Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
You got a kid that's playing little league.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Yeah, he's uh, he's in seventh grade. He plays middle
school ball.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
Oh, good deal, how's he doing great?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
They've only lost one game?
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Oh, I don't like to hear there nine and one.
What happened in the game they lost? Who are we blaming?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
It?
Speaker 4 (00:20):
Was?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
It was just one of those innings in the middle league,
just like any baseball game where sometimes it just falls
apart and uh, you'll get a couple of people on
and you can't recover.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, none. Listen, we see it far too often.
Let me ask you this.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Drives that two of those against the Cardinals last night.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
What position does your son play? Third base? Excellent? Excellent?
And he's a decent hitter, yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
When he goes up to bat, but he gets on base,
does he put on his sliding mit?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
He has been recently?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Yes, And and he's batting. Are we using both leg
are we using leg guards? Ankle guards? And maybe like
some kind of elbow or risk guard.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
He doesn't typically put those on, No.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
But he has them.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
He has them, But he has them, but he doesn't
usually use them.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Well, why is he not use them?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
You spend all that money, you asked me, I asked
him the same thing.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Is he wearing an arm sleeve to play?
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Not?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Typically?
Speaker 6 (01:31):
No?
Speaker 3 (01:32):
And last thing, his glove. Is it an ice cream glove?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
It is not, but it is a custom made forty
four glove that's like baby blue and red.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I was gonna say, yeah, no, no, and I was
gonna say I would bet any amount of money. I
don't know what color his uniform is, but I guarantee
you his sliding mit doesn't.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Match it actually does what? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Are the other kids making fun of him for that? No, sir, Okay,
A lot of questions.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
So I was reading this whole story about Little League
right now, Dude, how expensive is it for a kid
to play Little League?
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Right now?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
It's ridiculous. I just had my financial advisor call to
check up on me, and I told him we bought
a new bat, and he asked if we needed to
supplement some income for it, and I probably should have now.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Listen, we've known in the past bats are very expensive, right,
and everybody like go way way way back in the day,
right where coach brought four or five bats and everybody
shared them. Oh, and your son isn't using anybody else's
batting helmet?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Correct? Correct?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Now what it was new to We bought two pairs
of cleats and the batting helmet and the bat.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
It was it has a bad day. What color cleats
is he wearing? They are white?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
New Balance?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Oh really? Oh you know what, I give you a
kid credit. He's very old school, all right, very good show. Again,
that's totally show. Hey, absolutely, but that's old school.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Show.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
He is a traditionalist.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
So kids don't share helmets anymore?
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Do you share lice?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Oh it's no, it's not no, no, no, no, the
amount of money that is being spent. And listen, we've
known bats are really expensive, right you get asked weekend
softball guy, bats are expensive?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Careful you didn't solicit for them to call you.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
No, And I don't need to hear from you.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Sliding myths, arm sleeves, leg guards, risk guards, batting gloves.
I think they're like I listen, I played all the
way through high school, right, and we had batting gloves.
But they were white, generally grade from sweat, maybe some blood.
(03:53):
But now is it thunderbolt gloves that are the really
really popular expensive ones?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Thunderbolt thunderstrike. Someone will know where am I going? Line eight?
Speaker 4 (04:07):
What's the ice cream glove? You?
Speaker 6 (04:09):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
The ice cream glove? Oh? Who's this? Hello? Hey? Who's this?
What's your name? Sir?
Speaker 7 (04:17):
My name is Brad.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Brad. You've got a kid that plays a little league?
Speaker 7 (04:21):
Yeah, I've got a nine year old and I've got
a fifteen year old player.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
How much is that fifteen year old driving your nuts?
Speaker 7 (04:27):
A lot?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Hey? What kind of glove? They both use?
Speaker 7 (04:35):
The Wilson A two thousands.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Those aren't the ice cream gloves? Are they? No?
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Not at all.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Do you know what the ice cream gloves are? I
do right? Will you explain to Tyler what the ice
cream glove is.
Speaker 7 (04:50):
Sometimes it's like a pink glove and it's got what
looks like melted ice cream coming down the front of it.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Yeah, so the glove, the glove may be like a
regular brown color that you're U used to seeing, But
the top and the.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Tip of it, Oh that's awesome. That's expensive. Is like pink.
Some of them are blue, some of them are like
dark brown.
Speaker 8 (05:09):
It look like it even looks like sprinkles.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Yeah, this is strawberry. Yeah, this is the strawberry glove.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Where it looks like strawberry ice cream has melted down
the side.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
No, no, huh the.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Yeah, and that glove is expensive and everybody wants one.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Who made this popular?
