The Boro Buzz Episode 12: A homerun with Brady Armfield!

Episode 12 of the Boro Buzz is HERE! We are bringing you an episode with future collegiate baseball player Brady Armfield. He is signed with Belmont Abbey and currently is a senior for the Southwestern Randolph Cougars! The Stories... the laughs that you will not want to miss!! Watch now!!

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Welcome back to another episode of The Borough Buzz.

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What's up, Borough Nation, and welcome to the Borough Buzz, the all-access path to everything sports in and around the borough. We're talking inside the lines and behind the scenes. Athletes, coaches, reps, and the stories you don't hear on game day. If it's happening in the gym, on the field, or in the locker room, you'll hear it here. This is the Borough Bust.

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SPEAKER_05 1:01

I got my for 21 years I've officiated the K Academy. I don't know if you heard about it. It's the number one fantasy camp uh in America. Coach K has it. There's been 22 years we didn't go to first year, we've been every year since. And it's it's an amazing thing to always give us stuff. But uh I love that, but uh, I understand that, but I mean I think we got to give him something else to get rid of that ugly dick shirt. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:27

Let's give him something like this, this nice shirt right here. Let's see rock that. How about that?

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A bur of buzz.

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Look at that. We got some new swag for Scott and the rock over here.

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Like it. Should we tell them who the guest is? Yeah, let's go ahead and get it on.

SPEAKER_02 1:44

All right. Well, we got a special guest today. Uh I feel like I have to, when I introduce him now for now, I gotta say, raise the red, right? Isn't that what it says? Yeah. What's up, Brady? How you doing? Mr. Brady Armfield. Yes, sir. Yeah, man, congrats. Uh D dude, Division 2, but really uh great program, Belmont Abbey. Uh, what was that like when that offer came in and why Belmont Abbey?

SPEAKER_01 2:04

Yeah, um, really the coaching staff, they were awesome. The coaching staff was awesome. Um as soon as I got there on campus, the the the big thing was the coaching staff. All the schools that I had offers from, the the campus was great. Um you had offers. Yeah, the the baseball programs and everything. They were great at all the schools, but it was just the coaching staff that made the difference. Um I was calling this guy two, three times a week, four times a week, and I mean he was just he was just talking like me and you are right now. I mean, he was just you know a genuine guy, um, a great dude. I remember the first time I ever got on a call with him. Um I caught or we were supposed to call at like say 7.30, and it was like 745. And he hadn't texted me and I was like, man, like I don't know if this guy's like, I don't know if he's just like not really into me, like what's going on right now.

SPEAKER_02 2:45

And uh sounds like a relationship right here. Yeah, yeah. I mean, that's how it is.

SPEAKER_01 2:48

That's how it is. So uh he he texted me and he said, sorry man, I got my I got my boys in the bathtub right now. Um my wife's doing something, I got my boys in the bathtub. I was like, you know, this is just a good guy. You know, he's he's he's not afraid to let me know. You know, he's got a he's a family man, he's a good dude. And from there, I mean, we talked for like 30 minutes that night about hitting, about everything. He was like, I'm I'm gonna put my boys to bed real quick and I'll call you up. We we called each other and man, we talked about hitting, we talked about baseball philosophy, and I mean that was the first time we'd ever talked on the phone. So he saw me play one time uh over the summer, and it was just it was on from there. So it was he he was awesome, he's an awesome guy, the head coach is awesome, all of them. They're just they're great guys.

SPEAKER_05 3:26

Well, I I'll say this because I saw this young man at a young age back in middle school. Wow. Play in middle school. Uh you know, there's certain players that when you umpire a game or you see a game that they're eye-catching. They're just certain ones. I mean, you say that kid's got a great opportunity. Um well, this was that kid. Nice, this was him. And as he moved on up, it seems like he's been at Southwestern Around. I say when I do a broadcast, I think he's been here eight years.

SPEAKER_02 3:58

That's what I say about John Shire when he played there my eight years.

