Jason Corley: everybody to the Travel Dads podcast. I am your host Jason Corley alongside my amigo ⁓ Jacob Moreno: Jacob Moreno. Bienvenidos al otro episodio de Travel Dead Podcast. Jason Corley: You you've said that I don't even know how many times now and I still don't know. I still, I still can't repeat it. Like I know you're saying it, but I'm not listening. I guess is what I'm saying. So, but what's up, man? What are we having? I feel like it's been a month since we've had a podcast considering last week we did it on Tuesday. Jacob Moreno: Yeah, it seems like a while. I don't know. Yeah, I said the same thing. Just today I was like, man, we got to do one. It seems like a while. ⁓ like we've been. Jason Corley: Doesn't it? ⁓ you know what? You know what? have to hold on a second and scene. Howdy, y'all. Hey, welcome to the Cowboy Dash podcast. I am your host, Jason. And I was wondering, I don't want to offend anybody with a straight bill ball cap. So I went ahead and got myself my cowboy Apparently, apparently there's a lot more people that hate straight bill, flat bill, duck bill, whatever, whatever kind of bill hat you want to yell at us for, for having a bill. My cousin, shout out Jake Pearson from Clay County, U.S. Virginia. When Clay County, U.S. Virginia tells you you have a problem with your hat, you probably have a problem with your hat. So I actually originally, Jacob, I was going to do, ⁓ I took. ⁓ I have a hat downstairs and I literally crushed it this morning with the ball peen hammer I was gonna wear it but I could not find the I couldn't find my Fishing to put in the side ⁓ Jacob Moreno: we just tell them the backstory of this? Jason Corley: What is that? Jacob Moreno: on why you were talking about hats right now. Jason Corley: Why are we talking about hats right now? Jacob Moreno: Well, know, we always tell people to call in to ⁓ hotline. Well, ⁓ accidentally called the number on the page. Jason Corley: Yeah. Yeah, we do. you say accidentally, they say accidentally, I say that they're full of shit and I want to run them. I want to run them so bad. I want to insert their phone number and both pictures that I got off of. So just for those of you who don't know, I received a phone call at about four o'clock in the morning the other night. And it wasn't just one call. Like they called back to back. They called back to back. It's like, it's almost like they figured out, ooh, this is not the hotline. This is the personal line. Jacob Moreno: you Jason Corley: And so then they called back and left a message and he said something along the lines of, what do you think this is? Rob Diedrich in the ridiculous house or something like that, like flat or, or, or your ball cap or something like, or bend your hat. And I was like, ⁓ of a bitch. ⁓ Luckily I have friends in law enforcement and I had them all over it. And, ⁓ I got me a PDF of their information. So yeah. Jacob Moreno: Hahaha! Jason Corley: And I was going to, so I told Jacob, was like, well, first of all, this is clearly one of your friends because they're from your area and phone number just like yours. And you do the little homework, which didn't take a whole lot to do, ⁓ didn't a whole lot of, didn't take a whole lot of digging to get the information on this person. only two mutual friends, only two, ⁓ two, only two out of the thousands. Guess folks, guess, guess who the two mutual friends are. Yeah. Amigo. Jacob Moreno: Mm-hmm. Jason Corley: And a madre. Yeah. Jacob and Andrea. Jacob and Andrea. So I messaged him and I'm like, bro, how did they get my cell phone number? He's like, I have no idea. And then, so then yeah, it just went from there. then Jacob reached out to him. He's like, dude, what are you doing? Why are you, why are you, how'd you get his number? then what did he say? ⁓ Jacob Moreno: Omega. He goes, I just called the number on the page. I thought that's what you guys wanted us to do. Jason Corley: So yeah, that's Jason over here. I had my personal number on the Facebook page for since we created it just because that was what I needed for Facebook when we created the Facebook page. And ⁓ Jacob Moreno: I hope you changed it. Jason Corley: I did, I removed it. removed it. So yes, this is, ⁓ this is, I was actually going to start the show with that post Malone song. This is for all the losers. This is for the lose. ⁓ I didn't want it to get flagged for copyright. So yeah, so today I'm wearing the cowboy hat in honor of all of those that hate the flat brim. Do people not realize that, that curved brims are like they're out? Jacob Moreno: ⁓ yeah! No, they're coming back, man. Jason Corley: Like, well, they might be coming back to Perrysburg, Ohio, but they're not coming back to sugar Creek, Ohio yet. So do people know why the, people even know why the reason why they started getting flatter and flatter? Do they know why it has nothing to do with trying to be skater boy? It's because it's because these sunglasses have such a massive frame on them. You can't know that because then it pushes down on the sunglasses that the kids are wearing. Jacob Moreno: No, they're coming back all over. Now what is the reason? ⁓ yeah. and then they're like... Jason Corley: Yeah, they're down here on their nose. That's why they started getting flatter and flatter. And frankly, I don't give a shit if you don't like my hat. I like my hat. So, yeah, shut up Jake. I'm sorry, pal. But I'm going to keep wearing my hat the way I like to wear my hat. So I have Jacob Moreno: But shout out to you guy, you know who you are. That's still funny though that he called the number on the page and not Jason Corley: I thought for sure. was like, all right, here we go. And it brought me back to the Bo junkie days. I was like, here come the haters. Okay. Hey, here come the Jacob Moreno: No, I mean, he's not a hater, man. He really likes what we're doing. Jason Corley: Well, you gave him I told you I was like, I'm gonna give him a pass since that is legitimate reason. But I was going to post his picture. Like as we're talking about right here, I was going to flash on the screen the two shots I got from him cropped out his kids and his wife. I was going to post the two pictures of him on here right now with his number. Call now for a good time. And I was going to post. But you saved him. You saved him. So. Jacob Moreno: You ⁓ man. ⁓ Jason Corley: Anyways, yeah, so the hat. Nothing man, a beautiful day today. We wanted to we wanted to do the podcast really today because the ball game tonight is funny story yesterday. I thought they played yesterday, so we planned all day long for eight o'clock last night and then I couldn't find the TV and I was freaking out. And then finally Grok told me that it wasn't until tonight. Last night it was Venezuela and Japan. So. Jacob Moreno: So what's up with you guys? Was it a game? Jason Corley: Yeah, that was a good game. Didn't watch it though. I just saw the highlights of it. We were over to, in-laws house to ⁓ the furnace going cause they're out of town and their furnace is not running. So I had to start the wood because we have a lot of power out here. ⁓ my sister-in-law and brother-in-law are leaving for Florida with the kids ⁓ and they didn't have power at their house for the last two days because of the storms. So they came over to the in-laws. Jacob Moreno: Yeah. Eww. Jason Corley: and they were going to leave from there to go to the airport. Well, the in-laws furnace is out. I had to go over there and get all that. So then we were just hanging out there for a little bit and ordered a shit ton of wings to watch the game to find out the game wasn't even ⁓ ⁓ yes, now I only have a handful of wings that are cold for the game tonight. So ⁓ world problems, real world problem. So what about you guys? Jacob Moreno: Yes. Yeah. No, not much man. Brandly, you know, we went yesterday. What's that? Jason Corley: Brantley playing today? You said Brantley playing today? Jacob Moreno: Yeah, he played yesterday and today he, ⁓ he got asked to play, but we went to practice yesterday and we left the house yesterday, probably seven 30 and then get home to after nine o'clock last night. So it was a long day and then had to be up at six because he played at eight 20 had to be up at five. He played at eight 20 this up at Oakland yards in Waterford, Michigan. Indoor. What's that? Jason Corley: We're at Gotcha. That's where he trains. That's where he trains. Jacob Moreno: No, he trains in Waterford, but he trains like five minutes away at the USA prime facility. Jason Corley: Okay, so, but the place you guys usually go to on Sundays is a long ways away, right? Or no. Jacob Moreno: Yeah, yeah, it's five dir. So where he played and where he trains is like five minutes away from each other. Jason Corley: Got it. Got it. Got it. Got it. Got it. Okay. We went to the field. ⁓ we went up to the softball field this morning cause it's about 70 degrees and beautiful outside ⁓ just spent the, spent the morning getting Brooks ready for Georgia this weekend with, ⁓ you know, he's working on, he's working on drop thirds and scooping, trying to simplify the process for him because I realized real quickly that I was throwing a lot of information at him at eight years old. So ⁓ You know, in his head, he's trying to get rid of his mask. He's trying to scoot the ball and he's trying to pick a lane. And I just realized, you know what? Not all three of those are going to take place inside the head of an eight year old. know, well, and I know his natural and his natural instance, his natural instincts is to get rid of the mask. It's the calling of the lane. That's it. Yeah, he just he forgets to do it. Jacob Moreno: Keep the mask on, just grab the ball. instinct. in inside out. Jason Corley: Um, he goes to the inside or the outside, but he's not calling it out. And I just, like, I just told him, I was like, let's just, let's perfect one of these and then we'll move on perfecting another one. And, know, not every, not all these. Yeah. Not all these catchers eight years old, you know, they're not all equal. Not all of them can comprehend all this at the same time, you know? And, uh, um, and then we worked on, we worked on pop-ups and holding onto the mask and then ditching it right before he catches the ball so he doesn't trip on it. Jacob Moreno: Yeah. baby steps. Yeah. Jason Corley: Just stuff like that and then throwing down Because this is gonna I think it's gonna be a big weekend for him to try to pick guys off. You know what mean? Jacob Moreno: Yeah, it's gonna be very, it's gonna be a big weekend. you know. Jason Corley: I it's going to be playing tens. So they're going to want to take advantage of him behind the plate and we're going to underestimate his arm. So that's good to know. Cause then he can, we have, I think we fixed his footwork. So he was always starting, ⁓ know, Brooks is Brooks is heavy for his age. I mean, he just, he's, he's a thick kid and he's thick. so he doesn't not comfortable in the squat position. He never has been. Jacob Moreno: Mm-hmm. Trust me, I know. