He Ate 40 Nuggets, Then Threw A Shutout

The winter dome is buzzing, the coffee’s hot, and the conversation with Marco D’Angelo goes straight to the core of what makes a team win: culture you can feel and standards you can see. We open with laughs and holiday chaos, then move into loyalty, mentorship, and why Marco chose to stay with Sparks North—because access to great coaches and better reps only matters if you turn it into sharper decisions and stronger habits.

Marco walks us through the players who became culture pillars: the catcher who transformed from “turning the earth” into a base‑stealing threat, the “Luis Robert” look‑alike who showed up early, cleaned the dugout, crushed baseballs, then calmly closed games. We break down why a simple framework—ball, base, backup—wins more than any new gadget, and why Marco believes 60 to 70 percent of high school games are lost through preventable mistakes. The fix lives in practice: flood drills with variables, add stress, and teach players to stay calm in the storm so games feel slow and solvable.

You’ll hear the Indy story where an empty dugout forced creativity, a mid‑count pitching change saved arms, and a one‑pitch out flipped momentum. We talk accountability done right, including holding a high‑end prospect to team rules and earning parent trust. And we get practical about the small ethics that build a program—carry the bucket, pick up the balls, don’t roll one to a coach’s feet—because details are destiny when innings snowball. Between the bake‑off plans, Bears ticket pleas, and Seinfeld quotes, the tone stays warm and human, the way a good clubhouse should feel.

If you’re a coach, parent, or player who wants more wins and fewer excuses, this one’s for you. Listen, subscribe, and share with a teammate who needs the reminder: confidence is a coaching tool, chaos is a classroom, and fundamentals finish games. Leave a review and tell us your favorite drill or standard that changed your season.

Chapters

• 0:00 Cold Open And Holiday Vibes
• 1:45 Meet Marco D’Angelo
• 4:40 Why He Stays: Staff, Access, Loyalty
• 7:20 Favorite Players And Their Grit
• 12:50 Delgado Stories And The USA Game Bomb
• 17:55 Summer Plans: More Arms, More Wins
• 21:20 Food Lore And Pitching Toughness
• 25:20 The Bake‑Off And Christmas Cookies
• 28:30 Practice Warriors Shout‑Outs
• 32:40 Chaos Training And Fundamentals
• 37:45 High School Baseball: Teams Beat Themselves
• 41:20 Coaching Philosophy: Confidence And Calm
• 45:40 Accountability And A Fresh Start
• 48:40 Sponsor Plug And The Indy MPL Story
• 54:10 Mid‑At‑Bat Pitching Change Masterstroke
• 58:40 Bears Talk, Tickets, And Winter Sports Banter

Transcript

Cold Open And Holiday Vibes

SPEAKER_02 0:00

Well, hello there. Thank you for pressing play. Thank you for allowing us to come in whatever space you're listening this to, whether it be on your laptop, your computer, your iPad, your tablet, or even you astronauts listen to us out in outer space looking for a friend back home. If you haven't figured it out already, you're listening to the Good Man Show brought to you by Dan Brewer and Josh Casaris. So over the next hour or so, we're hoping to positively impact your life in ways beyond measure. So it's cold outside. It's the Christmas season. Grab something hot, whether it be a drink or something to fill your stomach, and say, hey, hey dude, you over there, yeah, you yeah, you over there. Yeah, I'm looking at you. Give me something to positively impact my life for the next week. I got you. We got you. We're in this together. So take a seat, turn on that car, drive, and just immerse yourself in the good man show. Here we go.

SPEAKER_00 1:16

Welcome to the good man show with Bruce Sauce and Lord Puck. I saw the light.

SPEAKER_02 1:26

That's it.

SPEAKER_00 1:27

That's it?

SPEAKER_02 1:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:28

Man, I thought we were getting a lot more out of you on that one.

Meet Marco D’Angelo

SPEAKER_02 1:31

No. Um born to be alive. Yeah, I got flack for listening to that song too many times. Uh we have our youth director here, his name's Aaron Earhart. He calls me today and he said, I'm actually didn't call me. He saw me at the party yesterday. He said, Hey, I'm tired of all that disco music. We need better vibes on Sunday morning. So we're not going to be singing any disco anymore.

SPEAKER_00 2:00

No disco. I thought you did a great job Sunday with the music, to be honest.

SPEAKER_02 2:04

Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 2:04

You're welcome. How was catching tonight?

SPEAKER_02 2:07

We got better today. We were able to throw the ball where we wanted to throw the ball. We were able to block where we were supposed to block. And I felt like everyone had a good time.

SPEAKER_00 2:16

Good.

SPEAKER_02 2:17

Good. I wore the good shirt.

SPEAKER_00 2:19

The good man shirt?

SPEAKER_02 2:21

Yeah, and everyone wanted a shirt.

SPEAKER_00 2:22

I got my good man shirt on.

SPEAKER_02 2:24

I saw a kid run up to his mom and said, Hey mom, I want a good man shirt. She said for Christmas.

SPEAKER_00 2:29

$29.99.$29.99. Shirts are in. They're hot. Yeah, I'm wearing mine. They've been getting pressed out all over the place. Yeah. I got a couple kids at Infield. Coach, love your shirt. Can I get one? How do I get it? Hold in my office. Listen, email, text, DM. We got them in the office. Come get them. Lots of ways to pay for them. Come get your shirt. But another special guest in the house tonight, Marco D'Angelo. Welcome to the show.

SPEAKER_05 3:04

What is up, podcast?

SPEAKER_00 3:06

Marco! As Marco would say, and all the boys love it. One line.

SPEAKER_05 3:11

One line. Get parallel.

SPEAKER_00 3:13

One line, get parallel. The man is a one-line machine.

SPEAKER_05 3:17

You know what it is.

SPEAKER_00 3:18

The kids love him. We love him. Been here since the beginning.

SPEAKER_05 3:21

Yep. Day one.

SPEAKER_00 3:22

I'm going to start you right off where I started my brother off last week. And I'll tell you, you've been a big part of this organization. Great coach every summer, every fall.

SPEAKER_05 3:33

Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 3:33

Very reliable. Educate the kids. Definitely relate to the kids. Definitely get a lot of respect from the kids. But what's your favorite part of being with the Sparks North?

SPEAKER_05 3:45

Well, before I answer that, I didn't want to interrupt your little intro, but yeah, the music does need to get better on Sundays.

unknown 3:52

Wow.

SPEAKER_05 3:53

It has been good.

SPEAKER_00 3:54

It got fired right away.

SPEAKER_05 3:56

It's good. Where's Jake? But I I'm a double up with double A. You know? Beep, beep. Um the mus that some of the disco, little play. You know, I have heard a few songs multiple times.

SPEAKER_00 4:09

What about the wolf song?

SPEAKER_05 4:10

You know, the wolf, that's that's the only song I would say that could be played back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back.

SPEAKER_00 4:18

Just all morning.

SPEAKER_05 4:19

You can. I think that'd be a good mental toughness day for a kid.

SPEAKER_07 4:23

If that was just playing from seven to noon. I think it'd be a good one.

SPEAKER_00 4:29

I think it'd be a big mental toughness for a lot of people. I think Bert might lose his money.

SPEAKER_05 4:34

I think Duck would walk out.

Why He Stays: Staff, Access, Loyalty

SPEAKER_00 4:37

I love that song, I thought. In all seriousness, like what is your favorite part about being here?

SPEAKER_05 4:42

Favorite part about being here. Um I'd say probably what it comes down to is just the staff and the opportunity, I guess you could say I can have as a coach here, just with all the other coaches, from top to bottom. We got coach from our not staff, we got guys, we got Hall of Famers, you know, Hall of Fame MOB, and then we got guys that coach at the JUCO level, high school level, and all in in-between. You know, and I think that the big reason why I like being here is because I have all of that at my access. And also just this dome at my access, which is amazing.

SPEAKER_00 5:20

Well, I think we all appreciate that because I think Jake, as he said last week, kind of touched on a similar uh point. And uh, you know, I I don't know if you and I have ever really talked about this, but I know that you know there are other organizations that have sought you out to try to get get you to leave here. Yes. Uh and you've been here since the beginning. And uh this is why I say this, Marco, of why I love you, man. And I I say it from the get-go. You are a loyal dude, you are a fantastic coach, and that is why people come and try to get you. Um, and you've always, you know, I'm saying you've been up in front, honest with us, and and you've never contemplated that. If you've ever had an issue or wanted something or or needed something, you've always come to us. Um, so I think from that part, we definitely appreciate you being here. And and I agree with you, we have a lot of people here who teach us all. Like you said, we cover a lot of different spectrums and levels, and and I think it's great. But you've coached many teams here. Oh, yeah. You've coached a lot of players, you've coached kids that are off in college, so we're gonna go down the same path. But I need you to give us a few of your favorites that you've coached.

SPEAKER_05 6:29

Yeah, wow. There's kids that I've coached here in college now. Yeah, wow.

SPEAKER_02 6:32

They're about to graduate.

SPEAKER_05 6:34

Yeah, wow.

SPEAKER_02 6:35

No, no, we got one more, right? One more year. No, no juniors. No, they're juniors.

SPEAKER_05 6:39

We haven't we haven't hit seniors yet. We got one more year. Yeah, they're juniors in college.

SPEAKER_00 6:43

Probably probably two for most of them.

