Narrator:
Welcome to EMTalk. These are the stories of saving lives from the people who save them. This episode sports injuries, Overcoming Obstacles. Here to discuss saving lives is licensed paramedic, our host, Juddson Smith.
Juddson:
Hey, this is Judd Smith with EMTalk. We are here for another awesome episode. Today, you’ll see that I have a bunch of different guests. But before I start introducing my guests, I want to go ahead and give a shout-out to a couple of our sponsors. We got Texas EMS school always sponsoring the podcast, and we just got a new sponsor and that is Heavy’s. It’s a headphone company for metalheads. They make super high-quality headphones with, like, eight different speakers, subwoofers, and all sorts of cool stuff. And they’ve started supporting first responders. And so they wanted us to give them a shout-out today. So, today I have my baseball team.
I have two different parts of my baseball teams. Most of my extra or free time is spent with young athletes who are playing baseball. That’s what I do with all my free time. And so we made a deal for my 13U team, and we’ll talk about the name and everything. If they won this one tournament we were at, I told them I would put them on the podcast, and sure enough, they turned around and won the whole thing. And so I had to carry that out. And so the 13U Jokers are with us today, as well as a few members of the 9U jokers. The whole 9U Jokers team will be invited if they can win a tournament as well. And then we’ll do a podcast with them, and we play a bunch of different games.
So, this is part of the team. It’s not everybody, but I’m going to introduce or let these boys introduce themselves, and we’ll get going.
Don’t be weird about it. Introduce yourself.
Jokers:
My name’s Josiah. I’m 13, and I go to Madison Middle School. I play, outfield and pitcher.
I’m Grant and I play left field.
I’m Jackson. I kind of play, like, every single position.
Juddson:
That’s true.
Jokers:
I’m Isaiah, and I play outfield and pitcher.
I’m Riley, and I play pitcher.
Juddson:
Send it to Jax, but Ellie is over here on the side. Ellie is my daughter, and she is also going to be on the podcast.
Ellie, say hi.
Jokers:
My name is Jax, and I play, left field and third baseman and Pitcher.
Juddson:
There we go.
Jokers:
My name is Jackson, and I play left field and, right field, right field and second base, second base, third third in catcher. I’m Jay, and I play center and psychic. That’s right. And first, I’m setting up for left field. I’m Eli, and I play second.
Juddson:
Yes, we we legitimately only put Eli at second because he’s, like, the best second baseman that ever lived. We call we have named Eli a bunch of different names because he, he just sucked the ball up there at second. And so it was Hoover dirt devil. I think right now it’s Taz. At one point it was rainbow because we couldn’t think of what else to call you.
But I have this thing where I give all the boys nicknames, so I’m going to tell you their nicknames that that I’ve given them over over time. So we’ve got, Rock because his last name is Oak on his first name starts with an R, which I think I want to rename you Recon.
And then we’ve got Isaiah, which he just goes by Isaiah. And he’s been called that for a long time. I didn’t give him that one. Calling here we I started calling him easy recently just because he picked an easy song, for his walk up. But usually we call him Moo. And then Grant, we call Dee Breezy because he’s fast, and his last name is Brazel. And then Josiah over there, I call him. Everybody calls him Jojo. Except for, the head coach or manager of the team, which his name is, Coach Jeezy. He calls Jojo yoyo and so on the lineup, he goes, he goes, is yo yo, over here? Eli, I told you, he’s got several different names, right now. It’s Taz.
And then back here is Jaden Gallegos, and his last name spells out Legos. So we just call him Legos. And then we’ve got Jay. We call jet Jerry jet. His parents have been calling him that for a long time. Jackson we call Jackie Boy. I think pops gave him that name, and that’s his grandpa. Now, who gave him that name? Jeezy gave you that name? All right. And those two right there. The two ones in the middle. Those are his little brothers. And then that one right there is mine. And he’s that kid’s little brother. And his name is Jax, but we call him Jax. And then Ellie. You’re not on the team, and you go by Ellie there.
We go. So pretty easy. So, anyways, nicknames are always a thing in sports, and so I just. It’s just something stupid I do to get the boys names. And then they just let me do it, and they don’t complain about it. Usually, except for Neal. Neal complains about his name anytime I give him something. So, y’all convince Neil to just go with it and just get called? Whatever I call him. All right, boys, so, the the way we’re going to do this, I’m going to ask you guys different questions, and you guys are just going to kind of answer and talk to me about those different things, okay? Y’all look real nervous and weird. So try to try to stop doing whatever that is and look normal.
