Foul Tips & Bat Flips - It's About Time

Trailer - This is the content you've been missing and didn't know it. Interviews with players, coaches, employees and fans mainly of collegiate summer league baseball. I will focus on what brought people to the game, how the game has enhanced their lives and find out what future plans the subject has in the future. Jim Valvano said that a healthy day was when you had to think, you laughed and you were brought to tears. Hopefully, these interviews will help accomplish a couple of these each and every episode. It will be a Simple Show run by a Simple Man!

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Transcript

Terry McCutchen 0:21

Hi Baseball fans. My name's Terry, and this is Foul Tips and Bat Flips. The newest podcast related to baseball. I'm gonna focus on Summer Collegiate Ball, mainly the MidAmerica League and the Abilene Flying Bison. Why you may ask. Well, that's what I know best, and that's where my connections begin. I'll start out with coaches, players. Personnel behind the scenes employees and move away from there as chances occur and opportunities arise. If I find what I think is an interesting story, I'll bring that to you. We'll move out and cover other leagues and other teams as opportunities come about. A little bit about myself. I am a lifelong baseball fan. I played as a kid. But then when pitchers started throwing curve balls, that's when my game ended. I retired, moved into the fandom. I did love the Pittsburgh Pirates, the we are family pirates and the running Red Bird Cardinals, Ozzy Smith, Vince Coleman, that group. But as life got busy later on, I moved away from fandom. I kind of kept up as a. My Texas Aggies and the Rangers. I kept up with my alma mater and students I had taught, but otherwise I really got away from the game. Well moved forward to 2024. I lost my father in January and also early in the year I was promised a job, a sales job and a, a position that I thought I'd really like, but that position was taken away pretty quickly. I was down in the. Baseball and the, the social media world that was baseball brought me back. There was a team coming to town, a college wood bat team known as the Abilene Flying Bison. And so I jumped in with both feet offering to, to volunteer and help any way that I could. Part of that was researching how that worked. I found the Curve Brand Media podcast and I found a baseball community on. Since that time, that has renewed my love of the game at the grassroots level. Yes, I keep up with the major leagues. I love the Texas Rangers, but my heart is at the lower levels of baseball. I love high school ball. I love little League, and I love collegiate ball. In the summer College Wood bat scene has really caught my interest. That's what the Abilene flying bison are. what we've got here is a wonderful team supported by the city that's really caught our fans' attention. My wife and I became season ticket holders and loved every minute of it. Now, this year in 2025, my wife and I have a goal. We're in the middle of a journey to attend a hundred games in person and number 100. We plan to be at Wrigley Field, so Chicago, here we come. We would also like to eventually visit all minor league ballparks and see as much of the world as possible through the game of baseball. My goal with this podcast is to share our story along the way. Hopefully he'll find something that you enjoy as well. Great. NCAA basketball coach, Jim Valvano, North Carolina State, who was dying of cancer, stated in his SB speech just a few days before his passing that what he considered a full day was if you were moved. To a time of thinking, laughing and crying. He said, if you had to think if you were brought to tears and you were brought to laughter, well hopefully the interviews and the stories that I bring to you will at least stir you to at least some of these emotions at times. So buckle up. Enjoy the ride. As you enjoy foul tips and bat flips, why the name foul tips and bat flips? Well, foul tips are things that don't go the way you like'em sometimes. Those are negative things and bat flips. When do you flip the bat? Only after a home run. So I'll bring you the good and I'll bring you the bad. I'll bring you the funny and I'll bring you the crazy. So enjoy the ride. It's just a simple broadcast from a simple man. So hope you enjoy foul tips and back flips.