1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - WCWS and Softball talk: June 3rd, 10:25am

Episode Date: June 3, 2022

Losers bracket plays tonight, lets ask some questions about the softball worldAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

You're listening to One-on-One with DP. Sponsored by Beatrice Bakery. On 93-7 The Ticket and The Ticket FM.com. Welcome back to one-on-one. We finally realized that, yeah, it was the band's Fair Change and the Conversation's Fair Change that took me down Grandma. We figured it out. Grandma's Road. That's how I got down that road.

Speaking of Spare Change, Rico, we now have some something to show. share the concerts next Wednesday. Yes, it is. So, for anybody wondering why we're talking about spare change, Allo and Mill Communications and the Mill Coffee are pleased to announce the return of the Much Love

Summer Concert Series in Lincoln's Telegraph District, The Live at Telegraph Series, 6 to 9, every Wednesday beginning June 1st, running through August 3rd. So this next one, you can get food and drinks available at 5, courtesy of the mill.

Dogs are allowed. Dogs are allowed. Parking will be in the aloe parking lot. This Wednesday's entertainment is spare change. Who is spare change, you may ask? Here you go. We have to offer it. Tommy Tutto.

Have we dialed 402-8609? Have we dialed 402-867? Have we dialed at it? 4-2 in front of it? I don't think so. Brian Adams? Okay. In my lane.

Is that the deep or outfield? I couldn't tell you. Well, it's either outfield the deep or the deep or the song is outfield. I think the band is outfield and the song is the deep. Nice note, Rico. I can hit things sometimes. I couldn't.

Look at that. Okay, so do you do the dance when you hear this? It's kind of necessary. I don't know who's screaming. I think somebody in the band. One of the guys just playing a violin, and it's like a really fancy-looking violin. Yeah. I'm all for any band that has an electric violin.

I think it's awesome. It's like green. It's like a triangle. Yeah, I'm all for that. You don't have to beep this button. Remember he's because he says a word. Well, he said a word. Does he?

He says Fitch. It's close. Little Jackson Five. They're doing a little dance, so not, they don't just, they're not just a cover band. But they have to do the actual Jackson Five dance. I hope they. They're kind of, they're not hitting, like, the whole arms because they're playing. Yeah, well, they're playing instruments.

And then you hit it, you. One of the guys is kind of doing it. Okay. I'll be mad. I'll be mad if they, like, if I go to this thing and they don't do the steps, I'm moving that. It's the violin guy. Okay. Okay.

See, they hit a little bit of everything. Okay. So now you know what to expect, what age group. This is kind of how this works, right? Right? The Brooklyn 99 seems that song is amazing. You're absolutely right. Yes.

Adam, you are absolutely right. That is spectacular. Woo! I was exhilarating. That's the one. That's the one. That's the one that killed my brother. Is that?

Oh, I forgot we were doing that. Is that show underrated? Extremely underrated. Right. Like, I'm not sure the comedy's better on any show. It's so great. It's so great. Like, each character.

Andy Sandberg just hits it every time. It's just, it's, they, they, it's perfect. Just all of them. It's perfect. I'd love, so, um, oh. And the women of Brooklyn 9, look, I, I would, I would, I would, the fact that she does, like, the fact that she doesn't sound like that in real life, and she's actually super bubbly in real life, just throws everything off.

It just, it's, it's a, it's a great show. It's a great show. Like, she's, she's in, was it? the new West Side story. Yeah. And she's singing and I'm like, slightly surprised. Wait a minute.

Right. Right. Like what happened here? Like you're, that's, you're a rose Diaz. You're a badass. You set fires for fun.

What's happening? I didn't know. And now you make me love you. So yeah. So if you're going to go to the event, that's what you're, that's kind of what you'll get along the way. So good stuff.

Um, there are football camps and stuff going on. Mark sending us notes. Is he? On the Husker football camps. Ooh, fun. So they've got them for the next couple of weeks at the stadium. Open to the fans.

