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Hello Monarch fans.

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Like we,

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we got the, the shot of Brock
Gallardi there, uh, enjoying

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a, a, a a, a cold beverage and
some ODU fandom at Arbor Park.

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And we saw some that this weekend.

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That was nice.

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Saw Brock and then a Tell me about
night out there this weekend.

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Oh, yeah.

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Now, now we can intro.

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Hello?

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Hello.

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Monarch fans.

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I, you always do.

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Me.

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I should.

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Welcome to another
episode of Hudson Homers.

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Uh, I'm CB and I'm here with Gary.

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Gary, how are you doing?

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You know what I'm doing Great.

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I have one more day at
work before vacation.

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I got to go see some
college baseball in person.

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Things are, things are, uh, okay.

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I mean, you know, aside from
some things, but other things

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are, are doing great, man.

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How are you?

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The, the okay things are
okay and the not okay.

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Things we're, we're gonna
worry about the Okay.

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Things.

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We'll worry about those later.

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Yes.

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I'm great man.

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Yeah, we got so some college baseball
like I saw, I mean, we could have

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fielded a whole team full of law.

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Our alumni that are out there watching
this weekend, that was fun to see.

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Um, and then, you know, we'll talk
about the other stuff, but then

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tomorrow get more college baseball
right here in Norfolk against

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Norfolk State, so That's great.

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Got the afternoon off so
I can go out and watch it.

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Yeah, we actually had, we actually
had baseball weather this weekend too.

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Almost a little hot man.

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At some points I am sunburn.

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If it wasn't for the, the breeze,
it'd have been awful out there.

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Uh, I was at the lacrosse game
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baseball and on that turf it was hot.

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Uh, I was over with Mike and Aaron at
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And the same thing, I had my back
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yet, so the back of my neck is.

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Is roasted and ready, uh, to be
in some more sun later this week.

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I've got the, the nice strips on top of
my knees, like the, like, yeah, yeah.

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I got those.

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Those are, those are solid right now.

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And I had a haircut earlier this week,
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protected got, got toasted up pretty good.

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Uh, but yeah, but it was good to
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we wanted in terms of, of record.

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We lose the series to Troy, but we do
salvage Sunday, uh, lost earlier in

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the week up in Charlottesville to UVA.

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Uh, so the, the win totals did
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feel like we're a broken record.

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It was good to at least win one in the
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You know, and it, it's funny
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about the team changes.

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Like, I sitting here and again,
probably just 'cause I, I

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like sitting and doing this.

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This is a, a fun part of my week.

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Uh, so you feel good anyway,
but yeah, they, and they went on

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Sunday, so you could like, oh yeah.

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And they, and they look great
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one rough ending pitching.

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But that's the team that you're
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doing this every single game?

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You know, I'm sitting there
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know, where is this all the time?

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And Friday was a tough one to watch.

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Uh, losing seven, nothing.

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Just watching the struggles at the
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bats and, and credit to Troy's pitching.

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They were throwing the ball very well.

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Uh, but I, I don't think
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I had in mind on that Friday.

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Uh, especially when you see the guys
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Suddenly turn it on and
they look like the lineup.

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We've expected it's a little, little
too little, too late on Saturday,

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but the bat stayed alive Sunday.

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We were able to get runs early, get
ahead and go and win that ball game.

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Some good pitching down the stretch there
from Bailey Mattel to seal that one up.

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Yeah, Bailey is man, and, and that's,
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we've seen him, like in Southern Miss,
he came in back to back days, right?

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And he got a, you know, a few outs.

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inning a third for the save on the Sunday.

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Uh, and then now we see him here getting
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You know, obviously I think they
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would get him into the eighth inning
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out or, or if it just need two innings
outta Bailey, then you could do it.

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But they, I, I guarantee they
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out in the seventh inning.

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Uh, but knowing he can do it, you know,
knowing he's got that ability, he can

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stretch it out and he, he can dominate.

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Um, he's, he's one of those guys that,
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team's dugouts, you hear him, they're
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Uh, so yeah, Bailey is always, and,
and, and Blake with another, you

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know, just a, just a stud senior.

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I mean, he's just what
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The guy brings the attitude and the
energy every single time and, and he

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brings the, the pitching to match.

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ran into Blake on Saturday morning
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as I was trying to figure out how
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Talk to him for a few minutes.

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Uh, yeah, great.

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Doubting from him.

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C yeah, he came in clutch from my
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Uh, but another, along the same line
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third to close out that game on Sunday.

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The reason he was able to do that was
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go two scoreless innings the day before
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to Bailey on that on that Saturday game.

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Uh, I thought Kellen looked
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Coming back out for a second inning of
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It was a one run game down,
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Uh, just didn't have enough
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to, to stay at.

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And while we're breaking up
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great outing on, uh, on Friday.

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Um, and, and honestly, I, you know, I know
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And what was it, the seventh inning?

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I'll be honest, I'm not real sure why.

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I'd be curious to ask if there was a
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like he was kind of rolling right then.

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I mean, obviously we were, you
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It really didn't have any effect on the
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Um, but, and then Marco, he had, he
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got outta the inning with no runs.

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But, so Hunter Baynes
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So that, that was really fun to see.

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Well, you've got a question
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with the answers, coach Finwood

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but before you answer

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that Coach, how's it going?

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Hey.

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Hey, I got to hear that question too.

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That was awesome.

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Oh, did you?

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Okay.

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I like that.

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CB always has the best questions.

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Real.

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So I don't forget, in regards to
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the ball a lot better for us.

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And, um, he was a little tender.

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Mike said nothing bad.

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He, he wanted to go back out there.

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And you know, I, at that
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Pretty good.

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And I said, I didn't really, we,
we didn't really find it out and

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I, I didn't find it out anywhere.

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I wouldn't have sent him
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Um, but he said no, he
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And I said, all right, well
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Let's get LaVar going.

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And he got that.

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He threw, I don't know if he threw
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got an album Better safe than sorry.

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'cause he's, he's trending
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That's gonna be, you know, helpful
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And like you said, we were, you
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and we, we didn't play with the hoop
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So, um, but it is nice to see him getting.

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In those games, getting more
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um, and throwing the ball.

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Well that's, you know, two or
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he's been pretty good for.

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So hopefully down the stretch he could,
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Mm-hmm.

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So much.

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Um, and, but he's a guy that you can bring
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Um, I'd like to see him come into there,
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inning when we're up and see what we got.

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So that's the next step.

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Well, I, I appreciate that answer because
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I, I try to tell people when they're
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ask me so later, it's like, you know,
you don't really know what's going on.

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Like I, my assumption was like,
okay, there's something going on.

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There's some kind of plan.

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There's some reason they didn't just
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that dunno what they're doing.

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Like that's not what's happening.

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That's right.

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That's true.

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And yeah, we're always

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gonna.

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Trend towards guy's health.

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I mean, it's just not, you know, none
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And he, he wasn't hurting.

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He had just, he had a couple,
you know, and he was throwing the

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ball well, but he hasn't thrown
a ton of pitches in a row yet.

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No.

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And so we're trying to
build that up a little bit.

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And, um, I don't know what
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was that day, but it might.

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42. It might have been.

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Yeah, 42 in the forties is about
as long as he's, he's gone, so.

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Yeah.

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Well, speaking of knowing what
you're doing, we are gonna, gonna

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put you on the spot here and wish
you a congratulations on 400 career

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coaching wins at Old Dominion.

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So, congratulations

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coach.

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Thank you guys.

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I appreciate that.

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And, uh.

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It's, um, I did not, not know that
until I heard Jack Ankerson say

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it when we were shaking hands.

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Yeah.

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I don't tend to pay that much attention
to those things, but it, it, it's

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humbling and a nice honor to be mentioned.

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You know, like on the graphic
you, you guys put up, um, in

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the, in the same sentences.

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There's been some great co bud
Metheny to finish that thought.

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And there's been so, so many great
baseball coaches at Old Dominion and,

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um, you know, just to be thought of, um,
I'm sure there's plenty of people that

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don't think I'm being that way, but for
those that do, uh, you know, to be thought

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of in those same, um, conversations,
uh, mark Newman's, pat McMahons, Tony

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Guzzo, bud Metheny's, um, guys that, you
know, I grew up learning the game from.

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And so, uh, that's, that's a
nice, nice honor to, you know,

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get to 400 here and, um, you know,
hopefully keep on, keep on rolling.

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Absolutely only, only 23 behind Bud too.

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So you're uh,

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yeah.

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Hopeful on

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24 game winning streak.

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That's, Hey, that's what I've been saying.

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I said we can make it happen.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I mean, it's gotta be when once you start
getting close to the guy whose name is on

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the stadium, that's, that's pretty good.

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Things are, good things are happening.

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Yeah.

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Well it's, um, like I said, you
know, numbers are all, um, records

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are gonna get broken, um, sooner or
later, and numbers are there to create

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interest and it's a lot of wins.

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It means you were around for good enough
time and people thought you did a good

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enough job to keep you around there.

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So, uh, I guess that's
the good, good part of it.

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Now let's get back to
talking about the games.

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There we go.

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Yes.

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Well, we, we hadn't talked too much about,
uh, the game in Charlottesville this week.

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I dunno if there's anything
you want to touch on there.

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I know you ran through some,
some bullpen arms there too, and

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maybe saw some improvement from
a couple guys in that department.

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Well, gosh, it seems like
four, four months ago now.

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It does, it does, it

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does.

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Last

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Tuesday, you know, a four hour game
again, another long Tuesday game.

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We just walk too many guys and give up too
many free bases in those midweek games.

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And I, I told the guys, you know, these
midweek games are supposed to be for

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some of you guys, like trying out to
throw more on the weekends, like you,

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and you're not doing it like you, you're
not giving us anything to, to, to go on.

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Like these are, these are
opportunities for you guys to earn,

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you know, innings on the weekends.

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And right now all we do is walk a
bunch of guys and get behind and

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we actually swung the bats fine.

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I mean, they only, I think they all hit
us nine to eight and we lost by six.

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So, uh, that's disappointing.

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Um.

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But you know, it's, we need
some guys to throw a little bit

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better, obviously, in there.

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And, um, hopefully tomorrow, you
know, a couple guys will get a

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chance, uh, and, and, and perform
better against Norfolk State.

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I, I'm, I'm pretty, you know,
I think overall our top.

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10, eight to 10 guys are throwing
the ball pretty well right now.

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Overall, um, competitive with whoever
we're playing and it's the guys down

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the line after that that aren't.

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And so, you know, it's real simple guys.

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Like if you're not gonna throw the ball
better, you're gonna stop getting chances.

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That's how it works.

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And we're gonna have to throw
some of these other guys more.

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And guys like Jayce Park are gonna
have to go out there on Tuesday

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and you know, you're gonna give
us three or four innings, man.

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And if you want to give up
one or none, or if you want to

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give up 10, you figure it out.

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Um, and, uh, we're gonna
need to stop rescuing him.

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He is gotta grow up and it is
time, you know, we got four or five

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more midweek games and that's it.

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And he needs to, he needs
to start on his keep.

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He is, he is.

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He was very good in the fall.

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He cut his finger open in
January that put him behind.

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He just hasn't been himself
a, been a shell of the pitcher

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he was for us in the fall.

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And that's, that's been disappointing.

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'cause we, we expected a lot outta
him and he, he still can do it.

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He just has it yet, you know, so
his time, you never know when the

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worm can turn and, and hopefully
it'll start to turn off for him.

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Yeah.

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I love Jason.

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Like I said, he, I, every time I
think he pitched every single time

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I was out there in the fall and it
was like, man, this kid's awesome.

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And we've seen some flashes of it.

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So, so you're right.

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I, and I, I, you know, frankly, I
know it doesn't always feel good for

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them when you leave him out there
and say, Hey, it's your inning.

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I don't care.

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I mean, he runs, you give up.

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But I think sometimes that helps
the guy if you get the guy with

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the right mentality, that's
a great learning experience.

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Yeah.

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I think sometimes we, we, you know,
and, and a lot of years for us anyway,

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you're in the RPI conversations
where you gotta try to win those

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midweek games and we're, we're not
gonna be in that boat this year, so.

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We need to, we need to
lean towards development.

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And I think a guy like Kim, a guy like
Will Orberson, um, I mean they're the only

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two freshmen left, you know, that freshman
class, uh, through injuries and, and crazy

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things has just basically all redshirted.

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Um, but they, uh, they need to
go out there and just do it.

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Like you said, this is your
inning, this is your two innings,

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this is your three innings.

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You go figure it out.

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If you give up a few, then you know, if
you give up two, try not to give up three.

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Um, and learn from it and grow.

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And I think that's where we
need to be at with those guys

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at this point in the season.

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Yeah.

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Don't want them looking to the
bullpen to see all who's getting

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up to come get me outta this.

344
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Yeah, I think you had a pretty good
example of that on Saturday with Kellen.

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Uh, you know, he came back in
for a second inning of work.

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I kept looking out in the bullpen
and like, this is Kellen's inning.

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We're, we're not going anywhere else.

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Kellen's got it.

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And he stepped up and did a great job
and lets you say Bailey for Sunday.

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And uh, it's going close
out the win against Troy.

351
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Yeah, yeah.

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Hunter and him both really, you know?

353
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Mm-hmm.

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Um, it, it's a, people don't think
about the, like CBU were saying.

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I, it's, and it's hard to, as a fan,
like a series is you're trying to

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win the series and if you can't win
the series, you're trying to win

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a game in the series and mm-hmm.

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You know, so it becomes
the next best thing.

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On Friday, you're trying to win all three.

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You get down early on Friday,
alright, you have to start

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thinking about the next two games.

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And so who can I throw in this?

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00:15:06,015 --> 00:15:10,484
That might give us a chance, but you
know, we're down, we're down one there.

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We're down two and then we
scratch back to make it one.

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And we just said, we have to save
two guys in the pen for tomorrow.

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Um, and let's, let's kellen's already
thrown, so he is gotta go back in.

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He is gotta throw another one.

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And whether we give up none or one or
five, five, it's, it's, it's the, the

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dilemma of being down as opposed to up
and not having a ton of depth down there.

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Um, yeah, I was just

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gonna say, and that's the problem of
those guys that you're giving chances

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to on Tuesday, not seizing their
opportunities because then you are,

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you're like, well, I only got two
guy, I only have two guys instead of

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like three, four guys I can pick from.

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Yeah,

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you're, you're limited.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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We're limited, uh, somewhat, you
know, right now on the weekends

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with guys that you really.

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Trust, trust.

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I mean, baes has turned into one of those
guys, uh, Kellen Bailey and, and Frank

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is, uh, you know, so, you know, it's, it's
kind of those guys minus the starters.

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And so we need to get
good starts, obviously.

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And then you gotta pick your
spots, um, for those guys.

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And, and a couple of 'em have shown
the ability to throw more than once.

387
00:16:20,385 --> 00:16:24,255
Um, you don't wanna go that well too
often, but, you know, it's just like

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Marco, Marco threw a really good inning,
uh, in, at, at Virginia, um, clean.

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But then you bring 'em in with one
out and nobody on, and next thing

390
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you know, there's bases loaded
and it's just like, come on man.

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Like, and two of them were freebies,
you know, it's like one hit.

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He just wanted to show you.

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And if he can just stay away from the
freebies, his stuff is good enough

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to be successful at this level.

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He hasn't done it yet.

396
00:16:51,824 --> 00:16:55,785
There's plenty of guys that end up as
college juniors throwing the ball real

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well that, uh, were Marco Lari, you know,
and so we just got, he's a great kid.

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He's got to learn how to compete
better and, and trust his stuff

399
00:17:05,865 --> 00:17:07,845
better and throw it in there, man.

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If they hit it, then they hit
it, we'll figure the rest out.

401
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But when you walk guys and hit
guys and you're just all over the

402
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place, that's, it's hard to, you
know, manage the game that way.

403
00:17:17,625 --> 00:17:20,775
It's hard to call that game
that way for pitching coach.

404
00:17:21,194 --> 00:17:24,915
Um, it's hard for guys to play
behind you and that's been

405
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his, his snake bite, right?

406
00:17:26,925 --> 00:17:28,425
Like, it's just the free basis.

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00:17:29,535 --> 00:17:29,865
So, and

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00:17:29,895 --> 00:17:34,065
may, maybe this is just a dumb
fan theory, but I, I feel like the

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pitcher's pitched differently when
the offense is putting up some runs,

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whether you're in the lead or not.

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Just kind of having that thought of.

412
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If I give a run up here because I am
gonna throw fastballs in the zone,

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I feel like my, my lineup behind
me can, can go get that run back.

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I don't Yeah.

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00:17:48,825 --> 00:17:50,685
Think that was necessarily
true Friday for sure.

416
00:17:51,225 --> 00:17:52,845
No, you're a hundred percent right.

417
00:17:53,475 --> 00:17:59,325
Um, and that's the, you know, the issue
when you're not hitting, hitting and

418
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pitching certainly compliment each
other, just like pitching and defense.

419
00:18:02,835 --> 00:18:06,375
Do you know, uh, it's a lot
easier to throw when you're,

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when you're up five to one.

421
00:18:08,565 --> 00:18:12,435
Um, than when you're down five to
one, uh, you feel like you gotta

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be perfect, you know, when you're
down and we've been down a lot.

423
00:18:15,735 --> 00:18:18,645
Um, and so that puts a lot of
pressure on those pitchers.

424
00:18:19,035 --> 00:18:23,415
Um, it was nice to get the lead
for Blake on, on on Sunday.

425
00:18:23,415 --> 00:18:26,025
We kind of did that last,
the following Sunday.

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00:18:26,025 --> 00:18:29,325
And, you know, Blake's just been
lights out for us on Sundays, man.

427
00:18:29,325 --> 00:18:35,025
I mean, you know, he, he's been
so consistently good, even when he

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doesn't have his best stuff, he is
just battled his tail off and kept

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us in the game and given us a chance.

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00:18:42,795 --> 00:18:48,615
Um, and we've won, you know, a, a bunch of
his starts on, on Sundays, you know, and,

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and since league play started, certainly.

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So,

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yeah.

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00:18:54,015 --> 00:18:57,465
And it's, you know, kind of on that
offensive side, it seemed like the

435
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guys didn't really wake up until
about that sixth inning on Saturday.

436
00:19:00,795 --> 00:19:02,265
And then when they did, I mean, you have.

437
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Pretty good series after that,
kind of, once the bats get going,

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00:19:05,699 --> 00:19:06,780
you get right back into the game.

439
00:19:06,780 --> 00:19:08,580
Saturday they fought
down to the final out.

440
00:19:08,939 --> 00:19:13,290
I think you, uh, I won't make you say
it, say it, but the, uh, umpire was, uh,

441
00:19:13,290 --> 00:19:14,909
a little all over the place on Saturday.

442
00:19:15,120 --> 00:19:15,179
Yeah.

443
00:19:15,209 --> 00:19:15,990
Trying to figure that out.

444
00:19:15,990 --> 00:19:16,020
I

445
00:19:16,145 --> 00:19:17,790
don't think any, any of the
three guys were any good.

446
00:19:18,270 --> 00:19:19,980
Uh, I was just gonna say the same thing.

447
00:19:19,980 --> 00:19:22,590
CB, I'm not gonna say it, but you said it.

448
00:19:22,889 --> 00:19:25,860
Uh, that was, that was as inconsistent.

449
00:19:25,860 --> 00:19:26,550
Uh, yeah.

450
00:19:26,610 --> 00:19:28,919
Three days as I can remember, man.

451
00:19:28,919 --> 00:19:30,810
And, um, you're right.

452
00:19:30,810 --> 00:19:31,679
They were all over.

453
00:19:31,679 --> 00:19:35,280
When you got both dugouts yelling at you,
then, you know, it's just not a good day.

454
00:19:35,284 --> 00:19:37,709
That's, that's what I said
at some point yesterday.

455
00:19:37,949 --> 00:19:38,159
Yeah.

456
00:19:38,159 --> 00:19:39,030
That's the way it was.

457
00:19:39,030 --> 00:19:42,600
And you know, we, we just didn't
play, you know, we were awful Friday,

458
00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:44,010
let's just call it what it is.

459
00:19:44,010 --> 00:19:47,070
And we told the guys, you know,
we challenged them like, come on.

460
00:19:47,370 --> 00:19:49,199
And then Saturday we
played a good ball game.

461
00:19:49,199 --> 00:19:51,510
We got beat, their starter
Saturday was fantastic.

462
00:19:52,290 --> 00:19:52,440
On ball.

463
00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:52,442
Mm-hmm.

464
00:19:52,443 --> 00:19:52,444
Yes.

465
00:19:52,448 --> 00:19:55,320
I mean, it was low to mid nineties
with a real breaking ball.

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We could not figure him out until
he just got tired and, and they

467
00:19:59,669 --> 00:20:01,980
probably, you know, left him out
there maybe anything too long.

468
00:20:01,980 --> 00:20:03,300
But that can happen.

469
00:20:03,300 --> 00:20:03,600
Right?

470
00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:07,320
And, and then the kid they
brought in deal was up to 98.

471
00:20:07,350 --> 00:20:07,439
Mm-hmm.

472
00:20:07,919 --> 00:20:13,020
Um, and so we, we had, you know, we
had a couple guys that were gonna

473
00:20:13,020 --> 00:20:14,370
be tough for anybody to deal with.

474
00:20:14,370 --> 00:20:17,610
We had to face Saturday, so that had
something to do with, with why we

475
00:20:17,610 --> 00:20:19,110
didn't score more than three runs.

476
00:20:19,590 --> 00:20:22,679
Um, and Sunday we came out and
swing of bats and had some big hits.

477
00:20:22,679 --> 00:20:26,879
Kyle Edwards, you know, hits two
home runs and, uh, we needed 'em.

478
00:20:26,879 --> 00:20:29,310
And er, Morales goes four for four.

479
00:20:30,750 --> 00:20:33,600
I thought F gave gave us
great energy behind the plate.

480
00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:36,570
You know, he's gonna be a really
catcher, he's a talker back there.

481
00:20:37,590 --> 00:20:39,090
He's just, yeah, he's a winner.

482
00:20:39,510 --> 00:20:41,010
That's what he is.

483
00:20:41,010 --> 00:20:41,340
Yeah, he's a winner.

484
00:20:41,340 --> 00:20:42,210
He is competitive.

485
00:20:42,210 --> 00:20:43,080
He is a tough little.

486
00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:45,030
SOBI love that kid.

487
00:20:45,210 --> 00:20:51,120
And, um, he is just gotta keep working
on the arm, which he will, you know,

488
00:20:51,120 --> 00:20:52,560
he is just had some arm issues.

489
00:20:52,560 --> 00:20:53,850
Nothing major, but.

490
00:20:54,225 --> 00:20:57,225
Uh, it just kind of gets
underwater on him sometimes.

491
00:20:57,225 --> 00:21:00,375
And, um, but he caught
good, he blocks good.

492
00:21:00,375 --> 00:21:04,965
He just gives you tremendous,
you know, desire back there.

493
00:21:04,965 --> 00:21:06,885
And I think it bleeds
into everything we do.

494
00:21:06,885 --> 00:21:09,435
And Blake, I, I mean,
I think it helps Blake.

495
00:21:09,435 --> 00:21:12,435
I mean, not that Blake hadn't been
throwing good to whoever's showing

496
00:21:12,795 --> 00:21:17,025
too, but he, he's, you know, he seems
to work, work well with him as well.

497
00:21:17,085 --> 00:21:18,465
He kind of matches Blake's energy.

498
00:21:18,465 --> 00:21:19,875
'cause Blake's a very high energy.

499
00:21:19,875 --> 00:21:20,115
Yes.

500
00:21:20,115 --> 00:21:21,825
He's, I mean, he's a talker
even when he's pitching.

501
00:21:22,215 --> 00:21:22,725
Yeah.

502
00:21:22,965 --> 00:21:23,355
Yeah.

503
00:21:23,625 --> 00:21:24,435
That's a good point.

504
00:21:24,495 --> 00:21:27,045
I think, I think that's
a good way to put it.

505
00:21:27,045 --> 00:21:28,430
And, you know, um,

506
00:21:30,555 --> 00:21:35,505
as we get farther down the road, hopefully
we can catch stuff a little bit more.

507
00:21:35,505 --> 00:21:37,875
He is just not quite
ready for it yet arm wise.

508
00:21:37,875 --> 00:21:40,575
So, um, but we're moving
in that direction.

509
00:21:40,575 --> 00:21:44,955
I think he's gonna be our,
you know, our future catcher.

510
00:21:45,795 --> 00:21:49,335
So, um, and then, and then,
you know, we had some big hits.

511
00:21:49,335 --> 00:21:50,565
Scott thought, Scotty Young.

512
00:21:52,050 --> 00:21:55,770
Obviously his first at bat to double
down the line, you know, gets us going.

513
00:21:55,800 --> 00:22:01,530
Uh, uh, he had a, he had a really
good day in game three, uh, last week

514
00:22:01,530 --> 00:22:05,189
at, at Appalachian State, and should
have had a home run last night too.

515
00:22:05,189 --> 00:22:08,580
I mean, he murdered that ball,
dead end 30 mile an hour wind.