SPEAKER_05 6:45

But I'd say some of my favorites. Well, we just mentioned them earlier, saw him earlier in the dome. Mike Mango, you know, um, Noel Delgado, Jake Bentovenga, um, I could go on and on. Fitz, Foley, both Foleys.

SPEAKER_02 7:04

I was talking about Foley the other day. Who's the spicier one?

Favorite Players And Their Grit

SPEAKER_05 7:09

I'd say Michael Foley. Both both great kids, but when it when you when you're talking like the spice, it's like it's not like they're, you know, bad kids like they're mean or anything. It's just spicy. On the diamond, you gotta just watch them a little bit because you know they they could be on the diamond one second and then they're ejected the next. You know, because they both got a mouth on them. And that's you know, you just gotta watch them.

SPEAKER_00 7:27

They're fiery, man. They're fiery. Both of them are fiery, which is why we love them because they compete. Yeah, they they want the baseball when they're on the mountain. They're they're not afraid to go battle with dudes. Um, but a couple names you mentioned there, uh, I feel like a lot of them have similarities. Uh you talk Mango, uh versatile baseball player, tough-nosed kid, grinder, could play at any position, like just a baseball dude. Jake Benveger, I I would argue one of the best catchers we've had ever walk out of this place.

SPEAKER_05 7:56

Hardest, one of the hardest workers.

SPEAKER_00 7:58

Uh I mean the kid went the kid went from I mean, at 14 years old, we used to jokingly say he ran and he was so slow that he was turning the earth when running, and now the kid's a sub-760 or whatever.

SPEAKER_05 8:13

I've seen him hit a double ball to the wall and almost get thrown out, and now he's at first almost get thrown out at second, and now he's stealing bases from left. Stand up tri stand-up triples, you know, real hard worker.

SPEAKER_00 8:28

Oh, awesome kid. Now, the the one I really want to talk about is Noah Delgado. No, because during Infield tonight, I kind of was talking to you a little bit about this question, and you said Delgado, and I said, You mean Luis Robert? And we both laughed because for those who know Noah Delgado, when he came here at 15 years old, he wore the same white socks, Luis Robert, 88 jersey. Every day for practice. Shirzy, I should say, every day for practice. And we jokingly always was like, Who's that kid again? I was like, Yeah, that's Luis Robert.

SPEAKER_05 9:02

Nobody knew his name, and he would just call him Luis Robert.

SPEAKER_00 9:04

He was always smiling, that's what he had. He was always working hard, always respectful. Like when that kid was 17 years old playing for you, we'd show up to games, and he was the first one there, last one to leave, always clean the dugout up after everybody. Like, smile on his face, but he played the game hard. Yeah, and I'll tell you what, that kid unloaded on baseballs.

SPEAKER_05 9:26

Yeah. He he mashed baseballs. I think I remember him telling, he told me the story of when they played the women's USA team. Oh, dude. I think he hit a ball off this girl. It still hasn't landed yet.

SPEAKER_00 9:37

I was there. We played the women's national team out at the old uh the original Rockford Peach Stadium. Uh, was that three years ago now?

SPEAKER_03 9:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:47

So we brought a bunch of our 15 and 16-year-olds because they want they were getting ready for their national tournament and championship over in Japan, I believe it was. So they reached out to some travel organizations and and you know, so I brought 15 and 16-year-old kids out there. And I mean, they had a couple girls that were 82, 84. Like their starting pitcher was, I mean, she was legit. They had uh she was a uh high school pitcher in Connecticut. Okay. Um, the girl, I forget her name, plays at Brown University was on the team. Um, I was watching the college the women's softball world series last year, and the third baseman for Old Miss, she was on the team and was probably their best player. Like she was really good, but it was a fun time. But Delgado got one.

SPEAKER_05 10:27

Yeah, he told me he said he said he felt a little bad after he hit it.

SPEAKER_00 10:30

Oh man. And it was like a 280 fence to right fielder, and it flew into the parking lot over this playground set, and it was like, ooh.

SPEAKER_05 10:39

But yeah, not only could Delgado hit a ball a mile, but he could also come in ninth inning and close the game out for you.

SPEAKER_00 10:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 10:45

You know, tip protocol, old school right fielder. You know, play right field all day. Time to come in and pitch, close the game out. Here you go, coach. Just fastballs. See how far you can hit it.

SPEAKER_00 10:56

Yeah, pound the zone.

SPEAKER_05 10:57

Yeah. One of the nicest guys. I'm telling you, he used I used to use him as an example all the time. He never complained, he never swore, you never saw him throw his helmet. I would say the guy got out of the car the right way. You know, there's no right way to do it, but he did it.

SPEAKER_02 11:11

He was very proper.

SPEAKER_05 11:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 11:13

Proper lad.

SPEAKER_05 11:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:15

Proper lad. So you're gonna have the 17 whites this summer. Excited. He had a really good summer last summer. You've had him for two years now. So most of the guys will be back playing, working. You guys had a fantastic summer last year. I know you guys are gonna be prepared again this year. Uh, what are you looking forward to this this summer?

SPEAKER_05 11:35

More tournament wins, more pitchers, because last summer we got bit by the injury bug a little bit. Um, only had one P.O. all summer, won 29 games. That went what?

SPEAKER_02 11:48

The pitcher won 29 games?

SPEAKER_05 11:49

No, we won 29 games with one PO, homie. Come on.

SPEAKER_02 11:52

Oh, sorry.

SPEAKER_05 11:54

Think about how hard that is.

SPEAKER_02 11:55

I know, I but in the summer. You when we give you oranges, you you squeeze. Oh, and you get the most out of those.

SPEAKER_05 12:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 12:02

No soft. I'm not surprised if you had one guy win 29 games by himself.

SPEAKER_05 12:06

You know, if it keeps adding up, it could happen. Because he threw, I think, uh complete games.

SPEAKER_00 12:15

Who was that?

SPEAKER_05 12:16

Jack Fagan.

SPEAKER_00 12:17

Yeah. Fagan will compete.

unknown 12:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:20

Big body, Benwicker.

SPEAKER_05 12:22

Not only will he compete, but before he pitches, he'll eat about two or three babies before the game. Wait, what? Yeah. That's about how much he eats.

SPEAKER_00 12:31

The guy had the guy had Jake's told me this too, that he'll he'll go hammer like a whole pizza.

SPEAKER_05 12:36

Jack Fagan, before a game, has eaten two Chick-fil-A chicken sandwiches, 40 nuggets, a large mac and cheese, and I think he might have washed it down with like a Coke and a milkshake.

SPEAKER_00 12:48

And got a dub.

Delgado Stories And The USA Game Bomb

SPEAKER_05 12:49

And then he showed up and threw seven.

unknown 12:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 12:52

So you're saying, I heard Ozzie Gehan talk about this back in the day. You know, all these pitchers are getting hurt because they're not drinking beer and eating burgers anymore. Are you saying this is the way to go?

SPEAKER_05 13:01

How often was Baby Ruth hurt?

SPEAKER_02 13:03

I don't know. He played a lot. I mean, they went out there, they played ball two, three ball games a game. They had the same pitcher throwing, too. Some guy named Lefty Right or Righty Left. Booby Barber. Oh. Or um What was that guy that played um who was that guy? Booby Miles.

SPEAKER_05 13:25

Booby Miles.

SPEAKER_02 13:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:26

Friday Night Lights?

SPEAKER_02 13:28

Oh, I thought he was a pitcher.

SPEAKER_05 13:29

No, Booby Miles is a running back. Oh.

SPEAKER_00 13:33

You want to win, put Booby in. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 13:35

Let Booby spin.

SPEAKER_00 13:37

Water bug.

SPEAKER_05 13:40

God made Booby beautiful.

SPEAKER_02 13:42

What is he, Ricky Hand?

SPEAKER_00 13:44

Great movie.

SPEAKER_05 13:44

No, not Ricky, but great movie. Nah, nobody's Ricky.

SPEAKER_00 13:47

So uh I gotta tell a pretty uh funny story that happened last week when I was in the dome. Um a lot of listeners. Yes, our audience is growing, and we appreciate y'all.

SPEAKER_04 14:00

They are growing.

SPEAKER_00 14:01

Uh, but I had a mom within the organization come up to me in the dome the other day, last week. And uh she comes walking up to me, and I do hitting lessons with her son, and he's been here for I believe three years now, and great woman uh walks up and she's like, I didn't know you were a baker. What? And I said, Absolutely. She's like, What's your favorite thing to bake? So I start having a lovely baking conversation with this mom. And uh now we have a bake off that we're gonna have scheduled for the summer.

unknown 14:32

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 14:32

Is this gonna be a show?

SPEAKER_00 14:34

I don't know. I mean, we'll figure out what we're gonna make it. We could bring it a live bake.

SPEAKER_05 14:38

Is it gonna be like a Sparks bake-off?

SPEAKER_00 14:40

I think it's just gonna be a bake-off between her. I think we can start to invite us. Well, hey, if there's anybody else who wants to enter the competition, they're more than welcome to enter a competition.

SPEAKER_05 14:48

Oh, it'd be like one of those uh uh those shows, those cooking shows where it's like really intense. You got people running all over the place.

SPEAKER_00 14:55

Oh, like a top chef?

SPEAKER_05 14:56

Yeah, great show. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00 14:58

Love watching that show.

SPEAKER_05 14:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:00

But with that said, Christmas is here. And you know what I'm starting tomorrow?

SPEAKER_02 15:07

What?

SPEAKER_00 15:07

The Christmas cookies.

