June 9, 2025

PipemanRadio Wants to Know Why Johnny Hates Sports

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Hi, you love done to thissu? Why great Young?

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This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures of

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Pipe Man W four C Y Radio, and I'm here

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with man. This is gonna be a good one because

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this is a show host on our network that talks

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about something that's not talked about a lot. And I

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know I've experienced it. I know you the listeners have

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probably experienced it. And now we're going to find out

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why Johnny Hates Sports with Fred eng How are you?

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Good morning, pipe Man, And it's great to be with

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you this morning.

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Oh great to have you. And so tell me, let's

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let's start off right off the get go. What was

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the what was the impetus that made you come up

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with the concept of talking about why Johnny hates sports?

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What does that represent?

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Well, the whole idea of you know, people have asked

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me after the fact of you know, I wrote the

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book Why Johnny Hates Sports, and because of my background,

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I had seven kids that played and I saw all

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the things I didn't want to see happen out there.

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But the whole reason why Johnny hates sports is you

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know what happens is kids are six years old, they

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hardly know how to tie their shoes, and yet we

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expect them to play like they play baseball or whatever

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in the major leagues. So that's what starts out with kids.

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And then all of a sudden, the league says, hey,

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we got to have somebody to come out here to coach,

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and it's got to be you, dad, you know, because

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we don't have coaches. So here you got what I

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call Billy Jones's father or Johnny Jones's father, or Mary

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Whatever's mother, and somebody's out there in the field trying

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to coach them. They may not have ever played this sport.

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They don't know anything about the sport at all of catching, throwing, kicking,

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hitting skills. So they're out there as a coach. So

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can you imagine the kid trying to be, you know,

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having fun with somebody trying to show them to do that.

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And then the next thing that you have is you've

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got the league itself. And this league has made up

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a group of guys or plumbers, truck drivers, pharmacists, care

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you mean.

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They don't actually play in the sport that they're running.

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No, no, no, So so you got them out there

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and they're organizing all of this, and so the main thing.

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They say, well, what is our goal here? Well, well,

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what is every sports goal? It's winning, And so get

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it back to the idea of kids starting out at

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six years old, and the statistics show amazing, isn't that

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they started six years old and by the age of

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thirteen seventy percent of them we will equit. And when

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I asked why they quit, they say that it ceased

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to be fun because of the pressure put on parents.

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You know, parents are out there screaming, yelling because they

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dropped the fly ball. I was doing an interview one

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time TV in Tampa. Never forget right. Here's a guy

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in a hockey program kids about eight, nine years old whatever,

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same thing. He misses a goal and the camera catches

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him and he's yelling and screaming. He says, you bum billy,

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you can never do anything right. I say, how would

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you like to be that age and your father calling

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you a bum? You missed the goal in a hockey.

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And hockey is the worst, because I have all of

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them because I coached a bunch of sports, but I

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coached hockey and that was the worst. You know, And

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like to your point, I played baseball for nine years.

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By the time I got to high school, I was

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over it, and and I originally I wanted to go

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to major leagues originally, but then it was just like

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I was over it by then. But then in coaching,

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I know there's other coaches that like, what are how

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are they teaching these kids how to play baseball? They

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never played themselves. That's what ended up me coaching, because

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like I would have my kid on a team that

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the coach didn't even know what they were talking about

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or or anything about the game.

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Yeah. Well, the funny thing is about you know what

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I mentioned before, that bother is out there at times,

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kid up and they say, well, the line's over here

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for you. You know it, signed up to coach it.

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Why kidding me? I'm not coaching. I got work to

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do and I get home and okay, well then uh next,

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because Billy, your son can't play. What do you mean

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he can't play? Well, if we don't have a coach,

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then he can't play. We don't have a team. So

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there you go, and you got you got people out

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there doing it and trying to do it. But the

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worst part about it, I mean, you know, you can

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be a baseball coach and and just sit there in

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the dugout and watch what goes on. But that's not

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what happens. Now they get all excited, you know, the

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scores two to two and now it's fifth or seventh

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thing and whatever. And now that everybody starts to get nervous,

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the people in the stands start yelling at the coach,

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put him in there, put him in there, Scott saying

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wait a minute, and so get it's just bedlam. And

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that's like I could say, seventy of the kids drop out.

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And that's evident of why. You know, it's it's such

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a bad situation for so many kids.

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Yeah, and and you know it's a bad situation for

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the parents too. I find for multiple reasons. You can

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tell me what your opinion is, but number one, because

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you know they they first of all, they don't know

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what they're doing. So if there's parents that are seeing

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their kids that could have potential that aren't being taught

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the right way, and how those parents react to those

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coaches or you have, you know, like the typical coach

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happens a lot in hockey where you know, they think

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their kids should play all the time, and they're a

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bully and so ergo they're going to bully the coach

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and you know all the things that go on that

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these kids have to see. Now it's bad enough to

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you know, they're put under pressure to you know, play

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like their professionals instead of in a rec league. But

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now they're seeing their parents act ridiculous.