516
00:22:08,580 --> 00:22:12,240
And having said that, my gosh, man,
it's just like you start to feel

517
00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:15,780
like you snake bit a little bit,
you know, Friday we probably hit

518
00:22:15,780 --> 00:22:20,669
three, uh, tj, Luke, you know, maybe
three home runs that didn't go.

519
00:22:20,669 --> 00:22:22,800
And, and TJ had another one Saturday.

520
00:22:23,340 --> 00:22:29,340
Um, and then, you know, uh, I mean, Kyle
got his, uh, hit his to the right b part

521
00:22:29,340 --> 00:22:34,199
of the ballpark, fortunately, but Scotty,
that's as hard as you can hit a ball, man.

522
00:22:34,199 --> 00:22:35,040
And it didn't go out.

523
00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:36,540
So, uh, it's too bad.

524
00:22:36,540 --> 00:22:37,649
Were they telling you,

525
00:22:37,709 --> 00:22:39,600
um, it looked like there were a few.

526
00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:43,659
Hit the center where Scotty like,
it seemed like, I think the wind

527
00:22:43,990 --> 00:22:45,730
kind of carried him away from him.

528
00:22:46,030 --> 00:22:48,575
'cause I noticed, like when
I was sitting they did.

529
00:22:48,685 --> 00:22:48,975
Yeah.

530
00:22:49,365 --> 00:22:50,095
Yeah, they did.

531
00:22:50,169 --> 00:22:52,389
We should had him more
and left center, I think.

532
00:22:52,540 --> 00:22:53,021
Um mm-hmm.

533
00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:54,070
That's on us.

534
00:22:54,070 --> 00:22:58,720
I, I think we should have played the
wind a little bit more, um, than we did.

535
00:22:58,750 --> 00:23:01,360
'cause, you know, a couple of those
balls I think he'd had a better

536
00:23:01,360 --> 00:23:04,810
chance of if he was just over,
you know, four or five more steps.

537
00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:06,580
And, um, so that's on us.

538
00:23:06,580 --> 00:23:09,100
But yeah, he, he had a little bit
of trouble reading some of those,

539
00:23:09,310 --> 00:23:10,780
but man, it wasn't an easy day.

540
00:23:10,780 --> 00:23:11,500
I mean, not easy.

541
00:23:11,500 --> 00:23:11,740
No.

542
00:23:11,740 --> 00:23:14,800
Every ball in the air was
gonna be an adventure.

543
00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:18,010
And I thought we did a pretty good
job on a bunch of popups, man.

544
00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:21,939
The one guy, I don't remember who
hit it, but I thought it was going

545
00:23:21,939 --> 00:23:26,530
to Elite and it ended up, Kyle had to
catch it in front of the third base.

546
00:23:27,490 --> 00:23:27,820
Yeah.

547
00:23:28,629 --> 00:23:29,590
And I was like, wow.

548
00:23:29,590 --> 00:23:30,879
That's, you know, 50 feet.

549
00:23:30,879 --> 00:23:31,720
That ball moved.

550
00:23:32,020 --> 00:23:32,200
Yeah.

551
00:23:32,379 --> 00:23:34,054
There was an, there was
another, another one on.

552
00:23:35,370 --> 00:23:38,520
Blake and Zach ran into each other
on the one, fortunately we call it.

553
00:23:39,540 --> 00:23:40,020
Yeah.

554
00:23:40,139 --> 00:23:40,530
Oh, hold on.

555
00:23:40,530 --> 00:23:41,460
I think we got that here.

556
00:23:41,465 --> 00:23:41,905
There you go.

557
00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:43,290
There it is.

558
00:23:43,290 --> 00:23:43,680
Yeah.

559
00:23:43,950 --> 00:23:44,639
Yeah, yeah.

560
00:23:44,639 --> 00:23:47,070
That's, that's, that's
a good shot right there.

561
00:23:47,815 --> 00:23:48,105
Yeah.

562
00:23:49,235 --> 00:23:50,695
And, and fortunately Blake.

563
00:23:51,805 --> 00:23:52,095
Yeah.

564
00:23:52,095 --> 00:23:54,510
And Blake is Blake, he is just,
he's sitting there laughing

565
00:23:54,510 --> 00:23:55,710
on the ground afterwards.

566
00:23:55,710 --> 00:23:57,930
You know, he's just got that
great attitude no matter what,

567
00:23:58,590 --> 00:23:58,770
you know?

568
00:23:58,770 --> 00:23:59,340
Yeah, yeah.

569
00:23:59,340 --> 00:24:02,129
And he's probably our
best fielding pitcher.

570
00:24:02,220 --> 00:24:02,490
Yeah.

571
00:24:02,580 --> 00:24:06,480
Um, so, you know, you feel good about
him catching a popup, which not all

572
00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:09,000
left-handed pitchers, if that the case.

573
00:24:10,590 --> 00:24:10,800
Yeah,

574
00:24:11,555 --> 00:24:12,990
it, it was definitely an adventure.

575
00:24:12,990 --> 00:24:14,790
Looked like some points in the outfield.

576
00:24:14,790 --> 00:24:18,420
There was a line drive screamer
hit to dead center on Saturday.

577
00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:24,480
I watched it go over the second base
bag and then it curled into left.

578
00:24:24,570 --> 00:24:28,560
And I think TJ took like three steps to
his left and caught it in left field.

579
00:24:28,565 --> 00:24:28,845
Yeah.

580
00:24:29,100 --> 00:24:29,250
Yeah.

581
00:24:29,250 --> 00:24:32,220
And you can see just that jet
stream cutting across right center

582
00:24:32,220 --> 00:24:33,510
towards that left field foul pole.

583
00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:33,870
Yeah.

584
00:24:33,870 --> 00:24:34,860
Pushing everything that way.

585
00:24:34,915 --> 00:24:35,205
Yeah.

586
00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:35,640
Yeah.

587
00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:38,400
I really think the stadium was kind
of blocking and then once it got

588
00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:42,900
past that and like, you know, mid
outfield, it was just pushing hard.

589
00:24:42,900 --> 00:24:43,560
Yeah,

590
00:24:43,565 --> 00:24:43,605
yeah.

591
00:24:43,650 --> 00:24:43,830
Took

592
00:24:43,905 --> 00:24:44,125
off.

593
00:24:44,220 --> 00:24:44,580
Yeah.

594
00:24:44,940 --> 00:24:45,360
Yeah.

595
00:24:45,660 --> 00:24:48,720
Well, I mean, it was great
weather temperature wise and yeah.

596
00:24:48,870 --> 00:24:53,550
Um, it was nice to play some baseball
and short sleeves and sweat a little bit.

597
00:24:53,550 --> 00:24:54,300
That was fun.

598
00:24:54,300 --> 00:24:59,100
And you know, um, uh, you know,
we'll be back tomorrow in the, in

599
00:24:59,100 --> 00:25:01,320
the mid fifties and cold, windy.

600
00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:01,800
Gotta love it.

601
00:25:01,805 --> 00:25:02,220
Close it in.

602
00:25:02,460 --> 00:25:05,520
We're heading down the Georgia, it's
gonna be in the seventies all weekend,

603
00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:08,730
so, uh, maybe spring is finally here.

604
00:25:09,645 --> 00:25:10,185
We got pollen

605
00:25:10,185 --> 00:25:11,700
everywhere again, so, oh, yeah,

606
00:25:11,810 --> 00:25:13,065
yeah, yeah, yeah.

607
00:25:13,065 --> 00:25:13,815
I'm glad to see

608
00:25:13,815 --> 00:25:16,815
the, glad to see the rain wash
and some of that pollen away.

609
00:25:17,205 --> 00:25:20,295
Uh, but I, I want to go back a little
bit on the umpire discussion here.

610
00:25:20,295 --> 00:25:23,115
'cause we actually have two
voicemails today and one of 'em is

611
00:25:23,115 --> 00:25:26,595
about, and a very interesting play
that occurred over the weekend.

612
00:25:26,595 --> 00:25:29,415
But, uh, it's from Aaron who was
sitting with me most of the game,

613
00:25:29,415 --> 00:25:30,945
and he had this question for you.

614
00:25:31,875 --> 00:25:32,775
What's up fellas?

615
00:25:32,925 --> 00:25:33,945
This is Aaron here.

616
00:25:34,335 --> 00:25:35,655
First and foremost, congrats.

617
00:25:35,655 --> 00:25:36,045
Vinny.

618
00:25:36,225 --> 00:25:37,635
400 wins at ODU.

619
00:25:38,055 --> 00:25:39,585
What an awesome accomplishment.

620
00:25:40,305 --> 00:25:41,925
Uh, I've got a question for coach.

621
00:25:41,985 --> 00:25:45,855
On Friday night, there was a bang,
bang play at first where from the

622
00:25:45,855 --> 00:25:49,035
stance, it looked like the ball
bounced off the first baseman's glove.

623
00:25:49,035 --> 00:25:53,745
The umpire called the runner out, and many
of us in the stands were really confused.

624
00:25:54,165 --> 00:25:56,475
Um, after a few moments of us,

625
00:25:56,925 --> 00:25:59,445
so to to, to paraphrase
and thank you Aaron.

626
00:25:59,505 --> 00:26:00,705
Uh, 'cause I have this question too.

627
00:26:00,945 --> 00:26:06,855
The, the play at first base on Friday,
uh, where the first baseman for Troy

628
00:26:06,855 --> 00:26:11,295
caught the ball and it looked like
the ball pops out immediately and he's

629
00:26:11,295 --> 00:26:12,825
called out and we're all confused.

630
00:26:12,825 --> 00:26:15,015
And I guess it turned out
they had a ball in his pocket.

631
00:26:15,735 --> 00:26:17,430
No, no, that, that's great.

632
00:26:17,450 --> 00:26:21,885
No, uh, it's, that's like the, uh,
you know, the, the circle game where

633
00:26:21,885 --> 00:26:24,885
you go around and you start saying
one thing and then by the time you

634
00:26:24,885 --> 00:26:27,405
get back to the end of the circle,
it's something completely different.

635
00:26:27,675 --> 00:26:29,235
So I thought it was a ball too.

636
00:26:29,715 --> 00:26:30,580
And I went, went out.

637
00:26:30,580 --> 00:26:33,495
Was was, now I saw balls laying on
the ground, like what's going on?

638
00:26:33,495 --> 00:26:33,555
Yeah.

639
00:26:34,305 --> 00:26:35,980
He said, was it a guard, his finger

640
00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:36,500
guy,

641
00:26:36,585 --> 00:26:38,745
the guy has a thumb guard.

642
00:26:38,835 --> 00:26:39,345
Yeah.

643
00:26:39,405 --> 00:26:43,575
That he keeps, 'cause he, he busted
his hand up on his glove hand.

644
00:26:43,635 --> 00:26:47,385
And it, it's at a point where, you know,
where your gloves open on your wrist.

645
00:26:47,390 --> 00:26:47,460
Mm-hmm.

646
00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:50,385
And sometimes the ball hits and it flies.

647
00:26:51,405 --> 00:26:54,225
And from a distance, it looks like,
'cause it happened again yesterday.

648
00:26:54,765 --> 00:26:55,060
Yeah, it did.

649
00:26:55,125 --> 00:26:56,475
I dunno if you guys saw that.

650
00:26:56,655 --> 00:26:58,515
And I, I went, there it is again.

651
00:26:58,515 --> 00:26:59,895
Then I saw him go pick it up.

652
00:27:00,195 --> 00:27:02,925
Uh, and so that, that's what,
that's what went flying off.

653
00:27:02,925 --> 00:27:04,515
It wasn't his, it wasn't a ball.

654
00:27:06,045 --> 00:27:06,075
Okay.

655
00:27:06,075 --> 00:27:07,875
That's the, i I did see

656
00:27:07,875 --> 00:27:09,345
it, uh, yesterday.

657
00:27:09,345 --> 00:27:13,695
I was, I was on that side when it happened
and it was his, it was his finger guard.

658
00:27:13,695 --> 00:27:15,195
'cause he had his finger
out, I'm assuming.

659
00:27:15,195 --> 00:27:15,405
Yeah.

660
00:27:15,405 --> 00:27:18,885
And so it was like outside the
glove and it just shot right off.

661
00:27:19,545 --> 00:27:20,265
That's what it was.

662
00:27:20,265 --> 00:27:22,785
And that was the same
thing the, the other time.

663
00:27:22,815 --> 00:27:24,435
'cause I, I asked the same question.

664
00:27:24,435 --> 00:27:26,385
I was like, yeah, it looked crazy.

665
00:27:26,385 --> 00:27:28,905
You know, uh, how's, how's, how's he out?

666
00:27:28,905 --> 00:27:32,205
He's gotta catch the ball because that
wasn't the ball as his finger guard.

667
00:27:32,380 --> 00:27:32,670
Okay.

668
00:27:34,305 --> 00:27:34,575
Alright.

669
00:27:34,575 --> 00:27:34,875
That

670
00:27:36,555 --> 00:27:40,065
we had the exact same call,
though, two different days that

671
00:27:40,065 --> 00:27:41,655
they called two different ways.

672
00:27:41,685 --> 00:27:41,775
Mm-hmm.

673
00:27:42,285 --> 00:27:44,925
Stallings got hit on the, yeah.

674
00:27:44,985 --> 00:27:47,505
On the wrist on Friday, I guess.

675
00:27:47,985 --> 00:27:51,435
And, uh, you know, they
said, hit the bat first.

676
00:27:51,525 --> 00:27:51,615
Mm-hmm.

677
00:27:52,005 --> 00:27:56,385
It, it's, it's almost impossible to get
hit on the hand and have it hit the bat.

678
00:27:56,385 --> 00:27:56,985
First.

679
00:27:57,345 --> 00:28:00,765
You, you're supposed to call and hit
the bat and if they wanna review that.

680
00:28:01,245 --> 00:28:05,175
You go back in and you say it, they, they
actually got it right the second time.

681
00:28:05,325 --> 00:28:06,705
Unfortunately it was for them.

682
00:28:07,005 --> 00:28:10,155
'cause I went out and he said, no, I
got it hitting his hand and in the back.

683
00:28:10,665 --> 00:28:13,935
And that's almost all, unless
it hits the bottom of that knob.

684
00:28:14,055 --> 00:28:14,235
Mm-hmm.

685
00:28:14,535 --> 00:28:19,395
Somehow it, it's, it's impossible
to hit the bat and not your hand.

686
00:28:19,995 --> 00:28:21,195
And so that's what I said.

687
00:28:21,195 --> 00:28:24,285
I said, you gotta be kidding me, that
at no point did that ball hit his

688
00:28:24,285 --> 00:28:27,135
hand and they review it and say no.

689
00:28:27,135 --> 00:28:28,875
And I was like, I don't,
I don't believe it.

690
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:31,725
I I, I told the guy the next
day, I said, I, I watched it.

691
00:28:32,055 --> 00:28:35,235
Like, I don't know how you can say that
ball didn't hit some part of his hand.

692
00:28:36,015 --> 00:28:36,975
Um, I'm, I'm convinced

693
00:28:36,975 --> 00:28:38,955
Replay just exists that
I can say they're right.

694
00:28:39,045 --> 00:28:40,125
I don't think they even look at 'em

695
00:28:40,545 --> 00:28:41,025
anymore.

696
00:28:41,025 --> 00:28:44,115
I mean, think about what, what
call, when's the last time

697
00:28:44,115 --> 00:28:45,405
you saw a call overturned?

698
00:28:46,035 --> 00:28:48,435
I've had 'em walk by me and say,
let's go, let's go see them.

699
00:28:48,435 --> 00:28:48,795
Right.

700
00:28:49,785 --> 00:28:50,295
Like they don't.

701
00:28:50,775 --> 00:28:51,015
Yeah.

702
00:28:51,015 --> 00:28:51,315
I remember

703
00:28:51,315 --> 00:28:56,625
that last year when we first, when
we first, you know, had it, you were

704
00:28:56,625 --> 00:28:59,865
seeing a lot of calls overturned and
now, and now they're going, oh yeah,

705
00:28:59,865 --> 00:29:00,885
well, we're getting them all right.

706
00:29:00,885 --> 00:29:01,635
Well, that's garbage.

707
00:29:01,815 --> 00:29:03,135
You guys are just colluding.

708
00:29:03,525 --> 00:29:05,025
You're colluding in there.

709
00:29:05,415 --> 00:29:05,895
Uh, I

710
00:29:05,895 --> 00:29:08,655
don't like either that the guy that
makes the call goes in the room.

711
00:29:08,655 --> 00:29:09,795
It's like, that's crazy.

712
00:29:10,245 --> 00:29:12,230
One of the other guy should
go, that's not supposed cakes.

713
00:29:12,230 --> 00:29:12,470
Yeah.

714
00:29:12,910 --> 00:29:13,950
I, I think it happens every

715
00:29:13,950 --> 00:29:14,110
game.

716
00:29:14,830 --> 00:29:20,475
I think it's supposed to be the crew chief
and the guy that didn't make the call.

717
00:29:20,685 --> 00:29:20,925
Yeah.

718
00:29:21,045 --> 00:29:22,185
Unless.

719
00:29:23,445 --> 00:29:25,725
It's got something to do
with the home plate umpire.

720
00:29:25,725 --> 00:29:27,795
Like they don't want the guy
having to run in there with all

721
00:29:27,795 --> 00:29:29,355
his gear on and stuff like that.

722
00:29:29,745 --> 00:29:31,095
Oh, suck those buttercup.

723
00:29:31,245 --> 00:29:32,507
Yeah, I know, I know.

724
00:29:32,985 --> 00:29:33,435
Um,

725
00:29:33,585 --> 00:29:34,905
but I mean, they were
in there long enough.

726
00:29:35,385 --> 00:29:38,085
Yeah, they're in there long enough
and I can't even tell you the

727
00:29:38,085 --> 00:29:39,825
last time I saw a call overturned.

728
00:29:39,825 --> 00:29:40,820
Nah, it's been a while.

729
00:29:41,115 --> 00:29:41,955
I can't remember.

730
00:29:41,955 --> 00:29:43,545
I don't know if there's
been one this year.

731
00:29:43,545 --> 00:29:44,685
Like if we do, I

732
00:29:44,685 --> 00:29:46,155
guarantee it was against us.

733
00:29:46,905 --> 00:29:47,055
Yeah,

734
00:29:48,495 --> 00:29:48,765
yeah.

735
00:29:49,065 --> 00:29:49,345
Spoken

736
00:29:49,365 --> 00:29:50,745
like a true Monarch fan.

737
00:29:50,955 --> 00:29:51,345
Yeah.

738
00:29:51,375 --> 00:29:51,735
Yes.

739
00:29:52,455 --> 00:29:54,075
It's never, never in our
favor there, honestly.

740
00:29:54,075 --> 00:29:54,135
No.

741
00:29:55,455 --> 00:29:56,355
Uh, yeah.

742
00:29:56,355 --> 00:30:00,285
Well, um, Norfolk State, uh, tomorrow
or Tuesday, depending on when

743
00:30:00,285 --> 00:30:01,605
you're, you're listening to this.

744
00:30:01,815 --> 00:30:01,935
Mm-hmm.

745
00:30:02,175 --> 00:30:04,065
Uh, then head down to Georgia Southern.

746
00:30:04,605 --> 00:30:07,395
Uh, it, it's obviously, it's
still tight race in the Sunbelt.

747
00:30:07,395 --> 00:30:09,705
I mean, I feel like everyone is
still very much bunched together.

748
00:30:09,735 --> 00:30:13,275
'cause uh, Troy actually moved into
a, a first place tie this week,

749
00:30:13,425 --> 00:30:16,575
eight and four with Coastal and
Southern Miss and Georgia State.

750
00:30:16,935 --> 00:30:19,125
Uh, so it's, it's all still
pretty jammed up, but.

751
00:30:19,450 --> 00:30:22,215
What have you seen from, uh, from
Georgia Southern so far, if you've

752
00:30:22,215 --> 00:30:23,115
had a chance to take a look at 'em?

753
00:30:23,895 --> 00:30:26,595
Well, they're good and they
really play well at home.

754
00:30:26,625 --> 00:30:30,195
You know, they lost two outta three
to south on the road this weekend.

755
00:30:30,735 --> 00:30:35,595
Um, so again, after we played
Georgia, Southern Louisiana.

756
00:30:36,090 --> 00:30:38,880
You know, outside of the last
weekend against Coastal Wolf

757
00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:42,180
played six of the top seven teams.

758
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:47,850
Um, so the schedule makers didn't do
us any favors this, this year either.

759
00:30:47,850 --> 00:30:48,720
Of course, right?

760
00:30:48,750 --> 00:30:51,840
When, when they started out with Troy and
Southern Miss, it was like, oh, thanks.

761
00:30:52,530 --> 00:30:53,100
Yeah.

762
00:30:53,495 --> 00:30:55,565
And, uh, Louisiana's getting healthy.

763
00:30:55,565 --> 00:30:57,875
They're, they're playing
back, playing good now.

764
00:30:58,175 --> 00:30:59,855
So, but it is what it is.

765
00:30:59,855 --> 00:31:03,665
You know, I, I'm, I am, we're,
you know, there's been a lot

766
00:31:03,665 --> 00:31:04,925
of teams that have been swept.

767
00:31:05,435 --> 00:31:09,155
Um, you know, I'm proud of our guys
for hanging in there and not, you

768
00:31:09,155 --> 00:31:11,915
know, when we haven't, you know,
won on Friday, Saturday, we haven't

769
00:31:11,915 --> 00:31:13,265
allowed our subs to be swept.

770
00:31:13,265 --> 00:31:16,925
And that gives you a chance,
man, that's a, such a big two

771
00:31:16,925 --> 00:31:18,995
game swing in those weekends.

772
00:31:19,445 --> 00:31:24,005
Um, when you, when you just keep from
being swept, you still got a, a shot.

773
00:31:24,005 --> 00:31:29,975
So, um, you know, we were five and
seven last year at this point, and uh,

774
00:31:30,455 --> 00:31:35,405
difference was we had JMU coming in this
year we're going to Georgia Southern, so.

775
00:31:36,855 --> 00:31:40,815
But I mean, if we can keep pitching,
you know, overall the way we're

776
00:31:40,815 --> 00:31:45,105
pitching, find a way to get some
more timely hits and, you know, we've

777
00:31:45,105 --> 00:31:46,905
gotta, we've gotta play better defense.

778
00:31:46,905 --> 00:31:50,655
I mean, we're costing our pitchers too
many pitches by not making routine plays.

779
00:31:51,045 --> 00:31:55,995
And, um, those guys have to
play like, uh, I don't know what

780
00:31:55,995 --> 00:31:57,135
we're gonna do at third base.

781
00:31:57,135 --> 00:31:58,335
So it is just been a mm-hmm.

782
00:31:58,695 --> 00:32:03,075
Disappointing, terrible black
hole for us right now, this year.

783
00:32:03,075 --> 00:32:05,595
And I can't put it any simpler than that.

784
00:32:05,595 --> 00:32:09,975
Those guys need to step up and
somebody's gotta play better over there.

785
00:32:09,975 --> 00:32:11,685
So, um.

786
00:32:12,090 --> 00:32:12,900
Plain and simple.

787
00:32:13,290 --> 00:32:18,630
And if we can do that, then, you know,
I'm, I'm, I'm proud of some guys trending

788
00:32:18,630 --> 00:32:23,340
in the right direction offensively
and, you know, some other things, you

789
00:32:23,340 --> 00:32:25,110
know, bullpen wise are, are better.

790
00:32:25,110 --> 00:32:28,200
And so, we'll, we'll
give ourselves a chance.

791
00:32:28,230 --> 00:32:29,400
'cause our starting pitching's good.

792
00:32:29,850 --> 00:32:33,420
You know, I mean, and you know, most,
most of these weekends you're seeing,

793
00:32:33,870 --> 00:32:38,940
you know, somebody's just crappy, uh, in
one of those three games on the mound.

794
00:32:38,940 --> 00:32:42,510
And we really haven't been,
um, for the most part.

795
00:32:42,510 --> 00:32:44,550
So, um, that's good.

796
00:32:44,550 --> 00:32:46,950
And, you know, Ben's feeling better.

797
00:32:46,950 --> 00:32:50,790
He got some new medicine for his
migraines and I think he's been, you

798
00:32:50,790 --> 00:32:54,780
know, a week now without, you know,
feeling dizzy or any of that stuff.

799
00:32:54,900 --> 00:32:55,650
He looked better.

800
00:32:56,100 --> 00:32:56,490
Yeah.

801
00:32:56,820 --> 00:32:58,500
Like he looked better walking
around, like physically.

802
00:33:00,540 --> 00:33:04,410
And I think that, I think too, you
know, every weekend, here's something

803
00:33:04,410 --> 00:33:05,880
else maybe you don't think about.

804
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:08,250
Every weekend is a, is a different.

805
00:33:08,820 --> 00:33:13,380
Um, approach from a hitting
standpoint, like what their hitters

806
00:33:13,380 --> 00:33:15,420
do and what they're good at.

807
00:33:15,420 --> 00:33:16,455
I, I really believe.

808
00:33:17,145 --> 00:33:23,625
Appalachian state and Troy, um,
how they hit makes it as difficult

809
00:33:23,625 --> 00:33:27,135
on your pitchers as, as just about
every other team in the league.

810
00:33:27,135 --> 00:33:29,175
I mean, they don't give that way at bats.

