Bobby gave his thoughts on the Tush Push not being banned and how it came out the Green Bay Packers had to ‘take one for the team’ in the move to get it removed. Bobby and Eddie discuss the changes being made in the NFL and College Football Playoffs. We then talk to Dot Richardson, the Head Coach at Liberty Softball. She is considered one of the most decorated collegiate, national and international players in softball history. She talked to us about how her faith led her to coaching at Liberty, her recent big upset over #1 Texas A&M, and what she remembers about hitting the game-winning home run to win an Olympic Gold Medal.
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Speaker 2 (01:03):
So swimming wine? Everybody? All right? Blow it? God? Was
that loud? Is that loud?
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Well?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I just want to say this.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
We usually do this show late Thursday afternoon, and we
may have an interview on Friday, so we'll do the show.
Sometimes we'll finish it on Friday. We were doing this
show before we do the Friday morning radio show. It
was so it's early, way early, and that was even
louder because it's so early.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
You know what's crazy is that when I was a lifeguard,
I learned how to really blow a whistle.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
And you have so much energy right now and it's
so early in the morning.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
Maybe that's why I respect it, but holy crap. Yeah,
So like you can easily blow a whistle, like very softly.
But I think since I was a lifeguard, man, I
blow it fool.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yeah, but you've not blown it as full before. I'm
gonna be honest, not true it is.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
I always blow it fool. That's not your reputation.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Uh so, hello, this is the earliest we have ever
done this show in the history of the show. But
that's okay. We have a lot to talk about. I
do want to start with college football and the NFL.
They voted on very similar things. One voted in a
way that I like, one voted in a way I
didn't like. Now, NFL went to the vote and they
voted on a lot of stuff, but they voted on playoffs.
So the NFC South has always been a pretty weak division,
(02:18):
or not always been the last five or six years.
And whoever wins the NFC South or even the AFC South, they.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Get an automatic four seed.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Usually, yeah, they definitely aren't getting the buy, but they're
automatically they get a home game. The NFL voted to
re kind of recede and by record, the top teams
would get the home games.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
No matter if you win your division.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah, so if like you were eight and nine and
eight to nine Tampa team who won the NFC South,
you wouldn't go in as the four seed and get
a home game because you were freaking eight and nine.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Love it. They voted noted that so that they're keeping
the old style. Okay, don't love it?
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Well, I mean, you know, if your team is in
that division, I get it, Like cool. You win the division,
even though your division is terrible, you get in the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Good for you.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
It is weird when a nine and eight team gets
in over an eleven and sixteen because the nine and
eight team played in a terrible division, right, I understand
why the owners voted to keep it the same.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I actually kind of like it.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
You win your division, you get one of the top
four seeds, you get a home game. It's like when
your division get a home game in the playoffs. I
don't mind it. Does it feel a little clunky, yes,
but okay, I'm with it.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
They did vote down the touschbush.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
No, no, they voted and no, get this though, that's
what I wanted to They voted to continue.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Continue, We're good barely. It'll be dead next year. Oh why?
But what I was going to say was they voted.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
The NFL got green Bay to go in and be
the one to say, please say you don't like the touchbush.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Really they told them they so? Was it not green
based green Bay's decision to do that.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I'm gonna read you this, Oh man, this is hilarious
because I made fun of the Packers so much for
being the team that raised their hand and like, we
don't like the tush push where it hurts. I remember this,
so now that the Eagles get to keep the toush push.
This is from Pro Football Talk and Mike Florio. Mike
Florio said that the league quote asked the Packers to
(04:22):
do it, and the Packers took one for the team.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
Dang.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
A source claims that most in Green.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Bay's organization don't care about to play either way, but
it left the team appearing to have sour grapes after
losing to the Eagles twice last season. So for whatever reason,
the NFL wanted to play gone but decided that someone
else should own the decision to raise the issue.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
That's hilarious. I did two whole episodes of like calling
them ole weenie babies. Oh it hurts when Jalen does that.
We're even like, dang, out of all the teams, you're
gonna Beckers.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
They play in cold weather that's supposed to be a hardcore,
So toush push remains that the Packers had to be
the Wieners.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Dang. And I don't know who to believe anymore now. Well,
and they.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Almost lost Next year, I think they'll lose so many
teams just don't care. They don't play the Eagles. AFC
teams don't play the Eagles. They released a list of
teams that voted for and against it.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Really yeah, and I don't.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Have the list with me, but like the Titans, they
didn't vote against it.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
They don't do it. They don't play the Eagle.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Right, they don't play the Eagles. I mean, and that's
the thing too, right, like not everyone does it. It's
really just the Eagles.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Yeah, but it's mostly playing against it more than just
doing it.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Sure, but I mean, now that we've passed it, the
only team that really advance has the advantage here is
the Eagles. The rest of the NFL really doesn't because
they don't.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Do it like Baltimore does it with Mark Andrews. They
try to do it, yeah, but they do so there
are a few teams that do it. Otherwise it's just
called a quarterback sneak, right, The touchbush is just with
a little hot sauce on the quarterback. Or it's like
when Mark Andrews does it, he comes in motion, they're
in shotgun formation, he gets under center and then goes
(05:58):
That's probably if I were a team the way I
would do it instead of getting my quarterback hurt. But
Jalen Hurts is so freaking strong. Squad's nine hundred pounds
like a truck.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah. So, and then there were rumors that came out.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
That Jason Kelsey got hurt and retired because of the touchbush.
Really that he didn't say that because he didn't want
to hurt the Eagles organization for doing it, but that
that's one of the reasons he retired, is that he
tush pushed so many times.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
And then he came out and.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Said, I'd get back in the league if I could
just do six hundred touch bushes.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
So again, who do you believe?
Speaker 6 (06:26):
That?
Speaker 5 (06:26):
Sounds so funny? But yeah, I mean he was the
he was the first dude. He was the main guy
of the touch push.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
He was and we think it's Jalen who's probably really
the main guy, but he is, yeah, the center leader
of it.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Doesn't have a name for the most part. Uh so
is he the most famous center that we know? Like
I don't know another center? I mean I probably do.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
But probably and for two reasons, one recency and two.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Because Taylor Swift right and Travis. But that's why Taylor
would Travis.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Travis would because I think people outside of football wouldn't
have even known Travis really unless you're a If you're
a football fan, you knew Travis Kelcey. But if you
were just a casual you probably didn't know Travis Kelcey,
not at all really, And so if you didn't know Travis,
you didn't know Jason Kelcey. They played against each other
in the Super Bowl, which was really what made their
(07:17):
podcast pop at very first. But again, to even listen
to their podcast at first, you had to be a
big NFL fan because they didn't have massive pial because
of Taylor. Taylor is why Jason Kelcey and his wife
are so famous. Not that they're not talented, but Taylor
is why all the Kelseys have this massive career. They
deserve it because they're really good. She can give them
(07:38):
an opportunity, but she can't create their talent and their
sustainability which they have. And I think she may be
the most not Taylor, Jason Kelsey's wife, maybe the most
talent of them all.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah, she's funny.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
So Kylie Kelsey, right, Kylie, Yeah, So okay. NFL said
no change to the playoffs. NFL said keep the touch
push so everything stand the same. College football, they are
changing their playoff format, still doing twelve yes, but and
they did the right thing. They said, we're not just
(08:11):
giving the conference champions the buys. We are going to
seed them as is because you saw last year Boise Yeah, yeah, yeah,
get a.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Bye and then get ran. So this is from ESPN.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
After some much deserved first year criticism, the college football
playoff seeding system has changed. The fall of CFP will
switch to straight seating as opposed to given the top
four seeds to the four highest ranked conference champions as
it was done last year. ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips acknowledged
there's a responsibility to serve our constituents while also being
(08:48):
mindful of what's best for college football. Philip said the
decision was made in the best interest of the sports,
even though it may not always benefit the ACC. Oh yeah, no,
it is not going to benefit the AACC. It's going
to benefit it's the ACC. The absolute worst other than
a non power five that gets in because you're going
to see two or three SEC teams be in that
(09:10):
top three. You're going to see now there's only four spots.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
But you're gonna see two big ten teams be in it,
possibly a big twelve team be in it.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
I know that's six spots, but I think that'll that'll
move a little bit. Unless an ACC team goes eleven
and one twelve to zero.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
ACC doesn't get a spot, and neither does the non
Power five school Wow, even going undefeated. Wow, it's gonna
be really tough for that to happen. But I agree
with that because what we saw, we saw a couple
of really good first round games, and they got to
that second round game where the game should be better,
and then one hundred and nothing.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Yep, just terrible games.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
And then those those like Boise State had to buy
right like they had a first week by they did.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Yeah, that's what I just said, like fifteenth thing and
it's early, man, it is early. But okay, so that bye, Yeah, Okay,
I see what you're saying. Got it. Carry on.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
So teams like Boy you say, will no longer get
to buy if they're not thought of as one of
the biggest four teams. They'll play one of the first
round games because somebody will come out of the non
Power five schools every year and they will not get
a buy unless they go undefeated and play two i'll
say two Power five schools that are ranked schools, they
will not even be considered for the buye. So I
(10:25):
think the NFL is different because those teams are like
we'll say eight and nine. We'll use a bad Tampa
Bay team that wins the NFC South if they win
their division. We've seen that team actually win in the playoffs. Sure,
because the NFL there's so much parody. Yep, not near
as much parody in college, although there's becoming a little
more now the NIL exists and the transfer portal, but
(10:48):
it is definitely different. But those were the big changes
that we've seen so far. So you like the college change,
I do.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
I wish they would have outlawed the toush push. I
hate it. It's not fun. I don't care about the
It's unfair. Well, okay, what's fair some players some teams
have bigger players than others. That's not somewhere faster than
were they run faster.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Some have more money than others. It ain't fair.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
But it's just boring, and so I think that's why
the NFL wanted it to die, just for entertainment value.