There’s not all of this is not live, so there’s nobody watching it right this minute. You’re just talking to me and hanging out in here. And I am wearing headphones and talking into a microphone. So, the Joker’s who. Who was on the team when we first started being the jokers?
All right, we got two in here that are original jokers members. And then, Who else was on it when we. Anybody else in here? Yeah. Eli came, like, almost immediately after we formed the jokers. Like, in the middle of the season or something. So, some of you guys have been jokers since the beginning. The Joker’s name, for those of you that didn’t know. Does anybody know where we got that name? Okay, so, Jojo, how did we get that name? This is the one that suggested it. And then we took a vote. Right. And I think something that I’m going to give you guys a behind the scenes look at what really happened there. I’m pretty sure somebody cheated on that vote, because there were, like, 300 votes and only like, ten people that wanted to vote. So I don’t know how that happened. I know I didn’t do it. I don’t think Jeezy did it, but somebody did. And no, don’t tell, don’t tell. I actually do know who did it. But I’m not going to say nothing. Because we used to be this team called the Crush. And when we were the crush, we were trash.
We were just absolute dog water. And then we became the jokers. And all of a sudden, we were still dog water. And then we practice through hard, and now we’re just kind of dog water. Now the boys, if you don’t know anything about travel, baseball, that’s what they play. They play, select travel baseball. So we go all over Texas and mostly in the DFW, but sometimes down south, and we play baseball and we play the best of the best teams. We play in tournaments that are, open a lot. And those tournaments mean that it could be teams that are ranked as the three teams or teams that are ranked as the two, or D1 and D1 is the highest. I think we’re still ranked as a D3 team, but I think that’ll change. We keep winning games like we’ve been winning against these other, ranked teams.
Will be will be up there soon. And so these boys compete regularly with these teams that are technically on paper, supposed to be higher rank than them. And they they perform really well and they’re all really good at baseball. Who do you guys think is the best player on the 13U jokers? I don’t think that’s, really that’s where I think all that is such like a Sunday school answer.
I think we all love each other. I think you, he thinks his big brother is the best, and he thinks his big brother is. Who is? Oh, wow. That’s messed up. Jet.
Jokers:
Riley’s the best.
Juddson:
That’s not true. I think, I like it, I like it, Riley. Who do you. You’re. You’re the one that’s come in the most recent. Who do you think is the best? I like Jax because he’s, like, the most utility player. Okay. It’s pretty much player. We’re talking about calling. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You’re definitely not the best player on the team, but you are the most useful.
Na. I think I think you guys are all right. You can just hold it down to the side if you’re not using it, it’s. No, don’t put it on the ground like a weirdo. Just.
Like, there you go. Like that G breezy. Okay, so, yeah, I, I think I agree with, g Breezy and Eli, you guys have learned to work really well together, and I think that’s why we’re doing good this season is, as you guys have just been together and played so hard together that all of a sudden it’s just clicking a lot.
You guys have always been good, but I think I would say y’all are probably as good as you’ve ever been this season. Yeah, I think so. Yeah. Y’all are doing some crazy stuff. Y’all be making some insane plays. Pitching is off the charts. You’re hitting the ball. I think I counted. We had 11 hits in one of our games this last weekend.
We only played for like an hour and a half. And you still got 11 hits out of it. Which is pretty good in a baseball game. So especially with a bunch of kids pitching, so little jokers. Nine. You jokers. Who’s the best hitter on your team?
You know, if you actually look at the numbers, I don’t think any of those are the best hitter on your team. I think right now, Jim is the best hitter on your team. If you look at the stats. So wrong. Just wrong. All right. Let’s see how. So a lot of the people that are listening to this podcast, they’re students of mine, they’re in EMS, they don’t they don’t really know, maybe don’t know a whole lot about how this works. So at 13 years old, what’s the fastest you’ve ever seen somebody pitch at 70?
Well, I guess high 70.
Juddson:
Do you think you guys have seen somebody pitch high 70s? Actually, I think you seen 80%. I don’t I. That’s pretty wild. Use the mic. Talk loud and usually like high 60s, high 60s like 70, 70, 70, 70. I had 70s that 80s
high 70s, the 80s. That is insane. Yeah, yeah. What do you think? High 60s?
Jokers:
High 60s. I think that’s probably more realistic. Yeah, I think also like high 60s or 70. Yeah. High 60s. Yeah. 68. I sell these at a nine new game. This. Wow. But it’s 40s. That’s more realistic. I think some of the 13. You with your face are barely throwing 50.