SPEAKER_05 4:01

Um but there's certain players that they catch your eye from the start, even from a freshman. Did you reclass man? We got to know if you've been there. I didn't know I did not reclass man. But you you see kids that are just a little bit ahead of other kids. And it comes from hard work, um, and and that's what it is. But you he gets a southwestern Randolph. And I said it last year. I say it this year. He's one of the best hitters or in in the area. Uh and it shows when he comes up, he's that guy. I mean, when he comes up in a line.

SPEAKER_02 4:36

Somewhere around.

SPEAKER_05 4:37

The one he hit down at Eastern Randolph, it's probably still in Liberty. I mean, I don't think it ever came down, but that's what I'm saying. Uh, and he's it's hard work. We see these kids, uh J. Robb, you and I see these kids uh at a younger age and we watch them mature into juniors and seniors, and it's just a hard work. You can tell the ones that maybe say, Okay, I know I got an opportunity to play at another level, keep working hard, keep working hard. But I the question I have for you right now is there has to be days, because I always ask young people this when they're moving on. There has to be days where you say, Man, I'm just gonna chill today. I'm gonna chill today. But the word's always been there's always somebody out there working. Talk about those days, because I know you have them. Talk about those days.

SPEAKER_01 5:28

Yeah. Um so I'm I'm the kind of person that I get really stressed out if I'm if I know that I'm not doing the right thing for me and and for baseball. And I mean, I I could even say for my family, because I mean they've sacrificed a lot for me to be in the spot that I'm at. So um man, I mean, if if we go on vacation, if we're in a hotel, I'm looking for the weight room in the hotel. It's the first thing I do. Um if if we go somewhere and I can hit, I'm hitting because I I feel like that's that's what I have to do to maintain. I mean, that's whenever you're during season, you're just trying to maintain. You know, the off-season that's that's whenever you're trying to set a goal for yourself. Hey, I'm trying to put on five pounds of muscle. Hey, I'm trying to, you know, take this much time off my sixty-yard dash, you know, stuff like that. So during season, which is what is where we're at right now, I'm just trying to maintain. You know, I'm not gonna go max squatting and go doing this, doing that, you know, stuff I would do in winter. But um, you know, just maintaining, trying to get three three lifts in a week because it's you know, we're in season, so I'm not on game on game days, I'm not gonna cook my legs or cook my arms or stuff like that. But I'm still trying to get three lifts in a week and you know, swing it whenever I can. But I try not to swing too much during season. I try not to like overthink it. Um, because a lot of people I feel like will get in the cage and overswing. So I'll get in there and try to find something wrong with their swing. I'm just I'm a eight swings around guy and get out of there, you know. I like that. Make the eight good, you know. So uh so quality over quantity, and I'll I'm not gonna go in there and take a full bucket round. I try to take two rounds for every game. I'll go in there eight swings for two rounds, and then if I feel like I need to get a third round, I'll take one swing that third round. And I I treat it like a game. It's like I step in there and I'm taking a deep breath. People are probably thinking, what are you doing? But I'm in there, I'm taking a deep breath, and it's just it's a game like it's one swing, you know, it's a do or die. So that's that's my third round, and it's a it's like a feel-good per se. So t-shirt quality over quantity on that. I probably learned it from somebody way smarter than me. So don't take that's not me.

SPEAKER_05 7:24

This young man's one of the most feared hitters in the county and in the area. I'm just telling you that because I see a lot of baseball. Uh, and that's came that's come from hard work. Uh, and being that guy in the lineup, where the where are you about in third or fourth user? Third, yeah. So you're gonna hopefully get some people on where they have to pitch to you a little bit. But uh being that, and I'm telling you, he is a feared hitter. I mean, I'm just telling you the way he swings it. Uh the approach you have when you go to the plate, do you ever see if you feel like maybe they're pitching around you some just not to give it to you?

