 Well, yes, we are here once again. It's Bob Lorenz and David Cohn with you right now And we're not gonna talk about David you as a major leader because a lot of us is baseball fans and having played the game We've never stood on a major league mound and been in those pressure situations But I want to talk about something that relates to all of us as baseball fans and players once upon a time We all played little league, right? We all have those memories of a Saturday afternoon and you have a 1 o'clock game and suddenly You're hanging out after your game you spend all day at the ballpark And I just wanted to get your feel for some of those good memories that you have from your early days in little e So many memories is a great question Bob. I know you were a pitcher to the lefty Yeah, I could see you with the coffee cup they're going lefty So we kind of think alike to pitchers, you know, I'm a lefty at heart really even though I threw right in But you know, I just remember the family Atmospheric little league games with my mom keeping the scorebook yelling at me in the stands from the stands a throw strikes Throw strikes David get them all over it. He hated long games unmanageable games And of course like any mother would it was keeping the scorebook dad was coaching, right dad tried to be patient with you But he was very intense. Yeah, it's coach and you know, I remember being a number one game Bob It was a little league championship game and I threw a wild pitch and they're winning run score And I remember doing a Trevor Bauer. I picked up the ball and threw it over the center field wall It was an epic head for a 10 year old and I remember storming off the field and throwing a temper tantrum and my dad kind of getting me off To the side and having a long talk with me about how you come off and how people perceive you the way you act and throwing temper tantrums and not shaking hands with the opponents or the opponent's coach Who was a personal friend of the family of the opponent's? The opponents were playing his head the head coach was a family friend. I wouldn't even shake his hand after the game So complete idiot complete hothead just blew my top and I'll never forget my dad sending me down for an hour after there Wow three Set me down and explained to me, you know how to be a good loser how to lose proper how to have respect for the game Respect for your opponents, and that's a lesson that I never forgot even that was when I was 10 years old Later I still remember it vividly Yeah, almost a shock to your system because had you never done that you your dad never would have maybe had that speech with you So probably really shifted your gears right then, right? It really had a profound impact on me because I was embarrassed after I realized what I had done Once you calm down as a 10 year old and you realize, you know, wow You know everybody's looking at you like you know, like you're you're crazy little person Yeah, dad did a great job of letting me calm down first and then taking the time to explain to me about You know life in general was a life talk. It was a in-the-moment talk. It was why you can't act like that It's about the future. You want to keep playing this game You want you want to how you come off how you look to your parents to your fans to your family to your teammates You know really just just the way he explained it to me and allowed me to calm down first Yeah with kids sometimes when you throw in a temper tantrum, you know, no matter what you say it's not gonna work unless you take your time and have some patience and Eddie come Eddie come did a good job He got with with Joan glaring over his shoulder at you probably It's funny you do remember those things I remember one game when I was in I would have been 11 years old at this time playing Bronco ball It was what we called it and I just got was when I didn't pitch as a lefty. I played first base I could play outfield, but usually his first base. I just got a new first baseman met So, you know, you always try and break it in with whatever it was the Vaseline or the glove oil and You sleep on it and sit on it with the baseball inside But again, it was a new first baseman's met. I remember a pop-up to me I went to get it and because the leveler was still so new and the you know, the closure That it popped out of my mitt and I remember the audible gasp from the crowd But I dove and I caught the ball It was about three or four feet away from me and it was one of those like you better catch this you idiot And see that's one of those things that still stands out to me not like a great moment Like hey, I remember that game. I struck out ten guys. It was the ball pops out of my mitt. It's a brand new Met. So what I did was I went back So first ever mitt my parents ever bought me and it was a first baseman's met And I I had it in my bag and I'm like I'm not playing with that glove again the rest of the game So I got my old mitt What is this? It's an old cowhide Pro model nylon stitched crazy. It's just like a little pillow. Wow. That was my first mitt I went back to that mitt playing first base for a while. That's fantastic. What a story You know, you're so right. You remember those frantic moments more than you do. They're great games I mean that all the way through my whole career not only little league but through the through professional major league baseball rants I still remember, you know ball forward a dug strange, you know walking in the time runner, you know the most Anxious moments. You definitely remember more. It's funny. You mentioned some of those in your book that you did with with jack Curry and there were times I was reading the book and I'm like jeez david. Don't be so hard on yourself But but again that kind of defines you and helps shape you I I think back to those great little moments like I talked about once your game was over Maybe your parents had something else to do. You just run around the ballpark Around the little league facility the whole day and they pick you up at, you know, nine o'clock at night or something But how about one of those first moments today? But I remember When I made the elevation from when you played in jeans now everybody wears a uniform even the little kids But like jeans and a t-shirt with a cap to that first time you got a uniform a full uni Like how exciting it was, right? You had to learn how to put on the sanded series and the stirrups That stands out to me too. It's a big