So you can go down and watch some of these seven-on-seven camps, lineman camps, the Friday night lights, all that stuff. So here's all the stuff you need. So they're sending that out. Very nice. It is a big day in collegiate sports. Yes. It's a big day.

And correct me from, so the track finals are, this weekend? I believe so. I think it's... Let me look it up real quick. I could have swore it was this weekend. No, it's definitely next weekend. But they take a week off because they had

regionals or whatever last weekend. So they take a week off and then they go up to Eugene for nationals. Well, Axelina qualified. Yes. She was second in the regional. So now she goes to the NCAA championships with a shot to win.

and shot put and they've got company so Darren Ruff I believe is also going to Nationalists couple of other throws are going to the to the Nationals yeah so the Nationals June 8th so next Wednesday through next Saturday in

Eugene Oregon but this is a big weekend for college sports because college baseball world series and the college softball world series softball world series is and it's this is This is the championship week.

This is the World Series down in Oklahoma City. This is World Series weekend. Home of USA softball. Yes. Today, losers bracket. So two teams will go home today. First up, number five, UCLA versus number nine Northwestern. Pitchers duel.

Yeah. Pitchers dual. There were a lot of runs scored in the early games yesterday. The final game of the day was more of a pitcher's duel, but this one is definitely going to be a pitcher's duel with Northwestern and UCLA going up against each other. Wouldn't it be kind of awesome if it was like 10 to 9? I mean, it would be fantastic.

I am all for all the, I am all for more action. If it was 10 to 9, I would be perfectly fine. Although I'm not mad at strikeouts. Look, I know we're not talking about them, but Oklahoma State's pitcher, her pitches know where the bat is because I swear to you. When those batters swing, they are right on.

And then the ball's just like, nope, it just goes up. It just goes down. Just barely avoids. Can I ask the question, is there any substance being used in softball for pitchers? Like it, like it happens in baseball. It doesn't seem like it. I don't think so because. You would think that it would, at some point, migrate over?

I feel like that would mess you up. I don't know. I don't know, but Because the release point is different. But watching the movement, see, it seems. Like the release point from when you, like, how you let your hand go, the way that they, it's kind of like you flick your wrist up as opposed to throwing it. So you would think it might get stuck and it would go too high. I don't know.

I don't actually know how any of that works. I'm just making stuff like that. No, I don't. Seriously, I was watching them throw. It was Texas. and I don't want to put that on them, but that's who I was watching. And late ball movement

requires resistance. Like it's the seams against air. And then... Well, the seams are a little bit higher on a softball than a baseball. Which means the movement should be greater. Which it is. That's how you get the rise ball

and the drop ball and how it just moves differently. So I'm curious as to whether that's actually a thing in softball. Some of you softball coaches and softball dad Maybe you can answer the question for it. The one thing Are you ever concerned about what's on the towel Or what's on the rosin bag that they Because each pitcher has their own.

Well, some of them don't even use rosin bags. There's some that have different strategies And how they do that. There's one that I don't remember what school it was, but Rachel was saying it was just annoying because she had the same routine every time where she would get the ball back, go to the back of the circle,

rub the dirt three times get up spin the ball four times down in her leg up in the glove down her leg up in the glove she did that three times and then she would get set every time what so in their rule about where the pitcher can engage with the ball so they have to go to the back of the circle i could not tell you yeah there's like there's there's all sorts of different there's different things that go engagement and where they could catch the ball and how they could engage and where the ball has to be when they tow the rubber um the disengagement or the connection to the rubber as they pitch and throw, you can't leave the ground in full. That's the one thing that is a big issue for pitchers.

You can disengage in launch, but you cannot leave the ground. It's very... The calls are very inconsistent. Yeah, you have to keep a foot on the ground, drag your toe, but the calls apparently have been so inconsistent throughout the years that some people are calling for them to just get rid of the rule. Some professional softball players, obviously some collegiate softball players, coaches are calling for them to just get rid of the rule because the way that they

call it is so inconsistent. And some pitchers get away with it. Other pitchers don't. Well, what could happen? So apparently it gives more power. It allows you to throw the ball faster, harder, because you're getting to launch yourself off of the ground. When you drag your toe, it slows the body down.