Because the NFL knows their television show and it will die,
just not this year. Or what's gonna happen is they're
gonna wait for one person to get injured.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
And then go in these meetings and go.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
We cannot continue this because people are getting injured doing it.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
So the Eagles have to.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Like how quarterbacks would come out and act like they
didn't have concussions, they'd learn how to answer the questions even.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
If they had a concussion so they could stay in
the game.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
The tush push gays when they get injured, they're gonna
have to blame it on something else realway.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Dehydration, Yeah, got dehydrated and they have to get into
ten and get their leg wrapped up.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Yeah. Shay won the MVP a couple of days ago.
What was cool though, He bought all his teammates rolexes
after the win.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Dang, that's so cool.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
When an NBA player wins the MVP, the entire team wins,
especially it's from barstool after Shay wins, because he got
everybody rolllexes as a thank you. They were awesome. They
were all Most of them are like blue or silver
KC colors. They won again last night.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Yeah they did. I'm feeling good. I watched the first
half before I fell asleep. Oh you fell asleep?
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Yeah, I mean, I don't have interest for game two
of that. The Western games they're late, dude, I get it.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
They're later than the Eastern games, maybe even an out
by just an hour.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
But still I felt like I could have gotted it out.
It was close.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
At halftime it was yeah, it was close, and I
was like, oh, man, I may not be able to
cover here to the seven and a half they did cover, Yes,
but oklahom State.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Looks really good. They do.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Man. Now they got to go to Minnesota. I do
think Minnesota picks up one of the next couple of.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Games, right, Yeah, I think I think so.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
I mean, I joke around that's going to be four
and out, But I think Minnesota wins one somewhere in there.
Probably one of these two, I would say, mate, I
think ideally it would be this next one.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I think the NBA really needs Anthony Edwards to not
be embarrassed, and a four to zer sweep is embarrassing.
That is embarrassing the league's arguably biggest star. It's not
Lebron or Steph or Katie like arguably the biggest current
ver slash next star.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
I mean, is this MVP raise Shay over Anthony Edwards
a little bit?
Speaker 2 (13:23):
No, sh should have won the MVP. Yokis should have
won the MVP.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
But Yokich has a bit of Bill Belichick, Angela and
Jolie Bobby Bone Show syndrome when you win everything, nobody
wants you to win everything, and so then you're held
out forever and then you start to get pissed off.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Yoki should have been the MVP. Shaye had an awesome season, like.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Really one of the best point guard type seasons in
the last five to seven years. And I say that
because I just watched a whole that I would quote
it and source it, but I don't know what I watched.
But Yokis had a better season, so uh yeah, pretty cool.
I like this under a lot. I'm glad Shaye won it,
but man, Shaye's foul unts too much?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Yeah he does.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
I mean, I think what's gonna win it for OKC
is their defense. They're defensively so good. Dude, Caruso is aol.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
What is happening? He came off the bench, only watched
the first half. He came off the bench. Oh, he
kept it going. He kept it going.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Yeah, played like thirteen minutes. He had seven points when
I turned it off.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
But he he played defense on Jokic in the last series.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Yeah, Caruso basically a number two or a small number three.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Yep. Funny looking dude headband on a bald head for
a white dude. Love it, Yeah, I love every bit
of it. Crazy.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
One other story here for a second. Jim Marsiy died.
He is the Colts owner. This is a couple of
days ago. Yeah, and Jim Marseiy lots of stories about him, good, bad,
indifferent and how he owned that team and this so
much isn't about that. But I will do a little
official paragraph before I talk about something I found really interesting.
The longtime owner of the Indianapolis Colts has died. The
(14:58):
team announced on Wednesday, So it's Friday now. It's been
a couple of days. I passed away peacefully in his
sleep in the afternoon. The billionaire inherited the Colt from
his father, who bought the team when they were still
based in Baltimore and moved them to Indianapolis, and the
organization went on to win a Super Bowl two thousand
and seven with Peyton Manning at quarterback. Then he goes
to a lot of stuff that's from TMZ Sports Huge music, right, Well,
(15:20):
so then that's what I want to get to. He
had a museum that traveled like he moved it around,
and he had spent I think in two thousand and two,
nine hundred thousand dollars on the Jerry Garcia guitar that.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Was Grateful Dead.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
By the way, I think the one that he had
had a monkey on it. Well you look it up, Mike,
like a picture of a monkey on the guitar. So
Jerry Garcia had like seven guitars and all of them
were specifically lightning bolt, monkey, donkey.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Those aren't right, but they it was a tiger, Okay,
the Tiger guitar.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
And if you don't mind pulling up all the Jerry
Garcia because he has like seven, but the Tiger was
the most played rightful Dead guitar really and he had
it and again didn't pay a million bucks for it
back in I think two or seven one of those years.
But now it's worth like seven eight million dollars. But
that was like his most prized possession.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
That's amazing.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
And he had his museum was robust with music history. Yeah,
when you have billions of dollars and you love music,
Like I don't have billions of dollars, but I have
a decent amount of money now and.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
I love sports. Neverabilia. I got a bunch of cold crape.
Imagine that on steroids. You'd buy everything. So you see
anything else about it, Mike, That's all I'm seeing. But yeah,
he had different animals, alligator, a wolf, Jerry Garcia, not
Jo guitars.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
Yeah, the guitars that his his little museum came to Nashville.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
I don't know, maybe like five years ago. Did you go?
Speaker 1 (16:43):
No?
Speaker 5 (16:44):
I got invited to go, and I just didn't go.
Because our friend Jeff Gorman, who used.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
To have a sports show.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
He he does media relations now for the Colts, loved Jim Irsay.
He even tweeted the other day that said it's pretty
it was pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
He was really close to him.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
He says, I can't find it, but he said something like,
whatever you heard about Jim, his kindness, his sweetness, whatever,
how how awesome he was multiply times a thousand, Like
he really loved Jim Mersey, and he traveled everywhere with
Jim irsay, so he had lots of really so he's
really close.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
So we're gonna come back in a second. Hey, what'd
you think of this interview with because it's the first
time huh.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
Aaron Rodgers Dot richards Oh gotcha, I thought you were
talking about Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
No on Joe Rogan. Yes, I didn't listen to it.
I'll watched him CLOBs and I was like, Eh.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
This guy, Eh yeah, no, okay, goohd what'd you think
the interview with dot Richardson is awesome?
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Dude?
Speaker 5 (17:40):
I mean I feel I felt bad she didn't have
her she lost her voice, but hey, she's in the
middle of important games right now.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Didn't have a voice, But she's dude.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
She makes me want to play softball and play softball
for her.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
So we haven't except for maybe years ago.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
We had Patty Gaso on and who has won multiple
national championships at Oklahoma, and I don't even think that
was for this show. Oh right, on this show. I
don't think we've ever had a softball coach on. I
can't remember so, and I think I would be like, oh,
a softball coach if I'm just a regular listener.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
However, she's awesome. Yeah, she's a medical doctor too.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Yo.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
That's all I'm gonna say. Give it a shot. I
think people will love this.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
I think people will love this interview too. Give it
a shot. Coach Dot Richardson, Liberty, head coach University, who
just beat Texas A and M and Texas M was
an overall number one seat. That has never happened in
the history of the tournament where the number one overall
seat did not come out of the first round. Liberty
did it. But it's not even about that. I think
you're going to love the interview. We'll do that coming
up next. The NBA Playoffs are underway and it's wild.
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Speaker 1 (19:46):
We're about to have coach dot Richardson on we don't
have a lot of softball coaches on. If I'm being honest,
I think we had coach Gasso Patty Gasso on once
She's won four national championships in a row, but I'll
a little bit about coach Dot Richardson. She's actually a
medical doctor as well, which is crazy because after she
(20:08):
had finished playing ball and she's in like the UCLA
Athletics Hall of Fame, she's in the USA Softball Hall
of Fame. She then went and got a master's and
then she got her medical degree from the University of Louisville.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
So she's a coach, she's a doctor.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
She's kind of the most interesting per not a man,
but you know, the most interesting man.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
In the first in the world.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
She's won two Olympic gold medals, the first time ever.
That the first ever gold medal in softball.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
She wanted. She hit the home run. It won the game.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
I think even if you're like softball, I think you're
just gonna love this interview with coach Richardson.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
She's the head coach at Liberty.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
They last week beat Texas A and m Texas ANAM
was the number one overall seed and the number one
overall seed has never not got out of the regionals
and Liberty took them down for the first time ever
a team not number one is going to super Regionals.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
So did you watch the game?
Speaker 1 (20:58):
I watched all three of them because there are four games. Yeah,
four teams. I watched all three of the games, and
so I reached out and was like, hey, and they
had to fly from Liberty University.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Is that Virginia? Yeah? Wow, across the whole count to Eugene, Oregon.