Juddson:
No, I would say right now what we’re seeing at most of our tournaments, you guys are seeing
pitchers throw about high 60s or 70. I think maybe the fastest you guys have seen at one of the tournaments that we’ve been to recently is probably mid 70s, if that. And that’s not like consistent. That’s like maybe they threw one pitch that was real hard. Y’all y’all realize that’s pretty fast. I mean, there were high schoolers back in the day that were barely throwing that. And you guys are not even there yet and you’re still able to keep up with that. I think probably on our team, I think, cowling probably has about the highest velocity on our team paddling. And Riley do, cowling makes the best sound when he pitches the ball. Every time you don’t you don’t
know that he did it, right. If he didn’t go up like a male, Serena Williams or something, right. Anyways, no, it’s it’s pretty crazy, though, because y’all think, probably most of you started playing travel when you were like nine, right? 8 or 9 years old. Ten? I know Jo Jo. Jo Jo Jo started at nine. You, I know, Isaiah started at nine. You, Jackson nine. You any of you start at eight? You are younger. Get started at seven. You was the first time you played and then eight, you and nine you. Anybody else. No. Not younger than nine. You. So a nine you pitcher probably throws. Jackson’s probably right. Probably high 30s mid 40s if that. Every now and then I think I think Zidane’s little brother can probably throw like high 40s and maybe 50.
His little brother for, you know, he’s also going to start playing with us, which is cool. So, anyways, so the ball comes really fast is my point. So you raise your hand if you’ve ever been hit by a pitch. Okay. That’s what I thought. Ellie, I think even you’ve been hit by a pitch in softball.
Jokers:
Oh, I got hit in the ribs and it hurt like a eight by five. And who was there when you got hit in the arena? Jose Trevino that’s right. That’s your fear of losing the World Series to the Yankees. I got hit in the neck and it hurt bad. I got hit in the neck. This is probably six out of ten. Yeah, it hurt pretty bad. When was that? When I continue, then. Are you all right? I got hit in the butt cheek and is already bruised. I was doing. Was that like, I was like, 11? You. I got hit in the back, and it hurt here.
Juddson:
Okay, so ten is the worst. Okay. So when, when we go to patients, like when I deal with patients that I see on the ambulance, we always ask them, how bad is your pain? Scale of 1 to 10? Ten is the worst pain you’ve ever felt in your life. So you would think, like if you lost your arm, that would be the worst pain ever or something, right? So scale of 1 to 10. How bad? I’ll it. Five. Yeah. Like a five. Like a four. Three.
Juddson:
Okay. And Joe’s already answered. Please bring it back to Riley. I got hit in the rib and it was about like a six. It hurt bad to get hit in the ribs. I got hit in the head and Yeah. It’s probably five, probably a five. Okay. I got hit in the helmet and it does not even hurt. That’s right. That’s what a man says I got him. This is an even more hurt. Oh my gosh. Geez. He totally trained you all the same. I got hit in the ribs and it hurt about a six. I got hit in the shin. And if I hurt. Oh, it’s it’s the shin. It does hurt to get hit in the shin though. You ever been hit in the shin by the machine? It’s like just a dead shot right in the middle of it. When you get hit by the. In the shin, by the machine, you want to say, okay, go ahead. I got hit on my chest. Jeez. Like an alligator biting your arm off.
Juddson:
Okay, so, how many of you guys have had a concussion? And was it from football or baseball? Treat this from football. So tell them that still matters. Tell me what it feels like to have a concussion. You see black dots?
Black dots?
Juddson:
What else does your head hurt?
Jokers:
Yeah, the back of your head hurts. And what about your stomach? Do you feel like you’re going to throw up sometimes something you feel like you don’t like? Eat.
Juddson:
Okay. Did it make you sleepy?
Jokers:
Yes. Was it hard to walk straight for? For a little bit. How long you think?
Juddson:
Like, maybe the day. Like a day, a day. How long did you see the spots for?
Jokers:
Like almost a week.
Juddson:
Oh, yeah, that’s pretty bad. So do you guys know what a concussion is?
Jokers:
Yeah,
Juddson:
We’ll talk about it. Legos. Tell us about yours.
Jokers:
I seen stars and, like a cartoon. They’re just stars in their. Okay. And, It’s not like, dizzy and, like, light, like in hurt your head. Yeah, right. And I feel like I was going to throw up and maybe so sleepy.
