WEBVTT - Chris Burke Details College and Professional Baseball Comparisons 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:02.800 Hey everybody, and welcome once again to Dirt from the Dugout. 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:05.360 I'm Carl Ravitsch along with my good buddy Justin Musel. 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.360 We consider this a special College World Series edition of 0:00:09.440 --> 0:00:11.840 Dirt from the Dugout. As I am in Omaha, Nebraska 0:00:12.200 --> 0:00:16.600 covering the College World Series Justin. It has been exactly 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:19.160 what you would expect it to be a phenomenal event. 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:22.040 And you know, now we're starting to see teams leave. 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:24.919 We lost Ole Miss already and we're beginning to get 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:29.440 into elimination games. My goodness, what a showcase for college baseball, 0:00:29.480 --> 0:00:31.320 What a showcase for baseball in general. 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:32.600 Yeah. 0:00:32.640 --> 0:00:34.559 Man, I mean, you obviously get to live it every year, right, 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:36.920 so it's cool to it's cool to be a part 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:39.120 of it and see it. And you know this, but 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:43.680 the energy, I feel like in the intensity Ravvy over 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:47.560 the last five to ten years has really really taken 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:50.559 a step up with each game, each pitch. It just 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:53.000 feels like when you watch it, you're just kind of 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:56.080 gripped by the emotion, the intensity. And I love that, man. 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:57.480 I mean, obviously you get to be a part of it. 0:00:57.520 --> 0:00:59.920 But it's been a great ride so far. Man, It's 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:02.960 it's been a great World Series so far, and the 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:05.560 best is yet to come, right, Yeah. 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:07.399 I agree with that. And by the way, please get 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:09.640 your questions into our guest today who is one of 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:11.840 my favorite people on the planet out there. He does 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:15.000 such a great job covering the college World Series and 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:17.679 you can ask your questions into the YouTube chat. Our 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:21.240 guest is none other than Chris Burke, a former Tennessee volunteer, 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:26.280 superstar Major League Baseball player, runs his own clinic in Louisville, Kentucky. 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:28.600 Let's bring Burkeie in right now so he can spend 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:30.680 the next half hour chatting with him about what's going 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:33.279 on in the world of baseball there. He is, my guy, Berkie, 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:33.960 thanks for doing this. 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:37.440 Really appreciate it. Yeah, let's do it. Let's chop it up. 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:37.840 I'm in. 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:38.520 Let's go. 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:43.080 Say how to my friend Justin Mussel Justine in the 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:46.639 recruiting world he's in, he's in the baseball development world, 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:48.600 and you guys will have a lot to talk about 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:48.920 as well. 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:50.040 Yeah. 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:52.280 Nice, nice to see you, Burkee. We appreciate you happing 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:53.120 on here with us, buddy. 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:55.320 Yeah, my pleasure, my pleasure. 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:58.120 I was going to say, Berkeie, I think one of 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:00.280 the things that one of the things that stands out 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:04.200 to me about covering college baseball College World Series, we 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:06.320 got a team like West Virginia here who just had 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:10.640 JJ Weatherhole played for them. The almost immediate impact that 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:13.120 some of these guys schemes is another one in the 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:17.120 list is pretty long, But the immediate impact that kids 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:20.239 from college can have at the next highest level, major 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:23.400 League Baseball, I think speaks to the talent level and 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:25.480 all the things going on in the world of college 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:29.040 baseball that they can kind of graduate and then have 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:31.200 a big impact at the major league level. Is that 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:34.040 a change over what you've seen the last fifteen to 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:34.680 twenty years. 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:36.679 Definitely. 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:40.960 I think the velocity of the college game is such 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:43.720 that it used to be when I was When I 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:46.600 came out of Tennessee, you had to get used to 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:50.480 the wooden bat, You had to get used to the 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:52.640 velocity right. 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:53.600 And then you had to. 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:58.440 Your eyes were open to a world that felt much bigger. 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:06.799 International players, I think the coaching voices were way less unified. 