SPEAKER_01 7:59

Or yeah, so I uh every time I step in the box, and it sounds crazy, I really have an empty mind. My mind is empty, and I try not to think, I try not to guess, because that's when you find yourself just getting down on the count. Um and I sometimes you'll know, like on a non-conference team, you'll you'll kind of know. Like a three-hole hitter, you know, if that if there's nobody on and there's it's two outs, they're gonna, you know, they're they can throw a fastball to you. Yeah. So that's just it's one of those things, fastball just. And you know, so certain guys in conference or like games that we play like a Randleman, they really surprised me this year. I'm gonna talk about this a little bit. They really surprised me this year with how they pitch me because uh coach Jake Smith, great coach, uh, respect the guy a lot. And um he really he usually knows how to pitch me. Um and it's usually a lot of breaking ball. And this year I stepped up there and I was I had one really awkward swing because I saw all fastballs. My second at bat, I think I I didn't see a breaking ball. And I took a really awkward swing, like my back leg didn't even fire. And I was just like, this is a lot of fastballs. So I was like, I'm because I'm not gonna say I was sitting breaking ball, yeah. But it's one of those things where if a breaking ball comes, then I I better hit it over the fence because I I know that they're a breaking ball heavy team to me anyway. And I was just like, this is a lot of fastball. So I went, I went inside the dugout and I told uh Andrew Coach Connor, Andrew Connor, told him, I said, Coach Connor, I didn't see a breakball that at bat. I said, I said, I'm just I'm gonna sit on a fastball.

SPEAKER_03 9:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:23

And man, the rest of the game, it was just fastball, fastball. Uh, the hit I ended up getting with runners on base, it was a it was a low curve ball. It might have been a two-two count or something like that. So I knew that the breaking ball was there because he's been going fastball game, so breaking ball low on the zone. He's been setting it up all game. You know, it's not just with that at bat. So it was a great pitch. I I have no clue how I hit it. It was probably just adrenaline in the moment, but I mean, I went down there and got it, and that was the only breaking ball I hit that game. So they should have stuck with the fastball, is what you're saying. I mean, I don't know about that. I don't know about that, but I mean uh it it really surprised me how they threw to me. But yeah, my approach really is just get in there and fastball adjust. If if they're gonna throw a breaking ball, you know where the breaking ball's got to start to be in there. I mean, the breaking ball's gotta start high. If the guy throws a curveball, watch him with warm-ups. If he's signaling curveball, the breaking ball's gotta start high. Slider, it's gotta start at you. And you just you gotta stick in there. You know, a guy that was with a really good slider, Seth Way, a couple years ago. I've never seen a slider like that. You know, in travel ball, you will, but in school ball, man, I mean, his slider was legit. Like it was it looked like it was gonna hit you. And my approach the whole time, whenever it's in the box, it's like just stick in there. You know, the minute that you you scoot that butt out, he's gonna flip it in there again and again. And that's just that's how it is. So you gotta just show, like, you're in there. You're gonna you're gonna sit there and watch the slider in.

SPEAKER_02 10:38

So who's the toughest picture you've seen in your high school days? Not not not travel ball, but high school.

