In this long-form conversation, CURVE Sports sits down with Artie Clyde of Southern Squeeze to explore the story behind one of the region’s growing baseball development organizations.
From its early beginnings to its long-term vision for the future, Artie shares how Southern Squeeze was built around player development, culture, opportunity, and creating an environment where athletes can grow both on and off the field.
The conversation dives into:
The origins and history of Southern Squeeze
The philosophy behind player development
Building culture within a baseball organization
Creating opportunities for athletes and families
Challenges and lessons learned along the journey
The future vision and expansion plans for the program
What separates Southern Squeeze from traditional travel baseball models
This episode provides an inside look at the people, philosophy, and mission driving Southern Squeeze forward — and how organizations focused on long-term development are helping shape the future of youth baseball.
Thanks for joining me, everybody. My name is Matt Gerber. I'm the executive director of the Curve Sports Allegiance.
Excited to welcome one of our new members, Artie Clyde with the Southern Squeeze. Artie, I appreciate you joining me today, brother. Sir, I appreciate it.
I'm looking forward to our long-lasting partnership. Awesome, man. Well, let's jump right in. I'd love to learn a little bit more and have our viewers learn a little bit more about you. How did you fall in love with the game of baseball? Tell us a little bit about kind of, you know, your career, your background in the game. You know, I fell in love with the game.
My grandfather played in the Negro Leagues and my dad really instilled, you know, all the principles that baseball, you know, provides for a young man. And I was fortunate enough to play multiple sports, but really fall in love with baseball. And growing up in New Jersey, I had this just infatuation with playing all the time.
So I ended up committing to High Point University right out of high school and then going to Hillsboro Community College and then playing at Alabama A&M and Brewton Parker. It sounds like the transfer portal before the transfer portal. I played one year in the Frontier League for the Rockford Riverhawks.
In the meantime, I have a younger brother that's 10 years younger. And on all my, you know, off time, I was helping my dad coach his team. And once I decided I was done playing, I ended up taking over his team and helping him coach.
And, you know, I really fell in love with the coaching aspect. And I had a couple of mentors along the way outside of my father, you know, a guy named Keith Goodwin and another guy named Brad Boris. Brad let me spend a summer with him, with his Team Elite Prime team.
And I really learned the ins and outs of all the things that go on behind the scenes, which I think that leads us to now where we are, you know, a successful organization in the state of Florida. That's awesome, man. So let's take a, it's kind of a long winding road.
So let's start, tell me a little bit about the college days and then kind of the transition into coaching. Like, would you say that when you were playing, you kind of felt like that you might want to coach one day? Were you thinking about getting into something else? Like what led you to say, you know, hey, I'd really like to try to give this a try in the coaching realm? So, like I said, I have a younger brother. He's 10 years younger than me.
And he had a travel ball team that I used to help out while I was playing. You know, my college career was interesting because I was very athletic, a lot of talent, but never was able to put together, you know, where the rubber meets the road. And so fortunately for me, I was able to, you know, be athletic enough to play multiple positions, learn how to pitch, learn how to play third and first, learn how to play second, learn how to play the outfield.
And I was just really, you know, I was always influenced by my coaches to be the best version of me. So I wanted to give back. That's why I started working with my brother's team.
And then once I was done playing, I was actually, it was in the middle of the recession and I couldn't get a job. I was trying to figure out what to do. So I went back to, I was trying to go back to grad school.
I was gonna go to FAU. And one of the coaches that helped me along the way, you know, asked me if I can come in, if I pass the GRE and I'm able to make it into their grad school to be a grad assistant. So I knew that coaching was right on the fingertips.
And then I couldn't pass the GRE. And randomly I was throwing in a ballpark and a scout from the Cleveland Indians was there. When he saw me throw, he referred me to the Rockford River Hawks.
I went out there and finished a year, had a small taste of what independent professional baseball was like, which, you know, was able to almost complete my resume as far as playing background was concerned. I felt like, you know, if I was able to go coach on any level, I felt like with that on my resume, it helped me apply for any job. And as I coach now, I continue to grow with, you know, things like TrackMan and Driveline and PitchLogic and all the technology that we have for our players to show progress in the numbers that are involved that show progress.
Sorry to, you know, get off in left field, but I do think it's, you know, important that we always evolve. And that started when I was a young 18 year old kid at High Point University. Yeah, I love it.
