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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome it to a Ball with Eric Oes.

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Speaker 1: I am Eric Ohs, and it is good to have

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Speaker 1: you with us for a special episode number twenty one.

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Speaker 1: We'll be talking with the lumber Kings everyday. First baseman

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Speaker 1: Evan Edwards, also the fourth round pick for the Miami

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Speaker 1: Marlins in this year's draft, and also the last thirty

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Speaker 1: game winner and probably the last one for a very

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Speaker 1: long time, maybe ever. Denny McClain, as we caught up

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Speaker 1: with him on his Bobblehead night in Clinton on Friday,

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Speaker 1: August sixteenth, We appreciate both of them taking some time

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Speaker 1: to talk with us. McLain, of course, we'll take us

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Speaker 1: through what was a very storied career in the baseball ranks.

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Speaker 1: A two time cy Young Award winner, the nineteen sixty

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Speaker 1: and he was with Bob Gibson, one of the two

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Speaker 1: best pitchers in the Year of the Pitcher. That usually

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Speaker 1: tells you how strong of a season he had thirty

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Speaker 1: one wins for Denny McClain, and again we appreciate him

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Speaker 1: taking some time to talk with us. We had caught

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Speaker 1: up with Evan Edwards the day before. We record this

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Speaker 1: on August the twentieth, in the midst of a very

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Speaker 1: important series with the Kane County Cougar, something that we

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Speaker 1: had talked about when we had spoken with you last week.

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Speaker 1: Kane County The Single, a affiliate of the Arizona Diamondbacks, currently

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Speaker 1: a three game lead on the lumber Kings in the

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Speaker 1: division race with only fourteen games left to play. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin tim Bratlers. The Single a affiliate of the Milwaukee Brewers.

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Speaker 1: And since we had last spoken with you the lumber Kings,

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Speaker 1: they did drop two out of three games to the

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Speaker 1: thought might have been a chance for them to pick

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Speaker 1: the Cougars. In that set, they took the first two games,

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Speaker 1: game one, four to two, behind a really strong performance

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Speaker 1: from Tanner andrews Now. We had tan around the podcast

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Speaker 1: about a month ago, Indiana native, and he was throwing

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Speaker 1: the ball very well. Turned in seven solid innings of work.

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Speaker 1: Was really the big reason for the lumber Kings' success

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Speaker 1: in that forty two series opening win. They came back

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Speaker 1: in the daytime on Sunday afternoon, and it looked like

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Speaker 1: laugher because well it was early offense. Marcos Rivera had

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Speaker 1: Lumber Kings at one point in that game led seven

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Speaker 1: He's got a great fastball. It'll usually be around ninety

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Speaker 1: in the twenty nineteen regular season. Now, the lumber Kings,

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Speaker 1: Peyton Berdick, though, unfortunately we've got some bad news to

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Speaker 1: Then as they welcome in the Cedar Rapids Colonels, a

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Speaker 1: Reid was roughed up his last time out, which was

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Speaker 1: Denny McClain, Thanks so much for taking the time to

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Speaker 2: Eric, my pleasure looking forward to this.

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Speaker 1: In nineteen sixty two, that was when you were at

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Speaker 1: Clinton Seaesocks. Just a great place to start some of

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Speaker 3: Clinton fifty seven years. I just can't get over it.

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Speaker 2: I had a great time, a great ownership.

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Speaker 3: And the best part about this, it was the perfect

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Speaker 2: Eric is my pleasure. You take care of yourself. Good

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Speaker 1: We'll be right back after this. Welcome back to a

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Speaker 1: One of the newer faces. I guess we can call

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Speaker 1: So it could kind of steady you a little bit, right,

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Speaker 5: I mean I feel like that's something everybody can feel.

436
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Speaker 5: I mean definitely in the middle endfielders' heads, I mean

437
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Speaker 5: in their game. I mean that's probably the most like

438
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Speaker 5: looked at defensive spot. And I mean that's just I

439
00:19:45,560 --> 00:19:48,040
Speaker 5: don't know if you have if you're playing good defense

440
00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:50,600
Speaker 5: and not hitting so well. I mean, that's still something

441
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Speaker 5: you can hang your hat on the day for.

442
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Speaker 1: You always hear at third base, I mean you get

443
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Speaker 1: two corner infield positions, obviously get third and first, and

444
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Speaker 1: at third they call it the hot corner because you're

445
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Speaker 1: more of a reflexive. You know, it comes at you

446
00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:04,560
Speaker 1: pretty quickly, so it's all about that first step. Now

447
00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:06,800
Speaker 1: they talk about that, I think more at third because

448
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Speaker 1: you have to have an arm and throw it across

449
00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:10,760
Speaker 1: the diamond, But at first base it's another hot corner

450
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Speaker 1: because that's sort of the same balls it'll be coming

451
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Speaker 1: your way are hit balls from left handers. You're usually

452
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Speaker 1: at the forefront of a lot of the shifts that

453
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Speaker 1: we see now in minor and major league baseball. So

454
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Speaker 1: what goes into the defensive aspects of you know, getting

455
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Speaker 1: that first good step and just trying to become a

456
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Speaker 1: good defensive player. Then of course having to deal with

457
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Speaker 1: the ever shifting infields that we now seem to expect

458
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Speaker 1: in the baseball world.