That's tip to tip. We went from Nashville to Eugene
and we won and we were like, this suck is
too long.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Uh So yeah, I'm just gonna throw her on because
I'm a big fan.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Here.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
She is head coach of Liberty Softball. Coach Doc Richardson, Coach,
I am honored to speak with you, and for a
couple of reasons. One, my family loves you. They love
you so much. And secondly, do the people call you
doctor coach or I like, how does that work? Because
you are a MD medical doctor and a coach. Do
you ever get called doctor Richardson?
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (21:49):
Sometimes I do, yes, but usually it's just coach or
coach dot.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
That's the coolest coach flex in the and we coach.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
We've been all over the country with with coach Land
at Oregon where you are now to We've been everywhere
and not one single coach has been a doctor.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
But you.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
So this is really cool, and I want to start
with because you guys are in Oregon. Now, that has
got to be a long trip from you guys, right.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
Yeah, it sure was, but you know how exciting to
be here. We're excited to be in the Superregionals. And
my voice is gone. I apologize, but boy, we gave
everything we got in the battle against Texas A and M,
so we're blessed to be here.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Did you guys have to I'm assuming I'm hoping they
chartered you guys, they fly you guys charter over.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
They were able to charter thirty of us, so we
had another ten that had to find their way here commercial.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
So did they have to stop for gas? Like I
think that's long enough. They may have to refuel. Do
they have to refuel you guys?
Speaker 6 (22:49):
Yes, we refilled in South Dakota.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
That's crazy that all the way across the country, like
all the way from the East coast over to Eugene, Oregon.
I want to take a second because I watched all
three of your games against Texas A and M.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
We are a softball family.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
From Patty or coach Gasso to DJ my brother in law,
we are a softball family, and so watch the first win,
was like, that's crazy. What watched when you guys had
the lead? And I want to go to the second
game when you have the lead and Texas A and
M ends up winning that game, And to me as
a sports fan, I think, well, they just went through
it and lost. I don't know if they're gonna be
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able to fight through that third game. What do you
say after you guys lose that first game to Texas
A and M, but the second game you played, what
do you say between games?
Speaker 6 (23:32):
Well, I said, ladies, we scored eleven runs against the
number one seeded national team and we made sixers and
we were right there to win. Even at the at
the end you saw bases loaded, full count. We had
our opportunities. So it's like, ladies, you know what, it
proves that we can beat any team in the country.
We've already beat them once. Let's take them down again.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
In the history of Regional Super Regional, a number one
seed has never fallen. You guys were the first team
to ever do that. And so, and you're right, it
was basis loaded and I mean they threw a ball
four too. Not to go back to a single pitch
like they lost a game. You guys had won the
game if you let one pitch go by uh and
you managed to come back and win that tiebreaker game
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to move on. Did you feel like your girls had
it in them? Did you feel like they needed to
be pumped up to be put back into it, because
also you know you're you're having to play back to
back now.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
Well, you saw a little lull, you know, when we
were down three in the third game, the IF Championship game.
But I knew that our team had it in him.
I'm just so blessed because this team realizes that don't
let the sport of softball, you know, don't worship the
sport of softball, but let softball be your worship. Back
to the Lord. They've been given amazing talents, and just
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as the Lord says, like trust them the talents they're
meant to be shared. He put us at one of
the biggest stages and we were able to just rely
on that, and they relied on each other and just
played the game. You could see they played with so
much freedom. It was just so competitive. I loved every
minute of it.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Do you get nervous in game when it's a situation
like that, not.
Speaker 6 (25:10):
Nervous, really just end up praying go to the Lord
and not really praying for victory, just praying for just
peace and competitive you know, performances because when you give
it your best, your best is good enough, right and
can't give any more. And that was when you can
walk off the field with your head high knowing that
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you did that, and our girls did it. And there
was so much talent, you know, on that field between
Texas A and M and the Liberty Softball, the fans.
The Twelfth Man is the reason why my voice is
like it like this right now. It was just so awesome,
It was so inspiring, it was loud, you couldn't ask for,
(25:56):
just a feeling very close and similar to the World Series.
It was a great game. But our girls are not
looking in the past right now. They have got momentum
and getting ready for the battle we have against Oregon
coming up on Friday and Saturday.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
I want to ask one more question about the past.
And in that final game, you put in a picture
that hadn't pitched at all during the series, and man,
what energy she had and you couldn't hear the announces
with the announcers were like, well, she has. She struggles
with her control, so why did you make the move
to her? And it was control often a problem and
what did she do different this time?
Speaker 6 (26:31):
Well, we actually were prepared to go with Escobar, Alena
Escobar the whole way, but when we went out there
to try and encourage her after home run was given
up in two singles back to back, she just said
she couldn't she couldn't finish because how much her achilles
was hurting. So it's kind of a god. God has
(26:53):
a plan and Yoda was ready. She's been really on
the rise, I would say to the end of this season.
She even said it herself. She was throwing maybe sixty
one sixty two last year, and she's been able to
work on her form in her mindset, and she was
hitting sixty eight and as a lefty when she came in,
you guys, her first warm up pitch, she threw a
(27:16):
ground ball to the backstock and the four or five thousand,
you know, Texas A and M fans were laughing at her, laughing,
and she gave a little smirk and I knew no
pun intended. The flame was lit and I'm just so
proud of her. I was proud of Elena as well.
She threw over four hundred pitches. She was the one
(27:40):
with the most experienced last year in the Georgia Regionals
who were won out of way from making history for
our program to get to the Supers, and she had
a lot to do with us getting there this year.
But boy, to see to see Yoda just be able
to close it out like she did a thriller, A
Bill the nail Bier. It was. It had everything you, guys,
(28:04):
you could think of, from the ejection of a fan,
you know, to the controversial calls of umpires, to the
back to back speed and home runs. And it was
so fun, wasn't it.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
It was awesome? And we watched again.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
I've never I've watched Texas and I play a bunch
of the year because they're in the SEC. But I
haven't spent a bunch of time watching Liberty play. And
I watched all three of your games. And so the
two questions one about Escobar when she came off, she
was crying a bit.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
She was emotional.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Is it because her achilles was hurting her so bad
and she wanted to stay in the game.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Is that why?
Speaker 6 (28:40):
Yes, that's why I mean Elena was She wanted to
finish it out. This is their senior year, and you know,
when you play games like that, you never know which
way they're going to go. And so for her, she
wanted to give it more. She gave it everything she got,
and our plan was not to take her out, actually,
but she recognized it was just you much. It just
(29:01):
hurt her too much. You've been It shows a competitiveness
within a yeah, and.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
I didn't know that's why it was. That makes a
lot of sense.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
You've been at Liberty for I guess twelve years now,
because you started in twenty thirteen. Is your faith a
big reason that you found Liberty to be such a
great home for you?
Speaker 6 (29:14):
Oh? Absolutely, without a doubt. I mean I was asked
for and for mayor County commissioner. You has Senate for
the state of Florida. I thought the Lord's path for
me at this time in my life was to be
in politics, and so my husband and I were talking
about it. I said, okay, but I'm going to go
to the Lord first. And as I did, I said, Lord,
just make it perfectly clear where you want me to be.
(29:36):
The next morning, I got a phone call from the
largest Christian university in the world, Liberty, from their athletic
director who asked me to coach. And at the end
of the conversation and he said, I said, you know,
I have never head coached in college before. I'm not
sure if you're realize that. So I'm definitely humbled by
(29:56):
this opportunity. But he said, we realize that, but we
feel the Lord is leading us to you and everything
that happened in the movement and the decision to do it,
we just knew that the Lord had his hand on it.
Very humble beginnings at Liberty when I was there just
twelve years ago. To see the growth of the university,
(30:18):
the support of athletics. I'm sure everybody is seeing what
Liberty has been able to do between football, basketball, you
name it, field, hockey, lacrosse, softball, baseball, just keep going on,
you know, basketball, and we're just so supported there. But
I think you know, when the Lord is leading you,
he tells you you'll have this peace that transcends all
(30:41):
understanding because you might go a softball coach. Thank you, guys.
It's so awesome to be able to be at a
university who just stands for training champions for Christ and
to have Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior as the
center of it all. To be able to just share
(31:02):
my faith and offso grow my faith, be able to evangelize,
you know, to be able to help these young girls
as they are brought to us by the Lord for
different reasons. You know, it's more than just softball. And
so to be able to help them find the answers
right and that is it's just been a blessing. And
(31:26):
to see it all come together each year, getting stronger
and stronger, trusting the Lord more and more. He's faithful.
And you guys, it's not just about winning. It's really
about changing lives and be able to to Jesus said,
you're the form are against me right, there's no lukewarm.
So realize that Jesus paid it all. He paid it
(31:46):
all in the cross for our debt. He died, gave
his life up very three days and a rose from
the dead to overcome death which Satan had put on
the world on humanity to try and screw up God's plan.
We're meant to live forever, and so we are falling people.
We're all sinners and fall short of the glory of God.
(32:08):
But Jesus gave us a way to make it better
to get closer to the Lord. And when we stop
just thinking about living our day to day life and
those types of things, but have a soul searching, what
is life really about? So through the sport of softball,
God has been able to open that door for me
(32:31):
to be able to just worship Him in a way
that He has given back so much to me through
a sport I love so much to impact the lives
of not just these young girls, but all who are walking,
you know, watching and be an impact to really soul search.