And we'll definitely get into the, you know, the player development side of what you guys do and looking forward to diving into that a little bit later. Let's talk about Southern Squeeze in specific. I know you mentioned that you spent a year with Brad Boris
Brad is the owner and founder of Team Elite in Atlanta, also a member of the Allegiance. But tell me about, you know, the early years of the Squeeze. A couple of questions that maybe you can touch on here for me is, you know, was there a problem that you were trying to solve in your market, in your area? And what was the original vision for your program? Yeah, so we, I started coaching a 13 year old team that was really good.
And it has players that have gone on and had professional careers. But I felt like we missed on a couple of things. I felt like there was no commitment.
There was a lot of pressure for those kids to perform and there was no practice. So we would grab, you know, the best players in all parts of the region, we put them together and we go to, you know, Disney World of Sports, or we go and play down in Miami. We would go play in all these big events.
And it was great as far as competition was concerned, but it wasn't fulfilling as far as development. I felt like I could have had more impact on player development. And then I ended up getting invited to a, into a spring training workout with the Red Sox over here in Fort Myers.
And a friend of mine named Keith Goodwin took me to one of his practices afterwards. And he said, this is what I do with my program. And he had a whole practice layout.
Well, I had very good networking skills and we were able to, you know, kind of blend the two together. This is around 2015, 2014. And once I realized that you can do both is when our program or my vision for my program started to get a lot clearer.
Myself and Keith met Brad Boris. And I did an internship with Brad for almost a year. I went up to Atlanta
He showed, you know, all the things that he does for player development, his network. He was, you know, he's like an older brother to me. And I took bits and pieces along the way.
And I said to myself, okay, look, it's very hard for a new program to have the Kumar rockers of the world want to play for you. And it's also hard to get, you know, at the time division three players to compete on a high level. So what I planned to do was take those kids that were falling through the cracks and give them an opportunity to develop and then compete on a bigger stage like Brad had his teams playing on in the tournaments such as the Wilson Premier Event, the World War Bad in Atlanta, and Jupiter and a lot of these events where we have become to find our niche was maybe not the draft pick, but helping that division two player not fall through the cracks and helping that very talented kid find a juco then go to division one.
And there's multiple ways it's gonna crack. And I think that, you know, a lot of players can reach their ultimate goal, but not everybody has the same road to get there. And we're just here to facilitate different avenues.
Yeah, I love that Artie. So what I hear you say is, you know, you guys have kind of taken a different tack than, you know, the per se elite travel baseball, right? Focusing on kids that really need someone to be an advocate for them to need player development and, you know, have aspirations of playing at the next level no matter what that might be. And that's super important, right? At the end of the day, I think that there's, you know, our industry gets hyper-focused on, you know, the top 150, the top 200 players, but that's such the tippy top of the spear, right? And there's so many kids out there that are floundering, that aren't getting good advice, that aren't getting direction on where they should be going and what they should be doing.
So obviously really refreshing to hear of a program like yours that's focused on those types of people. So a couple of follow-up questions, and then we'll kind of move on to more about, you know, what does it mean to be part of Southern Squeeze? But, you know, from the startup, from, you know, when you first started getting going, what were some of the early challenges that you faced and, you know, what made you keep going, right? Because you're to a point now where you guys have a pretty well-established program, you've grown, right? But in those early years, I know it probably wasn't easy, right? So what were some of those challenges you faced and what kept you going and saying, I want to continue to do this? Well, you know, I think the first challenge was, you know, being able to tell Brad like, hey, I'm going to do something different and still keep a good relationship. So, you know, respectfully, I said, hey, you know, I'm prepared to start something in Southwest Florida.
I didn't think it was gonna take off like it had. I had, you know, one group of guys that believed in myself as a coach, myself as an organizational head. We had a really good year.
We had multiple players that went off and played division one baseball. And all of the kids that were on that original team ended up playing in college somewhere. Now, we have one player that's still playing with the Minnesota Twins from that original group.
And that group grew from one team to two teams, to two teams, to four teams, four teams to eight teams. And the next challenge that I faced was, how do I keep our culture the same? You know, once it turned from, you know, two to four, I wasn't as hands-on anymore. So I had to find the right people to help me, you know, with the same morals, the same ethics, the same beliefs, the same developmental beliefs.
It's very challenging to find those people that are like-minded because, you know, as everyone knows, you know, there's old school baseball, there's new school baseballs, there's coaches that let the kids wear their earrings, there's coaches that don't. There's so many different things that it was a huge challenge to find coaches that were like-minded so that we can facilitate our culture throughout the program. And then once we were able to overcome that, and I realized that, you know, I had to bend myself a little bit and I didn't, you know, know everything.