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Jason Corley: He's never going to adopt that. And I think now that you're seeing the older kids now no longer do it either. And just go to one knee. We had to switch his knees because he was right knee first instead of having his left knee first, his left knee forward, I guess you could say. So we've been working on, yes, I think we've got that master now. So that's down and that's fixed. So when he comes up, he's pushing with his right leg, cause it's back so that it's left. Yes. Yes. Yes. So. Jacob Moreno: Yeah, yeah. because it's bad, pushing his momentum up, yes. Jason Corley: ⁓ And it also allows him to rest his glove hand on his knee because his left knee is forward So it allows him to you know, I mean does that make sense? I Mean, I know he's not supposed to but like, you know while he's waiting while he's while things are happening. He's got that He's got his left knee and his left elbow connected up front is what I'm saying. So just working on little things like that and ⁓ Throwing a little bit. We didn't do any hitting today. We'll hit in the cage Jacob Moreno: Yeah. Yeah. Jason Corley: Um, I just, I'm not a big fan of hitting outside by myself when I got to chase all the balls. So, so, I didn't have an old screen. So, uh, not outside, you know what mean? And I'm not going to take the screen from the cage and drag it all the way over to the field. So, yeah. Um, that's what we did. Um, this week we'll hit hard Tuesday and Thursday. We'll go in before school and hit hard. Jacob Moreno: Yeah, when you got to chase all the balls, that's not fun. It's not fun at all. Yeah, that gets heavy. Jason Corley: And then yeah, leave. So did you get a chance? I didn't. I forgot. I'm going be honest with you, man. I forgot. I don't even know who we're playing this weekend. Jacob Moreno: So did I. Yeah, well the schedule don't come out till Wednesday. Jason Corley: Okay, well, so then we didn't miss anything. Okay. Jacob Moreno: Yeah. Jason Corley: for those of you that were living under the rock and didn't know and Jacob clearly was living under a rock because he didn't make a video and promoted at all. I did, but Jacob didn't make another video. I asked him like a week ago, folks like, hey, no, actually was two weeks ago. I met you in the parking lot. The sponsor was like, I really need you to make videos. I got you. Jacob Moreno: Yes, yeah, I've been underwrapped, sorry. Jason Corley: Gotcha. Yeah. So we did a video and ⁓ where we did a little contest and we have a clear favorite. Okay. You want to know why we have a clear favorite? Jacob Moreno: Why's that? Jason Corley: Because only one person called in and actually left the voicemail. Only one person. Jacob Moreno: Everybody seemed to everybody seemed to keep leaving ⁓ Messages comments Jason Corley: They just leave messages, they just leave comments. Nobody calls him. So we will play this, the winner's voicemail. He's gonna get a prize pack and he's gonna get a killer prize pack because he followed the instructions. He did follow the rules. I don't even know if I like his response the most. I think I like another response the most, but he's getting the prize pack. So we'll play that for you here in a little bit, but we wanna go through some of these comments with you guys because there are so many interesting ideas. And what the thing was, was I posted, Jacob Moreno: Follow the rules. Jason Corley: If you could be travel ball king for a day and you could change one rule and it would last for, don't even think I said this, but it could last for eternity. What would it be? And we got some awesome, awesome. I mean, they've, we've got responses on Tik TOK on Facebook, on Instagram, and we got text messages, anonymous text messages into the line. So yeah. Yeah, and it's a good one and I'm going to read it. I'm going to read it. So do you, where should we start, dude? Where do you want to Okay. When do you go ahead and make sure you read who it is and who it's from. Jacob Moreno: I got one. I got one. I got one. Yep. Yep. This was on Instagram and this was from LDiesel26. Number one rule I'm enforcing is banning all U-trip bats. USA bats from 14 and down. Also BB Corp in high school and for colleges D2 and lower. All D1 should use wood bats. Jason Corley: Well, Okay. Interesting. say that I don't have an opinion on that because I don't have a problem with the bats, but did you see Mike Karen's is a message or did you see his comment? Mike Karen's who, if you folks with you that don't know, we interviewed coach Mike Karen's from the 16 new national team. He commented on the Facebook page, BB core for all ages. Jacob Moreno: No, I didn't. Jason Corley: BB Corp, ages, all ages, BB Corp, which makes it so interesting because at first I was thinking, well, that sucks for the kids. But at the same time, bro, that's ball in play for the younger ages. Like you're not getting as many going over the wall. Like that's ball in play. Jacob Moreno: Ooh. Yes. No, no, because you gotta look, mean, once you start using BB cord, you gotta learn how to hit the ball. Jason Corley: to learn how to hit the ball and you got to hit, you got to barrel it in order to get, get it to go. You know what I mean? But I thought that was, I saw his, I saw, I saw his comment on the post and I was like, I have never even remotely thought about that. Jacob Moreno: Mm-hmm. Jason Corley: Okay, I'll D1, she'd use what bats? don't know if I like that one because there's nothing, because love the sound of that ding in Omaha. ⁓ I I just love, ⁓ I think part of what makes the College World Series in Omaha, ⁓ I that's half of what makes it what it is, is just that bing and just the crowd ⁓ going I don't have a problem with it. Jacob Moreno: Why? Yeah. Yeah. Jason Corley: Um, you know, but hey, if you're, if you're king for the day, then you're king for the day and that's the rule you want. That's the rule you want. right. Let's keep reading through these. I'll take, so after I take one, then you take one. Okay. So this is from Tik Tok and this is from two daughter father. And it says, I changed the barrier of entry, limit the amount of travel ball teams to me. That would also help the local rec programs. Travel ball should be a program that has to be harder entry than little league. Nowadays, a team is being created every month. It seems like Jacob Moreno: Okay. Jason Corley: There's absolutely no way 17 travel ball teams should exist in one city or county. Have the kids play at their skill level. Well, that doesn't, I mean, I understand what he's saying, but that doesn't have anything to do with national teams because the kids that play on national teams aren't playing for travel ball teams in their county anyways. They're you know what I mean? Some of them aren't even playing for the teams in their states. So, I mean, I get what he's saying. He's trying to, he's trying, he's trying to, I guess, thin the herd. Jacob Moreno: Yeah. Jason Corley: of the amount of travel ball teams. And that's not the first time I, I saw a comment like that either. I saw other, other comments that had to do with the amount of travel ball teams too, but, go ahead. What, which, and that was from, two daughter father, two daughter father. What about you? What's your next one? Jacob Moreno: ⁓ no, get another one, my computer froze on the... Jason Corley: Okay. Um, the next one is from Eric and that's all it says is Eric. it says all eight AM games are banned. Game schedules for all brackets will be based on the distance a team travels to get to the tournament. Now that does happen though. That does happen. So, um, the 8 AM games. I, that's kind of a double, that's kind of a double, double whammy for me because. Jacob Moreno: hahahahah Jason Corley: I, although I don't mind 8 a.m. games, my kid doesn't mind 8 a.m. games because we're early risers. Jacob and like ⁓ there's parents on our teams that absolutely hate him. But here's why. And that is because I also like to get out of there in a decent hour. So I want to get the day done. Like, I don't want this to drag into four and five o'clock in the evening. ⁓ I love, you know, I mean, the the. quicker the game start, the quicker the day gets either done or, you know, either you're losing, you're on your way home or you're in the championship game at two or three o'clock instead of a five o'clock. some of those grand park games, bro, we didn't get out of championship games until almost six. Well, we didn't start until almost six. Yeah. Yeah. It was nuts. And then there were definitely games in, in grand park. We didn't even start first pitch until after 7 PM. so, and that, that was tough. And those were also. Jacob Moreno: Mm-hmm. 2009 Jason Corley: Those were also days where we started at 8 AM because we played four games that day. So, um, but yeah, I thought that was, uh, it was funny cause I didn't see very many, I didn't see very many people comment about 8 AM games, which I, that, that wouldn't immediately stuck out to me immediately. Jacob Moreno: Yeah. No, neither did I. Jason Corley: I am going to read another one from Tik Tok. this one, I, so if you have a name and you just have a user number, then I'm not going to read it cause it's just a bunch of numbers, but this one says continuous order. Everyone hits mandatory under ⁓ 15U high school. Every kid on roster must hit. I don't know. mean, ⁓ maybe it, I mean, that's the they do it in rec and that's the way they do it. ⁓ we lost Jacob. I don't know where you- Jacob Moreno: Alright. Jason Corley: Yeah, Jacob's got. Jacob Moreno: You hear me? Okay, I don't. Something that, dude, it's that, like that day again. Remember that other, that day we had that one time? Jason Corley: Yeah. Okay. So I've got one now from coach Matt coach Matt on TOK coach Matt from LBC says every player has to wear the same uniform to playing games. Too many ringers getting brought in, not wearing matching uniforms. If you're willing to bring them in, at least get them matching uniforms and a top. So that was from coach Matt LBC. ⁓ Jay. Jacob Moreno: I agree with that. Jason Corley: You agree with that? I agree with that too. I agree with that too. That