811
00:33:29,175 --> 00:33:30,435
They don't strike out much.

812
00:33:30,435 --> 00:33:32,625
They grind out bats,
they put pitches in you.

813
00:33:33,075 --> 00:33:35,655
You know, you play a Georgia State,
like they're gonna be more free

814
00:33:35,655 --> 00:33:38,865
swingers, they're gonna strike out
a little more, that kind of stuff.

815
00:33:38,865 --> 00:33:41,415
And, uh, Georgia Southern
has been that way.

816
00:33:41,745 --> 00:33:49,155
Um, so having to fight through those six
games in a row maybe can help you, uh,

817
00:33:49,185 --> 00:33:52,335
down the road, you know, as, as you work.

818
00:33:52,335 --> 00:33:56,505
'cause maybe you get a little bit easier
outs, you know, in some of these places.

819
00:33:56,505 --> 00:33:58,425
So I think that's the case.

820
00:33:58,425 --> 00:34:03,465
You know, Louisiana's, uh, usually
a very left-handed heavy lineup and,

821
00:34:03,795 --> 00:34:07,485
you know, that's, um, uh, a strength
of ours is left-handed pitching.

822
00:34:07,485 --> 00:34:09,255
So you like that matchup, I think.

823
00:34:09,255 --> 00:34:13,815
And, uh, we just gotta show up and,
and play better behind those guys.

824
00:34:15,045 --> 00:34:17,715
Now, like when you have teams
like App State and Troy, which

825
00:34:17,715 --> 00:34:18,855
I absolutely agree with you.

826
00:34:18,945 --> 00:34:21,375
The way they bat is just wonderful.

827
00:34:21,585 --> 00:34:23,895
Is that something you point
out to your guys and say, Hey,

828
00:34:24,045 --> 00:34:24,645
oh, always.

829
00:34:24,645 --> 00:34:24,705
Yeah.

830
00:34:24,710 --> 00:34:24,990
Look at this.

831
00:34:25,100 --> 00:34:27,645
Yeah, because that's not,
we're not good at that.

832
00:34:27,645 --> 00:34:28,005
Mm-hmm.

833
00:34:28,305 --> 00:34:28,725
No.

834
00:34:28,725 --> 00:34:31,065
You know, I, I mean part
of that's personnel.

835
00:34:31,185 --> 00:34:34,065
Um, and part of it's coaching, like
we gotta do a better job with 'em.

836
00:34:34,515 --> 00:34:39,165
Like it's, it's, you know, Tylers
Zedalis was oh, for four, four

837
00:34:39,165 --> 00:34:42,405
strikeouts yesterday and didn't
have one competitive at bat.

838
00:34:42,465 --> 00:34:47,265
Like, and he's just bailing out,
you know, heads facing the third

839
00:34:47,265 --> 00:34:48,945
base coaches box on every swing.

840
00:34:48,945 --> 00:34:50,625
And I was like, go back and look man.

841
00:34:50,625 --> 00:34:51,945
Like, how can you hit that way?

842
00:34:52,545 --> 00:34:54,825
Like, nobody any good hits like that.

843
00:34:55,275 --> 00:34:58,365
And I hate to be, I'm not picking
on him because he is a great

844
00:34:58,365 --> 00:35:01,125
kid, but you can't hit like that.

845
00:35:01,155 --> 00:35:01,935
It doesn't work.

846
00:35:02,685 --> 00:35:03,645
Well, the one at bat,

847
00:35:03,645 --> 00:35:06,045
he actually did have the
RBI ground out was great.

848
00:35:06,050 --> 00:35:07,390
He did stayed in there the ground out.

849
00:35:07,695 --> 00:35:09,225
He, he got, yeah, but you're right.

850
00:35:09,225 --> 00:35:10,755
The other four was like,
what are you doing?

851
00:35:10,815 --> 00:35:11,775
Like, why even go up?

852
00:35:11,805 --> 00:35:12,075
Yeah.

853
00:35:12,465 --> 00:35:13,245
Which it is.

854
00:35:13,245 --> 00:35:13,905
He is a great kid.

855
00:35:13,905 --> 00:35:14,475
It's, you're right.

856
00:35:14,475 --> 00:35:16,095
It's not to stick on him,
it's just to point it out.

857
00:35:16,935 --> 00:35:17,265
Yep.

858
00:35:17,325 --> 00:35:17,625
Yep.

859
00:35:17,715 --> 00:35:22,455
And so it's something that guys gotta take
pride in and um, unfortunately, you know,

860
00:35:22,455 --> 00:35:27,495
not enough of 'em in today's game do, but
we gotta make it a point, we gotta make

861
00:35:27,495 --> 00:35:29,295
'em, I guess is a better way to say it.

862
00:35:29,805 --> 00:35:30,490
Uh, and

863
00:35:30,495 --> 00:35:33,225
that, and that's what's frustrating
is because, uh, there are enough guys

864
00:35:33,225 --> 00:35:36,015
who do, you got a whole, you just
saw two whole teams of them that do.

865
00:35:37,575 --> 00:35:37,725
Yeah.

866
00:35:37,725 --> 00:35:40,305
And I, I've even noticed Troy
starting to crowd the plate a little

867
00:35:40,305 --> 00:35:41,745
bit more when they got two strikes.

868
00:35:41,745 --> 00:35:44,385
So it was even more than just the
choking up, like at least the top

869
00:35:44,385 --> 00:35:47,445
half of that lineup was moving in
about an inch closer to the plate

870
00:35:47,445 --> 00:35:48,915
anytime they got in two strike count.

871
00:35:49,185 --> 00:35:51,645
And I think that's, yeah, Ben was stay,

872
00:35:52,575 --> 00:35:54,615
if you come inside,
they'll, they'll wear it.

873
00:35:54,645 --> 00:35:57,555
And again, you know, that's
part of the approach.

874
00:35:57,555 --> 00:36:01,635
And um, you know, we hit a number of
guys, you know, unfortunately this

875
00:36:01,635 --> 00:36:03,915
weekend and we got hit a few times too.

876
00:36:03,915 --> 00:36:07,395
But I think, uh, Ron, did Ron get
hit twice yesterday trying to bunt?

877
00:36:07,545 --> 00:36:08,115
Yeah, he did.

878
00:36:08,145 --> 00:36:09,195
Trying to bunt both times.

879
00:36:09,195 --> 00:36:10,965
Competing, yeah.

880
00:36:11,025 --> 00:36:14,355
You know, it's funny, sometimes you just
show bunt and the pitcher just freaks

881
00:36:14,355 --> 00:36:15,555
out and throws the ball over the place.

882
00:36:16,335 --> 00:36:17,925
Like it happens all the time.

883
00:36:18,225 --> 00:36:18,945
We've had a

884
00:36:18,945 --> 00:36:22,485
few instances this year when we're
pitching and a guy shows bunt.

885
00:36:22,575 --> 00:36:23,265
Oh, oh.

886
00:36:23,820 --> 00:36:27,390
We somehow get two called strikes
and then end up winning the at bat.

887
00:36:27,390 --> 00:36:29,760
We even had someone foul
out this weekend against us.

888
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:30,000
Yeah,

889
00:36:30,085 --> 00:36:31,020
yeah, yeah, yeah.

890
00:36:31,020 --> 00:36:33,420
They went to bump with two
strikes and they fouled it off.

891
00:36:33,420 --> 00:36:33,720
Yeah,

892
00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:34,260
yeah.

893
00:36:34,260 --> 00:36:35,400
Right back into the cage.

894
00:36:35,730 --> 00:36:36,060
Yeah.

895
00:36:36,060 --> 00:36:36,480
Yeah.

896
00:36:37,050 --> 00:36:41,400
That's, uh, yeah, that's, there's
different, different thought processes

897
00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:43,320
on bunting with two strikes, I guess.

898
00:36:43,770 --> 00:36:44,280
Um,

899
00:36:45,330 --> 00:36:46,170
I was always told no.

900
00:36:46,710 --> 00:36:47,895
Yeah, I'm not a fan of it.

901
00:36:48,555 --> 00:36:49,375
You fail that twice.

902
00:36:49,595 --> 00:36:50,250
Why do a third

903
00:36:50,250 --> 00:36:50,550
one?

904
00:36:50,845 --> 00:36:51,930
Yeah, yeah, exactly.

905
00:36:51,930 --> 00:36:54,180
They're probably not
gonna get it done on that.

906
00:36:54,180 --> 00:36:59,130
So sometimes slashing in that, in that
instance is better 'cause you still show

907
00:36:59,130 --> 00:37:03,600
the bunt and get the people moving for the
bunt and then you pull back and swing and

908
00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:05,520
if you foul that off, it's a foul ball.

909
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:07,895
Um, so yeah.

910
00:37:08,010 --> 00:37:08,220
So

911
00:37:08,220 --> 00:37:11,280
Finney uh, national championship
for basketball tonight.

912
00:37:11,310 --> 00:37:12,870
You got Florida and Houston.

913
00:37:13,770 --> 00:37:14,130
Yeah, Florida.

914
00:37:14,130 --> 00:37:15,210
I mean obviously by Florida by time to

915
00:37:15,210 --> 00:37:16,020
say airs tomorrow.

916
00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:17,250
We'll know if you're right or not.

917
00:37:17,610 --> 00:37:18,150
Florida

918
00:37:18,150 --> 00:37:19,170
is so good.

919
00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:22,800
That's Pick Jr. Is unbelievable.

920
00:37:23,010 --> 00:37:28,470
Having said that, uhoh, I
loved the analogy of Houston.

921
00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:32,220
Uh, somebody called him the
cockroaches, like, you can't kill 'em.

922
00:37:33,990 --> 00:37:34,230
Fair.

923
00:37:34,230 --> 00:37:41,490
And they are so tough, uh, and so
resilient on, on the, the rebounding

924
00:37:41,490 --> 00:37:43,380
side of things and defense.

925
00:37:43,425 --> 00:37:44,115
Yeah, there's defense.

926
00:37:44,115 --> 00:37:45,570
I think they're gonna be in the game, man.

927
00:37:45,570 --> 00:37:46,560
I mean, I really do.

928
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:50,550
Um, and I, I think
Florida's more talented.

929
00:37:50,850 --> 00:37:51,540
It wouldn't surprise.

930
00:37:51,540 --> 00:37:52,500
I think it's gonna be a great game.

931
00:37:52,500 --> 00:37:55,080
It would not surprise me in the
least if Houston beats them though.

932
00:37:55,305 --> 00:37:55,335
Okay.

933
00:37:56,445 --> 00:37:56,745
Yeah.

934
00:37:56,835 --> 00:37:58,125
Kelvin s Samson's tough man.

935
00:37:58,125 --> 00:37:59,805
He's always a tough out
from the tournament.

936
00:37:59,805 --> 00:37:59,865
Yeah.

937
00:37:59,865 --> 00:38:01,275
They play that defense first.

938
00:38:01,275 --> 00:38:02,145
Basketball man.

939
00:38:02,145 --> 00:38:02,595
That's, yeah.

940
00:38:02,595 --> 00:38:03,225
You talk about a

941
00:38:03,225 --> 00:38:05,235
guy that kinda reinvented himself.

942
00:38:05,265 --> 00:38:05,870
Uh, yeah.

943
00:38:06,255 --> 00:38:10,305
He was, uh, in the Bruce, him and Bruce
Pearl, they were in the, uh, cheaters

944
00:38:10,305 --> 00:38:17,325
anonymous, uh, uh, meetings there back in
the, uh, back in the early two thousands.

945
00:38:17,325 --> 00:38:19,065
You know, they, hi, my name is Bruce.

946
00:38:19,065 --> 00:38:23,175
I'm, I'm fan by the ncaa,
hi, my name is Calvin.

947
00:38:23,175 --> 00:38:23,595
That's funny.

948
00:38:23,625 --> 00:38:27,585
Uh, and, and they've reinvented themselves
and done a great job and, you know,

949
00:38:27,735 --> 00:38:31,425
take second chances, third chances, and
they're, they're taking advantage of

950
00:38:31,425 --> 00:38:36,675
'em and obviously great coaches and got
great teams and, you know, so, um, I

951
00:38:36,675 --> 00:38:40,425
saw something on, I don't know if it was
Instagram or something where they wouldn't

952
00:38:40,425 --> 00:38:45,705
let hakeem olajuwon, on the court to
celebrate with Houston after the thing.

953
00:38:45,705 --> 00:38:47,205
Like who in the world?

954
00:38:47,265 --> 00:38:47,655
Crazy.

955
00:38:47,775 --> 00:38:48,075
Yeah.

956
00:38:48,075 --> 00:38:51,315
What Dummy wouldn't let
hakeem olajuwon on the court?

957
00:38:51,315 --> 00:38:52,275
I would let him do anything.

958
00:38:53,025 --> 00:38:55,155
If he just showed up and walked
to my house, I'd let him hang out.

959
00:38:55,155 --> 00:38:57,570
Like, I'm not gonna, like
Elijah could do anything else.

960
00:38:57,570 --> 00:38:58,170
Come on

961
00:38:58,190 --> 00:38:58,410
man.

962
00:38:58,815 --> 00:39:00,585
Like that deserves to come on, man.

963
00:39:00,585 --> 00:39:01,605
Like, yeah.

964
00:39:01,935 --> 00:39:03,345
Do you not know who that is?

965
00:39:03,345 --> 00:39:04,185
He is right.

966
00:39:04,190 --> 00:39:09,015
Seven, seven feet tall and yeah,
that was, that was a bad move.

967
00:39:09,015 --> 00:39:10,995
I hope that guy's happy
with himself for that.

968
00:39:11,925 --> 00:39:12,135
Yeah,

969
00:39:12,225 --> 00:39:15,010
he's probably, he's probably having
a fun day yesterday until, oh

970
00:39:15,010 --> 00:39:16,965
yeah, he was getting smashed everywhere.

971
00:39:16,965 --> 00:39:20,265
Like, uh, and, and
deservedly so have some feel.

972
00:39:20,655 --> 00:39:20,745
Yeah.

973
00:39:20,745 --> 00:39:25,695
Some guys think take their jobs real
seriously and, you know, lack feel, but

974
00:39:26,685 --> 00:39:27,225
Yes.

975
00:39:27,765 --> 00:39:30,195
Alright, so you guys got F coming on.

976
00:39:30,945 --> 00:39:32,145
What a wonderful kid.

977
00:39:32,145 --> 00:39:32,385
And

978
00:39:32,595 --> 00:39:32,835
Yes.

979
00:39:32,865 --> 00:39:33,315
Remind

980
00:39:33,315 --> 00:39:36,585
him that, uh, when we got
to the ballpark yesterday.

981
00:39:37,155 --> 00:39:42,735
They had, uh, some Latin music going and,
um, whenever that's happened, I'll, uh,

982
00:39:42,765 --> 00:39:46,035
I'll ask eff, you know, what's the, you
know, what are, what are they saying?

983
00:39:46,035 --> 00:39:47,925
What are, he always translates it for me.

984
00:39:47,925 --> 00:39:48,555
So it's great.

985
00:39:50,170 --> 00:39:50,460
He's

986
00:39:50,535 --> 00:39:52,605
he's smiling backstage right now.

987
00:39:52,605 --> 00:39:53,175
I can seen there.

988
00:39:55,155 --> 00:39:55,545
Yeah.

989
00:39:55,755 --> 00:39:57,195
Well, he's a great kid.

990
00:39:57,195 --> 00:39:58,515
We're, we're really happy.

991
00:39:58,515 --> 00:39:59,295
He is a monarch.

992
00:39:59,295 --> 00:40:01,815
He's ultra competitive.

993
00:40:02,445 --> 00:40:06,855
Uh, he's a winner and he is gonna
be a big part of, of this program

994
00:40:06,855 --> 00:40:08,685
for, for the next few years.

995
00:40:08,685 --> 00:40:10,965
And, you know, we're,
we're really proud of him.

996
00:40:12,285 --> 00:40:12,705
Absolutely.

997
00:40:12,705 --> 00:40:14,535
We're, we're excited to
have him join us today.

998
00:40:14,535 --> 00:40:18,015
We did get one more voicemail and
hopefully you can hear this one.

999
00:40:18,015 --> 00:40:20,835
They actually called him Wednesday, so
it was before the game this weekend.

1000
00:40:21,225 --> 00:40:21,435
Yeah.

1001
00:40:21,435 --> 00:40:24,435
But it kind of goes back to some defensive
positioning in the question they had.

1002
00:40:24,435 --> 00:40:25,605
So we'll see if you can hear it here.

1003
00:40:25,850 --> 00:40:26,140
Okay.

1004
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:26,540
Hi.

1005
00:40:26,740 --> 00:40:32,200
I was wondering if, uh, coach
Finwood consider playing Luke Waters.

1006
00:40:32,220 --> 00:40:33,300
I can hear in the infield.

1007
00:40:34,275 --> 00:40:36,915
Possibly at second base or third base.

1008
00:40:39,645 --> 00:40:43,365
I know in his freshman year, Luke
played a little second base and

1009
00:40:43,365 --> 00:40:44,955
certainly played that in high school.

1010
00:40:45,645 --> 00:40:49,665
So no, in the volatility we seem
to have in the infield, just

1011
00:40:49,665 --> 00:40:51,045
wondered if he paraphrase any

1012
00:40:51,045 --> 00:40:51,285
thought.

1013
00:40:51,285 --> 00:40:51,975
Yeah, yeah.

1014
00:40:54,135 --> 00:40:54,375
Yep.

1015
00:40:54,380 --> 00:40:56,775
See, it was tough to hear, but, uh,
they're, they were asking if you

1016
00:40:56,775 --> 00:41:02,415
considered, uh, moving Luke back into the
infield because of some recent volatility

1017
00:41:02,415 --> 00:41:05,625
with fielding within the infield, if
that was an option that was on the table.

1018
00:41:08,025 --> 00:41:11,925
I really haven't, I mean,
Luke's, Luke's been, you know,

1019
00:41:11,925 --> 00:41:13,875
going through it offensively.

1020
00:41:13,875 --> 00:41:17,295
And last thing I wanna do is add,
you know, having to worry about.

1021
00:41:17,790 --> 00:41:20,400
All the things you gotta worry
about in the infield with him.

1022
00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:23,910
And he's, you know, he had, he
had some better at bats yesterday.

1023
00:41:23,910 --> 00:41:28,440
He had a big single force, he walked,
um, and he hit some balls Hard.

1024
00:41:28,470 --> 00:41:32,760
I mean, right now what Luke's going
through is part of the thing that,

1025
00:41:32,790 --> 00:41:36,600
you know, classifies the S-L-U-M-P.

1026
00:41:36,660 --> 00:41:40,920
Uh, when you hit it hard, it set
somebody and you know, you, he's

1027
00:41:41,070 --> 00:41:42,450
gotta get more balls in play.

1028
00:41:42,450 --> 00:41:43,650
Certainly he knows that.

1029
00:41:43,650 --> 00:41:47,160
But he'll, you know, maybe I said
maybe they're just saving 'em all up

1030
00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:49,200
for second half of the season, man.

1031
00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:50,760
Like, yeah, think about it that way.

1032
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:51,600
That's possible.

1033
00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:53,790
So when he gets hot, he can carry you.

1034
00:41:54,150 --> 00:41:56,820
And so hopefully we,
we got that coming up.

1035
00:41:58,530 --> 00:41:59,370
Yeah, absolutely.

1036
00:41:59,370 --> 00:42:02,610
Well, we, we appreciate the calls that
came in, uh, both from Aaron and, uh,

1037
00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:05,880
didn't leave the name on that second
call, but appreciate the, the call in.

1038
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:07,140
We'll definitely be getting to 'em.

1039
00:42:07,770 --> 00:42:10,440
Uh, coach, we appreciate as
always you coming on here.

1040
00:42:10,590 --> 00:42:12,480
Uh, it's been a blast
having you on this season.

1041
00:42:12,690 --> 00:42:15,360
Got a lot of compliments
from parents and fans.

1042
00:42:15,720 --> 00:42:18,780
About the show and mainly because
we have you on and we have players

1043
00:42:18,780 --> 00:42:20,340
on it, so we, we appreciate you.

1044
00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:20,970
Yeah.

1045
00:42:21,270 --> 00:42:25,830
Well, and, and I tell our players the,
these same things, so I don't think

1046
00:42:25,830 --> 00:42:29,970
any of them are surprises and I don't
ever wanna come across as trying to,

1047
00:42:30,450 --> 00:42:36,090
um, you know, blame or deflect or
complain about anyone's performance.

1048
00:42:36,090 --> 00:42:37,560
These guys are college kids.

1049
00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:39,210
They're trying their butts off.

1050
00:42:39,630 --> 00:42:43,320
Um, it's our job to help
'em and support 'em.

1051
00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:49,050
And sometimes that's being honest
and, you know, being honest and, uh,

1052
00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:53,070
being able to handle honest feedback
from people that care about how you're

1053
00:42:53,070 --> 00:42:55,290
doing, um, and are invested in it.

1054
00:42:55,290 --> 00:42:57,570
You know, like we work our
tails off of these guys.

1055
00:42:57,600 --> 00:43:01,530
So, um, I think we're entitled to be
honest with 'em and give them honest

1056
00:43:01,530 --> 00:43:06,030
feedback and, um, we want them to be
better and we're gonna keep on working on

1057
00:43:06,030 --> 00:43:08,370
trying to find ways to help 'em be better.

1058
00:43:08,370 --> 00:43:10,950
You know, as long as they're playing
in our program, that's our job.

1059
00:43:10,950 --> 00:43:14,850
And, um, so I, I just think it's
important that, you know, when, when

1060
00:43:14,850 --> 00:43:16,920
a guy does well, you, you tell 'em.

1061
00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:19,110
And when he is not doing
well, you tell him that too.

1062
00:43:19,110 --> 00:43:21,060
And it's equal opportunity.

1063
00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:24,150
Um, we're not, we're not just
trying to candy coat everything,

1064
00:43:24,150 --> 00:43:26,430
but we want guys to, you know.

1065
00:43:26,495 --> 00:43:30,035
We want guys to be honest
about their own performance.

1066
00:43:30,035 --> 00:43:34,055
'cause I don't think a lot of kids
are, I think they can, you know, live

1067
00:43:34,055 --> 00:43:39,395
in this candy shell of a, of a, you
know, a barrier where they're just not

1068
00:43:39,395 --> 00:43:41,645
gonna admit what's really going on.

1069
00:43:41,645 --> 00:43:45,395
And some guys got competition anxiety,
like they're afraid of failure.

1070
00:43:45,425 --> 00:43:45,515
Mm-hmm.

1071
00:43:45,755 --> 00:43:48,155
And so what does that cause guess what?

1072
00:43:48,215 --> 00:43:50,675
Failure, uh, that's how it works.

1073
00:43:50,705 --> 00:43:51,035
Yeah.

1074
00:43:51,220 --> 00:43:55,145
And, you know, and that's the
beauty of guys and some of

1075
00:43:55,145 --> 00:43:56,585
this comes down to recruiting.

1076
00:43:56,645 --> 00:43:57,125
All right.

1077
00:43:57,365 --> 00:44:01,235
Uh, I've heard it said, Hey, if
you don't want, uh, problems with

1078
00:44:01,235 --> 00:44:04,925
your team, don't recruit kids
with a bunch of attitude problems.

1079
00:44:05,165 --> 00:44:05,525
Right.

1080
00:44:05,675 --> 00:44:07,565
If you want a competitive team.

1081
00:44:08,100 --> 00:44:11,130
You need the crew to recruit a
bunch of dudes like Effer Morales.

1082
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:12,240
'cause that sucker likes to play.

1083
00:44:12,570 --> 00:44:12,660
Yes.

1084
00:44:12,660 --> 00:44:17,220
And he hates to lose and he'll
bite your knees off to get a win.

1085
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:19,650
So, uh, we need more guys.

1086
00:44:19,650 --> 00:44:20,760
Is that the right level for it?

1087
00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:21,450
Quite honest.

1088
00:44:21,510 --> 00:44:25,350
And, um, that's a, that's just the,
you know, that's the, on us to find

1089
00:44:25,650 --> 00:44:29,820
that type of attitude, that type of
desire, that type of competitive spirit.

1090
00:44:30,210 --> 00:44:32,370
Um, because it, it is contagious.

1091
00:44:32,370 --> 00:44:35,190
And when you don't have enough
of it, it's contagious as well.

1092
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:37,140
Yep.

1093
00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:37,980
Absolutely.

1094
00:44:37,980 --> 00:44:38,550
Well said.

1095
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:39,030
All right.

1096
00:44:39,030 --> 00:44:41,010
Appreciate, we'll see you out tomorrow.

1097
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:42,090
Looking forward to it.

1098
00:44:42,480 --> 00:44:42,780
Yep.

1099
00:44:42,810 --> 00:44:43,140
See you.

1100
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:44,010
Good luck.

1101
00:44:44,430 --> 00:44:44,850
Thank you.

1102
00:44:45,060 --> 00:44:45,660
All right, go Monarch.

1103
00:44:45,660 --> 00:44:47,215
Let's take a go Monarchs.

1104
00:44:47,215 --> 00:44:47,370
Go Monarchs.

1105
00:44:48,300 --> 00:44:49,380
All right, we're gonna take a quick break.