SPEAKER_01 10:44

Um this is a tough one. Uh freshman year, my first ever game. Um I was we played Southern Alamance, I think. Is that is that the school there they're red and blue? Yeah. Um a guy named Nate Teague, uh, winter Vanderbilt. I think he got hurt, but uh big like 6'5, sidearm guy, 92, 93. And you're a freshman. I was 14 years old. And I stepped up there and and you know, all the boys uh I mean we played with some really good athletes, Tyler Parks, Adam Cole, we played some really good athletes out here. They were stepping up there and just kind of honing it like they were the men. I was like, I'm like, I'm shaking, I'm nervous. Carrying the bat, just walking up there like a um my my first out bat, it was he was he didn't throw me much breaking ball. I think I might have got like one breaking ball. Um and it was it was a slider, and it was like I was like, wow, this is what it's like. Like this is it, this is it. Like you, you know, I get you gotta be ready for it. And then he threw me a fastball, and I ended up like handling it to second base, and ended up the second base balled it, and I got on base, and I like looked over to the dugout and I was like, wow, this is you know, this is I'm here, I'm here. This is what it's like. Um I faced him and I faced a uh a guy named Anderson Nance. He's at NC State right now, so he's throwing right now as a maybe uh he might be a sophomore now at NC State. And he's getting a lot of innings right now. When I tell you, I did not see the ball. Like it was like we played them first round of playoffs my uh my sophomore year. I think it was Moorhead. Played Moorhead. Man, I could barely see the ball. It was like you you know those those fields that already don't have a good batter's eye. The batter's eye was lacking it. They didn't have a batter's eye, and it was that gray sky. The ball was just it was getting in there. It was probably 94. There was probably there was a three or four MLB scouts there, and it was just I saw them looking at his bullpen before the game, and I looked at the boys and I was like, this is legit. So saddle up, boys. Close your eyes and count and just swing. As soon as it lets it go, just swing. This is legit. So yeah, those are those are two of the toughest ones, and and uh Seth Way's definitely in there. He's he was a really good pitcher. Um, so those are those are some of the best arms I faced.

SPEAKER_02 12:53

When well I want to know when I mean just listening to your IQ right now, Brady, it's it's really impressive. I mean, I'm learning right now. Yeah. Um, when did you this love become something super serious for like, hey, I can do this at the next level?

SPEAKER_01 13:05

Um man, I never really like thought I I try not to like think too much about like I'm gonna I'm gonna go play in college, I'm gonna be a college baseball player. I just I've always just played around Randolph County and I go up to Charlotte and uh I played some travel ball up there during COVID is when I really got into baseball because it was one of those things that you didn't have to be wearing a mask all the time. You could wear one of those things around your neck and leave it down, you know. And uh I love pitching because you didn't have to wear your mask up on your nose when you were pitching. So I would, you know, I'd go up there and pitch and stuff, and that's when I really fell in love with it, um, was during COVID because that's all there was to do. So everybody would be at New Market. New Market Civitan's, you know, the ball field are there. Everybody's at New Market because it's the only thing to do during the week. So we'd have rec games during the week, everybody would come play, man. Jake Riddle, uh there was a bunch of dudes that would be up there just playing rec ball, just kick back playing rec ball, everybody would be there. Like concession stand would be packed, everybody's there. And uh yeah, I mean, that's when I fell in love with it. Um, you know, it's it's a great sport. It's the best sport in my opinion. It's it's an awesome sport.

SPEAKER_05 14:07

Oh, your dad Lee, a great, a great player back in his time. I'll say back in his time because that's that's where I'm at. I don't know about J-Robb here.

SPEAKER_02 14:14

He ain't quite back in the day, yeah. I don't know, he made me feel old outside earlier, Scott.

SPEAKER_05 14:18

And we always talk when I'm uh doing a game and he's there, he always comes up and speaks. But I love to watch parents during a game. And and he seems like maybe this year he's he's he's mellowed a little bit in the years past. I mean, he's uh he's never in the same spot. He moves all the time. Yeah, but I know he's your biggest fan. Talk about your dad and what he's meant to you through this process.

