1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - January 5th: 10:25am - Players loving the game

Episode Date: January 5, 2022

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You're listening to One-on-One with D.P. Sponsored by Beatrice Bakery. On 93-7 The Ticket and The Ticket FM.com. There's a thing that happens, and this is appropriate that it's the John Cena theme song. Right. So there's a thing that happens with John Cena because the great marketing and branding people have figured out this thing. That, and John Cena excelled because of his acceptance of this. that not everybody's going to like him

and not everybody's going to agree with him. So Sina, when he runs to the ring, there are people there who will scream, you know, that they love John Sina. And then the other half will yell, John Sina sucks. And he embraces it, right? Because he knows if they care

enough to say they disagree with him. He's in a good space. I said it to say this. So on the text line, a couple of things. So it says Jay agreed with the state. about kids not loving the game yesterday multiple times. We don't have to agree on everything. What?

How about, right? I don't believe that. Like, I don't have a, I don't have a bone. I don't have any reason to punch Kirby, Kirby, I like to call him Kirby. Kirby, Kirby. Well, here's the thing. He has his job, and he has his, his people that, that, that, that, that, that, move his narrative in conversation.

So whatever conversation he's having and however he feels about it, once you're at that level, you're looking at it from 10,000,000, 20,000 feet. Oh, yeah. Like, his connection to it sometimes is a very, very distant thing. But Barry's at a level where he deals with these kids every day. Right? He's dealing with, you know, guys that are going to play the game.

And you can't say that somebody, you can't work with kids every day and watch how much they sacrifice and how much they put into it and say they don't care. Like it's just as Jay, but as Jay said today, you don't get here without working your tail off. Right. And you can't do all of that from malice. There has to be some level of the game for you to work at a level that gets you to Division I, Power 5 athletes. So as we have these conversations, the conversations are just to work to common ground, even in the difference of opinion. Like somehow we got to the point where we need to yell at people and that's a stupid take or that's a dumb take. Because I disagree with you that I got to discount everything else you say.

Or because I don't like how you deal with this, I can't deal with you with this. can we get at least in this space at least in this space with me here learn to disagree without venom learn to disagree without totally writing off like we we get texts all the time i don't agree with but it doesn't mean that i can't have a conversation with you about it i like the disagreements because it makes me look at it from another point of view and i'm like okay well let me see where you're coming from yeah let me see if i can understand what you're trying to say and then, you know, I'll look at it and I'll talk myself through it and maybe I agree with, you know, certain parts of what you said. Maybe I disagree with the whole thing, you know,

but one way or another, I'm going to try and try and look at it from your point of view and we're going to have a, I want to have a conversation about it. And you can say, wow, Rico's very thoughtful about that. He's insightful. He's still wrong, but at least he gave a thought. Like, I understand why he feels the way he does. That is most of the time, everything that I say. With Jay, I say, I say this all the time. I'm like, Jay's brilliant. they can be wrong. You're allowed to be wrong. Right?

Like, I'm wrong a lot. But here's the thing. We're wrong in public. So when we disagree with somebody, or somebody disagrees with us, it's how DP, you said, you said they were going to be good. Yeah, I did. I thought they were. And the things in which I said, I meant. You were right.

I was wrong. But guess what? We go on. Because there's other things to talk about. And I may be wrong again. And guess what? We'll keep moving. I know when you're wrong.

And I'm here every day. I show up every day to be accountable for the things that I was wrong for and the things I was right about. Right. It's very rare in this thing that people get to the point where I'm not sure. Every station doesn't give the kind of access that we give to people. Like we give people voice, right? Good people voice. So accept the voice, but also accept that you can oppose and thought and not be a horrible person or be written off.

I'm not writing off anybody because of the thing that's there. We got a wrong text. So there's, there's. It happens. We won't, we won't bust your bubble. It works like that. You have the wrong text. Yeah, I got it.

It's on there, but I'm going to go in here and I'm going to find it. Yeah. Because somebody's working on something on the other B bar. Oh, yeah. Nick's in there. Somebody. Nick's in there with, yeah. Doing other stuff.