Enjoy the game, enjoy the competition. It's awesome, but there's
(32:52):
a competition for our souls. So what team are you on?
And we know the winning team. It's God. It's not Satan,
the anti crime, some false prophet and the demons and
those that are non believers. So yeah, it's so awesome
to be able to be woken up if you would.
When covid hit I just said, what does the Lord
(33:15):
say about this? There were even non believers that you
probably know that we're like, what is going on? And
God has given us the answers of what are going on?
And so I just encourage everyone to seek the answers,
enjoy the life we've been given, because that is a
huge gift. But the biggest gift is in the biggest
blessing is Jesus Christ paying it all for our debts,
(33:38):
and just accept him. And when you do, man, you're
just free. You know your life as a whole other
meaning because we know there's more than just the life
we have in this earth. So we'll be on a
new earth, new heaven, and it's going to be exciting.
And right now, it's just so humbled, you guys, just
(34:00):
so humbled and honored to be a part of the
team that is the strongest team we've ever had to
this point, and just building a legacy.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
I have two final questions and one, if you'll indulge
me for a second. You did hit the home run
and won the gold medal in the gold medal game.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
That was you. You you felt it.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Do you remember do you remember feeling did the ball
come off the bat as pure as when you hit
a perfect golf shot? Do you remember the feeling of
hitting that home run to when the gold medal?
Speaker 6 (34:30):
And I love golf too, and you're absolutely right, I
had a humbling experience a few days earlier against the
China national team and they struck me out with bases loaded,
and as I'm walking to the dugout, I realized, Okay,
she beat me this time, and how to beat me?
(34:51):
You guys with bases loaded, full count the change up?
Are you kidding me? My mind didn't in process you
would throw a change up. So I just to school, right,
we're not losers if we're learning. So what happens. We
seen Team China and the gold medal game in the
nineteen ninety six Olympics, and when I sent to bat
with Laura Berg at first base, I had two balls
(35:12):
and no strikes, And before I got into the batter's box,
my thought was, Okay, I know she's gonna throw me
a change up. It doesn't make any sense she's gonna
do it, but I know she's gonna do it, just
learning from the past. And as they got into the
batter's box, I just waited. I sat change and when
she threw it, man, my eyes got this. I mean
(35:39):
I just waited and I waited, and to be honest,
I just wanted to rip the cover off of that
ball so she would never ever throw that pitch again.
It was such a good pitch. And when I saw
off the bat, even though they say scientifically that's impossible,
(36:00):
you're right. It felt connected. And when I saw that
ball go at least I don't know, it's a foot
or three feet to the fair side of the fair pole,
my arm just went up in the air because I knew,
I knew it was enough for us to make history,
to capture the first ever Olympic gold medal for the
(36:21):
FOURD to softball. And it was and one of the
thrilling moments of my athletic career, and there have been
so many. And to be able to coach right now
where we're at two, it's just another blessing.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
All right, Last question, what do you say to your
girls before the big three game series?
Speaker 6 (36:39):
Here, ladies were going into battle Oregon is not I mean,
they should be seated higher than sixteen. The last pole
is six. So they're very good squad. So we're going
to be going into battle and we've taken down number one.
But guess what it's all about being pressed and zoom, focus,
(37:02):
lock in and let's have a blast, rip the cover
off the ball, stay together, and really we just need
to play liberty softball. We're not gonna look to the past.
So it's just so fun to play. They love to play.
I really don't have to say too much when you
know you're doing a good job coaching, when you know
(37:24):
you don't have to be the one that's inspiring them
because their motivation and inspiration is coming from within. So
they're going to trust the Lord. They're going to give
it to him, and let's honor him and always say
in too, go Plames and go God.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Right doctor coach, not Richardson, Like I feel like I've
been in the tent.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Is it too late for us to play for her?
I know if I'm saying like I'm ready, I'm ready
right now. Hey.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
I hope you guys stay healthy and I hope you
play hard and you're fulfilled.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
And that was amazing. I'm rooting for you guys.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
So hopefully at the end of the weekend, I don't know,
we're we're going to see in Oklahoma City. I'll be there,
You'll be there while I'll be there. That's the goal.
Thanks for your time, Coach. We really appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (38:07):
Thank you so much. God bless you guys, and good Flames.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
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Speaker 1 (39:10):
So while we're doing the show so early this morning,
is as soon as the radio show is over, I
gonna fly to Fatville because they moved the game because
of weather. It's not like a baseball game where they
can just rescheduled later. It's super Regionals. So if they
win this best of three, they go to the College
World Series, which they've never done before.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
They moved the game to eleven AM and it was
supposed to be win seven pm. That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
So as soon as the show's over, I gotta go
because I gotta get to Fareeville and go to the game.
Speaker 5 (39:36):
Dude, teams crack like cram when it comes to that,
Like it's just like, oh crap, well, I mean I was,
We're gonna do other things in practice now at first
seven o'clock game. Now it's eleven. We're not ready at
seven o'clock.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
That's not what you said. What I said, your fantasy.
I didn't say that slip there, did you did you did?
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Oh? No, so day of not a lot of practicing.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Okay, So yes, a note like DJ who's the hitting
coach at Arkansas, is just going through game tape when
I'm there. If he's got a game the next date,
it's what he's doing all night, making charts and grafts
and watching tape.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
So day of it's not that big of a deal.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
It just changes the schedule when they got to wake up,
when they eat, when they go. So but we're gonna
go and do that. Hopefully they'll have decent enough weather
to play. But yeah, that's why we did the show
extra early. It's not affecting you guys at all that
are listening to it, but you get good seats.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
We don't really sit in seats.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
We're there to go out in the outfield because they
have young kids that want to run around, or we
go up into the coach's box and watch from up there.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
It just depends. If it's raining, we'll be in the
coach's box. They've got food in there and stuff.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
Yeah, but not great food. What do you mean, No,
it's not full concession. Oh even in the stadium, it's
not full full concession. Okay, but yeah, so we're gonna
go do that. I hope everybody has a great weekend.
Anything I'm forgetting Mike, anything I'm not doing I think
We're all good. We did NFL, we did college. The
(41:02):
Knicks and Pacers play tonight. That was a crazy ending,
by the way.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
Crazy ending. I thought it was over. So did Halliburton. Well,
I thought he did the choke a little too early,
little to earlier, foot was on the line. Dude, do
you like him?
Speaker 5 (41:16):
I don't know. I really can't tell. Dude, I can't
tell because, like, I want to like him. But then
I think what got me was of the post interview
after that game. They were asking like, oh, you did
the choke sign, and he like just said yeah, I
didn't really want to do it. They kind of made
me do it, and then so I had just decided.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
To do it, and I'm like, yeah, make him do it.
What are you talking about?
Speaker 5 (41:34):
Just own it like you did it because you thought
you won and your foot wasn't on the line and
you had to go to overtime, and that could have
been really bad.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
It could have been, but it wasn't.
Speaker 5 (41:43):
It wasn't, dude, And I'm so glad that it wasn't,
because as soon as he did it and they and
I didn't, the score didn't change. The score only tied
up the game. And we're like, Oh, that's weird. Why
is it only tied? Then they showed the replay and like,
oh no, this is not good.
Speaker 1 (41:56):
They asked Rick Carlyle what he thought about Halliburton doing
the choking, and he goes, you know what, he deserves
to do what ever he wants.
Speaker 2 (42:01):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
I thought that's a pretty good answer by a coach
who probably was like I wouldn't have done.
Speaker 2 (42:05):
That, but yeah, the choke because it's a regimeil.
Speaker 1 (42:08):
It's a regiment which, by the way, the Pacers end
up losing that series to the Knicks back in the day. Yea,
even after he did the choke. But it wasn't Oman
who Reggie was there. I think he was part of
the broadcast.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
Yeah, he's one of the analyst guys.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
And so yeah, I was like, oh no, but you know,
like just say like yeah, man, no, I mean just
him doing it that early when they didn't win the game,
I know, but honestly, I thought it was the buzzer beater.
I thought they won the game. Yeah, but just like
he did, it was awesome. So I guess I'm rooting
for the Pacers in that series. Do you like Haliburton?
I think if he to me is pat bev not
(42:43):
how they play. But if he's on your team, you
freaking love him. Yeah, And if he's not, you're probably
so annoyed by him you secretly punch him in the
nuts when you're when you're yeah, yeah, when you're like,
you pinch him a little bit in the back whenever.
It so, Yeah, he's fine. I like the Pacer, I
really do. I mean, I think it helped that we
went to the Pacers and they let us for sure.
Speaker 2 (43:04):
It helped with Miles Turner for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:05):
I roote for him big time. Yeah, even though it
was a longhorn, it's true. Oh yeah, yeah, forgot every
kind of a long horn.
Speaker 2 (43:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:12):
I hope you guys have a great weekend. Thank you
for listening. Thanks to Coach dot Richardson. Hopefully, just like
this last time, when we come back and we do
a show next week, the first show of the week,
I'm like, We're going to the College World Series, because
that'd be freaking awesome.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
It'd be the first time ever Arkansas has done it.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
You guys have a great weekend. I hope it's a
long one. I hope you have a great Memorial Day.