makes you at least put a little bit of effort into trying to at least act like you had a plan for this and didn't bring somebody in last minute. Everybody just got a face. Yes. Jacob Moreno: Did my hand. Jason Corley: too, it's it it makes you feel like somebody wasn't just called in off of the off of the portal last minute either. So. J.W. Sports Card 15 says eliminate travel ball for kids under 6th grade. Absolutely not your no. Eliminate travel ball for kids under 6th grade. That might be that might J.W. Sports Cards 15. Jacob Moreno: Mm-hmm. Eliminate what? Jason Corley: That might be the worst take of the day on this. So they're saying, Oh, my gosh. Uh, he says, I, I told him, said, you need to call in or text if you want to win the prize. He said, less than 2 % of high school kids sniff the MLB. what parents ruined little league. So now they're all create a travel team and only kids lose. I don't know. I don't, I don't think, I don't, I don't think that, uh, Jacob Moreno: Yeah. Jason Corley: I think that you would be surprised, Jacob, of how many kids nowadays are more realistic to the reality of what that percentage is that they're going to actually be Major League Baseball players. most kids, a lot of kids, I'm not even going say most kids, a lot of kids are playing travel ball because they want to play best version of baseball that they can get their hands on or that they can be involved with. I my kids are realistic and they know that Jacob Moreno: Yes. Jason Corley: you know, that there's 1 % of 1 % of 1 % that are actually going to go on to do this and make a living doing it. But they don't want to go and be miserable playing shitty baseball with a bunch of rec kids that don't care. So travel ball is for the kids that take it, I think, serious and that want to play at a very high level. I don't think they all all don't believe or have some weird belief that they're going to play professional baseball. Do you? Jacob Moreno: No, don't. No, no, I don't. think the belief is that they can at least make it to go to college. If that makes sense. Jason Corley: Yeah. Yeah. Jacob Moreno: at least at least get some kind of you know scholarship or something one I just found it was funny. knew, like the guy was just, you know, joking around. It is big underscore run underscore run, banned parents from the stands. Jason Corley: Dude I saw that I saw that where was that? Yeah, where was that one at? Jacob Moreno: And then you put, that's awesome. ⁓ ⁓ This one's on Instagram. Jason Corley: ⁓ yeah, okay, listen, you get be king for a day and you can ban, you can ban all kids. But let me just tell you something. If you ban the parents, you got no travel ball. So, because without us, is no travel ball. So ⁓ I understand that you hate, you must be a coach. Shout out to you. You're doing yes. Jacob Moreno: Mm-hmm. Jason Corley: Yeah. Teas and peas, thoughts and prayers. If you're a coach and travel, I get it. And you want to ban parents, you hate parents. get it. But without the parents, you got no kids. So you don't have anything to do without us. So, ⁓ but yeah, I did see that. That was funny. this next one is from ⁓ the Thompson, like the Ohio state, the Mike Thompson, all 12 and down travel stops in the first week of June. The players go back to their town league that they had to Jacob Moreno: ⁓ Jason Corley: to make 50 % of the games and play for the, wait a minute. Let me reread this, okay? Like, yeah. Yeah, all 12 U and down travel stops in the first week of June. The players go back to their town league that they had to make 50 % of the games of and play for their town all-star teams, town travel. So this sounds a lot like what Jacob Moreno: I think I'm rubbing off on you today. Jason Corley: Our local 501 C3 does, require their kids that play on their travel team to also play rec. You got to do both. which ⁓ is That's a prerogative. I disagree with it. ⁓ because up into this year, our little league that we were ⁓ our little that we're involved with, didn't, ⁓ didn't play by baseball rules. They played baseball by some different rule where there was no lead offs, there was no drop thirds, there was four outfielders all the way up to you got to 10 you. So ⁓ the kids like it was just a it was just a supersized version coach pitch is literally all it was. So ⁓ they did bring in a different president for Little League. So now they are changing a lot of those rules. But I'm not a fan of in ⁓ requiring, requiring kids to do both. Um, you know, because if I give, if I give everything and a lot of these big tournaments, dude, a lot of these big tournaments don't have, don't even start till July. Jacob Moreno: Yeah, so everybody's out of school. Jason Corley: Yeah. So that doesn't, yeah. I mean, I get it. This is your wish, not mine. It's your wish. It's not mine, but I'm, I, yeah, I don't, I'm giving, my boys are putting a 1000 % into their travel wall. They got nothing left for rec because if we're, you know, Jacob Moreno: I guess, yeah, yeah, I guess I'm guessing what he's thinking in that though, like the Little League World Series. You know, you have to play for your town and you have to play in at least 50 % of the games. So I think that's where the number comes. Jason Corley: I think that's where you got that number from. Jacob Moreno: Yeah, because I know in order to play in the Little League World Series and stuff, you have to play in at least 50 if not 60 percent of the games that your team, Little League team played in. Jason Corley: Okay, so then how did Lake Mary do that a couple years ago? ⁓ Jacob Moreno: because they play during the week. Jason Corley: OK, that makes sense. ⁓ Jacob Moreno: Little leagues during the week, you know what mean? Your Monday nights, Wednesdays, Tuesday nights, Thursday nights. Jason Corley: Yeah. That's just too much baseball though, in my opinion. It's just too much baseball. mean, I'm just saying for us, for us, it's too much ball. We have to have downtime, which is why we don't. So like when we are home, like most of HUD's friends from school, they all play rec, which is, know, ⁓ and we're home, the boys go and watch those games, but they're not participating in that. it's just too, it's just too much. got the, I got to have, got to have Jacob Moreno: Yeah. Yeah. We let, we let Brantley play, you know, one day a week. Yeah. Until before, you know, as injury, but he gets to play ⁓ or two days a week and doesn't pitch he and doesn't catch. So he plays other positions that he wouldn't, you know, yeah. Like he played, I remember last year. What's that? Jason Corley: You did it last year, normally play. But he still gets his at bats. He's still getting his at bats. Yeah. Jacob Moreno: Yeah, yeah, I remember one game last year he played shortstop. you see what I mean? He played shortstop another game he played center field. So it's just stuff like that outfield second base. So yeah, I don't I got I ⁓ one for you right here. It's on. ⁓ Jason Corley: Okay B? Okay B? Okay B? Yeah. Yeah. You get an A. While you read the other one, I'm going to get the voicemail teed up. Jacob Moreno: Okay, this is from this is on Instagram on did you ate in PG? I will not allow kids to play down no more reclassing if you play for a team and that team wins a Super NIT championship You are locked in with that team and can't be bouncing around playing for other teams and Super NITs Jason Corley: Yeah, man there, I would say that by far the most responses we got were about reclassing. I mean, ⁓ most of the ones, of the comments that we got on all of the, all of channels had to do with playing Read that one more time. Jacob Moreno: in PG, I will not allow kids to play down. No more reclassing. If you play for a team and that team wins a Super NIT Championship, you are locked in with that team and can't be bouncing around playing for other teams and Super NITs. So that roster's frozen. Jason Corley: Okay, so that's two rules. Yeah, that's two, but that's two rules. So they gotta pick one because one was playing down and the other one was locked into a team and you can't bounce around. So let's pick the locked in since the playing down one will cover a hundred other times. Being locked in on a roster after winning an NIT, that is interesting. I have never thought about that. Jacob Moreno: Yeah. Well, they do it in men's slow pitch softball. You start winning big tournaments, that roster's locked. It's frozen. It's considered frozen. So you can't drop anybody, pick anybody up, Jason Corley: Okay. What happens with injury? just, you have to have enough on your roster to cover that. Jacob Moreno: Yeah, yeah. Jason Corley: Okay. All right. That's interesting, man. I mean, because that could throw a wrench in a lot of rosters, man. If like you go down and let's just say you win beast to the east with PG. know what I mean? ⁓ no, that would be in the fall. So that would be in a different calendar year. Jacob Moreno: No, Beast of the East is coming up in May. Panama City. Best of the West and best of the East. Jason Corley: Okay, well then what about the one that was in the fall? Okay. That one wouldn't matter because that would be a different calendar year. Unless they changed the calendar year. Do you know what I mean? Like unless they included fall ball with that, like, let's just say that after PGI, the calendar for baseball year stops for PG. You know what I mean? And there's like what, there's like a, what a month, a month layoff or whatever it is, or I don't know. And then the new. Jacob Moreno: Mm-hmm. Yep. A month, month and a half, yeah. Jason Corley: the new season year starts that includes fall ball, which would make sense because they use those, those numbers in the rankings and over the winter anyways. So like if you go to best of the best of the East and best of the West you're on a team and you went, you could be locked in then for the spring that bro, that is, ⁓ a good one. That's a, because then you, ⁓ would get teams like for instance, like with ours that Jacob Moreno: Yeah. That is a good one. Jason Corley: You can't go to that then, because you don't have your team. Jacob Moreno: I think, mean, essentially, I mean, usually the team that you go with in the fall is usually the team you're gonna hopefully have in the spring and summer. You know what I mean? So you guys would be with boys that play, you know, football. Jason Corley: You know? Well, he would have to go, he would have to go under a different team. He'd have to go as, you know, as the Tribbio team. He wouldn't be able to go as our team. Jacob Moreno: Yeah, but if that is... Yeah, you're right. We're taking the