19 | How Does a Coach Balance Discipline and Passion? Insights from Tim Raposa

[00:00:00] But yes, like the laziness, right? Like even just in drills at practice, if you're just going to go 50% like, what are you doing? Like, why are you even wasting my time?

[00:00:10] I have dressed the parents with it a lot and I get the part of becoming a really good athlete is the disciplined part of doing things that you don't want to do but still doing them.

[00:00:20] But doing them with intent. And I think that's the biggest thing. And I try to stay, I use the word lazy.

[00:00:26] I try to stay away from that word because I guess if a player hears that they can take it a couple different ways.

[00:00:33] So I love using the word intent. Like what's your intent? Let's have a little hint in what we're doing.

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[00:01:19] Welcome back everyone to Catching You. I'm your co-host Rusty Ann with me, my daughter and co-host Lacey. Lacey say hi.

[00:01:28] Hi.

[00:01:29] We have a guest with us today, Tim Raposa. Is that how you say it?

[00:01:35] Yes, yes.

[00:01:36] Awesome. Tim's up there near Lacey up there at San Jose.

[00:01:40] He is 2015, started his own I think baseball softball which is combination which is unusual because some of most people will just stick one with the other but you I think you have kids in both.

[00:01:52] So you I do.

[00:01:53] I might have been the reason why you did both but it's called try counting tritons.

[00:01:58] Tim, just give us a little background of yourself and then we'll roll with it after that.

[00:02:03] Yeah, so background with me how I played baseball not my whole life.

[00:02:08] I didn't start playing until I was 11 years old which is people when I tell people that they're what was that's late really but anyway I played junior college baseball and I was supposed to go out to the Midwest to play at an AIA then it didn't pan out.

[00:02:22] Not back.

[00:02:23] I can't even remember the year might have been 2000.

[00:02:27] Can't remember the year anyhow got back and jumped right in the coaching like that was my way to stay in the game and be around it and I was still young and so I got to start coaching high school baseball and just that wasn't my kind of cup of tea just didn't want didn't really like how it all worked out ran obviously many reasons but.

[00:02:48] Meanwhile I ended up I have a younger sister who was a softball player who was a pitcher and she was taking lessons in the Bay Area with these girls and I went down and started meeting with them and.

[00:02:59] Long story short they played at Cal Berkeley so I stayed in contact with them and then got me into the softball world will.

[00:03:05] After I got done playing junior college baseball I played men's fast pitch at not USA men's fast pitch but the open level where do the dudes are chucking it it's it is hard and.

[00:03:18] And they're crow hopping right you know and they're they're 46 feet but by the time they get rid of it they might be 35 feet with the leap in the jump and anyhow that's where I got my love of the sport of softball.

[00:03:30] Yes the mini baseball game to me and I was a kid I'm involved in I was I'm involved at all of it and so that's how I got into both of them okay we have kids and all that but.

[00:03:43] Played men's fast pitch obviously baseball coach baseball all the way up been coaching baseball since I don't know 2002 2003 but then ventured into the coaching softball once my daughter started playing competitive softball.

[00:03:56] Meanwhile I've always worked with girl hitting gave hitting lessons to girls catching lessons but now in the last two years we so only last two years we've had softball some.

[00:04:06] I will tell you and I hope my baseball players and families plug their ears here but I enjoy softball so much.

[00:04:16] I tell some of my coaches that make look at me like I'm crazy but I'm like man it's a whole nother world just the way the girls are when you coach them the games obviously you're dealing with all the cheering and all that stuff but it's just the excitement is so much different and and it's just grew my love even more and.

[00:04:35] So that's where I'm at I got five I have five kids 11 year 12 year old she just turned 12 she's my oldest I have a 12 year old daughter 10 year old son a seven year old son a five year old daughter and then a one year old daughter so I'm.

[00:04:50] Look how.

[00:04:52] I as a fool and I'm 45 so I'm an older dad I'm probably going to be the dad that shows up dropping off in the oh grandpa dropped you off today.

[00:05:00] There you go.

[00:05:02] That's my wife's a nurse.

[00:05:04] I'm a stay home dad during wall dealing with all of them and then obviously come three o'clock 3 30 I'm out the door on a field in a cage somewhere until eight nine at night or every night like there's no nights off it's literally.