But if they did that in baseball, I mean, it's the same parts of science, right? That if you're launching with your bag leg and you're supposed to stay connected to the mound, but nobody does. Like, it's almost impossible for you to pitch at the college and major league level with your toe on the rope.

Yeah. Like almost impossible. The softball, you have to keep your foot on the ground. You have to drag your toe. Some people don't, and they get away with it. Some people don't, and they don't get away with it. And it also help if you're, like, one of the taller pitchers because it puts you closer to hit it.

So the ball has to travel a shorter distance. And that's the reason they don't want you to jump is because you get farther out and you get closer, which allows the ball to go faster. Harder to hit because the release point is later on in the action of pitching. Also a question with the increased power, does steroids jump into play? In softball?

I don't know. I feel like steroids comes into play in every sport ever. But as for right now, I don't think you've, I mean, I could be completely wrong. I have to look it up, and I don't think anybody's been. As we were talking about with Priscilla last night, the players are stronger. They're hitting more home runs. Better back control. Well, I think that's just the acceptance of weight training in softball.

I think before it was kind of a thing where I don't want to lift because I don't want to get too mussely. And now with it, yeah, mussely, with the movement to more body positive and body positivity and acceptance of all types of bodies, people are like, oh, like I can lift on it. No matter how I look like I'm good. Whenever muscle mass is the issue, people immediately jump to the supplementing of that because it's there. So I would, in my head, just to whatever executives, administrators are in play, and you might want to get ahead of that. I feel like they are. I feel like they're testing.

I don't know if anybody's been busted. I don't know. Maybe they aren't testing. Well, Hammond Bean says they're in all sports in Russia. because they were using the female athletes as as prototypes. Yeah. So if the training that happens in European countries and then here in America and different pockets in America, right,

that at some point as the game becomes more athletic, more explosive, more dynamic, that they're going to be athletes who add to their toolbox. So it's there. Like I said, the game is changing. So let's keep our eyes to it. Who are you picking? Who goes home first? UCLA or Northwestern?

No pressure, as much as it paints me to, as much as it paints me to disregard our Big Ten brethren sisters. I'm sorry, you're going home. Northwestern is going to be on a plane back to Chicago. Oregon State and Arizona. You think I'm a pick against Jenny Finch's alma mater? They're so talented. No, I can't do that.

They're in, their coach is in her first year after Arizona's coach who was their coach since 1986 stepped down last year. She's in her first year. This is the first time a woman head coach has gotten to the Women's College World Series in her first season ever. She did it after starting 0-8 in conference. Oh, and eight in conference. Then they won like 18 of 20 something. Talk about pressure? Yeah.

And then they swept their way through both regionals in which they obviously didn't host. Dropped out of the top 20. This must have been hard for. They dropped out of the top 25 for the first time since 2014. Imagine being the replacement for Tom Osborne and losing the first game, eight games in conference. As a kind of like that's the legendary status that she's following. And then somehow making it to the next year. And then, oh, never mind.

We were going to win our way through. Yeah. Sweep, swept their way through the Mississippi State Regional. Glorious. And then I don't remember who they faced in the Super Regional. Oh, they faced, no, they faced Mississippi State in the Super Regional. They were, because they stayed on the road. They were talking about the story.

Wherever they were, they stayed on the road for that entire week. They just went to Starkville and just stayed there. So they were in Starkville for a week. Then they played Mississippi State, and then they went to the Oklahoma City. Fantastic. They're just like, why would we go home? We're going to have to stay over here. It's going to be a crazy weekend.

All right. So we'll throw the break. Final segment. We'll talk about baseball. They start 11 o'clock. It's happening. It's happening. Watch live on Facebook, YouTube, or Twitch.

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