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00:00Let me tell you something, this guy is a ball player.
00:03It's the Guru, Stiney, Guru, Stiney, Guru, Stiney Show.
00:08Let's go!
00:10All right, crossover time.
00:12That means Willard and Dibbs are in the house.
00:14What's up, guys? How you doing?
00:15Doing great.
00:16Yeah.
00:17The fellas.
00:18Yeah.
00:19You look good, Goo.
00:20You look good.
00:21A little Magnum P.I.
00:23Yeah.
00:24Little Mr. Furley mix.
00:26Yeah?
00:27Then you cut your denzel.
00:28Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:29You cut your denzel.
00:30Yeah, I got my secret sauce at the house.
00:31Hey, looky good.
00:32Hey!
00:33High and tight.
00:34You look great.
00:35Yeah, Stiney and Evan did mention it, but thank you, fella.
00:37I got you.
00:38It's okay.
00:38Mark doesn't ever mention it when I cut my hair, which is every three days.
00:42I know.
00:43But you got the Jordan.
00:44You be clean.
00:45Well, actually, I did cut it today.
00:46Did you?
00:47Yeah, and I don't expect anyone to notice because had I come in today, like Goo would have noticed,
00:52like, ah, get a little shaggy.
00:53I do every time.
00:54Right, but, you know, it's every whatever three days.
00:56Well, and the definition of being a man most of the time is just not noticing that stuff.
01:02Like, you know, a lot of women are like, what's different about me?
01:06And I'm like, I'm leaving because I don't want to play this game.
01:10You know what I mean?
01:10That feels a little gender accusatory because I always remember, and I will notice when
01:16you and or Stiney get your hair cut.
01:18You do.
01:18You do.
01:19You look at that stuff.
01:21Well, I just, I mean, I look at you all stinking day.
01:23Yeah.
01:24Four hours.
01:25And I will.
01:25As soon as I see you, I'm like, you got a cut.
01:27Lucky guy.
01:28Well, I know when you go no hat and, you know, when you're going to let it fly that it's a thing.
01:33You're letting it be no.
01:34Today is just running late.
01:36I'm running late today.
01:37Tell me about it.
01:38And the P is for what that's on your hat?
01:40It's just Puma.
01:41Puma, okay.
01:41I know you want it to be Pittsburgh.
01:43Well, not these days.
01:43But it's just Puma.
01:45So, yeah, just Puma.
01:47I get that question a lot, though.
01:49Woo!
01:49I ran into some Steeler fans down in Jamaica, and they wanted this hat to be it.
01:53Jamaica, man.
01:54Yeah, man.
01:55Thank God he's over that.
01:56It took two days, though.
01:57Anyway, you asked me how long it was going to take.
01:59It took two days.
02:00Yeah, two days.
02:00But anyway, they wanted it to be a Pittsburgh guy.
02:03Did you hear any of the show today?
02:04A lot of it.
02:05I heard a lot of it.
02:06Real quick.
02:07I'd like to discuss some things.
02:08Can you do me a favor?
02:08Yes, sir.
02:09Can you check your texts?
02:11Oh.
02:11Uh-oh.
02:12Because I sent you a photo of golf shoes that I got.
02:16I tried to send it to you, but I'm doing it on my computer.
02:19Hey, Scotty, seriously.
02:21I just looked.
02:21These are super fly.
02:23My buddy said, get rid of them.
02:27Well, he doesn't have.
02:28They're the Jordan brand.
02:30Oh, wow.
02:31They're golf shoes.
02:31They're in the front.
02:32These are fire.
02:33Matt Bastian?
02:33Those are great.
02:34This makes me want to be a golfer.
02:36Yeah, those are great.
02:38He don't have swag.
02:39I got two questions.
02:41First of all, who's your friend?
02:44You are, Mark.
02:44No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
02:45I didn't tell you to get rid of those.
02:49Who's your friend that wants you to lose the shoes?
02:51The guy who takes me on all the golf trips.
02:53Let's profile him, though.
02:54I want Matt.