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (05:27):
My son tried to talk me into buying a pair
of ice cream shorts the other day. They were like seventy.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Bucks sliding shorts or just for practice. They're just for
practice and you didn't get them.
Speaker 7 (05:40):
Absolutely not my dad's dick.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
There they are, Yeah, ice cream youth shorts.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
I've never seen this line of products.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Hey, what is your kid using for batting gloves?
Speaker 7 (05:56):
They both have a pair of Bruce bolts.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
That's what they are not not not thunderbolts, bruce bolts.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Those are the ones that have the lightning bolt on them, right, yes, absolutely?
How much are those?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (06:09):
From my oldest, I think they were like one hundred
and twenty bucks. My youngest, I think they're right around
one hundred.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Well they're smaller, there's nine the hand isn't as much
gloves yeah yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (06:23):
The good thing is my oldest would go through batting
gloves in like a month. He's had the first pair
of Bruce bolts for over a year. So I'm had
to buy a new one.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
There you go, one hundred bunch of gear only on
a batting glove. What what about sliding mits? Obviously you
don't want to break your little dainty fingers.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (06:44):
My oldest got one, I think last year that was
the first one he got, and then my youngest just
got one for Easter.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
What color are the what color are the other myths?
Speaker 7 (06:56):
My oldest has like a Carolina blue color and my
youngest is a navy blue with the Savannah banana's logo
on it.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
If you had to guess, in the last twelve months,
have you spent more than five thousand dollars on equipment.
Speaker 7 (07:15):
Between equipment and team fees and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Probably, Yeah, team fees are gonna cost you. I'm just
talking about do they are they? Is the older one
wearing like like for batting leg guards and armed guards?
Speaker 5 (07:29):
No?
Speaker 7 (07:29):
Not, he doesn't do all that. I asked him if
you wanted an elbow guard at one point because he
kept getting hit, and he said, no, I'm not a pussy.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Excellent, excellent, No, you know what, we learned to talk
on the team all right, very good, Thank you sir
who sent this.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
That's from Emily, my son's new bat, and it is
a pencil.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Pencil bats are very in right now?
Speaker 9 (07:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:56):
How much those for younger kids? Do you know what
a pencil bat is?
Speaker 8 (07:59):
Is it just skinny?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
No, tyler, can you pop that up on the screen? Oh,
I need your consent. You're gonna look at a child.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
No, no, no, that's don't make fun of when we
actually need to ask for something.
Speaker 8 (08:10):
Oh, that's cute. It looks like a pencil.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
You know what, You could use a regular just regular bat. Yeah,
so it's it's just painted to look like a pencil.
Speaker 8 (08:20):
Yeah, it's also very expensive, I'm sure.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
And who sent that in? Emily? How old? How old
do we guess that kid is?
Speaker 8 (08:27):
Would he look like six five six?
Speaker 4 (08:30):
I'd say older?
Speaker 8 (08:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Does he got a lip in? Yes?
Speaker 4 (08:35):
He was playing in Mechanicsville here telling me that's a
helmet he also probably brought with him.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
I guarantee you we're not if no offense family, But
if my kid's using a pencil bat, he is not
using somebody else's helmet, and my helmet better looks chic.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
My mom hated me playing Little League so much.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
You could have stopped after Little League if.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
I then had to I don't think she would have
paid for But if I then was asking for all
this h superficial stuff for accessory, she she would have
made me quit playing baseball.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
No, no, no, I listen. I get you want your
kid to get a sliding mit.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
I get it.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Really, these little leaders need that this day and age.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
I get it. We never wore sliding mits.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
No, I never saw one personal league where a slide.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
You know what we did.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
We just kind of tilted our hand upwards and we
knew we wouldn't break our fingers that way. But if
you told me, now, everybody's you got to have a
sliding mid everybody's wearing them.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
You don't want to break your fingers? Whatever?
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Fine, But why do I need Why do I need
one that looks like it's been dipped in ice cream?
Why do I need Bruce Bolt batting gloves that cost
one hundred and twenty dollars.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Steph bought a Bruce Bowl compression sleeve for her daughter's boyfriend.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Oh there you go.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Oh the sleeves are big, and I guarantee you that
sleeve is flashy light blues.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
She right, yep, there you go. The team uniform is probably.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Mike writes, my son got the blue ice cream shorts
for you because he already had the pink ones.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Line three. Hi Elliott the morning.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
How are you hey?
Speaker 3 (10:14):
I'm doing well. How are you, sir?
Speaker 5 (10:17):
Good? Your kid plays little League, so give you a
little bit quick his street. So I'm the vice president
of Little League over in District four in Maryland.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Oh very good, nice talk, though, I've got thank you.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
I've got a son who's played his entire time. He's
in high school now playing baseball. I'm also the assistant
coach for that team. And then his twin sister plays softball.