459
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, it's just it's all about just trying

460
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Speaker 5: to read swings right and no know what the count is,

461
00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:46,520
Speaker 5: know the hitter from previous games, and I mean just

462
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Speaker 5: kind of have an idea of what pitch is coming.

463
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Speaker 5: Maybe they roll over if they're throwing in you can

464
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Speaker 5: see kind of see where the catchers set up. I mean,

465
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Speaker 5: it's just all those there's different things into it.

466
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Speaker 1: I guess it's interesting because you talk about reading a

467
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Speaker 1: pitcher or knowing what they're gonna throw. I think I

468
00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:04,439
Speaker 1: was reading one time about Willie Mays and he was

469
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Speaker 1: talking about his pictures, wanting to tell him what pitches

470
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Speaker 1: he were throwing. So he could play better defensively and

471
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Speaker 1: the pictures like, I'm not telling you, man, but that's

472
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Speaker 1: got to help kind of on the offensive side of things,

473
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Speaker 1: because it seems like at first, like a lot of

474
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Speaker 1: other positions, you have to think like a hitter, which

475
00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:21,360
Speaker 1: you are of course, you know when your position comes

476
00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:23,399
Speaker 1: up in the lineup, but you can use that to

477
00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:25,639
Speaker 1: benefit the defensive side of things. That all, right, this

478
00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:28,040
Speaker 1: is a guy that you know, maybe throws a lot

479
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Speaker 1: of curveballs, so that means that I'm gonna have to

480
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Speaker 1: be in a different position here left handed hitter might

481
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Speaker 1: get on it a little bit later or something like that.

482
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Speaker 1: So is that ever todd at least at the at

483
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Speaker 1: the amateur ranks growing up, or is it something that

484
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Speaker 1: you kind of have to discover on your own.

485
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Speaker 5: I mean, i'd say a little bit both been on

486
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Speaker 5: the coaching styles and I don't know, you know, it's

487
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Speaker 5: just depending on your relationships with the pitchers and things

488
00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:54,280
Speaker 5: like that. But I mean some most of the time

489
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Speaker 5: it's just like you learn on your own. And I

490
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Speaker 5: mean a lot of time it was just like a

491
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Speaker 5: familiar It was just like when I'm in defense, just

492
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Speaker 5: just be ready for the be ready for the ball

493
00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:08,280
Speaker 5: at all times and if it's hit to you over

494
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Speaker 5: to your side, just react to first instinct.

495
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Speaker 1: Well we should say this too, because as we're talking

496
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Speaker 1: with Evan Edwards out of NC State, I was looking

497
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Speaker 1: at some interesting facts. It was your senior season you

498
00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:21,159
Speaker 1: had no errors committed. You were one of the two

499
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Speaker 1: players to play every game of your team's season that year,

500
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Speaker 1: and i'd commit any errors in the entire nation. So

501
00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:30,000
Speaker 1: that's kind of an interesting uh mark of success to

502
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Speaker 1: kind of highlight the defensive aspects that we're talking about

503
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Speaker 1: here with Evan Edwards. And then over the course, I

504
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Speaker 1: believe it was of your two seasons at NC State,

505
00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:40,359
Speaker 1: only eight errors. So what kind of coaching staff did

506
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Speaker 1: you have out there?

507
00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:41,800
Speaker 2: Oh? There was.

508
00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:43,040
Speaker 4: It was a great coaching stuff.

509
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Speaker 5: I mean they were they were a mix between just

510
00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:51,359
Speaker 5: laid back, cool coaches and uh and wouldn't mess with

511
00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:53,600
Speaker 5: you when you're when you're going good and stuff like that,

512
00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:55,920
Speaker 5: wouldn't say much if you're struggling just a little bit.

513
00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:58,680
Speaker 5: I mean, they would help you out and stuff like that.

514
00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:01,399
Speaker 5: But and then they when they had to be, they'd

515
00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:05,000
Speaker 5: be they'd be hard coaches. But other than that, it was.

516
00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:07,240
Speaker 5: It was great, great coaching staff over there.

517
00:23:07,359 --> 00:23:10,720
Speaker 1: Came from Greensboro, North Carolina, too, so you decided to,

518
00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:14,040
Speaker 1: I guess stay local too. You'd come out of community college.

519
00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:16,600
Speaker 1: So when it did come time to that transfer part

520
00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:19,960
Speaker 1: of your your career academically and for baseball, was there

521
00:23:20,119 --> 00:23:21,919
Speaker 1: much of a decision at all to make or was

522
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Speaker 1: your mindset that I'm going to be going to NC

523
00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:25,760
Speaker 1: State from the beginning it was.

524
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Speaker 4: It was pretty sad.

525
00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:30,720
Speaker 5: I mean, in c stage was probably my dream school

526
00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:33,320
Speaker 5: to go to, for my top school to go to,

527
00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:38,240
Speaker 5: and it was my first Division one offer my sophomore

528
00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:41,880
Speaker 5: year in Juco. So I just took that as soon

529
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Speaker 5: as as soon as they offered me, and it was

530
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Speaker 5: went on from there.

531
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Speaker 1: Did you play any other sports growing up or was

532
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Speaker 1: it always just baseball for you?