1106
00:44:49,380 --> 00:44:51,990
When we come back, we will
have Efrain Morales joining us.

1107
00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:52,560
Yay.

1108
00:44:52,560 --> 00:44:55,890
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1109
00:44:55,890 --> 00:44:57,300
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1110
00:44:57,960 --> 00:45:01,200
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1111
00:45:01,200 --> 00:45:04,980
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1112
00:45:05,295 --> 00:45:07,755
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1113
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1114
00:45:13,575 --> 00:45:17,145
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1115
00:45:17,445 --> 00:45:19,335
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1116
00:45:23,925 --> 00:45:25,365
Welcome back, Monarch fans.

1117
00:45:25,365 --> 00:45:29,235
We are joined by Morales, uh, catcher dh.

1118
00:45:29,295 --> 00:45:31,695
I'm heard, I've been told that
you can play pretty much anywhere

1119
00:45:31,695 --> 00:45:33,885
in the field, but Efrain, thanks
so much for joining us today.

1120
00:45:34,275 --> 00:45:35,025
A hundred percent.

1121
00:45:35,025 --> 00:45:35,775
Love to be here.

1122
00:45:36,975 --> 00:45:37,185
Yeah.

1123
00:45:37,185 --> 00:45:41,025
Well, uh, I think that was your first time
playing in Harbor Park, at least for ODU.

1124
00:45:41,025 --> 00:45:42,615
What was that experience
like over the weekend?

1125
00:45:43,455 --> 00:45:44,235
It was awesome.

1126
00:45:44,295 --> 00:45:48,705
Um, really playing in a big
stadium like that is like an honor.

1127
00:45:48,765 --> 00:45:52,095
It's like a really, like a blessing,
especially at like such a high level.

1128
00:45:52,995 --> 00:45:56,145
And competing against a really
good team too, was also like a

1129
00:45:56,145 --> 00:45:58,875
very, very good experience for
me, especially as a freshman.

1130
00:46:00,750 --> 00:46:04,470
Well, I know you got to play at
the AA park down there in Biloxi.

1131
00:46:04,470 --> 00:46:04,560
Mm-hmm.

1132
00:46:05,095 --> 00:46:05,255
Um,

1133
00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:09,420
I wanna hear about how that was, but
have you played in any other pro parks?

1134
00:46:10,230 --> 00:46:17,220
Um, so at P 27, um, uh, there's this team
that we played against us called PDG.

1135
00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:20,760
Uh, they played in the
national Sing a, um, stadium.

1136
00:46:21,180 --> 00:46:22,080
It's a pretty nice stadium.

1137
00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:23,095
I think it's here in Virginia actually.

1138
00:46:23,095 --> 00:46:24,690
Is that the one in in Fredericksburg?

1139
00:46:24,695 --> 00:46:26,070
Fredericksburg, yes.

1140
00:46:26,100 --> 00:46:27,000
It's a really nice park.

1141
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:27,270
Nice.

1142
00:46:27,330 --> 00:46:28,110
Very nice park.

1143
00:46:28,830 --> 00:46:29,250
Nice.

1144
00:46:29,340 --> 00:46:29,670
Okay.

1145
00:46:29,910 --> 00:46:30,300
How'd you like?

1146
00:46:30,300 --> 00:46:31,830
And so Biloxi, I dunno know about you.

1147
00:46:31,830 --> 00:46:35,220
For me, Biloxi, that was, that was pretty
wild that they had that place packed.

1148
00:46:35,220 --> 00:46:36,810
Like, I couldn't leave the
dog out to take pictures.

1149
00:46:36,810 --> 00:46:37,590
There's nowhere to go.

1150
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:38,430
Oh yeah.

1151
00:46:38,430 --> 00:46:42,300
That place was, there were so many
fans, like all around the ballpark.

1152
00:46:42,690 --> 00:46:43,800
It was, it was insane.

1153
00:46:45,240 --> 00:46:45,420
Yeah.

1154
00:46:45,420 --> 00:46:46,950
Those Mississippi State fans showed up.

1155
00:46:47,245 --> 00:46:47,525
Yeah.

1156
00:46:47,745 --> 00:46:48,125
Oh yeah.

1157
00:46:48,425 --> 00:46:49,325
So a hundred

1158
00:46:49,325 --> 00:46:49,525
percent.

1159
00:46:49,530 --> 00:46:50,760
You mentioned P 27.

1160
00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:53,190
Now, uh, now a lot of folks
maybe don't know about this.

1161
00:46:53,190 --> 00:46:55,890
So you, you went to,
it's called P 27 Academy.

1162
00:46:55,890 --> 00:46:58,230
It's like a baseball
high school basically.

1163
00:46:58,230 --> 00:46:58,590
Right.

1164
00:46:58,950 --> 00:47:01,800
Yes, sir. It's uh, just the
academy for baseball and that's it.

1165
00:47:02,100 --> 00:47:02,910
Just baseball.

1166
00:47:02,910 --> 00:47:04,260
And then we have school online.

1167
00:47:04,830 --> 00:47:04,920
Mm-hmm.

1168
00:47:05,910 --> 00:47:06,150
Wow.

1169
00:47:06,150 --> 00:47:07,140
So you were there

1170
00:47:07,140 --> 00:47:08,310
for what, one year?

1171
00:47:08,310 --> 00:47:08,880
Two year?

1172
00:47:08,910 --> 00:47:09,960
How many years were you there?

1173
00:47:10,020 --> 00:47:13,410
I was there for two years, my junior
year and, and senior year of high school.

1174
00:47:14,340 --> 00:47:14,640
Nice.

1175
00:47:14,640 --> 00:47:16,410
And how far away is that?

1176
00:47:16,410 --> 00:47:18,090
'cause that that's in
South Carolina, correct?

1177
00:47:18,090 --> 00:47:18,570
In, yeah.

1178
00:47:18,570 --> 00:47:19,235
South Carolina.

1179
00:47:19,295 --> 00:47:19,515
In

1180
00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:19,950
Lexington?

1181
00:47:20,040 --> 00:47:20,250
Yep.

1182
00:47:20,280 --> 00:47:20,640
Okay.

1183
00:47:20,940 --> 00:47:23,220
And you, but you live uh, with Raleigh?

1184
00:47:23,250 --> 00:47:24,635
I'm trying to, I'm trying to, yeah.

1185
00:47:24,635 --> 00:47:25,035
Raleigh, North Carolina.

1186
00:47:25,065 --> 00:47:25,355
Yeah.

1187
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:25,560
Yeah.

1188
00:47:25,830 --> 00:47:26,820
So about was about like

1189
00:47:26,820 --> 00:47:27,420
four hours.

1190
00:47:27,420 --> 00:47:28,020
How far is that?

1191
00:47:28,410 --> 00:47:31,470
About four, because
depending on traffic too.

1192
00:47:31,470 --> 00:47:34,230
'cause you have to go through Charlotte
and Charlotte's never fun to go through.

1193
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:35,340
Always traffic.

1194
00:47:35,340 --> 00:47:35,550
I used to

1195
00:47:35,550 --> 00:47:38,190
live in Charlotte, so Charlotte's more
fun to stay in than to go through.

1196
00:47:38,490 --> 00:47:39,720
Oh yeah, a hundred percent.

1197
00:47:40,350 --> 00:47:40,500
Yeah.

1198
00:47:40,500 --> 00:47:40,860
So much

1199
00:47:40,860 --> 00:47:41,760
traffic around there.

1200
00:47:42,150 --> 00:47:43,290
But yeah, it's about four hours.

1201
00:47:44,130 --> 00:47:44,820
So you, so you're

1202
00:47:44,820 --> 00:47:47,550
living away from home all throughout,
you know, the school year, right?

1203
00:47:47,550 --> 00:47:48,480
Is that, that's what's happening?

1204
00:47:48,905 --> 00:47:49,195
Yeah.

1205
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:49,410
Yeah.

1206
00:47:49,710 --> 00:47:51,240
Junior and senior year away from home.

1207
00:47:51,360 --> 00:47:51,600
Yeah.

1208
00:47:52,140 --> 00:47:52,710
How is that?

1209
00:47:52,710 --> 00:47:54,060
I mean, that's, that's,
that's different, man.

1210
00:47:54,060 --> 00:47:56,670
You don't see that, I mean, I guess you're
seeing it more now with these academies,

1211
00:47:56,670 --> 00:47:57,810
but like, what's that like for you?

1212
00:47:58,890 --> 00:48:02,220
So like that first year was, was
a little tough 'cause like I was

1213
00:48:02,250 --> 00:48:04,800
definitely homesick, especially
as a junior in high school.

1214
00:48:05,460 --> 00:48:05,610
Mm-hmm.

1215
00:48:06,030 --> 00:48:09,030
Um, but it is definitely
built a lot of maturity in me.

1216
00:48:09,840 --> 00:48:17,940
Like not much high schoolers get to
go, um, out of state and be with a

1217
00:48:17,940 --> 00:48:21,270
bunch of guys that love to compete
and it just matured me a lot.

1218
00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:25,650
Especially matured me and uh,
preparing me for college for sure.

1219
00:48:26,685 --> 00:48:26,975
Yeah.

1220
00:48:27,300 --> 00:48:27,420
Yeah.

1221
00:48:27,420 --> 00:48:28,950
I mean we're definitely
seeing that a lot more.

1222
00:48:28,950 --> 00:48:29,460
Sorry, Gary.

1223
00:48:29,460 --> 00:48:34,171
'cause but we're, 'cause I know what Cole
Lanford, he was at the P five we got Yeah.

1224
00:48:34,515 --> 00:48:34,935
Pro five.

1225
00:48:35,005 --> 00:48:35,295
Yeah.

1226
00:48:35,485 --> 00:48:41,520
Oron and Baes both were IMG, uh, SIO
was, was P five to, uh, pro five.

1227
00:48:41,910 --> 00:48:42,090
Yeah.

1228
00:48:42,090 --> 00:48:44,910
I think somebody else was PI mean we,
it's starting to become a thing now,

1229
00:48:44,910 --> 00:48:46,530
especially as you see the D one level.

1230
00:48:46,530 --> 00:48:46,620
Oh yeah.

1231
00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:50,100
What I mean, so as someone, you
know, you don't have to sell it if

1232
00:48:50,100 --> 00:48:51,990
you thought it sucked, but it sounds
like you probably had a good time.

1233
00:48:52,500 --> 00:48:54,420
What, for people who might be
thinking about maybe sending their

1234
00:48:54,420 --> 00:48:56,910
kid to one of these academies,
what would you tell 'em about it?

1235
00:48:57,570 --> 00:48:58,980
Um, I would tell 'em for sure.

1236
00:48:58,980 --> 00:49:01,980
It definitely gets you
ready for the next level.

1237
00:49:02,040 --> 00:49:09,240
Um, uh, the difference between, um,
college and, uh, the academy baseball?

1238
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:17,130
Um, playing wise, it's gonna be like, uh,
the fastball, uh, velos would be the same.

1239
00:49:17,130 --> 00:49:21,570
The only difference is that like D one,
you're definitely coached a lot better.

1240
00:49:22,260 --> 00:49:27,420
Um, and the pitchers know how to
locate a lot more and they're not

1241
00:49:27,420 --> 00:49:29,700
throwing 97 to your head 24 7.

1242
00:49:31,230 --> 00:49:35,610
So, uh, but yeah, it's, uh,
that's the only difference and

1243
00:49:35,670 --> 00:49:36,990
the competition is really good.

1244
00:49:37,500 --> 00:49:42,540
Um, yeah, the competition all
around, I mean, um, our whole lineup,

1245
00:49:43,560 --> 00:49:50,370
um, this last year we're all, uh,
division, uh, one, um, players in

1246
00:49:50,370 --> 00:49:51,960
the lineup, so it was very cool.

1247
00:49:51,960 --> 00:49:52,020
I.

1248
00:49:53,760 --> 00:49:55,680
Oh, that must have been
just a stud lineup there.

1249
00:49:56,130 --> 00:49:56,910
Oh yeah.

1250
00:49:56,910 --> 00:49:58,500
It was, it was insane.

1251
00:49:59,070 --> 00:50:01,830
Uh, our first five
were, and it was insane.

1252
00:50:02,220 --> 00:50:04,260
It was, uh, a great experience for sure.

1253
00:50:05,220 --> 00:50:05,430
Yeah.

1254
00:50:05,430 --> 00:50:06,900
I mean, I see you share
stuff on social media.

1255
00:50:06,900 --> 00:50:09,690
You got guys like all over, like
Florida and some different places.

1256
00:50:09,810 --> 00:50:09,930
Oh

1257
00:50:09,990 --> 00:50:10,470
yeah.

1258
00:50:10,530 --> 00:50:14,040
We had, we had some studs, like
our first five were like all going

1259
00:50:14,040 --> 00:50:16,620
to like the SEC and like Arkansas.

1260
00:50:16,620 --> 00:50:17,790
Florida, yeah.

1261
00:50:17,850 --> 00:50:23,670
Um, wake Forest, like bunch
of dudes, like they're bunch

1262
00:50:23,670 --> 00:50:24,690
of dudes that are really good.

1263
00:50:26,130 --> 00:50:26,340
Yeah.

1264
00:50:26,340 --> 00:50:30,240
The few times I've seen like IMG or seen
Pro five, it's like, this is really good.

1265
00:50:30,570 --> 00:50:31,710
This isn't high school baseball.

1266
00:50:31,710 --> 00:50:32,580
This is really, really good.

1267
00:50:32,580 --> 00:50:36,330
I, I've seen 'em like beat JUCO teams
who were pretty solid JUCO teams.

1268
00:50:36,630 --> 00:50:38,010
Oh yeah, yeah, for sure.

1269
00:50:38,010 --> 00:50:40,890
We've played, uh, we've played
a couple really good jucos too.

1270
00:50:40,980 --> 00:50:46,440
As a matter of fact, we, uh, we played,
uh, north, north Greenville University.

1271
00:50:46,710 --> 00:50:50,220
They're a very solid D two
school down in South Carolina.

1272
00:50:50,955 --> 00:50:51,195
Yeah.

1273
00:50:51,225 --> 00:50:53,505
And they're, lemme tell
you, they're pretty good.

1274
00:50:53,625 --> 00:50:57,195
And we put a good fight
against them last year.

1275
00:50:57,195 --> 00:50:57,285
Nice.

1276
00:50:58,455 --> 00:50:58,725
Yeah.

1277
00:50:58,725 --> 00:51:01,275
Well, I imagine with that much D one
talent, there's, there's probably not

1278
00:51:01,275 --> 00:51:04,995
a huge difference in rosters, even,
even with the age differences there.

1279
00:51:05,445 --> 00:51:05,955
Oh, no.

1280
00:51:05,955 --> 00:51:06,585
A hundred percent.

1281
00:51:07,215 --> 00:51:07,635
Yeah.

1282
00:51:08,115 --> 00:51:10,635
Well, I know you've, you've gotten
the chance to start catching, uh,

1283
00:51:10,635 --> 00:51:12,225
a couple times for us this year.

1284
00:51:12,225 --> 00:51:14,445
I know you're still kind of
rehabbing off of an arm injury,

1285
00:51:14,445 --> 00:51:16,485
but have you always been a catcher?

1286
00:51:16,485 --> 00:51:19,185
Is that something you've moved to
recently, or what was, what was

1287
00:51:19,185 --> 00:51:20,715
your positional journey there?

1288
00:51:21,345 --> 00:51:27,315
Um, so it was, uh, so starting
off with like the young days, uh,

1289
00:51:27,345 --> 00:51:31,935
like literal league, uh, I was
always a second basement because I

1290
00:51:31,935 --> 00:51:34,785
was never the tallest, like what?

1291
00:51:34,845 --> 00:51:35,775
I, yeah.

1292
00:51:35,775 --> 00:51:38,175
Like I was cb you know,
I'm short, I'm short.

1293
00:51:39,675 --> 00:51:41,120
Um, and I, I admit no.

1294
00:51:41,120 --> 00:51:41,775
And so how tall

1295
00:51:41,775 --> 00:51:43,305
are you for people who aren't aware?

1296
00:51:43,395 --> 00:51:43,875
How tall?

1297
00:51:43,875 --> 00:51:45,705
How tall do you tell people
you are, I guess the reality,

1298
00:51:46,635 --> 00:51:48,945
so I tell 'em I'm five nine.

1299
00:51:49,635 --> 00:51:52,545
In reality, like, I'm like five,
seven, and like three fours.

1300
00:51:52,545 --> 00:51:52,755
Okay.

1301
00:51:52,875 --> 00:51:53,175
All right.

1302
00:51:53,535 --> 00:51:54,405
I'll let you see.

1303
00:51:54,405 --> 00:51:54,495
I

1304
00:51:54,495 --> 00:51:55,785
was gonna let you go with what you said.

1305
00:51:55,790 --> 00:51:57,225
I, I was gonna let you go
with what you tell 'em.

1306
00:51:57,345 --> 00:51:59,325
You didn't have to, you didn't have
to give yourself out like that.

1307
00:51:59,325 --> 00:52:00,735
But that's, I, I appreciate the honesty.

1308
00:52:01,245 --> 00:52:02,235
Yeah, a hundred percent.

1309
00:52:02,295 --> 00:52:04,215
Uh, but with cleats on,
I'm definitely five nine.

1310
00:52:04,635 --> 00:52:05,205
Oh, I was gonna say.

1311
00:52:05,205 --> 00:52:05,925
And spikes.

1312
00:52:05,925 --> 00:52:06,375
And spikes.

1313
00:52:06,375 --> 00:52:06,735
You're good.

1314
00:52:06,795 --> 00:52:07,785
That was always my out too.

1315
00:52:07,785 --> 00:52:08,385
Five, nine.

1316
00:52:08,730 --> 00:52:10,005
You put like thick socks on.

1317
00:52:10,005 --> 00:52:10,695
You're like six one.

1318
00:52:10,695 --> 00:52:11,115
I see you.

1319
00:52:11,685 --> 00:52:13,395
Yep, yep, yep.

1320
00:52:13,665 --> 00:52:16,155
You play it like you're seven feet
tall, that's what's what matters.

1321
00:52:16,575 --> 00:52:16,995
Yeah.

1322
00:52:17,175 --> 00:52:17,535
Yeah.

1323
00:52:17,595 --> 00:52:23,055
And, but going to like the
positional like, um, topic.

1324
00:52:23,115 --> 00:52:25,875
Um, I started off as a second basement.

1325
00:52:25,965 --> 00:52:30,705
Um, I was a second baseman,
outfielder, and then one of my

1326
00:52:30,705 --> 00:52:35,145
coaches, uh, from middle league was
like, you have a really good arm,

1327
00:52:35,265 --> 00:52:36,645
uh, that's probably behind the plate.

1328
00:52:37,305 --> 00:52:39,615
And this was like maybe sixth grade.

1329
00:52:40,005 --> 00:52:44,145
And my dad was a catcher
too, and uh, back in his day.

1330
00:52:44,565 --> 00:52:45,705
So he was all for it.

1331
00:52:45,705 --> 00:52:47,235
And ever since then, um.

1332
00:52:48,105 --> 00:52:52,905
Just became a catcher and I enjoyed
it, but I also miss like, being

1333
00:52:52,905 --> 00:52:56,565
in the outfield, like it's always
fun to like go in the outfield

1334
00:52:56,565 --> 00:52:57,975
and, and catch 'em fly balls.

1335
00:52:58,005 --> 00:52:59,565
I haven't played second
for a while though.

1336
00:53:00,945 --> 00:53:01,125
Yeah.

1337
00:53:01,125 --> 00:53:04,905
You, you probably would not miss,
you know, taking a foul ball to the

1338
00:53:04,905 --> 00:53:07,545
inside of your knee, which I think
is what happened on Sunday, right?

1339
00:53:07,545 --> 00:53:07,790
Like, you're just

1340
00:53:07,910 --> 00:53:08,870
getting beaten up back there.

1341
00:53:08,870 --> 00:53:09,705
Oh yeah.

1342
00:53:09,705 --> 00:53:10,545
I, hmm.

1343
00:53:10,605 --> 00:53:14,235
I have a big bruise right now
in that, in that, uh, inner

1344
00:53:14,235 --> 00:53:16,905
thigh, it's not the best feeling.

1345
00:53:17,805 --> 00:53:19,905
Was that one of the biggest things,
because I know you, you've been

1346
00:53:19,905 --> 00:53:21,435
playing a lot, you've been ding

1347
00:53:21,510 --> 00:53:21,800
Yeah.

1348
00:53:21,825 --> 00:53:22,215
Yeah.

1349
00:53:22,215 --> 00:53:22,275
And I

1350
00:53:22,275 --> 00:53:25,275
know you've been catching a ton of
bullpens, but then when you actually

1351
00:53:25,275 --> 00:53:27,825
getting in the game is that reminder of
like, oh yeah, this is what it's really

1352
00:53:27,825 --> 00:53:29,355
like when you're getting those foul balls.

1353
00:53:29,625 --> 00:53:29,715
Yep.

1354
00:53:29,720 --> 00:53:29,880
Yep.

1355
00:53:30,045 --> 00:53:31,845
It's gotta be a kind of
a shock to your body.

1356
00:53:32,505 --> 00:53:32,895
Yeah.

1357
00:53:33,045 --> 00:53:36,765
Uh, and then the first, the first game
I caught, I got a bat to the knee.

1358
00:53:37,575 --> 00:53:37,995
Oof.

1359
00:53:38,865 --> 00:53:40,215
That one did not feel good either.

1360
00:53:40,875 --> 00:53:42,195
That was Georgia State, right?

1361
00:53:42,435 --> 00:53:43,035
Georgia State?

1362
00:53:43,035 --> 00:53:43,425
Yeah.

1363
00:53:43,665 --> 00:53:43,935
Yeah.

1364
00:53:43,995 --> 00:53:45,375
I don't know how you stayed in that game.

1365
00:53:45,375 --> 00:53:49,245
'cause I, I heard the bat hit your knee
and I was hoping it just hit the pad,

1366
00:53:49,245 --> 00:53:53,325
but obviously it didn't and I think
you got on base the next half inning

1367
00:53:53,625 --> 00:53:54,885
and I saw you trying to run the second.

1368
00:53:54,885 --> 00:53:56,805
I was like, oh no, that's,
that looks painful.

1369
00:53:57,585 --> 00:53:57,735
Yeah.

1370
00:53:57,735 --> 00:54:01,515
There's, there's one thing about
me and it's like, I never want

1371
00:54:01,515 --> 00:54:02,865
to get out of the game ever.

1372
00:54:03,045 --> 00:54:07,995
It's, uh, it's more of like a, it's
just like the competitive in me.

1373
00:54:07,995 --> 00:54:10,965
It's like, even if I'm limping, like
I never want to get outta the game.

1374
00:54:11,205 --> 00:54:16,695
It's just the way I was taught by my
father and mom's just being tough.

1375
00:54:17,805 --> 00:54:18,345
For sure.

1376
00:54:19,425 --> 00:54:19,845
Definitely.

1377
00:54:19,845 --> 00:54:19,935
Yeah.

1378
00:54:19,935 --> 00:54:22,485
You, you're a competitive guy
that's, I know yesterday you had

1379
00:54:22,485 --> 00:54:26,235
a, you had a really, you swung it
really well and I think it just

1380
00:54:26,235 --> 00:54:29,295
got caught like at the last second.

1381
00:54:29,295 --> 00:54:32,055
And, uh, you, you let anybody
in, in hearing distance knew

1382
00:54:32,055 --> 00:54:33,105
you were not happy about that?

1383
00:54:33,585 --> 00:54:34,035
No.

1384
00:54:34,035 --> 00:54:34,425
Yeah.

1385
00:54:34,575 --> 00:54:37,125
Yeah, I was not happy for sure.

1386
00:54:37,125 --> 00:54:37,815
I was not happy.

1387
00:54:39,465 --> 00:54:43,125
Well still, you know, going four
for five, uh, against the 23 team in

1388
00:54:43,125 --> 00:54:44,715
the country is not, not a bad day.

1389
00:54:44,715 --> 00:54:45,105
So,

1390
00:54:45,165 --> 00:54:47,685
no, uh, no, not a bad day at all.

1391
00:54:48,405 --> 00:54:50,085
So first four hit game at college.

1392
00:54:50,085 --> 00:54:52,575
I gotta imagine you've had some
four hit games in the past.

1393
00:54:53,655 --> 00:54:54,165
Oh yeah.

1394
00:54:54,165 --> 00:54:59,235
I mean, I really don't, I mean,
I've definitely have, but like,

1395
00:54:59,985 --> 00:55:01,395
don't really like, focus on that.

1396
00:55:02,055 --> 00:55:04,515
Like yesterday all I was focused
on was winning that game.

1397
00:55:05,265 --> 00:55:05,655
Yeah,

1398
00:55:05,925 --> 00:55:06,165
that's great.

1399
00:55:06,165 --> 00:55:06,495
For sure.

1400
00:55:06,495 --> 00:55:06,705
Hey,

1401
00:55:07,065 --> 00:55:08,385
you were part of it for sure, man.

1402
00:55:08,625 --> 00:55:09,075
Oh yeah.

1403
00:55:09,080 --> 00:55:09,645
That was awesome.

1404
00:55:09,645 --> 00:55:13,095
That's too, so I, I have to imagine
probably you probably haven't dhd a

1405
00:55:13,095 --> 00:55:15,375
ton in the past before the season.

