Jason Corley: Welcome to the Travel Dads podcast. I'm your host, Jason Corley, alongside my amigo.

Jacob Moreno: Jacob Moreno. Bienvenidos a otro episodio de Travel Dead Podcast.

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Jacob Moreno: What's up dude? What's up man, how are you guys? good man, good little tired. I stayed up a little longer last night. Even though I went to bed at the bottom of the eighth of the game, I couldn't stay up no more man. I was tired.

Jason Corley: We turned it on. We turned it on in bed. think, yeah, I think the eighth we were like, all right, well, we can finish this in the bedroom. And if we fall asleep, we fall asleep. And I was laying in bed and Bryce hit that time home run. And I was just like, you got to be shitting me. Like, is this really going to happen? Like, is this? But I'll tell you, though, like, I don't know about you, but I know, like I I was very apparent from like the second inning after the first at bat, like after, ⁓ after that very first hard hit ball by Bobby Witt Jr. There was nothing else. I was just like, this is there. They don't have a, they don't.

Jacob Moreno: Ahem. It was just all little fluffers and soft, know, soft balls hit, man. was like.

Jason Corley: You think they're oppressing or what do think?

Jacob Moreno: I don't, I mean, it's still early. was early. Yeah, no, I get it. I get it. I mean, they might've been, I guess, like listening to the broadcast last night, they said a two-nothing lead after the sixth inning feels like a four-nothing lead.

Jason Corley: It's still baseball. You know?

Jacob Moreno: So I'm guessing, I mean, I'm guessing they were pressing and just, you know, just trying to who was going to be the, I don't necessarily say who's going be the hero, but who was the one that was going to get it done.

Jason Corley: Yeah, I did. You know, I was thinking about something last night, though, watching the game, you know, from my recollection of big games, playoff baseball in the major leagues. these Dominican, these Venezuelan, these Puerto Rican, pitchers. always seem to step up in the moments when it comes to the pitching side. Like forget about the hitting side, but I don't know what it is about. Man, I'm just like, I go all the way back like Pedro. You know what mean? Like I think of like Pedro and that's what stands out in my head. And like ever since him, it's almost like, it's almost like there's just, it's almost like the, the American, like the white boy, like he just like puckers up.

Jacob Moreno: Well, you got one job to do. You have one job to do. Go get it done. Yeah. Yeah.

Jason Corley: like in those moments when it comes to the pitching side of it, dude. I don't know what it is, you know? I mean, Skeens did awesome, but Skeens wasn't pitching in the last game either.

Jacob Moreno: Yeah, yeah, I mean, I mean, I guess. Yeah, I mean, I guess I would say, you know, especially like last night, like you're saying they ramped it up.

Jason Corley: That sounds really racial to you and I don't mean it to be racial, but it sounds really racial. Yeah.

Jacob Moreno: Yeah, I know what you meant. But ⁓ I was going to say, you know, especially like last night and stuff. They're playing. mean, they're wearing their country's jersey. You know, they're playing for pride, so they know that they got it's not just I guess in. I I when you play in the MLB, you only have ⁓ one as fans on your shoulders. These guys feel like they have a whole country. rooting on them, you know what I mean? And if they don't, they're not trying to, they're not trying to let their, you know, their country down, their people down.

Jason Corley: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. As far as the MLB goes, you know, I mean, I get it because, you know, you, tough because you can sell out for your club and then three months later, not even be, be completely. Yeah. Like think about going from like the Yankees to the Red Sox, to the Red Sox, the Yankees or any, you know what mean? The Dodgers to the, to the Padres like hated, hated organizations.

Jacob Moreno: not even be there. To the Padres, yeah.

Jason Corley: unless you're. a staple, like a Kershaw, you know I mean? Or something, or a jean or something like that. But yeah, I mean, you could just definitely tell that I, I'm not going to, you know, I'm not going to speak for any of the guys in the U S cause they're grown men and, you know, I'm not going to assume that they, to know how they feel. But I just, we talked about it the other night in the podcast. It's just a different, it's just a different level of pride when you get to other countries. And don't know if it's a, I don't know if it's an arrogance thing of the U S where we just assume.

Jacob Moreno: Yeah. Yeah.

Jason Corley: We're the best. we just what

Jacob Moreno: So it's funny you say that because I posted a reel on the Instagram and a buddy of mine commented, you know what, I'm gonna actually pull it up because I wanna read it because I laughed. was like, I guess I never thought of it this way. should have had it open.

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Jacob Moreno: ⁓ yeah, this is all new to me. I told you that all the time.

Jason Corley: You know, grabbing a microphone and putting us a heads and putting earphone or headphones on a lot of times it sounds easy, but then before you know it, they're having a conversation with you while they're holding the microphone over here off to the side. And you're like, it's almost like I dude, I've had this a thousand times in the past in archery. It's almost like you want to string and you want to pull the microphone back in front of their face. So, ⁓ we dealt with that last week a little bit, especially when we had the kids on, you know, the kids are really hard because they don't know how close to get to it. So.

Jacob Moreno: Way over here, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, they were here and then they would be back here.

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Jacob Moreno: Thank you, Baseline Sports. Yep. So we were talking, so the real was talking about, you know, the passion of the countries and all that. And I mean, it's pretty long. And I mean, I'm to give him a shout out. was B's 33 guy went to school with. He put, I think it's a cultural thing in general. Latin culture is big on flamboyance and celebration, et cetera. In the U.S. we scrutinize and analyze celebration in sports.

Jason Corley: the

Jacob Moreno: and debate on whether or not it's disrespectful, showing your opponent up, et cetera. We're raised to act like you've been there before. Don't bat flip. Don't look at your home run. Don't trot too slow and on and on. Everything you do as an American athlete is put under a microscope by your own people. I feel like athletes from Latin culture are primarily celebrated for any success they have. They just want to see their people do well. Our sports culture was built on tight asses back in the day. We're a different culture than we were back then, but it still takes a lot of effort to change old habits and thought processes. I think he hit it right. I mean, I think he got it right.

Jason Corley: That's a good, that's a... Yeah, because we see it in the youth sports sector. Like the parents of Latin American teams are very flamboyant, very loud, very, very proud of little. Yeah. And, and you're right. And it's always the American, it's always me when people like, no, I mean, it's the truth. And it's, people like me that are annoyed by it, or we feel like we should turn the music down a little bit more or.

Jacob Moreno: Very proud, very loud, very noisy. Yeah.

Jason Corley: You know, how dare we do this or, my God, don't you dare bat flip. Then everybody's going to think that you're when really honestly, it's like, just like we're, we're, we're sucking the fun out of all of it. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm getting, I'm getting better at it. I mean, I'm getting better at it to where I, and maybe I'm getting better at it now because the older we get, the harder it is to be successful in this game. So the success that you get should be celebrated because it's so hard.

Jacob Moreno: And then you got me, and you're like, turn the music up. You know, let's get loud. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Jason Corley: So, ⁓ but yeah, that's, that's a cool little thing. But yeah, last night was last night was, I don't want to say I was indifferent on it. mean, because as much as I wanted the U S to win, I also could tell like with everything that was going on with like the invasion of Venezuela over the last few months and stuff like that, I have a feeling those people needed that a little bit more than we did. So I was totally cool with it. Yeah.

Jacob Moreno: Yeah. ⁓ I 100 % agree with you, man. ⁓ They've seen a lot of change since the first of the year.

Jason Corley: Yeah. Yeah. And I think for them to even have to be in a position to be in this world baseball classic, you know what mean? Like politically, it probably could have been cock blocked a couple of different ways. And they're not only were they able to get in, but they were able to get in with their players from the MLB. So I just, yeah, I was, I was totally cool with it. It would have sucked losing to Korea or China, losing it.

Jacob Moreno: So. Yeah. Yeah. or Japan.

Jason Corley: Yeah, or lose it, but losing to Venezuela or the, you know, the, the D all.

Jacob Moreno: I feel better losing to a, to a Latin culture team. Yeah. Yeah. No, you're 100, no, you're 100 % right on that. You're supposed to compete with them, but still, you know, fall a little short, but I mean, it was a good game. was, it was a good game. And Brantley, Brantley was going for Venezuela and he woke up this morning and called me and he said, my Venezuelan poppies won the

Jason Corley: Yeah, because we're not supposed to beat them. I mean, yeah, I mean, I don't. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's. Yeah, yeah.

Jacob Moreno: world baseball classic. So yeah.

Jason Corley: Cool, cool, ⁓ well, listen, let's get into tonight's podcast because this is something that we actually flirted about, flirted with doing a while back and we just, yeah, we just kind of got off track of it, but we want to talk to you guys and we want to, we want to maybe shed some light on some answers from two dads that have been going through it. And I would say that if anybody is a gear whore, it's you and I.

Jacob Moreno: before.

Jason Corley: Like we, we are definitely gear whores. We are definitely the type of dads that if we think it's going to help our kid, we're definitely getting it or we're going to try it. think that I have tapered off a little bit over the last year to year and a half compared to what it was when HUD was nine. so Brooks is right. So Brooks is Brooks is unfortunately getting the shorter end of that stick.

Jacob Moreno: Yes. We're gonna buy it. Have to stand buying them gloves.

Jason Corley: ⁓ because I've learned my lessons, but we think that there's a lot of things out there that we could shed some light on and maybe give you guys some clarity with and give you our perspective of some gear. I, you make any notes? Cause I made a bunch of notes. ⁓ one of the, yeah. So, ⁓ but, ⁓ you know what, before we get into that, before we get into that, we got to talk about something. We got to talk about something very, very important. Do you know what that is? Jacob?

Jacob Moreno: Yeah, I did. I made a couple notes, yeah.

Jason Corley: petition.

Jacob Moreno: yes, come on. I think you need to sit on the, ⁓ need to walk up here and sit in front of everybody. ⁓

Jason Corley: We got... Okay, well first of all, your name's on this show too, pal. So, ⁓ you could have stopped. You could have... Okay, all right. All right, remember that then. Remember that. Yeah, because I don't even know if you signed it. I don't even know if you signed it, to be honest with you. Did you even sign it? Okay, all right. So...

Jacob Moreno: Yeah, well, but you're the one that hung yourself out there. No, no. No, we're in this together. I did. Yeah, I did. So yeah, I'm right there with you. Let's go.

Jason Corley: So first and foremost folks, Jacob and I tried to take it to, try to listen. We tried to listen ⁓ the comment. Well, first of all, I don't know about you, but I read every single comment ⁓ I try to actually like, whether I disagree with them or agree with them. As a matter of fact, ⁓ and me and a guy on, I think Instagram had a little bit of back and forth on disagreement. And I said, and I, and I liked his comment when he disagreed with me. Okay. And it had to do with stay to play.

Jacob Moreno: So do I. I like them too.

Jason Corley: Okay. He was definitely on the side of infrastructure and capitalism and I was not. And I said, said, look, and I loved his comment. we were able to disagree without starting a riot. You know what mean? Or causing world war three. Like this is how it should be. We should be able to have a conversation, ⁓ not agree on it and walk away ⁓ just like that.

Jacob Moreno: Yeah. Yeah, you should be able to agree to disagree and still have your own opinions.

Jason Corley: It's that's the goal. It's not always accomplished, but that's definitely the goal. So we try to pay attention to you guys. And we've started this podcast, it has been ⁓ apparent that ⁓ majority of people that are listening, which are the thousands now have a problem with state of play policies. Okay. The state of play policies and use sports. And it has not just been around travel baseball. It's also I've heard, ⁓ heard from AAU.

