1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Hodge Podge of topics: July 18th, 10am

Episode Date: July 18, 2022

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It's time to go one-on-one with D.P. Coming at you live from the Coppull Chevrolet GMC Studios. Here is your host, Derek Pearson. Brought you by Mary Ellen's Food for the Soul. On 93-7 The Ticket and the Ticketfm.com. Happy Monday, everybody. Thank you for hanging out. Fantastic folks.

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It is a special week because, like I said, there's so much going on. And there's so many things as we get back to some level of, this will be the last week of kind of an all over the place schedule. Once the athletes get back to town, the nighttime stuff takes place. The ticket weeknights is starting to shape itself and we'll know we'll have some of the old traditional shows back starting the last week or the last two weeks of August. This week will kind of be all over the place because folks are taking final vacations and such.

But tonight, what's the word? We'll roll through from six to eight. The Deep End from 8 to 9 and Talking 10s, Kenzie Davis, from 9 to 10 o'clock tonight, and then Harrison will close it down from 10 to 11 to get you through. The rest of the week, kind of be all over the place. But after that, everybody will be back in town, and we will have those full five hours Monday through Thursday, and then we are probably a month away from high school football. And we should have some pretty interesting tandem to call games for you on Friday nights,

Thursday and Friday nights as we do this as well. So it'll be good to have the basketball players back, the volleyball players back, the bowling team will be back, the golf show. If you have not been paying attention to Big Red Burdies, you're missing out those two. Young ladies have been exceptional. Megan and Lindsay have been incredible. They are competing this week, so their show.

we'll push back as well. So there's lots going on with that. And then, and then, and then we will start to amp up for BP with DP for a week from Friday. You can text in 402464-5-685 or call in Honda-Lincoln Hotline. But call you can text in the Sartaghanemian text line. 402-464-5-6-85 with your reasons why you should be included in the batting practice. tell me why tell me why

give me a good reason make it impossible for me to not just say that's such a good deal please come down and take batting practice with D.P. and assault dogs and with Strick

and Brashon and maybe we'll get Rik out there RICO out there take some BP. Somebody's got to be back here around the board so that might be me because Nick has to

go out there and strike out for Sean. Yeah I mean there's so much to it right? right there's so much to it things in place I have the

authentic official old school wiffle ball set coming so they can work from that and they can actually do it from there interesting yeah we're going to have some fun with that so give me your reasons why but what I want to do today

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So have at it. And again, I am taking nominations for the Saltthogs. We'll actually throw in some tickets, vouchers as well. Right? we'll throw in some matches. And the best text about BP with DP,

we can do that. So RICO will monitor that as we go through. Raff said he's ready to lay down some bunts. There's no bunting at BP. There's no bunting at BP. What's up, Jason? What's up, man? Willie, what's up?

Good to hear from you guys. Raff, let me say this. I didn't have the chance. I was gone. but we had we had you know vasham's education we had people i was gone and to have aaron davis and chris raff step up and do what they did do the job that they did meant the world they did they did a wonderful job like just and if you're not paying attention to their to their their wednesday show you're missing out it's great it's great Nebraska radio oh yeah they did three hours of the captain and

came back later on wed and did their their riffing with raff and ad yeah like i asked Like I asked him, I was like, do you want to just run the replay? He goes, no, no, no, no, we're ready. We're ready. There was that first, that Tuesday. Or did they do? Yeah, they did Tuesday. 80 was walking by me about two hours into the captain.

But two and a halfish. He walks by and he goes, my jaw's starting to hurt. Yeah. I was like, it's a lot, isn't it? Yeah, yeah. Like to get used to that. I was like, you're a professional talker. You should be okay.

Oh, I thought that was the case. But, man, listen. And then there's a little bit of my voice that's missing today from having like three days of bellowing at a group of 250 people, right? Even with the microphone, you still go a little hard. And so last night about 9 o'clock, I felt that thing. And I was like, oh, okay, I got a hot lemon, hot tea, this one, right? I need to get through.

And so I did that last night, and that kind of, got me through. Simple. Thomas is picking on you guys again. Oh, I know. Thomas picked on me all, you know, Thursday and Friday. Thomas was here for me. He makes fun of me, but he was here for me.