02:55I want Matt.
02:55Matt.
02:55I want Matt.
02:56He's my age.
02:57I'll send it to you, Evan.
02:58White guy.
02:58Okay.
02:59My age.
03:00Filthy rich.
03:01Okay.
03:02But a big, big heart.
03:04They're clung.
03:05Huge heart.
03:06What does he like about him?
03:07Matt, but I also want to know, though, what are you wearing them with?
03:10Because you can't just put the kicks on.
03:13They're golf shoes.
03:14I know that.
03:15Do you have, like, white tube socks and shorts on with them?
03:19I would use those little bunnies or whatever.
03:21The no-show socks.
03:21The one that Freddie Couples uses, you know, where he doesn't look like he has socks on.
03:26No-shows.
03:26Yes.
03:26Yeah, yeah, yeah.
03:27Okay.
03:27You do that.
03:28Yeah, yeah, yeah.
03:28All right.
03:29And are you wearing, like, just, like, khaki shorts?
03:32Probably navy.
03:32Cargo shorts.
03:33Navy blue shorts.
03:34Golf shorts.
03:35Red Vanley's.
03:36They're nice.
03:38All right.
03:38That's the brand.
03:39All right.
03:39Then your friend's wrong.
03:40Okay, cool.
03:41Your friend's wrong.
03:41Just don't wear him when he flies you out to South Carolina for a five-day junket.
03:45If he's paying, then change the shoes.
03:48Yeah.
03:49Right?
03:50You know, he's a what?
03:53Careful.
03:54When he flies you out to play, what is it, Pinehurst, number one?
03:59Oh, we haven't played there yet.
04:00I mean, you've played a lot of places.
04:02No, this is what he does.
04:02He said, yeah.
04:03I come down, I come down, eight o'clock in the morning for a round, and he looks at me
04:08and goes, you can't wear that.
04:09Oh, he's one of those.
04:10And then we go in, and then he's like.
04:12He doesn't like.
04:14He's a belt guy.
04:15And he's like, you can't wear that belt.
04:18And I'm like, what do you want me to do?
04:19He's like, I'll get you one at the clubhouse.
04:20Oh, man.
04:22What was wrong with the belt?
04:23It didn't match.
04:25He got style.
04:27Sometimes.
04:27He thinks a little bit of mismatch is good.
04:30Mark.
04:30A little like you.
04:31You and me, buddy.
04:32A little flavor.
04:33Yeah, I agree.
04:33Let's get a little flavor up in here, you know?
04:36When you have a friend who will fly you to South Carolina and put you on Scully for five
04:44days to play every course you've ever thought about.
04:47Then you do what he says.
04:48Exactly.
04:48You're going to change that belt now.
04:49You do what he says.
04:50No, you're right.
04:51And you agree with him even when you don't.
04:53You're like, you're right.
04:54These shoes are ugly.
04:56Let's break up this happy home.
04:58Hold on.
04:58Just for the sake of correctness, we're not going to Pinehurst this trip.
05:08We're going to Bandon.
05:10Where's that?
05:11Thank goodness you squared that up.
05:13Oregon, the same state that fielded one of the worst Little League teams I've ever.
05:19All right.
05:19Let's discuss this for a second.
05:21I can't wait.
05:22I'm not aware.
05:23No, he is.
05:23I watch every inning and every game.
05:26I can't wait.
05:27No, Dibs and I already had a pre-show meeting to discuss.
05:30I asked you to call and text Dibs.
05:31Well, if we didn't have an all-company meeting and I wasn't running late, I would have done
05:35it.
05:35That went long, this one.
05:36No, no.
05:37It went short for me because I showed up late.
05:39But anyway.
05:39Hour on the dot.
05:40Anyway.
05:41Like, okay.
05:42Y'all had some points.
05:44And I want to, like, update people who are just joining the show.
05:47Help us out.
05:48But y'all had a conversation about the Little League World Series.
05:52The beauty of it.
05:53And, Stiney, your basic point was, especially in these early rounds,
05:58this should not be on TV.