deal. You know, okay You and I we not only do we think alike I think we have some of this the same shared experiences growing up because I really remember that too from the jeans And the tennis shoes the actual like real cleats You remember the rubber at first before you could graduate the spikes Metal spikes were a big deal and you first got oh, yeah Walk it on the on the concrete and that the clickety-clack of the metal spikes and yeah full uniform and how you wore your stirrups And learning how to wear your uniform properly all those things are all vivid memories and then hanging out the ballpark all day You're right. Yeah, there'd be games all day long Maybe you had an early game and then you waited around for your brother to play a game Right. We did vent games. I know you I mentioned this before and I know you you related to it We used to play cup ball. Yes. Yes. That's what we call the tube You'd wad up like the old coke cup, right the old coke or Pepsi cups You'd wad them up and they're waxed and you can make them pretty hard You know popcorn box and put it on your hand and use that for the back Yeah And unless you had a wiffleball bat or something you could use but yeah, we used the popcorn box on our hand Yeah, and then we did we throw that cup ball pretty hard too, right and hit it and it was you know That pulls first base that pulls second base That trash cans third base and uh, you know, we play cup ball, you know all the way long Yeah, we did it too And I remember we played between two of the fields the bronco and the pony field And there were the two outfield fences and sometimes you'd get a hold of one and you'd knock it over the fence And you had to look around and make sure nobody was watching because you're not allowed to be on the field They somebody would start yelling at you. She's like who's doing it. Oh kevin kevin cook You got to go you hit it. You got to go get it He'd have like hop over the fence grab it real quick hop back over before anybody screamed at him and then Game on again. Yep. That's exactly right same same experience. You know, the other thing too that I remember is Again, probably jone cone did this you was probably a team mom My mom was too is you wait till after the game as much as we love playing it You wait for that whatever they gave you a quarter probably maybe 50 cents and you'd go to the snack shack and Mama, I remember getting you know abba zabba's Zots Uh, we call them pepper bellies. It was basically fritos with chili and cheese on top. What do you remember about the snack shack? Hot tamales the hot tamales Crushed some hot tamales and the soft serves ice cream Yeah, we could swirl chocolate and vanilla together and get it just right and design it all the way up the ice cream cone So the soft serve ice cream and the hot tamales definitely were a gochu items. Oh good. So I did want to ask you something about Something you mentioned earlier. How did you end up being a right-hand pitcher but a left-handed batter? And you also golf left-handed, right? How did that happen? That was my dad. My dad Actually wanted to name me after Ted Williams And he was a huge Ted Williams fan and he taught me how to bat left-handed from an early age He forced me around to bat lefty and even though I was a natural righty. I threw right-handed He didn't mess with that But he definitely wanted me to be a left-handed batter and it just carried through all the way and when I picked up golf I tried to learn right-handed at first and the eye hand coordination just didn't sync up at all I just felt uncomfortable standing from from a left-handed side and You know it was strictly because my dad wanted me to be the next Ted Williams and my mom switched it out The night I was born in the hospital. My mom went to that made my name David when dad left the hospital I showed up the next day and he said what happened to the theodore after Ted Williams He goes to the nursery to look for you a Theodore Cone. I'm his father. Yeah, there's no baby here named Theodore Cone John Cone switcher switched it on that night when he left and He wasn't happy. I'll tell you that he was not a happy camper for a while Wow, she called a late audible. So we got to wrap this up But I want to ask you two more things when I grew up. I'd always ask friends If they wanted to play catch, but as you know field of dreams. Hey dad, you want to have a catch What did you call it play catch? Yeah for play catch. Yeah, I never never heard Have a catch and so field of dreams problem. Yeah, I think you're right I've never really heard that experience that expression Until that movie and then the other thing again We used to be able to get by with two mitts in a ball, right? So you and I could be playing catch a buddy joins in he gets in the middle doing rundowns We used to call that playing pickle. What did you call it called a hot box? Oh, okay Hot box. Yes. You're the rundown the rundown play. Yes. Yeah. Oh my god. Yeah, we do it in our front yard We could do it for hours Go ahead Every now and then you drill the guy in the back in the rundown But but you didn't mean to right The other game we used to play a lot. I don't know if you ever did it was three flies up Did you play that one at all or over the line? Did you ever play those games? So I'll just give you three flies up was one guy What you'd hit plays if you were hitting like fun goes. Yes, three or four buddies playing outfield But you know what the battle for the ball Exactly. Yes. Yeah. It's like the home run derby now. I see all the kids chasing the home run the Oh, yeah Yeah, we play that or if we didn't have if nobody could hit a fun go when you're really young Yeah, we just we just chuck it right. Yeah with you know with our hand We throw it up as high as we could and the guys would try to do we throw each other fly balls Ah, love it. Good times. All right great taking a trip down memory lane with you want to remind Anybody watching these it's me and david or anybody else With yes network that you can go to twitter at yes network and then tweet us with questions So you might have for me david or anybody else and you can hashtag it. Yes mail bag So you're ready to dig into the mail bag at some point in the future david Yes, bring it on any questions. We'll take him off Just remember you can find him at conal stick park or conway field, right? That's it exactly. All right. Good to see you county. We'll talk to you soon. You too, bobby. Take care