I hope you take a minute and remember what Memorial
Day is all about. And then I hope you spend
a lot of time with your family and friends, and
really I hope it's a special one. So thank you
and we will see you guys next week. All right
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Speaker 6 (43:50):
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Speaker 4 (00:51):
This is a podcast call twenty five plus stuck in
fun Fou and they all went the whizz, So yes too,
Ben fun did you expect it's a podcast twenty five way.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
So swimming wine? Everybody? All right? Blow it? God? Was
that loud? Is that loud?
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Well?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I just want to say this.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
We usually do this show late Thursday afternoon, and we
may have an interview on Friday, so we'll do the show.
Sometimes we'll finish it on Friday. We were doing this
show before we do the Friday morning radio show. It
was so it's early, way early, and that was even
louder because it's so early.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
You know what's crazy is that when I was a lifeguard,
I learned how to really blow a whistle.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
And you have so much energy right now and it's
so early in the morning.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
Maybe that's why I respect it, but holy crap. Yeah,
So like you can easily blow a whistle, like very softly.
But I think since I was a lifeguard, man, I
blow it fool.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yeah, but you've not blown it as full before. I'm
gonna be honest, not true it is.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
I always blow it fool. That's not your reputation.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Uh so, hello, this is the earliest we have ever
done this show in the history of the show. But
that's okay. We have a lot to talk about. I
do want to start with college football and the NFL.
They voted on very similar things. One voted in a
way that I like, one voted in a way I
didn't like. Now, NFL went to the vote and they
voted on a lot of stuff, but they voted on playoffs.
So the NFC South has always been a pretty weak division,
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or not always been the last five or six years.
And whoever wins the NFC South or even the AFC South, they.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Get an automatic four seed.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Usually, yeah, they definitely aren't getting the buy, but they're
automatically they get a home game. The NFL voted to
re kind of recede and by record, the top teams
would get the home games.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
No matter if you win your division.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah, so if like you were eight and nine and
eight to nine Tampa team who won the NFC South,
you wouldn't go in as the four seed and get
a home game because you were freaking eight and nine.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Love it. They voted noted that so that they're keeping
the old style. Okay, don't love it?
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Well, I mean, you know, if your team is in
that division, I get it, Like cool. You win the division,
even though your division is terrible, you get in the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Good for you.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
It is weird when a nine and eight team gets
in over an eleven and sixteen because the nine and
eight team played in a terrible division, right, I understand
why the owners voted to keep it the same.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I actually kind of like it.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
You win your division, you get one of the top
four seeds, you get a home game. It's like when
your division get a home game in the playoffs. I
don't mind it. Does it feel a little clunky, yes,
but okay, I'm with it.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
They did vote down the touschbush.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
No, no, they voted and no, get this though, that's
what I wanted to They voted to continue.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Continue, We're good barely. It'll be dead next year. Oh why?
But what I was going to say was they voted.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
The NFL got green Bay to go in and be
the one to say, please say you don't like the touchbush.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Really they told them they so? Was it not green
based green Bay's decision to do that.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I'm gonna read you this, Oh man, this is hilarious
because I made fun of the Packers so much for
being the team that raised their hand and like, we
don't like the tush push where it hurts. I remember this,
so now that the Eagles get to keep the toush push.
This is from Pro Football Talk and Mike Florio. Mike
Florio said that the league quote asked the Packers to
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do it, and the Packers took one for the team.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
Dang.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
A source claims that most in Green.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Bay's organization don't care about to play either way, but
it left the team appearing to have sour grapes after
losing to the Eagles twice last season. So for whatever reason,
the NFL wanted to play gone but decided that someone
else should own the decision to raise the issue.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
That's hilarious. I did two whole episodes of like calling
them ole weenie babies. Oh it hurts when Jalen does that.
We're even like, dang, out of all the teams, you're
gonna Beckers.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
They play in cold weather that's supposed to be a hardcore,
So toush push remains that the Packers had to be
the Wieners.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Dang. And I don't know who to believe anymore now. Well,
and they.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Almost lost Next year, I think they'll lose so many
teams just don't care. They don't play the Eagles. AFC
teams don't play the Eagles. They released a list of
teams that voted for and against it.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Really yeah, and I don't.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Have the list with me, but like the Titans, they
didn't vote against it.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
They don't do it. They don't play the Eagle.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Right, they don't play the Eagles. I mean, and that's
the thing too, right, like not everyone does it. It's
really just the Eagles.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Yeah, but it's mostly playing against it more than just
doing it.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Sure, but I mean, now that we've passed it, the
only team that really advance has the advantage here is
the Eagles. The rest of the NFL really doesn't because
they don't.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Do it like Baltimore does it with Mark Andrews. They
try to do it, yeah, but they do so there
are a few teams that do it. Otherwise it's just
called a quarterback sneak, right, The touchbush is just with
a little hot sauce on the quarterback. Or it's like
when Mark Andrews does it, he comes in motion, they're
in shotgun formation, he gets under center and then goes
(05:58):
That's probably if I were a team the way I
would do it instead of getting my quarterback hurt. But
Jalen Hurts is so freaking strong. Squad's nine hundred pounds
like a truck.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah. So, and then there were rumors that came out.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
That Jason Kelsey got hurt and retired because of the touchbush.
Really that he didn't say that because he didn't want
to hurt the Eagles organization for doing it, but that
that's one of the reasons he retired, is that he
tush pushed so many times.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
And then he came out and.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Said, I'd get back in the league if I could
just do six hundred touch bushes.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
So again, who do you believe?
Speaker 6 (06:26):
That?
Speaker 5 (06:26):
Sounds so funny? But yeah, I mean he was the
he was the first dude. He was the main guy
of the touch push.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
He was and we think it's Jalen who's probably really
the main guy, but he is, yeah, the center leader
of it.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Doesn't have a name for the most part. Uh so
is he the most famous center that we know? Like
I don't know another center? I mean I probably do.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
But probably and for two reasons, one recency and two.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Because Taylor Swift right and Travis. But that's why Taylor
would Travis.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Travis would because I think people outside of football wouldn't
have even known Travis really unless you're a If you're
a football fan, you knew Travis Kelcey. But if you
were just a casual you probably didn't know Travis Kelcey,
not at all really, And so if you didn't know Travis,
you didn't know Jason Kelcey. They played against each other
in the Super Bowl, which was really what made their
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podcast pop at very first. But again, to even listen
to their podcast at first, you had to be a
big NFL fan because they didn't have massive pial because
of Taylor. Taylor is why Jason Kelcey and his wife
are so famous. Not that they're not talented, but Taylor
is why all the Kelseys have this massive career. They
deserve it because they're really good. She can give them
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an opportunity, but she can't create their talent and their
sustainability which they have. And I think she may be
the most not Taylor, Jason Kelsey's wife, maybe the most
talent of them all.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah, she's funny.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
So Kylie Kelsey, right, Kylie, Yeah, So okay. NFL said
no change to the playoffs. NFL said keep the touch
push so everything stand the same. College football, they are
changing their playoff format, still doing twelve yes, but and
they did the right thing. They said, we're not just
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giving the conference champions the buys. We are going to
seed them as is because you saw last year Boise Yeah, yeah, yeah,
get a.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Bye and then get ran. So this is from ESPN.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
After some much deserved first year criticism, the college football
playoff seeding system has changed. The fall of CFP will
switch to straight seating as opposed to given the top
four seeds to the four highest ranked conference champions as
it was done last year. ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips acknowledged
there's a responsibility to serve our constituents while also being
(08:48):
mindful of what's best for college football. Philip said the
decision was made in the best interest of the sports,
even though it may not always benefit the ACC. Oh yeah, no,
it is not going to benefit the AACC. It's going
to benefit it's the ACC. The absolute worst other than
a non power five that gets in because you're going
to see two or three SEC teams be in that
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top three. You're going to see now there's only four spots.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
But you're gonna see two big ten teams be in it,
possibly a big twelve team be in it.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
I know that's six spots, but I think that'll that'll
move a little bit. Unless an ACC team goes eleven
and one twelve to zero.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
ACC doesn't get a spot, and neither does the non
Power five school Wow, even going undefeated. Wow, it's gonna
be really tough for that to happen. But I agree
with that because what we saw, we saw a couple
of really good first round games, and they got to
that second round game where the game should be better,
and then one hundred and nothing.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Yep, just terrible games.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
And then those those like Boise State had to buy
right like they had a first week by they did.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Yeah, that's what I just said, like fifteenth thing and
it's early, man, it is early. But okay, so that bye, Yeah, Okay,
I see what you're saying. Got it. Carry on.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
So teams like Boy you say, will no longer get
to buy if they're not thought of as one of
the biggest four teams. They'll play one of the first
round games because somebody will come out of the non
Power five schools every year and they will not get
a buy unless they go undefeated and play two i'll
say two Power five schools that are ranked schools, they
will not even be considered for the buye. So I
(10:25):
think the NFL is different because those teams are like
we'll say eight and nine. We'll use a bad Tampa
Bay team that wins the NFC South if they win
their division. We've seen that team actually win in the playoffs. Sure,
because the NFL there's so much parody. Yep, not near
as much parody in college, although there's becoming a little
more now the NIL exists and the transfer portal, but
(10:48):
it is definitely different. But those were the big changes
that we've seen so far. So you like the college change,
I do.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
I wish they would have outlawed the toush push. I
hate it. It's not fun. I don't care about the
It's unfair. Well, okay, what's fair some players some teams
have bigger players than others. That's not somewhere faster than
were they run faster.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Some have more money than others. It ain't fair.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
But it's just boring, and so I think that's why
the NFL wanted it to die, just for entertainment value.
