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All right, Bm8th is Thursday, March 5th. Welcome to the dog walk.

Present about barstall sports. Very special guests today. I am joined by Lefty. Lefty,

how are you? I'm well, yourself.

Doing great, man. Thanks for joining me. So you had the distinction. You reached out to

me probably a couple of weeks ago, I believe. It's that you on Pired the Jackie Robinson

West game against Evergreen Park that ended up being one of the coaches on Evergreen Park

ran of the kids out from Jackie Robinson West. Got that right. Yeah. So the way, I mean,

this is a national story. Jackie Robinson West, they made it all the way down to the

Little League World Series. They played Korea. Was that South Korea? They played South

Korea. They lost. So I mean, if you remember that team, if you remember like in Bm8th in

Barstall, lore, Big Cat was all like all the games cheering on Jackie Robinson West.

It was a great story. You know, not many teams, you know, from the inner city of Chicago,

make it that far. And it's ended up being kind of tarnished. I guess we could say because

of this guy who kind of told on them and said these guys are on a district or whatever.

But we'll get into that a little bit. I do want to start off with some general on-pire

and questions. So how did you become an op? I was at my Little League opening day parade

and they just made an announcement over the microphone. Like, hey, anybody interested

in umpins? Now it was about 15 at the time. And I was like, yeah, I'll do it. So I told

Gary Starswitch, oh, they man, I'm ready to ump. All right, you start Monday. All right,

let's do it. So you're 20 fact now, where did you start with like coaches pitch or did

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