533
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Speaker 5: I played little football middle school and then basketball growing up,

534
00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:56,399
Speaker 5: like rec leagues and stuff, But after after middle school

535
00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:58,240
Speaker 5: it was strictly baseball.

536
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Speaker 1: Did you feel like those sports helped at all, at

537
00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:02,320
Speaker 1: least athletically early on, or was it just you know,

538
00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:04,360
Speaker 1: I gotta go out there play something all year round?

539
00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:04,600
Speaker 2: Right?

540
00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:06,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I'm sure it helped.

541
00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:08,240
Speaker 5: It helped a lot with the condition and staying in

542
00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:10,800
Speaker 5: shape part of the part of the game.

543
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Speaker 4: But I mean, I don't know. I couldn't tell you.

544
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Speaker 1: Well, you came from Greensboro, as we said, and it's

545
00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:19,880
Speaker 1: kind of an interesting point highlight because this is where

546
00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:23,200
Speaker 1: the Miami Marlins single I feel he was for many years.

547
00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:24,840
Speaker 1: Did you ever get a chance to go out there.

548
00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:26,600
Speaker 1: I worked in that league for a little bit, so

549
00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:29,000
Speaker 1: I was able to go up to Greensborough from Kannapolis.

550
00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:32,720
Speaker 1: And beautiful ballpark too, where you have a minor league fan,

551
00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:34,359
Speaker 1: like you see all these kids running around at the

552
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Speaker 1: games that you're now a part of.

553
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Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, definitely growing up.

554
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Speaker 5: I mean I went to several of the games, and

555
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Speaker 5: I mean I think we had I went to a

556
00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:46,920
Speaker 5: couple of birthday parties or something there. But I mean

557
00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:50,159
Speaker 5: it's just growing up, growing up there, going to games

558
00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:53,840
Speaker 5: and stuff, and then then figuring out that I could

559
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Speaker 5: have been playing there this year.

560
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Speaker 4: It's it's just wild.

561
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Speaker 1: It has to be wild. Because we were talking abot

562
00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:03,600
Speaker 1: Josh Robertson, and he comes from Winston Salem, which is

563
00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:05,760
Speaker 1: the high affiliate of the Chicago White Sox, and he

564
00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:08,159
Speaker 1: said that, you know, some moments I just see the

565
00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:10,040
Speaker 1: kids in the stands and kind of hit me like,

566
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Speaker 1: you know, I used to be one of those kids,

567
00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:14,600
Speaker 1: you know, looking for broken bats and baseballs and souvenirs

568
00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:17,119
Speaker 1: like that. And so I guess a good question to

569
00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:19,040
Speaker 1: ask is did that help you at all when you

570
00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:21,280
Speaker 1: knew you were going into the professional ranks, that you

571
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Speaker 1: knew what minor league baseball was like, because maybe sometimes

572
00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:26,400
Speaker 1: early on fans think that you go straight from high

573
00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:29,000
Speaker 1: school or college and you're in the major leagues right away,

574
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Speaker 1: but you have a long grind and a process to

575
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Speaker 1: develop to get to that point, and that's called minor

576
00:25:33,359 --> 00:25:36,760
Speaker 1: league baseball. So having an understanding of that, did you

577
00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:39,239
Speaker 1: feel like that gave you any type of, you know,

578
00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:40,800
Speaker 1: realism of what you were going into.

579
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Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, a little bit, definitely.

580
00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:49,040
Speaker 5: With playing and having some former teammates drafted and here

581
00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:51,679
Speaker 5: in their store and they just just tell me how

582
00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:53,880
Speaker 5: it goes and stuff, it kind of helped a lot.

583
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Speaker 1: As we said. A great ballpark. I think when I

584
00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:59,480
Speaker 1: was out of Greenspruce, they had they always have crazy

585
00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:01,520
Speaker 1: promotions that were going on out there. There was a

586
00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:04,879
Speaker 1: giant shopping cart that you could drive onto the field

587
00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:07,119
Speaker 1: and it was to get people do I think buy

588
00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:09,359
Speaker 1: organic or something like that. So I guess that kind

589
00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:11,680
Speaker 1: of speaks to the funness if I think that is

590
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Speaker 1: a word now with you know, just the kids. If

591
00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:15,879
Speaker 1: you see that, you know you could go there for

592
00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:17,920
Speaker 1: the baseball, but then you see a giant shopping cart

593
00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:19,680
Speaker 1: or something like that, it kind of makes it a

594
00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:22,600
Speaker 1: little bit more fun to watch. Now that you're part

595
00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:25,680
Speaker 1: of the magic that is minor league baseball and promotions

596
00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:28,240
Speaker 1: like that, as we saw yesterday with balancing acts during

597
00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:30,960
Speaker 1: a game against the King County Cougars, I know you're

598
00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:34,440
Speaker 1: focusing in on those moments as a professional baseball player.

599
00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:37,359
Speaker 1: Does it ever strike you was kind of surreal in

600
00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:37,879
Speaker 1: that moment?

601
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Speaker 4: I mean a little bit.

602
00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:43,160
Speaker 5: I mean sometimes you get, especially if you're hitting, get

603
00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:46,560
Speaker 5: a little distracted by the stuff going on and the

604
00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:50,439
Speaker 5: in between innings and stuff. But other than that, I mean,

605
00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:52,760
Speaker 5: you just gotta turn your focus back on when the

606
00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:55,400
Speaker 5: inning starts and let's played a game.