1406
00:55:15,375 --> 00:55:17,655
How has that been kind of
transitioning and figuring that out?

1407
00:55:18,885 --> 00:55:19,575
Um,

1408
00:55:22,095 --> 00:55:27,045
honestly, it definitely
saves the legs a bunch.

1409
00:55:27,525 --> 00:55:31,845
Like, and my legs feel fresh, but it
was definitely like hard 'cause like

1410
00:55:32,505 --> 00:55:35,745
DH and like, if you have a bad day
at dh, like you can't say, oh, I did

1411
00:55:35,745 --> 00:55:37,155
really good on the field, you know.

1412
00:55:38,265 --> 00:55:42,615
Like if you have a bad day hitting and
then you do good on the field, it's like,

1413
00:55:42,645 --> 00:55:45,705
all right, now tomorrow let's do better.

1414
00:55:45,705 --> 00:55:49,605
But like, ding, it's just like
if you do bad ding, you can't

1415
00:55:49,605 --> 00:55:51,165
say you did good on the field.

1416
00:55:52,725 --> 00:55:52,845
Yeah.

1417
00:55:52,905 --> 00:55:55,455
Well, speaking of that, you know,
you, you get off a really great

1418
00:55:55,455 --> 00:55:57,015
start, you know, you're killing it.

1419
00:55:57,015 --> 00:55:58,575
We're like, Hey, this
guy's amazing, right?

1420
00:55:58,875 --> 00:56:03,465
Uh, we got on to Auburn first at bat
of the whole series to smoke one over

1421
00:56:03,465 --> 00:56:06,735
the wall, and it's like, holy crap,
RAI is the best player we ever had.

1422
00:56:06,735 --> 00:56:07,605
This guy, I love this kid,

1423
00:56:07,965 --> 00:56:08,415
which I still,

1424
00:56:08,415 --> 00:56:09,465
you're still, you're still awesome.

1425
00:56:09,465 --> 00:56:09,915
I still love you.

1426
00:56:10,245 --> 00:56:13,035
Um, but then like you hit that home run.

1427
00:56:13,035 --> 00:56:14,505
And then I think, I think
I was looking at minute.

1428
00:56:14,505 --> 00:56:18,135
I was like, oh, for 25 until,
yeah, like the rest of that trip.

1429
00:56:18,135 --> 00:56:21,135
What was, so what was that like,
you know, after all that success, I

1430
00:56:21,135 --> 00:56:23,535
mean, like you said, you're, you're
clearly the guy you like to compete.

1431
00:56:23,535 --> 00:56:25,605
I mean, how did you, how
did you deal with it?

1432
00:56:25,605 --> 00:56:26,295
How'd you get through it?

1433
00:56:26,295 --> 00:56:28,365
And I mean, clearly you're, we're on
the other side, now you're back kind

1434
00:56:28,365 --> 00:56:29,445
of, you know, being yourself again.

1435
00:56:30,075 --> 00:56:35,685
Um, so talking about that, like,
I have such a great roommate,

1436
00:56:35,925 --> 00:56:37,245
my roommate's, Kyle Edwards.

1437
00:56:37,980 --> 00:56:38,370
Oh yeah.

1438
00:56:38,370 --> 00:56:46,380
Um, so like every day he's always like
boosting up my energy and making sure

1439
00:56:46,380 --> 00:56:48,810
to tell me like that I'm that guy.

1440
00:56:49,260 --> 00:56:57,180
Um, and every, every good baseball
player, um, everybody goes through slumps.

1441
00:56:57,210 --> 00:57:00,240
I mean, it's just part of the baseball.

1442
00:57:00,240 --> 00:57:03,390
Like baseball's not
just skyrocket going up.

1443
00:57:03,390 --> 00:57:05,190
It's a more of like a wave, you know?

1444
00:57:05,970 --> 00:57:09,420
And I, you was gonna
get, uh, out of it soon.

1445
00:57:10,080 --> 00:57:12,450
Uh, it was just about time that
I was gonna get out of it, so.

1446
00:57:15,120 --> 00:57:17,940
Well, you've definitely been hitting the
ball well of late and of course going

1447
00:57:17,940 --> 00:57:20,760
four for five on, on Sunday against Troy.

1448
00:57:21,120 --> 00:57:24,360
Uh, you've also had some
pretty epic photos taken.

1449
00:57:24,360 --> 00:57:25,500
I don't know if you've noticed it.

1450
00:57:25,500 --> 00:57:29,640
I think that the Georgia State series,
you had, I think, I think our social

1451
00:57:29,640 --> 00:57:33,270
media outlets, the teams, everyone else
had you celebrating in second base.

1452
00:57:33,630 --> 00:57:36,000
And then, uh, CB grabs this one yesterday.

1453
00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:36,330
Oh, that was

1454
00:57:36,330 --> 00:57:36,870
a great one.

1455
00:57:36,870 --> 00:57:38,010
I saw that one yesterday.

1456
00:57:38,610 --> 00:57:42,540
Yeah, he have F's, uh, he's a
handsome man, so he, he's, he's

1457
00:57:42,540 --> 00:57:44,040
a big fan of photos of himself.

1458
00:57:44,310 --> 00:57:44,640
Thank you.

1459
00:57:44,640 --> 00:57:47,340
So he, he's definitely a guy that I, I
know appreciates him, that's for sure.

1460
00:57:47,880 --> 00:57:48,270
Yep.

1461
00:57:48,750 --> 00:57:52,050
Love the photos, especially
the one that I'm hyped up in.

1462
00:57:52,290 --> 00:57:53,100
I love seeing.

1463
00:57:53,160 --> 00:57:53,400
Yeah.

1464
00:57:53,400 --> 00:57:55,530
Hyped up during the game for sure.

1465
00:57:56,130 --> 00:57:56,580
Oh yeah.

1466
00:57:56,610 --> 00:57:59,220
You had, I think the Georgia State
one, I, I don't have it up at the, the

1467
00:57:59,220 --> 00:58:00,720
moment, but you had slid into second.

1468
00:58:00,720 --> 00:58:02,610
It popped up and I think
you're giving like a double

1469
00:58:02,610 --> 00:58:03,870
thumbs up back to the dugout.

1470
00:58:03,870 --> 00:58:04,980
Yeah, that's a good one too.

1471
00:58:05,520 --> 00:58:08,790
Amazing, uh, series win
picture that we used for sure.

1472
00:58:09,180 --> 00:58:09,330
Yes.

1473
00:58:09,330 --> 00:58:11,610
And then, uh, course CB got
another good one yesterday.

1474
00:58:11,610 --> 00:58:13,980
One of your, one of your
four hits on Sunday there.

1475
00:58:13,980 --> 00:58:14,970
One of the many hits.

1476
00:58:15,030 --> 00:58:15,450
Yes.

1477
00:58:15,450 --> 00:58:16,020
Yes.

1478
00:58:17,505 --> 00:58:21,345
And this is what I love too, is this like,
you always have this like textbook swing.

1479
00:58:21,675 --> 00:58:24,915
I mean, this is like exa like, if you
were gonna like draw what a baseball

1480
00:58:24,915 --> 00:58:28,845
swing looks like, like, I mean I, the,
I have so many pictures because you

1481
00:58:28,845 --> 00:58:31,695
have so many hits, but I have so many
pictures of like, just like this where

1482
00:58:31,695 --> 00:58:34,245
it's like just head down, hands to bat.

1483
00:58:34,275 --> 00:58:36,585
I mean, uh, hands to
barrel, like bald at bat.

1484
00:58:36,585 --> 00:58:38,655
Like it's just the best,
what you wanna do every time.

1485
00:58:39,165 --> 00:58:39,375
Yep.

1486
00:58:39,375 --> 00:58:39,525
That's

1487
00:58:39,525 --> 00:58:40,095
great man.

1488
00:58:41,985 --> 00:58:42,105
Yeah.

1489
00:58:42,105 --> 00:58:42,795
Well what

1490
00:58:43,305 --> 00:58:43,428
that's go every time.

1491
00:58:44,055 --> 00:58:46,095
What is kind of your mindset
when you go to the play?

1492
00:58:46,095 --> 00:58:48,105
'cause you know, obviously we're, we're
seeing some guys that are, they're

1493
00:58:48,105 --> 00:58:49,545
scuffling a little bit right now.

1494
00:58:49,545 --> 00:58:51,615
They're, they're trying to
have more competitive at bats.

1495
00:58:51,945 --> 00:58:53,055
Uh, facing good pitching.

1496
00:58:53,055 --> 00:58:54,285
I'll definitely caveat with that.

1497
00:58:54,285 --> 00:58:57,825
They face good pitching, but what's
going through your mind from on

1498
00:58:57,825 --> 00:59:00,945
deck circle, getting some warmup
swings and then going into the box,

1499
00:59:01,905 --> 00:59:03,405
uh, on deck circle.

1500
00:59:03,495 --> 00:59:06,585
I don't know if you guys see me,
but I get close to the fence.

1501
00:59:07,365 --> 00:59:10,635
Um, and I just from trying to have
a short swing, try to hug myself.

1502
00:59:11,055 --> 00:59:14,295
'cause if I try to hug myself,
the shortest I can be, the more

1503
00:59:14,295 --> 00:59:15,855
barrel I'm gonna get to the bowl.

1504
00:59:16,665 --> 00:59:23,325
Um, and I try to have an approach before
I get into the box because once you

1505
00:59:23,325 --> 00:59:30,345
start thinking so much, like my dad will
make me watch like Tony Gwin growing up.

1506
00:59:30,375 --> 00:59:30,465
Mm-hmm.

1507
00:59:31,485 --> 00:59:35,115
And he always said like, if
you start thinking in the

1508
00:59:35,115 --> 00:59:37,725
box, your abs already over.

1509
00:59:38,535 --> 00:59:46,605
Um, so I have an approach before the
box, um, and I talked to h uh, about

1510
00:59:46,605 --> 00:59:51,315
the approach, what the guy has, and I
mostly just try to sit on the fastball.

1511
00:59:51,705 --> 00:59:55,785
Um, I try to really hit that fastball
and then if he pops a slider and I

1512
00:59:55,785 --> 00:59:59,625
can see the slider of his hand and he
hangs it, um, definitely swing at it.

1513
01:00:00,105 --> 01:00:04,815
And I like to drive those pitchers
a lot, but mostly, uh, getting in

1514
01:00:04,815 --> 01:00:08,984
there and swinging at a fastball
anywhere near the strike zone.

1515
01:00:08,984 --> 01:00:11,024
Really try to be aggressive.

1516
01:00:11,024 --> 01:00:14,415
And that's just a game
plan that I have always.

1517
01:00:15,524 --> 01:00:18,255
You, you talk about that kind
of shorter compact swing, get

1518
01:00:18,255 --> 01:00:19,965
more barrel over the plate.

1519
01:00:20,205 --> 01:00:23,205
I also noticed that you do crowd
the plate a little bit more than

1520
01:00:23,205 --> 01:00:24,524
maybe some other footers do.

1521
01:00:24,524 --> 01:00:24,615
Yes.

1522
01:00:24,795 --> 01:00:26,625
And that shows up with, I think
you've been hit by a pitch

1523
01:00:26,625 --> 01:00:28,154
nine times so far this season.

1524
01:00:28,755 --> 01:00:29,176
Nine times.

1525
01:00:29,176 --> 01:00:29,330
Nine times.

1526
01:00:30,524 --> 01:00:30,975
Yeah.

1527
01:00:31,035 --> 01:00:33,615
But that I, I think you have the right
idea of that short compact swing.

1528
01:00:33,615 --> 01:00:37,335
And, uh, I, CB actually pointed out
to me in some photos of Kyle yesterday

1529
01:00:37,335 --> 01:00:40,635
on his, the home runs he hit, you can
see his hands are tucked in tight.

1530
01:00:40,845 --> 01:00:42,585
He's got that shorter compact swing.

1531
01:00:42,590 --> 01:00:42,689
Mm-hmm.

1532
01:00:42,825 --> 01:00:44,415
And he hits two bombs to the left center.

1533
01:00:44,415 --> 01:00:47,385
So maybe he's been watching
you a little bit on those avs.

1534
01:00:48,825 --> 01:00:49,814
No, I've been watching him.

1535
01:00:49,814 --> 01:00:52,365
I look up to Kyle a lot for sure.

1536
01:00:53,085 --> 01:00:55,965
Well, that's, that definitely a
good one to, uh, to look out for.

1537
01:00:55,965 --> 01:00:59,144
He is, he's been on with us a couple
times, uh, and we, we certainly

1538
01:00:59,144 --> 01:01:00,345
enjoy chatting to him as well.

1539
01:01:01,200 --> 01:01:03,000
No, I've been watching, I dunno
if I've ever told you, I've been

1540
01:01:03,000 --> 01:01:06,360
watching Kyle play since he was
like 14, and kid's just phenomenal.

1541
01:01:06,360 --> 01:01:07,770
I'm, I'm always been such a fan.

1542
01:01:08,280 --> 01:01:12,480
Um, so, so f how did you
end up at ODU, right?

1543
01:01:12,480 --> 01:01:16,020
I, you said you're, you're from North
Carolina, playing down in South Carolina.

1544
01:01:16,410 --> 01:01:17,670
How do you end up here at ODU?

1545
01:01:18,870 --> 01:01:21,000
Uh, so, um,

1546
01:01:23,160 --> 01:01:24,090
recruiting process.

1547
01:01:24,090 --> 01:01:26,190
Talking about the recruiting process, um,

1548
01:01:29,040 --> 01:01:34,080
I didn't really talk to a lot of schools,
like, not really like it would be

1549
01:01:34,110 --> 01:01:36,540
talking to like schools close to home.

1550
01:01:36,870 --> 01:01:40,650
And they all wanted me as
like a utility outfielder.

1551
01:01:41,310 --> 01:01:44,700
Um, the only school that wanted
me as a catcher was Old Dominion.

1552
01:01:46,050 --> 01:01:50,790
Um, and so I took the opportunity,
uh, Logan Robbins was the one

1553
01:01:50,790 --> 01:01:57,960
that was recruiting me at the
time, and so did Marin, um, and.

1554
01:01:58,979 --> 01:02:03,120
Funny story is when I committed,
um, I think it was he's first

1555
01:02:03,120 --> 01:02:04,200
day or something like that.

1556
01:02:04,500 --> 01:02:04,620
Oh wow.

1557
01:02:05,279 --> 01:02:09,210
And I think it was, he's like,
first zoom call and I committed,

1558
01:02:09,210 --> 01:02:13,319
uh, that day with, uh, hey, on
Zoom call and Marin on Zoom call.

1559
01:02:14,370 --> 01:02:15,510
That's a hell of a first day.

1560
01:02:16,109 --> 01:02:16,560
Yeah.

1561
01:02:16,560 --> 01:02:16,560
Yeah.

1562
01:02:17,250 --> 01:02:17,430
Pretty

1563
01:02:17,430 --> 01:02:17,790
good.

1564
01:02:19,649 --> 01:02:19,800
Yeah.

1565
01:02:19,800 --> 01:02:23,460
Well, how, how have you adjusted
coming to ODU being in college?

1566
01:02:23,460 --> 01:02:25,649
I mean, it sounds like where
you're at prepped you a little bit.

1567
01:02:26,010 --> 01:02:26,100
Mm-hmm.

1568
01:02:26,340 --> 01:02:30,000
Um, what have been some adjustments you've
had to make coming into the college world?

1569
01:02:31,200 --> 01:02:38,670
Um, so coming into like the college world,
I mean, definitely like school part of it.

1570
01:02:39,090 --> 01:02:43,229
Uh, like I said, like I had online
school, so it was just online, so

1571
01:02:43,229 --> 01:02:47,700
it was kind of weird like going into
the first day of, uh, school and.

1572
01:02:48,300 --> 01:02:51,540
Going into class and I actually had
to like pay attention to a teacher.

1573
01:02:51,810 --> 01:02:56,940
That was definitely like a big, a
big adjustment to Yeah, the school.

1574
01:02:56,940 --> 01:02:57,510
As a former

1575
01:02:57,510 --> 01:03:00,900
teacher who taught during
Covid, I I absolutely understand

1576
01:03:00,900 --> 01:03:01,590
what you're talking about.

1577
01:03:02,130 --> 01:03:02,520
Yeah.

1578
01:03:02,520 --> 01:03:07,110
So it was definitely, uh, quite
a bit of a adjustment for sure.

1579
01:03:08,700 --> 01:03:11,280
And I imagine that just the student
population's a lot bigger too.

1580
01:03:11,310 --> 01:03:13,020
'cause you've just got a bunch
of kids playing baseball.

1581
01:03:13,020 --> 01:03:15,150
How many, how many kids
were in that, that academy?

1582
01:03:15,510 --> 01:03:20,250
Um, so there was, I think
there was exactly 52 kids.

1583
01:03:21,660 --> 01:03:25,830
So yeah, 52 compared to
walking around campus.

1584
01:03:25,830 --> 01:03:28,410
And it's just a bunch of
people that I do not even know.

1585
01:03:29,490 --> 01:03:31,800
It's kind of a, definitely
a big adjustment.

1586
01:03:32,520 --> 01:03:35,580
You could meet 52 new people
every single day and still not

1587
01:03:35,730 --> 01:03:36,570
probably by the end of the year.

1588
01:03:36,570 --> 01:03:38,280
And not even come close
to gotten everybody.

1589
01:03:38,640 --> 01:03:40,770
No, definitely not.

1590
01:03:41,220 --> 01:03:41,370
Yeah.

1591
01:03:41,370 --> 01:03:43,200
You were in classes that
were bigger than your school.

1592
01:03:43,200 --> 01:03:45,060
I had that experience too,
so I know how you feel.

1593
01:03:45,420 --> 01:03:49,320
Yeah, it was a, it was a
pretty big adjustment for

1594
01:03:49,320 --> 01:03:50,910
the first two weeks for sure.

1595
01:03:52,170 --> 01:03:52,560
Yeah.

1596
01:03:52,830 --> 01:03:53,640
That's great, man.

1597
01:03:54,510 --> 01:03:56,190
Well, I know you're in
the house with Kyle.

1598
01:03:56,190 --> 01:03:58,020
I think I, I can't remember
who all lives there.

1599
01:03:58,020 --> 01:04:00,180
Kyle was sold this before,
but Is Luke in that house too?

1600
01:04:00,690 --> 01:04:01,380
Uh, so, no.

1601
01:04:01,380 --> 01:04:05,550
So, um, Kyle was my roommate
on, uh, on the road.

1602
01:04:05,885 --> 01:04:06,175
Okay.

1603
01:04:06,180 --> 01:04:06,720
Okay.

1604
01:04:07,140 --> 01:04:11,640
Uh, so my house, it's, uh, Rocky and Evan.

1605
01:04:12,900 --> 01:04:13,350
Okay.

1606
01:04:13,529 --> 01:04:14,010
Uh, Holman.

1607
01:04:14,340 --> 01:04:14,610
Yeah.

1608
01:04:14,670 --> 01:04:15,029
Yep.

1609
01:04:15,660 --> 01:04:17,160
There's no other Evan,
I dunno why I'm asking.

1610
01:04:17,925 --> 01:04:19,015
Yeah, not currently.

1611
01:04:19,015 --> 01:04:19,175
Yeah.

1612
01:04:19,175 --> 01:04:19,455
So, okay.

1613
01:04:19,455 --> 01:04:20,175
So yeah.

1614
01:04:20,235 --> 01:04:21,540
Not, but yeah.

1615
01:04:21,540 --> 01:04:22,980
So Rocky Green is a freshman.

1616
01:04:22,980 --> 01:04:23,760
Freshman pitchers, yes.

1617
01:04:23,880 --> 01:04:26,010
Red Shirting, uh, and then Evan catcher.

1618
01:04:26,010 --> 01:04:28,680
So, so you and Evan, you guys have,
you guys have catcher talks a lot.

1619
01:04:28,680 --> 01:04:31,455
You guys just sit there like in your
mask, in the living room and, and

1620
01:04:31,455 --> 01:04:32,735
have catcher, the master living room.

1621
01:04:34,020 --> 01:04:34,680
Yeah, for sure.

1622
01:04:34,680 --> 01:04:39,150
We'd be talking a lot about baseball and
we love to watch, uh, wheels on YouTube.

1623
01:04:39,930 --> 01:04:41,640
Um, so we love to watch baseball.

1624
01:04:42,195 --> 01:04:42,705
For sure.

1625
01:04:42,705 --> 01:04:43,185
There we go.

1626
01:04:43,635 --> 01:04:43,755
Okay.

1627
01:04:43,965 --> 01:04:46,005
I noticed he started using
the, the hockey mask.

1628
01:04:46,005 --> 01:04:47,655
Is that something, did you
get him to, to do that?

1629
01:04:48,165 --> 01:04:48,615
No.

1630
01:04:48,615 --> 01:04:49,605
No, I did not.

1631
01:04:49,605 --> 01:04:52,845
I'm surprised he started,
uh, doing that actually.

1632
01:04:53,475 --> 01:04:53,865
Yeah.

1633
01:04:53,865 --> 01:04:54,390
I have to talk to him.

1634
01:04:54,940 --> 01:04:55,965
I don't, I don't, I don't remember

1635
01:04:55,965 --> 01:04:58,485
him using it during the fall,
during the scrimmages at all.

1636
01:04:58,545 --> 01:05:01,425
He is, he's always been using
the, uh, the old style two piece.

1637
01:05:01,485 --> 01:05:02,325
Yeah, for sure.

1638
01:05:02,330 --> 01:05:02,580
Yeah.

1639
01:05:03,045 --> 01:05:03,165
Yeah.

1640
01:05:03,170 --> 01:05:06,645
But I talked, I talked to his parents
for quite a while before the game on

1641
01:05:06,645 --> 01:05:09,975
Saturday when we were over at Waterside,
and I did not think to ask that mass

1642
01:05:09,975 --> 01:05:11,325
question, so I should have done that.

1643
01:05:11,385 --> 01:05:11,745
That's fair.

1644
01:05:11,925 --> 01:05:12,735
Well, we got a podcast.

1645
01:05:12,735 --> 01:05:13,605
We'll ring on at some point.

1646
01:05:13,605 --> 01:05:13,875
Ask him.

1647
01:05:14,685 --> 01:05:15,075
There we go.

1648
01:05:15,165 --> 01:05:16,035
Save some content.

1649
01:05:16,035 --> 01:05:16,095
So

1650
01:05:16,100 --> 01:05:19,605
I, I know like Finney, like one, I think
one of the very first podcasts we did

1651
01:05:19,605 --> 01:05:22,335
this year, you know, we're talking about
you and what you may be able to do and he

1652
01:05:22,335 --> 01:05:25,635
was talking about the possibility of you
playing some second base in left field.

1653
01:05:25,635 --> 01:05:26,535
Now I know.

1654
01:05:26,625 --> 01:05:28,100
And now again, you probably mm-hmm.

1655
01:05:28,185 --> 01:05:29,505
You just heard him saying is
like, this is probably gonna

1656
01:05:29,505 --> 01:05:30,465
be our catch for the future.

1657
01:05:30,465 --> 01:05:31,665
And I, I'm all for that.

1658
01:05:31,695 --> 01:05:32,445
'cause you're awesome.

1659
01:05:32,775 --> 01:05:36,975
Uh, and I, I love your energy back there,
but is that playing other positions?

1660
01:05:37,125 --> 01:05:38,775
Is that something you're like down for?

1661
01:05:38,775 --> 01:05:40,335
You're like, that's okay by me.

1662
01:05:40,965 --> 01:05:41,984
Oh yeah, for sure.

1663
01:05:41,984 --> 01:05:46,904
I mean the, I just love to be on the
field and competing with guys that I love.

1664
01:05:47,085 --> 01:05:48,194
That's all I really care about.

1665
01:05:48,255 --> 01:05:51,765
I could be first basement, I mean,
I'd probably be the shortest first

1666
01:05:51,765 --> 01:05:55,725
basement in the whole country,
but, uh, I'll definitely love,

1667
01:05:55,725 --> 01:05:57,314
uh, to play anywhere on the field.

1668
01:05:57,314 --> 01:05:58,274
It doesn't matter with me.

1669
01:06:00,135 --> 01:06:00,285
Yeah.

1670
01:06:00,285 --> 01:06:02,145
Kind of the answer I expected,
that's why I wanted to ask it

1671
01:06:03,915 --> 01:06:04,305
eventually.

1672
01:06:04,305 --> 01:06:07,425
All the short guys that are decent
at baseball are told you can't

1673
01:06:07,425 --> 01:06:10,694
play first base anymore because
you're, you know, 5 7, 5 8.

1674
01:06:10,694 --> 01:06:11,685
Yeah, you're right here.

1675
01:06:11,685 --> 01:06:13,515
I got, I have some old
first baseman m for you.

1676
01:06:14,505 --> 01:06:17,685
The funny thing is I've been to plenty
of AAA games where they just like,

1677
01:06:17,715 --> 01:06:19,154
well, we need a guy in the lineup.

1678
01:06:19,154 --> 01:06:22,035
So they end up throwing like some like
five, nine guy to play first base.