SPEAKER_02 15:09

For who?

SPEAKER_00 15:09

We got Christmas cookies? I just make Christmas cookies. Oh, you've got to be a good thing.

SPEAKER_02 15:13

You have hard cookies or soft cookies? That's a big part of the cookies.

SPEAKER_00 15:15

Well, I make a few different ones. We're gonna have some fudge, some hello dollies.

SPEAKER_05 15:20

What's a hello dolly? Sounds like a hello cookie.

SPEAKER_00 15:22

Uh, it's like uh coconut butterscotch chocolate chip with some like no, you love it.

SPEAKER_05 15:29

The only coconut I like are snowballs.

SPEAKER_00 15:31

Snowballs?

SPEAKER_05 15:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:32

Have you ever seen Zodami Land?

SPEAKER_05 15:34

I know. I had not the consistency, just the taste.

SPEAKER_00 15:37

Snowballs!

SPEAKER_02 15:39

Snowballs like with the coconut shavings?

SPEAKER_05 15:41

Yeah, that's yeah. It's a coconut chocolate cream-filled type of that's the only, and then I don't, it's the only coconut I really like.

SPEAKER_02 15:49

I don't really like coconut.

SPEAKER_00 15:51

No, I don't either, but I like them in Hello Dollies.

SPEAKER_02 15:54

So you're not you make this from scratch.

SPEAKER_05 15:56

How big is that from the crazy?

SPEAKER_00 15:57

I make all my stuff from scratch.

SPEAKER_05 15:58

How big are these hello dollies?

SPEAKER_00 16:00

They're just a little bite size. Like I make a big tray and then I cut them into bite sizes. I make this little like graham cracker marshmallow one too.

SPEAKER_05 16:08

My mother bakes. She makes a potato chip cookie. Yeah, you heard that right. Potato chip cookie. I don't know. People go crazy for it though.

SPEAKER_00 16:17

Can she make some and we get those in here?

SPEAKER_05 16:18

I'll bring them in. Hey, she's invited to the bake-off.

SPEAKER_00 16:22

Invited to the bake-off.

SPEAKER_05 16:23

Now it's three people.

SPEAKER_00 16:24

We're growing.

SPEAKER_05 16:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:27

But hey, big week of Sparks North baseball.

SPEAKER_02 16:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:30

Right? We got to cover the practice warriors. Right? We started off Tuesday, had our catching. We had a young buck take it down 29. Brady Moore coming all the way from Lockport.

SPEAKER_05 16:41

Had him over the fall.

SPEAKER_00 16:42

Great kid, works hard, scrappy. Uh infielders come in. 27. Jacob Sanchez from Frem High School. Been working, busting his butt, getting better. Uh Sunday hits, upper class. Jake has been very adamant trying to get this kid a practice warrior. But Noah Hickey. Noah Hickey.

SPEAKER_05 17:03

He had great pants on the other day.

SPEAKER_00 17:05

Joe DiMaggio. Lions Township High School. And then our underclass winners, 29, Autumn Pacheco from St. Lawrence.

SPEAKER_05 17:13

Shout out, Noah. I had him over the summer. Great kid.

SPEAKER_00 17:16

Great kid. Been here for what? Joe DiMaggio. Since he was 12? Five years now?

SPEAKER_05 17:20

I think so. Great kid. Great dad. Great family. Great family. We don't know Jack about Sister plays for the channel. If you haven't seen it, look up on YouTube, Hittin with the Hickeys. It's there.

SPEAKER_02 17:30

Is that an actual thing? Oh. Because I'll go watch Brad always brings that camera around.

SPEAKER_05 17:36

Him and his sister hit. I should say they should start a show. Hitting with the Hickeys. Hitting with the Hickeys.

SPEAKER_00 17:41

I kind of like that.

SPEAKER_02 17:42

Oh, I asked that kid, hey, you know who Joe DiMaggio is? He goes, I don't know who Joe DiMaggio is, so now I'll every time just call him Joe DiMaggio.

SPEAKER_05 17:49

No, he's great.

SPEAKER_00 17:50

Joe DiMaggio.

Summer Plans: More Arms, More Wins

SPEAKER_05 17:52

He had to come in and pitch a couple times over the summer because I only had one P.O. Listen. Because he couldn't throw away too many burgers. Another thing, Josh always takes my players. That's a lie. Dan walked in one time, nobody was in my dugout.

SPEAKER_00 18:06

Hey.

SPEAKER_05 18:07

Why?

SPEAKER_00 18:07

Hey, easy now. You're breaking, you're cutting, you're cutting up early here. I'm getting excited here. You're getting too early on that.

SPEAKER_05 18:13

I'm excited.

SPEAKER_00 18:15

That's for a later time in the show. But you know, Cooper Flag.

SPEAKER_02 18:21

Nelson? When did I say Cooper Flag?

SPEAKER_05 18:24

Didn't you? No, no, no, no. I had him in the fall, and then you had him in the summer.

SPEAKER_00 18:27

Yeah, I yeah. Come on, man.

SPEAKER_05 18:29

Yeah, you're right.

SPEAKER_00 18:30

Cooper Nelson. You know who you sound like? What? You sound like Josh around Jake. Jake takes all my players.

SPEAKER_01 18:40

Well, yeah, they both don't take my players.

SPEAKER_05 18:41

They both don't take my players. I'm surprised I didn't lose players to Jake this summer.

SPEAKER_00 18:45

Don't you guys all understand? We're all one, man. They're all players.

SPEAKER_05 18:48

I know we're all one.

SPEAKER_00 18:50

But I like the idea. I'm gonna make a point how I brought you players.

SPEAKER_04 18:55

You're right.

SPEAKER_00 18:56

This guy's always busting chop spot. This guy gets him. He gets him. I only got one pitcher. Trust me, I got you more pitchers this year. We got a lot of 17-year-old pitchers. You should have enough.

SPEAKER_05 19:08

Oh hey, I love my team. We just need more arms.

SPEAKER_00 19:10

We got your arms now. That's it. Okay, we're gonna take care of you.

SPEAKER_05 19:13

Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 19:14

All right. Put you up in a nice hotel. Take care of you guys there.

SPEAKER_05 19:18

Oh. No, what was the hotel you put me in two years ago?

SPEAKER_02 19:22

Best hotel, Madison, Wisconsin.

SPEAKER_05 19:24

It was in a Marriott, dude. It was like you walk around, all the it's you know the Orlando airport? When you walk in, it's got all the rooms around. That's what it was like. Oh you walk up, all there's I could see the room across from me. I could see the room inside.

SPEAKER_00 19:37

It's like, you know, nice little nice little like a little bait buffet down below.

SPEAKER_05 19:41

Yeah, and there was a little well, I wouldn't call it a waterfall, but they had a nice little water trickling type of thing going on.

SPEAKER_02 19:46

Superstar.

SPEAKER_05 19:47

It was nice.

SPEAKER_00 19:48

So let's talk about practice a little bit on Sunday.

SPEAKER_02 19:53

Man, I was tired.

SPEAKER_00 19:54

You were tired, but you you know what? You're a warrior, you know how to answer the bell. Came straight off that plane from Vegas where you're at the softball convention.

unknown 20:04

Stop.

SPEAKER_00 20:05

Right? Doing your work out there, learning, learning the information.

SPEAKER_05 20:09

Don't hype him up.

SPEAKER_00 20:10

Hey, listen, man. The guy's a head, he's an assistant coach of Roosevelt softball. He's he's he's expanding his knowledge, right? He's growing.

SPEAKER_05 20:19

Oh no, yes, yes, but don't hype up the fact that you flew in on the red eye.

SPEAKER_00 20:23

He caught the red eye. He got himself here. He helped me out. I had a big 8 a.m. game. I had to slept in two days, dude. You're fine.

SPEAKER_04 20:30

You've done it before.

SPEAKER_00 20:32

But this was the first time, because I missed two weeks ago, that I got to see the chaos that Josh created on the field. And I gotta tell you, I loved it. I think it adds another layer to our training. And I started feasting off it too, where we were doing first and thirds, and when our catchers weren't getting up quick enough to give the sign, it's like, nope, too slow. Oh yeah. Base runner at second, base is loaded. And then it changed everything for our infielders on the fly.

SPEAKER_05 21:00

Hey, put the pressure on.

SPEAKER_00 21:01

It was right when when uh corner infielders weren't getting to their cutoff spots. Yeah, base runner. Here we go. Uh we had the one inning where no runners went first and third.

SPEAKER_02 21:14

Yeah.

unknown 21:14

Right?

Food Lore And Pitching Toughness

SPEAKER_00 21:15

Two outside. Two outs to start. And then we had the other inning, the same team who they didn't even send a guy to hit.

SPEAKER_02 21:22

No, two outs.

SPEAKER_05 21:25

But nobody went up.

SPEAKER_02 21:26

Like to speak on that. Apparently.

SPEAKER_05 21:29

I mean, I like this though. You create all this chaos now. A game's gonna be a walk in the park.

SPEAKER_02 21:32

Well, talk about your fall team. About like you had some talent on that team, but what was the what was the backbreaker for you? I saw it firsthand a couple times. You still beat us that one game.

SPEAKER_05 21:43

But oh, being fundamentally sound, yes, we did beat. That was the highlight of the fall, beating Coach Josh. Yes, always.

SPEAKER_00 21:49

So Marco coached our 29s our freshman freshman right now. Yeah. Our 15 use this fall.