[00:05:18] And obviously you guys know him Saturdays and Sundays or traveling somewhere or going to work or build somewhere at bright and early and get home late.

[00:05:27] I had to start right after yeah when you talk about your.

[00:05:31] The baseball players maybe it made me your ex players and that's fun what they thought of you then and then what they think of you now.

[00:05:39] Oh it's it's sorry about that.

[00:05:41] It's night and day and to reflect on that is when I first started when I first got out of playing jay junior college I wanted everything done perfect.

[00:05:50] I want everything had to be done perfect basically like I said like a drill sergeant and that's with 20 years ago and so a lot different now and and dealing with the kids but.

[00:06:01] I didn't let anything go at all like it was my way or you didn't like it then see yeah and that's that's what's changed a ton and obviously having five kids now but now.

[00:06:11] All my former players and they're all boys are met young men they come out no watch me coach even our boy teams and they're like who's this guy he's not even barking at anybody in the dugout he like it it's just funny because now they think they call me more like the softy now and right.

[00:06:30] More so and not that I'm because that practice I get after everybody boy or girl if we're not doing things right I'm after you I'm gonna I'm not gonna let you just skate through practice I am that I am still hard on them at practice but.

[00:06:43] Right it's just funny when old players just come back and they're just wondering you okay once I had kids honestly.

[00:06:50] I really think about what I say now and real life and almost every time I always think about what I want somebody yelling at my kids saying that and not that I was it was out of line it's just a constant on you and barking at you and and don't get me wrong like I'm okay with people.

[00:07:08] Barking at my kids and making sure they're doing things right but it just.

[00:07:12] Amy sit back and think man like kids how the heck are kids gonna perform if I'm down their throat every freaking second and what that's what's changed in obviously we all know like nobody's trying to make mistakes and that's I think that's the biggest thing from my early years to now is realizing like nobody's perfect and you're going to make mistakes not that I didn't know that early but it's I would get so fired up.

[00:07:38] When the smallest things would happen right now I'm like okay big deal like we're moving on we're flushing it like it's over so.

[00:07:48] Those two things those are some changes that I've made and obviously it's it is obviously you have to change coaches have to change with the times and the players and.

[00:07:56] Right and how kids learn and what which way they learn and when you can find when you can tap into those learning the way they learn and how they're gonna excel at the way either see it do it here at whatever yeah then like can go on and.

[00:08:11] Climb that hill but that's why it's pretty.

[00:08:14] All the time are you okay are you the same person.

[00:08:19] That's funny they feel good that I've changed because you have to change coaches like you can't just be one way like for a moment a period of time you can but things change things evolve like you have to be able to adapt and change so that.

[00:08:33] Positive for me yeah yeah late later I'm not dead I'm not walking people on purpose.

[00:08:40] Yeah.

[00:08:41] Yeah.

[00:08:43] Absolutely that same thing like I tell parents and now in my own travel like not that we don't want the best players of course we want the best but but our great our parents they all they're all bought in and what we do and what we teach and it makes that much easier things easier but.

[00:09:00] Back to like my parents know like I don't deal with the stupid stuff if you're barking at your kid from the stands like I look over it you better be quiet because that ain't helping they're already trying to do it for me let alone mom and dad in the stands.

[00:09:16] Yeah yeah yeah lace similar right ways Chris coach Chris very similar he was 10 you he was you know they missed a ball run.

[00:09:24] Run yeah they were constantly running because they're dropping balls or they're a place you want to touch on like what those practices were like.

[00:09:33] Yeah I actually was on a call with them the other day very long call and he just called me out of the blue and we're still pretty close to this day.

[00:09:42] Yeah after my team.

[00:09:44] After 12 you with the organization take certain girls to like the higher up teams and they were taking from that team from his team and after that team disbanded a little bit.

[00:10:00] Everyone was like he's so different now he's not as hard on anyone he doesn't make them run after mistake we had a thing called seven innings and we would run.

[00:10:10] The equal amount of what it felt like to be like playing seven innings like back to back to back.

[00:10:16] So yeah and that was our punishment usually or there was a hill and we would run up the hill anytime he felt like we were slacking.

[00:10:27] Yeah it's definitely so different now I can see it in travel organizations some organizations maybe like Corona Angels.

[00:10:35] It's probably the same they have Hell Week which is I don't I godly I never got to experience that.