Juddson:
Okay, so both of you felt pretty pretty much the same there. Okay, so a concussion is when you get hit hard enough that your brain bounces into the side of your skull.
Okay? So it moves it around. Your brain is surrounded by a bunch of muscle tissue and a skull, like a layer of bone. Okay. And so you get hit hard enough, and inside of there. It goes like this goes like that shakes in there. And so that causes bruising on your brain, which is what causes all that stuff to happen.
So if you think it’s it’s pretty dangerous because sometimes it can cause damage that doesn’t go away ever. It can cause permanent brain damage when you guys get those concussions. So when your coaches or your, athletic trainer or us when we’re like, hey, chill out, don’t do anything. That’s why they’re telling you that. Because if you don’t take care of yourself, you end up with permanent brain damage and never get to be the same again.
You may never get to play again. So concussions are a big deal. You see it all the time in the NFL. They’ll go out for like a whole week or two. Sometimes with a concussion. It just depends on how bad it is. And there’s different levels of concussion. So like there’s a level one, level two, level three. And it just keeps going up. Okay. So who here has broken a bone or a joint.
Jokers:
Yeah.
So a joint is like the, like the part that makes it move and rotate. So, like your elbow and stuff. Yeah, but did you break it? Yeah. That’s okay. We’ll come back to that then. Okay. Breezy. What did you break?
Jokers:
I broke I got like a hairline fracture in my knuckle. Was that from football? Boys are seeing a pattern here.
Juddson:
If you just stick the baseball like you’re supposed to, you’d be fine. And so what did that feel like? What does it feel like when you break something? It hurts a lot. Wow. So descriptive. Does it, does it hurt like, like heavy weight or on you or does it hurt like sharp? Like it hurts? I like those kind of both.
Jokers:
Kind of. Okay. I’ve broken a bone. Have you guys ever noticed that my arm is crooked? Nope. Yeah. Oh, yeah, that. I was like that. Like your dad broke his, fit out of your ankle. Yeah, they all know what that is. Where your tibia? Yeah. Yeah. Right there. He’s right there. All right.
Juddson:
What’s this? Do you know what this is? I thought I what bone is there? Femur job. All right, so if you break your femur, that’s considered to be one of the worst pains that a person can ever experience. I’ve seen someone break. I’ve seen 4 or 5 femur breaks, and the bone goes like this. So your bones are like this, you know, they’re nice together. And then all of a sudden it breaks and the bone goes and slips over the other one and so this sharp piece of bone is just cut and muscle and vessels all inside of your leg, and it’s tearing it up. It hurts really bad. And so when we what we do, when we try to fix it or when we try to make it hurt less one, we give them a whole bunch of like narcotics to dull the pain. But then we take this thing called a traction splint and it pulls the foot that way and keeps the hip right here. And then it pulls the two bones apart. And so we pull until it pulls those two bones apart, and then we tie it off like that. And so it holds the bones like this instead of on top of each other.
It’s gross looking what? Oh, okay. We’ll pass it around. Somebody over here had another hand up. YoYo, you broken something? Would you break? I broke my pinky. Trying to catch a football one handed again. Dance football. And it turned pink instantly in a Hershey wrapper. Yeah, yeah, I was there. Who else break. Oh, Ellie, you broke something. Tell us about it. Like you see. Yeah. Talk. Talk right loud.
Jokers:
So, I broke my arm. Well, it was in my arm. It was your wrist? Yeah, my wrist. And I was on my brother’s back. Thought it was off. And so he dropped me on the floor, and I broke it. That’s true. Yep. It was all his fault.
And then I broke it again at pre-K because I saw some kids doing jump off stuff. And so you decided to jump too? Yeah. Her arm looked like this. It might like an S. I looked like an X. It was gross. You got one. Two of us? Yeah.
Juddson:
I’m gonna see if your, aunt and uncle let me put it up and in the podcast and show that X-ray, because it’s gross looking. It looks bad. Kendall’s not here, which I thought he would be. Kiddos. Hilarious. Y’all are missing out by not having Goodell here because he says the most off the wall nonsense. He just says whatever he’s thinking and it’s awesome.
Goodell broke his shoulder. He broke a piece of his shoulder off. Corbin. Y’all know Corbin mostly on the Corbin lease. He he broke his collarbone recently. A lot of a lot of breaks in in football. It happens all the time. Do you guys ever. So you have injured your elbow? Moomoo, you injured your elbow pitching. All right, so tell us about that. What happened?