SPEAKER_01 14:41

Yeah, um, so like I said, growing up, I wanted to play college basketball because that was that was his thing. So that was our thing together. It was always, you know, out in the yard shooting a jump shot. Because he played college basketball, right? Yeah, so he did. Um so that was always the thing, but I never I never really grew. And he was like, son, you know, you're uh you know, you're kind of short end of the stick right here. So uh I ended up not growing to like my eighth grade year where I was you know, I was actually kind of tall and I was bigger than everybody else. Um but he was like he told me he was 6'4 in sixth grade. So like that's that's crazy to think about. I remember. That's crazy to think about. So I mean, you know, um the baseball thing, he was he was really hard on me growing up with the basketball thing. Um, but then it it came to baseball, and I got into my tenth and my 11th grade year, and he was like, Look, this is bigger than me now, you know. This is this is you. So um he just kind of trusts me, and you know, if if something's up, we talk about it. He knows my swing as good as I do because he's watched it so many times. Um been in the cage with me so many times, but kind of like the the approach and the and the pitching and the game-like scenarios, that's I mean, he's like, Man, that's you, you know. I I'm a basketball guy. That's you. I I'll cheer, I'll cheer you on and and I'll love you and I'll I'll support you, but you know, that's you. I'm not gonna tell you how to how to hit or how to do this. And that's just that's how it goes with him. So he's a pretty he's a pretty mellow guy now. Um he's he is. I watch him now.

SPEAKER_05 16:03

He's kind of he still gets that video of you. Yeah, when you he loves videoing, man. He does the video, but used to I'd see him and he'd be here and he'd be there, but nah, he's kind of slowed down, and I'm sure announcing Belmont Abbey, that's where you're going. That's that's that's always a relief for for any parent knowing that their kid will be playing at the next level.

SPEAKER_01 16:22

Yeah, over the summer, um, it was just kind of like it was like a chip on my shoulder. Like every you know, all the schools are coming to watch, you're always on phone calls, you're always sending videos, and it was just it was a lot over the summer for me and him because it was we we traveled together because I've got a little sister, so my mom would stay at home with her, and me and him would go to Atlanta, we'd go to Alabama. It was just a boys' trip, you know. And uh man, those those are those were good days, but uh it was like you just kind of play with the chip on your shoulder. So it's uh you know, everything was 100 miles an hour between innings. I want to be the first one on the field, I want to be running full speed. I want you know, and it and it's not that I don't play like that all the time, but I'm just saying, especially when there's people that are to watch you, it's like you got something to prove. If I'm not gonna go not get a hit every game, then I gotta show something. Yeah, you know, I gotta do something. Every ball, I'm running it out. You know, it's uh it everybody's watching everything, and it just felt like it was a lot of pressure, and uh it was a lot of pressure for him too, because he wanted me to succeed. And he, you know, he can't go out there and play it for me. Yeah. So um I think, yeah, I think after we I I had got the offer and I had I had committed and the visits and everything, it was just kind of like we we calmed down a lot because it there wasn't as much pressure, you know. Just kind of enjoy then. Yeah. I mean enjoy the fruits of your labor. I mean, that's what you do then. And that's what he told me. He was like, look, it's your senior year. You what you want, what you you you've already achieved it for for right now. You know, obviously next year it's gonna be a grind again. You're gonna prove yourself again. And I mean, he's just said this year, go out and enjoy yourself. You know, this is this is your year to be loose and and do what you know how to do, play like you know how to.

SPEAKER_02 17:49

So yeah, and it's a full-time job in college. I I worked in college sports. It's uh, you know, grind, tri doubles, triples, you name it. They wake up in the morning practice, weightlifting practice at night.

SPEAKER_01 17:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 17:59

I don't know baseball schedule, but I'm sure they went over it with you. Can you tell us a little bit about the schedule you're already expecting when once you hit the ground running at Belmont? Um I really don't know what to expect.

SPEAKER_01 18:08

I'm ready to tackle anything, but uh I'm not sure what to expect. Um are you nervous a little bit as it you get approach, you know? Um I'm just I don't I don't know the word to describe it, but I'm I'm just I'm really ready to get there and just kind of see see what it's like. Um but I mean I'm just I'm ready to grind. I'm I'm ready for it. I love it, and I mean I think it's gonna be awesome trying to prove yourself again. I mean, you know, you had to do it in middle school and sixth grade, you had to do it in high school and in ninth grade, and it's now I'm gonna have to do it again.

SPEAKER_02 18:37

And I'm sure you saw the transition from middle school to high school, how it's a whole different ball game.

