Chris Burke

Quick nugget to get to before we go to you guys on the text line.

Yesterday, I think it was after we got off the air, Jackson Burke, who is Chris Burke, the former St. X and MLB star who now has been doing Major League Baseball broadcasting for the last decade or so.

He committed to Louisville to play baseball for Dan McDonald and Company.

He is the shortstop at Christian Academy.

He's completed 36 consecutive passes right now, which is nuts at the high school level, not just because it takes a super accurate arm and a great offense to do that, but because, like, The receivers are catching everything, and he's throwing the ball to Jahai Brown, who now is three touchdowns away from setting the Kentucky single-season touchdown record for a wide receiver.

He's been awfully, awfully good throughout his career at Christian Academy as both a baseball and football standout, and now he's going to come play baseball for the Cards, which is good news.

I saw a lot of people who were like, Chris Burke, why is this kid going to Cal? Don't worry about it.

Playing for Louisville.

I, I...

It's, it's not wild in one sense because, you know, a- as a kid, like, I say kid, I guess, like, in high school, you know, Chris Burke is a Louisville person like me, and he ends up going to Tennessee and doing what he did and accomplishing what, you know, the teams had done.

I had an affinity for Tennessee as a, as a high school, you know, kid.

And so my perception's always that that's what that program is and can be.

Oh, Ken was a decade previous.

This was the great Chris Burke.

The great Chris Burke.

I would have never gotten that.

The great Chris Burke.

No, I would not have gotten that.

Really? No.

Come do some radio with us.

Yeah.

Chris Burke, 18th inning homer, 2005.

It's one of the first baseball things I remember.

The Killer Bs.

Adam Ottavino joins us now on Dirt From the Dugout.

It's good to see you again, buddy.

You look r- you look relaxed.

I mean, this is the time of year where pitchers and, uh, players and managers, they're all stressed, they're disheveled, they're just a big...

Um, I'm curious because there's a lot of kids that get, that get turned off from competition.

You, you seem to embrace this concept of, of Puerto Rican players, of Latinos being in the same community.

Our buddy Chris Burke, who did this podcast, talks all the time about going downtown to play basketball against guys who don't necessarily look like Chris Burke looks like, and embracing that concept.

Um, w- where other than maybe your dad and your mom did, did you get that? And how would you encourage kids to develop that desire to sometimes play up, to compete against those you know today might be better, but the only way for me to get better is to compete against them?