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:10.000 So you went from a college program where you were like, okay, 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:13.200 I have really just like two people maybe that kind 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:15.040 of even spoke hitting at all, and then all of 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:16.560 a sudden, you get into pro ball, and you had 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:19.480 your coach on your team, you had a roving instructor, 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:23.640 you had the level that you moved up to. Then 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:25.320 you get to the big leagues and there's like, like 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:29.880 the big league coach and the roven instructor might not 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:31.320 even see eye to eye, and. 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:37.800 So it was like it was just way less system driven. Now. 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:40.840 I think these kids they grow up, a lot of 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:43.480 them by the time they're twelve to fourteen years old, 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:47.760 there's a potential for them to have really high level 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:54.040 education in their niche of the sport starting at that age. 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:56.400 They get to college, and you see some of these 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:59.360 young players in college, like Bravin you and I called 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:02.520 Kaden Glabor last night, like that, dude's ready to compete today. 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:06.680 JJ Weatherhole, he's in high school. Three months ago, he's 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:07.360 in high Yeah. 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:11.560 Gavin Kelly was ready to compete the second he walked 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:14.040 on a campus at West West Virginia. 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:16.560 So you get some not everybody, but you get some 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:17.360 of these kids. 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:21.120 That it feels like they are way ahead of the curve, 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:25.400 and so like at Gavin Kelly, He's proven himself so 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:28.279 much at so many different levels, that you're like, Okay, 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:31.320 that kid's probably like JJ weatherhol he's probably gonna need 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:34.120 a few hundred at bats and he's gonna be in 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:37.600 a big league lineup because he's just he's been educated 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:40.520 at such a high level, he's been trained at such 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:41.480 a high level. 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:43.599 That what else do you need him to prove? 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:47.440 Like, stay healthy, check a few boxes, and here's the 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:51.440 major league. So I do think, Plus, you've you've hit 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:54.200 with wooden bats on the circuit, you've hit with BB 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:59.279 corn bats in college, and like, oh, missus staff average 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:02.400 fastballs now three and a half, So you didn't you 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:04.479 don't get to Pro Bowl and go, wow, these guys 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:07.760 are throwing hard. You've already you've already kind of checked 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:11.240 you know how to hit velocity already. And so I 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:15.000 just I do think the learning curve to to land 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:16.760 in the big leagues is shorter now. To stay in 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:18.080 the big leagues is. 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:20.720 Always good for always going to be at. 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:25.440 That one good answer, let me check, let me remind you, Burkey. 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:28.960 So we got thirty minutes for the podcast. Brevity is 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:31.760 really key on the podcast. And Musel was so excited 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:35.080 about everything you just said. He's gonna have fifty questions 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:35.479 to ask you. 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:37.640 Okay, I'll rapid fire best that came. 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:40.720 I'm sorry, no, man, this is Brookie. I appreciate the 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:43.320 insight there, I think for mine. I was talking with 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:45.280 a minor league last week and kind of going to 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:47.720 this conversation. I was talking to him about his adjustment. 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:51.680 He played in the Big twelve. You guys would know him. 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:54.360 But anyways, we were we were chopping up a little 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:57.159 bit and he said, Hey, the biggest thing, the biggest 0:05:57.200 --> 0:06:01.920 difference for me right now is the secondary stuff. And 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:04.279 so he's kind of learning that side of it where 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:06.800 he's like, man, I'm just seeing like ninety ninety one 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:09.320 mile Hollars sliders like day after day, Like that wasn't 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:12.960 an everyday thing. So I think in general, though we 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:16.240 as we were kind of finishing this conversation off though Burkey, 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:19.840 his point was is like, the adjustment isn't that big 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:22.479 of a difference, as you're saying, and now you're seeing 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:25.720 guys climb so quickly. In general, do you think that 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:28.359 that trend continues as we go along here? Do you 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:31.200 think it becomes easier and easier because the talent level 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:33.479 at the college level is so good and the coaching 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:34.160 is so good. 