06:00These kids are, I don't want to speak for you, but what?
06:03Not good enough?
06:04You don't want to see them crying?
06:06Yep.
06:06You and Evan referred to them as their worst moments being broadcast on TV?
06:10Yeah.
06:10First of all, if your worst moment in life is because somebody hit a baseball off of you,
06:15you got a pretty good life.
06:16So, let's stop worrying about that.
06:18But this really hit me.
06:20It hit me hard, actually.
06:21Oh, boy.
06:22A, I've got an 11-year-old son.
06:24B, I've got a 16-year-old daughter.
06:27And my God, if I could help her with anything.
06:30Get off social media and comparing yourself to others.
06:34Wow.
06:35And, therefore, thinking that if you don't measure...
06:39No, no, no.
06:39That's why I disagree with you.
06:41If you don't measure up visually to others, then we need to hide you.
06:48Stay in your bedroom.
06:50I don't want you to come out because someone might think that you're not good enough.
06:54That's what I'm trying to dispel with these kids.
06:57So, the idea that it can only be on TV if it's perfect and looks finished in terms of
07:03its product or measures up to what someone else does, I hate that idea.
07:07You brought that home, man.
07:08Put that out to the public and let these kids realize it's okay.
07:12You don't need to be the best ball player in your town.
07:15You don't need to throw 85.
07:16You can throw 65.
07:18We got video of a manager on the mound for a mound visit yesterday.
07:22And all he did was crack jokes.
07:25He didn't even say anything about baseball.
07:27He gave them a pun and then walked off the mound and all the kids were laughing.
07:31I don't want them to feel like they need to be perfect to be on TV, Stiney.
07:35Well, that's great in theory.
07:37I know.
07:37That's not...
07:38It's a little campy, but what are you worried about?
07:41The Internet's a vicious place.
07:43But not really.
07:44Like, how many people have a psychologist on?
07:47Has anyone ever ended up there?
07:49And that's what I asked.
07:49I had a child psychologist text in and they said...
07:52He got a lot of people coming to his couch being like,
07:55I would have been fine except for that time that I gave up a tater on TV when I was 11
07:59and that ruined my life.
08:01I think that's a little harsh.
08:03Okay.
08:03A little strong.
08:05I just feel like as an 11-year-old competing in sports,
08:11like, you haven't really done anything to get on TV,
08:15nor do you deserve that kind of pressure because you're not good enough.
08:18And I do think there's something that I don't like about an 11-year-old succeeding or failing
08:28in front of a nation when we got to handle that without all the fanfare.
08:35Do you know how often 11-year-olds cry?
08:38Well, I mean, all the time.
08:41Yes.
08:41I mean, I got three daughters.
08:42All the time.
08:43Okay.
08:44Okay.
08:44And what they need to learn, I would argue, is that it's okay.
08:48Get through it.
08:49Get some coping mechanisms.
08:51But if we hide all of their failures,
08:53if we hide every time that they just have regular emotions, I don't know.
08:58Again, you have some points.
08:59I get it.
09:00I get the idea of not putting it on TV.
09:02But I just, man, I think that if we don't make that big a deal out of it,
09:08if we keep it light, and that's on us,
09:11I think the positives outweigh the negatives in a major way.
09:14Did you see Zach Sizemore yesterday?
09:16I did not.
09:17Is that Grady's kid?
09:18No.
09:19The Oregon pitcher?
09:20No.
09:21No.
09:21What happened?
09:22It was just really sad.
09:23Did he get hit?
09:25No, but he may as well have.
09:27He got shelled.
09:28Was he crying?
09:28Yes.
09:29I got shelled some at Little League.
09:30I still remember those moments.
09:32His poor chin dragging across the field on the way to the dugout,
09:36and I'm just thinking,
09:37why does Matt Steinmetz get to watch this poor kid, like, being despondent?
09:45He's going to be stronger for it.
09:48Yeah.
09:49And Diaz, before you go, he didn't mention the quality of it was lacking, too.