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Yeah, I mean you mentioned they're playing in the rec

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league and what is in the last several years that's

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come along as the travel teams, and so what happens

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with the travel teams, it's really really hurting the rec programs.

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You got kids in communities, you know, no matter where

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you live in the country, there's parts of w rec

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departments and they've got fields all over town Northwest Park,

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Southwest Park, East whatever. And on those parks they got

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ball fields that they built with the idea that kids

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would play baseball. Well, the w REC Department doesn't organize it.

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They allow the permits for Billy Jones, It's father and

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whoever come in and say hey, we've got to have

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a baseball for our kids. And that's how it starts.

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So you got the tune of millions of kids across

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the country that are now playing in ret programs. And

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then in the last few years. What happens is they

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going to try to get a permit that's a uh

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sorry that it's not available. What do you mean it's

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not available? Well, we have travel teams that have paid

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money to lease the field, and it's so the travel teams,

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you know, they appeal to the parents' ego and they say, yeah, look,

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you know if you sign up, and who's doing this,

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this is a code or excuse me, the organizer of

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the travel team who's getting paid, and the coaches are

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getting paid. And so they say to the parent, looke,

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your kid doesn't sign up for this. I mean, he's

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a good ballplayer and he's gonna make it in the

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major leagues or he's going to get his college scholarship.

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So you don't want to miss out on this. You

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know how much these people are paying for a year

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for the kid to go out there and play in

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travel Oh, I'm.

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Sure the listeners don't know unless they're paying it, because

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it's a lot of money.

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Fifteen thousand dollars. I was on somebody one of the

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interviews the other day. He said, you know, it must

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cost you about five thousand dollars and it's lady left.

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He said, yeah, I wish he was five thousand, fifteen thousand.

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We paid last year. I said, what's for? Well, when

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you go to the tournament, you got to take the kids,

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you got to say the hotel, you got to pay

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the coaches, you got to pay everything. And the worst

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part about it is now these guys that are calling

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themselves professional coaches, they're saying, you know, if your kid Doug,

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you out there and play all year long, yeah, it

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guess what happens. Just like you were talking before, you

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get to a certain age and you get burnt out

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and say, oh this, how about out of here? And

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because its just too much.

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I find where we are too in Florida. It's even

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more prevalent because like I'm from New Jersey, And what

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was cool about in New Jersey when I was raising

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my kids is that they could play a different sport

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for different seasons, because there was you know, it only

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was certain seasons. Here. What I really didn't like is, oh,

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if you take a season off of this sport to

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go play another sport, well you're not in the end anymore,

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Like you're not part of the click anymore. It's like

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you have to you can't miss one season or else

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you fall to the bottom of the heap.

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Yeah. You know the worst part of that whole deal

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is you got the kid that you know, he's got

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friends and he's got other things that he made you

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want to do, but he eats. And so I don't

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want to disappoint my parents because they're spending all this money.

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So I'll just stick with it and stay out there.

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I'll tell you tell him that, right, Like the parents

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are like, no, you know, if you want to quit

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after the season, you can, but you have to stick with.

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It no matter what.

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Or they don't even give the option of quitting after

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the season. It's like, nope, you need to do this.

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And I think kids want to try different sports too.

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Yeah. The funny thing with a show that I do

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is you kind of well know called why Johnny a Sports,

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which a little promo here is on Friday morning at

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eleven am for anybody that's listening here. But you know,

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talking about it the other day one of the shows

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that the woman was saying, yeah, we spent fifteen thousand

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dollars for a year. You know, I said, well why

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you spend that money? He said, well, you know, my

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kid can get a scholarship. They don't do this, They're

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not going to get a scholarship. I said, well, what

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if you just forgot about all that and started saving

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all that money, because you're not going to be guaranteed

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to get a scholarship, but if you put the money aside,

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you'll have money for them to go to college. Because

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you know, the statistics will show. It's amazing that parents,

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even though they know this, they don't give it. Damn

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he can make it. But less than two percent of

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any kid that goes out in a baseball program and

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signs a major league contract will ever play in the

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major leagues. You're not amazing. So you know, some of

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the people that have had on the show, a guy

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that actually, you're going to have you back next week.

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He went through the whole process of that, and I

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asked him about it, said, you know your parents push

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you into that because it's oh yeah, absolutely, they knew

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I was going to making to the major leagues. And

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he signed the contract, played for the Cardinals in the

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minor leagues, and he said, I rode around a bus

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all around the Carolina's worst experience in my life. Never

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played a day in the major leagues.

