Dave Riske
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184 appearances
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
Dave Riske’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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What number player were you? I was a 16th, 134th pick. Oh my God. In the 1996 draft.
How's it going? What's up, dude? How are you, man? I don't know about one of the best relievers, but I was up there.
You know, my teammates called it the stinger. The stinger.
Looking back on it now, it looks awful.
I grew up outside of Seattle, Washington. Okay. And my biggest thing was I didn't let anybody tell me I couldn't do anything. I wasn't the biggest, strongest athlete. I was a good athlete, but I didn't have all the best tools. But I always believed that if anybody says I couldn't do something, I would 100% do it. Yeah. No matter if I couldn't do it, I would believe that I could do it.
I actually don't know. What did your folks do? My dad's worked at Boeing for like 40 years. He's a machinist or works on airplane parts or whatever. My mom was a waitress slash restaurant manager her whole life.
No, I wanted to be nothing like my dad.
Oh yeah, for sure, yeah.
Yes, exactly.
Kind of both. So my dad, and I always tell the story when I talk, and I'm obviously a very humble person. I don't like to brag or do anything, but I think my story is pretty cool. My dad told me when I was 18 years old to stop playing baseball, go get a regular job. You're not good enough, you'll never make it. Now, when that comes from your dad as a kid, that hits hard.
And I usually always get emotional when I talk about this, but... That made me want to do it more than anything I've ever believed in. It was crazy.
Yes, 100%.
No, I had not. I mean, you're right. It is crazy. I actually give lessons too here in town, and I had nothing. I mean, I maybe went to a couple of baseball camps, but I was always football, basketball, baseball. So I didn't have time to specialize in one sport.
And I think that's the key to kids. Everyone specializes in one sport now. And I think they could become better athletes if they played multiple sports.
Like what dad said that, um, I would just, I was kind of like cocky kid. So I said, are you, are you crazy? No, I'll go find. Cause I, I don't think he wanted to pay my junior college money, you know, pay for my tuition. So I was like, I'll find, I'll get it paid for it. Don't worry about that. I'll figure it out. Yeah.
And then I actually had division one colleges tell me I wasn't good enough to play D1 baseball. Okay. So that's why I went the junior college route. Yeah, so you went to junior college. Where'd you go to junior college? It's called Green River Baseball, or Green River Community College, sorry. Okay. Right outside of Seattle.
It was all about, I mean, we had to go to class, but it was all baseball. It was all baseball. Yeah, just trying to get to the next level from there.
it was my head coach there at junior college, Dan Spencer. And he's been a, he's been a coach all throughout the country now. Um, but he was for sure my mentor and really changed my life there because I was a shortstop coming out of high school. And I thought there's no way I'm going to ever be a pitcher.
He converted me to a pitcher there and just kind of helped me through all my parents and all my situations off the field. And I was going to transfer to another college and he was able to talk me out of it to stay there, to stay there. And then that's where my career took off after that.
I always had a good arm, and he was one of those guys that kind of pushed my buttons, and I actually liked it because he was like, you're not a good hitter. You can't hit. You're too skinny. You're this, that. You know what I mean? Anybody that tells me I can't do something, it just feeds on me.
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