Jacob Moreno: Yes. No, it's softball. I heard softball, A, U, volleyball, soccer, like.

Jason Corley: Yep. And yes, yes. So we've heard about it from, from everybody. And I said on my video the other night that I would love for this podcast to be more than just you and I bitching and moaning about things without ever maybe possibly ever getting any change done. Cause then what's the point? Is this just to calm me out? Right? What's the point of this? The point of this is, to make this game better for them by the time they, you know, by the time they're done.

Jacob Moreno: What's the point of this? Yeah.

Jason Corley: Um, and leave it in a position that yeah, then 100%, I have got 10 more years of this. I've got an eight year old, so I've got a long time and there's a lot of things that can change in 10 years. So we, I took it upon myself. I'll, I'll leave Jacob out of that part of it. Okay. I I took it upon my, we took it upon ourselves to go ahead and start the petition because we, literally just flew out of my mouth the other night and I said, well,

Jacob Moreno: Yeah, leave it for the next, you know, for the next younger kids to be better and the next parents that are. No, you don't do that. This is us. We did it. We did it.

Jason Corley: Maybe we'll start the travel dad's podcast petition to change state of play. ⁓ honestly, folks, I honestly, with all, with everything inside of my being, I thought I was going to wake up that next morning. And I thought, ⁓ thought, I thought that not only was it going to be, I thought it was going to blow the doors off of it, but then I thought too, that there were going to be people from different organizations knocking on my door, threatening.

Jacob Moreno: and be thousands upon thousands.

Jason Corley: to shut us down and you know, all of a sudden, I seriously did. thought, well, even though we've, we've fought for the first amendment, you know, and, that I think we've crossed that bridge from when Jack Dorsey owned Twitter and everybody was getting censored and now we can have our freedom of speech to, we're going to go right back to where it was when I was in DC on January 6th, which relaxed people. wasn't there because I was there photographing. But anyways, that's another podcast. That's a great podcast. We could sell that podcast.

Jacob Moreno: Yep. Yeah, we could.

Jason Corley: If I sit down and tell my story about being in DC on the six with my camera gear.

Jacob Moreno: When you just said people, organizations knocking at your door, I was going to say like that one time.

Jason Corley: Yeah. Yeah. When the FBI was here before I even got home from DC. Yeah. And they left their card with my mother-in-law. Yeah. That was awesome folks. That was awesome. So that's another whole podcast. We could probably sell that singular podcast for probably a half a million dollars in advertising because I could go through detailed hour by hour and I could show the pictures and all this other stuff. So anyways, I thought that's what was going to happen. You know what happened, Jacob?

Jacob Moreno: Yeah. Thank Yeah. I know because you called me the next morning and you said, we have eight signatures.

Jason Corley: 8 8 the next morning so with this microphone

Jacob Moreno: But how many views did the petition have?

Jason Corley: Hold on, bro. Hold on, bro. We're going to get there. I'm to go through the numbers because I just snapped a photo before we got on and did this podcast. So, have been thousands ⁓ people that have viewed that information. Okay. So we put this on reels and we put this on a video. get a separate video explaining exactly how to do it. All of that stuff. Okay. If you go through and look at the, the analytics, which we can pull up. I ⁓ last night, paid another

Jacob Moreno: we all can pull out.

Jason Corley: I paid another hundred dollars for another service with this podcast in order to be able to get numbers for our sponsors. Okay. Well, with these things, it shows every number for every video, every reel, every post. So ⁓ post about the petition got in front of a lot of eyeballs. Every that I posted it to of like group on Facebook, every single one of them approved it and shared it.

Jacob Moreno: Yep.

Jason Corley: So normally they're pretty picky about the stuff that they're going to post on their group. Every single one of them proved it and shared it. And you could see.

Jacob Moreno: So apparently they thought this was a good petition too.

Jason Corley: Apparently they thought, this is good. Well, even if they didn't think it was a good petition, they thought this is great for their analytical numbers. Cause this is going to. Okay. So, out of all of that, out of all of that, I, I talked to you and I think we were what we were 18, 18 and I two of them from two different email accounts. So we were. Yeah. So, ⁓ I was very frustrated because I feel like you and I.

Jacob Moreno: Yeah. 18, yes. I was one.

Jason Corley: put ourselves out there, fighting a cause that everybody agreed with and nobody came to our defense. So with that being said, on behalf of the travel dad podcast, Jacob and Jason, I to publicly apologize to PG, you S a ⁓ USA ripkin. else I leaving out? TBS ⁓ TBR.

Jacob Moreno: Yep. Yep. You trick. TBS, TBR, like.

Jason Corley: Any any of them, bullpen bullpen's another big one because we we we ran after them bullpen any I don't care whoever it is monster factory monster mash. I don't care whoever it is Anybody that is a tournament organizer who ⁓ uses of play policy? In any way shape or form You were right We were the dumbasses We were the dumbasses that thought that this would

Jacob Moreno: Bullpen. Stay to play. Mm-hmm.

Jason Corley: ever implement any change. that being said, I publicly apologize. Jacob publicly apologize. Yes. clearly you, you ⁓ are right. ⁓ And, and am not sarcastic in any way, or form. mean this genuinely clearly you're right. Everybody wants to bitch and moan it, but nobody wants to do anything about it. ⁓ I know every single, and I get it because when I looked at this before we got on the air, okay.

Jacob Moreno: I publicly apologize as well, so.

Jason Corley: I went to, I went to the website and I'll tell you this as of, as of tonight at 6 15 PM, 35 signatures, 35 signatures, 162 people went to the petition and read it and then decided, yeah, I don't want, I don't want, I don't want to, I don't want to my name on that. I know every single human being that signed this petition. A lot of them are our friends. Some of them are our teammates.

Jacob Moreno: you

Jason Corley: There's actually a coach on here and there's a lot of other coaches that are not on here. You heard me right and you know who you are. Okay. There are coaches who are not on here.

Jacob Moreno: Mm.

Jason Corley: numbers. So I just want you to know those of you that did, they did take the the 40 seconds it takes to sign that petition. I thank you. Thank you. You didn't have to stick your name on it, but you did. I know who you are. I'm not going to put your name out there because you may not want to. I will say one person's name that I know for fact signed it and they don't care because they support everything we do, the Bobecks and the Howard's. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for being like, yes, I hate that. I want to be a part of it. So you've never met the Bobecks.

Jacob Moreno: Thank you. Thank you guys.

Jason Corley: not. You will eventually. will eventually when you do you're gonna love them because they're amazing people. But so yeah so I'm killing that thing because it's clearly it's clearly not a priority it's just a great talk.

Jacob Moreno: I guess it's more just, ⁓ I guess people just want it as a conversation or a topic of conversation instead of making a change. Because I mean, how many times, I mean, like I said, we said last podcast, how many times have we talked to people and not even just from our team, just people at hotels talk about, we hate the state of play this and that. Well, here was your chance. And you guys made us eat crow.

Jason Corley: It's a topic. Yeah, I don't. And maybe. Yep. Yep. So yeah, Yeah. Yeah. It just, that was very, very frustrating that, I mean, my God, dude, I say you would like, was like reclassing and state of play were like ⁓ ⁓ like ⁓ and neck for fighting for the most outrage, most outrage.

Jacob Moreno: neck and neck I'm glad we didn't make a petition to ban reclassing.

Jason Corley: It wouldn't matter. We could do it tonight and it wouldn't go anywhere. So yeah, we'd have six people on there that have a problem with it. yeah. So anyways, we're just going to stick. We're just going to stay in our lane

Jacob Moreno: We have six signatures. Yeah.

Jason Corley: because felt like. As much heat as we brought to that cause in the name of those organizations, we need to retract that, take it back and say, that's, know what? We apologize. We never should have, we never should have brought it up. And you know what? You're not going to hear about it from us again. So there it is.

Jacob Moreno: It was our bad. We got out further than we thought we could.

Jason Corley: Yeah, you're just, not going to hear it. Yeah. I'm not going to, I'm not going to waste any of my gigabytes on that bullshitting. So, ⁓ somebody else can pick that, pick that up. tonight equipment, bro, equipment, we got to talk about equipment because there's a lot of things that we have wasted money on. ⁓ over the years, there's a lot of things that if we could do, you know what, dude, real quick, why you tell everybody about our sponsor before we get into this.

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Jason Corley: Yes you did. right, so let's get into this. where do you want to start first? Because I have, I have a couple of things. I have some props that I brought into with me, as you can see over my shoulder right there. There's a couple of props there and then there's a whole table here full of props. ⁓ go ahead. ⁓ All right. So first and foremost.

Jacob Moreno: I see them. I see them. I'll let you start.

Jason Corley: I am going to start on, the absolute must haves that I came up with. There are a couple of must haves and we can, we can elaborate on these as I tell you what they are, but these are just straight, straight off the rack. These are things that I think that if you're getting into it or maybe, and if you think that they're posh and if you think that they're boozy, then you can call me out for that. Okay. But, ⁓ the first, first thing I have on my list, and this is not, this is, this is

Jacob Moreno: Yeah. Are we okay? So before you start, we because I saw your real earlier. Where are we starting with this? Are we starting with equipment or are we starting with? Except okay, except that's okay. Okay, then I got go ahead.

Jason Corley: Accessories. Yeah. I'm saving the equipment for the end because that's going to take the most of my time. I don't want, I don't, I yeah. The bats and the gloves that we are going to talk about are going to take up way more time. So these are, these are the bougie accessories. Okay. The number one thing is a hat caddy, like a hat caddy. And you know what I'm talking about? The,

Jacob Moreno: Okay. ⁓ yeah, where the kids put their hats in.

Jason Corley: Yes. Like you like, cause the way we come, we come five uniforms deep to a tournament and there's five hats. and then there's your hats and my hats and everybody ⁓ hats. ⁓ hat caddy for me. if I find a link and I'll put the picture up on the, up on the podcast video of that. another one ⁓ is an must have is a backpack cooler. It can't bro. I got, I got you into those.

Jacob Moreno: Yeah. Yeah. ⁓ yes. Yeah. Yes you did and you actually have one that I was still supposed to get off of you. ⁓ Is it? No. No backpack. Backpack coolers are a must man. Makes it so much easier and you can use it. You can use it as a carry on on a flight. I do all the time.

Jason Corley: You that was gone. Yeah, I've done sold that one. Yeah, that was big. I think it's way gone. I have one of the originals. ⁓ Yes. So much easier. Boom. If you're flying anywhere. Yes. Yes, you do. And, uh, we, this first started in Texas flying out to the Houston 1000, but I have been, um, a Yeti pro staffer since 2012, 13 back in the archery days. And I've always been with him. I've always been with them and I've been with, uh, the outdoor group and elite archery for years. Okay. I don't, hopefully that never changes. So I am a Yeti guy. I will always be a Yeti guy. Okay. I'm not going to buy Grizzly. I'm not going to buy the other brands. I am going to stick with Yeti. Now call that for what it is. I'm going to buy Yeti stuff. I'm going to buy Yeti stuff because they support me. So with that being said, Yeti's first backpack cooler was a square. It didn't have the flaps and I still to this day have it. And it is the greatest cooler I've ever owned in my entire life.

Jacob Moreno: I'm not a Yeti staffer. OJ Okay. Yeah, I mean you carry that one everywhere, You always have it.

Jason Corley: I use it, I use it as a carry on and I actually pack my camera gear in that when I'm flying and carry that on my back. Yep.

Jacob Moreno: Yep. ⁓ well, that's like that one. That's like that one we bought at Sports in Houston. I mean, which I don't know the brand, but that was a good one too. And I still, ⁓ going down with me. It's going down with me this weekend. We'll take it.