SPEAKER_02 21:54

Yep. Yeah. But I feel like you could have won a lot more games if you didn't make any defensive.

SPEAKER_05 22:00

Yeah, if we were just fundamentally sound and if we were thinking about maybe two plays. So before the ball's hit, if we were just thinking about where to go with the baseball, if it takes me this way, it takes me that way. If it's hit slow, if it's hit hard, if it's a pop-up, grounded whatever, you know, ball base backup. You always have a job.

SPEAKER_02 22:17

Pre-pitch.

SPEAKER_05 22:19

If you're not playing the ball, you got a base to get to. If you don't got a base to cover, you got somewhere to back up. The triple B's. Ball base backup.

SPEAKER_02 22:26

Yep. Um but you also, Marco, for people that don't know, Marco also coaches high school baseball at Morton. Yes, I think high school. Um now you coach a lot of high school baseball, you're on a lot of high school baseball. What games and people would be like, oh, that's a stupid question. No, what games, what's the percentage of games lost rather than won in high school baseball?

SPEAKER_05 22:45

The percentage of games lost?

SPEAKER_02 22:47

Yeah, in terms of teams giving games away based upon not being defensively sound.

SPEAKER_05 22:52

Yeah, like oh yeah. If you're asking, yeah, how many times teens beat themselves, I guess you could say. More, I'd say more than 60, 70 percent. Where it's to where it's teams where I'm having a conversation with my team where it's like, if this didn't do that, if we didn't do this, if we pick up a baseball here, if we just made this one play to end the inning, our pitcher doesn't throw another 30 pitches and they don't get another five runs. So yeah. What has been the lot of self-inflicted wounds?

SPEAKER_02 23:20

You've been doing this a long time. Um what's been the best route? Because you have many great traits about you, Marco. Oh thank you. Many great traits. But two questions I have piggybacking off of that one. What's a thing you do coaching wise to help your team steer your team in the right direction, up, eat themselves, whether it be in practice or talking to them? And then number two, how do you keep such an upbeat vibe the entire time throughout the stormy seas of high school and travel baseball?

SPEAKER_05 23:49

So for the first part of that question, I guess is just instilling confidence in the players. That's about it. Because, you know, obviously talent, you know, fluctuates here and there, but I think a player has the most success when they are just confident doing whatever they're doing, even if they make the wrong decision. If they did it confidently, you know, hey, who knows you did you made the wrong decision? You know what I'm saying? So I would say, yeah, just instilling confidence into the players. Um, so when they're in between the lines, you know, it's not, oh my god, if I mess up, coach is gonna do this or coach is gonna do that, or oh my god, where am I going here? Where am I going there? It's just if you're confident, I feel like they're calm, and when you're calm, the game comes easier to you. You know? And then that second part of your question is how do I stay so upbeat? I really don't know.

SPEAKER_00 24:38

Um thinks Celsius.

SPEAKER_05 24:41

Uh no, that I have always said Celsius is don't and monsters, they don't have an effect on me. Like I could drink a Celsius right now and go to bed.

SPEAKER_02 24:48

Um what did you do to get to that point?

SPEAKER_05 24:52

I don't I think it's just me, my body. I don't think caffeine's really had an effect on me my entire life. You know, or any of that stuff.

SPEAKER_02 24:59

Can you how do I keep so up?

SPEAKER_05 25:02

I don't know. I mean, I just I see what's going on in front of me. Yes, I'm pissed off of what's happening, but there's always something worse that's going on somewhere. So, you know, and I love baseball, and this is something I love. So it's like, yes, I'm pissed off. So it's like, but this is I love, you know, I love it. I like that answer.

The Bake‑Off And Christmas Cookies

SPEAKER_00 25:17

I was gonna say, I think that is exactly what keeps you upbeat, is your love and passion for this game. As we talk about it, we are invested in this game and we love this game, and we are passionate about what we do, and this is why we do what we do, yeah, right? We wouldn't do this and spend the time with the kids we spend. Like the amount of time we spend with those kids. We would not do that if we did not love. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 25:40

I always people ask me this like, why like what do you love most about coaching sometimes? Or or excuse me. It's like, how do you know you're maybe getting through to your players? And it's like it's just when it kind of click, you could see it click for them. You know, you've been talking, you're trying to get a guy to do something for X amount of weeks, days, whatever, or your team, you know, and you could just see it finally click. They go, Oh, hey, you know? And it's I feel like it's when I see that and it's like, okay, I'm doing my job.

SPEAKER_00 26:06

Yep. Well, here to the point of you coaching that 15-year-old team this uh fall, we have a high-end baseball player at that age, in my opinion. Yes, that was on that team, and uh he had done something that as an organization we have a rule that hey, if you aren't going to do this, well then here, find yourself on the bench.

SPEAKER_04 26:28

Yeah, you're gonna figure it out.

SPEAKER_00 26:29

You did the right job as a coach instead of letting that kid get away with it, you held him accountable for our rules and our expectations for him. And to be honest with you, like sometimes we do that with kids and they get upset and they get pissed and then they leave, they go full or they don't like you as a coach because they're like, well, he doesn't like me. And I actually had a conversation with him as dad, and it wasn't pertaining to that, but that situation came up, and both of them were so appreciative of it because they said, We want coaches that are going to challenge him, we want coaches that are going to teach him, we want coaches that are going to basically hold him accountable for what he he wants to do. Now he's still young, and I still believe he has a long way to go, and I think he's gonna get there because I think he's gonna buy into what we do and he's starting to, but I think it was such a fresh start for him coming into high school and have you as a coach to do that that it set the tone early going into winter. And I think that's why it was great having you at that age group because it's like players love you, you relate to them, you pull a lot out of them, and sometimes having 15-year-olds, especially in the fall, a lot of them are new kids, like they don't know our ways yet. Like, it's just it's it's a tough environment to throw a coach into because, like you said, you're trying to challenge those kids and you're trying to get them to get things to click, and then you see them do things and it's driving you crazy. Yeah, it's like I gotta stay positive because if I turn on this kid, he's not gonna respect me. And if I can't get him to respect me, I'm not gonna get the best out of it.

SPEAKER_05 27:56

Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 27:56

So I thought that was awesome, man. Um, and I appreciate what you do, but we gotta go to uh cup of brew brought to you by Newman's Corner Pub.

Practice Warriors Shout‑Outs

SPEAKER_02 28:08

It's in the Western suburbs, it's run by our guy, Jeff Naraki. I know Marco knows our guy Jeff Narocki. Um, Mr. Mayor Love the Narockies. Love the Narockies. Um, if you ever need to gamble, eat, drink, or maybe find a new friend in the western suburbs. I mean, it's always nice to have a friend. I going back to my trip in Vegas, I'm in the elevator, and the person goes, Who'd you coach for? I go blah blah blah, and they go blah blah blah, and they walk out of the elevator and I say, Hey, we're not strangers anymore. I know your name. So now I know someone in Miami, Florida, because we had an interaction in the elevator. So imagine if you go to Newman's Corner pub, you meet a friend there, and now you have a friend, maybe you need a jump in the snow when it's cold, and they come up on the whatever interstate's going out there. I think it's the what is that? 88, 94? 94, right? 94. Yeah, Newman's Corner Pub. For a cup of brew.

SPEAKER_00 29:10

So a cup of brew is gonna be brought to you today with Marco being told a story about a lovely incident that took place in Indianapolis. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 29:21

Okay, it was indie?

SPEAKER_00 29:23

Oh, it was indie.

SPEAKER_05 29:24

I don't know. That year I was in everywhere but Illinois.

SPEAKER_00 29:27

So during the indie MPL, right, the high school kids played during the week. They played Tuesday through Friday, the 16s and 17s, and the 15-year-olds will play basically uh Friday through Monday. So Marco was coaching our 17-year-old team.

SPEAKER_04 29:43

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 29:44

And uh good group of kids. Great group of kids. And uh I believe you were short on pitching once again.

SPEAKER_05 29:50

Once again, short on arms. Nothing new.

SPEAKER_00 29:53

What new? Marco texts me in the middle of the game. Actually, I think it was literally the start of this game, and I was driving from a different game to his game.

SPEAKER_05 30:02

I think it happened when Kinsley.

SPEAKER_00 30:03

And I get a text and says that hey, Kinsley just popped his elbow. Uh we're we're a little short on arms here. I said, I'm on my way, I'll be right there.

SPEAKER_05 30:12

It was the first inning when Kinsley.

SPEAKER_00 30:14

So I come walking up, and Marco, who's coaching with Jack Calcogno, a 24 grad. Jack Key! Great former player of mine. Great dude. Uh, love that he coaches the kids, but the two of them are coaching, and I see we're on defense. So I walk in the dugout expecting to see, you know, players in the dugout. And I walk in, and all I see is Marco and Jack. And I looked at Marco, I said, Where's everybody else? He goes, This is all we got.

SPEAKER_07 30:41

You're looking, you're looking at the field.

SPEAKER_00 30:43

The team's on the field.

SPEAKER_07 30:44

Kinsley just left.

SPEAKER_00 30:45

And I was like, where's all the other guys? So and so is at football. So-and-so is at football. Uh, he's hurt, he's hurt. Yep, and I'm sitting there watching this team.

SPEAKER_05 30:55

I don't even know who was on the mound.

SPEAKER_00 30:57

You were uh I know who Neil wasn't on the mound. No, O'Neal wasn't. I think Foley was on the mound.