Because the NFL knows their television show and it will die,
just not this year. Or what's gonna happen is they're
gonna wait for one person to get injured.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
And then go in these meetings and go.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
We cannot continue this because people are getting injured doing it.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
So the Eagles have to.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Like how quarterbacks would come out and act like they
didn't have concussions, they'd learn how to answer the questions even.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
If they had a concussion so they could stay in
the game.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
The tush push gays when they get injured, they're gonna
have to blame it on something else realway.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Dehydration, Yeah, got dehydrated and they have to get into
ten and get their leg wrapped up.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Yeah. Shay won the MVP a couple of days ago.
What was cool though, He bought all his teammates rolexes
after the win.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Dang, that's so cool.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
When an NBA player wins the MVP, the entire team wins,
especially it's from barstool after Shay wins, because he got
everybody rolllexes as a thank you. They were awesome. They
were all Most of them are like blue or silver
KC colors. They won again last night.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Yeah they did. I'm feeling good. I watched the first
half before I fell asleep. Oh you fell asleep?
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Yeah, I mean, I don't have interest for game two
of that. The Western games they're late, dude, I get it.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
They're later than the Eastern games, maybe even an out
by just an hour.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
But still I felt like I could have gotted it out.
It was close.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
At halftime it was yeah, it was close, and I
was like, oh, man, I may not be able to
cover here to the seven and a half they did cover, Yes,
but oklahom State.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Looks really good. They do.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Man. Now they got to go to Minnesota. I do
think Minnesota picks up one of the next couple of.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Games, right, Yeah, I think I think so.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
I mean, I joke around that's going to be four
and out, But I think Minnesota wins one somewhere in there.
Probably one of these two, I would say, mate, I
think ideally it would be this next one.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I think the NBA really needs Anthony Edwards to not
be embarrassed, and a four to zer sweep is embarrassing.
That is embarrassing the league's arguably biggest star. It's not
Lebron or Steph or Katie like arguably the biggest current
ver slash next star.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
I mean, is this MVP raise Shay over Anthony Edwards
a little bit?
Speaker 2 (13:23):
No, sh should have won the MVP. Yokis should have
won the MVP.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
But Yokich has a bit of Bill Belichick, Angela and
Jolie Bobby Bone Show syndrome when you win everything, nobody
wants you to win everything, and so then you're held
out forever and then you start to get pissed off.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Yoki should have been the MVP. Shaye had an awesome season, like.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Really one of the best point guard type seasons in
the last five to seven years. And I say that
because I just watched a whole that I would quote
it and source it, but I don't know what I watched.
But Yokis had a better season, so uh yeah, pretty cool.
I like this under a lot. I'm glad Shaye won it,
but man, Shaye's foul unts too much?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Yeah he does.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
I mean, I think what's gonna win it for OKC
is their defense. They're defensively so good. Dude, Caruso is aol.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
What is happening? He came off the bench, only watched
the first half. He came off the bench. Oh, he
kept it going. He kept it going.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Yeah, played like thirteen minutes. He had seven points when
I turned it off.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
But he he played defense on Jokic in the last series.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Yeah, Caruso basically a number two or a small number three.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Yep. Funny looking dude headband on a bald head for
a white dude. Love it, Yeah, I love every bit
of it. Crazy.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
One other story here for a second. Jim Marsiy died.
He is the Colts owner. This is a couple of
days ago. Yeah, and Jim Marseiy lots of stories about him, good, bad,
indifferent and how he owned that team and this so
much isn't about that. But I will do a little
official paragraph before I talk about something I found really interesting.
The longtime owner of the Indianapolis Colts has died. The
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team announced on Wednesday, So it's Friday now. It's been
a couple of days. I passed away peacefully in his
sleep in the afternoon. The billionaire inherited the Colt from
his father, who bought the team when they were still
based in Baltimore and moved them to Indianapolis, and the
organization went on to win a Super Bowl two thousand
and seven with Peyton Manning at quarterback. Then he goes
to a lot of stuff that's from TMZ Sports Huge music, right, Well,
(15:20):
so then that's what I want to get to. He
had a museum that traveled like he moved it around,
and he had spent I think in two thousand and two,
nine hundred thousand dollars on the Jerry Garcia guitar that.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Was Grateful Dead.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
By the way, I think the one that he had
had a monkey on it. Well you look it up, Mike,
like a picture of a monkey on the guitar. So
Jerry Garcia had like seven guitars and all of them
were specifically lightning bolt, monkey, donkey.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Those aren't right, but they it was a tiger, Okay,
the Tiger guitar.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
And if you don't mind pulling up all the Jerry
Garcia because he has like seven, but the Tiger was
the most played rightful Dead guitar really and he had
it and again didn't pay a million bucks for it
back in I think two or seven one of those years.
But now it's worth like seven eight million dollars. But
that was like his most prized possession.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
That's amazing.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
And he had his museum was robust with music history. Yeah,
when you have billions of dollars and you love music,
Like I don't have billions of dollars, but I have
a decent amount of money now and.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
I love sports. Neverabilia. I got a bunch of cold crape.
Imagine that on steroids. You'd buy everything. So you see
anything else about it, Mike, That's all I'm seeing. But yeah,
he had different animals, alligator, a wolf, Jerry Garcia, not
Jo guitars.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
Yeah, the guitars that his his little museum came to Nashville.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
I don't know, maybe like five years ago. Did you go?
Speaker 1 (16:43):
No?
Speaker 5 (16:44):
I got invited to go, and I just didn't go.
Because our friend Jeff Gorman, who used.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
To have a sports show.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
He he does media relations now for the Colts, loved Jim Irsay.
He even tweeted the other day that said it's pretty
it was pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
He was really close to him.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
He says, I can't find it, but he said something like,
whatever you heard about Jim, his kindness, his sweetness, whatever,
how how awesome he was multiply times a thousand, Like
he really loved Jim Mersey, and he traveled everywhere with
Jim irsay, so he had lots of really so he's
really close.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
So we're gonna come back in a second. Hey, what'd
you think of this interview with because it's the first
time huh.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
Aaron Rodgers Dot richards Oh gotcha, I thought you were
talking about Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
No on Joe Rogan. Yes, I didn't listen to it.
I'll watched him CLOBs and I was like, Eh.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
This guy, Eh yeah, no, okay, goohd what'd you think
the interview with dot Richardson is awesome?
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Dude?
Speaker 5 (17:40):
I mean I feel I felt bad she didn't have
her she lost her voice, but hey, she's in the
middle of important games right now.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Didn't have a voice, But she's dude.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
She makes me want to play softball and play softball
for her.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
So we haven't except for maybe years ago.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
We had Patty Gaso on and who has won multiple
national championships at Oklahoma, and I don't even think that
was for this show. Oh right, on this show. I
don't think we've ever had a softball coach on. I
can't remember so, and I think I would be like, oh,
a softball coach if I'm just a regular listener.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
However, she's awesome. Yeah, she's a medical doctor too.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Yo.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
That's all I'm gonna say. Give it a shot. I
think people will love this.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
I think people will love this interview too. Give it
a shot. Coach Dot Richardson, Liberty, head coach University, who
just beat Texas A and M and Texas M was
an overall number one seat. That has never happened in
the history of the tournament where the number one overall
seat did not come out of the first round. Liberty
did it. But it's not even about that. I think
you're going to love the interview. We'll do that coming
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Speaker 1 (19:46):
We're about to have coach dot Richardson on we don't
have a lot of softball coaches on. If I'm being honest,
I think we had coach Gasso Patty Gasso on once
She's won four national championships in a row, but I'll
a little bit about coach Dot Richardson. She's actually a
medical doctor as well, which is crazy because after she
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had finished playing ball and she's in like the UCLA
Athletics Hall of Fame, she's in the USA Softball Hall
of Fame. She then went and got a master's and
then she got her medical degree from the University of Louisville.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
So she's a coach, she's a doctor.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
She's kind of the most interesting per not a man,
but you know, the most interesting man.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
In the first in the world.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
She's won two Olympic gold medals, the first time ever.
That the first ever gold medal in softball.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
She wanted. She hit the home run. It won the game.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
I think even if you're like softball, I think you're
just gonna love this interview with coach Richardson.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
She's the head coach at Liberty.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
They last week beat Texas A and m Texas ANAM
was the number one overall seed and the number one
overall seed has never not got out of the regionals
and Liberty took them down for the first time ever
a team not number one is going to super Regionals.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
So did you watch the game?
Speaker 1 (20:58):
I watched all three of them because there are four games. Yeah,
four teams. I watched all three of the games, and
so I reached out and was like, hey, and they
had to fly from Liberty University.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Is that Virginia? Yeah? Wow, across the whole count to Eugene, Oregon.
That's tip to tip. We went from Nashville to Eugene
and we won and we were like, this suck is
too long.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Uh So yeah, I'm just gonna throw her on because
I'm a big fan.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Here.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
She is head coach of Liberty Softball. Coach Doc Richardson, Coach,
I am honored to speak with you, and for a
couple of reasons. One, my family loves you. They love
you so much. And secondly, do the people call you
doctor coach or I like, how does that work? Because
you are a MD medical doctor and a coach. Do
you ever get called doctor Richardson?