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Wow, Wow, and then you know you're talking about parents before.

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Like I was at one of my grandson's football games,

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a tournament, one of those tournaments, and this guy brought

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his kid into the bathroom and the whole place could

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hear him screaming at the kid, like and just totally

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belittling the kid because maybe he made a mistake in

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the game. In the game, you.

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Know, Yeah, you talk about hockey. Hockey and football are

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the two wors for kids and sports. I'll tell you

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a quick story, but mother, Mother was telling me one

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time in one of the talks I was getting somewhere.

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you what happened to my son in the football program.

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He was gonna go to a dental appointment and I

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had to go over to practice and pick him up.

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And I got there and when I got there, I

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couldn't find him. And I went over the coach. I said,

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where's my son. He said, he's over the car, over there,

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he said. She said, I said, what's he doing in

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the car? She said, well, he's over there. Get She

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goes over, opens the door of the car. And this

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is in summer and it's hot and the car's running,

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the heats turned on high, and he's wrapped in plastic wrap.

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happens is the league says, all right, now, we got

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this real good quarterback and he's got a weigh one

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hundred and fifteen pounds. He weighs anymore or not, they're

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gonna have weigh in tomorrow. You gotta lose it. And

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then Tommy, you got to get in there and lose

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all his weight. So he gets hit there and it's

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you know, heat exhaustion. I mean, could the poor kid

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could die from that? And then the mother knew it

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and she ended up suing the coach. So you couldn't

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realize that. I mean, there's so many ugly, ugly stories

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about you football coaches because and I can say this

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because I was a head football coach in Wilmington, Delaware

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in high school, and so I knew about football. And

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one thing is football is a tough game, tough game

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for tough kids. And if you're not that, then you

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shouldn't be playing it. And when the parents get their

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kids out there and they're gonna be trying to play football,

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and they shouldn't even be out in the field because

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they don't want to be they don't like to get hit,

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and it's it's it's just a rat race. But I'll

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tell you the biggest fallacy of youth sports. It's called

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the maturing level. You got a kid that comes out

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and then let's see we get back to it seven

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year old. Well, maturation wise, there can be four year

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difference between that age group. So now you got a

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seven year old who managed to receive that kid is

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twelve years old or what he's not seven years old?

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Well he is because he matured early. So now you

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got him and gets what the coach does. Oh man,

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let's get baseball. It's gonna be my picture football, it's

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gonna be my quarterback because they think of him as

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his big kid. So now you got the other seven

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year old who is a reverse and now he can

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be a seven year old and give the body of

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a four year old. And so now you have those

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two in the league. Care how old are your son?

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Seven years old? You're in his group seven year old

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and so you know he used to watch the Little

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League World Series and you're looking at a kid on

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the mountain. He say what the kid old six one,

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and and I'm not kidding that you've probably seen it.

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The kid in the Little League World Series six one

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throwing the ball, you know, eighty miles an hour.

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And how my ten year old grandson is almost my

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size height wise, and he's definitely stockier than me. So

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in football he goes through that like he you know,

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if he's in the ten ten, you then there's a

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bunch of kids that are like up to his knee

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and stomachs he's playing with and getting it.

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Gets what the uncle and the parents and everybody else says.

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My boy out there, you know, it looks a big

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and he's going to dominate in his whole thing. And

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you never know what's in the kid's mind. I mean,

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you know, he may be bigger and whatnot, but inside

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he's not, and he maybe doesn't even want to be

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out there. But yeah, I mean, I don't want to

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paint the picture that all youth sports are not good

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because for the overwhelming majority, it's a great learning experience

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and to develop self confidence, self esteem, self work because

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you just developed that. Not to even mention the physical

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benefits of starting out learning how exercise, you know, is important.

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So like I said, I don't want to.

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Take it keeps him out of trouble too. Like, if

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you don't have your kids in those kind of activities,

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they're going to be doing other activities they are much

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more dangerous.

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Oh yeah, I live right across the street from park

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here and in Big Park, and every afternoon Sundays it's

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just packed with kids playing soccer and I think, you know,

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they didn't have it. What of those kids going to

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be doing?

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Yeah, I'm probably going to be doing drugs and alcohol

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in that park.

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Yeah, you got it. And so you know, that's the

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good part about with sports and what it does for kids.

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But we've got to get rid of the ugly part

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and we've been trying to do it with our organization

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for several years.

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Yeah, tell everybody a little bit more about your organization,

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how they can reach out to you, how they can

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help all that good stuff.

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Yeah. The the organization is the National Alliance for Youth Sports.

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I started the organization way back in the before the

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two thousand and what happened is based on all of that.