1679
01:06:22,035 --> 01:06:24,915
So weirdly it like in the minor
leagues kind of turns around

1680
01:06:24,944 --> 01:06:25,755
just like, whatever, man.

1681
01:06:25,755 --> 01:06:26,295
Go over there.

1682
01:06:26,955 --> 01:06:27,225
Yeah.

1683
01:06:27,705 --> 01:06:32,654
So, uh, my junior year, uh, I
forgot what it was of high school.

1684
01:06:33,285 --> 01:06:37,425
Um, uh, we were playing a game and I
think when our first baseman got hurt.

1685
01:06:38,310 --> 01:06:43,890
And our, uh, our catcher was usually
like the back and first basement.

1686
01:06:44,160 --> 01:06:45,150
Mm-hmm.

1687
01:06:45,180 --> 01:06:46,500
And I was, eh, hing.

1688
01:06:46,530 --> 01:06:49,950
'cause you know how you could hit like
10 guys in the lineup during high school?

1689
01:06:49,980 --> 01:06:50,040
Yeah.

1690
01:06:50,790 --> 01:06:52,830
So I was like, eh, hing.

1691
01:06:52,830 --> 01:06:54,300
So they just put me to first base

1692
01:06:56,700 --> 01:06:58,830
and it was, it was a lot of fun.

1693
01:06:58,890 --> 01:06:59,370
Lemme tell you.

1694
01:06:59,370 --> 01:07:00,030
It was a lot of fun.

1695
01:07:00,090 --> 01:07:00,390
Yeah.

1696
01:07:00,900 --> 01:07:02,490
You probably get a chance
to talk to everybody.

1697
01:07:02,490 --> 01:07:03,660
That's why I know some guys love that.

1698
01:07:03,660 --> 01:07:05,070
Like Vinny Serino played here.

1699
01:07:05,070 --> 01:07:06,810
That was his favorite thing
about playing first base.

1700
01:07:07,050 --> 01:07:07,715
Talked to everybody.

1701
01:07:07,715 --> 01:07:07,995
Everybody.

1702
01:07:07,995 --> 01:07:07,996
Everybody.

1703
01:07:07,996 --> 01:07:07,997
Yeah.

1704
01:07:08,010 --> 01:07:08,760
Oh yeah.

1705
01:07:08,760 --> 01:07:08,880
I

1706
01:07:08,880 --> 01:07:10,650
definitely talked to
everybody when I was playing.

1707
01:07:10,860 --> 01:07:11,755
Yeah, there you go.

1708
01:07:12,330 --> 01:07:13,950
I played two innings and
then it was a lot of fun.

1709
01:07:15,390 --> 01:07:16,680
You tell 'em guys just throw it low.

1710
01:07:16,680 --> 01:07:17,790
If you throw it low, we're fine.

1711
01:07:18,060 --> 01:07:18,390
Yep.

1712
01:07:19,260 --> 01:07:19,530
Oh yeah.

1713
01:07:19,530 --> 01:07:21,000
Because you've got the flexibility.

1714
01:07:21,105 --> 01:07:21,395
Yeah.

1715
01:07:21,400 --> 01:07:21,600
Yeah.

1716
01:07:21,600 --> 01:07:23,220
You've got the flexibility to
get down and stretch for it.

1717
01:07:23,220 --> 01:07:23,910
No doubt it's those.

1718
01:07:23,910 --> 01:07:24,150
No.

1719
01:07:24,150 --> 01:07:25,675
Yeah, it's the high.

1720
01:07:26,385 --> 01:07:26,675
Yeah.

1721
01:07:26,910 --> 01:07:27,180
Yeah.

1722
01:07:27,180 --> 01:07:28,620
I don't know if I'll
be able to catch those.

1723
01:07:29,190 --> 01:07:29,460
Yeah.

1724
01:07:29,970 --> 01:07:30,090
Oh,

1725
01:07:30,600 --> 01:07:33,750
so, uh, hey, we, we asked finna a minute
ago, national Championship tonight.

1726
01:07:33,750 --> 01:07:34,290
Who you got?

1727
01:07:34,290 --> 01:07:34,680
Florida.

1728
01:07:34,680 --> 01:07:35,130
Houston.

1729
01:07:35,160 --> 01:07:35,700
What do you think?

1730
01:07:36,915 --> 01:07:38,895
Man, I don't know.

1731
01:07:39,315 --> 01:07:46,065
Um, I forgot who was talking about it, but
he's a famous, um, like reporter and that,

1732
01:07:46,065 --> 01:07:50,385
and he was saying that he has Houston
because Houston just wants it more.

1733
01:07:50,385 --> 01:07:52,755
And like, they're more
like, they're tough.

1734
01:07:53,235 --> 01:07:54,735
But I think I have the Gators win.

1735
01:07:55,545 --> 01:07:56,385
Uh, I've got with

1736
01:07:56,385 --> 01:07:56,925
the Gators too.

1737
01:07:56,925 --> 01:07:58,335
I just, I like the talent.

1738
01:07:58,395 --> 01:07:59,295
I like their bigs.

1739
01:07:59,685 --> 01:08:01,215
The kid, Clayton, the
point guard's really good.

1740
01:08:01,215 --> 01:08:02,715
But I like the, I like,
you know, I'm a big guy.

1741
01:08:02,715 --> 01:08:04,965
I like, I like centers
and power forwards anyway.

1742
01:08:04,965 --> 01:08:05,775
And they got some good advice.

1743
01:08:05,775 --> 01:08:05,955
Yeah,

1744
01:08:06,405 --> 01:08:08,595
I think I got the Gators
with 'em, uh, this game.

1745
01:08:09,255 --> 01:08:10,695
They've had a good run this whole year.

1746
01:08:10,815 --> 01:08:13,305
They said by the time this comes
out tomorrow, we'll know we're

1747
01:08:13,305 --> 01:08:14,685
either correct or we're incorrect.

1748
01:08:14,715 --> 01:08:15,980
We, oh yeah, they'll,

1749
01:08:18,525 --> 01:08:18,795
oh yeah.

1750
01:08:18,795 --> 01:08:23,535
I, I, I need the gators for both the
bracket pool and uh, you know, a. A wager

1751
01:08:23,535 --> 01:08:26,505
that was placed back in, uh, November
that had some pretty good odds on it.

1752
01:08:26,505 --> 01:08:28,455
So go, go Gators to me,

1753
01:08:29,175 --> 01:08:32,025
I had a 97% bracket on
the women's bracket.

1754
01:08:32,140 --> 01:08:33,345
I, I crushed that one.

1755
01:08:33,350 --> 01:08:33,540
Really?

1756
01:08:33,735 --> 01:08:34,035
Yeah.

1757
01:08:34,035 --> 01:08:36,135
I almost had, I had the points
down to like two points.

1758
01:08:36,135 --> 01:08:37,935
Like I was, I I did
really well on that one.

1759
01:08:38,505 --> 01:08:38,775
Yeah.

1760
01:08:38,775 --> 01:08:40,305
Did you have Yukon
winning the whole thing?

1761
01:08:40,305 --> 01:08:42,495
I had Yon Yukon, the over South Carolina.

1762
01:08:42,585 --> 01:08:42,915
Yep.

1763
01:08:42,915 --> 01:08:43,005
Mm-hmm.

1764
01:08:43,245 --> 01:08:44,415
I, I picked like the final four.

1765
01:08:44,415 --> 01:08:48,615
I had it, like, I, I crushed it on the
women's, the men's brutal like 56%.

1766
01:08:49,155 --> 01:08:49,455
But I

1767
01:08:49,455 --> 01:08:52,365
feel like, I feel like with men's, like
you, you never know what's gonna happen.

1768
01:08:52,875 --> 01:08:53,745
You know what's funny though?

1769
01:08:53,745 --> 01:08:56,325
That, and that's why I thought I had a
chance, but I think this year was more

1770
01:08:56,325 --> 01:08:58,155
like the, the better teams just won.

1771
01:08:58,515 --> 01:09:00,020
It's almost like this, this year for sure.

1772
01:09:00,240 --> 01:09:02,865
The, the, the portal is more
like, because that was always the

1773
01:09:02,865 --> 01:09:04,635
thing with the women's, it was
like the, the very best player.

1774
01:09:04,635 --> 01:09:06,735
It was like a, the pyramid
went kind of straight up.

1775
01:09:07,095 --> 01:09:07,215
Yeah.

1776
01:09:07,215 --> 01:09:07,425
The very

1777
01:09:07,425 --> 01:09:08,355
best players at the very top.

1778
01:09:08,355 --> 01:09:10,035
So I was just like, Hey,
you picked the best schools.

1779
01:09:10,155 --> 01:09:10,905
That's why I picked you guys.

1780
01:09:10,905 --> 01:09:12,345
It's like they got Paige Becker's, right?

1781
01:09:12,345 --> 01:09:12,405
Yeah.

1782
01:09:12,765 --> 01:09:13,215
Um,

1783
01:09:13,545 --> 01:09:16,155
but with the men's teams, I think
it became more like that this year

1784
01:09:16,155 --> 01:09:18,795
where it was like, no, the, the
talent is gets pushed upwards.

1785
01:09:18,795 --> 01:09:19,455
Mm-hmm.

1786
01:09:19,720 --> 01:09:19,940
Yep.

1787
01:09:20,895 --> 01:09:21,345
It was wild.

1788
01:09:21,345 --> 01:09:22,245
Only the second time ever.

1789
01:09:22,245 --> 01:09:24,465
There's been all one
seeds in the final Four.

1790
01:09:24,465 --> 01:09:26,895
And then, uh, on the women's side, I
think it's the first time in a while

1791
01:09:26,895 --> 01:09:28,485
that a one seed does not want it.

1792
01:09:28,515 --> 01:09:30,195
'cause somehow eComm was a two.

1793
01:09:30,585 --> 01:09:34,515
Uh, but I swear, CB you and
I must hang out too much.

1794
01:09:34,515 --> 01:09:38,355
You must be high mine because I'm
in the 97th percentile as well.

1795
01:09:38,685 --> 01:09:40,995
And I had a perfect Final
Four and National Final

1796
01:09:40,995 --> 01:09:42,795
Game Champion, so, wow.

1797
01:09:43,545 --> 01:09:46,545
Uh, Gary, you gotta ask him
my, our favorite question.

1798
01:09:46,935 --> 01:09:47,655
Oh, yes.

1799
01:09:47,655 --> 01:09:47,955
All right.

1800
01:09:47,955 --> 01:09:50,985
So, uh, college football,
video games come out.

1801
01:09:50,985 --> 01:09:53,205
We know there's a college
component to MLB, the show.

1802
01:09:53,205 --> 01:09:57,975
So we're asking all the guys what
would your overall rating be and what

1803
01:09:57,975 --> 01:10:01,395
would be your, like, your strongest
category, whether it's like power

1804
01:10:01,395 --> 01:10:05,925
against lefties, contact bunting,
fielding could be anything, but what's

1805
01:10:05,925 --> 01:10:08,625
your overall and what and where do
you spike there on those ratings?

1806
01:10:09,660 --> 01:10:14,760
Man, like overall, if they
made like a NCA baseball,

1807
01:10:15,120 --> 01:10:15,360
yeah.

1808
01:10:15,360 --> 01:10:16,980
If they made that again, that'd be great.

1809
01:10:17,550 --> 01:10:18,450
That would be awesome.

1810
01:10:18,450 --> 01:10:22,050
Yeah, I'll be playing that 24 7 for sure.

1811
01:10:22,110 --> 01:10:22,800
Me too.

1812
01:10:23,010 --> 01:10:26,910
I used to, I'll be putting
myself on road to the show and

1813
01:10:26,910 --> 01:10:28,500
just grinding that out for sure.

1814
01:10:28,500 --> 01:10:28,590
Yes.

1815
01:10:29,580 --> 01:10:30,720
That would be so much fun.

1816
01:10:31,080 --> 01:10:33,870
Um, I don't know.

1817
01:10:33,870 --> 01:10:39,690
I mean, I'll like, I'll give myself
a high rating just 'cause like

1818
01:10:41,820 --> 01:10:42,480
freshmen come in.

1819
01:10:42,480 --> 01:10:46,530
I'll give myself like
an 85 overall coming in.

1820
01:10:47,400 --> 01:10:47,850
All's pretty good.

1821
01:10:48,030 --> 01:10:48,545
Freshman solid.

1822
01:10:48,545 --> 01:10:48,665
Yeah.

1823
01:10:48,840 --> 01:10:49,680
Solid for freshman.

1824
01:10:50,130 --> 01:10:50,460
Zach.

1825
01:10:50,460 --> 01:10:51,240
Late last week.

1826
01:10:51,240 --> 01:10:51,720
Yeah.

1827
01:10:52,020 --> 01:10:52,140
Yeah.

1828
01:10:52,170 --> 01:10:53,940
Zach Leite last week, said he was 99.

1829
01:10:53,940 --> 01:10:55,770
Overall, there were no
questions, no hesitation.

1830
01:10:56,340 --> 01:10:57,270
He went full 99.

1831
01:10:58,065 --> 01:10:59,595
Well, big late big lake's.

1832
01:10:59,595 --> 01:11:02,835
Different big lake's, hitting
that ball hard every time.

1833
01:11:02,835 --> 01:11:03,345
Yes.

1834
01:11:04,550 --> 01:11:05,050
He, yes.

1835
01:11:05,050 --> 01:11:06,465
He's, he is raking right now

1836
01:11:06,975 --> 01:11:10,905
and with two strikes, he gets that contact
approach and, and hits it that other way.

1837
01:11:10,905 --> 01:11:11,805
Like it's, yep.

1838
01:11:11,865 --> 01:11:13,995
Yeah, he's putting on a
clinic, that's for sure.

1839
01:11:14,025 --> 01:11:14,265
Yep.

1840
01:11:14,625 --> 01:11:15,465
He sure is.

1841
01:11:15,885 --> 01:11:16,275
Uh,

1842
01:11:16,335 --> 01:11:17,775
so what's the second part?

1843
01:11:17,775 --> 01:11:20,385
What would your, what would your
top, uh, if you could give yourself

1844
01:11:20,385 --> 01:11:23,175
like a, like a highest score in
one of the, one of the category?

1845
01:11:23,865 --> 01:11:30,615
So Lefty, uh, hitting off a lefty,
I'll give myself like a 99 overall.

1846
01:11:30,920 --> 01:11:31,210
Okay.

1847
01:11:31,215 --> 01:11:31,725
Okay.

1848
01:11:31,725 --> 01:11:33,825
Uh, love, love hitting off lefties.

1849
01:11:33,825 --> 01:11:40,335
One of my favorite things to do, love,
um, off variety, depending on if it

1850
01:11:40,335 --> 01:11:42,975
throws submarine or over the top.

1851
01:11:43,605 --> 01:11:48,915
'cause some guys, some variety,
uh, their sinkers are pretty gross.

1852
01:11:49,335 --> 01:11:49,485
Yeah.

1853
01:11:49,755 --> 01:11:54,075
Um, so probably like off variety.

1854
01:11:54,075 --> 01:11:59,415
Probably give myself like a. 85 to
80 grade, which is still really good.

1855
01:11:59,565 --> 01:11:59,595
Okay.

1856
01:11:59,930 --> 01:12:00,220
Yeah.

1857
01:12:00,225 --> 01:12:00,495
Yeah.

1858
01:12:00,855 --> 01:12:02,235
You put some numbers up at those ratings.

1859
01:12:02,300 --> 01:12:02,580
I like it.

1860
01:12:02,600 --> 01:12:03,020
We got it.

1861
01:12:03,160 --> 01:12:04,785
See, I see the ability to, to grow.

1862
01:12:04,935 --> 01:12:06,225
Are you a big video game guy?

1863
01:12:06,885 --> 01:12:08,055
I'm not, actually.

1864
01:12:08,295 --> 01:12:08,775
I like to.

1865
01:12:08,775 --> 01:12:09,195
Okay, that's fair.

1866
01:12:09,645 --> 01:12:14,565
I like to explore out and I'm more
of like, I like to go out to the

1867
01:12:14,565 --> 01:12:16,905
beach and like do stuff like that.

1868
01:12:17,775 --> 01:12:20,205
What's, uh, the best spot
you've found so far here?

1869
01:12:21,165 --> 01:12:22,515
You don't have to give
away if it's like secret.

1870
01:12:22,515 --> 01:12:25,245
I don't want you to give away, like
you spot everybody else gets Do

1871
01:12:25,245 --> 01:12:27,315
you have have fans lining
up there waiting for you?

1872
01:12:27,405 --> 01:12:27,645
Yeah.

1873
01:12:27,645 --> 01:12:27,945
Right.

1874
01:12:28,035 --> 01:12:30,435
Oh, no, it's not, it's not a secret.

1875
01:12:30,495 --> 01:12:32,085
Uh, I forgot what it was called actually.

1876
01:12:32,085 --> 01:12:34,485
It's, I just went last
week with Rocky actually.

1877
01:12:34,545 --> 01:12:34,935
Um,

1878
01:12:37,395 --> 01:12:39,165
it's not, it's it's the bay.

1879
01:12:39,675 --> 01:12:42,555
It's pretty, it's pretty,
it's not like Virginia Beach.

1880
01:12:42,945 --> 01:12:44,745
It's like the View streets, that area.

1881
01:12:44,745 --> 01:12:46,815
Yeah, I think it's uh, like Ocean View.

1882
01:12:47,265 --> 01:12:47,775
Ocean View.

1883
01:12:47,775 --> 01:12:48,495
That's what it's called.

1884
01:12:48,615 --> 01:12:48,945
Okay.

1885
01:12:49,095 --> 01:12:49,365
Yeah.

1886
01:12:49,365 --> 01:12:49,560
Ocean Beach.

1887
01:12:49,700 --> 01:12:50,445
It is pretty, man.

1888
01:12:50,895 --> 01:12:54,285
Yeah, it's pretty nice just going
out there and seeing the ocean.

1889
01:12:54,285 --> 01:12:55,005
I like to do that.

1890
01:12:55,005 --> 01:12:55,335
Yeah.

1891
01:12:56,070 --> 01:12:56,580
There we go.

1892
01:12:56,880 --> 01:12:57,930
Yeah, I mean, because growing up

1893
01:12:57,930 --> 01:13:00,090
in North Carolina and, and
living in South Carolina, you did

1894
01:13:00,090 --> 01:13:01,110
probably didn't see it too much.

1895
01:13:01,740 --> 01:13:02,100
No.

1896
01:13:02,100 --> 01:13:02,970
Yeah, not too much.

1897
01:13:02,970 --> 01:13:06,300
Well, I, I actually grew up in,
uh, so I was born in Puerto Rico,

1898
01:13:06,360 --> 01:13:09,030
so there's just water all around.

1899
01:13:09,030 --> 01:13:13,590
And then from Puerto Rico, I moved to
Miami, so there was a lot of water too,

1900
01:13:14,340 --> 01:13:19,230
and I didn't move to North Carolina
until my sophomore year of high school.

1901
01:13:19,980 --> 01:13:20,100
Oh,

1902
01:13:20,100 --> 01:13:20,430
wow.

1903
01:13:20,430 --> 01:13:20,610
Okay.

1904
01:13:20,615 --> 01:13:20,665
Okay.

1905
01:13:20,670 --> 01:13:20,970
When did you

1906
01:13:20,970 --> 01:13:21,660
leave Puerto Rico?

1907
01:13:22,875 --> 01:13:26,355
Uh, I think I was three or four years old.

1908
01:13:26,925 --> 01:13:27,285
Okay.

1909
01:13:27,375 --> 01:13:28,515
So there few years.

1910
01:13:28,515 --> 01:13:29,745
And then Miami for a good chunk.

1911
01:13:29,745 --> 01:13:29,955
All right.

1912
01:13:29,955 --> 01:13:30,165
Yeah.

1913
01:13:30,165 --> 01:13:30,405
All right.

1914
01:13:30,495 --> 01:13:30,765
Yeah.

1915
01:13:31,365 --> 01:13:32,415
So you, so you are used to the water.

1916
01:13:32,445 --> 01:13:32,715
Okay.

1917
01:13:32,715 --> 01:13:34,380
So you get back to it, that's ice.

1918
01:13:34,665 --> 01:13:35,025
Okay.

1919
01:13:35,025 --> 01:13:35,265
Yeah.

1920
01:13:35,265 --> 01:13:38,055
But moving to North
Carolina was like, oh yeah.

1921
01:13:38,055 --> 01:13:39,525
It's just freeze and mountains.

1922
01:13:40,185 --> 01:13:40,545
Yeah.

1923
01:13:40,785 --> 01:13:41,355
Yeah.

1924
01:13:41,355 --> 01:13:43,275
And, and, and hot and humid in the summer.

1925
01:13:43,635 --> 01:13:44,295
Oh man.

1926
01:13:44,295 --> 01:13:44,985
It is so bad.

1927
01:13:44,985 --> 01:13:45,780
And the pollen.

1928
01:13:45,810 --> 01:13:46,100
Yeah.

1929
01:13:46,300 --> 01:13:48,015
I, I, the pollen is bad.

1930
01:13:48,495 --> 01:13:49,545
Pollen's gone bad.

1931
01:13:49,905 --> 01:13:50,055
Oh.

1932
01:13:50,055 --> 01:13:52,965
Just, just this weekend I feel like you
could cut through the air with a knife.

1933
01:13:52,965 --> 01:13:54,765
You could just see it floating
underneath the lights.

1934
01:13:54,765 --> 01:13:55,095
Oh,

1935
01:13:55,095 --> 01:13:55,665
yeah.

1936
01:13:56,025 --> 01:13:58,540
And now since it just rained, like
you could see like the pollen,

1937
01:13:58,540 --> 01:14:00,075
like right now outside my window.

1938
01:14:00,135 --> 01:14:00,525
Yeah.

1939
01:14:00,585 --> 01:14:03,460
You could see like the
water and like the, yeah.

1940
01:14:04,360 --> 01:14:04,580
Oh,

1941
01:14:04,580 --> 01:14:04,860
that's crazy.

1942
01:14:04,935 --> 01:14:05,385
I could see

1943
01:14:05,385 --> 01:14:05,535
it.

1944
01:14:05,595 --> 01:14:07,365
'cause I was taking
pictures through the net.

1945
01:14:07,605 --> 01:14:10,695
I could see in my pictures, I had to like,
change the tint 'cause everything was like

1946
01:14:10,695 --> 01:14:11,925
yellow through the, through the pictures.

1947
01:14:14,700 --> 01:14:15,960
Oh, awesome.

1948
01:14:15,960 --> 01:14:18,900
Well, rem we'll, uh, we're gonna
let you get outta here, but really

1949
01:14:18,900 --> 01:14:20,160
appreciate your time coming on.

1950
01:14:20,160 --> 01:14:22,770
It was great to chat
with you, uh, awesome.

1951
01:14:22,770 --> 01:14:25,680
This awesome past weekend and
definitely rooting for you.

1952
01:14:25,685 --> 01:14:26,280
Thank you so much.

1953
01:14:26,310 --> 01:14:28,740
In Norfolk State and then Georgia
Southern this weekend coming up.

1954
01:14:29,760 --> 01:14:29,820
Yeah.

1955
01:14:29,820 --> 01:14:30,450
Thank you so much, man.

1956
01:14:30,455 --> 01:14:30,765
It's been a blast, man.

1957
01:14:30,765 --> 01:14:31,860
Thank you guys for having me on.

1958
01:14:32,700 --> 01:14:35,340
You're, you know, I, I tell a lot
of our guys this, but like, you're,

1959
01:14:35,520 --> 01:14:36,990
you're what a monarch should be, man.

1960
01:14:36,990 --> 01:14:39,540
You're just, you're here, you're
engaged, you're, you're a fighter.

1961
01:14:39,750 --> 01:14:40,380
We love it, man.

1962
01:14:40,380 --> 01:14:42,315
I'm, I'm excited to get
to get to watch with you.

1963
01:14:42,450 --> 01:14:44,400
You, you're gonna play at Charlottesville
this summer, is that right?

1964
01:14:44,910 --> 01:14:45,570
From the top box?

1965
01:14:45,575 --> 01:14:45,585
Yeah.

1966
01:14:45,585 --> 01:14:45,865
Charlottesville.

1967
01:14:45,865 --> 01:14:46,905
So I'm, I'm pretty close.

1968
01:14:47,055 --> 01:14:48,025
It's only two hours away.

1969
01:14:48,960 --> 01:14:49,290
Yeah.

1970
01:14:49,290 --> 01:14:53,280
My born too, but yeah, but it's,
it's, uh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

1971
01:14:53,280 --> 01:14:55,680
But we'll, so yeah, we'll definitely,
we'll definitely pop up there and

1972
01:14:55,680 --> 01:14:57,540
get to see you and that's, that's
the one anybody who's in Virginia

1973
01:14:57,540 --> 01:14:58,650
get, go out and see a, a Tom.

1974
01:14:58,650 --> 01:15:00,210
So game this summer and catch Efron.

1975
01:15:00,210 --> 01:15:02,760
Uh, probably getting three or four
more hits every day of that one.

1976
01:15:04,080 --> 01:15:04,770
A hundred percent.

1977
01:15:04,770 --> 01:15:06,060
Thank you guys for having me on.

1978
01:15:06,540 --> 01:15:07,200
Alright, thank you.