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:38.240 Yeah, I think that, And I also think I really 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:43.240 believe this. I think the organizations are much more progressive 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:45.719 in how they view what a player needs to prove 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:46.120 to them. 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:50.120 Yeah, I agree to move up a level. I can 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:52.240 remember I was, I was. 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:57.000 I was ready mentally and physically to move And the 0:06:57.040 --> 0:06:59.920 Astros were real big on like two thousand at bats, 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.680 you know, and you're like, okay, you know, And so 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:05.240 that was just the way some of those Hey you 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:06.800 have to have this many innings, you have to have 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:09.359 this many bats. I just don't think clubs live in 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:12.320 that world anymore. Like, you look good right now, you 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:14.760 did well at double A. Here's a month of triple A. 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:17.400 Here's the big leagues. I mean, Connor Griffin would have 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:20.680 never you know, the counter Griffin, the schemes, the brave Montgomery's, Like, 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:23.480 these guys are just weather Hold. They don't They're not 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:26.240 being forced to prove themselves at an entire level for 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:27.520 five hundred bats. 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:29.840 Yept about it. Here. 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:32.080 What we do on the show, Brookie is we get 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:34.560 questions from our teammates. So on the parent dugout and 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:37.120 one of them will take us a little off track. 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:38.920 Of where we're going, but it is you hit one 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:42.320 of the most iconic walkoff homers in postseason history in 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:44.760 the NLDS and O five. Not that you've ever been 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:47.480 asked about this, but what was going through your head 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:50.119 leading up to that at bat Dom? 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:50.960 Thanks for the question. 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:54.600 Never a bad day when I get to talk about that, 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:57.480 But I will tell you what was going through my mind. 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:01.760 I was going to bunt on Chipper Jones. Chipper Jones 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:06.320 had been playing third base for six hours. They had, 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:09.880 you know, Joey Devine through ninety five from over here 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:13.720 with a crazy, nasty sweeper, and I didn't really care 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:15.560 too much to stand in there on that. I'm gonna 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:17.840 lay down a bunch, see if I can steal second base. 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:22.120 Maybe somebody scores me with a single, And so I 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:24.640 went up there ready to bunt, actually show bunt. He 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:27.640 throws a big sweeper to the backstop. So then I'm like, 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:29.400 all right, I'm a head and the count. This guy 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:31.640 throws an arm side fastball that has a lot of run. 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:33.920 Maybe he makes a mistake and I can hit one 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:36.360 in the crawl forord boxes. He almost hits me with 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:39.600 the one oh pitch, So now my eyes are really 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:42.200 focused on the inner third of the plate and he 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:45.000 throws a sinker. That's up enough, and I kept it fair. 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:49.200 And you know, it's funny when a play comes together. Yeah, 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:51.960 the rest is history, but the truth is what was 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:54.120 going through my mind. I was trying to bunt my 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:56.160 way on to start that. 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:57.080 That's a funny story. 0:08:57.280 --> 0:08:58.560 Yeah, yeah. 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:01.000 Farthest thing from your was the home run. Right. 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:04.520 Well, I mean not just get all nerdy and sound 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:07.280 all sophisticated, but we talked about what keeps you in 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:10.920 the big leagues. Your playing evolves. I'm gonna bump my 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:12.920 way on. Well, now I'm a head and the cow. 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:15.520 This is a picture. If it was a left handed 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:17.520 seeker baller, I wouldn't have been thinking about hitting a 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:21.000 home run. But a right handed armside run guy, I 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:23.560 get hit a ball in the Crawford boxes off that guy. So, 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:25.760 like you know, there's a lot of things going on there. 