607
00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:58,560
Speaker 1: A high pick too by the Miami Marlins Evan Edwards,

608
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Speaker 1: taken in the fourth round of this year's draft. I

609
00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:02,960
Speaker 1: think it was one hundred and eleventh overall. What was

610
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:03,760
Speaker 1: that moment like for you?

611
00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:07,000
Speaker 5: It was, I mean, it was incredible. It was I

612
00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:09,359
Speaker 5: don't I don't know, I can't even describe it. It

613
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:12,560
Speaker 5: was just awesome. I I wasn't expecting to go that

614
00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:15,359
Speaker 5: that early at all. I mean, but just being a

615
00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:20,879
Speaker 5: senior and and everything. But it's definitely an exciting moment, so.

616
00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:24,119
Speaker 1: A dream come true. Who's most excited is it? You know?

617
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:26,440
Speaker 1: One hundred way tie with all the friends and family

618
00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:28,720
Speaker 1: that earned your buyer? Was there someone in particular that

619
00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:30,360
Speaker 1: hugged a little harder that day?

620
00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:34,760
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'd say definitely everybody. I mean, I know, definitely

621
00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:39,000
Speaker 5: my college coaches. They were both Juco and at State.

622
00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:43,160
Speaker 5: They were both they were all excited and everything, didn't

623
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:43,880
Speaker 5: want anything more.

624
00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:46,680
Speaker 1: I imagine that support kind of transfers over now to

625
00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:49,920
Speaker 1: the pro career. So they're following Evan Edwards pretty religiously

626
00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:52,040
Speaker 1: right now and seeing, you know, someone that they had

627
00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:55,040
Speaker 1: as at a very young age and now he's going

628
00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:57,720
Speaker 1: off to reach some potential. So do you feel still

629
00:27:57,760 --> 00:27:59,720
Speaker 1: feel that support from back home, from the friends in

630
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:01,920
Speaker 1: fail family now that you're you know, many miles away

631
00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:02,800
Speaker 1: out here in Clinton, Iowa.

632
00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:06,480
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, definitely, I mean, I always, I mean definitely,

633
00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:09,920
Speaker 5: family they always text me and stuff and here and

634
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:13,840
Speaker 5: there I'll get some tech from some from some uh

635
00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:15,280
Speaker 5: like old friends.

636
00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:17,879
Speaker 4: I ain't talked to in a while, and just stuff

637
00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:19,640
Speaker 4: like us pretty cool.

638
00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:22,200
Speaker 1: The first time we ever saw Evan Edwards, we should

639
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:24,080
Speaker 1: say this was in Wisconsin and we were told that

640
00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:26,520
Speaker 1: we're getting a new first baseman to start the second half.

641
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:28,720
Speaker 1: But he's not gonna be able to take VP and

642
00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:30,480
Speaker 1: he's not gonna be able to do any field work.

643
00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:32,280
Speaker 1: He's flying right in, he's gonna be putting on the

644
00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:33,640
Speaker 1: jersey and then he's in the line.

645
00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:34,520
Speaker 4: Of Well, it was a great day.

646
00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:36,720
Speaker 1: It's a couple of arbis and a couple of hits.

647
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:38,960
Speaker 1: So what was that moment like for you get that

648
00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:40,720
Speaker 1: promotion early on in your pro career.

649
00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:42,960
Speaker 4: I mean, it was exciting, definitely.

650
00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:45,680
Speaker 5: Uh When I got the news, and it was after

651
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:49,840
Speaker 5: a night game in Batavia, I think we were about

652
00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:53,720
Speaker 5: to get on the road the next day. But I

653
00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:56,520
Speaker 5: didn't do too hot that that game, so it was

654
00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:59,720
Speaker 5: kind of like surprising. After the game I had when

655
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:01,760
Speaker 5: I got the news, I was coming off, I was like,

656
00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:05,000
Speaker 5: all right, we'll see how it goes. And then uh,

657
00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:08,440
Speaker 5: but then flying in, we actually got delayed a little

658
00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:12,800
Speaker 5: bit on the flights over, so it's kind of kind

659
00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:19,480
Speaker 5: of tiring. You get here, put the jerseys on, just goes. Yeah,

660
00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:22,440
Speaker 5: it just felt weird. I don't know, but it was awesome.

661
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:25,040
Speaker 1: Must have felt like planes, trains and automobiles. You get

662
00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:27,440
Speaker 1: to the ballpark and you're you're kind of inserted right

663
00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:29,600
Speaker 1: into because this is the beginning of the second half

664
00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:31,440
Speaker 1: a team that has been one of the best teams

665
00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:34,080
Speaker 1: in the Midwest League in the second half. Was a reception.

666
00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:36,280
Speaker 1: I mean, we talked to these slumber Kings pretty regularly.

667
00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:38,400
Speaker 1: They seem a pretty welcoming bunch too, when you come

668
00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:40,960
Speaker 1: out here and you get right into to a winning team.

669
00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:43,520
Speaker 1: So what was that transition like as you became a

670
00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:44,360
Speaker 1: lumber King early on?