So everything I have to buy.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
My son I have to buy my daughter, right of course.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
And my son son has everything that you talked about.
He's got the sliding mad he's got the elbow guard,
they got the bats, they got the gloves, and he
also had the backpacks. But to add on my son
to catcher, so that extra gear I gotta buy for
him as well.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Oh does he have ice cream dip like chest protector
or shim pads. He does.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
He doesn't have the dip, but they're they're custom colored
so that they match his uniform.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Yeah, that's that's hot. I like that. I like that.
What about their batting helmets?
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Batting helmets? The school provides batting helmets, but they both
wanted their own, so I got them both throw them
batting homets to match the school.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Yeah. School.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Also, there's a lot of things schools provide that we're
going to pass on.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
I agree with you one one percent. It's it's everything.
Everything has to be you know what's in right now. Unfortunately,
and and to answer your question earlier, yeah, you're about
by the time I get done with both of them.
On a yearly basis, we're about three thousand dollars in
equipment alone.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
I believe that. And that's not including the bat bats
are very expensive. I get that. A lot of hits
in those.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Bats, and they each have two bats.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Well, yeah, what if the first one breaks exactly, or
what if I'm cold.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
I gotta switch it up. I'm oh for two against
this guy.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
Well, and that that that that's more gear, right, because
you got to you gotta buy the the school school
store sweatshirts and everything else. They provide some but not.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Everything exactly exactly. All right, very good.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Hey, by the way, like you said, you were the
the VP of the little league.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
That's every kid, right, every every kid has.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Got different sliding mits, different arm sleeves, different gloves, different helmets.
Like everybody, everybody is what is the right word. Everybody's
fashioned out in their own way, right.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
It's And it's funny you say that because now I
see te ballers, so I do T ball through T ball,
all the way through us. The only key ballers are
starting to do this now.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
The only additional color you should see in T ball
is if their poopy went through their their pants.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
That's it.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
I agree with you one hundred percent. But it's funny
to watch.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
So that's great. All right, dude, I appreciate it. You
know who I'm dying the talk to. Where's Thrasher?
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (13:02):
Yeah, with his kid?
Speaker 3 (13:03):
His kid's a stud little baseball player. Yeah, like his kid.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
But I guarantee you his kid, his kid, I bet
the only I bet his kid is more colorful than
the drinks at Thrasher's bar.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
From Ronaldo. Back in my day, playing well was in fashion,
not dressing like a candy ass.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
By the way, bring.
Speaker 8 (13:25):
Back candy Ass.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
The rock is still apart he wrestling. Yeah, this is
from snapchat. How has Elliott not brought up sunglasses yet.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Oh, thank you very Now, I'll tell you what. When
I played, I was in Houston. It's very hot, very sunny.
The sun's out a lot. So if there was a
pop fly, you did this like you put your hand
up so that you kind of block the sun.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
You squint it a lot, and then like maybe out.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Of ten you missed two or three just because you
got the sun in your eyes. If you were really balling,
you had a pair of flip up glasses. But when
I say you were really balling because your parents were millionaire,
everybody's got big old glasses now everybody everybody's got I
(14:17):
think they're called is it snappies? I can't remember if
that is the big sunglass. Oh yeah, little leg it's swaggy.
Oh is that what it is? Is that why you
said no, no, no, I think they're snappies. I think they're snappies. Yeah,
(14:39):
I may have that wrong.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
I was upset with my wife because tracks started up
again this week, so the kids need to new track shoes,
running shoes, and she didn't contain them at the store
to the wall where you just hope they have your
size and in the style, you know, not the aisle
where they have all the sizes. I said to her, like,
you got this against the wall, right, and she said no,
(15:03):
they picked it out of the aisles and I was like,
what did they do?
Speaker 3 (15:09):
They look like they've been dipped in ice cream.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
No, oh, they're at They're pretty normal. To be honest,
they're not flashy at all.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
They need a sleeve. They got to run in a
sleeve running.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
But that was one thing that is I don't want
to say key. I understand you can run barefoot, but
a pair of shoes can make some of these less
ideal running services they practice on not hurt as much.
This is crazy. Yeah, yeah, Remember it was a big
deal if you were given two dollars to go to
(15:40):
the snack shack after a game.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Remember the kids that played baseball not in cleats, but
in tennis shoes.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
They were easy to find. They would slip out in
the outfield whoops.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Remember what was in fashion in Rinaldo's day?
Speaker 7 (15:53):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Not being a candy.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Ass playing well?
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Well, Hi Elliott in the morning. Hi, Yeah, Hi, who's this.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Hi?