I think that, you know, we were able to overcome a lot of obstacles in itself. The next challenge that I ran into was how to handle, you know, questions in regards to the recruiting process and how to make myself accessible, you know, to all of the families in our program, whether you lived in Alabama or you lived in my backyard. I wanted to make sure that there wasn't a family and part of our program that I didn't meet or that I didn't talk to, that I didn't spend my time with.
And so I had to figure out a way to take a step back off the field and let the coaches that I coached coach. And we've become very successful because I become accessible to everyone. So when they have questions about the recruiting process, which is, in my opinion, the most important part of being an athlete, because you don't wanna set yourself up in a situation where you feel like you gotta transfer out.
You don't wanna set yourself up in a situation where you feel like you're gonna graduate college in debt. You don't wanna set yourself up where you're, you know, overwhelmed with schoolwork and all the other things that come with being a college baseball player. So my role has now been, hey, I can advise you through this.
I can walk you through this and I have the time to walk you through this. Yeah, I love that. So you talked a little bit about culture.
So if there were, you know, two, three, four words that could describe Southern Squeeze's culture, what would you say those are? Respect, integrity, toughness is IQ. Yeah, first of all, IQ, yeah, I love that. IQ, right? Absolutely.
That is intelligence, okay? I really pride our guys on being the best that they can be in the classroom. Being, you know, we have kids that have gone to Brown. We have kids that have gone to Swarthmore, MIT.
You know, there's a lot of very intelligent, Emory, a lot of very intelligent kids in our program. Air Force Academy. But I also think that our players are very tough.
You know, during COVID, we had a couple of players that went on and maybe been undersized, but the coaches took my opinion on the player, regardless of how they couldn't see them. So they took my opinion on the player and they were able to compete the next year because they got tough kids. They might not have got the six foot five, you know, 95 mile an hour arm, but they got the five 11, 91 mile an hour arm that was able to play in a lot of tough situations.
I think that respect is another one. I think that our guys, you know, will respect their coaches, respect the accountability that the coaches have for them. I'm not always the easiest person to play with four and neither are my coaches, because we expect a lot, because we know that the college coaches expect a lot.
And then integrity, you know, just say what you mean and mean what you say. So, you know, I try to, you know, do everything for every player that I say I'm gonna do. And I think that, you know, that in return, our players respect what our coaches do for them.
So they give us a hundred percent on and off the field. Yeah, love that, man. And so important in this day and age to have defined culture, right? And define things that, you know, are kind of nonnegotiable for you and for your program.
You mentioned earlier, you know, going back to your time with Keith, you know, going to a practice and seeing things could be done differently. If somebody walked into one of your practices today, is there anything in specific that they would notice about that practice? I think that there's a lot of movement at our practices. I'm a firm believer in, you know, developing motor skills.
And the more that you are able to move to the baseball, the easier it is for a player to develop those certain steps. Just like a dancer, a dance rehearsal, you break down those steps over and over and over and over again so that you can close your eyes and you will stand in the same spot. It's just like, you know, making sure that you take, you know, the correct swing or you take the correct route to the baseball over and over and over and over again, which will in turn turn into routine plays being made, good swings being made.
And of course, you know, I think that, like I said, efficiency of practice, you know, don't walk to pick up baseballs because, you know, if you walk, that's time, you know, and time is of the essence. So the faster you can get me back the baseballs, the faster I can hit them back out to you. So I think our practices are very efficient and I think they're very repetitive.
And I think that as far as player development is concerned, those are the things that the individual needs to make himself a better individual. You know, as far as team baseball, we try to keep it simple. Hey, first and third, throw somebody out.
You know, if you wanna throw to third, throw to third, if you wanna throw to second, throw to second, throw somebody out. You know, show off your arm. You know, that's an opportunity, right? Like if there's six college coaches watching you, they know eventually that guy from first is gonna try to get second.
So it's an opportunity for the catcher to showcase his talents. You know, I think that situational hitting, right? There's a guy at third base or, you know, I really don't promote them to squeeze the guys in if there's five guys watching you hit, you know, because we know that you're gonna get pitched to, you're gonna get pitched around, and, you know, coaches wanna be able to see you barrel ball skills. And I think that, you know, whenever you get an opportunity to make a mistake, it's okay to make a mistake, but don't hold the baseball, or don't, you know, try to be perfect.
If you mess it up, mess it all the way up. And I think that, you know, all the people that are at a collegiate level or higher understand that, and they can see, you know, what a kid is like based off their mistakes, probably based off their mistakes more than their success. So, you know, we really encourage the boys to go out there, play hard, you know, and it all stems from practice.