Jason Corley: Academy. Yeah. Yeah, you still have it, I think. Yeah, it almost looks like a, it almost looks like a hook fishing brand kind of. It's got. Yeah. Yeah. So backpack cooler is a must. Forget about throwing those things over your shoulders. The, the satchel ones and, and, and asking, you know, asking your, your father-in-law who's there for the tournament to help grab a handle and carry the other one in, um, every once in a while, when we go to Mississippi or we shouldn't say we're not going there this year, but we, we go to.

Jacob Moreno: Yeah, it is a fish, it's a fishing cooler. the straps, the totes and... You See your big tournaments.

Jason Corley: When we go to PGI or when we go to the world series and we're driving, we will take our big one that is on wheels in a handle because Lindsay will pack a whole day's worth of food and those things so that we don't have to spend the money. outside of that, if we're traveling close or we're on an airplane or it's a great, it's just a weekend tournament. The backpack cooler is an absolute must. My next one on here, is,

Jacob Moreno: the World Series.

Jason Corley: stadium chairs. Okay. So I am, ⁓ Stadium chairs and there are good ones and there are bad ones. The good one, the, the bat. So you guys are going to see a lot of people over the last couple of years, they've gotten into these stadium chairs that have the, the arm rests on them and they're big and puffy and they're tall and you strap them on your back almost like a flat backpack. And then when you get there, they, those ⁓ those they'll suck. tear.

Jacob Moreno: Yes. Yes.

Jason Corley: I'm telling you, it simple, keep it small, keep it light. If you go in there heavy, you're going to regret it. You're going to regret it. do you have any accessories that are must haves?

Jacob Moreno: ⁓ I don't usually carry on, I know a lot of people do that say they must pop up tents.

Jason Corley: See, I think they're overrated.

Jacob Moreno: You like the pods better?

Jason Corley: No, I'm saying I hate him. That's what I'm saying. You're about the pods.

Jacob Moreno: No, no, no, I'm talking about the pop-up like the canopies.

Jason Corley: Canopies. Yeah. See, I'm not Dom brings one whenever he drives down brings a smaller version one. I want to say it's like an eight foot by eight foot. It's not really that big cause he throws in the back of his Escalade or his Yukon or I don't remember what it is. I mean, I love it when a parent brings them, but my ass is not hauling that thing around. Like I, I'm just not, ⁓ I'm also also because I'm not sitting still that long. ⁓

Jacob Moreno: Yes. Yeah. No, you're pacing back and forth everywhere. You're going back and forth.

Jason Corley: My ass ain't staying underneath any tent. So I'm not going to take it. ⁓ I thought you were talking about the pot.

Jacob Moreno: I'll tell you one must have, I'll tell you one, or go ahead, what were you saying?

Jason Corley: What's that? I was going say the pods. hate the pods, the weather pods. My wife has one and she, does put our camera gear in it when the weather's bad because we used to play so much at Grand Park. That was why we got the weather pod because it would snow or rain all the time at Grand Park in Indiana. and she would also stick Brooks in there with a heater when it was cold and he would be on the iPad or something during the game when he had no interest. But ⁓ I, I'm not a fan of any of the shelter things.

Jacob Moreno: Yeah.

Jason Corley: But that's also because you guys have heard in podcasts before I had this policy that if the boys are in it, then I'm in it. So if they're going to play in it, then I'm going to stand in and watch them play in it. I'm not going to pretend to, I'm not going to, I don't want them to think that I'm enjoying life while they're miserable. So that's my thing. But what do you, what did you have?

Jacob Moreno: Yeah. biggest one for us is a wagon.

Jason Corley: Dude, you and the wagons, man. See? Yeah. Lindsay's all about that wagon too. Yeah.

Jacob Moreno: I like the wagon man. I like the wagon man. That wagon, you put everything in there. I mean, especially for me though, especially for me, it's like playing late. know, Brantley's tired. I could just throw his big bag right in the wagon. yeah, I mean, I know it does, but still.

Jason Corley: Indeed. But his big bag's got wheels on it! His big bag is a wagon.

Jacob Moreno: Is is yeah, you're yeah, you're right about that. ⁓

Jason Corley: Just empty some of that shit out and take that thing.

Jacob Moreno: I the wagon man. can carry, I can put my chairs right in there. I don't have to carry the chairs. The cooler, the little cooler we bring.

Jason Corley: Okay. This one's for the, this one's for the wives. Okay. This one's for the wives. This came from Lindsay. So I'm supposed to pass this one on to you. An absolute must have for the moms the purse. That's like, it says literally right here. It's a purse. That's like a fanny pack, but it's for your boobs. It goes over top your boobs. It's like one of these fanny pack. I don't whatever they're called. Yeah. Cross body purse. ⁓

Jacob Moreno: So like a cross body. Yeah, it's like a cross-body purse.

Jason Corley: What are you looking at me like that for? I'll put it, I'll put it. don't know. I don't know if baseline sports has got boots perbs or purse boobs on here. Okay. So apparently, yes, Lindsay said to make sure to pass that on to all the wives out there, all the moms out there, everybody, all the women out there that there's this purse that it's just absolutely essential.

Jacob Moreno: Cause I'm just, I know, I know, like I know this. They're just cross-body purses, man. They just, they go right here.

Jason Corley: because then you have two more free hands to carry more shit. ⁓

Jacob Moreno: Yeah Now she can, but she can use it cause she can carry the camera in one hand and something else in the other hand.

Jason Corley: Yeah, yeah, I don't know but I just thought it was but ⁓ i'm trying to think here. ⁓ yeah, go ahead

Jacob Moreno: I got one, I got one, especially if you go play down south. I know I don't need it, but a lot of people have it sunscreened.

Jason Corley: Yeah, dumbass. Duh. Yeah. Sunscreen and bug spray. Sunscreen and bug spray. You always got to have bug spray with you, especially, yeah, especially in, you know, in those, in the early spring time. yeah. Yeah. The bug spray is a big deal. for those of you that. Yeah. No, for the, if you're playing in Grand Park, it's probably best to invest in a heated vest. ⁓ heated vest.

Jacob Moreno: You and bug spray. And if you live up north... go ahead. I was just gonna say that, or a heater for your team. think we were the only team that ever had a heater in our dugout for the boys.

Jason Corley: Bro, Scott, I was just talking to Scott on the phone, not yesterday, the day before about something along these lines because he's trying to plan a tournament at Grand Park. When we get back from Georgia for our 12s, cause they haven't played in a while. And, and he was just like, he was just like, it doesn't even matter what's going to happen because I got Corley. Corley is going to have the heater if we did it. So it's just, ⁓ yeah. ⁓ I am the dad that shows up to the field with the torpedo heater. and rolls at some bitch into the dugout for the boys. That's just, yeah, it's just me. If there, I come from a construction industry and a construction background. And if there is a tool to make your life easier, I will provide that tool so that we can get the job done. That is just how it is. So there will be heaters, there will be fans when it's hot, all that stuff. So,

Jacob Moreno: Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Jason Corley: Yeah, those are, those are some essential things. there are some stadium seats, like we, we have the stadium seats. Ours are from Snap-On and our stadium seats have the battery packs that go, that are the Milwaukee 12 volt battery pack. So our stadium seats can actually heat, but those are more for football season and less about baseball season. But, yeah, so those are just some of the other, just some of the little essentials that I was thinking about. ⁓ I, another reason.

Jacob Moreno: Cooling towels. Cooling towels.

Jason Corley: Another what's that? cooling towels. there are good ones.

Jacob Moreno: That, I mean, we're taking some with us too this weekend. I it's only supposed to be 80, but you never know.

Jason Corley: Yeah, it's just, you know, especially, especially at the beginning of the year, your body's not acclimated to it yet. So you, it's a little overwhelming. Like when we were in Florida, the boys weren't ready for that yet, you know, and that was an odd weekend. It was beautiful and hot and you know, the locals were even like, this is not normal for this time of year. So yeah, it'll be a little bit different. Is it really supposed to be 80 this weekend?

Jacob Moreno: Yeah. the Sunday is supposed to be 80, 78 on Saturday. And then it's supposed to drop down to 56 Saturday night. Oh, I can't.

Jason Corley: Can't wait. I cannot wait. ⁓ Okay. Okay. All right. another essential, another essential is, is, invest in great rain gear, investing great rain gear. ⁓ have this. ⁓ Yeah. if you get the right rain gear, the right rain gear can cut the wind and you can layer up underneath and not have to have both. So I get made fun of every single time I bring this shit out, but I have been bringing it out since I met.

Jacob Moreno: Just not even rain gear, cold gear, man. Your camo shit?

Jason Corley: Yes. I, so another one of my partners from back in the archery days is Kuyu. They are still a partner of mine and I have had the best rain gear Kuyu has had to offer since 2012. And I wear it. I still wear it when it gets nasty out and everybody makes fun of me. But then about the third inning, they're asking where the link is that they can go order it. So yeah. And does it come in other colors? So. ⁓

Jacob Moreno: Yeah, because all we see is your face and feet when you put that on. Yeah, yeah. ⁓

Jason Corley: Bro, but and I'm dry and I'm warm. So If you play anywhere I don't know what it's like to play in Texas in the summertime but like the Florida when ⁓ can rain every 20 minutes ⁓ Throughout the Carolinas in the springtime, know stuff like that And then obviously if you're anywhere in the Midwest playing at Grand Park, you've got to have you've got to have ⁓ no, I mean you've got to have access

Jacob Moreno: Top of the line, man.

Jason Corley: to every scenario because you could cover.

Jacob Moreno: ⁓ yeah, we could have all four seasons in one day.

Jason Corley: Literally, literally. Yes. So, okay. Let's get into now let's get into the fun stuff. Let's get into what do want to do? You want to talk about bats or gloves first? Okay. Let's talk about bats. So, first of all, for those of you that need the advice, Jacob, are you aware of, of how to help somebody figure out what size to get their eight or nine year old? Do you know the

Jacob Moreno: Let's go to Bats first. I've always read it like when we go buy one, you know, they have the little or whatever and you're supposed to go from like your chest to your arm and then hold it. But. ⁓

Jason Corley: Yeah. Okay, so I'm going to show you, I'm going to show you guys. I'm going to grab.

Jacob Moreno: I've always been the type of person to wing it.

Jason Corley: me too. Me too. But hold on. Go ahead.

Jacob Moreno: Okay. Okay. So yeah, so I mean, you're supposed to grab it. Let's see. Here he comes.

Jason Corley: Hey, why don't you also, don't you also real quick while I'm getting set up, why don't you tell them the difference between you trip in USA? Cause that's a big deal. Cause a lot of parents go into ⁓ store or they might get onto baseline sports.us again, great plug. ⁓ and, ⁓ order something and not be paying attention and buy the wrong bat for the wrong organization. ⁓

Jacob Moreno: Mm-hmm. So you triple S A bats Essentially hotter there. The regulation is a little I'm gonna say a little lenient I mean they're you triple say baths are made for travel and select leagues so ⁓

Jason Corley: Yeah. And it says, and it's always going to say folks, it's always going to be stamped on the bat. And if you go to a big sporting goods store, they're going to have them separated by section. But the problem is, is that you get kids in there swinging these things around and the kids don't put them back in the right spot. So you might think you're buying the U trip bat and you walk out and you just paid for a USA bat and you're wondering why does my bet suck? And the exact same thing that his buddy has at third base is hotter than a piss missile. That's why.

Jacob Moreno: Mm-hmm. Yeah, and U-triple S-A bats are made are higher performance and hotter.