SPEAKER_05 31:03

I don't know. Somebody had Robin. No, Foley. Somebody went to eat innings right away.

SPEAKER_00 31:08

I think Foley was on the mound because I remember showing up and I forgot Carter was back. Carter Monroe was back, and he was playing short. And I kept looking. I was like, who is that? It's short.

SPEAKER_05 31:17

And that's when we got Carter.

SPEAKER_00 31:18

And then Carter came back, which was huge. Huge. Uh, and we show up, and I'm joking, and you're dugout about it. And games going on, and you know, things aren't going perfect, but you're still in the game, and we're now late in the game and competing. We're competing, and you know, uh Marco's got a right fielder who's a two-way guy. He's pretty good on the mound off playing at NYU now. And yeah, he he had warmed up previously in the inning.

SPEAKER_05 31:46

Like for an inning, maybe he warmed up.

SPEAKER_00 31:48

Yeah. And uh so started the pitcher on the mound goes 2-0 against the kid, and I looked at Marco and it was a He was at his limit. He was at his pitch limit. I looked at Marco, I said, Hey, we're gonna do something I've never done before. Marco said, I've never done it either. And Marco called timeout, he walked out to the mound, and well, he pulled a kid mid mid at bat.

SPEAKER_05 32:07

Yep. Only ever seen it done once when I was I was playing against South Sub, and the South Sub coach pulled the guy pulled a guy. That same game, he pulled a guy mid, pulled the guy off the mound, mid count, and then he pulled the guy from his from the batter's box mid at bat and sent another kid up there to bat.

Chaos Training And Fundamentals

SPEAKER_02 32:25

I saw the COD coach do that too. That was crazy. He had a um not COD, um Ken Kiki. No, not Ken Kiki. What's the other K? Kishwaki. Kishwaki. This guy, he had a whiteboard, and he so he was giving the signs, dude blew off the signs, I guess. So then he goes into the dugout and gets the whiteboard, and I'm catching. He writes down hit and run on the whiteboard, flashes it to the entire field. That's embarrassing. And actually, this it I learned something from that though, because in my head, I'm like, this guy's messing with me. I don't know if this guy's going or not. And uh it put a level of doubt in my mind. And so if you coaches ever want to change it up, just tell the other team what you're gonna do. Throw them off. I guess, yeah. Uh but anyway, continue with the cup Obrew.

SPEAKER_05 33:15

But no, yeah, that.

SPEAKER_00 33:17

Well, hold on. So we put the pitcher in.

SPEAKER_05 33:21

Make the pitching change. Peter comes in. One pitch. One pitch, and we're out of the inning.

SPEAKER_00 33:25

Fly ball, gets out of the inning. I believe you guys ended up winning that game.

SPEAKER_05 33:30

I think we did.

SPEAKER_00 33:31

And then you had a game late that night up on field one at the at Westfield.

SPEAKER_05 33:35

Yeah. Because more guys were even leaving after that game.

SPEAKER_00 33:38

There was one guy leaving, and Marco's like, I only have eight for the next game. I was like, I'll find you players. So I called, or I'm sorry, I texted all the kids on the 17U black team, and I knew a couple kids wanted some extra bets. And I basically pulled like five kids off that team that then came and played that night, and then we're all standing in the dugout. Marcos turned around. He's like, Man, I got all these kids to do. I don't even know what to do anymore. I got a full team.

SPEAKER_05 34:00

I didn't know how to write my lineup. I was like, all right, here we go. Then it was too many kids.

SPEAKER_02 34:04

This was an indie, right? This was, yeah. Was this before the Waffle House or after the Waffle House?

unknown 34:10

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 34:11

I don't remember the Waffle House. I remember that. This one had to be before.

SPEAKER_05 34:14

That second game, yeah. I had I had Chase and Fitz and I think a couple other guys. It was nice. I think Chase, I think Chase hit a bomb.

SPEAKER_00 34:20

Delgado was there, I thought.

SPEAKER_05 34:22

I think Delgado might have been there.

SPEAKER_02 34:23

Oh, then it was before the Waffle House. Oh no. Because you can't do that.

SPEAKER_00 34:27

I know the turn the Terminator threw the game. Yeah. But yeah, you did because you also had that was the that was right before uh when there was that collision in center field with with Gavin and dude, that was game one of the summer. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 34:42

Piscoty and O'Neal.

SPEAKER_00 34:44

Yeah. Dove into each other.

SPEAKER_06 34:46

Jeez.

SPEAKER_00 34:47

But so all the all the hard times you give me about being short on players, I found you players in hours to take care of you. But I will say this. The show up to your dugout with nine guys on the field and looking around, I'm like, we're at the MPL. It was looking like that we have a team out there playing with nobody in the dugout.

SPEAKER_05 35:10

I mean, nobody could complain about playing time.

SPEAKER_00 35:12

No, it's great. Or at bats?

SPEAKER_05 35:14

Yeah, don't complain to me about at bats. You're all getting them.

SPEAKER_00 35:18

You know, you're getting three or four a game. But yeah, I mean, that was it was a that was a fun time, interesting time. Like I said, I don't know if I'll ever pull a kid mid-pitch again or mid-bat again. But at least you could say you've done it. I've done it. And it worked.

SPEAKER_05 35:31

And it worked with an OPRF Husky.

SPEAKER_00 35:33

The Huskies.

SPEAKER_05 35:34

The Huskies. Turn hey, turning the name around. Peter Farron.

SPEAKER_00 35:40

Pete. Love you, Pete. Great dude. So, time to talk Bears.

SPEAKER_06 35:46

Oh boy. Jeez.

SPEAKER_00 35:48

Joshua. We're not going to talk about tomorrow. Joshua.

SPEAKER_06 35:51

Don't get me started.

SPEAKER_00 35:52

Back on top. Yeah. Second place. We were here two weeks ago. We're back to it. Packers go down. Lose Parson and Watson. For the year.

SPEAKER_02 36:04

Watson not for the year.

SPEAKER_05 36:06

Watson's not for the year.

SPEAKER_00 36:06

Would Watson pull his hamstring at the top of the street?

SPEAKER_05 36:08

No, he's like chest broke.

SPEAKER_00 36:10

No, that guy pulls his hamstring on the regular.

SPEAKER_05 36:12

No, Patrick Sertan like fell right on top of him. Sick interception. Sick interception. But fell right on top.

SPEAKER_00 36:18

How about Jalen Johnson's interception?

SPEAKER_05 36:21

How many interceptions do the Bears have as a team?

SPEAKER_00 36:23

29.

SPEAKER_05 36:25

I think it's 30.

SPEAKER_00 36:25

Is it 39? 30?

SPEAKER_05 36:29

Is that interceptions or just turnovers?

SPEAKER_02 36:31

I think we're at 30 now because then we come in with 27 yesterday. Maybe. And then yesterday's three.

SPEAKER_05 36:36

It's actually 30 interceptions or just 30 takeaways.

SPEAKER_00 36:39

I think it's 30 interceptions. I could be wrong. But I thought they looked good. I mean, obviously the Browns are a struggling team, but we did what we were supposed to do against them. We're not going to talk about yesterday. We're not going to talk about yesterday.

SPEAKER_02 36:51

We're talking about Saturday.

SPEAKER_00 36:52

We're talking about Saturday night. Yeah. 7 p.m.

SPEAKER_02 36:54

Yeah. Hey, anyone have any tickets out there? Help your guy out.

High School Baseball: Teams Beat Themselves

SPEAKER_00 36:57

Any tickets? Listen, Lord Puck would love to go to the game. I'm going to throw a little pub. I'm going to talk to my uncle, see what I can do. Throw a little pub out here for you. Okay. This man deserves this. Thank you. He he bleeds the bears. He's got a bear in his room that he that he bought at the Brookfield Zoo. Yes. Okay. He's got it dressed up. If if I had a bear ticket, I would give it to you. Thank you. Like that's how much I know you want to go to this game. Yes. So listen. I wouldn't. There's listeners out there. You wouldn't? No, I wouldn't. You got, would you let me this guy. You got tickets. I'm going to get you tickets. Somebody out there listening to this has a ticket to this game. It's going to be cold. Some of you people don't like going to the cold games. This guy wants to go. Get Lord Puck a ticket for me, please. Somebody. Two tickets for me. If you get him a ticket, if somebody gets you a ticket, free good man shirt.

SPEAKER_02 37:54

Oh, I need more than that.

SPEAKER_05 37:55

Hold on.

SPEAKER_00 37:56

Why would you need more than that?

SPEAKER_02 37:58

They need more than that.

SPEAKER_05 37:59

Why does Lord Puck need two tickets? Lord Puck is one person. I said one. I know, and he's over here saying two.

SPEAKER_00 38:04

Well, that's because if he gets two thousand dollars. I thought beggars can't be choosers. Look at this chooser. If he gets two, he might invite you.

SPEAKER_05 38:10

No, I already got the hookup to the Bears game. Wait, what? I don't know if I'm going, but if I needed tickets, I already got someone I could talk to.

SPEAKER_00 38:16

So here I am selling to get a ticket. You got tickets, and you can't even get the man a ticket?

SPEAKER_05 38:20

I could have gone to last week's game, but I had to be here.

SPEAKER_02 38:24

What about this week?

SPEAKER_05 38:27

I haven't spoken to my uncle.

SPEAKER_02 38:28

I need to call Uncle D'Angelo. Uncle D'Angelo.