[00:10:44] But I can see it now how times have evolved where you have to just be like one on one with your player develop a relationship with that player and not be.

[00:10:56] I don't know like you said down their throat all the time because that just adds to the pressure.

[00:11:00] There's there has to be a happy medium that if you have no pressure on the player then there's no motivation to go perform.

[00:11:10] But if there's too much and then cause a lot of anxiety and a lot of weight on a player's mind times have definitely changed for sure.

[00:11:18] Speaking of parents that get he was so hard on the kids I have to team her and 10 you have to team quit because it couldn't handle it.

[00:11:26] I'll be honest I ran a 10 year group last year and two girls quit and they and they quit because I was too hard on them and I but like my other coaches that coached with me when that was they told us that my other coaches were like.

[00:11:40] Interesting because me really I wasn't really that hard I was just expecting girls to know when I tell the girl to be in a spot like five or six different times and they don't get to that spot like I might park at you like where were you going like you got to get to this spot so I just it happened.

[00:11:56] But that's one thing I will say in softball that's different that I see different in baseball is so much change every season like girls jump in here boy girls doing this leaving here leaving that team going to this I see that more than anything and I think.

[00:12:11] For us it's like if we can continue to keep our roster that kind of says I think that says a lot with who we have and what we're doing with not people not wanting to leave.

[00:12:22] I guess majority is leaving because they don't play where they want or where they want but they are lazy let me ask you this what type of like coach bugs you or do you excel with you excel with people that are on you all the time or you more of hey give me what I need to do I'm going to do it and feel me what kind of player are you.

[00:12:43] I'm in the middle so I'm a very independent individual I'd say and I have very strong opinions but I grew up in a coaching environment where they're there were on me all the time and they knew the type of player I could be but as I got to college I kind of.

[00:13:03] As I'm growing up in high school and college forming my own opinions knowing what works for me what doesn't honestly it's just like a way of communicating being able to communicate with my coach and be like I don't think this is working anymore I need to change something.

[00:13:19] I've gone through periods where I'm like oh I feel like I need to do everything myself and I really just need those are moments where I do need my coach to tell me you need to work on this let's work on this all this week before our games so I do being told.

[00:13:35] This is what you need to do I do like that and then there's going to be times where I'm I do communicate with them and say well I like can we work on this too.

[00:13:44] It's just a balance some girls really like being harped on and being told what to do all the time because they don't really know what to do themselves.

[00:13:52] Yeah there's a lot of girls that probably have stronger opinions than me and want to do everything themselves so I'm more of them in the middle for sure.

[00:14:01] Gotcha.

[00:14:02] Gotcha.

[00:14:03] Nice.

[00:14:04] Yeah last couple episodes Tim we've been talking about like the ideal player ideal team player which is somebody who's humble hungry smart.

[00:14:12] You said one of your pet peeves is laziness.

[00:14:15] Oh God.

[00:14:16] So that kind of for me that kind of tips the value is being hungry right if they're lazy after walking out I think you mentioned walking out to the field or just being lazy in practice.

[00:14:28] Talk about that a little bit that's like the value of being hungry.

[00:14:31] Absolutely and our and my daughter knows my expectations and I'm pretty hard on my daughter but before I get to that I always tell this if you didn't know me.

[00:14:42] Or my daughter you wouldn't be able to know that she's my daughter.

[00:14:45] If you're watching us play you wouldn't be able to pick this girl out that so I'm pretty with my daughter she knows aren't my expectations so you show up she's getting on and off the field but yes like the laziness right like even just in drills at practice if you're just going to go 50%

[00:15:00] Like what are you doing like why are you even wasting my time.

[00:15:04] I address the parents with it a lot and I get the part of becoming a really good athlete is the discipline part of doing things that you don't want to do but still doing them but doing them with intent.

[00:15:16] And I think that's the biggest thing and I try to stay I use the word lazy I try to stay away from that word because I don't I guess if you if a player hears that they can take it a couple different ways and so I love using the word intent.

[00:15:29] Like what's your intent let's have a little it and what we're doing and I think you will hear me if the players are running walking on the field I guarantee you.

[00:15:40] Orplex you're probably going to hear me like that I am loud and I do back to the loud part is a lot of times I'm loud so everybody can hear me and I think some when you hear somebody screaming and not never stream being loud so everybody can hear you might just.