Jason Corley: Yeah. They're just made with a different, yeah, they're made, they're made with a different material and it's a safety thing. that's also why, you know, USA based. Go ahead.

Jacob Moreno: So this says in a Bats feature, Stricter would like performance standards designed for recreational. So a USA bat is more of a ⁓ league bat, but also when you play the USA Cary and stuff, they use USA bats.

Jason Corley: Yeah. And the little league world series is USA bats. So it's all, it all stems from being associated with little league.org. ⁓ yeah, it's a safer bat. It's just, it's, it's less. It is.

Jacob Moreno: Yep. Which is safer. It is. mean, we just had this, I mean, go ahead.

Jason Corley: No, it's a thousand percent. It's a safer bet.

Jacob Moreno: Yeah, and I just, know, people have been ever since we talked about the comment when we were talking about King for the day about changing bats for, you know, the different ages. A lot of people chimed also on the U triple SA bats on why every year they keep getting hotter and hotter when these kids are getting bigger and bigger, especially the drop fives. ⁓ There's about a drop five bat that just seems to. Every bad day in makeup is hot.

Jason Corley: Yeah. I was just watching the Bat Bros about this new Soldier Tank Bat, the black and gold one.

Jacob Moreno: ⁓ that bet it, I don't even know how it passes.

Jason Corley: Well, a hundred and one 29 bat velocity. that's. So you think about that, that sounds, I understand that most people are like, ⁓ my God, I got to get that bat. But I want you to think about your, I want you to think about your 13 year old kid standing on the mound who just, who just accidentally threw a hanger and it didn't break. And so it hung there. And then you have a 14 year old who is reclassed.

Jacob Moreno: Yeah, 530 feet. or another 13 year old. okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Jason Corley: no, let's give a worst case scenario. ⁓ know what mean? You got a pitcher in the mound ⁓ hung a breaking ball ⁓ over in the meat socket. And then you've got a 14 year old who's reclassed into the 13U and standing there with this kind of a bat and that thing goes straight back up. There is zero room for error when it comes to that. So, and I don't want to frighten anybody when it comes to this stuff, but it is a reality. We have seen Unfortunately, we have seen some kids really have close calls. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I'll never forget that day we saw Trav take that one to the hand in Texas. mean, had he had Trav not had his had Trav not have his follow through the way it was, he could have taken that, but the way he follows through with his glove hand ⁓ it just, ⁓ my gosh, that was.

Jacob Moreno: Get hurt, Yeah, or get hurt, yeah. ⁓ yeah, that was right by his face, ⁓ he could,

Jason Corley: That was one of, I've seen some bad ones, but that one was the one where when it hit and it cracked, you thought worst case scenario. And I'll never forget watching his dad, Joe jumped the fence and just be like, you know, and it's so anyways, yeah. So bats, HUD is not a bat whore. my kids are not my, ⁓ my kids not really bat horse. They don't need four or five bats and they don't change every year.

Jacob Moreno: Yeah. Yeah.

Jason Corley: Actually, I've trained my son well. My son's favorite bat doesn't even belong to him. didn't have to pay for it. Neither did I. So his favorite bat because it's Geno's it's the bat that Gino doesn't use. So it's that Supra. Yeah. It's the Supra drop eight. ⁓ it's the bat they started using last year. He had a lot of success with it. so like the bat that he trains with.

Jacob Moreno: is Marucci. What bad is that? ⁓ the Supra. Sounds like he had a lot of success with it this year already too.

Jason Corley: And Gino doesn't use it. Gino doesn't use it like at all. So I'm actually going to talk to Dom about letting us bring that thing home after the next one so that we can at least continue to train with it because HUD doesn't even train with it. HUD trains with his cat, his cat X2, I think it is, that is also drop eight. But bro, you know that those aluminums in the composites, they swing differently. They sw... Yeah. ⁓

Jacob Moreno: Yeah, yeah, and Hud's always been ⁓ a cat, a Marucci guy. since he first, ever since he, yeah, since he was a nine.

Jason Corley: He always has until the super. Yeah. He, ⁓ as something about the end, I feel like the cat X's are, and like he started with the cat seven is what he started with. tells you how far back my son has gone with Marucci. think he, he always said that it was ⁓ was, and it was more end heavy for him. It was more whiffle ballish style. ⁓

Jacob Moreno: Yeah. Yeah, and it got him through the zone.

Jason Corley: Yeah. wasn't, which is also why he fell in love with this for a year because this was very unloaded as well. we don't use, we have a lot of bats. don't use my son Brooks. He swings. My son is eight ⁓ he swings a 30 drop 10. Hype fire. ⁓

Jacob Moreno: Does he swing hype I gifted him?

Jason Corley: Oh, no, the old one, HUD's old one. Cause the one you gifted him, the one you give to him was a 28. He's in a 30 now. Yeah. Dude's in a 30. Yeah. So he has. Yeah. He has that 29 hype fire right there that, um, uh, there is a coach in town. Um, Ben Menard, uh, the head coach of the 12 U.

Jacob Moreno: Oh, that other one was a 28 or 29. Yeah. Okay. He's probably going to be at a 31 next year.

Jason Corley: Christ the King travel ball team. think I said that right. Christ the King. he found out Brooks needed that last year before we went somewhere and called, I put a post out and I said, is anybody have a 29 drop 10 hype fire? I need it for a tournament. ⁓ And was been, Ben's a coach and Ben's like, ⁓ stop over to the house. I got something for you. And he gave that one to Brooks. So Brooks uses that one too.

Jacob Moreno: ⁓ that's cool.

Jason Corley: That one stays in Brooks's bag, but Brooks feels a lot more comfortable right now with the 30. So, but they're, they're both the hype. They're both the hype. Brooks just loves that feel. So that's the one that he likes. are there certain bats that you would stay away from that you could help parents stay away from?

Jacob Moreno: ⁓ that I would stay away from. Yeah. ⁓ let me, I haven't pulled. have.

Jason Corley: I'm not a fan of any of those Zens. How many of those Zens have we busted over the years?

Jacob Moreno: we busted a bunch of them. ⁓ used to be one of Bradley's favorite bats. And then they just started breaking and was like, yeah, I'm done. This one. This one.

Jason Corley: Yeah, yeah. Yeah. The green, ⁓ what was the, what was the one, was the Louisville one before the green one? What was the one before that? Wasn't it yellow or red or was it orange?

Jacob Moreno: It's the orange one. It's the one Brantley swung. Brantley swung. then last year he got on my phone and was on Facebook market looking for something. And we ended up finding a 31 drop eight. And the kid wanted 15 bucks. So I bought it. And that's what he's swinging out. he was just on Facebook market the other day and found another one.

Jason Corley: Yeah.

Jacob Moreno: So he's like, loved that orange bad is probably his favorite one, that one. then.

Jason Corley: Okay. But for, for, ⁓ but I mean, I think you can co-sign this. There was a group, there was a period of time about four or five years where demerini could not figure out their glue process right here where the junctions, the barrel caps breaking or the would pop off. It was one of the two ⁓

Jacob Moreno: Yes, and the barrel cap, handle cap, yep. And then this one too, man, this one was the Louisville, like this, I mean, this is crack. This has a big old crack in it. But this one too was not, Louisville messed up with this matter.

Jason Corley: Yeah. The meta, that was the name of it. Yeah. The meta. Cause we were seeing those all over Texas when we went there early. Yeah. Yep. Nolan, Nolan Schroeder swung that thing forever.

Jacob Moreno: The green one, that green one specific and it sounded dead. You know, it sounded dead and, and now this was the one, this is the meta Brantley swung last year.

Jason Corley: Okay, that's their new that's the new version of it.

Jacob Moreno: This is the one after the green one. And he liked it, but I mean, it's a 30 and he needs a 31 now.

Jason Corley: Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know what was going on with Dean Marini for a long time, but they couldn't, they couldn't figure it out. ⁓ we have personally never once had a Marucci bat break, which is probably why we kept going to him. ⁓ huh. Why?

Jacob Moreno: That's a lie. That's a lie. That's a lie. You've had one break.

Jason Corley: Dating Texas.

Jacob Moreno: in Texas and you had to make an emergency call to Dicks to tell them to hold that bat for you.

Jason Corley: Yeah, but I have a question for you though. That wasn't baseball related though, was it? Wasn't that a kid at the cage? Okay. Okay. All right. All right.

Jacob Moreno: Yeah, he hit the ball. No, that was in the game. because then he went to his aluminum one. And you're like, why did you go to your aluminum?

Jason Corley: yes, the composite one. See that was the only, that was the only Caddx in composite we've ever owned and that one broke. You're right. You're right.

Jacob Moreno: The compass. and it broke and then you had to make, you searched it, you got on the website, you looked and they had one.

Jason Corley: Yeah. Yeah. I drove 101 miles an hour down that freeway. Yeah.

Jacob Moreno: Yep. You made the call and he asked them to hold it for you and they did.

Jason Corley: Yeah, they did. They did. Yeah. I had to drive like 20 minutes from we were in Reynolds. Uh, no tumble. I think we were in tumble, Texas. I'm all Texas. Yeah. To get to find this dicks that had a bat and, uh, yeah. And thanks to aunt Janet for helping out that time. Um, so, um, yeah. Uh, but, um, Caddx, uh, if you're, you know, if your parent dealing with this stuff,

Jacob Moreno: We were in time ball, yeah. And you had to go almost to the other side of Houston. We haven't. Yeah.

Jason Corley: I like anything in the Marucci line. I like anything in the Easton line. Let me tell you guys a little, a little backstory here about my experience with Easton. Okay. ⁓ for those of you that don't like Easton. So I have known Easton since I was a child and not just forget about the baseball side. You guys have got to understand that Easton is also Easton archery. Okay. Easton has been the leader in forefront of composite. an aluminum, um, technology for, for decades. Think go all the way back to Fred bear and the double X 75s. So if there is a reason, what's that.

Jacob Moreno: I don't even know what you lost me. You lost me. okay. Okay.

Jason Corley: Fred bear nurture. Okay. Fred bear. ⁓ so I'm talking a hundred years. Easton has been in the game ⁓ perfecting it, sourcing out the best aluminum, sourcing out the best composite, sourcing out the best carbon, all of this stuff. Eastern has been doing now, even though they're two separate divisions, the scientists still talk together. Okay. ⁓ though archery is different than baseball and sports, it still has the same last name.

Jacob Moreno: Yeah.

Jason Corley: Okay. And it's still, it still comes from the same, the same tree. So when I tell you that this, the Easton has been around for years and years and years, they're not a fly by the seat of the pants. didn't just pop up. It wasn't just something off a team mood that somebody rebranded. You cannot go wrong with Easton products. And I'm going to say that across the board when it comes to bats, my son doesn't prefer them, but that's just cause he doesn't, I didn't, I also didn't prefer shooting an Eastern arrow. liked vapor trail or I liked.

Jacob Moreno: But your youngest, your youngest likes the Eastons.

Jason Corley: But he loves him. He loves him. And if push came to shove, is going to grab his hype and he's going to hit with it. You know what I mean? So like if there's a, you know, if we get to a spot where, you know, HUD struggling, HUD might grab his hype just to get back on track. You don't know. So, yeah. So as far as bats go, I would say that there are, this is one of those things where I wanted to go back to this. There is a rule of thumb. Somebody taught me a long time ago.

Jacob Moreno: Yeah.