1979
01:15:07,740 --> 01:15:07,950
Thanks

1980
01:15:07,950 --> 01:15:07,951
man.

1981
01:15:07,951 --> 01:15:08,220
Appreciate you man.

1982
01:15:08,220 --> 01:15:08,670
Take care.

1983
01:15:08,670 --> 01:15:08,971
Thank you guys.

1984
01:15:10,590 --> 01:15:11,130
Good kid.

1985
01:15:12,270 --> 01:15:12,960
Yeah, absolutely.

1986
01:15:12,960 --> 01:15:13,080
That's

1987
01:15:13,080 --> 01:15:15,150
weird when that, when that camera
went back to me, I had like a

1988
01:15:15,150 --> 01:15:16,680
weird angle I was sitting at.

1989
01:15:17,310 --> 01:15:19,440
Well, we can zoom it in a
little more if you want.

1990
01:15:19,440 --> 01:15:21,600
I look like, look like I got a neck today.

1991
01:15:21,600 --> 01:15:22,230
I dunno what's going on.

1992
01:15:22,230 --> 01:15:22,470
All right.

1993
01:15:22,470 --> 01:15:23,940
Yeah, no efron's awesome man.

1994
01:15:23,940 --> 01:15:24,630
So he is a good kid.

1995
01:15:24,635 --> 01:15:26,670
I, I, I was getting a chance
to talk to him a little bit.

1996
01:15:26,670 --> 01:15:30,480
You know, I met him, uh, at, when he
came for, they, they had the, their

1997
01:15:30,480 --> 01:15:33,450
weekend, like official visit weekend
before they do the signing day.

1998
01:15:33,450 --> 01:15:37,080
And we, you know, took some pictures and I
talked to him a little bit through social

1999
01:15:37,080 --> 01:15:38,640
media, just like, man, this kid's awesome.

2000
01:15:38,640 --> 01:15:40,860
And yeah, he's, he, he's the real deal.

2001
01:15:41,760 --> 01:15:43,050
He's fun to watch, play.

2002
01:15:43,260 --> 01:15:46,710
Uh, he's really fun to watch when
he's in the batters box and working

2003
01:15:46,710 --> 01:15:49,410
through account, uh, 'cause you're
seeing him do all the things that

2004
01:15:49,410 --> 01:15:52,410
Finney is talking about with getting
a little bit more in on the plate,

2005
01:15:52,410 --> 01:15:56,190
having smart at bats, fighting up
there, making the picture uncomfortable.

2006
01:15:56,190 --> 01:15:57,510
He does a really good job of that.

2007
01:15:57,900 --> 01:15:59,340
And you're seeing it show up in the stats.

2008
01:15:59,340 --> 01:16:03,540
I mean, I think he's moved up to second
on the team in, in average or, uh,

2009
01:16:03,600 --> 01:16:05,789
third on the team in average, 2 98.

2010
01:16:06,300 --> 01:16:09,990
Uh, getting on base pretty
well at 3 85, uh, six dubs.

2011
01:16:10,020 --> 01:16:12,090
I mean, not striking out a ton either.

2012
01:16:12,870 --> 01:16:13,350
Yeah, yeah.

2013
01:16:13,350 --> 01:16:13,470
He's

2014
01:16:13,470 --> 01:16:17,280
only striking out 21% of the time,
which is phenomenal in the modern game.

2015
01:16:18,090 --> 01:16:18,450
Yeah.

2016
01:16:18,510 --> 01:16:19,830
So he's, he's a fun one to watch.

2017
01:16:19,830 --> 01:16:21,780
So if you come out to a game,
definitely keep your eye out for

2018
01:16:21,780 --> 01:16:25,890
ing and, uh, you know, he's got a
very, very bright career ahead of

2019
01:16:25,890 --> 01:16:27,120
him here at ODU u that we're pretty,

2020
01:16:27,355 --> 01:16:30,330
and it is great to, that's one of the
amazing things about baseball is, you

2021
01:16:30,330 --> 01:16:31,530
know, he isn't, he is not a big guy.

2022
01:16:31,530 --> 01:16:34,890
I mean, like, he, he did really admit
like five seven, like, that's pretty,

2023
01:16:34,890 --> 01:16:35,910
he might be shorting himself a little.

2024
01:16:35,910 --> 01:16:37,170
Actually, five eight might be right.

2025
01:16:37,530 --> 01:16:41,130
But that's the cool thing about
baseball is that, you know, we all

2026
01:16:41,130 --> 01:16:44,220
love, like the picture of Altuve
standing next to Aaron Judge, right.

2027
01:16:44,220 --> 01:16:48,960
I mean, and I've stood side by side by
both those guys, and Altuve is every bit

2028
01:16:48,960 --> 01:16:53,250
of five three and Judge is every bit of
six eight, maybe he might be six, nine.

2029
01:16:53,250 --> 01:16:54,930
I mean, they, I think they
actually short his height.

2030
01:16:55,380 --> 01:16:58,860
Um, and the fact that you can go
on a baseball field and both those

2031
01:16:58,860 --> 01:17:01,410
guys can be amazing at the sport.

2032
01:17:01,440 --> 01:17:02,700
Like they're both phenomenal.

2033
01:17:02,700 --> 01:17:04,290
They're both, they're both just.

2034
01:17:04,620 --> 01:17:08,100
Top of the world ball players,
and that's such a cool thing.

2035
01:17:08,100 --> 01:17:09,840
That's one of the amazing
things I think about baseball.

2036
01:17:10,290 --> 01:17:14,310
They both won an MVP and
that's the difference.

2037
01:17:14,310 --> 01:17:15,960
That's, that is is wild.

2038
01:17:16,200 --> 01:17:17,010
Um, yeah.

2039
01:17:17,010 --> 01:17:20,311
I've, I've stood on the field at Minute
made with Altuve and my dad and mm-hmm.

2040
01:17:20,545 --> 01:17:22,950
Not one of us is even sniffing six foot.

2041
01:17:22,950 --> 01:17:25,680
And we're lucky if we, we
get mistaken for five nine.

2042
01:17:25,680 --> 01:17:26,160
So it's, uh,

2043
01:17:26,190 --> 01:17:29,160
I, I am a full foot taller
than Tuve, like, for sure.

2044
01:17:29,160 --> 01:17:29,220
Yeah.

2045
01:17:29,525 --> 01:17:34,140
And, and at the same time, judge
Towers over me, it makes me feel tiny.

2046
01:17:34,530 --> 01:17:38,190
So it just to show that, that that
difference, it's what a, there's those, I

2047
01:17:38,190 --> 01:17:41,160
mean, you see basketball, you occasionally
see like, oh, there, it's been a while

2048
01:17:41,160 --> 01:17:42,750
since Mugsy bogs is out there playing.

2049
01:17:43,320 --> 01:17:45,570
So it can, it can happen, but
baseball is really the only

2050
01:17:45,570 --> 01:17:47,160
one where you really have that.

2051
01:17:47,519 --> 01:17:52,019
A guy rim size can really go
out and be as big as anybody.

2052
01:17:52,019 --> 01:17:53,790
And that's, I think it's just
a cool part of the sport.

2053
01:17:54,315 --> 01:17:55,905
It is, it's very fun.

2054
01:17:56,595 --> 01:17:58,335
All right, we got a couple
things to cover here.

2055
01:17:58,335 --> 01:18:01,725
We're gonna definitely hit players of
the week, uh, but stick around because

2056
01:18:01,725 --> 01:18:06,075
we have a new way to track monarchs that
are now in the minors, the majors and

2057
01:18:06,075 --> 01:18:09,075
indie ball that we wanna walk you through
as well, and a couple other things, but.

2058
01:18:10,020 --> 01:18:11,610
We gotta go with players of the week here.

2059
01:18:11,880 --> 01:18:12,720
Yeah.

2060
01:18:13,080 --> 01:18:13,650
There we did it.

2061
01:18:13,650 --> 01:18:14,370
So, let's see.

2062
01:18:14,370 --> 01:18:18,390
Uh, and of course I, I immediately had
my phone away when it was time for this.

2063
01:18:18,660 --> 01:18:20,370
Uh, but Kyle had a great week.

2064
01:18:20,370 --> 01:18:21,390
He, he really is.

2065
01:18:21,390 --> 01:18:23,940
He, the big thing is he, yesterday's
game hit the two home runs.

2066
01:18:23,940 --> 01:18:27,690
He was four for 13 for the week, which
isn't amazing, but two Homers, three

2067
01:18:27,690 --> 01:18:30,180
rbis, had a walk, played great defense.

2068
01:18:30,180 --> 01:18:32,700
I mean, I, I, I was telling him yesterday
before the game, I was like, man, you

2069
01:18:32,700 --> 01:18:36,360
really were playing phenomenal defense
on, on, uh, Friday and Saturday.

2070
01:18:36,360 --> 01:18:37,470
And he kept it up yesterday.

2071
01:18:37,470 --> 01:18:39,300
So that's as much as anything.

2072
01:18:39,360 --> 01:18:43,800
Um, uh, and of course I just put this down
as I had more point to make, uh, 'cause

2073
01:18:43,800 --> 01:18:46,650
Raim, you know, with the four hit day,
he was four for nine for the week, as I

2074
01:18:46,650 --> 01:18:47,910
think he didn't start one of the games.

2075
01:18:48,180 --> 01:18:51,150
RBI and A walk, and, and Zach
late, another great week, five

2076
01:18:51,150 --> 01:18:53,100
for 13, three rbis, four walks.

2077
01:18:53,160 --> 01:18:56,460
Um, you know, before yesterday's
game, there weren't a lot of

2078
01:18:56,460 --> 01:18:57,570
options for hit of the week.

2079
01:18:57,570 --> 01:18:59,760
It got kind of like, no,
who had two hits this week.

2080
01:19:00,150 --> 01:19:02,460
Uh, so it was good that a few
of the guys pulled it out there.

2081
01:19:03,480 --> 01:19:07,830
It was, and Kyle was the catalyst
that got us to that win on Sunday.

2082
01:19:08,160 --> 01:19:13,050
Uh, he homered in the two innings that
we scored runs, uh, on, on Sunday.

2083
01:19:13,110 --> 01:19:16,800
So kind of being that senior leader
again, stepping up in big moments,

2084
01:19:16,800 --> 01:19:20,370
taking a good approach at the plate
and getting two balls up and outta the

2085
01:19:20,370 --> 01:19:22,080
ballpark on a very, very windy day.

2086
01:19:22,530 --> 01:19:24,120
Uh, but we needed that win.

2087
01:19:24,180 --> 01:19:28,230
Getting swept there would make
the math really difficult to do.

2088
01:19:28,470 --> 01:19:31,050
Be, to be in any kind of good position
comes Sunbelt tournament time.

2089
01:19:31,710 --> 01:19:33,630
It's also just a killer for your, your.

2090
01:19:34,275 --> 01:19:37,425
Feel and your culture and your,
you know, it's just, yeah, getting

2091
01:19:37,425 --> 01:19:38,835
swept by anybody just hurts you.

2092
01:19:39,345 --> 01:19:43,245
Uh, and, and again, not just Kyle,
but at the, on the mound, Blake

2093
01:19:43,245 --> 01:19:44,655
Morgan, of course, a huge part.

2094
01:19:44,655 --> 01:19:46,275
I think this is at least the
third or fourth time he is

2095
01:19:46,275 --> 01:19:47,385
won this out of eight weeks.

2096
01:19:47,805 --> 01:19:53,685
Um, he went five and a third innings,
one earn run, one walk, two strikeouts.

2097
01:19:54,105 --> 01:19:57,495
Uh, just phenomenal again and really
could've, could've as easily given it

2098
01:19:57,495 --> 01:19:58,815
to Bailey Patella for that same movie.

2099
01:19:58,815 --> 01:20:01,695
We talked about him two and a
third, uh, came in, got a, got

2100
01:20:01,695 --> 01:20:04,965
a two and a third inning saved,
one hit, one walk, one strikeout.

2101
01:20:05,415 --> 01:20:07,155
Um, those guys were huge.

2102
01:20:07,155 --> 01:20:09,375
You know, hunter Baes
had a great week also.

2103
01:20:09,765 --> 01:20:10,275
Um.

2104
01:20:11,325 --> 01:20:12,825
Uh, Kellen Davis outta the bullpen.

2105
01:20:12,825 --> 01:20:13,065
Kellen.

2106
01:20:13,155 --> 01:20:13,245
Yep.

2107
01:20:13,515 --> 01:20:13,875
Yeah.

2108
01:20:13,875 --> 01:20:18,405
And, and again, Dylan and, and, uh, Dylan
Brown and Ben Moore, they pitched five.

2109
01:20:18,405 --> 01:20:20,925
I mean, Ben Moore won
earned, run in four innings.

2110
01:20:20,925 --> 01:20:23,325
He had some really not great
defense behind him that's kind

2111
01:20:23,325 --> 01:20:24,585
of got his inning to count up.

2112
01:20:24,915 --> 01:20:26,835
Dylan Brown, three earned
runs in five innings.

2113
01:20:26,835 --> 01:20:29,385
I mean, to me, in a college game, if
you get the three run runs in five

2114
01:20:29,385 --> 01:20:30,495
innings, like you're doing pretty good.

2115
01:20:30,495 --> 01:20:33,435
So the, the pitching has, like
I said, it's been going a lot

2116
01:20:33,435 --> 01:20:34,575
better in the right direction.

2117
01:20:34,575 --> 01:20:38,895
And, you know, having guys like Blake
who can step up and be that senior

2118
01:20:38,895 --> 01:20:42,495
star, just, it's, it's invaluable.

2119
01:20:43,545 --> 01:20:46,935
I've been trying to tell people how
important it is that we essentially have

2120
01:20:46,935 --> 01:20:51,525
an ace going every single Sunday because
weird things happen on Sunday games.

2121
01:20:51,525 --> 01:20:54,525
If you watch any other college baseball
on Sunday, I mean, you saw some good

2122
01:20:54,525 --> 01:20:55,995
teams getting their doors blown off.

2123
01:20:56,025 --> 01:20:57,675
East Carolina got swept at home.

2124
01:20:57,885 --> 01:21:01,635
They were not able to kind of overcome
that and win on Sunday to avoid the sweep.

2125
01:21:02,250 --> 01:21:05,250
Forest State got blown out
twice by Wake Forest at home.

2126
01:21:05,640 --> 01:21:09,570
Uh, things can go south, but knowing that
we have someone like Blake that we can

2127
01:21:09,570 --> 01:21:14,520
depend on to get you five, six, maybe
70 good innings on a Sunday and keep

2128
01:21:14,520 --> 01:21:17,850
you in there because, you know, in this
situation we had already lost a series,

2129
01:21:17,850 --> 01:21:19,050
but we still need to win that game.

2130
01:21:19,380 --> 01:21:21,960
But there's a lot of times you're going
into that Sunday with a split series,

2131
01:21:21,960 --> 01:21:26,160
and I'll put Blake up against anyone else
who's throwing on Sundays in the Sunbelt

2132
01:21:26,160 --> 01:21:28,110
easily, like without, without question.

2133
01:21:28,560 --> 01:21:32,910
And then, uh, you know, this guy getting
his, uh, well-deserved construction

2134
01:21:32,910 --> 01:21:34,440
helmet crown there after his second

2135
01:21:34,440 --> 01:21:34,620
helmet.

2136
01:21:34,620 --> 01:21:36,060
Yeah, I know, I know we
talked about the helmet.

2137
01:21:36,060 --> 01:21:38,400
The, I don't know if we, uh,
we had, I seen a picture of it

2138
01:21:38,400 --> 01:21:41,070
yet, but yeah, there's the, with
the construction helmet for the

2139
01:21:41,070 --> 01:21:42,510
celebrations, which I think is great.

2140
01:21:42,510 --> 01:21:44,940
Like I said, it's, it's very much, you
know, if we're this team, we're uh,

2141
01:21:45,630 --> 01:21:48,330
we're building the stadiums, that's why
we're kinda these, these road warriors.

2142
01:21:48,330 --> 01:21:51,450
And at the same time it's got that
kind of, that lunch pail, you know,

2143
01:21:51,450 --> 01:21:54,930
drinking, uh, water outta the garden
hose mentality that you wanna have.

2144
01:21:54,990 --> 01:21:57,180
I don't know that all our guys
have, but I, we wanna have it.

2145
01:21:58,350 --> 01:21:59,370
Yeah, absolutely.

2146
01:22:00,945 --> 01:22:03,345
Well, as much as I love that
picture, I'm gonna get that framed.

2147
01:22:03,405 --> 01:22:03,525
Yeah.

2148
01:22:03,525 --> 01:22:05,025
Either him or one of the FM ones.

2149
01:22:05,025 --> 01:22:05,145
Great.

2150
01:22:05,295 --> 01:22:05,655
Sure.

2151
01:22:05,715 --> 01:22:07,905
You, you've taken some,
uh, just awesome shots.

2152
01:22:07,995 --> 01:22:10,515
I frankly, I think about 90%
of the pictures I put up,

2153
01:22:10,755 --> 01:22:11,355
we could, we could frame.

2154
01:22:11,355 --> 01:22:12,400
'cause I, you know, we really good.

2155
01:22:12,405 --> 01:22:12,465
Yeah.

2156
01:22:12,525 --> 01:22:14,955
But, but again, guys gotta do
cool stuff and y'all don't see

2157
01:22:14,955 --> 01:22:15,945
all the ones that weren't good.

2158
01:22:17,385 --> 01:22:19,035
I leave those and in the, and the camera.

2159
01:22:19,365 --> 01:22:19,785
Um, yeah.

2160
01:22:20,115 --> 01:22:20,325
Yeah.

2161
01:22:20,325 --> 01:22:22,695
We, and we'll talk in a minute
about the, the, the great, uh,

2162
01:22:22,725 --> 01:22:23,925
link we have there on the site.

2163
01:22:23,985 --> 01:22:26,445
Uh, but it was, it was
nice seeing Steven Meyer.

2164
01:22:26,445 --> 01:22:27,015
It was great.

2165
01:22:27,015 --> 01:22:29,295
I know you said you gotta talk to him
a little bit before the game Saturday.

2166
01:22:29,295 --> 01:22:32,385
I gotta talk to him for, for
a bit, uh, Sunday, you know,

2167
01:22:32,385 --> 01:22:34,485
just guys a phenomenal kid.

2168
01:22:34,515 --> 01:22:38,985
Um, just a really high quality person
having a great year, uh, there with Troy

2169
01:22:38,985 --> 01:22:41,295
and they're having a great year and,
you know, he said he is rooting for us

2170
01:22:41,295 --> 01:22:42,405
and I told him we're rooting for him.

2171
01:22:42,765 --> 01:22:45,315
Uh, you know, we want them to, we want,
and at the end of the day, you know,

2172
01:22:45,315 --> 01:22:47,085
it's like, yeah, we wanna beat 'em where
you're playing, but like, Hey, we want

2173
01:22:47,085 --> 01:22:48,615
you guys to succeed and do really well.

2174
01:22:48,615 --> 01:22:51,615
You know, we want, we want the,
the conference teams to, to to, to

2175
01:22:51,615 --> 01:22:53,805
have nothing but success, um, and.

2176
01:22:54,290 --> 01:22:55,340
Kind of the best of both worlds.

2177
01:22:55,340 --> 01:22:59,660
You know, we, the two games they won, we
had, Steven was Hitless, I think he had

2178
01:22:59,660 --> 01:23:01,610
a walk and a, and maybe hit by a pitch.

2179
01:23:01,615 --> 01:23:01,895
Mm-hmm.

2180
01:23:02,015 --> 01:23:02,210
And in the

2181
01:23:02,210 --> 01:23:05,300
game we won, he got a couple
hits and score a few runs.

2182
01:23:05,300 --> 01:23:08,300
So, you know, I think he was like two
for 12, two for 13 on the weekend.

2183
01:23:08,420 --> 01:23:12,260
A couple of walks and, and hit by a pitch,
you know, so it, it dropped his out.

2184
01:23:12,260 --> 01:23:15,290
He went from, when you take a, a
hitter on the top 20 team in the

2185
01:23:15,290 --> 01:23:18,260
country is hitting like three 70 and
holding the two hits on the weekend.

2186
01:23:18,260 --> 01:23:19,010
You're doing pretty good.

2187
01:23:20,040 --> 01:23:23,325
He did a good job of limiting him and
I think the times he did get on base

2188
01:23:23,325 --> 01:23:26,025
there was a runner in front of him so he
wasn't able to beat us with the speed.

2189
01:23:26,025 --> 01:23:27,765
'cause he has a lot of
stolen bases this year.

2190
01:23:27,795 --> 01:23:27,945
Yes.

2191
01:23:28,335 --> 01:23:29,265
Uh, it was great catch up with him.

2192
01:23:29,265 --> 01:23:31,575
Only got him for a couple minutes
before they had to go huddle up

2193
01:23:31,575 --> 01:23:34,485
and get ready to play on Saturday,
but good to chat with him.

2194
01:23:34,765 --> 01:23:38,755
I did not get an answer on why he went
with the shorts, the baseball shorts.

2195
01:23:38,755 --> 01:23:40,645
I know the crowd was letting
him hear a little bit, but

2196
01:23:40,650 --> 01:23:40,690
Yeah.

2197
01:23:40,695 --> 01:23:40,765
Yeah.

2198
01:23:40,765 --> 01:23:43,495
I don't think we didn't, I didn't, I don't
think we keyed up a picture of that, but

2199
01:23:43,495 --> 01:23:45,565
it, I, I'll share some later this week.

2200
01:23:45,595 --> 01:23:49,555
Uh, yeah, his, his, he's doing the,
uh, the, the pants at the, like the

2201
01:23:49,555 --> 01:23:53,275
mid thigh situation, and he told me
it was the only pants they had and.

2202
01:23:53,680 --> 01:23:57,130
I kind of looked around, I was like, eh,
a little dubious, but you know, I, I said,

2203
01:23:57,130 --> 01:23:59,440
Hey, you're, you're making it, you know,
when you look good, when you're hitting

2204
01:23:59,440 --> 01:24:00,430
three 70, you do whatever you want.

2205
01:24:00,430 --> 01:24:01,150
That's what I told him.

2206
01:24:01,510 --> 01:24:04,780
Um, and he, he did admit that
they do get higher as the game

2207
01:24:04,780 --> 01:24:05,950
goes on, especially on base.

2208
01:24:05,950 --> 01:24:09,460
He said he, he does think, he kind of
unconsciously pulls 'em up on base.

2209
01:24:09,460 --> 01:24:11,260
So they, they did, because that
was the first time I noticed I

2210
01:24:11,260 --> 01:24:12,220
had been taking pictures of him.

2211
01:24:12,460 --> 01:24:14,440
And it wasn't until the time he got
on base and I was like, I looked.

2212
01:24:14,570 --> 01:24:16,550
Back of the camera, and I was
like, why are his pants so high?

2213
01:24:16,550 --> 01:24:17,630
What, what's going on here?

2214
01:24:18,290 --> 01:24:21,050
I figured he was just messing with
us in after each of bat, putting

2215
01:24:21,050 --> 01:24:22,490
on a smaller size each time.

2216
01:24:22,490 --> 01:24:25,040
So I'm glad we didn't get
to like 6, 7, 8 of bats.

2217
01:24:25,040 --> 01:24:25,880
I didn't know what that would look like,

2218
01:24:26,035 --> 01:24:30,170
but yeah, no, I told, I I, I told him,
uh, if anybody's seen Reno 9 1 1, the

2219
01:24:30,170 --> 01:24:34,160
Lieutenant Dangle character who wears the,
uh, he's, he's a sheriff, but he wears

2220
01:24:34,160 --> 01:24:37,730
like Daisy Duke shorts, so he could, so
he is mobile, he can move around and get

2221
01:24:37,730 --> 01:24:40,490
mobile and, and so I, I was like, that's,
that's what you got going on, right?

2222
01:24:40,550 --> 01:24:41,810
He's like, yeah, the best Gotta be agile.

2223
01:24:42,410 --> 01:24:42,530
Yeah.

2224
01:24:42,530 --> 01:24:42,950
Gotta be.

2225
01:24:42,950 --> 01:24:43,310
It was, it

2226
01:24:43,310 --> 01:24:44,960
was great seeing, uh, Ryan Fineman too.

2227
01:24:44,960 --> 01:24:47,750
And of course he coached with us and
he's, he's there with Troy and, you

2228
01:24:47,750 --> 01:24:50,030
know, he's, he's, and again, he's
having a blast and they're, they're,

2229
01:24:50,090 --> 01:24:52,580
you know, it's, Hey, when you're top
20 in the country, things are fun.

2230
01:24:52,640 --> 01:24:55,130
So, uh, good for them and wish 'em well.

2231
01:24:55,130 --> 01:24:57,500
And you know, we hope, we
hope they have a great season.

2232
01:24:57,530 --> 01:25:00,650
Um, and we hope we turn things
around and start moving in the

2233
01:25:00,650 --> 01:25:02,810
right direction and, and become a
problem for 'em later in the year.

2234
01:25:03,810 --> 01:25:04,200
Yeah.

2235
01:25:04,260 --> 01:25:06,630
Uh, a couple of people wanna
shout out from the weekend.