other boys, yeah. Jason Corley: Like if you have one kid, let's just say you have, let's say you have Ethan that's available because let's just say you have, let's say you have two kids that don't play football in the fall next year and they want to be part of it. But then you have to fill the rest of the roster with Toribio kids or whatever. Tony's, Tony's 12 you kids, you better be real careful of how you label that because then come spring, that would be your team and you can't do that. So that's what saying. You'd have to go as a different team. Jacob Moreno: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah, that... Jason Corley: So you great. And if you did great and won it, then you'd have to roll with those. That's who you're rolling with. Jacob Moreno: then that's who you're rolling with. mean, but what he's saying is playing in other super NITs. So ultimately you'd be able to play in other tournaments like the World Series PGI, does he mean all the big tournaments? Jason Corley: Yeah. Yeah. I think he means all of them. I don't know. I'm not sure. That's it. But that's an interesting take. That's a very interesting take is if you win. Yeah. If you win a major tournament and then it or super regional, something like that, that that's that roster's locked in. Like you can't that roster. You can't flex it. So, and that would also make sense too, because a lot of these teams go in 14 kids deep to those tournaments. So you'd have to take everybody that you think that you might need for the entire year. Jacob Moreno: That is an inner. Yeah. Jason Corley: roster them and it's locked in injury or no injury. If you get to the PGI at the end of year with eight kids, I don't know. Maybe you could file, maybe you could file a grievance for injury. Like if there was, you know, medical or medical releases, you could file a grievance or whatever. But who, who said that? What's the guy's name that, or who wrote that? Jacob Moreno: You Yeah. Hold on, hold on, they had it right? Jason Corley: Whoever you are, was a great take. That was a great take. Great take. So, it's all right. ⁓ Jacob Moreno: His name is Did You 8? Jason Corley: Did you ate? That was a great take. Okay. All right. I am going to now play the voicemail we got. This is from, this is from the winner because this is the only person that called in with voicemail. So you people that don't take it serious, like this guy is going to get a hell of pack of Bardstown bourbon ⁓ some sweet stuff off the merch store. So let's, ⁓ Jacob Moreno: on Instagram, yep. That was the last Instagram comment. Jason Corley: All right, bro, I'm just getting started with my comments. All right, here we go. Jacob Moreno: I know. Jason Corley: So if I was king of travel ball for a day, I would make these perfect game super regional in IT tournaments that have all these national organizations classify themselves as national teams. That way, when it comes to pool play, the number one team in the country who's fully funded, fully paid for, filled with seventh graders playing down to sixth graders that have already hit puberty and half of them drove themselves, have to each other. Jacob Moreno: He Jason Corley: 6,334th team in the country that is classified themselves as majors. Also been a part of the problem. Now I hate it. So kind of hypocritical, but I'll, uh, give you the address of where to send my bourbon. Hell yeah. That is the ticket right there. That is the ticket. I love that. I love that. And my favorite part is the Emory is like, you used to be part of the problem. Now I hate it. Like Jacob Moreno: Mmm. Yeah, I think he sees it from the outside in now. Jason Corley: Love it. Yes. God, that was so good. That was so good. He didn't leave his name. So I have to text him afterwards Jacob Moreno: Who sent it? Jason Corley: That was a good one. all right. So while we're waiting for him to respond back, I'm going to read you one of the text messages we got. Okay. So this is from area code ⁓ nine one zero. I don't know where that's at. but it says I could be daddy ball, change one rule ⁓ higher. Listen, listen, this is, this show is for entertainment purposes. Jacob Moreno: Okay. Jason Corley: Okay. And entertainment purposes only. All right. There might be some things that we read and say online that we wish that we could take back and that we should probably, but we're not going to. Okay. So if I could be daddy ball king for the day and change one rule, higher gate fees for sub four baseball moms. is a high income sport and us coaches spend hours and hours training mama's future first round picks. Jacob Moreno: ⁓ this is gonna be a good one. Mm. Jason Corley: The least you could do is keep your sideline looking sharp. Matter of fact, we can a la carte. Gate fees, $12 adults. Sub four, $10. Nails not done, add 10. Not wearing yoga pants, add 10. Hair not did, add 10. Don't laugh at daddy jokes at the Mexican restaurant after we had an amazing comeback against Mitchelltown Warriors Elite 7U National, add 100. Jacob Moreno: You Jason Corley: Daddy Ball University. that's epic. ⁓ love it. it. love it. love it. ⁓ Jacob Moreno: that was a good one. That's in North Carolina. Jason Corley: Is that what it is? North Carolina. Okay. Um, yeah, I know. Yeah. We'll, we'll get something. Cause that was a good one. Um, we had another, we had another text message come in and said, I would get rid of great exemptions. So that was for a pretty popular take. I'm not going to lie. Um, the great exemption, uh, was a pretty popular take. Um, Jacob Moreno: North... yeah... he deserves something for that. That's what I saw on mine. On mine was a lot of grade exemption, wait till high school. Stuff like that. Jason Corley: Rick off, get rid of great exemptions for 13 year and above or 13 year and below. Um, and then, okay, let's go back over here. Let's go back over here to tick tock. So, um, this is from John Maz. Uh, no Meza Meza Testa. John Meza Testa said MLP umpires. Yeah, that's never going to happen. Um, yeah. Jacob Moreno: you The way they charge you might think they could. Jason Corley: Right. We're already bitching about baseballs, let alone do we got hate on baseballs too. okay. From Thomas Reese, ⁓ pitch count regulation across the board, all tournament organizations and leagues held to the same standard. I do like this. Yes, I do like it. ⁓ just because of the fact that you go to a U trip tournament and there's no, what, is that? Why does you trip not have. Jacob Moreno: I do like that one. Jason Corley: pitch count, like pitch rules, like. Jacob Moreno: They but they go off, I'm guessing game changer. I mean, you can't pitch three days in a row. Jason Corley: No, but like this last, like when we were in Florida and that was a U-Trip event, everybody was kind of walking around trying to figure out like what, what the rules are. And finally, you know, we have attorney Tony on our team and, know, we call him attorney Tony, Tony Wickman. He's not an folks. We just call him an attorney because he's like our, our team attorney for when it comes to pitch rules. Cause he's really good at understanding this stuff. Nobody really knew. And then finally, think somebody said they think it's innings that might be innings, could be innings, not sure if it's innings. Jacob Moreno: Six innings for the weekend? Jason Corley: okay. See, we don't know. We don't know. So yes, so that's a great, great. Jacob Moreno: I do like that when I saw that one and I was like, ooh, that one, that one really sticks. Yeah. Jason Corley: It should be across the board for 13, maybe what, what, maybe 13 or 14 you and under across, across the board. All of it, the same PG you trip USA, all of it. Ripken. Yeah. All the same. It should all be the same in it. You know what? You know, what'll happen. We'll get somebody like who's the, who's the base. But do we have a baseball player on the new presidential health board that Jacob Moreno: Yeah. You guys all get together and figure it out. Jason Corley: We have with, what, who's on that? It's, ⁓ we have a ⁓ wrestler. have Mike Tyson. have JFK junior heads it up. There's somebody there's like, isn't look, isn't, isn't Logan Paul or somebody on it? Is he on it? Somebody. Yeah. So Jacob Moreno: Jake Paul, I think so. I don't I don't pay attention to that shit. Jason Corley: Yeah, well, I mean, it should be. They changed the food pyramid for Christ's sake. So they like literally flipped that some bitch upside down. You saw that, didn't you? What are you laughing about? It's real. This is not made out of tin. This isn't tin. This is a cowboy hat. It's not a tin hat. Not a conspiracy theorist. Jacob Moreno: Yes, I did. I did. Just cause, man. I know. That's why I'm laughing. Cause it's... You put that on and you started acting. Very different. Very, very different. Jason Corley: Okay. So, Hey, Hey, I got one. You ready? Got one. Got one. Pegs cowboy says out of all the things, listen, we've state the question for the listeners at home. If you could be travel ball king of the world for one day and change any rule on planet earth pegs cowboy says, Jacob Moreno: How it suits you because you got a cowboy head on. one day. Jason Corley: for you to bend your hat, Unc. Jacob Moreno: What? Jason Corley: for me to bend my hat, Unc. Jacob Moreno: He called you Unc and everything. Unc, ugh, that's funny. Jason Corley: Call me unc. Shout out Brinks Cowboy. I don't know if you saw this, but did you see that we had the... So we the short of Jacob and talking about the reclassification episode that did. Did you see that there's 78... thousand views on that video. That just, we're to have to eventually, we're going to have to, we're going to have to revisit that conversation. Because I think that's a conversation now that people are way more passionate about that. We, yeah, we a and we threw it on a fire and we had no idea that there was gasoline. Jacob Moreno: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. that there was gasoline on that fire and it blew up. Jason Corley: We had no idea. had no idea. Yeah, we were just having, we were just, literally that conversation came from you and me before we started the podcast brainstorming about topics. And it was just a rant. It was. Jacob Moreno: Yeah, but this is something that we've been hearing for years now. Jason Corley: It has, but it's not something. Jacob Moreno: But I guess it never really affected us until we started seeing it towards the end of last year. Well, you guys started seeing it towards the end, then you start noticing it more and more. Jason Corley: Yeah. Yeah. And the size difference is how came to