So we practice fast, we practice efficient, you know, practice hard. So I got one more question, kind of on the club identity and culture side. We're gonna do a little like role play, okay? So, you know, I'm a parent of a 15-year-old kid, and I've come across, you know, your website, and I call in and say, hey, Mr. Clyde, my name's Matt Gerber, I've got a son.
He's 15 years old. Can you tell me a little bit about your program and why I should come play for you? What would you say to that? I said, absolutely. I think that we're the premier organization in Florida.
I think our structure and what we do for our boys is second to none. I think that we give them an opportunity to practice and develop their individual skills, and then also play at a high level. I think that, you know, the tournaments that we are registered in, and we compete in, are the best ones in the Southeast.
And as your son will grow in the program, we do things above and beyond to help him, you know, with the recruiting process. I think that our network is very strong. I think that our bus tour that we run is super efficient.
I think that our showcases that we run are super efficient. I think that every tryout that we've run, we've had at least 10 coaches in the last three years out of each one. I think that there's so many opportunities for your son to grow, but the most important thing, this isn't the last conversation that you and I will have about your son and how we can help your son.
So once you sign up, that doesn't mean that's the end, you won't hear from me. Anytime you need me, anytime you need to have a conversation, anytime you need direction on which camps to sign up for, which camps not to sign up for, where your son stands, as far as metrics are concerned, in comparison to other players or even college players. I'm here to answer those questions for you.
So, you know, I think that our organization is the top organization when it comes to personability. Yeah, love it, love it, love it. So let's talk a little bit about your player development philosophy.
You see you're sitting in a beautiful indoor facility. The term player development gets tossed around a ton, right? What does player development really mean to you? And how important is structure and accountability and development to your program and even to your facility? I think that player development is allowing players to fail. You don't want to take a negative, right, and base your negative sentence on, you know, the positive that comes out of this.
But what happens is when a player fails, you know, there's a lot of things. A coach can feel a certain type of way. His teammates can feel a certain type of way.
The fans or other parents in the stands can feel a certain type of way. And if you don't let that player miss that ground ball, if you say, okay, well, hey, we're taking them out or we're not letting them play that position again, there is no true development. Baseball's a very unique game because there's so many games that you play throughout the course of a season.
There's so many ground balls that you get throughout the course of a season that you're going to mess them up. But I think that if you can take the almighty wind and throw it in the trash and allow your players to play and make mistakes and learn and grow from those mistakes, that's true player development. And then you can monitor the progress and you can say, and I have a shortstop that, you know, I got him from when he was 13 years old.
There's a slow roller hit, he picks the ball up, just like he's at a Tommy Namski video, picks it up, shuffle, shuffle, throws it, safe. And I said, hey, you have to throw that ball on the run like this. He goes, I don't know how to throw it on the run.
And I know the transition from the smaller field to the bigger field is different because the balls come up on you faster. And most of the plays that you make are shuffle, shuffle. But, you know, we went through a long stretch where he's throwing the ball all over the place on the run.
But if you see him now, he's very accurate from multiple arm angles, from multiple balls in the hole, forehand, even obviously the routine plays are very solid because we allowed him to make those mistakes. And we created an expectation within the families, within the team, that us winning that 12 year old baseball game or us winning that 13 year old baseball game doesn't mean anything. What means something is when he got here at 12 and now he's 14 and a half, he is one of the best shortstops in our area.
Probably in the state because we allowed him to make some mistakes. And we have multiple players with the same situation. And I think that, you know, when you get on these super teams, well, you gotta win, right? You gotta win.
If I'm a bigger organization or if I had this expectation of winning, well, it puts too much pressure on the coaches and the kids to figure out the right plug and play to win. Which I think, you know, it's still good. I wanna play against the teams that, you know, plug and play to win because that gives me, you know, an opportunity to know where my guys are at.
But at the same time, I also think it creates a lower ceiling because my guys, you know, my shortstop that throws the ball away on the run also knows how to play second, also knows how to play third. He also pitches. He also plays right field, left field, and center field.
And he can catch a little bit. So I give him the opportunities to fail everywhere in order for when he gets to high school, if there is another shortstop there, that's okay. As long as he hits, he can go play second or third or right or left or center.
And I think that that, in our eyes, is the true player development. And it starts at, you know, nine, 10, 11, and 12. If a player came in here at 15, 16, or 17, I think that the player development aspect really turns into the physical development aspect, right? You know, these guys that come in, you know, you gotta eat well.