SPEAKER_05 38:32

It's not Uncle D'Angelo. It's Uncle Uncle Who? Joe Davies.

SPEAKER_00 38:35

Uncle Joe Davies. He sounds like a lawyer.

SPEAKER_05 38:37

No, he's not a lawyer.

SPEAKER_00 38:38

Doctor Marco's friend. Josh needs a ticket. Hook us up.

SPEAKER_05 38:42

This is the same uncle that we had bullshit. I love that uncle. The Bull season tickets. I love that uncle.

SPEAKER_02 38:47

See? Until he left the Bulls tickets.

SPEAKER_05 38:49

Well, his company wasn't making losing money buying the Bulls tickets.

SPEAKER_02 38:53

Come on. No, I I want to go.

SPEAKER_05 38:54

We could have went halves on Bulls tickets this year, but you didn't want to do it.

SPEAKER_02 38:58

See why.

SPEAKER_05 38:59

Yeah, they're terrible. They're bad. They're bad. Yeah. But when you go to the game, it's a little fun.

SPEAKER_00 39:05

I went to the Black Hawk wrecking game on the game. Who's at the game? Saturday.

SPEAKER_05 39:09

Hockey games, they're too long. They're actually shorter.

SPEAKER_02 39:12

They're the shortest ones, I would think. Because sometimes you don't get a whistle and those minutes fly. Fly.

SPEAKER_05 39:18

No, they're long. They're intermittent. It's good. No. They're longer than baseball games. No, wait a minute. No! Yes, they're gonna be able to do it. No!

SPEAKER_02 39:26

This guy don't know hockey.

SPEAKER_05 39:28

Listen, you don't even don't don't get me started on that. I'm trying to keep this as PG as possible.

SPEAKER_02 39:34

You keep it PG however you want to, but you don't know hackey.

SPEAKER_05 39:39

Hockey games longer an average hockey game is like 210.

SPEAKER_02 39:42

Yeah. 220.

SPEAKER_05 39:44

Yeah. Two and a half to three hours.

SPEAKER_02 39:47

Who?

SPEAKER_05 39:48

Hockey. Who said that?

SPEAKER_02 39:49

Google. I don't believe Google. AI. No, I don't believe that. They're not there.

SPEAKER_05 39:54

Longer than baseball games. They're not they're the longest professional sport being played, I think. Well, Google. Longest running. Yeah. Yeah, they're long. How you guys did Google? You know why you guys think it goes by so fast? Because you're drunk. Well, not Josh. You know? But you guys don't really drink.

SPEAKER_00 40:13

So if it's not Josh, there's only one person that you're talking to now. So you're talking to me?

SPEAKER_05 40:18

Talking, eh?

SPEAKER_00 40:19

This guy.

SPEAKER_05 40:20

Well, I just know you drink. Josh don't really drink. Josh has a whiff of.

SPEAKER_00 40:23

Did you see him at the Christmas party last night?

SPEAKER_05 40:26

Yeah, I know. That's the only time. And he had what? Three drinks? That's not drinking. Three drinks? Come on. That's a pregame.

SPEAKER_02 40:35

To the Bears game.

SPEAKER_05 40:37

Saturday, if you play your cards right. Hey.

SPEAKER_00 40:40

What do we got to do about it? What do we think of the Christmas party? For those listening, we had our Bowdome Christmas party last night. We're doing a beautiful Primo Locos every year.

SPEAKER_04 40:48

I'm glad you asked.

SPEAKER_00 40:49

Okay, every year. Okay, Primo Locos. Get some tacos, some drinks. Marco, I want you to be very, very cautious with what you're about to say and how you approach us.

SPEAKER_05 41:03

The party needs to go back to the dome.

SPEAKER_00 41:05

Oh. Here's the problem. Okay, I'm gonna get I'm gonna hit you with the problem.

SPEAKER_05 41:10

What's the problem?

SPEAKER_00 41:11

There is no liquor license in the dome. So there, therefore, you cannot drink inside the dome.

SPEAKER_05 41:17

So that first year we broke the law?

Coaching Philosophy: Confidence And Calm

SPEAKER_00 41:19

No, that's not true. We applied for a liquor license for the day. Okay, and you are allowed to apply for it, but they can you cannot do that anymore. Hence why we don't do the party here anymore. We have to go somewhere else. You cannot do it here for that reason. We could host the party here, but then the fun for some people, not everybody.

SPEAKER_05 41:37

Just bring your Gatorade bottles. That's about it.

SPEAKER_00 41:39

Well then you're breaking the law.

SPEAKER_06 41:42

We're drinking Gatorade. How do we not get a license to do that?

SPEAKER_00 41:47

Bring your Gatorade bottles. I'm gonna walk in with a Gatorade bottle. What do you think?

SPEAKER_07 41:50

This is the dome. It looks it doesn't look bad. Somebody walking in here with a Gatorade bottle looks normal.

SPEAKER_02 41:57

Are you doing that at the Bears game? You walk in with an Aquafino bottle, all clear?

SPEAKER_05 42:01

That's Molly Water. That's what the young kids are saying. I know about this because I'm a high school teacher.

SPEAKER_01 42:15

Baby shirk do do do do to do baby shark do do do do to do Marco shirk to do do to do to do marco shark. Next thing you're gonna be saying six and six.

SPEAKER_05 42:28

Lysa should be here at the dome. Obviously, we got our answer to why it's not here at the at the dome.

SPEAKER_00 42:32

Oh, I would I would love it to be here. The one we had here at the dome was just um it wasn't bad.

SPEAKER_05 42:36

I wish there was uh a little bit more food. Uh one of our uh coaches here, I think, ate for about 10 people himself.

SPEAKER_00 42:43

The tomatoes on that guy's plate.

SPEAKER_05 42:45

I don't I think that was just for show. So I saw a lot of it off the plate. You know, I think he was just trying to do something mentally there.

SPEAKER_00 42:51

Did you see the bites he was taking?

SPEAKER_05 42:53

He was eating like George Costanza. If you for my listeners out there, if you've watched any Seinfeld, first of all, great show. Great show. Seinfeld, Seinfeld and Sopranos built or paved the way for what tele whatever television you watch today. Okay. But back to the Christmas party. One of the coaches, I'm over here, you know, enjoying a drink. Mingling, talking, this, that, the other.

SPEAKER_00 43:17

Yep.

SPEAKER_05 43:18

And then I look over across from me, and if I didn't know the guy, I would I would have thought maybe he's homeless. Maybe he just got out the joint, you know, maybe he's not really, he hasn't been around that many people, you know. Maybe he, maybe he's seen some things.

SPEAKER_00 43:35

I think I think my the way he was eating. My favorite thing you asked him was, Do you eat like that when you're on a date? Oh, yeah. And he goes, Absolutely.

SPEAKER_05 43:43

Yeah, the guy was hunched over his plate, his chin was buried in it. He had it, he was his elbows were, it's like if he was boxing out Shaquille O'Neal. Okay. And it was just if you ever played the game Hungry Hungry Hippos, that's what it was.

SPEAKER_02 44:00

And who was this? Who's this coach?

SPEAKER_05 44:02

This coach, one of my favorites, Josh Cassara. I'll never coach with him, but I love him.

SPEAKER_00 44:10

You haven't ever coached him.

SPEAKER_05 44:11

No, and I tell the kids all the time, don't you ask me, you think you and why don't you and Coach Josh coach together? I'll be like, listen, first of all, I don't want to. Second of all, it won't go well.

SPEAKER_00 44:20

Can I can I go back really quick and tell one of my favorite stories of you coaching?

SPEAKER_05 44:24

Oh, me?

SPEAKER_00 44:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 44:25

What? Oh, I'm gonna kind of embarrass what happened.

SPEAKER_00 44:29

Did that get tossed? So Marco's teams sometimes are notorious for doing game changer in the dugout with Marco with Marco's phone or iPad. I forget which one of them.

SPEAKER_05 44:40

Oh, it's my phone. I'm too cheap. I think this was I haven't bought an iPad.

SPEAKER_00 44:43

So they're doing it with his phone.

SPEAKER_05 44:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 44:45

And Marco's over to third base, and it's literally the middle of an inning. He's giving signs. And the kid yells, Coach, your phone, your phone, what's your passcode? And he's going, three, two, six, eight, nine, four. He's giving signs, just yelling his passcode.

SPEAKER_05 45:03

Yelling my coat across the dock.

SPEAKER_00 45:05

Across the field. And the third base, the third base dugout where the other team was the coach is just dying laughing.

SPEAKER_05 45:11

Well, that's because, yeah, sometimes I don't have a parent doing the game changer. And also, it's just a good good idea to have the kids just kind of stay in the game. Yeah, the pitchers. The pitchers. Yeah, especially the pitchers. Although sometimes our pitchers don't know what the hell is going on on game changer. Like one time, I don't know who it was. Might have been Henry Johnson. On Game Changer, never made the pitching change. When I look back at it, our for our one guy, whoever pitched, threw like 300 or it was like 170 pitches.

SPEAKER_02 45:40

How many burgers did he perform?

SPEAKER_05 45:41

100 something pitches. And it was just like, okay, well, this is all wrong.

SPEAKER_02 45:44

So you are right. You do have guys throwing not much. 29 and oh, starting guys, all right? Burgers, fries, this is the Marco Way. This is the mark. And then you're attacking me for the way I eat. You're telling me that guy right there, when he pulls up to a hockey game, isn't eating all that.