be more of a, I guess, a topic just because of the size of the kids. And then also it came into play for me because of Brooks being so little playing up all the time and like, man, what am I doing now? He should he be playing with his correct ⁓ or his grade? You know what mean? Cause his grade is up there, but his age is down here. So Jacob Moreno: and just the size difference. You know. Yeah. Jason Corley: That's, that's kind of what happened. We had really, we had no idea that it was going to spark the interest that it did. So I think we'll, I think we'll revisit that and do, am, ⁓ not just that, but I've been slowly like doing a little bit more homework and putting my notes off to the side ⁓ getting some numbers through USA baseball and PG ⁓ you know, ⁓ what world Jacob Moreno: I think we need a guess for that one though. Jason Corley: thinks as far as a rough estimate, because there's for all the homeschool schoolers out there and like all of the private schools, there's no public information of reclassing. So the numbers are really so it's it's going to. Yeah, it's going to take a little bit more homework before we get any in depth on the conversation. But ⁓ want to have two parents sit down that ⁓ that hates it and one that doesn't can't. Jacob Moreno: They're skewed. used it. Jason Corley: Yeah, and I don't want it to be an argument. I just want to hear both sides of it. ⁓ Jacob Moreno: I watched a video, a reel on Instagram. Yeah, on Instagram. Some lady talking about it, talking about homeschool and commented on her that we just had this conversation on our podcast. If she would, if she'd want to get in more depth and want to be a guest. I think, I can't remember her name off the top of my head. I think you liked the video too. She talks about how, you know, what your state allows for reclassing. Jason Corley: Okay. ⁓ yeah, yeah, yeah. She's in California, I think. Right. Didn't she? She has her own like she travels around and speaks about this. Yes, I did. I did see I saw I came across her page and I started following her. Jacob Moreno: I can't think of any. Yes. Yes. Yep, so did I. When I saw that video, I was like, ooh, this might be a good person to have This episode is brought to you by Bartstown Bourbon and Green River Whiskey. There's something about the of a day of a long tournament day. The sun going down, cleats kicked off and parents flapping stories in the hotel lounge. That's where a good poor And Bartstown bourbon delivers that deep layered flavor that makes you slow down and enjoy the moment. Or maybe a glass of Green River Whiskey. Smooth, dependable, and built on tradition. Just like the game we love. Jason Corley: Love it. Thank you, Jacob. Jacob Moreno: You're welcome. Did you, ⁓ did you see that screenshot I sent you? I sent you and the screenshot I sent to you and the sponsor. Jason Corley: When did you see? earlier today? Yes, I did. I did. I did see that. I'm sorry. was I just went to the screenshots that you sent me and I was looking at the pictures that I sent you of the prank caller and it just startled me there for a second. It was in the text message, but yeah, I did see that. I wanted to read a couple more comments that we got before we before we say Jacob Moreno: Hehehehehe Jason Corley: Before we say goodbye, Coach Carter on Tik TOK says remove all parents again, again, remove all parents again, coach Carter. That sounds fun. That sounds fun, but do you really want all these kids all alone? And without the parents, you have no kids. So it sounds great. Jacob Moreno: Yeah. Jason Corley: Sounds great, but your son isn't getting to play with anybody if there's no parents. So what were you going to say, Jacob? Jacob Moreno: Is there any more you got? Jason Corley: Yeah, I got two more, two more. Okay. So from Sean Jacks on Tik Tok, no 8 a.m. games, no state of play. That's two. Got to have, just pick one. No to 8 a.m. games, no state of play. More than three games, no more than three games a day, preferably no more than two. More game balls. We didn't pay $2,000 entry fee plus parent gate fees to Shagfile Balls. Jacob Moreno: Go ahead, I'll wait till afterwards. Read them. Jason Corley: The reply to this was no more, no more, no more. Jacob Moreno: Well, I do like the no, the no state of play. Jason Corley: Yeah, the state of play. Yeah. So in also we're finding out more about this folks. We're finding out way more about the state of play. So I used to think that the state of play was a benefit to the hotel and that is not the case. benefit, the, the state of play. Yes. Yes. It's to the, it's to the organization. I thought, so I thought that I, this is just dumb me. This is just dumb cow bullying me. Okay. Jacob Moreno: No, it's the benefit is to the park. Jason Corley: I'm just dumb cowboy today with my flat brim hand. I always thought Jacob did the state of play benefited the hotel that I thought maybe the coaches got to stay for free Maybe the tournament organizers got to stay for free. That's not the case at all. That's not the case at all You got a kid. They it Yeah, yeah, yeah ⁓ Jacob Moreno: No, not the case at all. It benefits the organization. They get a cut of every room. Jason Corley: Yeah, it's racketeering. for those of you that don't know, my opinion on this is a state of play, whether it's PG, whether it's U-Trip, whether it's P, I don't care what it is. It is in your face, legalized racketeering. That's what state of play is. ⁓ I think every parent across the board should ⁓ it. I don't think anybody should put up with it. And the only ones that do continue to put up with it are the ones that are Jacob Moreno: Mm-hmm. Torsion. Jason Corley: that are too scared to buck the system. But if you all stopped doing the state of play, they would have nobody come to their tournaments and they would make no money off of us. So I think the state of play should stop and it should stop immediately. Let parents go find any hotel, any Airbnb. And first of all, all Airbnb and Verbo, they should be in the forefront of fighting this because they don't they don't get to utilize theirs, their industry. Jacob Moreno: Yeah. Yeah. Jason Corley: So, because here's the problem is that you sons of bitches want us to stay to play and then you bitch at our kids. Jacob Moreno: Yeah, exactly. Like you guys don't know that there's gonna be a bunch of kids, don't know there's gonna be a bunch of kids staying there. You guys are the ones that agreed to this. Jason Corley: They forced us to book our hotel with you and then you bitch because we got a bunch of kids in your hotel. Like pick one. ⁓ Jacob Moreno: Yeah, just like I was looking at the reservation for this coming up week, there's 10 different teams staying at our hotel. Jason Corley: Bro, out of control. Plus a podcast. ⁓ Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Plus a podcast. So I think ⁓ everybody got together in universally, maybe we should start a travel dad's podcast petition. Jacob Moreno: gonna need a conference room. Yeah. Jason Corley: Maybe we should start Travel Ed's podcast petition of boycotting all stay to play, all future stay to play events. Boycott them, boycott them. It's racketeering folks. It's racketeering. It's right in your face and there's nobody does anything about it. They're just like, watch this, watch this. parents are so stupid. These parents are so stupid. We can literally tell them where to lay their heads at night with their, with their baby. So. Jacob Moreno: Yeah, it is right in your face. I mean, how many times have we not stayed? We said, screw it, we're not staying. That's what I'm saying. And then we get the text like, hey, if you guys don't stay, they're gonna have to charge the whole team. I'm sorry, I booked an Airbnb. Jason Corley: Bunch. Bunch. Bunch. So. I don't, that's only happened one time that I know of that our whole team got together and paid the penalty because our whole team was like, yeah, we're not doing this. was in Florida, wasn't it? Cause everybody wanted to Yeah. Jacob Moreno: Yeah, we were gonna be there for a week and everybody was bitching that they didn't wanna be in a hotel for a week, six days. Jason Corley: Yeah. And listen, here's, this is, it's our issue for those of you that are just tuning in or, okay, listen. Saddle up. Okay. Our issue. Jacob Moreno: You just look like Shawn Michaels. Jason Corley: Shawn Michaels has got greasy. Jacob Moreno: Shawn Michaels is the heartbreak kid. Long hair. Yeah. Jason Corley: Greasy, greasy. My hair's not greasy. But our issue is not with the hotels. Our issue is not with the tournaments. We're obviously playing in tournaments. We love PG. PG's our favorite events of the year. We have no issues with that. We love U-Trip. We love Ripken. We love USA. We love them all. If we didn't love them all, we wouldn't play them. Our issue is this, okay? When you make a stay at your establishment, okay? When you work that that out. Okay. Number one, you're forcing us to then eat your breakfast, wash our clothes in ⁓ your room, if you even have one, and our kids swimming in your pools and all that other stuff. Okay. It is not just, it is not just the little intricacies of being told where you have to sleep at night. It is the food people. Jacob Moreno: Uh-huh. Jason Corley: It is the cost of food. When you stay to play, you not every hotel is a suite. Not every hotel has got a grill outside. Not and if they do, it's usually one or two grills for 500 people that are staying in this hotel. So then you got to. Jacob Moreno: Yeah. Yeah. What was it gonna be like for 10 teams this weekend? Jason Corley: Right. Right. So it's not it's not just the simple fact that you're that we know that you're forcing it and we know that it's racketeering and extortion. We know that it's the fact that we then have to go even above and beyond with the funds to make it through the weekend because we have to eat out every freaking meal, every meal you have to eat out where if we go and we stay at an Airbnb or if we stay in a condo down the road, we can then cook food. Jacob Moreno: Mm-hmm. Jason Corley: and then cook meals that aren't fast food or a hundred bucks a head at a steakhouse, we can go to the grocery store and cook food and save money. So that is the Jacob Moreno: what you spend at the grocery stores, what you can spend on one meal for your family. Jason Corley: Bro, is out of control and we're not the only ones that think this way. We're not the only ones that feel this way. So maybe we will. Maybe we will start a travel dad's podcast petition These the tens of thousands of people that hate stay to play. and think that