I get it, right? I get it. From the Texan Pied and Pye says, DP, you know this. You start every round of BP with two bunts down each baseline. And if you had any speed back in the day, you dropped a couple of dry buns. For the team, yes.

for the team, yes. As a matter of fact, I mean, no cap, I'm probably one of the best bunners. I was definitely the best bunner on my college team, certainly the best burner on my high school team. My coach, the late great Del Norwood, once laughed because I think my senior year, I had 47 hits maybe in the 20-plus games.

and of those 40 hits 23 of them were in-field hits Bunts and well-placed My thought was if I got two hops I was going to be that So I'm a proficient butter Now like what I did the last BP was I just need to make sure the first one was back up the middle

Like that was to get all my timing right and everything else, get my mechanics right, right back up the middle. Bunning to do that if you're just doing that to get loose, if that's your trigger, go ahead and do it. But at BP, ah, come on. Nick said Pious was a big bunner school, so I wonder how good of a bunter he is. He didn't have the wheels for bunting.

No, but he said that that's what they, they didn't bunt to get on base. They sacrifice. You're a good bunter? No, he's a catcher. He says he's a good bunter. He did that with the one I closed. Like, no, like,

D.P. He did the pop, I think. What? I can't hear you. There's a mic. We have a mic. Yeah. It's not like he's new here.

It's not like Nick is new here. What's up? Yeah. It's like he's new here. I used to be, I used to be able to butt. I don't know if I still can. I haven't done it in four years.

I was, I could bun from both sides, which drove defense is crazy. And I could butt to both sides. So even from the right hand side of the box, I could push up the first baseline, past the first base from past the pitcher, and just float into it.

If I got it down on the third baseline, he wasn't going to be able to throw across the diamond. I need to have a bunt off. See, so we wouldn't, obviously, like you hit it on the nose D.P. I didn't have the speed to beat out buntz. But I've told the story on air. We couldn't take swings and batting practice. Like in our pregame, we had, like, we got eight strikes, right?

And if you didn't get a bunt down on each side, within a, we put cones up from, it was, our motto was foul or perfect. We had the tar. We had the tar. Exactly. So we put cones and it was like two feet off the foul line. And if you did not get a drag which which is showing late, right? Or a push which is also showing late, not sacrifice.

If you did not get it down in that line then you didn't get to swing. I actually didn't enjoy squaring around the bun. It made me more nervous. Yeah, even if I was in sacrifice, right. You're right. That's what it was for me. Yeah. Was the natural thing for me

my hands were good, so my touch was even better. So what we would do is with my players is I would have them take the first five pitches of BP with the glove on, with their actually fielding globe. Because if you're in the box and you're using that as where your hand placement would be, it helps you figure out level and speed and velocity, right, in late movement. And so my players figured out, yeah, this actually helps, especially for left-handed hitters. Yeah. Because that lead hand allowed them to catch where the top hand would be anyway.

And so where the bottom hand would be anyway. So, yeah, the whole bunting thing. Yeah, and it's fascinating to me, and I'll let you guys get back to your show, but it's fascinating to me when guys bunt that they put it right in the middle of the strike zone and that hurts them more. I don't know about you, D.P, but we were always taught at the top of the strike zone. that way if the pitch is above you, you know it's a ball. And you just, you just, you just, you just, you just, but that's why you do it with the first few pitches is to help you identify what the strike zone is.

Exactly. Right? Because you forget. And most people think letters. Well, it's actually bottom of the letters. And then it's based on your stance. So if you are somebody that squats while you hit or dips, then the, the umpire recognizes that and then strike, strike zone lowers or raises based on that.

And look, if you pop up a bun attempt. Get the angle. Establish the angle. I'm angry and mad and all that. Are you going to come down for batting practice next time? Is it this? No, next Friday. I should be able to.

Next Friday. So we'll get that in and we'll. You and Vershan. Give away some folks. Whatever. Yeah. We'll get that done. I'll have to take a couple swings as well.

Yeah. No, you absolutely. You have to. We'll see what this goes. We took three rounds. We took three rounds. We took three rounds. You're going to hurt yourself and you're going to get in trouble again.

I'm looking. So I still have the marks from the knob, right? Because I'm off the end of the knob. Really? That is not comfortable. Right. You're going to hurt yourself and you're going to get in trouble again. The boss said no.

The true boss. The dirty. Real boss. I'm trying to help you. Right, right, right. Well, this is why if I get more people to do it, then I won't do it. No, then you don't. Because it will be more people that just show off.

Exactly. No, no, that's the thing about, think back to the Hot Ones challenge. You saw RICO and I doing it. And you're like, I can't. You're like, I can't let these guys. Well, that was, it was Norrie. It was Norrie. It was Norrie.

It was Norrie. And Norrie was taking BP and I'm like, and Steve Taylor hadn't gotten there yet. Okay. Okay. D.P. Do you have FOMO? What it was? Fear of missing out? Not anymore. Okay. Not anymore. In certain situations? In certain situations?