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:29.679 But the plan evolves as the bad evolves. Raby and 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:31.319 I talk about it all the time throughout the course 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:34.520 of the game. Approaches and guys taking big swings and 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:36.520 then adjusting, and so that's all part of it. 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:38.680 And it's nice when it comes together in a big moment. 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:41.520 Yeah, man, awesome stuff. Raviy. 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:43.040 Let's get to this next one here, because I love 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:45.800 this question too. So it's from Mark, which teammate from 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:47.880 your playing days, was the most talented player you ever 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:49.040 shared a feel with. 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:55.400 Well, I was really fortunate to play with some unbelievable pitchers. 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:56.000 You know. 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:59.120 In Houston we had Oswalt Pettitt and Clements. 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:02.079 Brad Lynche was probably the nastiest thing going out of 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:04.160 the bullpen at that period of time. And then I 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:06.600 get traded to Arizona and I get to play with 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:10.559 Brandon Webb, Dan Herron and Randy Johnson. So I got 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:12.800 to play with Randy Johnson and Roger Clemens, which sometimes 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:15.360 I just like I had to pinch myself, Like that's 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:17.200 two of the three best strike guy guys in the 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:20.360 history of our sport. I was teammates with those people, 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:22.760 so that was really cool to watch that. Uh. 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:24.640 And then I get then I go to San Diego. 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:27.040 I got to play with Jake Peevee, so I played 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:31.400 with some incredible like Hall of Fame cy young level pitchers. Uh. 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:34.240 From A and then in Houston, my first year in Houston, 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:39.520 we had Jeff Kent, Carlos Beltron, Jeff Bagwell, Craig Bigio, 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:40.680 and Lance Berkman. 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:45.520 We didn't make the World Series. Pretty good team. 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:48.760 You walk into the Clubhous, You're like, oh my gosh, 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:49.760 look at these people. 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:50.360 Uh. 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:54.160 That was that was really incredible. And so who's in 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:55.960 the Hall of Fame? Is Beltron in the Hall of Fame. 0:10:57.480 --> 0:10:59.960 He's getting He's gonna get it in the Hall of Fame. 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:02.160 He's gonna get all with bad Wells in the Hall 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:04.960 of Fame, videos in the Hall of Fame. Kent's in 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:09.559 the Hall of Fame. And Berkman wasn't right, Kent is 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:10.480 in the Hall of Fame, isn't he? 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:15.280 Yeah? And you had Burt Kent, Jeff Kent, is Jeff 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:16.000 Kin in the Hall of Fame? 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:16.280 Yeah? 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:18.520 You didn't he just get in? Yeah? And then then 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:20.600 Lance Burtman's a Hall of Fame hitter. 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:24.320 I don't care what anybody says, like pure hit tool. 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:26.600 Lance might be the best of that whole group. Maybe, 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:30.199 And so anyway, it's like, Wow, that's five Hall of 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:32.960 Fame hitters on one team. So to watch all those 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:37.760 guys and they all did it different was really fun 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:41.360 At a young age. I was analytical enough to nerd 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:43.360 out a little bit as much as you can at 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:46.400 twenty four years old. But Berkman's the one of that 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:48.320 group that I got to play with the longest, who 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:51.240 was also in the peak of his career, and Lance 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:54.439 was just he had a year in six and I 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:55.920 know I'm supposed to be brief, so I'll leave it 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:59.040 at this. He hit forty five and drove in one 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:02.760 thirty seven, and I think our next highest RBI guy 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:04.160 had like sixty five. 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:10.680 And the rest of your team is what it does, correct. 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:13.800 But I remember telling Kirchin your boy, Kirchin Rabbi. 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:16.200 I was like, has a guy ever had that many 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:19.040 more home RBIs on one team than the next closest guy? 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:22.720 Like That's so I was fortunate that, you know, I 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:24.040 played with a lot of Hall of famers. 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:25.680 I didn't play, I didn't play in the big leagues 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:27.600 for a crazy long period of time, but I was 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:31.400 fortunate to play with some legends of the sport. 