it's bullshit. literally just throw parents back a little bit of a bone. You know what we'll do? Jacob, I have a perfect idea. We'll stop bitching about baseballs if you stop making us play in your hotel. Jacob Moreno: Yeah, one with the other. Jason Corley: How, how about, how about horses? How about them horses? How about them horses right there? How about them horses? Okay. You know, we'll give a little, okay. You want the whole balls back and the foul balls back. If you don't want the foul balls going into the team bucket, as Rick said on the, on the comment, making their way into the bucket. Then we'll make sure that all the balls get back no matter where they go. If you stop making a stay in hotels that we. Jacob Moreno: ⁓ what the... ⁓ Yeah. Yeah. Hahaha! But you know what, let me, did we, did we, we went to TBS, we didn't have Play to Stay. Jason Corley: choose those Was that the Myrtle? I think we did, we just didn't. Jacob Moreno: Yeah! No, because another family stayed at... Jason Corley: Is that the one that we paid the penalty? That could have been the one we paid the penalty at was Myrtle. ⁓ I don't know, but one of those, I mean, yes, I'm just seeing. Jacob Moreno: Or was it Florida? Because we stayed in a condo together. We stayed in the condo and then I know, yep. So that's why I said, I don't think it was a play to stay. Jason Corley: We did. stayed in a condo together. Adam and Jackie stayed in a condo with Judy. ⁓ Well, one of those, one of those big ones, you, the Florida or Myrtle, we paid seven. Okay. Yeah. So there's another thing folks, for those of you that are just getting into it, if you choose not to stay at a state of play, then your whole team has to pay a penalty. A cash penalty for not staying in one of their chosen hotels. So it's. Jacob Moreno: I think it's Florida, U-S-S-A. We paid, yeah. Yeah. But it's only a certain amount of number. Remember, it's only a certain amount that have to stay at the hotel. Was it nine, nine to 10 families? And then you're gonna be. Jason Corley: Yeah, but it's not fair to those that do have to say that. Yeah, out of 11 kids lost, only 10 of them have to stay. Jacob Moreno: The 11th guy at Airbnb. That was usually us. Jason Corley: Yeah, I mean our team, I know that our team has gotten irritated with us time and time again in the past because we're not at the hotel, but I've tried to explain to everybody. Yeah, everybody. I've tried to explain it. It has nothing. It's not that we don't like you. We wish we could. We cannot afford it. We cannot afford. It's not just cheaper. It's and it broke. It's not cheaper by 20 bucks. It's cheaper by hundreds of dollars, hundreds of dollars. Jacob Moreno: I'm okay with it. It's cheaper. Mm-hmm. Jason Corley: And then you add in the food aspect of it. It's hundreds of dollars that make it to where you either do have your shortstop at this tournament or you don't because if we can't, your shortstop's not coming. Jacob Moreno: What? Well, mean, well, think about it. was like Atlanta last year when all three families stayed together. You know, our portion was $800, but our hotel was going to be $1,500. You know what I mean? Like, and that's not even with the food. Jason Corley: Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yup. Yeah. And then all three families pitched in 150, 200 bucks, went to the grocery store and we were able to all, we cooked out every maybe like two or three, we went out to dinner. So yeah, it's a, the stay to play thing. my God. had so much bro. It's so much food, so much food, so much more food, so much more food than what we would have ever been able to do. Jacob Moreno: All week. Yeah, yeah. And we had a great steak dinner that night. One night like, you know. We ate steak for the next three days. Jason Corley: staying at the hotel that the organization required us to stay at. I just, would love, I would think that, I would think for especially the PG people of the world, you know, because ⁓ are making so much more money than everybody else. I think that they could, I think that they could release the hounds on that one a little bit less. ⁓ know what mean? They could. Jacob Moreno: Yep. Yeah. Yeah. Jason Corley: reigns because they're making so much more money than all of the other tournament organizations combined that they could let go of the state of play stuff and especially places like Marietta, Georgia, like East Cobb. There's so many Airbnbs in that region because of East Cobb that their community would embrace them if they were like, you know what, we're going to stop the state of play. Jacob Moreno: Yep. Jason Corley: And we're going to let everybody go do their own thing because that's going to boost the local economy for all the local Airbnb. It's not. Jacob Moreno: We're going to let other other people eat too while we're eating as well. Jason Corley: Yeah. ⁓ you just, so if you're listening out there, which we know you are because we can see the follows and we can see that we listen, we love, we love again, PG for the 50th time. is by far our favorite organization. Am I right? Like, I don't know how else more, but there's some things that you guys could do to make it even better. And one of those Jacob Moreno: Yeah, the likes and the... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Jason Corley: one massive Jacob Moreno: would be eliminate the state of play. Jason Corley: eliminate the state of play. don't know who's back, don't know who's scratching who's back and who owes what to, but you're making enough money, pay that debt off with cash and forget about the state of place. That's my opinion. So. Jacob Moreno: Yeah, I'm like that with, I'm like that with Grand Park too. Jason Corley: Yeah. Grand Park. Yeah. Grand Park's another one. Grand Parks and Grand Parks waste into your was to now listen, PG can stay. Here's something you can go with recommendations and you can go with affiliates and maybe get discounts, to require it should not be the, does that make sense? You could, you could keep your hotel affiliates and you could get a kickback if you provide links and you provide, ⁓ Jacob Moreno: Yeah. Yup. Every time that link is clicked and somebody reserves to that link, you get a kickback. Jason Corley: Whatever. There are definitely things that you can do creatively with marketing and with kickbacks with certain affiliates of hotels throughout the country for your tournaments. But don't make them don't make them a requirement. Let parents do if parents. Bro, our first year, our first year with the team, when we went to Grand Park, there was as I think it was a state of play. And I remember texting Scott. We were we didn't know we didn't have all. Jacob Moreno: Yeah, let it be optional. Jason Corley: We didn't have a whole lot of time with the team. we're still getting to know everybody, bro. Do you remember when we took our tent and camped at grand park? Dude, we couldn't afford it. We couldn't afford the hotel, but he had like coach had to have HUD there. So we were like, so we drove 30 minutes away and stayed at a campsite. Jacob Moreno: Yeah, yup. I remember that at a campsite, yeah. Jason Corley: We a campsite because we couldn't afford it. And was the greatest weekend of our lives with that ⁓ team at the time because we literally were away from everything and we were at a campsite and the boys were fishing in the river. ⁓ only thing I ⁓ like about it was it was hot as piss that week. I actually that was the year that we won a lot of tournaments at 9U. We won a of and that one we won it. Jacob Moreno: Yeah, we did. Jason Corley: And we didn't get back to the campsite until after we were closing up the tent with the lights of the car. see. Yeah. And that was so I wouldn't have done it. Yeah. I would have done it differently. That one like. Jacob Moreno: That's the weekend your truck blew and you had to wait on your dad. Jason Corley: We just had this conversation too. I just had this conversation with somebody the other day. Oh, I was sitting in the, sitting in the parking lot with John Vanecek and, um, Joe Gipala and Sal. And we were talking about something and we were talking about me breaking down. Then when the water pump went out in the truck, coming home from Grand Park in Dayton and my dad had to drive four hours to the truck and trailer to haul us home. Yeah. That was the first year we played for the team too. So yeah, we no longer have that truck. Jacob Moreno: Yeah. Mm-hmm. Jason Corley: So yeah, my sister was able to sell that thing for a hefty price to a kid that I guess didn't know any better. ⁓ but anyway. No, that was it. It was all of them. Yeah, that was it. I had them all. Okay. No, I did have one more. I'm sorry. You're right. ⁓ I I did. Okay. So the last one before we call it quits, this is from Brandon Michael Grubel. Jacob Moreno: Yeah, yeah. It happens. He said you had one more. Okay. That was Santa, Easter. Jason Corley: GRUBLE. GRUBLE. How do you say that? GRUBLE. Brandon Michael. Okay, I'm just gonna say Brandon Michael. Brandon said, must meet a standard to make a team, some sort of tryout, etc. Stop wasting kids' times and parents' money making teams of future teams, managers and or fans in the stands. I'm gonna read that one more time. Must meet a standard to make a travel team, some sort of tryout, etc. Jacob Moreno: Google. Jason Corley: stop wasting kids time and parents money making teams of future team managers and or fans in the stands. So I think he's just saying along those lines of like there has to be maybe stricter standards on making some of these travel ball teams. Jacob Moreno: What's to somebody is, what's strict to somebody might not be strict to somebody else. Jason Corley: Yeah, what's his? Listen, and that's... Jacob Moreno: Like, I mean, if I say one thing and you're like, ⁓ that's not really big what I'm looking for, then who I to tell you that you're wrong and can't start a team for that reason? Jason Corley: Listen, listen, Tex, I want you to listen. I want you to listen closely. Okay. I think, think that there could be strict. I think that there could be, ⁓ think that you could maybe enforce, it strict to make ⁓ national or teams. Like you could do something along those lines, but you're never going to get all the coaches to come together and have. No. Jacob Moreno: To agree with that, yeah. Jason Corley: No, because what one coach thinks is a top tier player, another coach might be like, he's never going to see the field for me because you have different levels of coaches. ⁓ Jacob Moreno: Exactly. in different areas of the country too. What one player in one area is all-star