[00:15:58] Think what the heck is that guy doing over there or they can hear me but yeah back to the laziness I'm just honestly I was lazy as a player and it's a lot of things that I did as a player.

[00:16:10] I don't let my players get away from because get away with you like I had people tell me I could have did this did that and I just didn't do it like I don't know why like I just was lazy right yeah.

[00:16:24] There's so many and I think another one in there was the uniforms like I am a warm.

[00:16:29] The form stickler like my dad was big with his players.

[00:16:34] Yeah they had the tuxer shirts in practice or in game.

[00:16:38] The one thing I hated when I put them in the game and they were tucking their shirts in as they were checking it and I would pull them back I say you're not ready.

[00:16:47] I'm a uniform like you that's it's you have to wear proper attire to play and we have pants with belts so we got to wear belts.

[00:16:56] Yep.

[00:16:57] You don't have a belt you're not going in like the more baseball.

[00:17:02] I'll tell you one thing that my first time ever not letting a kid play because he had a belt like the parents did not like it and I just told him that's my policy.

[00:17:13] If you are not pressed in the right attire you are not playing you heard that at the parent meeting because I before the season like I bring all of our players and parents into a like physical meeting and I sit up there for an hour and a half and we go over everything and it's yeah I'm a uniform.

[00:17:29] Yeah it drives.

[00:17:31] I see it like you're going to get beat by so many things but it drives me crazy when another team will pound us and they'll have four different uniforms on it's like.

[00:17:42] Yeah.

[00:17:43] So yeah that is.

[00:17:45] We always had a we always my sister and I anytime you see another player wearing a watch during the basketball game we knew we were going to beat him.

[00:17:52] But yeah I knew the worst the four the worst four letter word you can recall this lady that's what I was told back in the day.

[00:17:59] Let's go to parents you mentioned parents a few times describe a humble parent.

[00:18:04] Oh man somebody that been there and done it.

[00:18:09] Yeah.

[00:18:10] I honestly like over my years of coaching like the parents that have done it or have are probably have been the best parents that I've had but just somebody that gets their kid to practice.

[00:18:22] Don't they don't miss practice.

[00:18:24] They're constantly on time at games and I get I don't I hate holding younger kids accountable for being late because it's they're not driving and I get things at home could have back to cause the lateness but so I hate punishing younger kids for actually I don't punish younger kids for being late

[00:18:40] unless it's like way late and let's another thing I just gotta please text me right hey we're running a little late just so I know and just yeah but yeah a humble parent.

[00:18:50] Somebody just sits back let's drop their kids off with us and either watches or does whatever they got to do but thanks.

[00:18:59] Thanks for what we're offering their kid and then take some home and we don't hear from them again and if they we and we I try to keep an I try to keep an open door if you got a problem like the only way it's going to get fixed is if we talk about it and if we don't talk about it and it's doing on you like that's going to be on you because where I'm at and yeah I hate it.

[00:19:20] And don't even run like I don't I'm not a big fan of talking to parents but it's not fun at times but it's it has to happen and it's just back to me being real.

[00:19:30] Yeah, the only way we're going to get better is by me being able to communicate with mom and dad about what's happening with Johnny or Susie or whomever I got out there.

[00:19:39] Yeah.

[00:19:40] But yeah it's we have we've had some obnoxious ones where they're just way out of control and those parents usually don't last in my program.

[00:19:48] Right.

[00:19:49] They don't it's regardless of the kids stability like they just not and I'm not saying cheering and being loud like I'm saying just constantly barking at the Empire barking at the kids.

[00:20:01] It's like that just don't fly man it's just not a fan of it but they're already trying to either do what I'm asking them to do.

[00:20:09] They don't need to hear you over there and don't get me wrong you can cheer and say what you want whatever but typically that doesn't end well on in my program for the parent.

[00:20:18] We don't have seriously we I'm lucky right now with the groups that we have because we don't have many parents that are issues which I grant it we only have we roster 10 or 11 kids on every team so what really be complaining about.

[00:20:32] Yeah, so you want those Hubble parents to do game changer right.

[00:20:36] Oh, I saw that I know.

[00:20:40] And I had actually my one of my parents text me after that and she was like basically gave me the burden was like you can do it and she was joking but.

[00:20:49] I just don't go by that because like I said who knows who's keeping score and whatever like I said I've seen a routine ball go right through a kid's legs and he's got a hit.