09:52That's what set me off.
09:54And by the way, let me make it clear here,
09:58because maybe you guys, there's no malice here.
10:01There's no malice.
10:02Absence of malice.
10:03Yeah, it's just, it's, you know, let's let the kids be kids.
10:08You know what?
10:09Let's wait till, I think that's what we're doing.
10:11Let's let them grow up.
10:12Exactly.
10:12I think that's what we're doing.
10:13Okay.
10:13I think it isn't.
10:14Okay.
10:15I get it.
10:16I mean.
10:17Dibs.
10:17Well, yesterday we watched a pitcher by the name of Lincoln Pickle.
10:22I know.
10:25Lincoln Pickle.
10:26And I'm so thankful for that.
10:27On the bump yesterday.
10:28And I don't know if Lincoln Pickle will ever go on to be a pro athlete,
10:32but for these young boys and some girls,
10:35I don't know if there's going to be a girl in the Little League World Series,
10:38but if I gave you the name Monet Davis, for example.
10:41Oh, man.
10:41You remember Monet Davis?
10:43Yeah, I do.
10:43She was a pitcher from, I think, Chicago, and she went out there
10:47and she turned that experience into a lifetime of a career.
10:53I don't think she went on to the major leagues.
10:55I'm actually quite certain she didn't,
10:57but for some of these young people,
10:59this will be the greatest summer of their life.
11:02And I'm thinking about you, Alpine Little League, West Menlo,
11:06and they'll play tonight, Stiney, at 6 o'clock,
11:08and they're playing for their lives, their tourney lives,
11:12because if they lose, they're out.
11:14And they just lost their first game all summer long.
11:17Hawaii beat them in extra innings,
11:19but for these young boys from West Menlo,
11:22this will be the greatest summer probably of their lives,
11:26and you get to have some of it captured on TV.
11:29Oh, my gosh.
11:30You can remember it when you're 40 years old.
11:33It's special.
11:34Sure, and I think those are well-taken points.
11:39What I think about is something different.
11:41This is West Menlo Park?
11:43Correct.
11:44Alpine Little League.
11:44And let me tell you what's going to happen
11:46when West Menlo Park loses and their pitcher gets shellacked
11:49is all the kids from East Menlo Park
11:51are going to make fun of the kid on social media
11:55and essentially belittle the kid
11:58for trying to compete at his level.
12:02I think that's too mean-spirited and probably erroneous.
12:04That's a lot of it.
12:05That's kids these days.
12:06Boy, Stiney, I mean-spirited.
12:08On our day, you know, you just rolled up to somebody
12:11and you said what you said,
12:13and that kid either called you out
12:15and you met at the Oak Tree or the bike rack at 315
12:18and you threw hands.
12:19Yeah, I didn't.
12:20So what's the difference?
12:21I know you didn't, Stiney.
12:22I don't like fighting.
12:23I was 14, 4, and 2 as a grammar school fighter
12:26because I ran my mouth.
12:28Shout out Mervyn's when I got knocked out in 1979.
12:30Potato, yeah.
12:31It's just what we did.
12:33You were insulated.
12:35You were inculcated,
12:36and you didn't get into these fracases,
12:39but it happened pre-social media.
12:41Can I add something?
12:43I'll try four hours more.
12:45Well, the social media aspect of everything we talk about
12:48is very real,
12:50and so I want to tiptoe into this,
12:52but Stiney, at age 11,
12:55they're not on there yet.
12:56And that's all I was talking to.
12:56They're not, and I have one,
12:58and I do not know any of my son's friends
13:02who are on Instagram or Twitter.
13:05They're just starting middle school in two weeks,
13:08and so I'm not going to act like being made fun of
13:11and the internet.
13:12This is a big place,
13:14and I understand my privilege,
13:15and so I understand that there might be others
13:17that do it a different way,
13:19but 11-year-olds are not like,
13:21yes, my 16-year-old daughter,
13:23that's a dangerous place,
13:25but my 11-year-old son,
13:27he doesn't even know Twitter,
13:30Instagram, TikTok.