may be average where somewhere in the country. Jason Corley: 100 % Yeah, listen buddy, what one heifer is worth in Ohio ain't what one heifer is worth in Texas. Right. meat is different down there. So a little bit harder to get up here. So just like my flat brim hats are a lot easier to get than them curved brim hats. So like that one. Yeah. So, but yeah, shout out, shout out to all the hate. It's funny because we were coming back from the field today. Jacob Moreno: Exactly. Yeah. Like this. Jason Corley: And, ⁓ I had the hat on. posted that video Brooks goes, dad, what's a hater. Jacob Moreno: hahahaha Jason Corley: ⁓ what I said, HUD goes, I have a few. So, I said buddy, said if you do anything in life that somebody loves, they're going to find somebody that hates it. said that's called a hate. So, anyway, so, bye. Jacob Moreno: I did have one. I did have one question for you. Now I'm going to ask you if you could be travel ball king for one day. Jason Corley: Yeah, what is it? Jacob Moreno: Would you change? Jason Corley: I would change, ⁓ if I could be travel walking for a day, I would say there would be absolutely zero. ⁓ wouldn't be able to jump teams. That would be, that'd be mine. Like ⁓ you're, once you go into a roster, you're locked. Like I love that. I love that. Jacob Moreno: Okay. Yeah, that was a good one, man. Jason Corley: I Sean, no offense again, no offense, Sean. And I'm not trying to piss on your portal, but I I hate that. Like if I could be travel walking for the day, I would literally be okay with stay to play for the rest of my life. ⁓ I I wouldn't. I know I got it. I might have. I know, know. Yeah, no, I guess I'm willing. I guess I'm willing to jump around. You can jump around, jump around, jump, jump, jump around. Jacob Moreno: No you wouldn't. No you wouldn't. I know you wouldn't. I know you wouldn't. Jason Corley: up around if let's get rid of state of play. Let's get rid of state of play. That's what I would get rid of. Yeah, there'd be, would ban all if, if, if you clicked on a tournament to enter it and there was a requirement state of play, they should go to Fort Leavenworth for the rest of their lives. Jacob Moreno: Okay, okay. Hahaha! man, you hate that. Jason Corley: Yeah. If you could be travel ball king or daddy ball king of the world for one day and that one rule that you wanted to change would stay What would that be, Jacob Marino? Jacob Moreno: You're at least play one day on dirt fields. and let's make championship Sunday on Dirt Field. Jason Corley: that is stupid. Why? Like Jacob Moreno: No. I don't know man. I've always liked I mean don't get me wrong. I love the turf I love that but it's just to me I mean I guess growing up playing on dirt. I like I like it. know what mean? The bad hops learn how to read the bad hops and I Don't know Jason Corley: Yeah, I don't know. mean, I yeah, to each is Jacob Moreno: Okay, then we'll just go back at least one day, not championship Sunday. Let's go one day on dirt fields. Jason Corley: You've got have one day, you have to have one day of your tournament weekend on dirt. I mean, I'm okay with that, but I just, I don't want to, I don't want to sit around for seven hours waiting for a field to dry on a badge. I think that, and here's the other thing about, here's the other thing about turf. guess the other thing about turf is, is not just the ability to play in, in everything, but a lightning strike that, ⁓ I think the game goes fast. Jacob Moreno: Be on Dirtfields. Yeah. You know? Yeah. It does go faster. Jason Corley: because there's less errors, there's less, there's less bad hops. There's less, you know, there's less of those things. I think that's probably why I love, I love the Grand Park fields because they're, grass outfields, but then they're turf in fields. know what mean? I loved like our high schools like that. You know I mean? Our softball field and our baseball fields like that. Like I'm not a big fan of all turf, everything. I think that's a little ridiculous and carried away. Jacob Moreno: Turf infields, yep. Jason Corley: Because I think that I think that every kid should have to try to figure out how to grip a wet ball every now and then from the outfield. But at the same time, I mean, there's there's just nothing worse in my opinion. There's just nothing worse than waiting for fields to dry or playing in un-muddy in muddy sand. I hate it. I hate it. Hate it. So. But I mean, I get it. I mean, yeah, you're you also like. Jacob Moreno: Yeah. Jason Corley: Yeah. You also like your tacos made differently than I do too. Jacob Moreno: Yeah, Jason Corley: but yeah, I thought there was, I don't know. I thought it was a good little, I thought it was a good little thing to have a podcast about is to get everybody's opinions ⁓ on ⁓ change for the day. I got to check and see if we got response ⁓ no, he must, he must have been so the, ⁓ Jacob Moreno: Yeah. I was just gonna ask you. Jason Corley: So the gentleman that left us the text message in the voicemail, they must've been using their burner phone because they're not getting updates from me on I asked what his name was, but we did have a winner. So congratulations to them. The one about, yeah, the a la carte bro, the a la carte with sub ⁓ moms. ⁓ That was incredible. Jacob Moreno: Shout out to you. ⁓ Can you read that one again? Jason Corley: I'm going to read that the runner up, the runner up text. Okay. And this was, you said was from North Carolina, nine one zero. Is that you said? Okay. So this person said, Jacob Moreno: Yep. Yep. Jason Corley: If I could be daddy ball king for a day and change one rule, higher gate fees for sub four baseball moms. This is an income score. This is a high income sport and us coaches spend hours and hours training mama's future first round pick. The least you could do is keep your sideline looking sharp. Matter of fact, we can do a la carte gate fees, $12 adults sub four moms add 10 bucks nails. Not done another 10 bucks, not wearing yoga pants. Ten more hair not did ten more didn't laugh at daddy jokes at the Mexican restaurant after we had that amazing comeback Against Michel town warriors elite 7u national all-stars a hundred bucks. So daddy ball ⁓ Daddy University, that's who that was. I think he commented. I think he commented on our thing. So daddy ball University, so ⁓ Shout to daddy ball University. He's on ⁓ Jacob Moreno: That team cracks me up. Okay, we'll have to go out and look. Shout out to you. Jason Corley: I'm pretty sure he's on Tik Tok or he might've know he's the one that's on Instagram because we have the mom from San Diego who's been commenting and she made a comment on his that he stole stuff. So yeah. So I think daddy ball university is on Instagram for those of you that want to go follow him. Jacob Moreno: ⁓ yeah. Yep. Jason Corley: And so now we're going to play you the winning call. This person is going to get a prize pack from us and Jacob might just sign a bottle of bourbon and send it to you or have Brantley sign it. I don't know. But this was a good one. This is from a caller from Houston, Texas. So if I was king of travel ball for a day, I would make these perfect game super regional in IT tournaments that have all these national organizations classify themselves as national teams. We do that way when it comes to pool play the number one team in the country who's fully funded, fully paid for filled with seventh graders playing down to sixth graders that have already hit puberty and half of them drove themselves. I'll have to play each other instead of the 6,334th team. Jacob Moreno: you Jason Corley: in the country that is classified themselves as majors. Also been a part of the problem. Now I hate it. hate it. I'll give you the address of where to send my bourbon. Jacob Moreno: Hahaha! He knew too. He knew he was the winner. Jason Corley: He he knew he killed it. He knew he killed it. Yeah. That was awesome. we will definitely, yeah. We'll definitely get your prize pack out to you and we'll make sure that it comes from our sponsor, not from us so that we don't violate any liquor laws from transporting across state lines. So that will come from our sponsor, not come from us. So you'll probably get two packages because one of them will be just be merged. It's totally legal to ship. Jacob Moreno: Yeah, that was, I mean, that was, I didn't like that. I did, I didn't like that. That was funny, yeah. Jason Corley: And another one which will be bourbon, which is not legal for us to ship. So we will cover that. But yeah, good podcast. That was a listener appreciation podcast. ⁓ Jacob Moreno: Yeah. Yeah, it was. And you know, thank you to everybody that commented, text to the one caller we had. Jason Corley: one dude I think I think Jacob Moreno: You know what? Technically we had two callers, one. ⁓ Jason Corley: did. Well, we had a winner of the text message and we had a winner of the, of the voicemail. So we had Jacob Moreno: Yeah, but I'm saying we had callers. One called your personal phone. ⁓ Jason Corley: Yeah. Yeah, God, I want to so bad, man. I want to put him on blast so bad. Yes. ⁓ I know. I'm going to leave it. I know he gets pass. He gets pass. Jacob Moreno: No, we're just gonna leave it. No, just gonna leave it. No, but I do want to say thank you to everybody for the engagement and reaching out and texting, calling, commenting on the stuff. Jason Corley: I wouldn't have cared if it didn't have woke- if it wouldn't have woke me up. Jacob Moreno: It didn't wake you up. You're. ⁓ did it? ⁓ Jason Corley: Yes. No, it actually, no, it did. Yes. Because I had just updated my phone ⁓ went ahead and for the first time I went ahead with the Apple intelligence option. Okay. Well, when I did that, I didn't realize that Apple intelligence, like you gotta go in and like reset all of your do not disturb settings. ⁓ Then will decide whether or not it wants to send. Jacob Moreno: Yeah. Yeah. What? Jason Corley: Well, when this person called back a second time, I think it thought it was urgent. So then it let the phone ring at 4 0 7 a.m. Which I was not happy about. That's what so yes, it did wake me up. And then I took so you can also think now I no longer am I ever going to use Apple intelligence? I'm going to stick to chat. GPT can be done with it. So you a GPT or are you grok? Jacob Moreno: Yep. I'm a grout guy. Jason Corley: See, I'm not not a fan of Grok, not a fan of that at all. I mean, I like I mean, I shouldn't say I like I mean, I'm OK with Elon and everything he's doing. Why isn't that some bitch made a phone yet? Jacob Moreno: I like that. Jason Corley: What happened is the black dude