[00:21:01] Right.

[00:21:03] I like it though because some of the parents will stream it for like family members to watch work at be there and they're out of state so I do love that part of it and we go back back and steal clips off of them.

[00:21:17] Oh right.

[00:21:18] And go through some things that that maybe we didn't do well or we did well and so we do use it in that set definitely not for definitely not for the stats.

[00:21:26] You're a big changer guy huh.

[00:21:28] Me.

[00:21:29] Yep.

[00:21:30] Yeah, I was a horrible one though.

[00:21:31] I would always ask hey was that a hit was that an error I'd always make sure like I wanted to make sure there was.

[00:21:36] Oh, I am a fan of it.

[00:21:38] I am I in my post was just the old the person doing it like little bias to their son or doc.

[00:21:45] That's why I took over because I didn't trust parents.

[00:21:48] Hey, out now.

[00:21:50] All right so.

[00:21:51] And Lacey you're a pitcher right.

[00:21:53] Yep.

[00:21:54] Yeah, so absolutely.

[00:21:55] So that ball that went through your third basins legs is a hit.

[00:21:58] No, that's my daughter on the mail right there.

[00:22:00] Yeah, no it's an error.

[00:22:02] I still deal with it in college today.

[00:22:05] It's it's more like random like people that I've never met before doing my stats and I just see on the scoreboard that it counted as a hit.

[00:22:15] I'm like, are we serious?

[00:22:17] I'm serious.

[00:22:19] It was in the glove and then out the glove.

[00:22:23] I don't know what to tell you.

[00:22:25] No doubt.

[00:22:26] Oh, I mean, everywhere hits everywhere.

[00:22:29] So let's pivot to smart.

[00:22:31] You can talk about what a smart parent would look like or maybe just a smart player not against not smart as far as books.

[00:22:38] Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think you know what I'm talking about.

[00:22:40] You've seen smart players that get it.

[00:22:42] They understand the game.

[00:22:44] So maybe talk about a smart what a smart parent would look like.

[00:22:48] So I think a lot of people.

[00:22:50] I think a smart parent for sure is somebody that kind of back to the humbled parent making sure their kids are there on time and making sure they're not missing putting in the extra work.

[00:23:01] But the smart parent is the one that's paying for lessons and working on what they did in the lessons outside of that lesson.

[00:23:07] Right, I've given lessons for 20 years and I can tell you how many times I can't even count how many times a kid would come in and the last time he swung a bat was the last time he was with me.

[00:23:18] Back to me being pretty blunt and honest.

[00:23:20] I tell him straight, him and the pair like you're going to your mom and dad are paying me the same amount of money every week regardless if you do it or not.

[00:23:30] Why wouldn't he just wasting your parents money if you're not working on it?

[00:23:33] So I think a smart parent would be the one that's obviously putting in that work outside of their lessons but also like holding their kids accountable to a certain degree.

[00:23:44] I think that is very important because not only holding up.

[00:23:48] There's so many lessons taught outside of the game like about life that we the chances of anybody really making it to the top is so slim.

[00:23:58] So anything that we can pour into our athletes about being a good person number one right being respectful kind just back at the accountability learning to be responsible and understanding if you make mistakes there are consequences and we have to deal with those consequences straight away.

[00:24:14] I think the parents that understand that are the smart ones.

[00:24:17] The parents that get really upset when Johnny gets punished or Susie gets punished for doing something stupid.

[00:24:23] Those are the ones that like, man, like they're going to be the hard ones to crack or to really see what we're seeing and order even get on the same page as us.

[00:24:32] So I think a smart one is just number one you got to find people that you trust that are that you can that you trust that can make in number one develop your player your son or daughter into a pretty good player.

[00:24:43] But number two also having the trust that you're with that kid.

[00:24:48] Two, three out five, six, seven hours a week.

[00:24:51] You still have to know me and know what we're about.

[00:24:53] And I think that that's a smart parent right.

[00:24:56] It's just but back to getting the practice.

[00:24:58] Don't miss practice.

[00:25:00] And I get like I'm with the younger ones right so I mean up to 14 so girls play multiple sports and like I understand that and I'm not going to tell you right now at 12 that you're not going to be able to do that.