SPEAKER_01 18:40

Now you're gonna see that going to college. 100%. I'm really excited for it. There's a lot of good ball players there, and there's a lot of good ball to be had all around there. So I'm really excited for it.

SPEAKER_05 18:49

The Cougars having a great season. They are. They are. What what a way to go out as a senior. Still a lot of baseball to play. Yes, sir. But I and you know, Coach LeGroma, now let me tell you something. Coach LeGroman was umpiring for me. Oh, yeah. He was he and he he was umpiring, he was a great umpire.

SPEAKER_03 19:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 19:05

And he makes a phone call to him and he says, man, he says, you ain't gonna believe this. I tell him he's the only guy that umpired a JV Varsity doubleheader at Jordan Matthews on a Wednesday, and on Thursday, he was coaching against Jordan Matthews. That's amazing. Because he called me that morning. But I think the addition also of Coach Andrew Connor and the Dr. Ryan Hill. Yeah, yeah, make sure to include that. Doctor Hill. We went to school a long time for that. Too tough, baby. Love both of those guys. But to me, being around it, because I come in to dugout someone, I come over and do a you know, do a broadcast. But I think the addition of that has really helped the team this year, and and I'm sure you can tell us about it.

SPEAKER_01 19:49

100%, yeah. Um Coach Hill, he's the pitching guy. So he's the pitching guru, you know. He knows all the stuff, the analytics, the the this, the that. He's he's the pitching guy. Um, so the bullpen's he's always there with the pitchers and the catchers. Um, and Coach Connor, he's he works with the outfielders a lot, but the hitters too. He's he's what we needed. We yeah, man, we've always been just a hard-nosed team, and and we're wild, we're wild. I mean, we're just we're wild dudes, and we need somebody to to tame us and to like you know, get us ranged in, like, hey, this is how we're gonna do things. And uh is a super knowledgeable baseball mind, he he really knows it, and he'll show it in a different way. Yeah, so uh he shows it in a different way than a lot of other coaches. Um and I think that's what makes him really special. And Coach Connor is the guy that's like they work good together because you know, um Le Groma, he's just kind of like the silent killer. He is and Coach Connor will come out there and and jerk you up, and and it's what we need. And and he's been doing it to me since I was in seventh grade, you know, and and I and I love it. I've he look we've we've always been like that, and he's a great coach because of that. You know, he he knows how to get us in, reined in and and on a mission to to do something and win a game.

SPEAKER_05 20:58

So I also gotta mention the Dr. Ryan Hill. Oh my goodness, he always leaves me when he does uh post-game interview. He's gonna leave me, go cowboys. Don't matter, he's gonna put the go cowboys in there. Gotta love that guy. Come on, Job. You gotta love that.

SPEAKER_02 21:15

Nah, Coach Hill's hilarious. Hey, here's the real question. Could he pitch against you?

SPEAKER_01 21:20

Uh like could it I mean he could if he got up there and threw against me. Can he strike it out? Can he strike it out? Uh you know what I'm gonna say. Uh I don't I don't know. I I've only seen him throw. I saw him throw it when I was in uh maybe seventh grade. We went and watched him at Methodist. Okay. And I mean, I I barely remember it, but I'd have to see what he had. He was a strike guy. I'd have to see what he had. He wouldn't throw strike, he would be bad.

SPEAKER_02 21:45

I know his mom really well. She actually uh w uh works with my wife over at Mams. Yeah, Donna's over there. Yeah, she's the treasure, she's awesome. That whole family just terrific. The dad, everybody, good people.

SPEAKER_05 21:55

Coach Connor, a great player, and I never saw Coach LaGrama play, but I heard at high point he was one of the things. the best players. Two sport athlete. They said he had an arm that was unreal. Well it's only Joyce tells me that.

SPEAKER_02 22:06

Basketball and baseball. Oh wow.