Blackberry, Blackberry, keep your shit together and come back. OK. ⁓ Jacob Moreno: I think they are coming back. Jason Corley: Bro, I miss Blackberry's so bad. They were the greatest thing to ever create like Bro, I had the I had Blackberry World Edition the black one Yeah, and ⁓ my god, what the greatest phone ever ever. my god, so I still Jacob Moreno: You're really showing your age. I had one of the is that the ⁓ like touchscreen Blackberry? Jason Corley: That was the one with the keypad on the bottom that actually had key. Yes. Yup. Yup. And then, but my very first phone was a, uh, was a Nokia. Yeah. Nokia. And then I got into the whole razor flips. Yeah. I was in those and then back like, back like the late nineties, it was like the key was to get the smallest phone possible. So like I had like the one that was like the, the lipstick thing. Jacob Moreno: Yup, yup, that's, I had one of those too, yup. Nokia. Yeah. Jason Corley: Like, seriously, swear to God, like you like you could, you could fit it. You know, the little pockets on your Wranglers, cause I got Wranglers on. So, you know, the little, the little knife pocket of your Wrangler, you could fit your phone there. And then, yeah. And then it was just like, okay, now we're going to start going the opposite direction. So then it came to the razor that was silver. So the silver, ⁓ my bro, bro. And all the, yeah, the analog texts across the top. Yeah. Jacob Moreno: EZ Yeah, the little in your jeans, yeah. Yeah. Yep. Yep. Jason Corley: be there soon and it was 8 8 9 9 7 7 4. So all right maybe I shouldn't wear flat brim hats if I'm talking about yeah what a roller races but I don't think there's anything wrong with my hats and I think you all should leave me alone with my hats. I'm not going to stop wearing them just because two people said one of them is my cousin says that they hate them so sorry it's gonna happen. I to wear glasses 90 % of the day and that bothers me so anyways so Jacob Moreno: ⁓ man. Jason Corley: All right, man. Well, the next time that see. So when are you guys going down? OK, no, we'll have a podcast. We'll have one Wednesday. So I'm not sure what we're to talk about, but probably talk about World Baseball Classic. We got the game tonight. How do you think we're going to do? Jacob Moreno: Alright. Saturday, Friday morning. ⁓ I hope we win. Jason Corley: Dude. Yeah. Jacob Moreno: I hope he wins. lineup is, that lineup is, ⁓ my Lord. That's Gaines has to face. Jason Corley: Yeah, DR, is no joke because it's not just the lineup, but it's their swag. Jacob Moreno: ⁓ yeah, yeah. Jason Corley: Like they're moxie and people don't give that enough credit in baseball. Like your approach to the game and your approach with your dude, like if you go into battle with dudes that you know are your dudes that, attest for a lot, a lot of runs ⁓ throughout tournament. so, ⁓ the deal. Jacob Moreno: Yeah. Yeah, man, they just carry themselves a lot different. It's like a party to them. Jason Corley: They do. It's party. why do you think, so let me ask you this. You're a perfect person to ask this question. Okay. My Mexicano friend. Why do other nationalities, why are they so much more, why does it appear as though they're so much more passionate than the United States? Or does the United States just come off as Jacob Moreno: ⁓ in my head, I think it's the journey to get there. Jason Corley: okay, okay, okay, okay, ⁓ Jacob Moreno: Mm, financial versus no financial. They feel like they've worked a lot harder. Jason Corley: Okay. Jacob Moreno: I mean, I'm just saying, they feel like they've worked a lot harder to get with less. They've worked... Huh? Jason Corley: No, I'm talking about fans. I'm talking about like the fans perspective. Jacob Moreno: ⁓ that's just the swag, man. It's a Caribbean island, Caribbean party, fun, always warm, dancing. mean, we see it. I mean, you can say... Jason Corley: Is it? And they're just so proud that somebody from there made it. Okay. Okay. Because outside of Phyllis, no, no, no, no, I'm not talking about, because the players, if the fans weren't in the stands, the players wouldn't have nearly the juice that they have. Jacob Moreno: Yes. Yes. I thought you meant the team. I thought you meant the players and stuff. They wouldn't feed it. They wouldn't have nothing to feed off of. Jason Corley: Right. But they are feeding on like they're allowed. I feel like the players, especially with the Dominican Republic team and the Cuba team and the Puerto Rico team and the Venezuela team, all of those South American teams. OK. All of them seem like they like they let their guard down because their people are there. Does that make sense? So they let ⁓ Jacob Moreno: Yes, it's almost probably like home. feel like they're at home. Jason Corley: Yes, they do. And I'm wondering why are the fans that juiced up and is it, mean, I know it's pride. I get that. But what, what pride and you think it's because they got it. They made it. They made it. Jacob Moreno: You're representing your country. You're representing the land that you love. Yes, but you're also representing the land that raised you. You're seeing, know, a fan's perspective, you're seeing people that, I mean, it might've been a kid that grew up, you know, a couple streets over or down the street, and you made it. So you're proud, like, you know, they're proud of their team. Jason Corley: Yeah, because in my opinion, the only place that gets even close to that with that much pride is like Philly. And you know what mean? Like American, like during, like during, during the MLB playoffs, I mean, college baseball is a whole nother level. the college baseball is so much more, so much more like this. You know what mean? And I, those people that aren't into college baseball, they're missing the true passion. I, in my opinion, you know, college base. Jacob Moreno: Yeah. Everybody though, I always hear that a lot of people prefer college sports over professional sports. Jason Corley: I don't watch, watch very little MLB, but we don't miss a ⁓ game. We will any big 12 baseball game that's on TV. We're watching that. Even if we're not, even if we're not paying all attention it, it's on like it's on. Does that make sense? Jacob Moreno: Yeah. Yeah, that's what last night we got home and we were watching that LSU Vandy game. Jason Corley: Yes, right. trust me, my kids know all of the MLB stars in the world. They know that they know. They don't know any college kids, any, but that the game is what we like that game better. We like the. ⁓ Jacob Moreno: Yeah. I think it's because that's the next step and we, you know what I mean? It's, yes, yes, it's right there. It's right there. You can touch it. Jason Corley: It's close. It's the most un-painable. It's yeah, it's a close. Yes. Yes. yes, there's way more of a, there's way more of an opportunity to make that dream a reality than to make the other dream a reality, I guess. and it just seems like, it just seems like the pageantry of college baseball, is closer to the world baseball classic pageantry. and like I said, you know, I was referring to Philly, like the only time it ever gets close to college level. ⁓ Jacob Moreno: Yup. Jason Corley: is when the Phillies are in the playoffs. That's when, you know, the city bar is it city park in Philadelphia. Jacob Moreno: No, city park is a mess. don't know what their field is. Jason Corley: Yeah, I'm not sure. I'm not sure what it is, but it's whenever, whenever the Phillies are in the playoffs, it usually gets pretty raw. Rock is there, but I don't even think New York. don't think Boston. don't think LA, maybe LA when ice cube came out for the world series, what was it two years ago? Like that crazy, but still at the same time, you're thinking that's just a bunch of rich people out there that all like, know, but anybody can go, anybody can drive up and for 12 bucks, buy a ticket to go to a WVU game against Arizona. Jacob Moreno: Yeah. Yep. Well, that's how it is here. Like going to Toledo, just going to Toledo, paying 10 bucks and you got a ticket. Or if you wait till third inning, if you wait till third inning, you get in for free. Yeah. Yep. Jason Corley: You know what mean? Like that's Right. Right. you're getting out. Right. And you get to watch D1 college baseball. Yeah. So I don't know. It's just I just was curious. I didn't know what the what what maybe the rationality was. Jacob Moreno: It's pride, man. I think it's pride. I think it's the flag, you know, the land you were born in, land that raised you. Jason Corley: Okay. Okay. Well, it would be interesting tonight. I mean, I, you know, I want, obviously I want the United States to do well. but I'm pretty sure, I'm pretty sure the boys are rooting for just as many Dominican players as ⁓ HUD has been a Tateeus guy since Tateeus ever came into the league. Like even when Tateeus went through the whole steroid thing, ⁓ never, HUD never left his side. Yeah. HUD's like, yep, we all make mistakes. I got you. You know what I mean? But now. Jacob Moreno: That's how brave Lee is. Yeah. Better than that. Yeah. Well, that's like, I mean, that's like Brantley. Brantley's a hobby bias guy. Not many people care for him. You know what I mean? But Brantley's, since he was in Chicago, Brantley's always been, and I mean, in Brantley's eyes, he can never do no wrong. Jason Corley: And that's the flash thing, you know, which is, think, you know what mean? It's because those like Tati's and Baez like they're very outspoken. They're very, um, boisterous, you know what I mean? And, um, that's just something that it's just, it's what attracts the kids. It's what attracts the kids. It's what makes it fun instead of being, uh, uh, I don't want to, you know, there's so many, there's so many things you can get in trouble for in the game of baseball. Like there's so many things that you can do wrong that it's like, Oh, Jacob Moreno: Mm-hmm. It's the new age of baseball. Yes. Yeah. Jason Corley: I just hit a bomb and now I can strut my stuff around the bases and flip this back. You know what mean? for one moment, for one moment, which... Jacob Moreno: Yeah. It's about me and whatever I want to do. Jason Corley: Because it's so hard to do. It's so hard to do. anyways, all right, man, let's get out of here. We've been on for a while and we got a lot. Yeah, we have a lot of content. I'm to chop a lot of this up because you and I, you and I were on the struggle bus for a few times today. yeah, we'll talk. Jacob Moreno: Yeah. Yep. Alright, hour 45. Yeah. Jason Corley: Okay. Love you. See you. Bye. Jacob Moreno: All right, man. Love you. See you. Bye.