13:32No, they're just getting phones.
13:34Some of them don't even have them yet.
13:37No malice, Stiney.
13:38Yeah, absolutely not.
13:40To the point about Oregon,
13:41they're actually cuffing around Alaska right now.
13:45They're up 8-2,
13:46and if they win, when they win,
13:49they get another crack at Washington.
13:51That's incredible.
13:52So there you go.
13:53And the community component you're missing.
13:55Yeah, but you know what?
13:56Zach Sizemore's quit already.
13:58He's quit.
13:59He's not going to be pitching.
14:00I'm not going to let you off the hook.
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14:13And why I said real quick,
14:14I'm not going to let you off the hook, Mark,
14:16is he's bringing it here, Dibs.
14:17He's parking it here.
14:19But this started,
14:19and why I wanted to go Lawrence Taylor on them
14:22and come after them,
14:23is how dare you sit at a restaurant
14:25and judge these kids and how they play
14:28because he talked about the lack of quality
14:31that the kids didn't have.
14:33That was your original point.
14:34And that is what sent me over the top.
14:37Dibs, it's an experience.
14:39It's the Little League World Series.
14:40It's not the pros.
14:41That's part of the attraction.
14:43That's part of the humiliation.
14:46No, it's not.
14:46I think it is.
14:47If you make it that.
14:49See, to me, that's on the adults.
14:52Well, again, thank you.
14:53And by the way, your point was,
14:55in theory, once the kids aren't throwing 68,
14:59once they're throwing 82 in a few more rounds,
15:02then you're okay with it.
15:04And I would argue the embarrassment doesn't change.
15:07And I think this was Evan's point.
15:09It only gets worse.
15:10Like, if you're on TV and you get shelled,
15:14you get shelled.
15:15The kids are not going to be like,
15:16but it's round three, so now I'm happy.
15:20Look, you know this.
15:21Everybody in the room knows this.
15:23When do you learn the most?
15:24Through your what?
15:26Failures.
15:27So let them have their failures,
15:30and it's on us to not make that big of a deal out of it
15:34because it's flipping Little League.
15:36Like, go get some pizza.
15:37That's why it shouldn't be on TV.
15:39Well, but it is.
15:40I know.
15:41And I was just saying, like, I don't, like, that's...
15:43Well, when they play the actual game at Williamsport,
15:46the final, there'll be 30,000 people there.
15:49Are they limited to just friends and family?
15:51But that's not my issue.
15:53My issue is they're too young to be on TV,
15:56and I don't think they're ready to hand some of them.
15:59And I'm not, like, of course somebody had a great experience.
16:02Some people didn't.
16:03But I just don't like the idea of an 11-year-old failing.
16:07Like 12.
16:08Failing.
16:09And, like, we got to deal with that on our own.
16:14At what age should failure be televised?
16:17That's a great question.
16:19Because Jennifer Capriati was 14 as a pro...
16:23But that's different, kids.
16:24No, she was at 14.
16:26Right.
16:26And her failures were tossed out there.
16:29Thank you, Nick Bollateri.
16:30And so she was fast-tracked into the pros.
16:33And...
16:34Okay, if you're going to use her, and...
16:36Well, she went south.
16:38Yes, she did.
16:39She sure did.
16:40Maybe that had to do with overexposure at a young age.
16:43Let me ask you this, Stiney.
16:45Okay, you're 11 years old, and you get shelled at a Little League game.
16:50Yep.
16:50And you said you're worried about people in the community making fun of this person.
16:55That's a good class, man.
16:57Does that only happen because it was on TV?
17:00Well, I can promise you from experience that those 11-year-olds show up to school on Monday morning,
17:06and they all, they know exactly what happened in all of the games.
17:10They know who got a hit off of who.
17:12They know who struck out who.
17:14They all chatter about it.
17:16And they do that without the benefit of it being on TV.
17:19The only idea of it being on TV is like, what?