671
00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:47,640
Speaker 5: I mean, it was definitely the the guys on the

672
00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:51,719
Speaker 5: team definitely made it. Definitely made it easier. They welcomed

673
00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:55,320
Speaker 5: me in and everything like that and felt like I

674
00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:57,200
Speaker 5: was part of team for the whole season.

675
00:29:57,680 --> 00:29:59,880
Speaker 1: Well, it's great to talk about because, as we mentioned,

676
00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:02,320
Speaker 1: you played in sixty one games in college, which was

677
00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:05,200
Speaker 1: the most I mean games you could play in college

678
00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:07,240
Speaker 1: because that was the schedule for you at NC State.

679
00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:09,360
Speaker 1: Then you get inserted into a league that plays one

680
00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:11,600
Speaker 1: hundred and forty games. So they talk about that grind

681
00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:14,320
Speaker 1: of baseball, But when you're on a successful team, does

682
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:16,360
Speaker 1: that just make it a little bit easier? And that

683
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:18,720
Speaker 1: kind of focusing on the bumps and bruises and you

684
00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:20,480
Speaker 1: know how much longer you have to go to the

685
00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:22,640
Speaker 1: end of the season that you know, every game has

686
00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:25,240
Speaker 1: this added weight. As we said recording this on August,

687
00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:27,640
Speaker 1: the nineteenth lumber Kings are two games out of first place.

688
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:30,120
Speaker 1: They're playing the first place team, the King County Cougars

689
00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:32,640
Speaker 1: over close to nine thousand fans here a couple of

690
00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:35,240
Speaker 1: nights ago. So the energy is there. Does that help

691
00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:37,840
Speaker 1: kind of combat that you know, long season, the grind

692
00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:39,240
Speaker 1: that we hear from a lot of players.

693
00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:40,520
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, definitely.

694
00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:42,479
Speaker 5: I mean when you're I mean when you're out there

695
00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:45,920
Speaker 5: having fun and every day and you're winning, I mean,

696
00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:48,840
Speaker 5: winning definitely helps. But when you're out there get along

697
00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:51,320
Speaker 5: with your teammates and just having fun out on the field,

698
00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:53,400
Speaker 5: I mean, it don't really matter how many games you play,

699
00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:56,360
Speaker 5: it's still going to be fun and that'll kind of

700
00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:58,560
Speaker 5: make it fly by.

701
00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:00,120
Speaker 4: I guess you could say.

702
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:03,560
Speaker 1: It's great to hear because of the players, as you say,

703
00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:06,560
Speaker 1: welcoming you, and then you have that you know, they

704
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:08,800
Speaker 1: welcome you right in, and then you're inserted into the

705
00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:12,080
Speaker 1: playoff run. The lumber Kings are currently on a team

706
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:14,600
Speaker 1: that you know may have had its issues or struggles

707
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:17,400
Speaker 1: in the first half, but you talk about the development

708
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:19,520
Speaker 1: that you see in that course, that's what you're supposed

709
00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:21,240
Speaker 1: to do in minor league baseball. So it seems like

710
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:23,160
Speaker 1: a lot of guys, you know, it's very easy to

711
00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:26,360
Speaker 1: be bought into just the individual stats, right well, as

712
00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:28,480
Speaker 1: long as I get mine, you know, everything's fine. It

713
00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:31,720
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like that's really the mindset of the lumber Kings,

714
00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:34,040
Speaker 1: which is a single a team that you know kind

715
00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:36,880
Speaker 1: of has a big league vibe of you know, everyone

716
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:38,640
Speaker 1: working together as a team. You don't see a whole

717
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:41,400
Speaker 1: lot of team baseball minor league baseball. But it seems

718
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:43,120
Speaker 1: like that is a case for the lumber Kings here

719
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:45,400
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen. Is that something that you could notice

720
00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:47,000
Speaker 1: maybe early on as soon as you got here in

721
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:47,600
Speaker 1: the second half.

722
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:51,200
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I guess so, because I mean I

723
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:56,600
Speaker 5: don't really I guess coming from college is hard, hard,

724
00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:59,400
Speaker 5: not to like see us playing as a team. And

725
00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:04,240
Speaker 5: let mean you see some guys playing individually sometimes maybe

726
00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:06,920
Speaker 5: if they haven't been doing too hot or and then

727
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:09,640
Speaker 5: they have a good, good start to a game and

728
00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:12,840
Speaker 5: they just start trying to pad on a little bit

729
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:14,920
Speaker 5: since they haven't been so hot. But I mean other

730
00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:18,240
Speaker 5: than that, it's I mean, that's all I've seen since

731
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:20,920
Speaker 5: we've been here is just playing playing for each other.

732
00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:23,200
Speaker 1: Has there been any difference too, because you're a good

733
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:25,400
Speaker 1: guy to ask on this, uh, in just the style

734
00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:27,360
Speaker 1: of coaching that you see from the amateur ranks to

735
00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:29,480
Speaker 1: the professional ranks now that you've been a pro for

736
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:30,200
Speaker 1: a couple of months.

737
00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:33,240
Speaker 4: Uh, I mean no, not really.