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I was saying that coaches need to be trained and

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then started the organization. Would you believe today that throughout

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the country four million plus coaches and communities across the

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country have gone through the program and been conducted by

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local recreation professionals. So there are about two thousand recreation

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departments that have a certified Youth Sport administrator who conducts

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training for parents and coaches and administrators of the program.

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So yeah, that has been going on and it's a

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nonprofit organization that has just been helping educate because that's

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the only thing you can do. You can educate people.

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And then in communities they make it mandatory. You like

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the story in Jupiter a few years back that they

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decided they was going to make it mandatory that if

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you're a parent, you'd have to go through our parent

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program that teaches parents how to behave in the importance

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of what means the kids, and the parent didn't give

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to the program, their kid couldn't play. So it I

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like that. It caught national news and I was on

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everything from Good Morning America to ESPN or whatever, and

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people say, well, you can't do that to parents. They

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did it, and now many programs across the country do it,

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and it should be done so parents can come in

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and you know, sit there and say you can't misbehave.

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This is about kids, it's not about you exactly.

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I think it's a brilliant idea, and I think it

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should be required because two main parents don't know how

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to act. And that's what I was referring to before

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the kids are seeing this, you know, and like I

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think of the kid that their parent is the one misbehaving,

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how embarrassing it is because then they have to go

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back to school with these kids that are playing with

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or and play with them on the team. And you know,

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kids sometimes aren't nice to other kids, especially in those

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embarrassing situations.

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Oh, there's no question. I mean, there's so many stories

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that people have told me over the years of you know,

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how the kids here. I've Judge telling telling me one

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time is to Judge in Alabama and he said, we

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were riding home in the car and my son was

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riding in the back seat. My wife's next to me.

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He said, my wife turns to him and just rates

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him the whole way home, telling him what he did

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wrong in the game, and he costs them to lose

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the game because of what he did. And he said,

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that was my wife saying that. And so I's say

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if people, you know it. I don'tkay, really, you're a psychologists,

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psychiatrists of judge or whoever it is. People are all

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the same and they need to understand their words have

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such an impact on kids.

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Yeah. Yeah, it's fine because my oldest daughter, she was

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in gymnastics and stuff like gymnastics and cheerleading. Oh man,

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those parents get serious.

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Yeah, it doesn't matter, that's right, I'd say to people though.

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You know when when we talk about parent behavior and sports,

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it's so different that that's parent can be up in

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the stands and the kid strikes out and parent yells,

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you dom a barb strikeout. Can you imagine the same

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thing happens in the school and they're having a spelling

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bee and the parents are in the room watching the

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spelling bee and the kid misspells a word. The parent

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jumps up and yells, can you be so stupid? Sam

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that we've been working with, here's everybody in the room

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and looking, who is this cdiot? But they don't do

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it in baseball. It's just part of it, and people

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will look, well, that's part of the game, the parents,

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But it's not anymore. I mean, it's boy the game.

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So we're thankful that we have an organization like yours

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that can help the kids, the parents, the coaches, everybody.

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One last time before we go, give out all your

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information for your organization, how people can help, how they

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can contact you, but also information on your show right

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here on W four c Y Radio Why Johnny Hates Sports.

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They can tune in every Friday, eleven a m. Eastern

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time and take it away.

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Fred. Yeah, if you think about doing it would be

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great because the organization is na y S dot org.

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That's the national lines for U sports. And all you'd

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have to do is say, oh, clicking there at ays

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dot org and just say wow, and you'll see all

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the things that the organization does and how you can

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get involved in one way or another. And then, of

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course is what Dane is saying is every Friday morning

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at eleven am. I've been able to have some really

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interesting people, recreation people, and the last few weeks we

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talked about you know, travel teams and as recreation and

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people what they see in their communities about it. And

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then other people have had our her Kirk Street who's ESPN,

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he's a broadcaster and talking about kids in sports and

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so people at different levels sports psychologists psychology talking about

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all these important things, and you know parents that are

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there and listeners that are listening to this. You got kids.

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I think he's really important for you to hear what

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other people are saying, because then you can begin to

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look inside yourself to say, oh, yeah, he's talking about me.

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Yeah right, So sometimes you do have to hear that

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outside voice.

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You got it. So it's Friday morning at eleven am,

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and we look forward to seeing you.

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Well, thanks a lot for all you do. And your

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show is amazing. So everybody's got to tune in or

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they can't listen to my show. And and it's same

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same BAT channel right here on W four c Y Radio,

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W four c Y dot com. And Fred, thank you

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for being on the Adventures of pipe Man.

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Uh you got a being and uh I like seeing

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your Pipeman shows from time to time talking about different

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different categories.

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Oh yeah, you never know what pipemin personality is gonna

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show up.

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Alright here ready get up. Thank you for listening to

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the Adventures of Pipemin on w for c u I Radio.