Jokers:
It just was just, like, tingly. I don’t know, I got I got my arm tangled. Explain what you were doing, itching. And then this is starting, like. I was there, and then it started to hurt.
Okay. Yes. Yeah, I was doing side arm.
Okay. So what does that show is for? For anybody watching, show what that looks like. It’s like you get, like, from, like, right here from your side, right? So, like, your elbow, instead of being able to go like a natural motion, like you would throw a ball, it talks and goes from the side, and that’s how a lot of people hurt their elbow.
Yeah, yeah. Jax. What? One of the one of the kids on our team, he throws sidearm and we all we all tell him not to throw sidearm, and he still does it. That’s true. We do tell him that all the time. Maybe he should know it’s Jaden, but it looks bad when he. He, The first time he pitched in a game in our in one of our nine new tournaments was our last tournament.
And he walked up and struck out like, eight people. And he had never pitched before. And, it was bad because the ball comes in like this. When you pitch sidearm, it’s like it’s like a natural cadence. So it’s hard to hit. Okay. So let’s talk about, the different positions that you guys play and what you guys think, is most valuable about your position.
So, like, what I mean is, like, what what exercise do you think would help you be better at your position? Okay, so, Jojo, you’re a pitcher and you’re an outfielder. Occasionally you’ll play an infield position. Not not as common. So what is important about an outfield position? What do you what is it? Something you need to do to be good at that position?
Jokers:
Oh, you got to be fast and you got to have. I mean, like, you got to be, like, fast and you got to have, like, good stamina so you can running with the ball as it was last year. So something that our young kids think happens when you play outfield is that you’re just supposed to stand there the whole time.
You’re never standing still in the outfield, right? You’re always supposed to be doing what? Moving. That’s right. Always moving. So to be an outfielder, you need to be you need to be able to run for a long time. And you need to be fast and have good stamina. You have to be able to read the ball as it comes down.
Juddson:
It’s hard to tell where that ball’s going when it’s in the air like that, and you have to be able to read it. And all of our outfielders are usually really good at that. Y’all don’t make a whole lot of mistakes. I mean, you definitely make some calls. Yeah, like dog, but you don’t make a whole lot of them.
Breezy your position, do you play outfield? Yeah, I play outfield. I talked about you being fast. Right? I feel like the best thing in our field is, reaction time. Because the ball could be going somewhere that you didn’t know. Or it could be, like, in the gap, and you could have to get there. Yeah. You have to recognize what’s happening, and you have to recognize it really fast or else you’re behind.
Being fast is very good. You know, being fast is always being fast. Pretty much always. If you’re fast, it’s good for every sport that you can play. Eli, he’ll tell you all about that. Eli, in a minute I’m going to ask you about your how you train when you run, telling you play catcher. So first tell us, what do you think’s important to be good at being a catcher?
Like. Yeah. Catching the ball. What else? Look at guy. He’s telling you. Oh, yeah. Thinking. Yes. The catcher is generally the catcher. The pitcher in the shortstop are going to be the three most intelligent, not the smartest players in the game, but they’re going to be the most baseball smart players on the field because they’ve got to know what’s happening all the time in order to make sure that that ball goes where it’s going.
You’ve got to pay attention everything right. You got to know where all the runners are. You got to know what pitches are coming in. You got to know where this guy is about to hit the ball. You got to know where your outfield is, where you’re at. It’s a it’s a hard job to catch. It’s tiring too, because you’re always moving.
If you all were better pitchers, you wouldn’t have to move so much. How about that? I’m an outfielder, and a pitcher knows about pitching. So JoJo’s a pitcher, but he didn’t bother to talk about it. So tell us about pitching. What do you have to be good at? You have to be good at, like, throwing strikes.
Be accurate. Actually, it’s all right. Accurate. Yeah, I, I can’t say it actually. Is that. What do you what do you have to do to be accurate? How do you do that? I like throwing strikes. Y’all have never had to explain how this works, have you? It’s hard, isn’t it? Yeah. You have to be strong.
Your arm has to be strong and be strong. You have to locate it, right? You have to know you’re throwing it, right. You have to be able to control where it goes. So something that I’ve watched you learn how to be a pitcher, you’re ever since you’ve been doing that, and something that you’ve always done really well is put your entire body into your pitches, which is why we like to use you so much, because the ball is not just moving from how your arm moves.
You used to be a lot smaller. You used to be like the smallest kid on the team all the time. You started growing here recently, but what you did to compensate for that was you would throw your entire body into every pitch. And so your whole body motion is what’s moving that ball forward, which made a big difference in your lefty.