738
00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:37,400
Speaker 5: I mean it's been been pretty uh pretty normal, I

739
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:41,360
Speaker 5: guess since I've always been fortunate to have great coaches

740
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:45,280
Speaker 5: throughout my whole baseball career and now to have some

741
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 5: great coaches here. I mean they're they're they're cool. They

742
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:50,240
Speaker 5: mess around a little bit, but they know when the

743
00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 5: they know what when the right time to coach is

744
00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:55,400
Speaker 5: and when the right time not to mess around is.

745
00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:56,840
Speaker 4: So that's pretty cool.

746
00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 1: Mike Jacob's the manager and Frank Moore the hitting coach.

747
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:02,040
Speaker 1: I know you don't work too closely with Marty Felice

748
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:04,200
Speaker 1: unless he's maybe teaching a knuckleball or something like that.

749
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:06,800
Speaker 1: That's a pitching coach. Although everyone does have a knuckleball.

750
00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:08,720
Speaker 1: We should say, you know, just in case they need

751
00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:11,120
Speaker 1: to be pressed into service. What is Mike Jacobs into

752
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:13,120
Speaker 1: Frank Moore beIN I like to work with. We've had

753
00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:15,760
Speaker 1: them on the podcast. They seem like they're thinking baseball

754
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:17,880
Speaker 1: a lot, so it must be a fun person to

755
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:20,120
Speaker 1: pick your brain. You've got Jacobs who's got big league

756
00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:22,200
Speaker 1: experience too. So what have they been like to work

757
00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:23,280
Speaker 1: with in your time in Clinton?

758
00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:27,160
Speaker 5: Oh, it's been pretty cool. I mean, like they won't

759
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:31,880
Speaker 5: they didn't. Nobody really mess with my swing for say,

760
00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:35,200
Speaker 5: or anything for a while, and they just kind of

761
00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:37,000
Speaker 5: just stay back and let me play my game for

762
00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:40,040
Speaker 5: a little bit. And then then when we got when

763
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:43,640
Speaker 5: I got some more games under my belt, they started

764
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:45,400
Speaker 5: talking to me a little bit, helping me out a

765
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:46,720
Speaker 5: little bit in the cages and stuff.

766
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:48,680
Speaker 4: So they've been a big help.

767
00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:51,720
Speaker 1: Well, you swing left handed? Are you left handed? For

768
00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:52,680
Speaker 1: just about everything too?

769
00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 4: Yep? The only thing I don't do left handed is eat.

770
00:33:56,520 --> 00:34:00,240
Speaker 1: And right Okay, Well it's interesting because for me, I

771
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:03,320
Speaker 1: right left handed and everything else is right hand. But

772
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:05,800
Speaker 1: it makes sense as a first basement, right. You always

773
00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 1: hear I've had a lefty, so I guess you're a

774
00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:10,200
Speaker 1: natural a lefty and just about everything growing up right.

775
00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:10,600
Speaker 4: Yeah.

776
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:13,839
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well we're talking here with Evan Edwards Lumberking's first

777
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:16,320
Speaker 1: basement every day, first basement since he got here in

778
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:18,640
Speaker 1: the second half, which means we did not have you

779
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:20,759
Speaker 1: in the first half of the season now when the

780
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:22,640
Speaker 1: players had gotten here. This is usually how we like

781
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:25,120
Speaker 1: to end our interviews. We had everyone fill out a

782
00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:27,239
Speaker 1: questionnaire as we joke, I have to do a tap

783
00:34:27,360 --> 00:34:30,040
Speaker 1: dance every broadcast for three hours by myself, so I

784
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 1: need things to talk about with you guys. And so

785
00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:35,880
Speaker 1: we'd asked the guys about celebrity crushes and you know,

786
00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:39,960
Speaker 1: horrible embarrassing moments on a baseball diamond and things like that.

787
00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:42,840
Speaker 1: Do you have any hobbies that you get to indulged

788
00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:44,800
Speaker 1: sometimes when you get away from the game of baseball?

789
00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:48,160
Speaker 5: Uh? Yeah, I mean I like doing some I'd like

790
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:51,840
Speaker 5: doing outdoors things like fishing, and got a full wheeler,

791
00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:55,080
Speaker 5: so I like riding riding around a little bit. When

792
00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:58,440
Speaker 5: when I get home and get done with baseball and stuff.

793
00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:02,239
Speaker 1: So, and do you have any celebrity crushes too? Is

794
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:04,279
Speaker 1: there anyone that comes straight to the mind. Because we've

795
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:06,440
Speaker 1: asked this to Peyton burd It before. We gave them

796
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:09,359
Speaker 1: two chances, and both times he gave us I got

797
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 1: no one, and I find that hard to believe.

798
00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:13,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't. I can't really thank you anybody.

799
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:16,440
Speaker 1: I've really Well, it's all right because we're putting you

800
00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:19,080
Speaker 1: on the spot right here. So we understand Peyton had

801
00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:21,840
Speaker 1: two chances to think about this, but that was you know,

802
00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:24,960
Speaker 1: a different character so to speak. Well, also, we should,

803
00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:27,239
Speaker 1: I guess ask you before we let you go here

804
00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:30,280
Speaker 1: as we talk with Evan Edwards, lumber King's first baseman,

805
00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:33,440
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen season, first year of your professional career, what

806
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:35,640
Speaker 1: are the goals that you had coming in to beginning

807
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:36,239
Speaker 1: this pro career?

808
00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:40,439
Speaker 4: Uh, I mean I didn't just play a game.