SPEAKER_05 46:02

Listen, we go to culvers, this guy orders a quadruple burger.

SPEAKER_00 46:07

A quadruple burger. You know what I did on my way in today?

SPEAKER_01 46:10

Bag W.

SPEAKER_00 46:11

Because I only had breakfast.

SPEAKER_05 46:18

It was my brother's first job. I will say this though. Shout out Culver's and Lions.

SPEAKER_00 46:22

First time I've ever gone to the culverse over on York.

SPEAKER_02 46:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 46:25

The worst butter burger I've ever had.

SPEAKER_02 46:27

It's not great. And they charge you more for the taxes.

SPEAKER_00 46:31

Why was it so bad?

SPEAKER_02 46:33

Because, well, I can't say that.

SPEAKER_00 46:35

They like over-grilled it.

SPEAKER_02 46:37

I have my theories.

SPEAKER_00 46:39

It was just I was it was sad. I will say this. The cheese curds were on fire.

SPEAKER_05 46:46

Have you had that cheese curd patty sandwich? No. It's a thing. Instead of a burger, it's a cheese curd patty. I think you can even put a burger on it though, too. I think it comes by itself. It's almost like a giant fried grilled cheese, I guess. Right? And then you could throw a burger on there.

SPEAKER_00 47:05

Kids, just so you know, make sure you guys aren't going to back the blue too much. Make sure you guys are throwing some good things in the old system. Get some chicken. Unless you're Jack Fagan. Well, hey, listen, sometimes we talked about this before. Sometimes baseball players and athletes, if you're riding high on something you're eating, keep doing it.

SPEAKER_05 47:22

Yeah. I asked his dad, I was like, has he done any competitive eating? And believe it or not.

SPEAKER_00 47:29

George isn't at home.

SPEAKER_05 47:32

He hasn't yet, but they both he said that they both talked about it maybe after baseball.

SPEAKER_02 47:37

Believe it or not, Fagan is eating.

SPEAKER_00 47:41

Believe it or not. What do you think he would eat in? Hot dog? I love watching the hot dog eating contest.

SPEAKER_05 47:46

Oh, no. The one you gotta watch is the lemonade chugging contest. I forgot who it is that wins it, but it's this big giant guy, and he just chugs. I think it's a whole gallon of lemonade. Maybe two gallons, three gallons. It looks pretty big.

SPEAKER_02 48:00

Sounds like the life. Um I love lemonade if you don't know anything about me. If you want to get on my good side in the summer, if you want to play, and you're going through a rough spot, let's say you're 0 for 30. I tell the kids all the time, if you're 0 for 30 and you want to get in that lineup, you just give me a simply lemonade before the game.

SPEAKER_05 48:15

Culver's gift card.

SPEAKER_02 48:16

Oh, that too, and you're you're in for the rest of the year.

SPEAKER_00 48:19

Just hey, just saying Christmas is coming, guys. Couple gift cards today. Happy holidays. Happy holidays.

SPEAKER_05 48:29

I didn't get my Christmas bonus at the party this year. I was a little upset about that.

SPEAKER_02 48:34

You sure your records are okay? I got an ADP email the other day saying I needed to update my uh address.

SPEAKER_05 48:40

I talked to the boss not every day, but you know, his office right next to my locker. Uh I asked him, you know, and he said, show up to the party. I showed up to the party.

SPEAKER_00 48:48

You always show up to the party. You know, and the good thing is the year's not over.

SPEAKER_05 48:53

The year's not over. So there's still hope. There's still hope. The holiday isn't over, so there's still hope for a holiday bonus.

SPEAKER_00 48:59

I was watching, I was watching Christmas Vacation the other day.

SPEAKER_05 49:02

You serious, Clark?

SPEAKER_00 49:06

And my wife, it's my wife's favorite Christmas movie. And and until last year, I had never actually watched it from start to finish. And I gotta say, well, I was not a big Christmas vacation. I'm a I love Vegas vacation.

SPEAKER_03 49:18

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 49:19

Vegas vacation is hi, I'm looking for an underage kid named Papa Georgie. Have you seen him? Yeah, he stole my wallet.

SPEAKER_03 49:25

He went that way.

SPEAKER_00 49:27

Great movie. But Christmas Vacation's good, man. Yeah. I I've uh I've I've watched it once this year already. I'll probably watch it again, but it's it's uh it's a good, it's a good Christmas flick. I was asking all the kids at Infield today. You were there. Every group would come up, I would go, favorite Christmas song.

SPEAKER_05 49:43

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 49:44

Oh, uh, uh, jingle buzz.

SPEAKER_05 49:46

Yeah, nobody knows nothing. Favorite Christmas movie. These kids don't know anything.

SPEAKER_00 49:49

You put them on the spot, they're I asked I asked one of our uh 10-year-olds, favorite Christmas song, Felice Navidad.

SPEAKER_06 49:56

What's not bad?

SPEAKER_00 49:57

And I was like, good, different.

SPEAKER_06 49:59

Not bad.

SPEAKER_00 50:00

No. We had a fun time at Infield tonight. We had a lot of jokes. I was out there singing Christmas carols. What was Duck singing? I don't know, but Duck was on the ground.

SPEAKER_04 50:09

Duck got after a little bit with the older group. Maybe the younger group got him there.

SPEAKER_00 50:14

Duck, Doctor and the younger group, second group finishes with them and he goes, Hey guys, just so you know, you were in my second best group today so far.

SPEAKER_02 50:22

You know, he asked for autographs in the cage.

SPEAKER_00 50:24

With for who?

SPEAKER_02 50:25

For him. Like they he tells the kids, hey, you want my autograph?

SPEAKER_00 50:28

And do the kids ask back for it?

SPEAKER_02 50:30

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 50:32

He's good. He's good.

SPEAKER_02 50:34

I heard someone hit someone in the head with a flip.

SPEAKER_00 50:37

Yeah, you keep asking about this. You play Jack Harmon.

SPEAKER_02 50:41

That's what someone told me.

SPEAKER_00 50:43

That Harman has.

SPEAKER_05 50:44

Well, Jack Harmon hitting somebody with a flip? Yeah. I can't second that. Or through behind him. I can't second it, but I did hear it. Well, not hear it, but I heard of it.

SPEAKER_00 50:52

Yeah, but who told you it?

SPEAKER_05 50:53

I don't know. I heard he was also told me. I can't even tell you who told me. That's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_00 50:57

There's so there's so much out there in this story. Nobody has any information.

SPEAKER_02 51:02

I heard he also, when kids don't pick up, he yells out Serenity now.

SPEAKER_00 51:06

Insanity later.

SPEAKER_02 51:08

Well, that's he's like, I'm I'm Marco, I'm gonna bust! I'm gonna bust, Marco! Serenity now!

SPEAKER_05 51:14

All you kids, all you Sparks kids that are listening right now, because it pisses me off too. And you know when I get pissed off, you'll hear me. But pick up baseballs when a cage needs to be picked up. If you are not the next guy to hit in the cage, go pick up baseballs.

SPEAKER_00 51:34

If if you don't have big league time and you aren't picking up balls, you're disrespectful.

SPEAKER_05 51:41

Yeah, go pick up. You're hitting. Go pick up baseballs because I'm more than positive you hit at least six of those baseballs that are laying in that cage of the 40, 50.

SPEAKER_00 51:49

Even if you didn't, like it and you're standing near that cage, get in there and pick up balls. It's it's be a good man.

SPEAKER_07 51:56

It's character.

SPEAKER_00 51:57

It's not it's yes, be a good man, but it's not even that, man. It's the disrespectfulness of the lack of feel. Well we talked about that you just don't get it.

SPEAKER_06 52:08

Yeah, like your high opinion.

SPEAKER_00 52:10

I can't stand when kids go hit in a cage and then leave balls in there. Like, who's gonna clean up after you? Your mom and dad aren't here to clean like clean up after yourself, man. Pick up after yourself. My word. You know what really chaps me?

SPEAKER_05 52:21

Go ahead.

SPEAKER_00 52:22

Chaps you yeah.

SPEAKER_05 52:24

There's something that chaps me too. I'm gonna go ahead. I'm gonna might be the same thing. Go.

SPEAKER_00 52:27

Is when I'm standing there and a kid will just roll a ball at my feet. And it's like, oh, you might as well just put your palms up at me too, and then you hit me with a trifact.

SPEAKER_05 52:36

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, I never even thought about that.

SPEAKER_02 52:38

But yeah, I Well, I just start barking at him. I go, Woof, woof. Woof, woof. Am I a dog? Yeah. That's what I do to them.

SPEAKER_00 52:45

I say something else. I said, there's this isn't this isn't written on my forehead. I I don't know who you think I am, but this isn't happening, but we're gonna go ahead and change that.

SPEAKER_05 52:54

Yeah. But what chaps me, and it blows my mind because it's like kids aren't thinking is when you're whether it's practice or it's usually it I see it the most when we're at tournaments, games, and it's like the kids gotta go to the cage to hit, right? Now I'm the coach that my kids that if they're freshmen, I'll throw BP to them. I'll flip. You know? But my kids that are 16, 17, they need to throw to themselves.

SPEAKER_02 53:24

But you are one of the best BP throwers I've ever seen. I do like throwing BP. They call you in. You are a mercenary.

SPEAKER_00 53:29

I do like throwing BP, but it's you two, you two probably are the best two BP. Oh, Jake too. You three are probably the best BP guys.