So that also makes a big difference. If you’re a lefty, what can you watch better. Either you can see the runner on first base better. You know, keep him from taking off because that’s a big thing in your age group, right? Is stealing bases. People are constantly stealing bases. And so if you can catch them stealing it, it slows the game down for them. All right, Riley, talk about pitching a little bit okay.
Jokers:
So pitching you really got to know like you got to locate it and like so I get I know where to locate pitches. What that you just do. How do you change where the ball goes? How do you locate a pitch? Explain that. Honestly, for me, it’s just kind of like a chair because I just, like, kind of look at the point, just throw it.
So you just answered your own question. It’s all about where you what? The ball, where you release the ball at. Right? Yeah. So when you release the ball and finish your follow through, it’s to the point where you’re headed. And so that’s how you control where the ball goes. And then you start adding in things like curves and sliders.
And it’s completely different because then you’ve just got to know where your curve ball ends up when you throw it at this point, or where you like to throw sliders, right? That’s like your thing. How do you throw a show me that great first slider? They had to show me how to throw a curveball the other day because I had no idea I’m an idiot. You just kind of should have brought a baseball. So it’s just kind of like a ball. I mean, like a curve ball. So. But.
But you just kind of stay fast. You just stay fast. On to the last point and you just, like, kind of break on the side of it and Yeah. Or something. That’s cool. It’s cool. Y’all. Y’all don’t realize it. Like, other people don’t know these things. Like they don’t know that this is how these things work. It’s not just, oh, I walked up and threw a slider.
It’s like there’s there’s a whole lot that goes into knowing how to do that and doing it all the time. It’s cool. So what do you think is important, exercise wise? What do you think needs to be strong in order to be a good pitcher? I think that your legs have to be strong because your arm, it’s not really about your arm.
It’s about your legs and your mechanics. So everything is important. But I think your legs are most important. That is not what I expected you to say. That’s good though. That’s true. That’s very good. Good job, good job. All right, pass it around. Go. Yeah, I guess just go straight back. Dax, what do you think is important for being a pitcher?
Jokers:
To have a strong arm and your ship, your step should be strong in your legs, too. He’s just copying what he just said. No, no. Okay. And also, you’re like, this need to be good, too, because the ball gets hit back at you right there at pitcher.
Juddson:
Because for y’all, it still comes back pretty fast. But for them that they’re not that far from home plate at at nine you. And so if somebody gets the ball off really hard it doesn’t take very long for the ball to get there. Same thing for y’all. But think about that too. When y’all were that little, that ball seems like it’s going a lot faster than it is most of the time.
Jackson, tell me about being an outfielder.
Jokers:
He has to be very fast to go under the ball to catch it and put your hand under the glove to walk, fall out. Good. What’s the first thing. you do when the ball’s hit the bat? Go back. Remember that in the game on Sunday I got to not see you go forward.
Juddson:
JT you what’s your favorite position versus first base? Tell us about playing first baseman. So what do you what do you have to do with your foot whenever the ball comes to you? Where does your foot need to be? Back on the bag. Why? Because you have to be two. The guy, the first space, the runner there.
Jokers:
I have to beat the runner to first base. So sometimes you have to stretch it out, right? So you have to be flexible. You have to be aware of where your feet are at all the time, so you can bring your foot back on onto the base. And what you’re really good at is when you dig right, whenever the ball hits the ground, you’re really good at knowing where the ball is going to go after it hits the ground.
Juddson:
So that’s something you’re so good at scooping. Scooping skills. Jerry did all right. Moving on to Legos. Legos. You play outfield most of the time. Sometimes we put you infield. Occasionally you pitched before. But tell us about your really good outfielders. So tell us about outfield. Have like, you like it have to be fast and have good standing.
Jokers:
And you have to, like, pay attention to know where the ball’s going. Yeah. That’s true. What about your arm? Yeah. Y’all have left out the. All of you that have explained outfield left out something big. You got to be able to throw the ball really far when you’re in the outfield. Y’all think back to the plays that, you guys watching Major League Baseball.
Juddson:
One of the most impressive things is how far they can throw the ball in the outfield. I mean, some of those dudes are throwing it from the back of the field all the way to home plate. And, I mean, that’s what some fields. That’s 340 yards or 340ft. Not yelling. Sorry. 340ft. That’s a long, long throw.