809
00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:43,920
Speaker 5: I mean, maybe turn some heads if I can, but

810
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:47,799
Speaker 5: if not, just to get the feel for Pro Bowl

811
00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:50,120
Speaker 5: and hitting with wood bed every day.

812
00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:52,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a big that's a big change.

813
00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:55,640
Speaker 1: How do you explain that difference between I guess they

814
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 1: have the composite bats now, right, in college into the

815
00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:00,279
Speaker 1: wood beats. What's the adjustment that goes in to that.

816
00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:03,920
Speaker 5: You know, I don't I don't really know the exact

817
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:08,560
Speaker 5: exact like, I don't know. I really don't know how

818
00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:10,880
Speaker 5: to explain about me. It's just it's just differently you

819
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:13,279
Speaker 5: can break. You can break a bat, A would bat

820
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:16,640
Speaker 5: if you just hit it. Maybe an answer to like

821
00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:18,839
Speaker 5: in the wrong spot or something.

822
00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:22,360
Speaker 1: So's I've heard that like working when pictures work inside,

823
00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:24,640
Speaker 1: pictures always describe it like they have they can work

824
00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:26,960
Speaker 1: inside more in pro baseball wooden bats because they can

825
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:29,040
Speaker 1: you know, break them, as opposed to maybe a ball

826
00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:31,120
Speaker 1: gets muscled out in college because you know, the bat

827
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:33,480
Speaker 1: stays together. Is that something you've noticed, maybe at all,

828
00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:35,279
Speaker 1: just in that transition, I.

829
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:38,720
Speaker 4: Mean yeah, yeah, I would say so, I mean definitely.

830
00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:42,160
Speaker 1: Well it's one of the transitions too for the professional

831
00:36:42,239 --> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 1: career of Evan Edwards. We thank you so much for

832
00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:45,880
Speaker 1: taking some time to talk with us here on the

833
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:48,320
Speaker 1: podcast side of things. Big games all ahead for the

834
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:50,800
Speaker 1: lumber King Stretch Drive, and we appreciate you taking the

835
00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:52,360
Speaker 1: time again to talk with us here on the podcast

836
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:52,879
Speaker 1: side of things.

837
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:53,759
Speaker 4: Definitely thank you.

838
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:17,759
Speaker 1: And welcome back to a ball with Eric Ghost. You

839
00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:20,479
Speaker 1: just heard from the last thirty game winner in Major

840
00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:24,399
Speaker 1: League Baseball history in Denny McLain, and we thank him

841
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:27,080
Speaker 1: for taking some time also to Evan Edwards, the lumber

842
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:30,560
Speaker 1: Kings everyday first baseman, also for taking some time to

843
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:32,440
Speaker 1: talk with us in the midst of that four game

844
00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:35,560
Speaker 1: series with the Kane County Cougars. As we were alluding

845
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:37,960
Speaker 1: to in the intro, we'll be touching on the roster

846
00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:40,560
Speaker 1: move for the lumber Kings coming into the finale against

847
00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:42,960
Speaker 1: the Kane County Cougars. The first roster moves for the

848
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:45,560
Speaker 1: lumber Kings since August the fourteenth, and there were quite

849
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:48,040
Speaker 1: a few of them. Brian Hernandez will be the new

850
00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:50,640
Speaker 1: bat that is added to the lumber Kings roster. He

851
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 1: was playing for the Batavia Muckdogs at the time of

852
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:56,120
Speaker 1: his promotion. Lumber Kings fans, of course, may remember him.

853
00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:58,760
Speaker 1: Hernandez had a brief stint with Clinton at the beginning

854
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:00,839
Speaker 1: of the season back in the month of May. Coming

855
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:03,120
Speaker 1: from the Tavia, which will mean the lumber Kings now

856
00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:08,160
Speaker 1: carry five outfielders, five infielders, two catchers, and thirteen pitchers.

857
00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:11,080
Speaker 1: Now we mentioned one of those roster moves. George Soriano

858
00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:13,719
Speaker 1: placed on the injured list, and that will likely be

859
00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:15,960
Speaker 1: the case, we'd imagine for the rest of the regular

860
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:19,080
Speaker 1: season and maybe activate him where the lumber Kings to

861
00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:21,239
Speaker 1: make the playoffs, which would, by the way, be the

862
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:24,600
Speaker 1: first time since twenty sixteen. What it has allowed, though

863
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:27,080
Speaker 1: is a spot on the roster, and the lumber Kings

864
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:30,560
Speaker 1: will put Payton colberts In back on the lumber Kings roster. Now,

865
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:33,680
Speaker 1: of course, lumber Kings fans remember Colbertsen because he was

866
00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:36,279
Speaker 1: with the lumber Kings on the opening day roster and

867
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:39,719
Speaker 1: Arkansas state product. Colbertson a right handed arm that was

868
00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:42,239
Speaker 1: working in the rotation for the lumber Kings before he

869
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:45,120
Speaker 1: was placed on the injured list at the end of April,

870
00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:48,200
Speaker 1: his last appearance coming with Clinton on the twenty fifth.