So he says, no, he goes, no, you were the right recipient. After telling me I was the wrong recipient. So was that the wrong recipient? Which text is the wrong text? No, Nick, keep working on it. It's fine. I can find it on the year. It's fine.

I got it. It's fine. Keep doing your thing. right? So you texted us You didn't mean to You can't take it back Now we have to read it

Because you texted us You texted us You texted us Let's thank Norris high school Chorus for getting Mark Onweiler Right Every time

Getting Mark Onweiler To the place that he is My man has the voice of an angel. Reality also says, I like your interview style, let the guest talk, never a novel concept day. There are days I'm really good at. The days I'm really good at.

There are some days where I'm just short-sighted and I want to get a thought off my brain while I have it. So, yeah, I have to work on that. Like it is a daily thing for me just to go pace, pace, pace, pace, pace, pace, pace, okay. It's hard when you have a question and maybe whoever you're interviewing says something that kind of pertains to it. And you're like, I kind of got the answer to the question I already asked. I want to go into this one.

And you already mentioned something that kind of has to do with it. And I want to ask right now. So you're like, okay, now wait, wait, listen, okay. Put a pin right there because it's hard. That's a point. So it's a thing, right, that we have to all work on. But he also says, I still disagree with your take that Northwestern should have threw a bunch of position players to get a game three in versus Nebraska last spring.

That's not reasonable. In the end, Nebraska should be thankful for Northwestern. You even showed up to play two games with six pitchers. And they mean it. I spoke, and remember, this is last. This is a while. It was last April. It was last April.

He didn't hold on to that one. Right. Last April. Last April. But you hold up. on to it, right? Yeah. Imagine all the things that would be, like all the wrong things are said to us that if we just constantly threw back at the listener.

Right? Like, no. My take with that was simple. Was that as a coach, I've never turned down a game because I didn't have enough players. Like, whatever the minimum was, you had it? If you had it, you go play. Just figure, cobble something together? Well, I kind of take some, you know, like the ability that the way that I coach should be that I've put the roster together strong enough that I can get through a game.

Yeah. And I've played, I've coached high school games where I did not have my three top pitchers or I didn't have members, you know, two, six, seven in the lineup. And you make, you just got to make two and get through. Like putting importance on the game, if I've got a roster of 30, and I lose 18 of them, the 12 that I have should come to work. You can put them some extra work, but you've got to be ready to work. And whatever happens, right, these are all collegiate baseball players. We're not talking about bad baseball players.

We're talking about really this high level. So, and everybody who plays at college plays another position anyway. That's what I was going to ask you is because I know a lot of, I have a lot of friends who play baseball in baseball in high school, and they were, you know, pitchers and something else, or they played, you know, multiple positions. And so I was wondering, you know, when you get to college, I feel like a lot of those guys pitched at some point during their high school career. And maybe they weren't the best pitchers, but they were pitchers of some notoriety because, you know,

they were able to play other positions and everything. So they've got, it's not like they have weak arms and they can't get it across the plate. Like, they can get it there. And I'm sure they have a couple pitches in their arsenal. They're just not, you know, to the level that they're going to. collegiate coach wanted them to be. But I guarantee you all the guys who play second base at college who pitched in high school were their staff ace in high school. And I'm sure a lot of those guys didn't like aren't pitching in college and they're like. And they're like, but that some of them

are like I really want to like at least once. Right. Like at least once in college just like give me one start. Let me let me come out the bullpen one time. Let me get my shot. Let me see if I could strike out two people. So it's good stuff on the text line. P.K. and P. says this. What's up, D.P. RICO, what's up? Hey, my name is. I love listening to Barry and his insight on high school athletes. And the recruiting process would be great to have someone in Lincoln area to talk with regarding the girl's side of that discussion.

Reach out. That's a discussion I can have. As a matter of fact, that's a discussion I'm having with current athletes now anyway. And she also says, we would love to eat some of the food he's making you. Amen to that. Sometimes he sends DP videos or pictures of the food and it's not. It's not even fair. Not fair.

He needs to figure out a way to send it here and keep it warm. Yeah, it's not fair. So we're toward the break. Rico will close us out, get us out of one-on-one, and we'll hand it over. Sean's here. We need the John Tina, the Will Smith, Ollie. The champ is here. The champ is here.

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