And so that’s something that always impresses me with our outfielders is you guys are really accurate with your throw, and you’re doing it from really far away. So outfielders have to have a strong arm. That’s something big. A lot of outfielders, most of our outfielders also in can pitch because their arms strong and their body strong, and they’ve got good control of the ball.
Eli, tell us about that second base.
Jokers:
You have to have quick reactions lining your feet. Gotta be quick right? That’s right Eli you’re real fast. You run all the time, don’t you? Yeah. You still run all the time. Yeah. So one time, the boys were not having the attitudes that we thought they should have in a tournament.
Juddson:
It’s hard. Losing is hard. And you guys are young. It’s hard to deal with sometimes. But this time, in particular, they had a bad attitude, and they don’t usually do that. That’s not usually their problem. But, we decided we were going to make them run 100 laps around the baseball field, which we calculated to end up being like 17 miles.
And we made y’all do it, and y’all did it in, like, two days. I think is what y’all ended up taking for Eli. It took one day. Eli ran, I think almost all 100 laps in the first, first practice in like two hours. Because that’s what you do, like, with your free time is run.
Right. And so how much will you run just when you feel like running?
Jokers:
Pretty slow. Well, I think a mile. Well, that surprised me. What’s the furthest you’ve ever run? Three. Like two mile in.
Juddson:
How long did these two miles take you?
Jokers:
It was like 16 minutes or something like that. Pretty good.
Juddson:
That’s pretty good. So I had a friend in college, and he is one mile time. He ran it in four minutes and 20s. Yeah, I mean, that’s like sprinting an entire mile is nuts. That’s going to be Eli. One day he’s gonna be that kid that’s running like four minute miles every time. It’s crazy. All right, so moving on boys. Moving on. Let’s talk about Major League Baseball. Let’s hear about y’all’s favorite players in Major League Baseball. Is it all tangled up in. There we go Isaiah the Wrangler. You’re going to start.
All right. So I want to know who your favorite player is, what team they play for and why they’re your favorite player okay. Go ahead.
My favorite player has been working since I was a little kid because we’ve worked on the Atlanta Braves and because he’s number 13, he’s right handed and he kind of was like the exact same was the exact same position. And he just kind of reminds me of me as cool. Ronald Acuna junior reminds Josiah Smith of himself.
I like Juan Soto because he’s a lefty and a lefty. Did you like Juan Soto before they won the World Series? One? I mean, before they played in the World Series. My bad. No, no. Okay, so just checking just checking. I like the Yankees. I like Giancarlo Stanton, but, I mean, I’ve always liked him since I was little, so, like, I don’t know, and I bet I can do that.
Like him with the same stance. Oh, okay. I like Michael Harris because he plays center field and he’s a lefty. He’s, place for the Braves. His number is 23. What’s his favorite color like? He’s joking bro. Actually, I’ll come back to you. LED. You have a favorite player. All right. Let’s. Well, I don’t know their names.
Jokers:
I just have a team of bananas with Savannah. Bananas? Yes, because they’re funny. They are funny. Mighty well, this is not my favorite team, but the Texas Rangers is my favorite team. But I don’t know any of their names, so I’m just going to say, other guy that I like on the Dodgers team is Shohei Ohtani.
Juddson:
And hey, Tony, I think everybody likes Shohei Ohtani. I said that play is Ozzie Albies and his number is number one. What position is it play? Second base. And what team? Braves. Yeah. It’s weird. All the favorite team is the Dodgers. And I like Freddie Freeman. And you play fresh base Freddie Freeman. Nobody’s ever heard of him.
My favorite team is Astros, and my favorite player is Yordan Alvarez. Okay. My favorite team is the Astros. And I like, Jose Altuve. Because you don’t have to be like, real big and strong to be, like, good at baseball.
Juddson:
That’s good. I like that. In fact, really only if a handful of the guys you guys mentioned were really big players.
Jokers:
Like, they’re not like me. They’re not huge. Freddie Freeman is pretty big. Shohei Ohtani is pretty big. I like my chart because he’s plays for angels and he’s a center fielder. I like him because he’s so consistent. Even though he’s been in the league really long time. He’s been good for a really long time too. So that’s true.
Juddson:
That’s not a bad answer. So, you guys all have certain numbers that you always pick for your jerseys and stuff, so I want to hear why, what your number is and why you picked it. My number is 13. My dad picked it for me, and I had it in basketball one year because it’s an odd number. And. Yeah, you know why I picked it? Why? Because it’s an unlucky number. And I like an underdog. But yeah. And I just kept I just kept because there is the age my dog died. Oh, jeez.