You gotta sleep enough. You gotta lift. You gotta have a routine.
You gotta stretch. You gotta make sure that your muscles are flexible. You gotta make sure that, you know, every time you wake up, you're preparing yourself.
You stretch before the game well. You prepare yourself mentally well. And I think that, you know, once they become 16, 17, or 18, the physical and player development go hand in hand.
Came in at 15, I'm hitting the ball off the tee at 80. You know, at 15 and a half at the last one, I'm, you know, my ball exit speed is 87 and all that's tracked in our data. So metrics do play a part in the recruiting tools, um, in the recruiting process
So I think that, you know, player development really starts at young ages and, and, and a lot of the coaches have to take winning and make it secondary. Um, and those players can grow, but as the kids get older, it does transition into physical development, and then hopefully the player comes out. How you, how you cook them.
Yeah, man. I, I love that, um, perspective on it. And, you know, I've done a lot of these.
I talked to a lot of different guys across the country, and I think you have this idea of failure is so important, right? Not only in baseball, but you know, that's why baseball is such a beautiful game and such a reflection of life. Right. And, um, if we're not giving young kids the, um, the ability or the opportunity to fail and telling them, it's okay, get back up and try it again and try it again and try it again until you get it, um, you know, how are we supposed to develop? So, you know, the good thing is already, I think, you know, this, there's a lot of good guys out there, um, across the country that are, that are of the same mindset and are doing this, but the more that we can put it out there that, you know, these types of things are what, what are important and, you know, not necessarily, you know, winning the 12U, whatever it is, um, but just continuing to, um, to, to foster, you know, growth in players.
And like you said, and then once they get, you know, to that high school age where they're like, Hey, I really want to do this, then it's, you know, physical development and it's arm strength and it's back speed and it's all those things that matter. Right. Um, but at a young age, you know, like you even, you even mentioned, um, and I'm a big believer after watching my daughter go through this, that I think every kid, if I could, if I could have one mandate, right, for every kid that wants to be an athlete, it'd be, be a gymnast for three or four years when you're really young, right? Just go learn how to move and be an athlete.
Um, and I think the more that we can do that, the better off we'll be. So a couple more questions here, um, for you, and then we're going to do some rapid fire stuff. So two kind of questions that you can answer and then, you know, some kind of quick back and forth.
So, um, first one is, is, you know, you guys have, you know, built, like you said, from the, from the one team to the two to the four to the six to now having, you know, multiple teams and multiple age groups, um, where do you want your club to be in three to five years? Um, what would be success for you? Um, and how do you balance, um, you know, who you are, um, with ambitions of, you know, of growth and becoming bigger over time? Um, you know, I, I battle this all the time.
It's a, that's a great question. Um, I think that I want continuity, right? So I want to grow in continuity.
So if I don't have more than 25 teams or 29 teams, I think we have right now in total, that's okay. As long as we grow in continuity and all of the rosters are full, all of our coaches are preaching the same thing. Um, I think that organically things will grow.
Um, but I definitely don't want to bite off more than I can chew. And I think that, um, you know, as far as success is concerned, I think that the success lies in when, you know, our players reach their goals. So every player has a different goal.
Some players that come in our program just want to make the high school teams. Some players want to be professionals. Um, and we're supposed to be able to facilitate, um, all those things, um, with, you know, our indoor facilities, um, with, uh, ACT and SAT tutors with our coaching abilities, um, and our opportunities that we present our players.
So growth isn't necessarily going to come from, you know, the amount of people, but I think that it's going to come with the efficiency of our program. Love that. Love that.
All right. A couple of rapid fire questions for you. These are, these are more fun.
Um, what's the biggest myth in youth baseball that you'd love to dispel? Yeah, Lee, here you go. My son is a shortstop. That's a good one.
Okay. Um, what's the most underrated skill in baseball? Being a good teammate. Okay.
Um, what does leadership mean to you? Leadership is the most valuable thing. Without leadership, you can't grow. You can't do all those things because, you know, um, if you, if, if there's eight guys depending on you to throw a good pitch, or if once a, uh, releases your hand, then there's, you know, eight guys depending on that guy to catch it.
And once it's hit, there's, you know, eight guys depending on you to make the play. Um, so I think that, you know, if you're a good leader and you stay positive, um, anything can happen and you're, you're able to make this world a better place. Love it.