Jason Corley: that if you are trying to figure out what size back to get your kid, I'm going to show you guys a little trick. Okay. And that is, is that if you're standing in a store or sporting goods store, or if you have a similar size at home before you get on baseline spot baseline, um, babe, thank you, Jacob. So have them do this, take their right hand, their hitting hand. I'm going to have to get up and show you guys. Okay. Cause I can't do this sitting down.

Jacob Moreno: baseline sports.us

Jason Corley: Okay, so have them take their right hand, hold the bat straight out. If it drops, if they can't hold it up, that bat's too heavy. If they can't keep that bat straight out, then this bat is too heavy for your kid, okay? And then the other thing that Jacob was talking about, have them grab the cap here and hold it out, okay? The bat should not come.

Jacob Moreno: Yup.

Jason Corley: The bat shouldn't be out here and the bat shouldn't be all the way over here. The bats should be front of their chest, right there. Okay? So that's a really good, easy rule of thumb to help new parents that are struggling with what size, because I can promise you, your kid has no idea what size. Your kid just wants to hit the flashiest thing and whatever the rest of the kids in the dugout are hitting.

Jacob Moreno: should be right in the middle. Yeah, or whatever everybody else is swinging or what bat bros told him to go by and

Jason Corley: Yeah. Or like one kid gets a home run with it. And next thing you know, every kid, that kid also is seven inches taller than everybody else in the team and 40 pounds heavier. So, as far as bats go, there are a ton ⁓ resources online for bat information. And I know that baseline sports has a ton of information too. we were checking out the website. Yeah. ⁓ they have a ton of, they have a ton of options there.

Jacob Moreno: Yep. Yeah, I'm on their website now, so.

Jason Corley: Use the checkout code TDP 15 and you guys will throw yourselves a couple probably pay for the tax on the thing at least. Gloves. Let's go over some gloves now because I know we both have been glove whores in the past. My life has changed a little bit, but you guys go through gloves a lot, a lot more than we do.

Jacob Moreno: Yep. Yes, catchers gloves we do. Actually this year I bought Brantley two so he's gonna he's gonna walk around with two gloves this year just for the fact that I mean he likes to feel

Jason Corley: Okay. Be honest, be honest, like don't bullshit the people in the options. Okay, okay, okay. That's way better because you couldn't stop your impulses to buy the other one.

Jacob Moreno: Alright, because I wanted him to have two. the other one was only a hundred bucks on Facebook market. So I said, I'm going to jump on this deal. And I jumped on the deal. But I mean, no, he likes his catchers gloves. He prefers Rawlings heart of the hide catchers gloves. Like he loves, he likes the way they feel. I mean, they take a little longer to break in, but I mean, whatever you buy them, you can have them bullpen break it in.

Jason Corley: Okay, which is completely opposite in my life.

Jacob Moreno: and then you break it in the rest of the way. But he enjoys it. I mean, he enjoys those gloves. know, hand fits in there perfect. Likes the way they feel, you know. He said when there's guys that are throwing, you know, they throw hard, I mean, cause he's been catching a couple of high school boys and they throw a little hard. said he can't feel it. You know, it doesn't hurt his hand. His last one was a custom 44 that I bought him, which he liked too.

Jason Corley: I know that glove. I he's had that glove since I've known him.

Jacob Moreno: Yeah, and he liked that one. He did like it, but it just seemed to break down. It broke down very quick. And it didn't have a big old pocket, like a big pocket.

Jason Corley: Sure. Sure. So what would you recommend? So you are, you are the father of a catcher. Okay. And you're also the father of a LCA. Brantley is a third baseman, first baseman. So he's a catcher first and third, any pitches. So as you guys can imagine, if you haven't figured it out by now, so he plays catcher third, first and pitches. So you can probably imagine how many gloves he has. Yep. He probably has four gloves. has four gloves for four.

Jacob Moreno: Yes. Yeah. Yes. No, he's got... no, because, ⁓ yeah, ⁓ man. I think this through.

Jason Corley: Don't play him. Don't play him for stupid.

Jacob Moreno: Well, right now, right now he's only got his catcher's glove and the glove that he uses, but now that you said something for pitching, he's going to have to take his Aria with him because the glove he uses is white.

Jason Corley: Right. Yeah, I know. I'm sure it is. Right. Cause nobody thought about that when you ordered it. You just like, that's bad ass. Right. Right. Right. Right. So yeah, Brantley is, ⁓ is really 13. Yeah. When does he turn 13? Okay. That's right. A couple of days before HUD turns 13. Okay. so Brantley is a catcher and Brantley. So what is Brantley's gamer right now?

Jacob Moreno: so so i'm like No, it was just sweet. It was sweet. Rawlings. 12. July 19th. He's got a Rawlings Heart of the Hide third and catcher.

Jason Corley: Okay, so my ⁓ his catcher's mitt at third base.

Jacob Moreno: No, no, no, I'm saying his third baseman's glove and his catcher's glove are hard to hide Rawlings.

Jason Corley: Gotcha. Okay. So if you were, if you were helping a parent out who has a nine year old or a 10 year old kid who's catching, where would you steer them if they were, if they didn't have the 400 bucks to put down for a heart of the hide, where would you steer them?

Jacob Moreno: I am gonna go with a Rawlings R9 series. There it is. Is that his old one?

Jason Corley: There it is. It's still it. He still uses it every day.

Jacob Moreno: Dude, that right there was the best catcher's glove that Brantley fell in love. He outgrew it and got, I mean, it got too small for him. But if he could, yes, if he could, he would still use it now.

Jason Corley: Yeah, he gave us Brooks. Yeah, so, Brooke started. ⁓ ahead.

Jacob Moreno: But I'm gonna go with the R9 series for a nine, 10 year old, eight, nine, 10 year old on any glove, whether it be infield, outfield, catchers, first base. Like the R9 series is a good series to start out with.

Jason Corley: Yeah, yeah. Any goal. Yeah. A hundred bucks, 99 bucks, something like that. Um, yeah, but I will say this too. And that is, is that I don't, I don't know if, I don't know if I told you this or not, but my, um, there's a lot of parents that refuse to spend any money on their, on their gloves at a young age. And I have a completely different take on this. And I'm going to tell you, I'm going to tell you this. I think it's more important to fit them and to give them a great.

Jacob Moreno: Yeah. Start a Y.

Jason Corley: not a good, a great glove early than it is about the bat, about the shoes, about anything else. Because I can tell you the kid with a bad glove is going to hate this game.

Jacob Moreno: Yeah. Yeah, I mean, think about it. When you were younger, we had gloves that it would bend back when you'd catch the ball like.

Jason Corley: First of all, didn't know, we didn't know any better. we had, were using 12 inch gloves playing shortstop. Yeah. Well, for you, you, you, what you did is you use your dad's softball glove. That's what, that's what we did. But I, so when I got into high school, that was when Nokia really started, taking off yet. Nikona Nikona ⁓ up, man. Okay. Nikona.

Jacob Moreno: Franklin from Walmart. Yeah, no, I know. I know. Nakona? Nokia's a cell phone.

Jason Corley: Nikona out of Texas. All right. So when I was in high school, Nikona was really starting to take off. And if you had your poop in a group, you had a Nikona glove. That's just all it was. My brother, let me see. brother is 46 and he still has his glove from high school, his Nikona. So there's just, there's something about people that own a Nikona glove. They're Nikona people. They're Nikona people forever. That's just how they are. That's all.

Jacob Moreno: That's all you hear. mean, all you hear is those gloves last forever.

Jason Corley: you They last for now. Listen, I'm to tell you that I don't think he could clean up a wet, you know, I don't know ⁓ spill with that thing. Like there's nothing left of it, but it's like they're, they, they have this, they have this, I don't even know. They have this, ⁓ value to people. ⁓ they do. It's just like, I don't even know. It's like carrying around ashes of your ⁓ poodle for the last 30 years. I don't know what it is. ⁓ Yes. Ashes in a necklace. That's what it is. People.

Jacob Moreno: Attachment, attachment to it. On a necklace.

Jason Corley: Nikona. I, Brooks got, so Brooks is eight. Brooks was Brantley loves my son. So Brantley made sure and Jacob, they, they made sure that Brooks had a great glove to get going with, catching. I, of course, bought him a new glove. Okay. I bought my son this one. Ask, ask me how many times, ask me how many times he's caught in a game with this one? Never. Yep.

Jacob Moreno: Never. It's a practice glove.

Jason Corley: Never. It's a dad glove. Yeah. What it is. HUD uses it all the time whenever they're catching each other. But, ⁓ I, yes, I'm going to co-sign with Jacob on the R9 series. I will say that there are some decent gloves out there. is that the 44?

Jacob Moreno: This is the 44 that he had. And I mean, we're taking it down with us as well, because you can never, you know what I mean? And then this is his Aria, the Aquaman one that he had to have. And I was like, all right, well, Christmas, like whatever, you get it for Christmas.

Jason Corley: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Jacob Moreno: my personal opinion. You don't have to agree with me. Garbage.

Jason Corley: really?

Jacob Moreno: garbage. You feel, you feel everything. Like palm, everything. And I'm just like, never again. I like their glove hooks.

Jason Corley: Yeah. Right, right. The glove hooks are fantastic. Yeah, their stickers are awesome. Yeah.

Jacob Moreno: But I would never the money I spent on this brand

Jason Corley: Yeah. Um, I, he, he, first of all, that new catcher's mitt. Do you not think that an eight year old would use that if it felt good? Of course he would, but it doesn't feel good at all. Um, I just, I don't know. It just, it's not breaking in easy. And I'm telling you, we've had, we've had it for almost a year and it still is not breaking in very good at all. So I am right there with you. Um, I am sure. And I'm just telling you this for a fact.

Jacob Moreno: He probably feels everything. No, and it's, yeah.

Jason Corley: Not telling you this for a fact. I'm telling you this as an assumption. I, I know how easy it is to rebrand items from overseas and slap a slap a brand on it and claim it as your own. And that it's all being made by hand in Texas on some ranch where the cattle are coming in and they're tanning the hide right there. I'm just telling you right now that there, that there's a reason why Rawlins.

Jacob Moreno: Yeah. Tennessee.

Jason Corley: Wilson Mizuno have been the leaders of the pack Nikona the leaders of the pack for the last 50 years because they're not cutting corners, which is what you're going to mean. that hunger. ⁓

Jacob Moreno: Nacona. You're getting for what you paid for when you go with them brands.

Jason Corley: I agree a thousand percent. Let's talk about glove size. Okay. Let's talk about glove size because we have three, we have three kids, two of them are in the U 12 range. then my obviously is in the, an eight year old playing you nine. What does Brantley use for glove size when he's playing third, third base on the instance. So he's 11 and a half. Okay. All right. ⁓ so I'm going to show you guys, and you said that he's a Rawlings guy, right? Okay.

Jacob Moreno: 11 and a half. He's 11 and a half. Yup.

Jason Corley: So my son, HUD has been a Wilson guy. Shit, man. I don't even know. His first real glove was a Wilson and it's been the eight 2000 series forever. These are the two gloves. His other gamer that is retired is right behind me. But the reason he fell in love with Wilson and the eight 2000 series is not for the eight 2000 as much as it is for the DP 15. Okay.

Jacob Moreno: Yeah.

Jason Corley: The DP 15 is his is this size. So the very, very popular model is the 1787. That's seems to be what most infielders go with. I figured out and found that the Wilson a 2000 in the DP 15 says it right there. Yeah. Justin Pedroia. So this glove is the exact same glove as a 1787.

Jacob Moreno: Yeah. You know what DP stands for, right? Dustin Pedroia.

