Ben Clemens

And sure enough, I'm sitting close enough to the ring and the thumbtacks spill out towards me.

So the first thing I do, I'm like a little kid.

I go and pick up these thumbtacks.

I'm like, oh, snap, these are legit.

Like, that's why they literally are sticking to them.

Some of them were just the bottoms, but it's just like that.

If you buy any regular bag of thumbtacks, some are going to be broke.

Some are going to be ready to go.

And if you poke your finger out, it's going to hurt a little bit.

So imagine it sticking into your thigh or in your back.

So a ton of respect for all those wrestlers getting a chance to see him backstage and always doing their thing and staying prepared.

And they're just as much of an athlete and performer as anyone out there.

I'll actually say they might even be better than some of the actors that we have out there.

To be able to stay in character, to deliver your lines, to make an entire crowd hate you, that is a skill.

I don't care how you go out there.

I can go out there and say you all stink and you may not respond to it.

But if you can get it and those boos start to come at you and people actually, if they could, they would want to attack you, I got to give credit where credit is due.

And I've always been a big fan of wrestling and the fact that I got a chance to see it

You know, I mean, this kind of goes the theme of the conversation we're having here.

The UIC Flames, where I played college baseball, got off to a very slow start at the beginning of the college season.