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (21:49):
Sometimes I do, yes, but usually it's just coach or
coach dot.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
That's the coolest coach flex in the and we coach.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
We've been all over the country with with coach Land
at Oregon where you are now to We've been everywhere
and not one single coach has been a doctor.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
But you.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
So this is really cool, and I want to start
with because you guys are in Oregon. Now, that has
got to be a long trip from you guys, right.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
Yeah, it sure was, but you know how exciting to
be here. We're excited to be in the Superregionals. And
my voice is gone. I apologize, but boy, we gave
everything we got in the battle against Texas A and M,
so we're blessed to be here.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Did you guys have to I'm assuming I'm hoping they
chartered you guys, they fly you guys charter over.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
They were able to charter thirty of us, so we
had another ten that had to find their way here commercial.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
So did they have to stop for gas? Like I
think that's long enough. They may have to refuel. Do
they have to refuel you guys?
Speaker 6 (22:49):
Yes, we refilled in South Dakota.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
That's crazy that all the way across the country, like
all the way from the East coast over to Eugene, Oregon.
I want to take a second because I watched all
three of your games against Texas A and M.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
We are a softball family.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
From Patty or coach Gasso to DJ my brother in law,
we are a softball family, and so watch the first win,
was like, that's crazy. What watched when you guys had
the lead? And I want to go to the second
game when you have the lead and Texas A and
M ends up winning that game, And to me as
a sports fan, I think, well, they just went through
it and lost. I don't know if they're gonna be
(23:25):
able to fight through that third game. What do you
say after you guys lose that first game to Texas
A and M, but the second game you played, what
do you say between games?
Speaker 6 (23:32):
Well, I said, ladies, we scored eleven runs against the
number one seeded national team and we made sixers and
we were right there to win. Even at the at
the end you saw bases loaded, full count. We had
our opportunities. So it's like, ladies, you know what, it
proves that we can beat any team in the country.
We've already beat them once. Let's take them down again.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
In the history of Regional Super Regional, a number one
seed has never fallen. You guys were the first team
to ever do that. And so, and you're right, it
was basis loaded and I mean they threw a ball
four too. Not to go back to a single pitch
like they lost a game. You guys had won the
game if you let one pitch go by uh and
you managed to come back and win that tiebreaker game
(24:15):
to move on. Did you feel like your girls had
it in them? Did you feel like they needed to
be pumped up to be put back into it, because
also you know you're you're having to play back to
back now.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
Well, you saw a little lull, you know, when we
were down three in the third game, the IF Championship game.
But I knew that our team had it in him.
I'm just so blessed because this team realizes that don't
let the sport of softball, you know, don't worship the
sport of softball, but let softball be your worship. Back
to the Lord. They've been given amazing talents, and just
(24:48):
as the Lord says, like trust them the talents they're
meant to be shared. He put us at one of
the biggest stages and we were able to just rely
on that, and they relied on each other and just
played the game. You could see they played with so
much freedom. It was just so competitive. I loved every
minute of it.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Do you get nervous in game when it's a situation
like that, not.
Speaker 6 (25:10):
Nervous, really just end up praying go to the Lord
and not really praying for victory, just praying for just
peace and competitive you know, performances because when you give
it your best, your best is good enough, right and
can't give any more. And that was when you can
walk off the field with your head high knowing that
(25:32):
you did that, and our girls did it. And there
was so much talent, you know, on that field between
Texas A and M and the Liberty Softball, the fans.
The Twelfth Man is the reason why my voice is
like it like this right now. It was just so awesome,
It was so inspiring, it was loud, you couldn't ask for,
(25:56):
just a feeling very close and similar to the World Series.
It was a great game. But our girls are not
looking in the past right now. They have got momentum
and getting ready for the battle we have against Oregon
coming up on Friday and Saturday.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
I want to ask one more question about the past.
And in that final game, you put in a picture
that hadn't pitched at all during the series, and man,
what energy she had and you couldn't hear the announces
with the announcers were like, well, she has. She struggles
with her control, so why did you make the move
to her? And it was control often a problem and
what did she do different this time?
Speaker 6 (26:31):
Well, we actually were prepared to go with Escobar, Alena
Escobar the whole way, but when we went out there
to try and encourage her after home run was given
up in two singles back to back, she just said
she couldn't she couldn't finish because how much her achilles
was hurting. So it's kind of a god. God has
(26:53):
a plan and Yoda was ready. She's been really on
the rise, I would say to the end of this season.
She even said it herself. She was throwing maybe sixty
one sixty two last year, and she's been able to
work on her form in her mindset, and she was
hitting sixty eight and as a lefty when she came in,
you guys, her first warm up pitch, she threw a
(27:16):
ground ball to the backstock and the four or five thousand,
you know, Texas A and M fans were laughing at her, laughing,
and she gave a little smirk and I knew no
pun intended. The flame was lit and I'm just so
proud of her. I was proud of Elena as well.
She threw over four hundred pitches. She was the one
(27:40):
with the most experienced last year in the Georgia Regionals
who were won out of way from making history for
our program to get to the Supers, and she had
a lot to do with us getting there this year.
But boy, to see to see Yoda just be able
to close it out like she did a thriller, A
Bill the nail Bier. It was. It had everything you, guys,
(28:04):
you could think of, from the ejection of a fan,
you know, to the controversial calls of umpires, to the
back to back speed and home runs. And it was
so fun, wasn't it.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
It was awesome? And we watched again.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
I've never I've watched Texas and I play a bunch
of the year because they're in the SEC. But I
haven't spent a bunch of time watching Liberty play. And
I watched all three of your games. And so the
two questions one about Escobar when she came off, she
was crying a bit.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
She was emotional.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Is it because her achilles was hurting her so bad
and she wanted to stay in the game.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Is that why?
Speaker 6 (28:40):
Yes, that's why I mean Elena was She wanted to
finish it out. This is their senior year, and you know,
when you play games like that, you never know which
way they're going to go. And so for her, she
wanted to give it more. She gave it everything she got,
and our plan was not to take her out, actually,
but she recognized it was just you much. It just
(29:01):
hurt her too much. You've been It shows a competitiveness
within a yeah, and.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
I didn't know that's why it was. That makes a
lot of sense.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
You've been at Liberty for I guess twelve years now,
because you started in twenty thirteen. Is your faith a
big reason that you found Liberty to be such a
great home for you?
Speaker 6 (29:14):
Oh? Absolutely, without a doubt. I mean I was asked
for and for mayor County commissioner. You has Senate for
the state of Florida. I thought the Lord's path for
me at this time in my life was to be
in politics, and so my husband and I were talking
about it. I said, okay, but I'm going to go
to the Lord first. And as I did, I said, Lord,
just make it perfectly clear where you want me to be.
(29:36):
The next morning, I got a phone call from the
largest Christian university in the world, Liberty, from their athletic
director who asked me to coach. And at the end
of the conversation and he said, I said, you know,
I have never head coached in college before. I'm not
sure if you're realize that. So I'm definitely humbled by
(29:56):
this opportunity. But he said, we realize that, but we
feel the Lord is leading us to you and everything
that happened in the movement and the decision to do it,
we just knew that the Lord had his hand on it.
Very humble beginnings at Liberty when I was there just
twelve years ago. To see the growth of the university,
(30:18):
the support of athletics. I'm sure everybody is seeing what
Liberty has been able to do between football, basketball, you
name it, field, hockey, lacrosse, softball, baseball, just keep going on,
you know, basketball, and we're just so supported there. But
I think you know, when the Lord is leading you,
he tells you you'll have this peace that transcends all
(30:41):
understanding because you might go a softball coach. Thank you, guys.
It's so awesome to be able to be at a
university who just stands for training champions for Christ and
to have Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior as the
center of it all. To be able to just share
(31:02):
my faith and offso grow my faith, be able to evangelize,
you know, to be able to help these young girls
as they are brought to us by the Lord for
different reasons. You know, it's more than just softball. And
so to be able to help them find the answers
right and that is it's just been a blessing. And
(31:26):
to see it all come together each year, getting stronger
and stronger, trusting the Lord more and more. He's faithful.
And you guys, it's not just about winning. It's really
about changing lives and be able to to Jesus said,
you're the form are against me right, there's no lukewarm.
So realize that Jesus paid it all. He paid it
(31:46):
all in the cross for our debt. He died, gave
his life up very three days and a rose from
the dead to overcome death which Satan had put on
the world on humanity to try and screw up God's plan.
We're meant to live forever, and so we are falling people.
We're all sinners and fall short of the glory of God.
(32:08):
But Jesus gave us a way to make it better
to get closer to the Lord. And when we stop
just thinking about living our day to day life and
those types of things, but have a soul searching, what
is life really about? So through the sport of softball,
God has been able to open that door for me
(32:31):
to be able to just worship Him in a way
that He has given back so much to me through
a sport I love so much to impact the lives
of not just these young girls, but all who are walking,
you know, watching and be an impact to really soul search.
Enjoy the game, enjoy the competition. It's awesome, but there's
(32:52):
a competition for our souls. So what team are you on?