That’s depressing. Thanks, juju. And, I chose number one because I don’t know, because you are number. No, no. Just because. Wow, boys, I thought there’d be more significance to some of these. I chose number five because my dad and his brother were number five. Am I? My cousin and his brother were number five and the. So I chose number five because my my dad and his brother were number five, and three were number five and three and my my LA brother’s number is three, and my cousin and his brother were five and three. So we’re five and three. Okay thank you Moomoo. I’ve had lots of numbers, but I have number four.
I just like you’ve been number four for a while now. My number is 11. I don’t really have a reason, but, I used to wear number one a lot until everybody started, like, stealing it. So I just pretty much gave up on that number, and I switched that number because it was. This is pretty much. And my brother used to always wear 11 and one, so for.
You have a favorite number. Well I have a number five. It you put the mic up I wore them I my favorite number is number 17. But what I wore was like a number one. And. We’re number. Oh my God. What I wore was in mainly number one and a number three. Okay, so that’s, I once, when my dad was not coaching my team, I wore number 18, but mostly I’m 13 because my brother, I like.
Number ten for every year I chose that number because Chipper Jones was that number and my dad was that number as a good. I never won because of growing up. I’m number 16 because my dad and his brother and a bunch of our family, used to be 16. I’m 29 because it’s passed down from my grandpa to my dad.
Juddson:
To me, I love. Okay, boys. So we’re going to start getting towards the end here. And I want to ask
just a couple. Just one more question, really, for each of you. And then I’m going to say some stuff and then we’re going to get out of here. So what do you want to be when you grow up?
Jokers:
I want to be a sports player or a coach and maybe like, sports, like talk about sports on the news and all that.
Juddson:
Hey, if you’re lucky, you can be mediocre at sports your whole life. And then coach, youth travel baseball.
Jokers:
I want to be like a lawyer when I grow up because they make pretty good money.
Juddson:
Not a bad choice.
Jokers:
Yeah. I want to, play professional sports or be a barber or, be a coach. Very, very different things. Like it. I want to be a professional MLB player.
I want to play in the MLB, in for a job. I want to be an EMT.
Juddson:
I will discourage you. Yeah, I’m just kidding. I want to be a firefighter, and I want to be a doctor. And I want to be a professional baseball player. And one of those. And the reason I just, like fire and a doctor is because my dad is going to be a is going to be a doctor and is already a firefighter. And I love baseball.
I don’t want to go to the MLB or go to the Air Force on being a movie or being an engineer. I love it, but boys, And girl, you guys can you can accomplish all of those things. You just have to keep working hard. What I’ll say, to to finish off talking to you guys is, the highlight of my life is getting to hang out with you guys and and be with you all in baseball, and y’all don’t have any idea how how much of a difference y’all make in in your coaches life.
And we could be doing anything with our time. And we’re choosing to to hang out with y’all and try to make y’all better at whatever it is y’all want to be. And so, thank you all for letting us coach you. Thanks for coming to, talk and being guest on my podcast. Win some more tournaments. I think I’ve won two since we, since we did that.
And most of these boys have, like, cases full of these things at this point. They just keep winning them. Which makes us look like we kind of know what we’re doing, but really it’s just and working hard. So, Thanks, boys. Y’all got any last things to say? Oh, boy. That’s. It was rhetorical, but do you have something?
I have one, like, ten medals in my whole life, and I want, like, I want four rings in my life to end in nine. You and all star.
No. We’re going to finish up looks okay. We’re going to finish up, boys. Okay. So, did you have something to say? Okay. One thing and, Okay.
Jokers:
Go 100% hard. Hard the best. We have so many sports. What is what does Jeezy always say? It takes no talent to what? Oh my gosh, y’all are not listening to anything to give, to hustle and takes no talent to hustle.
Juddson:
You know what good teams get off the field best. I’ve been yelling that a lot lately because Jeezy stole it from somebody else. All right, so, if you, are here because you’re one of our students. Thanks for listening to EMTalk. If you’re out there as a first responder or something else, and you’re interested in furthering your education or, getting into the world of emergency medical services, please look us up, Texas EMS school.com. For now, though, I’m your host, Judd. And this has been EMTalk the stories about saving lives from the people that save them. This is EMTalk. M talk is sponsored by Heavy’s. Headphones for metal heads and Texas EMS school. Join Judson Smith again next time because the life he’s saving could be yours.
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