17:21You think you're going to get made fun of if you're at Menlo by somebody who's in Connecticut
17:25because they saw it on ESPN?
17:27Like, where's the example, I guess, of this having gone awry?
17:31What going awry?
17:32What you're talking about.
17:34You're worried about somebody emotionally cratering because they're getting hit in a Little League game
17:40and it's being broadcast to the world.
17:42Do we have an example of where somebody went into a mental health crisis because of this?
17:47Do you know what I mean?
17:48Well, of course I know what you mean.
17:50I'm just saying, and again, my overarching point is if we put 11-year-olds on TV,
17:58we're asking to see these kids in a way that other kids never get seen.
18:06And I failed a lot in Little League.
18:10We all did.
18:11It's baseball.
18:12Exactly.
18:12But you just fail in front of your peer group.
18:15You don't fail in front of everybody under the sun who's watching the game.
18:20I think there's a touch of exploitation there.
18:26You know what that would be, right?
18:27Yes.
18:28Okay.
18:28And you know what's really exploitative is when you have a situation like the one that we're in
18:35and we try to do things outside the pale.
18:39And I wonder, Steiny, if you would feel like Guru, what are you, 53?
18:4352?
18:4443.
18:44I apologize, but if Guru were to put himself out there, that would not be exploitative
18:49because he's an adult.
18:51And you know, Steiny, I've been thinking a lot this week about what we have all around
18:55us, and primarily the Greg Papa story and cancer.
19:00And I don't know.
19:00Wow, man.
19:01I could go around the room, and I think we've all been touched by cancer.
19:04And so I've been thinking more about, like, what can we do?
19:07And Greg got discharged from the hospital after 22 days, and that's great news.
19:12Awesome.
19:13No doubt.
19:13You know, my mother-in-law didn't win the fight, and I got another close friend who's
19:17just getting in the fight.
19:18And so I thought, what can we do with our platform?
19:21And I have an idea, Steiny, and I'm looking at you, and I'm hoping that you'll be on board
19:26with this, because what can we do with our platform to help people?
19:31It is, you know, to use our voices in a charity fashion.
19:35And you know, Greg Papa's on KNBR.
19:37And yeah, I said it.
19:39I said the letters.
19:40I used to work there.
19:41I used to work there.
19:42Yeah, Steiny used to appear there on a regular basis with Tom Tolbert and Ralph Barberi and
19:49whatnot.
19:49And so I was thinking, Gu, what if we could put together with KNBR, our rivals, an event,
19:57a softball game.
19:58Oh, man.
19:58Come on.
19:58And I'm thinking about you, Gu, because you're our softball king.
20:02You're our...
20:02But we'd be thinking about Greg.
20:04It would be for Greg.
20:05That's my clean-up here, though.
20:07That's my clean-up here.
20:08I'm batting him for it.
20:09I'm batting him for it.
20:10That's actually today's baseball.
20:11We're supposed to bat you second.
20:13But what a beautiful...
20:14Come on, man.
20:15I'm going to use this platform right now and say...
20:16Let's do this.
20:17KNBR, I don't know if you're out there listening, and I know some of you are.
20:20And, you know, Greg probably is, because I know he listens to both, and he and I text
20:25back and forth.
20:25What's up, Greg?
20:26Heck, I mean...
20:26The man.
20:27Occasionally, you guys will go to commercial, and I'll flip over to him.
20:30So, KNBR, I know you're out there.
20:33Let's do this.
20:34Charity softball game.
20:36KNBR versus 95-7 the game.
20:38Come on.
20:39Let's go.
20:40All the fans who want to come on out, come on out and see it.
20:44Donate.
20:45Yeah, let's raise some money.
20:46Let's raise some money.
20:47Let's go.
20:48Not only for Greg Popper, but for everything.
20:50And let's beat KNBR.
20:51All right?
20:51And let's beat KNBR.
20:53If they accept, and I kind of secretly know that they will, and, you know, Greg's son,
20:59Derek, is on probably right now doing his show that, you know, we go up against, and
21:04you know, we go against them on the air, but why don't we go up against them on the field
21:09and do it for a cause and raise 5, 10, 15, 20, 80, 200,000, whatever we can raise to fight
21:18cancer, we've all been touched.