And we know the winning team. It's God. It's not Satan,
the anti crime, some false prophet and the demons and
those that are non believers. So yeah, it's so awesome
to be able to be woken up if you would.
When covid hit I just said, what does the Lord
(33:15):
say about this? There were even non believers that you
probably know that we're like, what is going on? And
God has given us the answers of what are going on?
And so I just encourage everyone to seek the answers,
enjoy the life we've been given, because that is a
huge gift. But the biggest gift is in the biggest
blessing is Jesus Christ paying it all for our debts,
(33:38):
and just accept him. And when you do, man, you're
just free. You know your life as a whole other
meaning because we know there's more than just the life
we have in this earth. So we'll be on a
new earth, new heaven, and it's going to be exciting.
And right now, it's just so humbled, you guys, just
(34:00):
so humbled and honored to be a part of the
team that is the strongest team we've ever had to
this point, and just building a legacy.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
I have two final questions and one, if you'll indulge
me for a second. You did hit the home run
and won the gold medal in the gold medal game.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
That was you. You you felt it.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Do you remember do you remember feeling did the ball
come off the bat as pure as when you hit
a perfect golf shot? Do you remember the feeling of
hitting that home run to when the gold medal?
Speaker 6 (34:30):
And I love golf too, and you're absolutely right, I
had a humbling experience a few days earlier against the
China national team and they struck me out with bases loaded,
and as I'm walking to the dugout, I realized, Okay,
she beat me this time, and how to beat me?
(34:51):
You guys with bases loaded, full count the change up?
Are you kidding me? My mind didn't in process you
would throw a change up. So I just to school, right,
we're not losers if we're learning. So what happens. We
seen Team China and the gold medal game in the
nineteen ninety six Olympics, and when I sent to bat
with Laura Berg at first base, I had two balls
(35:12):
and no strikes, And before I got into the batter's box,
my thought was, Okay, I know she's gonna throw me
a change up. It doesn't make any sense she's gonna
do it, but I know she's gonna do it, just
learning from the past. And as they got into the
batter's box, I just waited. I sat change and when
she threw it, man, my eyes got this. I mean
(35:39):
I just waited and I waited, and to be honest,
I just wanted to rip the cover off of that
ball so she would never ever throw that pitch again.
It was such a good pitch. And when I saw
off the bat, even though they say scientifically that's impossible,
(36:00):
you're right. It felt connected. And when I saw that
ball go at least I don't know, it's a foot
or three feet to the fair side of the fair pole,
my arm just went up in the air because I knew,
I knew it was enough for us to make history,
to capture the first ever Olympic gold medal for the
(36:21):
FOURD to softball. And it was and one of the
thrilling moments of my athletic career, and there have been
so many. And to be able to coach right now
where we're at two, it's just another blessing.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
All right, Last question, what do you say to your
girls before the big three game series?
Speaker 6 (36:39):
Here, ladies were going into battle Oregon is not I mean,
they should be seated higher than sixteen. The last pole
is six. So they're very good squad. So we're going
to be going into battle and we've taken down number one.
But guess what it's all about being pressed and zoom, focus,
(37:02):
lock in and let's have a blast, rip the cover
off the ball, stay together, and really we just need
to play liberty softball. We're not gonna look to the past.
So it's just so fun to play. They love to play.
I really don't have to say too much when you
know you're doing a good job coaching, when you know
(37:24):
you don't have to be the one that's inspiring them
because their motivation and inspiration is coming from within. So
they're going to trust the Lord. They're going to give
it to him, and let's honor him and always say
in too, go Plames and go God.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Right doctor coach, not Richardson, Like I feel like I've
been in the tent.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Is it too late for us to play for her?
I know if I'm saying like I'm ready, I'm ready
right now. Hey.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
I hope you guys stay healthy and I hope you
play hard and you're fulfilled.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
And that was amazing. I'm rooting for you guys.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
So hopefully at the end of the weekend, I don't know,
we're we're going to see in Oklahoma City. I'll be there,
You'll be there while I'll be there. That's the goal.
Thanks for your time, Coach. We really appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (38:07):
Thank you so much. God bless you guys, and good Flames.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
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Speaker 1 (39:10):
So while we're doing the show so early this morning,
is as soon as the radio show is over, I
gonna fly to Fatville because they moved the game because
of weather. It's not like a baseball game where they
can just rescheduled later. It's super Regionals. So if they
win this best of three, they go to the College
World Series, which they've never done before.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
They moved the game to eleven AM and it was
supposed to be win seven pm. That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
So as soon as the show's over, I gotta go
because I gotta get to Fareeville and go to the game.
Speaker 5 (39:36):
Dude, teams crack like cram when it comes to that,
Like it's just like, oh crap, well, I mean I was,
We're gonna do other things in practice now at first
seven o'clock game. Now it's eleven. We're not ready at
seven o'clock.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
That's not what you said. What I said, your fantasy.
I didn't say that slip there, did you did you did?
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Oh? No, so day of not a lot of practicing.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Okay, So yes, a note like DJ who's the hitting
coach at Arkansas, is just going through game tape when
I'm there. If he's got a game the next date,
it's what he's doing all night, making charts and grafts
and watching tape.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
So day of it's not that big of a deal.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
It just changes the schedule when they got to wake up,
when they eat, when they go. So but we're gonna
go and do that. Hopefully they'll have decent enough weather
to play. But yeah, that's why we did the show
extra early. It's not affecting you guys at all that
are listening to it, but you get good seats.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
We don't really sit in seats.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
We're there to go out in the outfield because they
have young kids that want to run around, or we
go up into the coach's box and watch from up there.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
It just depends. If it's raining, we'll be in the
coach's box. They've got food in there and stuff.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
Yeah, but not great food. What do you mean, No,
it's not full concession. Oh even in the stadium, it's
not full full concession. Okay, but yeah, so we're gonna
go do that. I hope everybody has a great weekend.
Anything I'm forgetting Mike, anything I'm not doing I think
We're all good. We did NFL, we did college. The
(41:02):
Knicks and Pacers play tonight. That was a crazy ending,
by the way.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
Crazy ending. I thought it was over. So did Halliburton. Well,
I thought he did the choke a little too early,
little to earlier, foot was on the line. Dude, do
you like him?
Speaker 5 (41:16):
I don't know. I really can't tell. Dude, I can't
tell because, like, I want to like him. But then
I think what got me was of the post interview
after that game. They were asking like, oh, you did
the choke sign, and he like just said yeah, I
didn't really want to do it. They kind of made
me do it, and then so I had just decided.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
To do it, and I'm like, yeah, make him do it.
What are you talking about?
Speaker 5 (41:34):
Just own it like you did it because you thought
you won and your foot wasn't on the line and
you had to go to overtime, and that could have
been really bad.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
It could have been, but it wasn't.
Speaker 5 (41:43):
It wasn't, dude, And I'm so glad that it wasn't,
because as soon as he did it and they and
I didn't, the score didn't change. The score only tied
up the game. And we're like, Oh, that's weird. Why
is it only tied? Then they showed the replay and like,
oh no, this is not good.
Speaker 1 (41:56):
They asked Rick Carlyle what he thought about Halliburton doing
the choking, and he goes, you know what, he deserves
to do what ever he wants.
Speaker 2 (42:01):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
I thought that's a pretty good answer by a coach
who probably was like I wouldn't have done.
Speaker 2 (42:05):
That, but yeah, the choke because it's a regimeil.
Speaker 1 (42:08):
It's a regiment which, by the way, the Pacers end
up losing that series to the Knicks back in the day. Yea,
even after he did the choke. But it wasn't Oman
who Reggie was there. I think he was part of
the broadcast.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
Yeah, he's one of the analyst guys.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
And so yeah, I was like, oh no, but you know,
like just say like yeah, man, no, I mean just
him doing it that early when they didn't win the game,
I know, but honestly, I thought it was the buzzer beater.
I thought they won the game. Yeah, but just like
he did, it was awesome. So I guess I'm rooting
for the Pacers in that series. Do you like Haliburton?
I think if he to me is pat bev not
(42:43):
how they play. But if he's on your team, you
freaking love him. Yeah, And if he's not, you're probably
so annoyed by him you secretly punch him in the
nuts when you're when you're yeah, yeah, when you're like,
you pinch him a little bit in the back whenever.
It so, Yeah, he's fine. I like the Pacer, I
really do. I mean, I think it helped that we
went to the Pacers and they let us for sure.
Speaker 2 (43:04):
It helped with Miles Turner for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:05):
I roote for him big time. Yeah, even though it
was a longhorn, it's true. Oh yeah, yeah, forgot every
kind of a long horn.
Speaker 2 (43:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:12):
I hope you guys have a great weekend. Thank you
for listening. Thanks to Coach dot Richardson. Hopefully, just like
this last time, when we come back and we do
a show next week, the first show of the week,
I'm like, We're going to the College World Series, because
that'd be freaking awesome.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
It'd be the first time ever Arkansas has done it.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
You guys have a great weekend. I hope it's a
long one. I hope you have a great Memorial Day.
I hope you take a minute and remember what Memorial
Day is all about. And then I hope you spend
a lot of time with your family and friends, and
really I hope it's a special one. So thank you
and we will see you guys next week. All right
blow Eddie, oh seven o'clock Eddy?
Speaker 6 (43:50):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (43:51):
All right by everybody?
Speaker 1 (43:52):
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