wisconsin will then end their season

829
00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:31,600
Speaker 1: on the road with a three game series at Modern

830
00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:34,520
Speaker 1: Woodman Park against the Quad Cities River Bandits, a team

831
00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:37,040
Speaker 1: over five hundred by five games in the second half

832
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:40,040
Speaker 1: and the first half Western Division winners. Now where the

833
00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:42,400
Speaker 1: Kane County Cougars will end will be at home against

834
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:45,480
Speaker 1: the Burlington Bs, but certainly a much tougher schedule than

835
00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:47,759
Speaker 1: what the lumber Kings have left, and we'll see if

836
00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:49,880
Speaker 1: that is how it will play out over the final

837
00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:52,600
Speaker 1: week of baseball in the Midwest League and then it'll

838
00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:55,080
Speaker 1: be a day off on September the third before the

839
00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:59,080
Speaker 1: Midwest League Playoffs begin on September fourth and potentially run

840
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:01,960
Speaker 1: through this sixth. That is how it will go for

841
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:04,880
Speaker 1: the lumber Kings in the twenty and nineteenth season. We

842
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,560
Speaker 1: will hope for the best in playoff baseball. The lumber

843
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:09,640
Speaker 1: Kings when they had last made it to the playoffs

844
00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:12,440
Speaker 1: as an affiliate of the Seattle Mariners, making it all

845
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:15,600
Speaker 1: the way to the Midwest League Championship Series in twenty

846
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:18,520
Speaker 1: and sixteen, but they fell to the Great Lakes Sluons.

847
00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:20,920
Speaker 1: And as I believe we've mentioned more than a few

848
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,880
Speaker 1: times on this podcast, and for the lumber Kings faithful,

849
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:26,040
Speaker 1: I'm sure they may want to mute this part. Lumber

850
00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:31,040
Speaker 1: Kings have the longest Midwest League Championship drought active goes

851
00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:33,120
Speaker 1: back to nineteen ninety one. That was the last time

852
00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:36,120
Speaker 1: the lumber Kings had won the Midwest League Championship Series,

853
00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:38,279
Speaker 1: and really since then, it has been hard times for

854
00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:40,480
Speaker 1: the lumber Kings. They have been to the Midwest League

855
00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:44,400
Speaker 1: Championship Series since that nineteen ninety one title run against

856
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:47,000
Speaker 1: the Madison Muskies, who aren't even in the league anymore

857
00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:49,799
Speaker 1: as an affiliate of the San Francisco Giants, and they've

858
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:54,400
Speaker 1: only been back three times since then and ten, twenty sixteen,

859
00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:56,960
Speaker 1: and nineteen ninety three. So it has been some hard

860
00:35:57,040 --> 00:35:58,759
Speaker 1: times for the lumber Kings that they will look to

861
00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:01,040
Speaker 1: see come to an end. Who knows, maybe it could

862
00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:03,560
Speaker 1: be a division winner for the lumber Kings to do

863
00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:06,000
Speaker 1: so now if that were to be the case. The

864
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:08,600
Speaker 1: way it works in the Midwest League, playoff rounds an

865
00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:10,680
Speaker 1: expanded round if you were to compare it to a

866
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:13,000
Speaker 1: league like the South Atlantic League, which is where the

867
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:16,560
Speaker 1: Marlin single affiliate had last played as the Greensboro Grasshoppers.

868
00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:18,960
Speaker 1: So the lumber Kings would match up if they were

869
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:21,840
Speaker 1: to win the division as the higher seeded team with

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Speaker 1: the King County Cougars if they were to fall into

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Speaker 1: the second spot. The lumber Kings would then be allowed

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Speaker 1: to choose if they'd like to start at home or

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Speaker 1: on the road. It would be a best if three

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Speaker 1: game series. If most teams would like to start on

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Speaker 1: that would be the case. The second round would feature

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Speaker 1: the winner of the first round, and that is just

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Speaker 1: the first half playoff teams which are the Quad Cities

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Speaker 1: River Bandits and Seed Rapids Colonels also win a best

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Speaker 1: if three game series, and then the series will expand

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Speaker 1: a little bit for the Midwest League Championship series, which

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Speaker 1: will be a best of five game sets. So long

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Speaker 1: playoffs in the Midwest League just something to keep in

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Speaker 1: mind because we won't be able to take you through it.

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Speaker 1: This is our final episode of A Ball with eric Os,

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Speaker 1: so we really do appreciate everyone throughout the season for

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Speaker 1: listening and hopefully we were somewhat helpful for the prospects

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Speaker 1: and the rebuild for the Miami Marlins in twenty and nineteen,

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Speaker 1: which will of course continue as lumber Kings begin this

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Speaker 1: affiliation run with the Marlins team that is up and coming,

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Speaker 1: and we hope we have made that point abundantly clear.

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Speaker 1: With the talent that has come through Clinton this season,

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Speaker 1: it's been a lot of fun. We want to thank

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Speaker 1: all of our guests, and it would take too long

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Speaker 1: to name them all. Of course, all of our listeners

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Speaker 1: that would take even longer to name them all, and

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Speaker 1: everyone for the support for making this podcast possible. Before

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Speaker 1: we go, though, will always shamelessly plug our broadcast because

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Speaker 1: there's still baseball out there, and of course you can

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Speaker 1: listen to all the lumber Kings remaining action and playoff

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Speaker 1: action in twenty and nineteen with yours truly, Eric Os

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Speaker 1: on the call. For those of you on the broadcast

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Speaker 1: range one hundred point three FM at WCCI, and for

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Speaker 1: those of you outside the broadcast range, you can always

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Speaker 1: listen online at Lumberkings dot com via the tune in

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Speaker 1: radio app. Big thanks to our guests, Davis Bradshaw, all

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Speaker 1: the guests throughout this season, and all the listeners out there.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much everyone for making a ball possible and

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Speaker 1: we will hope to somewhere someplace talk to you again

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Speaker 1: soon