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:32.959 And that's pretty cool to think about. 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:36.360 All Right, So we do this podcast and this live 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:40.240 show really for parents of players, and there's other questions 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:42.280 here from Melanie and Royce and Don. We'll get to 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:45.120 those in a second. I it occurred to me when 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:48.520 you talked about the great pictures that you then joined, 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:52.400 you also had to face them from a parent perspective. 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:57.360 When a sun is facing a dude like that, maybe six', 0:12:57.440 --> 0:13:00.520 five and you can tell their their may be an 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:04.760 intimidation factor as a. Parent what do you find to 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:07.800 be the best advice you could give to having to 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:11.320 deal with The Roger clemens Of Little league Or Travel 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:13.720 league Or Randy? Johnson how do you do? It and 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:14.040 what do you? 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:16.320 Say, yeah such a great. QUESTION i had this with 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:18.199 my thirteen year old last. Night you, Know i'm walking 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:19.200 out of the, Stadium, reveu you saw. 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:19.760 ME i was on the. 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:22.000 Phone, Yeah i'm getting the low down from my thirteen 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:24.760 year old who was up In indianapolis playing this. Weekend 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:26.920 and he was telling me he was playing fifty four to, 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:29.960 eighty meaning the mounds fifty four, feet the bases are eighty. 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:33.800 Feet that's the level of ball they're playing this. Weekend 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:36.839 thirteen you and he faced the kid throwing seventy nine 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:39.760 from fifty four. Feet well that's that's like eighty eight 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:42.360 miles an, hour you, Know AND i was, like, awesome 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:44.520 how to. Go he's, like, WELL i got jammed my 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:47.000 first at bat and my second of, BAT i had 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:49.080 a ten pitch of. BAT i ended up flying out 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:52.160 and honestly reve like he had some true he had 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:54.800 an awesome. Weekend that's the BAT i care the most. 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:59.880 About so WHAT i would tell the parents is there's 0:13:59.880 --> 0:14:02.520 a fear of failure that is inherent to just being, 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:05.720 human any walk of, life anything you're trying to achieve 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:08.000 that if you want to be good at whatever it 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:10.680 is that you're, pursuing the truth is you have to 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:13.199 then be good against those that are the best in that. 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:16.920 Field so you Really Roger clements taught me. This we 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:19.360 were playing golf on an off. Day we're going To 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:22.800 New york to Face. Pedro he's, like who's pitching tomorrow 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:22.960 for The. 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:23.480 METS i was Like. 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:27.560 PEDRO i kind of said it like This, pedro and he, 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:30.400 goes what an opportunity you get to face The hall 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:30.760 Of famer. 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:32.080 Tomorrow And i'm like. 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:36.520 Yeah he's, like, bro like you think the pressure's on. 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:39.080 You the pressure's On, pedro like he's supposed to get you. 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:42.000 Out And you're, like what a great lens to view it. 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:43.680 Through and the Good. 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:47.040 The reality, is if you ever want to play this 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:49.960 game at a high, level you better be able to 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:55.360 at least learn to feel comfortable against extreme. Velocity so 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:57.000 WHAT i would just tell you as a parent when 0:14:57.000 --> 0:15:00.640 your kid faces that, kid encourage them that number, one 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:03.200 the pressures on the, pitcher not the. Hitter the sport 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:06.360 is slanted in the pitcher's favor to begin. With and number, 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:10.800 two enjoy the battle of facing somebody that's really really. 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:13.800 Good because if if you actually want to play this, 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:16.560 game then you're gonna have to learn how to do. 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:18.360 That so what a great opportunity you get to face 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:21.120 a kid throwing crazy hard little. League dig your heels, 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:23.640 in let's go have a fun at, bat and however it, 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:26.120 goes we've, learned we've learned. 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:29.800 Something, YEAH i want TO i want to follow up on, That. 