SPEAKER_03 22:08

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 22:08

Yeah. So he's pretty happy with high point. Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. Awesome. As we wrap up, man, one of my favorite segments I like to do, you gotta think of some questions for the one-hitter too. My we're gonna do a thing. It's a quick hitter. You don't think about it, just go, okay?

SPEAKER_01 22:20

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 22:20

All right, walk up song. Solo by future.

SPEAKER_01 22:25

Best hit of the of the year. Hit against random another night. Single in the left field. Tide of the game. Funniest excuse to be late to practice. Oh man. Uh I don't really have a funny one. Uh me and uh me and Carson Coltrane used to go mow yards last year a bunch and uh we'd always pull in like on two wheels like changing out of our jeans and stuff. I don't really work with them as much anymore but man we'd be changing our jeans like dude I just got back from work like well we that was our excuse always. But if we're you know if we're late now Coach Connor man we can we're there 15 minutes early Coach Connor he'll jerk a knot in us dude. We'll be running bowls. I can tell you're a leader the one thing you say to your teammates to get them going I try to lead by example more than more than by voicing my my leadership or you know whatever you'd want to call it I feel like sometimes that that goes further than uh than you know trying to yell at somebody or trying to tell them what to do. Nobody wants to be told what to do. You know what I mean? We're all the same age I'm not I'm not above you. I'm not above anybody on the field so it's just kind of you know if you do the right thing and then everybody else you know a couple people start doing the right thing then everybody else starts doing the right thing.

SPEAKER_02 23:34

So I love it. And uh my last one for this and then we'll wrap up uh what's the funniest prank that you got that you've done in baseball that you guys have done. I don't know about a prank what do you mean a prank a prank just any kind of funny thing story you've done on Coach Hill any of the coaches to mess with oh yeah we mess with Coach Hill a lot.

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Uh I don't know man we used to uh we had a coach my sophomore year Coach Walker um and he was he would call the pitches and stuff like that. It was whenever uh Gussa and Walker were there and um he would always drive the bus and he would always so he he actually fought in in um Iraq I think it was Iraq or Afghanistan he actually fought uh there and he would man we would ride the bus back with him every time we don't really ride the bus back anymore we'd ride the bus back with him every time man we would just sit there and listen to war stories all the way back like it was it was awesome like we would like we you know it was a big we we had a big win against Trinity one night we got on the bus man and it was like we were fired up to hear some war stories like we were like we were like all right Coach Walker get him fired up you know tell us some war stories man he'd tell us all kinds of crazy stuff but that uh that'll happen and you know he's he's awesome got a lot of respect for him really good guy all right this right here is Coach Walker the legend right here love it and that shirt uh hold that up again Scott man you like that shirt dude oh yeah yeah I yeah see my favorite shirt is this one I like this one this is one of my favorite just keep swinging designs it's uh Curtis and Kelly Cole they do some amazing swag so you gotta give him a shout out just keep swinging I think man you're something I like to do man and uh I'll be honest with you dude I think you look like a size large man and uh one thing we always do is uh a player of the month man and in March I was trying to figure out I was like man I reached out to Scott reached out to Benji Cole who actually mentioned somebody to look to do some research on you yeah and man I don't think a better athlete I could have selected for March than the athlete of the month let's give it up for Brady March so much man it means a lot to just share all that shirt up man great job dude a lot man thank you yeah you look like a size large right about right yeah heck yeah dude uh we want to thank just keep swinging for all that amazing merch if you need them give them a call uh follow him on Instagram and Facebook and uh any last words Brady before we sign off uh yeah Coach Hill if you're watching this I didn't say you couldn't strike me out I didn't say that I didn't say that that's pretty good anything else you guys got a great job hey continue doing what you do this year I'm looking forward to a big push in the postseason for the Cougars I love Cougarville I tell you what keep doing your thing man sir we're gonna keep rolling I love it and uh we want to thank all our viewers for watching another episode of the Borough Buzz make sure you like subscribe hit that heart button we're here in Medley Studios go follow them as well on Instagram man Robert Medley one of the best to do it.

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