2236
01:25:06,660 --> 01:25:10,740
Uh, Alex Hunt's, uh, parents, uh,
ran into them actually getting

2237
01:25:10,740 --> 01:25:13,860
on the tide at MacArthur Center,
and we rode the tide to the game.

2238
01:25:13,860 --> 01:25:15,750
Ended up being on the
same train coming back.

2239
01:25:16,110 --> 01:25:18,690
Uh, great to chat with him and
get to know them a little bit.

2240
01:25:19,140 --> 01:25:23,190
Uh, Evan Holman's parents
were both at, uh, blue Moon

2241
01:25:23,190 --> 01:25:24,630
at Waterside before the game.

2242
01:25:24,660 --> 01:25:28,350
Uh, Dylan Brown's family kind of got that
a little bit organized over there, so we

2243
01:25:28,350 --> 01:25:31,200
were able to hang out with some of the
parents, spend some time with them, uh,

2244
01:25:31,230 --> 01:25:36,210
Kellen's mom and uh, uh, I guess Kellen's
grandfather was in there with us as well.

2245
01:25:36,210 --> 01:25:37,860
So, good to see all those people.

2246
01:25:37,890 --> 01:25:41,220
Uh, Bo I know you're, you're
listening, we got to, uh, to chat

2247
01:25:41,220 --> 01:25:42,990
for about four innings on Saturday.

2248
01:25:43,440 --> 01:25:46,740
So that was, uh, that was a lot of
fun, but good to see you to you fans.

2249
01:25:46,740 --> 01:25:47,550
Good to be at the ballpark.

2250
01:25:48,150 --> 01:25:48,330
Yeah.

2251
01:25:48,435 --> 01:25:51,750
So, uh, Blake's, uh, Blake,
uh, his mom and brother

2252
01:25:51,750 --> 01:25:53,070
surprised him, so that was nice.

2253
01:25:53,070 --> 01:25:53,790
Good to see them.

2254
01:25:53,790 --> 01:25:56,100
And, and she got to meet my
mom, and so they're like,

2255
01:25:56,100 --> 01:25:57,480
they're like mom besties now.

2256
01:25:57,480 --> 01:25:58,530
So that's, that's always fun.

2257
01:25:59,040 --> 01:25:59,430
Yes.

2258
01:25:59,430 --> 01:25:59,610
Yeah.

2259
01:25:59,610 --> 01:26:01,500
Your parents always,
always take care of me.

2260
01:26:01,500 --> 01:26:01,710
Uh.

2261
01:26:02,085 --> 01:26:04,035
Gotta, gotta request more
cookies at some point.

2262
01:26:04,035 --> 01:26:05,835
'cause I got sent home with some
of those after Georgia State.

2263
01:26:05,835 --> 01:26:06,285
No, everybody,

2264
01:26:06,285 --> 01:26:07,215
everybody loves my mom.

2265
01:26:07,215 --> 01:26:08,295
And I'm like, I dunno what happened to me.

2266
01:26:08,295 --> 01:26:10,215
I'm sorry that, that, she's great.

2267
01:26:10,215 --> 01:26:12,165
And clearly there was a,
clearly there's a disconnect.

2268
01:26:12,165 --> 01:26:13,575
I kind of blame my dad on that one.

2269
01:26:13,575 --> 01:26:14,085
I don't know.

2270
01:26:15,075 --> 01:26:15,105
Uhhuh.

2271
01:26:15,105 --> 01:26:15,405
Yes.

2272
01:26:15,465 --> 01:26:15,915
But yeah, so,

2273
01:26:15,915 --> 01:26:17,205
so tell him about, tell
him about the website.

2274
01:26:17,205 --> 01:26:18,105
Gary, what do we got there?

2275
01:26:18,495 --> 01:26:23,835
Yeah, well, um, you and I kind of kicked
this idea around and Mike Langston,

2276
01:26:23,895 --> 01:26:27,735
uh, was also with us in the monarchist,
kind of brought this to light, but we

2277
01:26:27,735 --> 01:26:34,485
now have a site on the pride of odu
nil.com, and I'm gonna pull this up here.

2278
01:26:35,510 --> 01:26:39,170
Uh, it, it is basically just a really
easy way to track all the former

2279
01:26:39,170 --> 01:26:42,920
monarchs that are either in the
pros, like Verlander, YBI, uh, pa

2280
01:26:44,090 --> 01:26:44,690
in the majors.

2281
01:26:44,690 --> 01:26:44,751
In the majors.

2282
01:26:44,751 --> 01:26:45,470
The other guys are pros.

2283
01:26:45,470 --> 01:26:48,740
Also, sir, don't, don't, don't,
don't make my major pet peeve

2284
01:26:48,950 --> 01:26:50,270
happen in real life in front of me.

2285
01:26:50,720 --> 01:26:52,760
I've clearly been talking too much today.

2286
01:26:53,060 --> 01:26:54,740
Uh, but all the guys
that are in the majors.

2287
01:26:54,770 --> 01:26:54,800
Okay.

2288
01:26:54,800 --> 01:26:57,560
And then, uh, if you scroll down,
you got our guys that are in the

2289
01:26:57,560 --> 01:26:58,940
minor league systems right now.

2290
01:26:59,210 --> 01:27:03,230
Uh, if you click these links, it'll take
you right to their bio page for MILB.

2291
01:27:03,290 --> 01:27:03,380
Mm-hmm.

2292
01:27:03,830 --> 01:27:06,830
So if they move up and move down,
if they get traded, whatever,

2293
01:27:06,830 --> 01:27:08,540
the link will always be accurate.

2294
01:27:08,720 --> 01:27:12,260
We may be a few days behind updating the
text, but you can go on there and you

2295
01:27:12,260 --> 01:27:13,940
can see their stats, how they're doing.

2296
01:27:13,940 --> 01:27:16,320
I know we were keeping a close
eye on Jacob Gomez and Trent

2297
01:27:16,340 --> 01:27:17,630
Buchanan down in Augusta.

2298
01:27:17,870 --> 01:27:20,060
They both had scoreless outings
to start their minor league

2299
01:27:20,060 --> 01:27:21,380
career, which is really awesome.

2300
01:27:22,095 --> 01:27:24,045
We've got Kyle Battle down for Indie Ball.

2301
01:27:24,045 --> 01:27:27,405
I know, I think there's a few other guys
that are playing or will be playing soon.

2302
01:27:27,615 --> 01:27:30,465
We will keep this as a living
breathing list for now.

2303
01:27:30,885 --> 01:27:34,725
Uh, but wanted to really have
one clear, good, up-to-date spot

2304
01:27:34,725 --> 01:27:38,145
where you can keep track, see if
they're coming to your neighborhood.

2305
01:27:38,145 --> 01:27:42,075
I know, uh, you know, with Hobe
being down there with Mudcats,

2306
01:27:42,075 --> 01:27:44,685
he's gonna be traveling up to
Fredericksburg, out to Salem Del

2307
01:27:44,685 --> 01:27:46,275
Marva, kind of all over the place.

2308
01:27:46,425 --> 01:27:47,000
And, and

2309
01:27:47,085 --> 01:27:49,845
Mudcats are only like two and a half
hours away if you're in Hampton Roads.

2310
01:27:49,935 --> 01:27:50,175
I know.

2311
01:27:50,175 --> 01:27:52,785
I'm gonna go down there, uh, a few weeks.

2312
01:27:53,415 --> 01:27:56,445
Uh, and I mean, I know, um, they're,
Augusta doesn't come up here a ton.

2313
01:27:56,445 --> 01:27:58,755
They've got both Gomez and Buchanan,
but I know they're coming to Del

2314
01:27:58,755 --> 01:28:02,175
Marva, I think the last weekend of
April when Odus on the road too.

2315
01:28:02,175 --> 01:28:02,685
So that's perfect.

2316
01:28:02,685 --> 01:28:03,375
Go up and see them.

2317
01:28:04,005 --> 01:28:04,755
Um, yes.

2318
01:28:04,755 --> 01:28:04,935
Yeah,

2319
01:28:05,355 --> 01:28:07,875
good chances to see those,
those guys come through.

2320
01:28:07,875 --> 01:28:11,025
But, uh, you know, big, big shout out to
Mike Langston for getting that together,

2321
01:28:11,025 --> 01:28:13,695
getting that on, on the Pride websites.

2322
01:28:13,695 --> 01:28:15,825
It's the pride of odu.com.

2323
01:28:15,885 --> 01:28:18,735
Uh, you can also find our podcast,
get posted there in case you're

2324
01:28:18,735 --> 01:28:19,875
looking for a different way to.

2325
01:28:20,160 --> 01:28:20,730
Consume us.

2326
01:28:20,730 --> 01:28:24,270
There's also some good, uh, merch
on there for some of the guys,

2327
01:28:24,270 --> 01:28:27,480
and that is just gonna continue to
expand with what we're offering.

2328
01:28:27,480 --> 01:28:30,420
I know there's some really cool stuff
on the horizon that will impact this

2329
01:28:30,420 --> 01:28:32,160
show in a very, very positive way.

2330
01:28:32,490 --> 01:28:34,800
Not, not ready to announce
all that good stuff yet, but,

2331
01:28:35,220 --> 01:28:36,900
um, good thing to bookmark.

2332
01:28:37,620 --> 01:28:37,920
Yeah.

2333
01:28:38,010 --> 01:28:41,610
And I know last year we had, I
think 23, uh, former Monarchs

2334
01:28:41,610 --> 01:28:43,080
playing pro ball somewhere.

2335
01:28:43,440 --> 01:28:46,470
Um, we'll see, you know, as Indie Ball
gets started up here and then they

2336
01:28:46,470 --> 01:28:47,580
usually start about the beginning of May.

2337
01:28:47,580 --> 01:28:51,240
They wait till, you know, guys get
cut out of, out of the organizations

2338
01:28:51,240 --> 01:28:52,650
and then end up signing with them.

2339
01:28:53,070 --> 01:28:57,060
Um, and so hopefully we'll add, we'll add
some more and then as the summer goes on,

2340
01:28:57,060 --> 01:29:00,240
hopefully some of our current guys will
end up playing pro and you know, we will.

2341
01:29:00,630 --> 01:29:02,610
Hopefully we get up towards
that 23 number again.

2342
01:29:02,760 --> 01:29:04,770
'cause it's, it's pretty nice to
be able to say, I know that was one

2343
01:29:04,770 --> 01:29:06,810
thing that we were down in Auburn
and they kept saying we'd had like

2344
01:29:07,170 --> 01:29:09,450
36 current professional players.

2345
01:29:09,450 --> 01:29:10,530
And I was like, that's, that's a ton.

2346
01:29:10,530 --> 01:29:12,420
And I was, you know, kinda
like, how many do we have?

2347
01:29:12,420 --> 01:29:12,990
It's like 23.

2348
01:29:12,990 --> 01:29:14,580
23 is a lot for the school.

2349
01:29:14,580 --> 01:29:17,730
People don't normally think
of as, as, you know, ODU.

2350
01:29:18,810 --> 01:29:19,080
Yeah.

2351
01:29:19,080 --> 01:29:20,430
It's a good thing to show off.

2352
01:29:20,430 --> 01:29:24,180
And, uh, we may add to that some of the
summer ball things, uh, we found last year

2353
01:29:24,180 --> 01:29:27,540
that's very difficult to track because
Yeah, guys will play two games with one

2354
01:29:27,540 --> 01:29:28,740
team and move to a different league.

2355
01:29:28,800 --> 01:29:31,860
I moved to another one, uh, you know,
as, as much as I'm, well it's funny you

2356
01:29:31,860 --> 01:29:35,970
had, um, we got Ybi up there, Ryan
Yarborough, I think the last time

2357
01:29:35,970 --> 01:29:37,620
we played a game at Norfolk State.

2358
01:29:38,160 --> 01:29:39,060
Yee started the game.

2359
01:29:39,660 --> 01:29:42,810
Um, and he's in like his eighth
year in the big leagues with like

2360
01:29:42,810 --> 01:29:45,180
his sixth team or so, I don't know
how many teams he's been with now.

2361
01:29:45,510 --> 01:29:49,290
Um, so to tell you how long it's been
since we played a game at Norfolk State,

2362
01:29:49,680 --> 01:29:51,240
uh, it's, that's, it's been a while.

2363
01:29:51,240 --> 01:29:52,230
So I'm looking forward to it.

2364
01:29:52,845 --> 01:29:54,165
Yeah, that'll, it'll be interesting.

2365
01:29:54,165 --> 01:29:56,985
I, I haven't looked at the Norfolk
State site to see if they've

2366
01:29:56,985 --> 01:29:58,365
added us to their schedule yet.

2367
01:29:58,365 --> 01:29:58,905
I know they were.

2368
01:29:58,905 --> 01:29:59,265
They are.

2369
01:29:59,265 --> 01:29:59,805
They did.

2370
01:29:59,805 --> 01:30:02,925
Um, they, they're, and, and we
haven't talked about, I think we

2371
01:30:02,925 --> 01:30:03,645
talked about this for a minute.

2372
01:30:03,645 --> 01:30:06,495
I know we we're, we're going real long
here, so we wanna get done, but they

2373
01:30:06,495 --> 01:30:08,265
are, uh, they're having a tough year.

2374
01:30:08,265 --> 01:30:09,465
They're one in 22.

2375
01:30:09,885 --> 01:30:11,235
Um, but they got some hitters.

2376
01:30:11,235 --> 01:30:13,395
They got some guys, especially
the top like three in the

2377
01:30:13,395 --> 01:30:15,045
lineup are really phenomenal.

2378
01:30:15,465 --> 01:30:20,235
Um, and they, the pitching has been
a struggle for 'em, but, you know,

2379
01:30:20,295 --> 01:30:23,055
hey, you're, you're one in 22, I
guarantee those guys are grinding,

2380
01:30:23,055 --> 01:30:24,165
fighting and they're tired of losing.

2381
01:30:24,165 --> 01:30:28,155
So, you know, don't wanna walk over
there and think, oh, this is an easy one.

2382
01:30:28,185 --> 01:30:31,845
Like, nah man, they've, I'm sure fairly
Dickinson thought that till they lost.

2383
01:30:32,445 --> 01:30:33,015
Yeah.

2384
01:30:33,105 --> 01:30:36,375
And if there's one game they probably
have circled on their calendar, it's us.

2385
01:30:36,375 --> 01:30:36,585
Yeah.

2386
01:30:37,305 --> 01:30:38,955
Do, they would love to meet
the cross down team badly.

2387
01:30:39,135 --> 01:30:42,105
They get hype every single
time we've ever played them.

2388
01:30:42,105 --> 01:30:46,425
They're, they, they, there was a game I
think they did beat us at, at ODU and I

2389
01:30:46,425 --> 01:30:49,815
mean, they were just losing their minds
because that's, that's their World Series.

2390
01:30:50,355 --> 01:30:51,190
Um, which good for them.

2391
01:30:51,345 --> 01:30:54,015
It should be, you know, you gotta, you
know, I'm sure plenty of 'em probably

2392
01:30:54,015 --> 01:30:57,615
would've liked to have come to O to U
and end up go Norfolk eight instead.

2393
01:30:57,615 --> 01:30:58,965
And so it's like, Hey,
I'm gonna show 'em up.

2394
01:30:59,835 --> 01:31:00,045
Yeah.

2395
01:31:00,045 --> 01:31:01,395
Get those bragging rights for a while.

2396
01:31:01,395 --> 01:31:05,895
So our boys will need to be ready
and have those bats hot early and

2397
01:31:05,895 --> 01:31:09,285
often, uh, to get some runs up in
that game and, and put it away.

2398
01:31:09,285 --> 01:31:11,235
But yeah, they're gonna,
they're gonna give us hell.

2399
01:31:11,325 --> 01:31:14,445
And there's some scary thoughts
creeping in the back of my mind

2400
01:31:14,445 --> 01:31:15,735
going into this game on Tuesday.

2401
01:31:15,735 --> 01:31:18,225
So hopefully you're listening to
this on like late Tuesday, Wednesday.

2402
01:31:18,225 --> 01:31:18,825
We've already won.

2403
01:31:18,825 --> 01:31:19,305
It's fine.

2404
01:31:19,305 --> 01:31:22,335
But, uh, I'm, I'm telling you,
we're gonna get everything we

2405
01:31:22,335 --> 01:31:23,535
can handle from the Spartans

2406
01:31:24,165 --> 01:31:27,135
and I'm, I believe it's a, it's another
great chance for our guys to step up

2407
01:31:27,140 --> 01:31:30,315
and, and do some big things and keep
moving here in the right direction.

2408
01:31:30,345 --> 01:31:33,495
'cause like I said, you see the game
like they played on Sunday, it's like,

2409
01:31:33,495 --> 01:31:34,785
Hey, this is what the team can be.

2410
01:31:34,785 --> 01:31:36,585
We, we keep having those kind
of games where it's like,

2411
01:31:36,585 --> 01:31:37,605
Hey, this is what we could do.

2412
01:31:38,145 --> 01:31:40,815
And so I was talking with a Hunter Baynes
about this, you know, we were talking

2413
01:31:40,815 --> 01:31:42,345
after his game Friday, he pitched so well.

2414
01:31:42,345 --> 01:31:43,875
I said, yeah, just keep
stacking those ones.

2415
01:31:44,055 --> 01:31:44,865
He's, that's what I'm trying to do.

2416
01:31:44,865 --> 01:31:45,735
It's what the team's trying to do.

2417
01:31:47,085 --> 01:31:47,295
Yep.

2418
01:31:47,355 --> 01:31:48,075
Absolutely.

2419
01:31:48,375 --> 01:31:49,305
Um, awesome.

2420
01:31:49,305 --> 01:31:51,315
Then yeah, go down to Georgia
Southern this weekend.

2421
01:31:51,555 --> 01:31:51,645
Yes.

2422
01:31:51,645 --> 01:31:52,575
They're always good.

2423
01:31:52,905 --> 01:31:54,675
Uh, they're always tough to play at home.

2424
01:31:54,975 --> 01:31:56,715
I think they got a guy situation hit 400.

2425
01:31:57,765 --> 01:31:57,945
Yeah.

2426
01:31:57,945 --> 01:31:58,965
Gotta watch out for that guy.

2427
01:31:59,145 --> 01:32:00,465
Uh, yeah, they got a, they got

2428
01:32:00,465 --> 01:32:04,515
a few dudes, uh, yeah, Sean Smith
hitting 4 0 2 with a 1239 OPS.

2429
01:32:04,515 --> 01:32:07,965
Uh, they got the top like three
guys in their lineup are ridiculous.

2430
01:32:08,085 --> 01:32:10,785
Um, so they, they got,
they got some stuff.

2431
01:32:10,785 --> 01:32:13,035
So, and again, they, they've had kind
of up and down, you know, they're

2432
01:32:13,035 --> 01:32:15,885
six and six, 18 and 13 overall,
they've been kinda up and down.

2433
01:32:15,885 --> 01:32:18,255
So yeah, that's, it's not
gonna be easy weekend.

2434
01:32:18,255 --> 01:32:21,405
And no weekend on the road is easy,
but you know, again, if this team

2435
01:32:21,405 --> 01:32:24,705
plays like they can and they grind
out, some of bats take, take that

2436
01:32:24,705 --> 01:32:27,855
Efrain Morales approach of, of you
just wanna win every single time.

2437
01:32:28,215 --> 01:32:28,965
We can do some stuff.

2438
01:32:29,955 --> 01:32:33,735
And with the situation we're in of
losing a home series, it's now imperative

2439
01:32:33,735 --> 01:32:35,925
that we have to win a road series.

2440
01:32:35,955 --> 01:32:36,255
'cause if you.

2441
01:32:37,245 --> 01:32:40,755
You go two in one for all your home series
and one and two on the road, you're gonna

2442
01:32:40,755 --> 01:32:42,765
be 500 Sunbelt, you're gonna be okay.

2443
01:32:42,765 --> 01:32:43,935
Come conference, tournament time.

2444
01:32:43,935 --> 01:32:47,235
It's when you drop one of those series
at home, you really have to work.

2445
01:32:47,235 --> 01:32:50,295
Now we've, we've got some, some
teams that we have the potential to

2446
01:32:50,295 --> 01:32:53,745
do that against, but, uh, Louisiana
Monroe isn't exactly a team that

2447
01:32:53,745 --> 01:32:55,065
likes to be swept at home either.

2448
01:32:55,065 --> 01:32:58,725
So let's, uh, not, not count those
chickens yet, but we are gonna

2449
01:32:58,725 --> 01:32:59,955
have to go win a road series.

2450
01:32:59,985 --> 01:33:02,295
And why not start with this weekend?

2451
01:33:02,295 --> 01:33:03,585
Why not get it right back right now?

2452
01:33:03,590 --> 01:33:03,770
Let's good.

2453
01:33:03,825 --> 01:33:05,085
And put ourselves in a good spot.

2454
01:33:06,195 --> 01:33:06,435
Yep.

2455
01:33:06,435 --> 01:33:07,665
It's a good week to have a good week.

2456
01:33:07,725 --> 01:33:09,735
So, uh, we, we've
definitely gone very long.

2457
01:33:09,735 --> 01:33:12,615
I say we, we left the one, even
though I, I will say you could

2458
01:33:12,615 --> 01:33:15,585
just pause it and watch it again
later, but whatever, uh, you, you

2459
01:33:15,585 --> 01:33:16,965
do your podcasting however you want.

2460
01:33:18,195 --> 01:33:18,525
Yes.

2461
01:33:18,525 --> 01:33:20,715
Well, I got, uh, one more
announcement and, uh, you know,

2462
01:33:20,720 --> 01:33:22,420
oh, like I didn't even noticed that that's

2463
01:33:22,995 --> 01:33:23,475
Oh, yep.

2464
01:33:23,475 --> 01:33:23,775
Didn't notice.

2465
01:33:23,775 --> 01:33:24,945
I dunno when that happened.

2466
01:33:25,455 --> 01:33:26,715
I don't, I didn't, I missed it too.

2467
01:33:26,715 --> 01:33:28,425
I have to go back in and review there.

2468
01:33:28,875 --> 01:33:31,275
Uh, one, one other note
we wanted to send out.

2469
01:33:31,275 --> 01:33:33,615
Uh, I just wanted to send out
well wishes and all the good

2470
01:33:33,615 --> 01:33:36,045
thoughts to Ted Alexander mm-hmm.

2471
01:33:36,285 --> 01:33:36,585
And his family.

2472
01:33:36,585 --> 01:33:39,185
He announced on Friday that his
wife passed away after a, I believe,

2473
01:33:39,225 --> 01:33:40,890
a 15 year battle with cancer.

2474
01:33:41,310 --> 01:33:44,040
Uh, so definitely send in all
the good vibes, all the support,

2475
01:33:44,100 --> 01:33:45,540
uh, to the voice of the monarchs.

2476
01:33:45,540 --> 01:33:46,470
We've, we've missed him.

2477
01:33:46,860 --> 01:33:50,100
Uh, and just, uh, you know,
anything you can send his his way

2478
01:33:50,100 --> 01:33:53,430
would be appreciated, uh, just for
what he's done for our program.

2479
01:33:53,430 --> 01:33:55,350
Then obviously going through a
really difficult time right now.

2480
01:33:56,250 --> 01:33:59,220
And, and I know he, he said in
that same video, he is like, she

2481
01:33:59,220 --> 01:34:02,340
would've wanted me to get back
out there and, and do what I do.

2482
01:34:02,340 --> 01:34:04,050
And so he is, like I said, I will be soon.

2483
01:34:04,050 --> 01:34:05,220
And that, and that's great to hear.

2484
01:34:05,220 --> 01:34:08,070
'cause I, I, you know, and you
hope that it can be a place that,

2485
01:34:08,310 --> 01:34:09,480
that brings him that comfort.

2486
01:34:09,540 --> 01:34:13,140
Um, you know, uh, yeah, Ted Ted's awesome.

2487
01:34:13,140 --> 01:34:13,770
He's a great guy.

2488
01:34:13,770 --> 01:34:14,160
He is, he is.

2489
01:34:14,160 --> 01:34:18,180
I really love listening to him
calling games and yeah, really just

2490
01:34:18,180 --> 01:34:19,080
thinking about him and his family.

2491
01:34:20,520 --> 01:34:20,910
All right.

2492
01:34:20,910 --> 01:34:22,350
Well, that's gonna do it for us today.

2493
01:34:22,350 --> 01:34:24,090
We appreciate everyone who's tuning in.

2494
01:34:24,120 --> 01:34:27,000
Um, everyone that ever, I, I
miss probably a hundred people

2495
01:34:27,000 --> 01:34:27,900
that came up and said hello.

2496
01:34:27,930 --> 01:34:28,140
Oh yeah.

2497
01:34:28,140 --> 01:34:29,340
At some point, the course of the weekend.

2498
01:34:29,340 --> 01:34:32,940
But we appreciate, we appreciate the love,
keep telling everyone you can think of.

2499
01:34:32,940 --> 01:34:34,920
We're, we're definitely trying
to grow this thing, but.

2500
01:34:35,295 --> 01:34:36,405
I'll do it for us.

2501
01:34:36,465 --> 01:34:36,765
Cb.

2502
01:34:36,765 --> 01:34:37,365
Anything else?

2503
01:34:38,355 --> 01:34:39,375
Go Monarchs.

2504
01:34:39,735 --> 01:34:41,355
Go Monarchs.