[00:25:12] Right now at 12 that you should only play one because as much as I would love you all to be just softball players like you might be pretty darn good at hoops or you might get a volleyball and that's I'm in that with my 12 year old my 12 year old is a pretty good little athlete.

[00:25:26] And she's never played travel volleyball but wants to we didn't let her this year because we're doing she was doing travel hoops and travel vault like it just couldn't just there's no way but like she wants to venture into that and then we're all for it.

[00:25:41] And so as much as I want her to just be a softball player like a gotta let her do these other things those other things are going to help mold her into a better person but probably a better softball player and smart parent man I would like to say I'm a smart parent but yeah we're probably agree with you.

[00:26:01] That's a good point because I know there's a lot of travel coaches that the players good but the parents might not be they won't take the player because of the parents right so they bring out players because the parents not necessarily the player right.

[00:26:17] Yeah I was coaching baseball I wasn't with the Triton I was with another organization and we are running the college developmental program and we had some dudes we had to there's two guys on our 16 new team that are in the MLB right now.

[00:26:31] But one kid on our team division one player his dad was just out of control like you call a strike on his kid he's mother S in it he you strike him out he's giving you the birth like dude losses scally like I and I hear stories like what I actually seen this like with my they yank scholarship because dad was being an a hole but not just that one time it was obviously just over no.

[00:27:00] They didn't care the kid there's a million of you out there I'll go get another one like with the parent that's going to not be like you and they I thought coming but I was like wow like that does happen.

[00:27:11] So it was good for me to see that because now I relay that to all my parents you want to be that parent.

[00:27:17] Not a good idea.

[00:27:19] Your parents like your kids like a group very far go ahead.

[00:27:21] The scholarship thing from like the players perspective whenever we're playing on like tournaments or anything like that our coaches would say and like college coaches would come out and watch ever since I was 13 years old so we're taught don't go on your phones like no reason you should be on your phone while you're at a tournament if we're on a game break you're sitting down with your teammates or your parents like getting the big one though was I clearly remember like getting like.

[00:27:51] The concession stand like the snack bar college coaches would see how you treat your parents.

[00:27:58] Just like a simple conversation with mom and dad that turns out to be like a little disrespectful on the coach's eyes.

[00:28:05] They're automatically crossing off their list.

[00:28:07] That's great point man.

[00:28:09] Yeah so I don't I wait yeah I just remember not being on my phone ever just being kind respectful to the concession stand people you never know who's around.

[00:28:21] And just like sitting around with my teammates or my parents and just like waiting for the next game to come on and making sure you're ready.

[00:28:28] I think it's absolute and from their eyes if you can be disrespectful to your mom and dad why the heck would you not be disrespectful to anybody else right.

[00:28:37] That's what I how I would take it if I was scouting cheese unfortunate it's unfortunate but that's how it is and I said I don't know if you guys the bird dog used to report to the area scout so I would bird dog a little bit for I did it for about three months.

[00:28:51] When I got back I forgot where I was at and I came back and my buddy was is the one of the head guys for the Red Sox and he would same thing he would tell us all these things he would the things that they're watching so many things that doesn't even have to do with the baseball game.

[00:29:05] Other than then seeing how you're performing out there and man you're right though it's it's so so so important just to be respectful like it's a simple disagreement when mom or dad could turn into something bad and exactly.

[00:29:20] They might not even know the context of what was being said they're just saying read a by language and attitude and that so great point.

[00:29:27] Awesome Tim it was great having you on great conversation if someone wants to get a hold of you I don't know if you have an email I know you have a website that someone they can try out or I think I want to tick tox if you want to do that as well how can they reach you.

[00:29:42] Yeah on my website is tctsports.com.

[00:29:48] It's our website which we run our baseball stuff we're working on making some changes but and then I'm on here I'm not even sure what my I think it's baseball and softball I think I changed it's more than baseball and softball content yeah and then basically our Instagram is TC Triton's baseball and softball.

[00:30:05] Baseball and softball.

[00:30:07] Okay but yeah I appreciate you guys man having me on this awesome I love what you guys do I watch them all and I'm a fan now and I'm going to try maybe try to get up to you guys and watch you guys play and I'm not sure I haven't looked to see how you guys were doing or anything but.

[00:30:24] Yeah we're in conference right now we have home we have a doubleheader on Wednesday.

[00:30:29] Yeah what was that do you guys play every Wednesday.

[00:30:32] I can look at this.

