The 405 Aired Mar 12th, 2026

I wanna get in, welcome in to the 405 coffee break,

get you cup of coffee, glass iced tea bottle water,

is it windy enough out there for you?

And let's see what's happening spring late.

$5.90 a bushel.

$550 steer calf nut selling the lot.

I'll tell you what, did sell down at Pays.

Three and four year old bread cows, black,

black white face.

$5,000 ahead, are you a kitten?

I'm not a kitten, but you're all in Iowa.

$0.60 a pound and a hundred pound lamb that's fat.

It's worth $2.71 a pound, but guys, there's more, much more.

Today baseball, yep, you gotta know opening day

for Major League Baseball is, listen,

the 2026 Major League Baseball regular season

opens with a special opening night game

on Wednesday, March 25th.

Feature in the New York Yankees

at the San Francisco Giants

and the traditional full slate opening day

with all the 28 other teams.

Well, it starts the next day, March 26th.

So, you gotta realize that's only two weeks away.

I haven't mentioned baseball for a while.

I'm getting better, but it's time.

And right after our Bible verse, I'll share some more.

Listen, perfect one for baseball.

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race,

I have kept the faith.

Second Timothy four, seven.

To fight the good fight in baseball,

you have to be ready to strike out, ground out,

and fly out, but they just keep coming back to the plate.

Listen, guys, what I found online,

on a warm summer evening, somewhere in America,

a father and son sit in the grandstand.

Oh, man, the smell of popcorn, the crack of a bat,

the slow rhythm of a game that is unfolded the same way

for more than a century.

Nine men on the field, one man at the plate,

and a small white ball,

stitched together with exactly 108 red stitches,

coming towards him faster than the eye can comfortably follow.

This is baseball.

Now, to the casual observer,

the game can seem well simple enough, man throws a ball,

another man swings a bat, but the truth is well,

the truth is something altogether different.

Consider the picture from the pitching mound

to home plate is 60 feet, six inches,

no more no less, a distance that was standardized

in 1893 and still used today.

And from that short stretch of dirt,

the pitcher can hurl a baseball at 95 miles an hour.

At that speed, the ball reaches the batter

in about four tenths of a second.

Now, think about that.

In those four tenths of a second,

the hitter must see the ball,

judge its speed,

determine whether it'll cross the strike zone,

decide to swing and move a wooden bat

through the air with perfect timing,

miss by an inch or a thousand of a second,

and you miss entirely,

which explains why in the highest level of the game,

the major league baseball,

even the greatest finest hitters fail most of the time.

A player who gets a hit three times out of 10,

well, they're considered excellent, excellent.

Think about that.

In almost any other profession,

success 30% of the time might get you fired.

In baseball, well,

they might get you into the hall of fame.

For more than the century,

this game is echoed across sand lots and stadiums alike,

played by boys on dusty fields

and by legends beneath bright lights,

nine innings,

27 outs,

endless possibilities because in baseball,

the next pitch could be anything,

a strike,

a walk, a home run,

or history,

and that there is the greatness of baseball.

So guys, remember two weeks from today,

full day of opening season,

you gotta start early because every team has to play

a hundred and sixty two games.

Yep, that's right.

A hundred and sixty two games.

So until next time,

as you go out there,

remember now,

don't be better.