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I wanted the world to see front and center what a well-coached and disciplined team we had….and that’s why I’m sharing this clip here.

Everybody knows when the third out was recorded when Verdugo was on the field that all of our players (being well-coached and disciplined) would hustle off the field….regardless of the score.

I’m proud to say I personally instilled this discipline in our players and you can see it on full-display right here. I think back fondly on the long and tireless workouts we had at our dozens of team practices at our team-facility in Long Beach working on this very thing.

Yes-sir-ree!!!!

Ok…well…truth be told maybe I’m exaggerating shit a little bit here.

What actually happened here was this….

We had clinched the playoffs the night before. I’m assuming most of the players and coaches had hangovers….I know I did.

One of the Mom’s brought some donuts before the game which was huge. Those were long gone before the game even started.

This game was a hot miserable day. The goal was to end it in seven innings on the ten run mercy rule and get outta there. (We ten-ran ’em in the 8th)….

What happened here was old Jess Rogers showed up with his sno-cone factory right in the Verdugo dugout. I remember this.

The problem was ….most of the guys were out on the field. As Jess set-up I have to admit myself and the other coaches and a couple of reserves were in the dugout rubbing our hands together! While you fools were all out standing in the sun!!!

We’re in the dugout hanging out in the shade and surrounding that sno-cone factory as we all waved to you guys on the field from the dugout!

Nobody in the field was saying anything but all you guys were just looking at us as if to say “ahhhh hell no!”

He made the first few and we were really letting you guys in the field know how excellent and refreshing they were!

All of a sudden we started getting pretty quick and pantherike on the field. Turner making a leaping catch on a groundball trying to turn the double play to get himself a sno-cone!

We were in the dugout rubbing it in! Enjoying those sno-cones keeping ’em all to ourselves. Normally we would go out and argue that call at first for the inning-ending double play!

Not today!

We were really loving those fresh cherry flavored sno-cones! And we had ’em all to ourselves!!!!

Even the General said out to you guys in the field “yeah he was safe at first!” To keep you guys out on the field as long as possible while we were holding those sno-cones up high between bites so you all could see ’em!

Really hamming it up…

Toasting each other before biting into it….the whole shot!!!!

“Oh man that is goooooooooood…..ahhhhhhhh” I would say after biting into it!!!

“Best sno-cone I think I’ve ever had General” The Weapon would say

“Ahhhh hell yeah” Henry would pipe-in!!!!

Finally…..we got out of the inning.

Look at you guys hustle off the field!!!