21:19So, KNBR, Mike Holder, I know you're out there listening, the program director, he's
21:26there.
21:26Look, look, look.
21:27Let's do this.
21:28He's already in.
21:29Let's go.
21:29Look, look, look.
21:30Our guy.
21:30KNBR versus the game.
21:31Man.
21:32We'll do it at Oracle Park, and I'm going to work with my people down there.
21:36You got people.
21:37Imagine that, Stiney.
21:38If we could have a softball game against KNBR at Oracle Park to raise money to fight this
21:44mother-jumping thing that is cancer, I think we're all in.
21:49Sure.
21:49I would be.
21:50Man.
21:50I mean, would you actually, would you play?
21:52Yeah, I would.
21:53We'll bet you eight.
21:54We'll bet you eight.
21:55Yeah, no doubt.
21:56And that's what I love.
21:57We don't want to put too much pressure on you.
21:58Would you be okay if we televised it?
22:00Yeah, I'm an adult.
22:01You stole mine.
22:02That was just, you know, I don't want you to end up crying and then you got to deal with
22:08social media.
22:09This is from the Boxer and Gerson work at Attorney Injuries Text Line.
22:12We might need to work at Attorney's.
22:14Child therapist here who texted in a little bit earlier.
22:18The concern to me is less about being made fun of.
22:21The kids are on TV after all, and that's pretty cool.
22:25It's the intense pressure placed on the child internally and externally.
22:29Sure.
22:29It's the fear.
22:30It's the intense leverage that you probably all feel every day doing your work.
22:35A child, generally speaking, should not be exposed to those conditions.
22:40Give the kids some time to develop before we apply such pressure to them.
22:44Okay.
22:44What about the spelling bee?
22:45Competitive sports, then.
22:46What about the spelling bee?
22:48Let me tell you that either.
22:49Ask the doctor about the spelling bee.
22:50She feels the same way.
22:51You feel forever.
22:53She feels the same.
22:54I don't think you don't have any points today.
22:58Oh.
22:59You do.
23:00You do.
23:00I just, I tend to believe that the positives in this situation tend to outweigh the negatives
23:07because I also think we are right now in danger of raising very soft people.
23:13You think?
23:13Oh my gosh.
23:14We are raising very soft people.
23:16I just went through it three times.
23:17And I think that as adults, this is something that if you put the right adults around them,
23:22I think they can handle this.
23:24Well, I mean, based on that text, we should not have any competitive sports at all.
23:28Because televised or not, these tournaments, these all-star competitions are pressurized.
23:35Whether or not it's being put on ESPN2 or ESPN+, these things, they exist.
23:42And, you know, the Alpine Little League that is fighting for their playoff lives tonight,
23:47they're heroes to their community, win or lose.
23:48They were 12-0 going into yesterday or Monday's game, and you tell me those games weren't pressurized,
23:55knowing that if they don't win, they don't advance onto their summer?
23:58So that's nonsensical to tie the two things together.
24:01Well, okay, so when I was in high school, we'd have a game of the week on the radio.
24:05Like, they pick one high school game.
24:07You don't think that game meant more to the kids than the ones that weren't on the radio?
24:11Of course.
24:12Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
24:13That's the beauty of it.
24:14That's the beauty.
24:15Right.
24:15Ban those games.
24:16That's what I'm saying.
24:17I'm saying that you're talking about TV, which raises the level of pressure, to my way of thinking.
24:24Well, let's talk about this KNBR 95-7-the-game softball game.
24:29That's right.
24:29Joe Shasky plays probably 45 softball games a week.
24:34Are you telling me that this softball game won't be more ratcheted up for a guy like Joe Shasky?
24:40And even you yourself, Stiney, who hasn't had a competitive competition outside of golf in probably 30 years,
24:48you're going to be feeling some type of way about this game if KNBR, in fact, accepts the proposal.