Mid‑At‑Bat Pitching Change Masterstroke

SPEAKER_05 53:35

But I have them throw BP to themselves, right? Just because it just builds arm action, accuracy. Marco works for PBR, by the way. They call him in just to throw. And they should, yes, I do. Shout out PBR. I love PBR. Um but it's when kids will go to the cage to hit, right? And not bring the baseballs. When it's like I'm gonna be the first one at the cage to hit. Okay, but you have no baseballs, so what are you gonna hit? What are you like, what are you doing? You know? I always say the smartest guy on the team is the guy carrying the bucket of baseballs. No, Delgado. No, Delgado. Because you like how can you do anything baseball-wise without a baseball?

SPEAKER_02 54:16

You're telling me, Bub.

SPEAKER_05 54:17

You know? I had a basketball practice in high school. We forgot the basketballs. We had an entire two-hour basketball practice without basketballs. I don't, I don't want to basketball. It was the worst basketball practice I've ever been part of.

SPEAKER_00 54:27

I don't want to talk basketball practice thing.

SPEAKER_05 54:29

Oh yeah. Oh, yeah, I know. You don't want to talk that.

SPEAKER_00 54:32

Bad bad bad bad practice.

SPEAKER_05 54:34

Bad practice. Basketball's just bad vibes right now.

SPEAKER_00 54:35

You know, we did learn a new play though. I drew myself up in a new play last night.

SPEAKER_02 54:39

Pat Riley.

SPEAKER_00 54:40

Liberty. Watch out for it. You know, like the Statue of Liberty.

SPEAKER_02 54:43

Lady Liberty.

SPEAKER_00 54:44

The girls loved it. They all go, Liberty, Liberty, Liberty. Oh, they're singing it. I was like, these girls are wild. I thought practice was gonna be great. By the end of practice, three on three turned in me saying, just go play. I'm done watching, I'm done, I'm done. I'm taking a five-minute break. I'm gonna be off to the sideline dribbling basketball on myself. I'm I'm on break.

SPEAKER_02 55:04

How can these people get you that mad?

SPEAKER_00 55:07

Uh listen, uh, it's my first time coaching the females, and I'm trying to I heard it's easier to coach.

SPEAKER_05 55:16

It's easier.

SPEAKER_00 55:16

It is, but it all there's also like you know, there's different types of different things. Yeah, but there's different types of silliness and goofiness that they go to. I guess. But then you also have to understand, like, in my opinion, this is where I'm trying to figure it out is okay, I've coached my oldest and his team for four years, and you know, I chewed them out at times when they were eight you, and I still get on, like we had a bad practice on Sunday where we've done when it worked out, but I don't really yell at them like I used to, nor do I feel like I have to. So I'm trying to figure out like the fine line of but the females, like once again, to what you talked about, is gaining their trust and respect so that I can pull the most out of them. If I start chewing these girls out and yelling at them, like they're not gonna listen to me anymore. Yeah, plus I was the only coach there, the other two coaches couldn't be there, so I didn't want to just like go off on them. So it was it, like I said, I chose to decompress and take a five-minute break, and I stood off to the side. Sometimes that's what you need. And I said, just go play. You girls go do your thing, go play. We're fine. I'm I'm just I'm not gonna yell. But hey, last thing, last thing we gotta talk about.

unknown 56:21

What?

SPEAKER_00 56:22

Friday.

SPEAKER_05 56:23

Friday.

SPEAKER_00 56:24

Last Friday. Friday's coming.

SPEAKER_05 56:27

Oh, it is Friday. Yeah. Noon. Zach asked me about it.

SPEAKER_00 56:30

Noon. Fogo. Oh, yeah. I I got it. So, hey, just a heads up, I gotta tell you. I I I got about only about an hour to an hour and ten I can stay. Kids got a Christmas uh show at school. What time? At two.

SPEAKER_02 56:52

Oh, it's only like a 20-minute show. Can't show up late. Well, then it's not if it's 20 minutes, then you tell them to come to us.

SPEAKER_00 56:59

I don't think it works like that. Plus, it's Logan's first show, so I could be there for my guy Logan. What is he? Oh, he was the abominable snowman. Hey, Logan was upset at the party. Logan was upset. That's what I'm saying. The abominable snowman is. For those who were at the party, my we played. Ray, love you, Ray. Shout out to Ray Murphy. Always does a great job bringing some fun to the Christmas party, but Ray decided to bring left, right, center to the table with about 30 people playing, and my three kids jumped into the game, and my youngest didn't win. He didn't win, and he didn't really handle it so well.

SPEAKER_05 57:33

No, I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_00 57:34

So here's a funny for you, too. Nikki D, big winner. Way to go, Nikki D. Proud of you, bud. Way to take that home. Keep it on the baseball side, my man. And Nikki D, great kid, took all of his winnings, dude, piled up uh three stacks of five dollars and gave each one of the kids five bucks. That's nice. Right? So then they were all happy. Then we get in the car. Okay, we get in the car, and Logan dropped. Well, Logan actually took one of his dollars and walked over to the bar and put a dollar in the tip jar.

SPEAKER_05 58:04

Oh, I thought I was gonna try to get a drink. No, he didn't.

SPEAKER_00 58:06

He got himself, he had a Coca-Cola classic. Okay. So he put a dollar in the tip jar, which I thought was nice. Great job, bud. Good, good lad. Way to redeem yourself.

SPEAKER_05 58:14

Respect.

Bears Talk, Tickets, And Winter Sports Banter

SPEAKER_00 58:14

Then we get in the car, and somehow he dropped three of the four dollars he had remaining. So for the whole 18-minute car ride home, I heard him screaming about how he lost his money and asking if we could turn around and go back to check for it. We pull in the driveway, dude. I opened the door and the three dollars are sitting right next to the door. And I was like, you spent 18 minutes screaming in the car when your money was sitting right here, dude. Like it's time for bed.

SPEAKER_02 58:40

So what's his we're missing Fogo de Chow where it is gay?

SPEAKER_00 58:45

Well, yeah, come on, man. I gotta go see the show.

SPEAKER_02 58:47

Well, who is he?

SPEAKER_00 58:48

It's for the kids.

SPEAKER_02 58:49

Yeah, what is he?

SPEAKER_00 58:50

It's not what he is. They sing like each each grade. Each grade does a different sing-along.

SPEAKER_02 58:56

Like Frosty. That could be one. That could be one.

SPEAKER_00 58:59

Yeah, each grade. Usually one of the one of the uh one of the one of the grades uh sings Dradel, Dradel, Draydle. Um there's a there's a you're a mean one, Mr. Grinch. Logan.

unknown 59:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 59:16

But you know, so I gotta go to the show. I'll still be there. I'm not saying I won't be there. I will be there for Fogo. I'm just saying I got about an hour, so I won't make the whole performance.

SPEAKER_02 59:27

Performance? It's not a performance at Fogo. There's gonna be a production.

SPEAKER_05 59:30

Josh, the way you eat, it's a performance.

SPEAKER_02 59:35

We're hoping to see all you guys there. Supposed to be like 20 people plus. It's gonna be a twenty five.

SPEAKER_00 59:40

I'm excited. Twenty twenty five.

SPEAKER_05 59:42

I'm excited for the salad bar.

SPEAKER_00 59:44

Yeah, me too.

SPEAKER_05 59:46

I don't get salad, I just get salami and cheese. That's my salad.

SPEAKER_00 59:50

So well, Margo, thanks for coming on the show, man.

SPEAKER_05 59:53

No, thanks for having me.

SPEAKER_00 59:54

We'll definitely have you back. We look forward to you coaching the the boys this summer.

SPEAKER_05 59:58

I know it's a looking forward to it. Have a blast. We're gonna win 35 games for sure.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:02

It's a big summer for him, though.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:04

35 games. Yeah, we're winning.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:05

35 and 2.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:06

We're winning 35. Okay. We're winning 35 games and we're winning two tournaments.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:10

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:10

Love it. You heard it here first. What's today's date?

SPEAKER_02 1:00:13

December. 15th. Mayday.

SPEAKER_07 1:00:20

Did the payroll uh double up again?

SPEAKER_05 1:00:26

Hey, that was that was a very nice uh wake up that day.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:30

That's not that much.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:31

For some day, Josh doesn't want to talk about that. But thank you for coming on the show, Marco, and and providing all your insight for these players and and for our listeners. Oh yeah. We uh we love having you here, man. You're you're uh you're a good man. Good man. I know you got your good man shirt.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:49

I did get my good man. I don't have to get it.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:51

I know it's a little tough for you to wear because it is a little tough for the skin. Material doesn't really work for him, the guy.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:56

Gotta wear an undershirt.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:57

But we'll have you back at some point. Uh we really want to get you and Jake on here together because I think the four horsemen could really have some fun.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:06

That'd be a hell of a show.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:07

Um, so hey, we'll get you back out here. But Lord Puck, could you hit us with the ending, Grace?

SPEAKER_02 1:01:12

Yeah, I have some I have some tips for you, all you hockey guys out there. Tip number one, make sure when you eat, eat hearty, and eat healthy. Tip number two, if you have a good friend, tell them that you love them tonight. And tip number three, when you go to a Christmas dinner with your family, make sure to look them all in the eye and tell them what you really think about them, whether it be good or bad.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:38

Well, we appreciate all that wisdom. And with that, Bruceauce, Lord Puck, ow. Good night, Marco.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:45

Good night. Get parallel, one line.