Jason Corley: but it's got smaller fingers in it. with smaller fingers don't have all that play in their glove in the, in the, in the finger pockets up here. It fits tighter. Yeah. It fits way tighter. So there's less movement. So on a hotline drive, the gloves not wanting to fly off there because it's stuck on their hand. So we found that one right there is a DP 15. That was his first original one.

Jacob Moreno: That's right. I remember he said that. like this. Yep.

Jason Corley: That is an A 2000. It's a color scheme. It's a black tan and red. Um, I don't know if you guys can see it or not. I found, I found that one on Facebook marketplace for a hundred bucks and he used that as bro. There's been a few highlights with that glove right there. That one, that one right there.

Jacob Moreno: Now it's low fire. Yeah, oh yeah. That's the one he wore when we went to the Allstate games. Where he made that, Davie played the five-six hole.

Jason Corley: 100 % that driving play. Yes, that's the one right there. And he had that at nine years old and he just retired it last year because we had, sent it to glove hound and had them re, relace the whole thing. But by the time like they had it for four or five weeks, I want to say something like that. He couldn't go without it. So that's when he got this one because he used to play with a friend that had autism.

Jacob Moreno: Lace.

Jason Corley: this is an autism awareness glove, which is why he got it. he actually had one of his old teammates made fun of him for having this glove. That teammate is no longer on our team. because he's a, ⁓ because of things like that. But, ⁓ HUD has now been gaming this one for the last two years. Again, this is a ⁓ DP 15. bitch right is another great glove. This is Brooks's glove. This ⁓ is a. TF... Hold on a second here. I gotta get my glasses. They're on my face. I still can't see. Holy shit.

Jacob Moreno: Hehehehehe

Jason Corley: All right. This is a PF 11 SS. So this is a pro stock 2000. I actually recommended this glove to, to another friend and I think their kids still use it to this day. ⁓ This, if have got an eight or a nine year old or even a 10 year old, ⁓ this an incredible glove. This right here is an incredible glove. I think I got this, when Brooks was playing for mash factory. Okay. We had the Wilson store discount. Okay. So I was able to get it for like two 29 or something like that. And I originally got it for HUD to train with because it's short. Yes. And Brooks fell in love with it at third base. Yes. He was trying to break. We were trying to break it in and also stuff, and then he just fell in love with it. So these are the two that I use. couldn't recommend anything more, but like

Jacob Moreno: Yeah. Yes, I remember it was smaller. Brooks would play with it while we were playing. He was out there using it. I remember that, yep.

Jason Corley: But I will say this, if you're not in that two to $400 range and you don't want to be the Rawlings R9 series, like Jacob said, the Rawlings R9 series is amazing.

Jacob Moreno: That, but. But you can also, if you really look, you can also find the Pedroia for about 150. You really gotta search though, because I... ⁓

Jason Corley: Oh, yeah, you can. It just depends on if it's a color scheme that you want to go with.

Jacob Moreno: I mean, sometimes you don't have a choice. you, you know what I mean? If you're really looking for a glove that's gonna fit your kid it's all tan, but you want it all black, know, sometimes you just pick the battle.

Jason Corley: No, I agree. I agree. I agree a thousand percent. Yeah. And we've, yeah, I want to make sure I preface this too, by saying like, I was able to be picky because we already had a glove. So we were able to just look for that secondary glove or what's, cause you never want to wait until your glove is done before you start looking for the next glove. Cause you got to start breaking this thing in halfway through the season of the next one. But I will say that, I think that the glove world now we do have some kids on our team who I swear to God, you open up their bag and they have got

Jacob Moreno: You always start breaking it in.

Jason Corley: five gloves. It's unreal how much money some parents spend on this equipment or how much I've always said this, like if your bag, the only one Scott actually taught me this actually taught me this lesson. said, unless you're a catcher, I never want to see you rolling your baseball bag ever, ever. You should not have that much shit in your bag. That's just, that's just more things for your head to know. There's just more things that your head knows are in that bag over there to help you get out of whatever situation you're struggling with. So that actually changed because we used to be one of those, we used to be the ones that rolled in with the roller bags. That was us. And then I got rid of them real quick. Cause Scott was like, I hate that. And I was like, why? And he's like, you don't need that much shit. Bat, glove, spikes. That's what you need. You know I mean? Now, granted he's a gore, he's a gear whore himself.

Jacob Moreno: Yeah. Yep, you got rid of them quick.

Jason Corley: So he's a little bit of the, the kettle coal in the pot black when it comes to this stuff, because Scott's a gear whore, but I understood what he meant. And I dude, yes. And still to this day, I don't know if he's ever used the fungo that we got him for Christmas, which is such horse shit. I don't even know. He, I, he might've used that for kindling for Christmas, but remember that sweet Marucci. I'll go. got him for Christmas engraved. Where's it at? How's can we never use it? Why do you use this other thing?

Jacob Moreno: Yeah, he walks in with four different fungals. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember.

Jason Corley: blue and black one. I don't know. I don't know. Kind of hurt my feelings, but it is what it is. But, ⁓ I, yeah, I just feel like if you can help your kids minimize their bat, their, their bat bags, which is what they're called, you help them just the way, but you help them simplify the process of ⁓ is my glove. This is my bat. These are my glasses. You know what mean? And that's it. And this is what I'm going, this is what I'm going to battle with. ⁓

Jacob Moreno: The weight. And it sucks because I wish Brantley Gear was here. He's training that right now because we leave for Atlanta in a couple of days. So he had to go train. But that's so I could show you his glove because he also trains now with the little All-Star.

Jason Corley: Yeah, I saw that. Is that the white one?

Jacob Moreno: No, no, it's the brown, the tan, and black one.

Jason Corley: Okay. Okay. All right. And that's another good brand.

Jacob Moreno: He, you he also, ⁓ also has an awesome brand.

Jason Corley: Yeah. What about catcher's gear? What about catcher's gear? We've talked about this on the phone the other day. What about parents that are struggling that parents have got little catchers in the world and where should they, where do they turn to when it comes to, you know, sizing for, cause I went through this with Brooks. I went through this with Brooks. Like what would you, what would you come

Jacob Moreno: Yeah, I just, I just had a buddy, of my best friends, his son's catching and he actually had Brantley's old Boomba gear, the blue, orange and white one. But that was still big. It was still big. And he ended up buying a son new one, but he, for the little, little guys, man, you ⁓ we searched and searched online. We could not find Brooks gear and then.

Jason Corley: We did. Yeah.

Jacob Moreno: I think you ended up going to a store, what was it, Dix? And they ended up having it.

Jason Corley: No, stuff he has now I got online. Yeah, I couldn't find it anyway. ⁓ He ⁓ No, the stuff he has now is Marucci.

Jacob Moreno: And ⁓ yeah, it was the unarmor, right? That's what it was. Okay. So there's only certain brands that really make it for the little, little guys because it seems like Brantley's first gear was big on him because that was the smallest we could find.

Jason Corley: Yeah, yeah. I will, I will say that, that being the parent of a little catcher of a young catcher is really hard because, they're, if you're in travel, like one of the important things for me was I needed to find him catchers gear that had the right mask to get him a visor because they're staring in the sun 90 % of the time. ⁓ I, ⁓ little one is an Irish redhead. So He gets, he gets hot very, very easily. And when you play in, in Georgia and all over the place, the way we do these kids, this gear, especially man, grand park in the summertime on that turf, it's so hot. And so I was, I was willing to go above and beyond to find the catcher's kid that was going to be the lightest. I was not scared. I wouldn't, I wouldn't worry about him getting hurt, bro. Like he's indestructible. So I was more worried about him staying light.

Jacob Moreno: Mm-hmm. And that's what we did. Yeah.

Jason Corley: And not, know, and that's also why we bought the color white in gear. Yeah. So, ⁓ and I.

Jacob Moreno: That's why we bought white too. And then we just went with, we just went with volt green.

Jason Corley: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I saw that, which is sweet stuff, but, I'm probably like, I'm probably 18 months. I'm in that, I'm in that size of, got another 18 months before he jumps up to being able to get in a junk. Yeah. Intermediate stuff where there's way more options, but man, there are not, there are not a lot of options for the eight to 10 year old range when it comes to catcher's gear, you got like four or five options and that's it. And you got to stick with them.

Jacob Moreno: Yeah. to intermediate. Yeah. And I will tell you there's a brand, the Brantley's last brand that we used and they always run, I mean, they run awesome deals. You know what mean? They run good deals and it's good catchers gear. His all white one. I mean, he loved his all white catchers gear. I mean, it's, and I'm going to give him a shot. was force three pro gear. ⁓ Yeah. Force three pro gear. You know, they always have a deal and I ended up getting his white.

Jason Corley: Okay. For you've told me, yeah. Well, we looked for that for Brooks and we couldn't find it. Yeah.

Jacob Moreno: catcher's gear on a deal, was the shin guards and you get the chest guard for free.

Jason Corley: Okay. Yes. I remember. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Jacob Moreno: started up paying like, I think I ended up paying 159, 160 bucks. And I haven't looked because he just got new gear, but I know they used to run that deal a lot, especially around the holidays. They run it and that's good gear. Brantley loved that gear. Very mobile, very, you know, had good padding and everything. But this year he wanted something different. He was in decisive between two and they were both Nike. He either wanted the all blue Kobe Bryant gear or the volt green Nike gear. And then, you know, it was time to buy a new gear and I go, Hey man, what do you, you know, what are we deciding here? And he's like, Oh, I'm to look at the Kobe Bryant and it was sold out. So we went to volt green and he actually moved up to the adult size. So, and that seems to be, that seems to be good. Like he's worn twice, you know, wore it a couple of times and he's like, daddy goes, this is real light and feels real good.

Jason Corley: Okay. Gotcha. Okay. All right. Yeah. Okay. And I would say too, that if you have a little catcher, out there that absolutely loves catching, get them their own shit so that, ⁓ they can get comfortable with it. They can get, and there's also different things like how many times Jacob have you and I custom fit Brantley's gear to, to fit him right with zip ties, duct tape, everything. And you can't do that if the coach is bringing in universal gear for all the kids to share. So. ⁓

Jacob Moreno: I was like, ⁓ okay, so. Yep. Him. Yup. Yep. And not even that. think it's more like Brantley's been walking around the house with his new gear, breaking it in. He puts it on. He's been putting it on at home, walking with it. You know I mean? Testing it. Like, so even with that, you want your kid, you want your, you know, your child, whether it be a boy or a girl, you want them at home testing it, working outside with it. Like, so.

Jason Corley: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All of those, especially like with the shin guards, like they all have different flex points. And if you have the coach's kid taking it home all the time and he's wearing it in the backyard and it's breaking in and flexing at a certain point, you could put it on my kid. And all of a sudden now that that's pinching them because it's, it's lexically different. So if you have a little catcher out there that seems to love it, I can promise you, you can probably find some on Facebook marketplace, but go get them their own stuff. And if it doesn't work out.

Jacob Moreno: Yep. Yeah.

Jason Corley: I promise you there's another parent that'll buy it from you eventually because I asked, I asked a handful of parents, didn't I? Like, Hey, whenever, whenever Ethan grows out of his, whenever Bradley grows out of his, we want to buy it. We want to buy it. We want to buy it. Well, little did I realize that all of these things have, you know, different break in things and Brooks just didn't, Brooks grew out the same. didn't grow up the same, which was, no, I'm just, it's the truth. It's just, so it was, was a struggle. And also too, like,

Jacob Moreno: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, no.

Jason Corley: especially with the masks, the masks, man, you got to find a mask that your kid will wear and that will want to wear and that is comfortable with it on because that is the number one, that is the one single thing that can save their life. So don't go cheap with the mask and the helmets, okay?