Not anymore. Okay. I was King FOMO for a long time in my life. I don't think that's bad to admit. Oh, I have that. People take it as like a knock when you have FOMO. I don't think it's a bad thing. No, but I'd like to live.

That's what I'm saying. It's all about the experiences. In the experience in the space. But there are times when I know better, when I know, like, so down on the field Saturday at an arena game, right? And they want to throw and catch passes and you're there with a quarterback. And the backup quarterback's loosening it up. And you're just kind of there and he's throwing it. And every part of me is, yeah.

Go to the wall. Like one hand. It's one of those where it's like, okay, fine, I'll throw one hand. You got a helmet. Next, three throws later, you got a helmet on. You got the towel hanging out. You're like, I'm there. Well, no, because then it's form right, and I want to know, okay, can I, with the bicep, can I, can I, can I, can I stay to my form? Can I catch the one hand? Like, I do the one-handed catch thing.

Yep. And I want to know if I can do that. He's like, if I, if I three-step drop, can I hit this post in the perfect spot? You know, sure. Actually, I'm such a jerk, D.P. We haven't been able to ask you. So a couple, gosh, a couple weeks ago, we were talking about OBJ. How big would OBJ be if he didn't have the one, the three-finger catch? He would still be because OBJ is he was built for social media. OBJ. In this era. Yeah, in this era. Gotcha. Although, I mean, Dion in TV's years, that sort of thing always played and it was

always there. But OBJ, you can remember me, he played LSU. And he was a stud. Like, OBJ could have been a minor league baseball player. Like people, I mean, we talk about just freak athlete. He's a freak athlete. Like there's no other way to it But the one-handed catch only elevates it

But his pregame It's wild Regime is Yeah Chef's kiss Like I just want to watch The one-handed cast just accelerated his super start of What was Monday night football

Against that like it was a big deal Yeah that's right It was pulled down It was a plastic It was a big deal So a lot of like When you watch seven on seven And a lot of the kids now

Trying to do that sort of thing And my thing is You lose focus on what you should be doing to get better, not the things that get your exposure. There's a difference.

If you do the things that make you better, you'll get the exposure. But a lot of folks are shortcutting. There's a process. Let me show the dancer's footwork. Let me show you that I can do the one-handed catch. But the question is, can you do it against resistance when it's necessary,

right, on time and on purpose? And a lot of, like, seven-on-seven is just dudes, and a lot of dudes who are out being coached, skill coached, they're becoming really good dancers, but that's not just it. Like you want to look good, but it's like the kid who goes and puts the ball on the court

17 times before he goes and tries to take a layup, but he's not good at finishing. You're like, oh, he got past him. Oh, he got past him, but now he can't make the step back or he can't make the mid-range jumper. Baseball has the same thing. You know, guys, you know, they want to look the part, glove up, into squat, right? In fact, they want to go through, do the handwork.

But they keep shortcutting the process. Right. You're, you're, well, you've lost the focus. Yeah. You've lost the focus on the thing that you should be doing. Shortstop play. Look, like the kid who threw 105 miles hours shortstop, yeah. Listen, give me that.

Because that's a functional thing in the game that we play, right? that if you could take away a third of a step from somebody by throwing 100 plus? That's wild. Yeah. Like how many outs are you going to add to your pitcher's resume simply because you're able to make that throw with that velocity? That's the thing is, I mean, you always talk about pitching to contact letting your fielders work, especially if you're at the youth level, if you're at the high school level, whatever, let your defense work. Or even at the professional level, right?

I mean, we know a lot of pitchers that just make their living off of letting their defense work and just pitch into contact. And they've had long, sustainable careers. So I guess, you know, if that just gives your pitcher more confidence, you might as well. Well, yeah, because you know that, okay, he'll get me out of the inning. And what you don't want are additional at bat under your watch, right? So if you can track a fly ball, a line drive in the alley and get that sort of thing in place, break. Like that sort of stuff, we don't spend enough time with tracking.

We don't spend enough time with settling after the catch, which boggles the mind that we haven't figured out how to teach back players when they take the back hand. Old school says eye to the ball and then come up. Do you extend? Do you take another step? Do you

take two steps back into your throw? Is it a three-step process? If you're going to go to three-step process off the backhand, do you have the 98 mile an hour fastball. Do you have the arm? Right? To do that? Do you need to take everything? Weak arm players need to take everything going towards first base. Yeah, they need the momentum. Right? So they have to defend differently. They have to line up differently. All those things in place.