Here's my favorite question in the interview. This one might take a little bit longer of a response, but imagine in a world where, you know, travel baseball, we're so together, let's call it across the country that there was a commissioner. Okay.
And, and you already were named commissioner of all of travel baseball. Okay. What is the most important and first thing you would do first day in office? What rule or what, what change would you make? I would certify all the coaches.
Um, and that would build continuity within the league. So if, um, you know, somebody is upset and they want to take their son and starting a team, he has to go in through, you know, the league and say, Hey, you know, these are the things that all of our coaches need, you know, they need to understand player development and need to understand, you know, CPR training. They need to understand, you know, leadership, morals, ethics.
Um, I think that, you know, that would be, you know, some sort of coaches certificate that way, you know, our players, um, aren't being skewed and, and, and we don't have families playing in them for the wrong reasons, whether it's, Oh, well, we're playing on this team because they win or, Oh, we're playing on this team because it's free or, Oh, we're playing on every team that we can possibly find because, because we can't, you know, um, because ultimately, um, you know, you play every weekend, it's not healthy. Um, you play for free, you lower the expectations and you think that you're, um, given, you know, you're, you're, you're, you're becoming, um, taking people for granted. So, um, and I think that, you know, if somebody is upset and they know that this process is, you know, something that you have to go, you know, it teaches that kid how to work through it, you know? All right.
So just a couple more questions here already to finish this up. Um, one of them is going to be a selfless, uh, promotion here. So, um, let's talk about the curve allegiance a little bit.
Um, you know, what attracted you to being a part of it? And most importantly, I think, you know, what do you think that it can do over the longterm for not only your program, but for the amateur space, um, as a whole? I think, uh, the curve allegiance is a great program for us to be a part of, um, due to the fact that you guys are doing what's best for the players and the families. Um, I think that, you know, it's been a true concept of how to help players develop and how to make this process as affordable as possible and, you know, making sure that there's no fluff. Um, I, I appreciate, you know, uh, Alex Og and all the help that he's, you know, done for us, um, he's been amazing and answers the phone at all times a day.
Um, and I think that, you know, with, with your assistance, it makes our program that much better. Love it. And then what do you think kind of longterm, you know, as we continue to get the right people, um, around tables, right? I know that you're planning on coming to the summit here at the end of the year.
Um, you know, what do you think that this group of people can do, um, in this space together, I think in the longterm, um, I think that this could be the founding fathers of the new, you know, travel baseball world. Um, I think that, you know, it's grown, um, tremendously under, you know, the tournament of organizations that they have in place right now, but I do think that there is a place for, um, the diamond allegiance and all that we provide that might, you know, make a huge turn for the better, um, not saying that the stuff that we have going on right now is bad, but I am saying that, you know, there is space for like-minded organizations, um, to pull together, to help our players, um, to the forefront of, you know, their goals. Awesome.
All right. Last question here already. Um, you know, as you continue, obviously down the path and, of, you know, leading young men and being a resource for families, um, you know, if you can put yourself down the road, 30, 40 years, and, you know, you're sitting in that rocking chair on the porch somewhere and, um, you know, just relaxed and looking back, um, what do you want your legacy to be in Southwest Florida? Um, what do you want your legacy to be, uh, the Southern Squeeze's legacy to be when it's all said and done? Um, I, I want to, I want to be known as, uh, somebody that will always do the right thing for your son.
Um, whether the right thing is something that you want to hear, don't want to hear, um, that when you look back at it and you say, man, you know, Artie did right by me, Southern Squeeze did right by me. Um, I think that the most important thing is how you treat others. Um, and if you treat others well, uh, others will treat you well.
Yeah. Love it. Couldn't have said it any better myself
Well, Artie, we're, um, as you know, um, for those that don't know, um, I was after Artie for a really long time to, to join up and become a part of the Allegiance, um, just thought the world of him and the way that he ran things. And, um, super excited to have you on board. Um, and as we kind of get the train moving here, I'm super excited to see what this all looks like, uh, in the coming, coming months, years.
Um, and glad Artie that you and the Squeeze are a part of this. I appreciate you taking the time today to talk with me, um, to let the world know a little bit more about your program. Um, and if somebody is interested in the Squeeze, uh, where can they reach you guys at? Oh, you can reach us on, uh, Facebook at, uh, Southern Squeeze Baseball.
You can reach us on Twitter on SQZ Baseball, or you can reach me directly. Um, I'm always accessible. I don't want to put my cell phone number in there.
All right, brother. Well, we appreciate your time and, um, hope you have a great summer season. Best of luck to you guys.