Speaker 7 (16:06):
I'm named Heather.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Yes, Heather, what can I do for you?
Speaker 6 (16:10):
My son has played four seasons now, He's in the
minor league for our community, which means the kids are pitching.
So last year they were hitting each other a lot,
and now they're doing a little bit better. This year,
they're they're throwing strikes.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
You know, the first year and you know this, you
know this now, first year of kid pitch is the
absolute worst year of baseball.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
It was like ball ball ball.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Yeah, it's horrible. It's horrible.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
And then every so often you'd get the rattle, well
not every so often, a lot, you would get the
rattle of the backstop because we're just missing everything.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Every so often, money even goes over the backstop. It's crazy.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
Anyway, Yes, yes, well, equipment wise, I usually go and
get his stuff second hand. We have a really good
second hand store in our town. It's called play It
against Sports. Sure, so cleats I get from there, his
mits I get from there. He actually prefers that I
get his mist secondhand because he hates breaking them in,
(17:09):
so that works out well for me. His helmet, he's
had the same helmet for the past three years. He
did get a new bat this year, but again play
It against Sports. I got it secondhand. It's still it
still works. There's nothing wrong with it. He's just not
the flashiest kid on the team there that he just
wants to play.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Are a lot of the kids on the team flashy
right now?
Speaker 6 (17:32):
I wouldn't say so. No, they're all They all have
their own equipment, they all have new bags. That's one
thing that I mean, I do buy him new every
year because by the end of the year his bag
is well, oh.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Yeah, I mean, you don't want to look like you're
the forest person in the county the.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
Uh no, no, but I don't want it in my cart.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
No.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
But at that age, at that age, that's still a
little bit young. Like if you're just one year beyond
kid pitch that or starting kid pitch, that's still a
little young.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Bear down, woman, it's coming, trust me. It is on
the way now.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Somebody asked, and not in the way you were reminded
about these sunglasses or the eyewear. Somebody asked, are these
kids also wearing a lot of jewelry?
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (18:16):
You know what I that I don't know, Like I
don't know, I don't know if I have like my
my double header necklace or that.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
But I mean, if we're if we're if we're imitating professionals.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Then I would say.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Yes, Like do candysses wear necklaces?
Speaker 3 (18:34):
No, they wear championship rings, so then maybe it's a yes.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Ronaldo would say yes.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Uh wait where was I going?
Speaker 6 (18:41):
Out?
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Line five?
Speaker 7 (18:43):
Hi?
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Elliot in the morning?
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (18:46):
This?
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Hi?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Who's this?
Speaker 5 (18:49):
This is Michael? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (18:51):
What can I do for you? Sir?
Speaker 7 (18:53):
Hey?
Speaker 9 (18:54):
So this is my fifth year coaching little League. I've
also done tournament team.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
My experience is.
Speaker 9 (19:01):
A little different. I'm here in DC east of the Park,
so it's a little bit not as much of an
arms race in terms of fear and looking good and
all that. But with travel ball, we definitely see that
in the further out you go from the city, the
more sort of everyone matches. They got matching backpacks, matching helmet,
all the fancy gear. Some of it is definitely a
(19:23):
little bit over the top.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Do you see a lot of kids with the ice
cream gloves?
Speaker 9 (19:29):
I haven't seen that a lot. But travel season is
just kind of getting underway, and we've mostly been playing
in DC, so it's when we go to the tournament
out in the burbs and have to get their name
Jackson where you see where it's like all the fancy
new stuff. So I get a YouTube every summer.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
All right, very good, thank you, sir, Hi Elliet the morning, Yeah, Hi.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Who's this?
Speaker 6 (19:58):
Hi?
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Go is Jessica.
Speaker 6 (19:59):
I cannot stand it. My husband, my son plays high
school ball, and it takes them nine minutes to get
all of that crap off their body, the oven mitt on,
the arm thing off, the leg thing off, like what
are we doing well?
Speaker 3 (20:14):
The ball the ball boy.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
The ball boy has to come out of the bleachers
and bring a wheelbarrow with him to get the seriously.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
The throwing stuff they're getting stuff on, just for me
to say that, of course, my son's got the light
blue there we go, a million dollar batting glove.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
There we go, There we go.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
Though we won't do we won't do the oven myth.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
That's dumb.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
No tilt your hand up, word, Candy asked, all right,
very good, very good, Get on base, Thank you, ma'am.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
I can't wait to check and see if I got
a note from Thrasher
You got a kid that's playing little league.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Yeah, he's uh, he's in seventh grade. He plays middle
school ball.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
Oh, good deal, how's he doing great?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
They've only lost one game?