[00:30:33] No this is we only play one team for a doubleheader and then the rest are three game series during the weekend so we'll play for there's no state for a doubleheader.

[00:30:42] And then we're off to Nevada on Thursday and then I think we're home the next weekend hopefully we've been away the last three weekends.

[00:30:50] How are you guys doing right now in conference.

[00:30:52] I think we're three and three three and three probably in the fourth or third or fourth in conference where you go with it.

[00:31:00] So where you played for because I've heard the story like you used to play with who like all kinds of players like when you're young.

[00:31:09] Like that good Oklahoma and stuff.

[00:31:11] Yeah they're real in the wrong place.

[00:31:13] Yeah I play with Kinsey Hansen.

[00:31:15] The Batbusters.

[00:31:17] Yeah I play with T.R.A. Jennings Kinsey Hansen Hanakor Nicole May those are all just songs.

[00:31:24] Brito.

[00:31:26] Now have you always been a fan of T.R.?

[00:31:28] I have always been a fan of T.R.

[00:31:30] Yeah and then I made the decision to continue a travel at I think like 10 years old between competitive basketball or competitive softball.

[00:31:40] Gotcha.

[00:31:42] Yeah that's awesome.

[00:31:44] She turned into a P.O. for first year 14s.

[00:31:48] Yeah they took that bat right out in my hands.

[00:31:50] Let's unfortunate but that's just those.

[00:31:53] I'd encourage to keep hitting I'd say no I'm going to keep hitting and then I'd encourage that for sure.

[00:32:00] Yeah absolutely.

[00:32:02] I don't have any P.O.s yet but like I tell some of the players at some point it's coming.

[00:32:06] It's coming for sure.

[00:32:08] I think the biggest thing too is parents and players don't really we can talk about they don't really understand how the sacrifices you all you mom dad you all have to make to get to where you're at.

[00:32:22] They don't understand the work that you had to put in like those are the I think those two things are the hardest things for me to express to parents is OK you're working out two days three days a week but you and you want to tell me I had to tell me they want to go to Oklahoma.

[00:32:37] Like I had a girl the other day at her mom and dad came in and they wanted to talk with me and she's 12 let alone 12 and she struggles with you like pitching at a really low level right so she's telling me like oh she wants to go to Oklahoma this and that and me being real.

[00:32:52] I just asked like how many days a week you work out two or three days.

[00:32:56] Sorry you're not going to Oklahoma.

[00:32:58] Yeah I'm we talked about we've talked about this before of like how like work ethic and with your lessons too.

[00:33:06] I recently did or maybe like a year and a half ago two years ago I started giving lessons as well pitching and when it's hitting and like you said the last time they pitched her hit was the week before when I was when we were together and you can tell.

[00:33:19] And I asked them what have you been doing at home and they say nothing.

[00:33:23] And I'm like do you want to continue to be in the competitive softball or do you want to be great play college softball.

[00:33:31] And then they say yes I'm like it's going to take a little more than that.

[00:33:34] And that's a point because you can say hey I played with T.R. Jenny like she can list off all these players that she played with that are at the highest level.

[00:33:43] This is what they did.

[00:33:45] This is if you want to go there this is what you have to do A B C E F G.

[00:33:49] At 12 years old me and like some they lived a lot closer to our organization's facility.

[00:33:57] They were there every day for more than three hours every single day.

[00:34:01] And they wanted to be there so it's a matter of like you said intent hungry as my dad says you can tell when girls don't want it.

[00:34:11] And you just got you be real with them for sure.

[00:34:15] Yeah absolutely.

[00:34:17] Absolutely.

[00:34:19] Great stuff.

[00:34:21] Yep Tim I appreciate you coming out and I'm going to keep watching your content.

[00:34:24] Yeah check out Tim on Tik Tok he has some real good stuff.

[00:34:28] I think it's baseball and softball content right.

[00:34:31] I think that's that's how they can find you.

[00:34:33] All right man we'll talk to you soon.

[00:34:35] Good luck in the red place and I'll check out.

[00:34:38] Keep plugging away and Russ thank you very much but I appreciate it.

[00:34:42] Keep doing your thing.

[00:34:44] Hang on just a second we're going to let it load up.

[00:34:47] Lace love you babe.

[00:34:49] Love you.

[00:34:51] All right Tim take care of him.