24:55First and foremost, Dibs, this is a phenomenal idea.
24:57I love it.
24:57I can, man, let's make it happen.
24:59And we will keep our eyes on the prize at all times, which is we would love to make some money and help out in any way that we possibly can.
25:10But also, I mean, we'd be favored, right?
25:14We would have no chance.
25:15You don't think we'd be favored?
25:16See, this is the guy.
25:18Why do you say that?
25:19No chance.
25:19I think we'd be favored.
25:20I've done it.
25:21I'm matching up the people right now in my mind.
25:25You got Hank Aaron over here to your left.
25:27Murph is pulling up on his way to first.
25:29There's no question.
25:30That's an Encarnacion right there.
25:32They're going to take Rod Brooks, and they're going to take Kruger, and they're going to pummel it.
25:39Do you know how big Rod Brooks' strike zone is?
25:42It takes you hurt.
25:43Well, he's Eldridge, though.
25:45He's a big boy.
25:46He is a big boy.
25:46He's a wonderful man.
25:48I think we got him.
25:49He's tremendous.
25:49I think we got him.
25:50This has to happen, man.
25:51Guru hits taters.
25:52That's all we're talking about.
25:54Hash Brown.
25:56That's a fool.
25:56Do we know what he does when the lights are on?
25:58Well, Mikel Williams will find out.
26:02We'll find out.
26:03When the lights are on.
26:03Based on what we saw.
26:04Is he only at Auburn's before everyone arrives?
26:07That's going to be the question.
26:08The big question is whether or not we take Bonte on the squad.
26:12Oh, there we go.
26:13Bonte is on our team.
26:14Whoa.
26:15We had the family picnic.
26:19He was there.
26:20I intentionally hit him.
26:20He was there.
26:21Stiney, I hit him 11-sided.
26:22Bonte is on our team.
26:24Stiney.
26:25Stiney.
26:26I'm just saying.
26:27Stiney wants to go now.
26:29I do.
26:30It has to be on-air hosts, producers.
26:34Man, we could have a ball.
26:35Engineers.
26:35You can't just, if you can't be hard, you can't just suddenly, oh, we got Rich Aurelia.
26:40He's a contributor.
26:41No.
26:42Not like the World's World Tournament.
26:43You got Zaza.
26:44We're not doing that.
26:44Yeah.
26:45Shout out Kirk Lake.
26:46Oh, hey, Zaza.
26:47You want to be on my team?
26:49Ho, ho, ho.
26:49Shout out Sheet.
26:51I love the Sheet.
26:52All right, Chet.
26:52Evan is in the next room eating chips and shaking his head.
26:56He knows we're going to win.
26:57We got a picture.
26:57Something's wrong.
26:58Let me chat on.
26:59Dude, you're leading off, Evan.
27:01Yeah, look at this.
27:01You're leading off.
27:03Yeah.
27:03What's the problem?
27:04Let's go.
27:05This is great.
27:05It has to happen.
27:06It has to happen.
27:07And you know what?
27:08I've got some measures that I'll be taking.
27:11To make sure that this actually happens.
27:14Stiney, I apologize for you being here three minutes late.
27:16I know.
27:16But I'm going to need you on a Friday night.
27:19Probably in mid to late October.
27:21Hopefully at Oracle Park.
27:23I'm going to need you at second base picking it.
27:25Let's go.
27:26I'm going to need you to slap one to right.
27:28And waddle down to first.
27:29Because this time, this time it counts.
27:31Who's pinch running for you?
27:34To use the words of the great buster.
27:36Good lord.
27:37It's time to go.
27:38Ah, look at it.
27:39On 95.7.
27:40You have to say it twice, though.
27:41You.
27:42You.
27:42You.
27:43Probably here.
27:43You.
27:44I don't.
27:45You.
27:46Maybe here.
27:48Well, guys, I'll be right back here.
27:50You.
27:52You.
27:55You.
28:00You.
28:01You.
28:02You.
28:02You.
28:06You.
28:10You.
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