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Oh, I don't like to hear there nine and one.
What happened in the game they lost? Who are we blaming?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
It?
Speaker 4 (00:20):
Was?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
It was just one of those innings in the middle league,
just like any baseball game where sometimes it just falls
apart and uh, you'll get a couple of people on
and you can't recover.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, none. Listen, we see it far too often.
Let me ask you this.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Drives that two of those against the Cardinals last night.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
What position does your son play? Third base? Excellent? Excellent?
And he's a decent hitter, yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
When he goes up to bat, but he gets on base,
does he put on his sliding mit?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
He has been recently?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Yes, And and he's batting. Are we using both leg
are we using leg guards? Ankle guards? And maybe like
some kind of elbow or risk guard.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
He doesn't typically put those on, No.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
But he has them.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
He has them, But he has them, but he doesn't
usually use them.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Well, why is he not use them?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
You spend all that money, you asked me, I asked
him the same thing.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Is he wearing an arm sleeve to play?
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Not?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Typically?
Speaker 6 (01:31):
No?
Speaker 3 (01:32):
And last thing, his glove. Is it an ice cream glove?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
It is not, but it is a custom made forty
four glove that's like baby blue and red.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I was gonna say, yeah, no, no, and I was
gonna say I would bet any amount of money. I
don't know what color his uniform is, but I guarantee
you his sliding mit doesn't.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Match it actually does what? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Are the other kids making fun of him for that? No, sir, Okay,
A lot of questions.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
So I was reading this whole story about Little League
right now, Dude, how expensive is it for a kid
to play Little League?
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Right now?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
It's ridiculous. I just had my financial advisor call to
check up on me, and I told him we bought
a new bat, and he asked if we needed to
supplement some income for it, and I probably should have now.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Listen, we've known in the past bats are very expensive, right,
and everybody like go way way way back in the day,
right where coach brought four or five bats and everybody
shared them. Oh, and your son isn't using anybody else's
batting helmet?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Correct? Correct?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Now what it was new to We bought two pairs
of cleats and the batting helmet and the bat.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
It was it has a bad day. What color cleats
is he wearing? They are white?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
New Balance?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Oh really? Oh you know what, I give you a
kid credit. He's very old school, all right, very good show. Again,
that's totally show. Hey, absolutely, but that's old school.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Show.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
He is a traditionalist.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
So kids don't share helmets anymore?
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Do you share lice?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Oh it's no, it's not no, no, no, no, the
amount of money that is being spent. And listen, we've
known bats are really expensive, right you get asked weekend
softball guy, bats are expensive?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Careful you didn't solicit for them to call you.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
No, And I don't need to hear from you.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Sliding myths, arm sleeves, leg guards, risk guards, batting gloves.
I think they're like I listen, I played all the
way through high school, right, and we had batting gloves.
But they were white, generally grade from sweat, maybe some blood.
(03:53):
But now is it thunderbolt gloves that are the really
really popular expensive ones?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Thunderbolt thunderstrike. Someone will know where am I going? Line eight?
Speaker 4 (04:07):
What's the ice cream glove? You?
Speaker 6 (04:09):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
The ice cream glove? Oh? Who's this? Hello? Hey? Who's this?
What's your name? Sir?
Speaker 7 (04:17):
My name is Brad.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Brad. You've got a kid that plays a little league?
Speaker 7 (04:21):
Yeah, I've got a nine year old and I've got
a fifteen year old player.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
How much is that fifteen year old driving your nuts?
Speaker 7 (04:27):
A lot?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Hey? What kind of glove? They both use?
Speaker 7 (04:35):
The Wilson A two thousands.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Those aren't the ice cream gloves? Are they? No?
Speaker 5 (04:41):
Not at all.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Do you know what the ice cream gloves are? I
do right? Will you explain to Tyler what the ice
cream glove is.
Speaker 7 (04:50):
Sometimes it's like a pink glove and it's got what
looks like melted ice cream coming down the front of it.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Yeah, so the glove, the glove may be like a
regular brown color that you're U used to seeing, But
the top and the.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Tip of it, Oh that's awesome. That's expensive. Is like pink.
Some of them are blue, some of them are like
dark brown.
Speaker 8 (05:09):
It look like it even looks like sprinkles.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Yeah, this is strawberry. Yeah, this is the strawberry glove.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Where it looks like strawberry ice cream has melted down
the side.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
No, no, huh the.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Yeah, and that glove is expensive and everybody wants one.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Who made this popular?
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (05:27):
My son tried to talk me into buying a pair
of ice cream shorts the other day. They were like seventy.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Bucks sliding shorts or just for practice. They're just for
practice and you didn't get them.