So it's cool watching all of it. Yeah. When I watch the salt dogs, it's, I love identifying who the players are. Like that's my, like, because you go, okay, here's all the stuff they do well. And then what are the two things that are keeping them playing with the salt dogs rather than moving along? right and it's for each player you can figure it out pretty quickly that it's either hey he can't hit the breaking ball two he doesn't have the armstring three he's he's lost some of his quickness those things as you watch the salt dogs or as you watch you know the futures yeah what's going to be their thing it's it's always fascinating excuse me it's always fascinating because the the motto of it's not the hits that kill us we can weather the hits it's the walks in the airs

I can't. It's the walks and the airs that kill us. Because guess what? If a guy gets a single or it gets a double, if you get two ground ball outs of or a couple guys makes just some routine plays, that guy doesn't score. But it's the overthrow at first base.

It's the guy not staying down on a ground ball or bodying up sacrificing his body. It's like that kind of thing, a catcher not getting out around the ball, getting the ball back to angle down to home plate to where it's in front of him. Like those free 90s change the course. of a game in its entire game. And what I learned in coaching was from playing that I cannot,

one, I don't want a second throw. I don't want a second throw. Like on the infield, like I don't need it. I don't need the rundown. Like I just get him back to the base that he was there. Catchers, you know what? If you don't recognize what your arm strength is, don't make the throw. Pitchers coming out of a bullpen. Look, I need to know what your max is with the ballpark. You know what your max is with the best control. So how hard can you throw? What percentage of your arm strength can you use and still have absolute control of your pitches? That's what the bullpen's for. Like that's what, when you leave the bullpen, I need to know, look, if you throw 90, can you throw 88 and spot? Right. Exactly. Because if you have somewhat of a competent defense, you can get by with 88 and pitch to contact.

Pitch to contact. Because if you locate, it's locate, locate, locate, locate. Locate in late movement. Yeah. And late movement on purpose, right? That sort of stuff. But it was cool, like I said, watching the Major League draft last night. It was cool to watch some of those guys in play.

Again, the question for me with Holiday up front was like you. He looks 12. And also, I saw the picture. He looks like a boy. He looks like the, he looks like the, he looks like the, The dude in the boy band who can't really sing, but he's there to be cute and dance in the back. I saw it. Like that's a high school.

Got the hair. Got the look. Well, so seriously, it made you, it made me feel old. It was my first, like, man, I'm kind of old because I remember watching, obviously, Matt Holliday. Shut up. I know. I know. Matt Holliday.

You just lost me. What are you doing? I remember watching Matt Holiday. I am 12. I remember watching Matt Holiday and Andrew Jones, obviously. Like, it's like, holy cow. Now they have guys. drafted.

I'm sitting here. I'm sitting here. I'm only 28 and I'm just like, I watch these guys play and they have sons old enough to almost. Well, all I wanted to watch was when they announced the pick, the older brother was sitting there. And I thought, okay, that's the dude. Where's he at? Right? The tall dude.

And I'm going, well, wait a minute. Does he not play? Does he not play? I don't know. I don't know. But imagine your Doc Holliday son and the younger brother gets drafted and you are sitting on. and you are sitting on the couch, cheering him.

I don't know. Maybe he plays. That's interesting that you say that if he doesn't play. Because AD and I were having that conversation on Wednesday last week about how it's like, parents, if your kid doesn't want to play, don't force him to play. And even in that family, if that's, you know, obviously we don't know. Maybe that's on that.

And he was like, I don't want to do this anymore. Yeah. I don't know. It's, I mean, that's all speculation. I will have to find out. That's wild.

No, I just, he was sitting on the couch and I just went, okay, that's the one. I'm like, nope, it's the other dude. I was like, oh, man. Are you happy with who the Cubs took? Yeah, the Horton guy out of Oklahoma.

Yeah, he's fine. I mean, he rose late on draft boards because of his performance in the postseason, so I suppose it's fine. They needed starting pitching. That's what, I mean, they're fine. D.P. And they're farm system. Did any of the Huskers get?

Not that I saw, no. Okay. Not yet. D.P. Welfare check. I almost texted you over the weekend, but we were both on vacation. Welfare check on the whole Juan Soto situation. Are you okay? There's a phrase that you use in the community.

Get your hands on my pocket. What's good? 440 mil? I don't. Over like 15 years, though. That's the problem. That's the problem. I think we're going to start working away from those.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no. No, no, no, no. First of all, first of all, first of all, first of all, I'm going to remove one Soto from the equation. Yeah. Yeah. But we can talk about that when we come back. store to break. We'll talk about that because

there's threefold to this thing. And all of it sets my my toes on fire. So we'll talk about that when we come back. Download our app by searching 93.7 the ticket in your app store. You're listening to one-on-one with DP on 937 the ticket and the ticketfm.com.