Jacob Moreno: Yep. Yeah. No, we've, we've, know, Brantley's wearing that Nike gear with an all-star mask. Well, it's custom painted one, but he likes it. And I mean, he's liked that mask and we're trying to transition from that to a two piece.

Jason Corley: Gino just started wearing his two piece when we were in Florida. Yeah.

Jacob Moreno: Yep, he's trying to where you know, we're transitioning away from unless he has to wear it like bullpen events He'll have to wear his

Jason Corley: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And that's another thing to fill people in. There's different events that you're not allowed to wear that.

Jacob Moreno: Yeah, there's different events. Perfect Game, everything is, I mean, Perfect Game is very lenient and you can wear a two-piece. Where in U-S-S-A a bullpen, you can't, you have to wear a one-piece. You you wear hockey-style mask.

Jason Corley: Yeah, because we were just at the U-Trip event and that's where where Gino wore his two-piece.

Jacob Moreno: in Florida again.

Jason Corley: Got true. And that was also Ripken event. So Ripken, your trip, who knows? Yeah. So who knows? Yeah.

Jacob Moreno: Yeah, yeah, so I mean, there's a difference and then you also gotta get gear that your kid is comfortable in.

Jason Corley: Yeah. What about some of the other things I'll, I just have over here. I'm just going to throw these out here. just cause they're right here. batting gloves. Yeah. Let's talk about batting gloves, batting gloves and these sons of bitches.

Jacob Moreno: Batty gloves? the sliding mitts. ⁓ ⁓ that's going to be, that's going to be, you know who loves them? You know who loves those sliding mitts? He's an umpire. The person that called you.

Jason Corley: The sliding mitts. One. really? He doesn't like them?

Jacob Moreno: Yeah, he's a ump. No, uh-uh. No, huh? He just says, he goes, it's an oven mitt, it's cute. When he texts me.

Jason Corley: He doesn't like him. He doesn't like him. Yeah, well, you know what else is know what else is cute when HUD scores 100 bags a year. So yeah, that's cute too. I like it.

Jacob Moreno: What do you say to me what do you say to me the other day when I reached out to him He said something about sliding miss. I was like, they're all right He goes Ricky Henderson stole so many bases without having I was I was just laughing I'd but It's a preference

Jason Corley: I know, it is funny because we used to also get our mail by Pony Express, but we don't anymore, jackass! We evolve!

Jacob Moreno: ⁓ But, no, bad in love. Let's go with bad in love, man.

Jason Corley: I like like from I don't know when I'm gonna I don't know when I'm gonna stop being mad at him and I've never met him I don't I don't know when I don't know when he messaged me too He was just like I'm so sorry about that and I had this I had this whole reply ready to go and I just deleted it because I was gonna have fun with them But I was like, don't know this guy. What if he goes postal? mean next time I see him now because he doesn't take it well Yeah, I know but Yeah, everybody needs everybody. Everybody needs

Jacob Moreno: Ugh, no he's a good dooman. He's a good guy. He is very funny.

Jason Corley: their villain and he is he is now the show's villain. Yeah, he's the show's villain. So yeah, this is this is for him. If I could. Yeah, is that the there it is? There is that one. it was batting gloves, batting gloves. There's really I mean, ⁓ hate this topic because there is really no there really is ⁓ really is only just one leader of the pack. ⁓

Jacob Moreno: He turned into yours. No, there's not. No, there's not.

Jason Corley: All right, so then tell us, tell us what have you switched to?

Jacob Moreno: We've switched. Brantley is using Franklin.

Jason Corley: Brooks just got a set of franklins.

Jacob Moreno: Brantley says, Brantley goes, dad, I love my old Bruce Boles. He goes, but these Franklins feel 100 times better.

Jason Corley: So Brooks had money saved up and we stopped at Academy on the way home from Florida. Okay. ⁓ Yeah, we had to, we had to. And as soon as you walked in the door, they had their baseball lifestyle booth and they had this whole display of these pink Franklin gloves, the tattises. And you would have thought that there was a cheerleader.

Jacob Moreno: You always gotta stop at Academy. Yup. Yeah.

Jason Corley: Dallas Cowboys cheerleader stand there with two lollipops into your hand like eyes lit up when he saw these and he walked out with them and he's been using them every day and he loves them. So ⁓ personally

Jacob Moreno: Did he buy the, did you buy him the high cuff?

Jason Corley: No, he doesn't. Brooks doesn't like that.

Jacob Moreno: Okay, so we bought Brantley for Christmas, the high cuff pink ones. He put them on one time and put the cuff on. He said, dad, he said, the only thing I don't like about this is this high cuff is a lot tighter and a lot bulkier.

Jason Corley: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So Brooks Brooks wants. Yeah. Brooks wants to keep it as minimal as possible. and HUD is completely different. HUD wants all of the straps. HUD wants all of the stuff. You know what mean? Brooks, if Brooks could go out there and work clothes, Brooks would go out there and work clothes that they fit right. You know I mean? Does that make sense? So Brooks does not. He is, he just, he wants to be able to get them on and get it. He doesn't want to fight with these things. And he also doesn't want to be the kid that gets yelled at.

Jacob Moreno: and we ended up taking them back. Yeah. Yep. Yeah, Brooks is blue collar. Yeah.

Jason Corley: that's another thing. So, ⁓ but yeah, as far as I'm concerned, the Bruce bolt thing, I think that they're, I think that they're, ⁓ I think they're really good gloves. think that that is really good leather coming from a cowboy. could tell you that it's good leather, ⁓ but I am not a fan ⁓ of putting back into an organization that we have to play. So that is something the prices are ridiculous.

Jacob Moreno: pace. But I mean the price is expensive too,

Jason Corley: I will say this though, do you feel like the gloves, the batting gloves started lasting longer the more we paid for them? Or do think we just held on them longer because they mattered more?

Jacob Moreno: No, think we held onto them because they mattered more because we paid more money.

Jason Corley: We made him we made we made him go through them until they their hands started bleeding before we bought a new one. Yeah.

Jacob Moreno: Yeah, because I mean, you know, those don't last long. Like.

Jason Corley: See, I'm asking you, because I haven't been paying attention to it, my kid doesn't ask for new ones all the time. So I don't know.

Jacob Moreno: Brantley was going through them. We'd go a month of a hitting session and he'd wear the same ones for a month and by the end of that month, they were ripped and here we are sending them pictures and they're sending us new ones.

Jason Corley: Okay. So HUD, HUD can go a whole year with his, like literally a whole season and have no issues. Like the pair that he got now, he got in Mississippi at the PG at the PGI and he only got them because they're, they're the purple and pink ones that say PG Bruce bolts. And he still has them like that's, and he'll go all season long with those. Like he won't use another pair. don't ever, ever, ever remember a pair of Franklin's lasting that long for him.

Jacob Moreno: Well, frankly, they're different now. It seems like they've changed the leather, you know what I mean? And they're breathable now.

Jason Corley: So that's why I was asking. Okay, okay. I mean, I hope so. Yeah. Who's making the Air Jordan ones? Who makes those? Do you know? ⁓ okay. So those are Nikes. Okay. So all of the anything jump man is Nike. Gotcha. Okay. All right. What about, ⁓ what else are we forgetting? Sunglasses. Sunglasses are a must. maybe because my kid's a middle infielder, so they're a must. we have had the same pair.

Jacob Moreno: Nike. Nike. Those are Nike. Anything you see Jordan is Nike. Yeah, Nike.

Jason Corley: Of oakleys for two years before that we had a pair of hundred percenters. Huh? Yeah. That the thesis they hated, he got sucked into buying those things and he never wore them because they were, he put them on and it brighter with them on than they was with them off literally. Cause they were the pink lenses. So total bullshit. ⁓ so, I was, I tried to tell them like, just get the Oakley's. I'd they've been around a hundred years. They're never going to go out of style.

Jacob Moreno: the tatties, right?

Jason Corley: They're always going to be cool and they're always going to do what you need them to do. So now he's on that track. I haven't really messed with any other brands. know that there's some other brands out there of glasses, but, those.

Jacob Moreno: Yeah. ⁓ My dad and my stepmom bought Brantley last year, the PG ones. the PG sunglasses when we were in Houston. Now, they were nothing special.

Jason Corley: I don't... Action, okay. Okay, again, a Tmoo thing rebranded. Yeah.

Jacob Moreno: Yeah, because he wore them. He literally wore them for two tournaments and he's like that. These are garbage.

Jason Corley: Do you know what that was like? That's a like, remember when the pit vipers came out and then, right. And as soon as you start, like every time you washed your pit vipers, you washed more of the lens coating ⁓ off. And I don't, you don't even see them anymore. Do you like they've done, like they're gone. Like they didn't last at all that company. So I could be wrong and they're probably going to, they're probably going to, know, whatever you guys want to come on and sponsor a show. That's perfectly fine. But I don't.

Jacob Moreno: Yes, because Brangley had a pair of them too. Yeah. Yep. Mm-mm. Yeah, go ahead.

Jason Corley: Yeah, you're not. Yeah. I haven't seen your impressions anywhere. So, what else do you have? Do you have anything else on your list that we didn't cover that we need to bags? I don't, I, I got different. I I've yet to find a great bag, so I'm not going to give anybody any recommendations. You're playing. ⁓

Jacob Moreno: Actually, if you're a catcher, you're a catcher. There's probably Brantley this year is using the, um, Yachty bag, the Rawlings Yachty bag. And he likes that. He had that bow net bag. That bow neck bag was good. He loved that bag. The orange and black one. He loves that. Yep. He loved that one. So that was three years, four years. He had it and he loved it, but.

Jason Corley: Was that the engine block one? He's had that since that room. Okay. Yeah.

Jacob Moreno: It had his and it was time for a new one.

Jason Corley: HUD's been using this Rawlings bat bag that we got from the team for three years and we're finally, actually today, the new one just showed up and it's an Easton bag, a different, completely style, but at least all the zippers are on it now. So we'll give this one a whirl. There's, Gino's got a Jumpman brown leather pinstripe bag that like a Louis Vuitton bag and it is

Jacob Moreno: Yeah. We were going to get, we were going to get Bradley that one. It is, but these new Raleigh backpacks that they came out with. they're, they're sick too, man.

Jason Corley: Bro, it's sick. It's beautiful. Awesome. Are they the ones with like the almost like the hard shell top to them? Yeah. I know what you're talking about. Yep.

Jacob Moreno: Yep, Yep, we bought Brantley one of them too and he loves it. Like if he could fit his catcher's gear, he'd take that instead of, so.

Jason Corley: Okay. Right. Yeah. trying to think here, other than that, man, ⁓ you know, there's going to be things that we definitely forgot. I don't, we don't really. Yeah. Everybody's going to, yeah, I would say that by far, you can't go wrong with anything. New balance, new balance of seams seems to have taken over the world of baseball. I don't know what it's like for softball, but, new balance has come out of nowhere in the four or five years and.

Jacob Moreno: Everybody's going to choose their own cleats. Shohei!

Jason Corley: It's Shohei, but they do they make great shoes for these kids. ⁓

Jacob Moreno: Yep and they're one of the only brands that make wide shoes. Yes.

Jason Corley: And they last, they last. So whatever they're doing with their stitching in their glue material on the souls of these kids, they're lasting. I can, these kids are going through a whole season where dude, we would go through two pairs of turfs a year when we were back with, um, when he was wearing Nikes. So, um, yeah. So I would encourage any, okay. If you're on the fence about shoes and cleats,

Jacob Moreno: Yeah. Yeah, that's how we were too. We went to Adidas this year.