Speaker 7 (05:40):
Absolutely not my dad's dick.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
There they are, Yeah, ice cream youth shorts.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
I've never seen this line of products.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Hey, what is your kid using for batting gloves?
Speaker 7 (05:56):
They both have a pair of Bruce bolts.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
That's what they are not not not thunderbolts, bruce bolts.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Those are the ones that have the lightning bolt on them, right, yes, absolutely?
How much are those?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (06:09):
From my oldest, I think they were like one hundred
and twenty bucks. My youngest, I think they're right around
one hundred.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Well they're smaller, there's nine the hand isn't as much
gloves yeah yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (06:23):
The good thing is my oldest would go through batting
gloves in like a month. He's had the first pair
of Bruce bolts for over a year. So I'm had
to buy a new one.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
There you go, one hundred bunch of gear only on
a batting glove. What what about sliding mits? Obviously you
don't want to break your little dainty fingers.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (06:44):
My oldest got one, I think last year that was
the first one he got, and then my youngest just
got one for Easter.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
What color are the what color are the other myths?
Speaker 7 (06:56):
My oldest has like a Carolina blue color and my
youngest is a navy blue with the Savannah banana's logo
on it.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
If you had to guess, in the last twelve months,
have you spent more than five thousand dollars on equipment.
Speaker 7 (07:15):
Between equipment and team fees and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Probably, Yeah, team fees are gonna cost you. I'm just
talking about do they are they? Is the older one
wearing like like for batting leg guards and armed guards?
Speaker 5 (07:29):
No?
Speaker 7 (07:29):
Not, he doesn't do all that. I asked him if
you wanted an elbow guard at one point because he
kept getting hit, and he said, no, I'm not a pussy.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Excellent, excellent, No, you know what, we learned to talk
on the team all right, very good, Thank you sir
who sent this.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
That's from Emily, my son's new bat, and it is
a pencil.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Pencil bats are very in right now?
Speaker 9 (07:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:56):
How much those for younger kids? Do you know what
a pencil bat is?
Speaker 8 (07:59):
Is it just skinny?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
No, tyler, can you pop that up on the screen? Oh,
I need your consent. You're gonna look at a child.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
No, no, no, that's don't make fun of when we
actually need to ask for something.
Speaker 8 (08:10):
Oh, that's cute. It looks like a pencil.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
You know what, You could use a regular just regular bat. Yeah,
so it's it's just painted to look like a pencil.
Speaker 8 (08:20):
Yeah, it's also very expensive, I'm sure.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
And who sent that in? Emily? How old? How old
do we guess that kid is?
Speaker 8 (08:27):
Would he look like six five six?
Speaker 4 (08:30):
I'd say older?
Speaker 8 (08:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Does he got a lip in? Yes?
Speaker 4 (08:35):
He was playing in Mechanicsville here telling me that's a
helmet he also probably brought with him.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
I guarantee you we're not if no offense family, But
if my kid's using a pencil bat, he is not
using somebody else's helmet, and my helmet better looks chic.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
My mom hated me playing Little League so much.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
You could have stopped after Little League if.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
I then had to I don't think she would have
paid for But if I then was asking for all
this h superficial stuff for accessory, she she would have
made me quit playing baseball.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
No, no, no, I listen. I get you want your
kid to get a sliding mit.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
I get it.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Really, these little leaders need that this day and age.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
I get it. We never wore sliding mits.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
No, I never saw one personal league where a slide.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
You know what we did.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
We just kind of tilted our hand upwards and we
knew we wouldn't break our fingers that way. But if
you told me, now, everybody's you got to have a
sliding mid everybody's wearing them.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
You don't want to break your fingers? Whatever?
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Fine, But why do I need Why do I need
one that looks like it's been dipped in ice cream?
Why do I need Bruce Bolt batting gloves that cost
one hundred and twenty dollars.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Steph bought a Bruce Bowl compression sleeve for her daughter's boyfriend.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Oh there you go.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Oh the sleeves are big, and I guarantee you that
sleeve is flashy light blues.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
She right, yep, there you go. The team uniform is probably.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
Mike writes, my son got the blue ice cream shorts
for you because he already had the pink ones.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Line three. Hi Elliott the morning.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
How are you hey?
Speaker 3 (10:14):
I'm doing well. How are you, sir?
Speaker 5 (10:17):
Good? Your kid plays little League, so give you a
little bit quick his street. So I'm the vice president
of Little League over in District four in Maryland.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Oh very good, nice talk, though, I've got thank you.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
I've got a son who's played his entire time. He's
in high school now playing baseball. I'm also the assistant
coach for that team. And then his twin sister plays softball.