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:32.240 Burkey so you have the flip side, Too AND i 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:35.160 think there's a lot of elite players that they that 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:37.880 can get themselves up for a big at bat against 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:41.080 a really good. Arm, right it's almost easier for them 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:43.600 to lock, in, right that that's what they're looking forward. 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:47.000 To and then the opposite is, true where maybe it's 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:49.160 the kid that isn't as good on the mound that 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:51.680 they're not as excited about and they're losing that. Focus 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:55.200 what is your what is your advice to consistency between 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:58.320 facing the elite arms that you can maybe lock in, 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:00.360 against that you know that you have to run up, 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:04.400 against and maybe the guys that you know are throwing 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:06.800 a little Slower for a high school kid or a youth, 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:10.640 kid what's your advice to stay consistent in that great? 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:13.280 Question so two THINGS i would really dive in on. 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:16.320 Their Number, one if the slow pitchers were hard to, 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:22.800 hit they'd throw slow in the big. Leagues so every 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:24.840 high SCHOOL i deal with them all the. Time the 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:26.760 kid was thrown so, SLOW i couldn't hit. Him i'm, 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:29.200 like you, know that's like a pro basketball player saying 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:31.320 the guy was so short and non, ATHLETIC i couldn't 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:31.680 score on. 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:33.480 Him, like. Don't i'm not here for. 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:33.640 That. 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:37.360 Don't if slow pitchers were hard to, hit college coaches 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:40.240 would be recruiting slow. Pitchers So i'm not here for. 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:43.720 That lock, in make, adjustments like figure out a way 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:46.960 to get that right to have. Success the second thing, 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:51.040 is you, KNOW, ravi he was. KIND i had a 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:55.960 good Career tennessee you don't put together seasons by locking 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:58.400 in for a pitcher one. Night if you want to 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:01.000 have a great, year Like Daniel jackson's the star of 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:03.680 our sport this. Year people somehow want to knock him 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:07.240 because he hit five home runs in a weekend Against Northern. Colorado, like, 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:10.639 no that's a great player who shows up for every, 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:14.119 game every abat regardless of who's across from. Him he 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:16.679 had three to ninety in THE sec Two, like he 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:18.560 checked that. Box, also do you see What i'm. Saying 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:20.720 so WHAT i would tell a kid is and everything's. 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:22.840 Relative if you want to have a great season in 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:25.960 the major, leagues Like Aaron, judge doesn't just rise up 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:28.720 against a, Bit like he's locked in every. Day and 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:30.399 if you want to be good at anything as a 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:33.080 career in, life you better learn how to lock into 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:35.120 what's in front of you that day and don't make 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:37.879 excuses on either end of the. Spectrum the guy was too. 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:40.679 GOOD i couldn't hit. Him the guy's. STUNK i wasn't, Focused, like, 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:43.679 well good luck to. You that's probably gonna hit a 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:45.440 ceiling or a wall at some point your. 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:48.879 Career, yeah not a good. Look And Daniel jackson is 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:51.200 supposed to go and hit five runs Against Northern. Colorado. 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:54.159 Right next question here For MELANIE burkei we saw you 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:57.800 were the tenth pick in the first round in one national, 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:01.320 player semi finalist or finalist. One you led him to 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:03.919 The College World. Series what do you remember most about that? 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:07.080 Run for the volunteers, MAN i really appreciate that. 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:10.400 Question the memory that sticks with me absolutely the most 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:12.960 Was East Carolina game. 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:13.359 Two of The Super. 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:15.760 Regional they DECIDED i got two hits in my first 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:18.560 two at, bats and they decided to intentionally walk me 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:22.240 my next three at, bats and it loaded the bases 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:23.639 for the guy who's hidden behind. 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:25.159 Me and his Named Stevie. 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:27.680 Daniel we were played up the middle together for three straight, 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:30.399 years hit one and two for three straight. Years he 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:34.520