Jason Corley: I can have absolutely recommend new balance. It's all my kids wear. we actually have a pair of, ⁓ Brantley's new balance here. you missing a white pair.

Jacob Moreno: Yep. Probably. They probably don't fit him no more. So... Yeah, no, Brayden's in the nine and a half.

Jason Corley: the other size 8. Yeah. Yeah. I'm pretty sure, I'm pretty sure you sent them home with us in, uh, um, Jordan from Georgia last year when we were at the Lake house. So yeah, cause, but anyway, um, yeah, other than that, man, I can't think of anything else that we're forgetting. Um, uniforms, uh, that's bro. That's a different, that's a tough subject because you might have nicer uniforms, but how much more did you pay for those nicer uniforms? How much, how much do you

Jacob Moreno: Yeah, probably. ⁓ Neither can I Or what's the quality of your nicer uniforms?

Jason Corley: much does it matter? Because after the first game they are all black anyways from the turf. Or red from the clay. So what?

Jacob Moreno: One big thing for me that's a necessity. Have multiple pairs of the same color bands.

Jason Corley: Yeah, we got to go through. Yeah. We got to talk about this real quick too. So everybody's going to get a package with their uniforms more than likely. Your team has a uniform package and it's a mandatory uniform package. I don't know of a single parent that has ever just stuck with the uniform package is by what? By week six, week five or six. ⁓ parent in between games is running to Academy or to Dicks or any of those other places. I don't know if you can get it on

Jacob Moreno: not even by week three or four.

Jason Corley: base baseline sports stuff. I don't know if you can get them that quick, but you might be able to. mean, I'm sure you can get pants, but like in between games, we've literally went to buy pants. So, ⁓ yeah, everybody's going to go through pants. Don't stress about it. I don't feel like you need to overorder pants in your kit. gray pants or gray pants, white pants or white pants ⁓ You don't have to have the tubing. Nobody gives a shit about tubing or the not tubing.

Jacob Moreno: I will out. Mm-hmm. You don't need the tubing. You don't need the piping.

Jason Corley: Nobody cares if they're knickers or if they're long. Just get the same color. That's all that matters. I've never known of a single coach to bench a kid because his pants were the wrong shade of gray or that his had piping or didn't have piping at this age. High school, completely different story. Completely different story. Okay? But when we're talking about youth travel baseball, bro, just get like you go through, you're playing so many games and so much of this turf and so many of these fields.

Jacob Moreno: Yes.

Jason Corley: are destroying pants. cannot keep up. The hotels only have got so many washers and dryers. So, ⁓

Jacob Moreno: Yup. Well, that's funny you say that because we'll be at Dick's tomorrow buying Yep. Well, because we don't order pants with our package.

Jason Corley: More pants. Yeah. Yeah. So I will say this. ⁓ we don't either because,

Jacob Moreno: because Brantley likes, we've been on the East and run, but this year he tried on Maruchis and fell in love with the Maruchis.

Jason Corley: HUD likes softball pants better. Nickers. They fit him better because he's so slim. So like there's just, yeah, every kid, like that's another thing. Parents, like you don't have, like, if you have a little, if you have a kid that's different size than most kids, go check out the softball stuff. Cause it's the same stuff, but it's just cut differently. And sometimes those cuts get the kids better. So, yeah, ⁓ uniforms are a whole nother, a whole nother.

Jacob Moreno: Yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm.

Jason Corley: box worms. will say this. Yeah.

Jacob Moreno: Actually, I would like to have a conversation with the uniform guy.

Jason Corley: Which one? Brett?

Jacob Moreno: Yeah, brighter Danny.

Jason Corley: Okay. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I would too. I mean, I, yeah, I just don't know if we could fill up a whole podcast on that. Yeah. ⁓ I want to give a shout out to, to whoever runs three and two sports because, you know, I did not have a very good attitude going into it because that's Brooks's supplier for uniforms. but dude, the quality that came back was fantastic. It was fantastic. So.

Jacob Moreno: We don't have to, 15-20 minutes. Yeah.

Jason Corley: some of the best quality for youth uniforms that I've seen in a long time. So I am not going to bash them. I'm not going to like, I'm not here. I'm not here to put anybody out of business. just want to put people in better business. Does that make sense? So I want to get the flowers when the flowers are due, you know, ours.

Jacob Moreno: Yeah. Yeah. And when you're getting flour and when you're getting flour, start throwing them this way too.

Jason Corley: Yeah, no joke. Yeah, no joke. Yeah. Don't be scared to jump on board and sponsor a show to sponsor two shows. You know, if you want to come in and sponsor the world series, we can work something out. So our numbers have been incredible. I've shared them with our partners. They're astronomical, dude. Dude, the numbers are astronomical. anyways, ⁓ yeah, other than that, dude, it's Wednesday. The next time I see you will be ⁓ Georgia. We're going to do a podcast Saturday night.

Jacob Moreno: But. Yeah. Yup. We'll be Georgia, yeah. We'll be in Georgia.

Jason Corley: So we play at four, right?

Jacob Moreno: two and four.

Jason Corley: and four. So we'll be done by six by the time we're done eating. It'll be eight. ⁓ yeah, I don't want to do any later than that. Cause I'll, I mean, we might have to be up at, five o'clock, but we'll do it as soon as we can. As soon as we all get back to the hotel Saturday night, we're going to shoot the podcast. ⁓ probably going to try to have a guest or two on probably not going to do kids this time. We'll, ⁓

Jacob Moreno: So about nine. Nope, neither do I. Yep. Yeah. No, no, that didn't work out too great.

Jason Corley: Yeah. Unless we have, you never know, we might have a couple of eight year olds that want to, you know, give us a video bomb, but usually, man, when they see that light blinking red, they run. They don't want no part of it. Although, although we might get, so I didn't tell you guys this, it's a funny story. Maybe I'll post it someday. I walked out of the podcast studio here and I walked downstairs and I come back up and I could tell that everything was on and like it was, it had been moved and I would go back into my

Jacob Moreno: Yep. Yeah, I get it, man.

Jason Corley: software and I see Brooks sitting in a chair on video with headphones on and he's doing He's... He's... going SMR... ⁓ going SMR... And I'm like, what is this? He goes, dad, it's what is it called? SMR.

Jacob Moreno: A-M-A-A-M-A-S-M-R.

Jason Corley: Hey, whatever that is, he was doing it. And he's like, dad, it's fire. It's fire. He's like that. So anyways, but, ⁓ yeah, we'll have a podcast Saturday night and see if we can maybe recap the day, maybe get a coach on there are, said there's going to be 10, 10 different teams in our hotel. We might be able to get a random coach from a room team. never know. You never, you never know.

Jacob Moreno: Yeah. That's Just recap today. Catch it. Yep. Yep. Yep.

Jason Corley: So that would be interesting. if anybody, so folks, I have, I have the, I have the ski, I should say I had the talent as a talent of producing the podcast. You know what Jacob's talent is talk, talk to one of these coaches into coming on the podcast. That is his, spot. Huh? What's that? yeah.

Jacob Moreno: Nothing. ⁓ yeah, ⁓ you know I will. ⁓ what's gonna get him, You know what's gonna get him, right?

Jason Corley: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I didn't even think about that. I didn't even think about that.

Jacob Moreno: a little pour of that and we're gonna be fine.

Jason Corley: Yeah. So Jacob's yeah. Jacob's Jake, we're about to get into Jacob's sweet, sweet spot is where we're get your time to shine. Yes. Networking networking at the fields. Yeah. So, ⁓ all right, man, that was it.

Jacob Moreno: ⁓ this is my time. This is my time to thrive. Yep. you might well I might end up selling this podcast if we hit the right sponsor.

Jason Corley: I'm not I'm not opposed to it. So ⁓

Jacob Moreno: If you get a call like, hey, we need to have a meeting like right now.

Jason Corley: ⁓ listen, I got to tell you about this. So I thought of the perfect. Okay. If your potential, listen to the, I thought of the absolute ideal sponsor for us. Do you want to know what it is? Okay. It's either camping world. Okay. Camping world or like a, like Ford, GM, anybody with a vehicle or okay. Hear, hear me out. Hear me out. Okay.

Jacob Moreno: that has wheels.

Jason Corley: ⁓ so if we, let's just say, for instance, we had a company, an RV company, for instance, that RV company sponsored, bought this, basically bought the rights to the show, had the show, had all the sponsorships to the show. We obviously have to, you know, we have to keep our current partners on for their time slot. a partner to come in and take over the show and let's just say it was an RV. Okay. This RV would not, we would, we would, they would.

Jacob Moreno: Yeah.

Jason Corley: basically give us a lease on an RV ⁓ would shoot the show from inside of the RV like, like bust with boys.

Jacob Moreno: From the RV. Yeah.

Jason Corley: And then when we're on the road, we're in the RV doing the podcast.

Jacob Moreno: Yeah, in the RV shooting, yep. Yep.

Jason Corley: Bro, I'm telling you, like, or if it was a travel trailer, like say it was a travel trailer, like, let's just say for instance, like Keystone or anybody, like we literally could do the show from the camper on the road because there's only one time we're going to fly this entire year and that's to Dallas. Outside of that, we're on the road on four wheels, trucking across this country. So I'm telling you, if you're an RV company or if you

Jacob Moreno: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Jason Corley: have a Sprinter van, a Sprinter van is even, or Sprinter van, we I'm telling you, we'll turn it into a mobile podcast studio and it be a rolling advertisement for you of the mileage plus all the numbers of the hits in in the viewers. I'm telling you, it's like somebody like Ford with a transit van and like, I mean, you guys live in Motor City. Like, can we not figure out?

Jacob Moreno: There you go. That's it. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Jason Corley: who's in up there that is listening to the show. I have an email. Just give me an email and I'll send them an email. Like that's it. But I'm like, I'm seriously like a Ford Transit van, we could turn into, we'll travel down the road, we'll get it wrapped. give them the number that it's gonna cost. Give us a vehicle, like a one year lease. We'll give it back. Like we don't need to keep it. We'll give it back at the end of the sponsorship, but we'll do the whole show.

Jacob Moreno: No, I'm sure I could get analytics and look. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Yeah.

Jason Corley: from the road that. I mean, from there, like, and when I'm here, I'll be out there in the park, in the drive, in the driveway, doing the show from there. Like, we'll have it all set up. We'll have us. Now the only thing we'll have to be careful with is having booze in the vehicle. Cause they're. Or driving or, or rolling. So we'll have to keep the windows of the RV open. So you, people could tell that we're not moving.

Jacob Moreno: From the, from the road. Yeah. Yeah. as long as it's not opened or driving. Yeah. Yup. Yeah. All right, man. I got to get going. Yup. I got to get going. All right. Thank you, everybody.

Jason Corley: And we'll throw the keys out the driver's side door, just like we did when we were friends. All right, man. Let's get out of here. All right. So yeah, we'll talk. ⁓ We'll talk. Yeah. Thanks everybody. Thanks to our sponsor, Use the code TDP15 to check out. TDP15. We will have that code on every video that we post.

Jacob Moreno: 15.

Jason Corley: from tonight's episode and Saturday, episode. So those are the episodes that they bought. Thank you to them for coming on and helping us get the equipment that we need for this weekend. And, ⁓ man, outside of that, man, just want to say, have a, have a great night and we'll talk in a couple of days.

Jacob Moreno: Yep, see you guys. See you, love you, bye.

Jason Corley: Love you. See you. Bye.