So everything I have to buy.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
My son I have to buy my daughter, right of course.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
And my son son has everything that you talked about.
He's got the sliding mad he's got the elbow guard,
they got the bats, they got the gloves, and he
also had the backpacks. But to add on my son
to catcher, so that extra gear I gotta buy for
him as well.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Oh does he have ice cream dip like chest protector
or shim pads. He does.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
He doesn't have the dip, but they're they're custom colored
so that they match his uniform.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Yeah, that's that's hot. I like that. I like that.
What about their batting helmets?
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Batting helmets? The school provides batting helmets, but they both
wanted their own, so I got them both throw them
batting homets to match the school.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Yeah. School.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Also, there's a lot of things schools provide that we're
going to pass on.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
I agree with you one one percent. It's it's everything.
Everything has to be you know what's in right now. Unfortunately,
and and to answer your question earlier, yeah, you're about
by the time I get done with both of them.
On a yearly basis, we're about three thousand dollars in
equipment alone.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
I believe that. And that's not including the bat bats
are very expensive. I get that. A lot of hits
in those.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Bats, and they each have two bats.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Well, yeah, what if the first one breaks exactly, or
what if I'm cold.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
I gotta switch it up. I'm oh for two against
this guy.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
Well, and that that that that's more gear, right, because
you got to you gotta buy the the school school
store sweatshirts and everything else. They provide some but not.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Everything exactly exactly. All right, very good.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Hey, by the way, like you said, you were the
the VP of the little league.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
That's every kid, right, every every kid has.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Got different sliding mits, different arm sleeves, different gloves, different helmets.
Like everybody, everybody is what is the right word. Everybody's
fashioned out in their own way, right.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
It's And it's funny you say that because now I
see te ballers, so I do T ball through T ball,
all the way through us. The only key ballers are
starting to do this now.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
The only additional color you should see in T ball
is if their poopy went through their their pants.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
That's it.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
I agree with you one hundred percent. But it's funny
to watch.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
So that's great. All right, dude, I appreciate it. You
know who I'm dying the talk to. Where's Thrasher?
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (13:02):
Yeah, with his kid?
Speaker 3 (13:03):
His kid's a stud little baseball player. Yeah, like his kid.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
But I guarantee you his kid, his kid, I bet
the only I bet his kid is more colorful than
the drinks at Thrasher's bar.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
From Ronaldo. Back in my day, playing well was in fashion,
not dressing like a candy ass.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
By the way, bring.
Speaker 8 (13:25):
Back candy Ass.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
The rock is still apart he wrestling. Yeah, this is
from snapchat. How has Elliott not brought up sunglasses yet.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Oh, thank you very Now, I'll tell you what. When
I played, I was in Houston. It's very hot, very sunny.
The sun's out a lot. So if there was a
pop fly, you did this like you put your hand
up so that you kind of block the sun.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
You squint it a lot, and then like maybe out.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Of ten you missed two or three just because you
got the sun in your eyes. If you were really balling,
you had a pair of flip up glasses. But when
I say you were really balling because your parents were millionaire,
everybody's got big old glasses now everybody everybody's got I
(14:17):
think they're called is it snappies? I can't remember if
that is the big sunglass. Oh yeah, little leg it's swaggy.
Oh is that what it is? Is that why you
said no, no, no, I think they're snappies. I think they're snappies. Yeah,
(14:39):
I may have that wrong.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
I was upset with my wife because tracks started up
again this week, so the kids need to new track shoes,
running shoes, and she didn't contain them at the store
to the wall where you just hope they have your
size and in the style, you know, not the aisle
where they have all the sizes. I said to her, like,
you got this against the wall, right, and she said no,
(15:03):
they picked it out of the aisles and I was like,
what did they do?
Speaker 3 (15:09):
They look like they've been dipped in ice cream.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
No, oh, they're at They're pretty normal. To be honest,
they're not flashy at all.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
They need a sleeve. They got to run in a
sleeve running.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
But that was one thing that is I don't want
to say key. I understand you can run barefoot, but
a pair of shoes can make some of these less
ideal running services they practice on not hurt as much.
This is crazy. Yeah, yeah, Remember it was a big
deal if you were given two dollars to go to
(15:40):
the snack shack after a game.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Remember the kids that played baseball not in cleats, but
in tennis shoes.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
They were easy to find. They would slip out in
the outfield whoops.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Remember what was in fashion in Rinaldo's day?
Speaker 7 (15:53):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Not being a candy.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Ass playing well?
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Well, Hi Elliott in the morning. Hi, Yeah, Hi, who's this.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Hi?
Speaker 7 (16:06):
I'm named Heather.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Yes, Heather, what can I do for you?