871
00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:51,000
Speaker 1: So he'll be in Clinton now. The Tennessee native, twenty

872
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Speaker 1: two years of old, twenty two years of age, we

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Speaker 1: should say, eighth rout selection by the Miami Marlins in

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Speaker 1: they and eighteen draft. Now we're told though that Colbert

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00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:00,800
Speaker 1: sin will not be in the rotation.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: This is coming from the lumber Kings pitching coach Mark

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00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:05,600
Speaker 1: de Filaise telling us that he will be an option

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00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:08,879
Speaker 1: for the manager Mike Jacobs out on the bullpen, which,

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00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:10,920
Speaker 1: as we said in the infro, the lumber Kings are

881
00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:13,480
Speaker 1: down now to a five man rotation. So when we

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Speaker 1: had Remy Reid and he was joking about the six

883
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:19,040
Speaker 1: man rotation saying, hey, I'll take the extra day because

884
00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:20,719
Speaker 1: you know you get an extra day when you have

885
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Speaker 1: an extra guy in the rotation of rest for Remy Reid, well,

886
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:26,440
Speaker 1: that won't be the case anymore for Reid down the stretch.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure he even said that in the podcast interview

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Speaker 1: that it didn't bother him too much. He didn't have

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Speaker 1: a vote, but of course he will be seen next

890
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Speaker 1: against the Wisconsin tim Bratlers, which again we had talked

891
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Speaker 1: about that was going to be on Saturday, August the

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Speaker 1: twenty fourth against Wisconsin. Reid has been one of the

893
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:45,040
Speaker 1: lumber kings better options, although it did stumble a bit

894
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:47,320
Speaker 1: in his last outing. So the lumber Kings don't have

895
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Speaker 1: that many games left in the twenty nineteen regular season

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00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:53,320
Speaker 1: the home stretch as they try to make the playoff

897
00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:56,320
Speaker 1: for the first time since the twenty and sixteenth season

898
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Speaker 1: when Clinton had gone all the way to the Midwest

899
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Speaker 1: League Championship Series. Their final multi series home stands starts

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00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:05,480
Speaker 1: on August the twenty first against the Cedar Rapids Kernels

901
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Speaker 1: that will end on Friday, August the twenty third, and

902
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Speaker 1: then begins the last really really important series of the

903
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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen regular season when the Wisconsin tim Bratlers come

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Speaker 1: into town on Saturday, August the twenty fourth for a

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Speaker 1: four game set that then ends on Tuesday, the twenty

906
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Speaker 1: seventh of August. Lumber Kings only have three more road

907
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:26,840
Speaker 1: games left down the year. That'll be against the Burlington

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00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:30,080
Speaker 1: Bs at Community Field August the twenty eight through the thirtieth,

909
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Speaker 1: and their final games of the twenty to nineteen regular

910
00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:36,560
Speaker 1: season will be against the Peoria Chiefs August the thirty

911
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Speaker 1: first through September the second. Through that Labor Day weekend,

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Speaker 1: there'll be a day off on Tuesday, September the third.

913
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Speaker 1: The playoffs and the Midwest League will then begin on

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Speaker 1: the fourth and potentially run through the sixteenth. So that

915
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Speaker 1: is all the baseball that is left in the Midwest

916
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Speaker 1: League for the Miami Marlins single a affiliate a very

917
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Speaker 1: exciting time. It's been a talented team that has seen

918
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Speaker 1: its ups and downs, and right now as it looks

919
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Speaker 1: at least they are on the inside track for a

920
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Speaker 1: playoff spot, and they'll have to either stave off the

921
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Speaker 1: Wisconsin tim Bratlers or hope for some help and also

922
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Speaker 1: a win on August the twentieth against the Kane County Cougars.

923
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Speaker 1: Not a whole lot of baseball left in the lumber

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Speaker 1: Kings Faithful, which has been traveling pretty well on the road.

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Speaker 1: It's usually a sign of a team doing well in

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Speaker 1: the minor leagues because lumber Kings are very fortunate in

927
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Speaker 1: their travel schedule that they have teams rather close to them,

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Speaker 1: and so you'll see kind of a lot of lumber

929
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Speaker 1: Kings gear in the crowds on these games on the road,

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Speaker 1: and maybe that will be the case again in Burlington,

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Speaker 1: just a short right away from Clinton, And of course

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Speaker 1: we hope to see you out of the ballpark over

933
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Speaker 1: one of these final games in the twenty nineteen regular

934
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Speaker 1: season or during the postseason if such a thing were

935
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Speaker 1: to happen. This is where we'll shamelessly plug our broadcast

936
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Speaker 1: side of things, because of course you can listen to

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00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:51,719
Speaker 1: all Clinton lumber King's action in twenty nineteen and in

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Speaker 1: the postseason with yours truly, Eric Os on the call.

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Speaker 1: You can listen if you're in the broadcast range one

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Speaker 1: hundred point three FMWCCI, and online if you have the

941
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Speaker 1: tune in radio app at Lumberkings dot com. For those

942
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Speaker 1: of you outside of the broadcast range, I want to

943
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Speaker 1: give a special thanks to both of our guests today.

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Speaker 1: Denny McClain, the thirty game winner doesn't get much cooler

945
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Speaker 1: than that, and of course our everyday first baseman with

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Speaker 1: the Clinton lumber Kings, Evan Edwards. Until next week, This

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Speaker 1: is a ball with Eric Hillis