Speaker 6 (16:10):
My son has played four seasons now, He's in the
minor league for our community, which means the kids are pitching.
So last year they were hitting each other a lot,
and now they're doing a little bit better. This year,
they're they're throwing strikes.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
You know, the first year and you know this, you
know this now, first year of kid pitch is the
absolute worst year of baseball.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
It was like ball ball ball.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Yeah, it's horrible. It's horrible.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
And then every so often you'd get the rattle, well
not every so often, a lot, you would get the
rattle of the backstop because we're just missing everything.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Every so often, money even goes over the backstop. It's crazy.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
Anyway, Yes, yes, well, equipment wise, I usually go and
get his stuff second hand. We have a really good
second hand store in our town. It's called play It
against Sports. Sure, so cleats I get from there, his
mits I get from there. He actually prefers that I
get his mist secondhand because he hates breaking them in,
(17:09):
so that works out well for me. His helmet, he's
had the same helmet for the past three years. He
did get a new bat this year, but again play
It against Sports. I got it secondhand. It's still it
still works. There's nothing wrong with it. He's just not
the flashiest kid on the team there that he just
wants to play.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Are a lot of the kids on the team flashy
right now?
Speaker 6 (17:32):
I wouldn't say so. No, they're all They all have
their own equipment, they all have new bags. That's one
thing that I mean, I do buy him new every
year because by the end of the year his bag
is well, oh.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Yeah, I mean, you don't want to look like you're
the forest person in the county the.
Speaker 6 (17:45):
Uh no, no, but I don't want it in my cart.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
No.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
But at that age, at that age, that's still a
little bit young. Like if you're just one year beyond
kid pitch that or starting kid pitch, that's still a
little young.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Bear down, woman, it's coming, trust me. It is on
the way now.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Somebody asked, and not in the way you were reminded
about these sunglasses or the eyewear. Somebody asked, are these
kids also wearing a lot of jewelry?
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (18:16):
You know what I that I don't know, Like I
don't know, I don't know if I have like my
my double header necklace or that.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
But I mean, if we're if we're if we're imitating professionals.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Then I would say.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
Yes, Like do candysses wear necklaces?
Speaker 3 (18:34):
No, they wear championship rings, so then maybe it's a yes.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Ronaldo would say yes.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Uh wait where was I going?
Speaker 6 (18:41):
Out?
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Line five?
Speaker 7 (18:43):
Hi?
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Elliot in the morning?
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (18:46):
This?
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Hi?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Who's this?
Speaker 5 (18:49):
This is Michael? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (18:51):
What can I do for you? Sir?
Speaker 7 (18:53):
Hey?
Speaker 9 (18:54):
So this is my fifth year coaching little League. I've
also done tournament team.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
My experience is.
Speaker 9 (19:01):
A little different. I'm here in DC east of the Park,
so it's a little bit not as much of an
arms race in terms of fear and looking good and
all that. But with travel ball, we definitely see that
in the further out you go from the city, the
more sort of everyone matches. They got matching backpacks, matching helmet,
all the fancy gear. Some of it is definitely a
(19:23):
little bit over the top.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Do you see a lot of kids with the ice
cream gloves?
Speaker 9 (19:29):
I haven't seen that a lot. But travel season is
just kind of getting underway, and we've mostly been playing
in DC, so it's when we go to the tournament
out in the burbs and have to get their name
Jackson where you see where it's like all the fancy
new stuff. So I get a YouTube every summer.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
All right, very good, thank you, sir, Hi Elliet the morning, Yeah, Hi.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Who's this?
Speaker 6 (19:58):
Hi?
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Go is Jessica.
Speaker 6 (19:59):
I cannot stand it. My husband, my son plays high
school ball, and it takes them nine minutes to get
all of that crap off their body, the oven mitt on,
the arm thing off, the leg thing off, like what
are we doing well?
Speaker 3 (20:14):
The ball the ball boy.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
The ball boy has to come out of the bleachers
and bring a wheelbarrow with him to get the seriously.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
The throwing stuff they're getting stuff on, just for me
to say that, of course, my son's got the light
blue there we go, a million dollar batting glove.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
There we go, There we go.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
Though we won't do we won't do the oven myth.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
That's dumb.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
No tilt your hand up, word, Candy asked, all right,
very good, very good, Get on base, Thank you, ma'am.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
I can't wait to check and see if I got
a note from Thrasher
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
Ding dong! Join your culture consultants, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, on an unforgettable journey into the beating heart of CULTURE. Alongside sizzling special guests, they GET INTO the hottest pop-culture moments of the day and the formative cultural experiences that turned them into Culturistas. Produced by the Big Money Players Network and iHeartRadio.