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Yeah.

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Hello Monarch fans.

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Welcome to the Hudson Homer podcast
for the second week in a row.

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This is a celebratory podcast because
we won the series with Marshall.

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Yes,

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we did.

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How was your weekend?

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Yes, we

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did.

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Uh, my weekend was great.

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We won the series of Marshall.

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I got to see Thunderbolts twice.

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It was fantastic.

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I'm, I'm having a great weekend.

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I'm having, I'm having a sad Monday 'cause
I get back to reality and just, and live.

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I can't do all the fun stuff.

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Yeah, it was a harsh wake up call
when we had to like go to work and do

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all that boring stuff This weekend or
this week after really a fun weekend.

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I made it down there Friday and
Saturday was happy to finally

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break my curse on Saturday.

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Um,

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I didn't realize that until you said it.

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How many games had you seen
this year before they won

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a game when you were there?

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Uh, well, so I was one in
seven going into Saturday.

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I had seen them beat Georgia
State on the Saturday game.

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Oh, okay.

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Yeah.

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Uh, I

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had not seen them win since then.

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And then if I would like not
go to the Sunday game in Harbor

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Park, they would somehow win that.

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They would win.

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Yeah.

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I couldn't go to the Saturday
game against Louisiana.

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They won that one.

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Right.

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So starting to think it was me, I was
already to just cancel my, my plane

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ticket in my hotel down in Montgomery
just so the guys had some kind of chance.

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Uh, but they proved me wrong.

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They won on Saturday and
Sunday was Blake Day.

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Complete game.

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First time since 2018 for a Monarch
pitcher to go CG and man, talk

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about stepping up in a key moment.

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Yeah, I looked, uh, I, I, I put that
out there that it was, 'cause I, I had

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to think about it and, and my first
off, top of my head was Morgan McGuire.

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2018 was the last guy to complete game.

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He actually had two that
year, uh, both Complete Games

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Shutouts, which is outstanding.

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Um, he, those are the last
nine incomplete games.

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We actually had some, some seven
incomplete games since then.

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Um, in 2021, uh, Ryan Moore, one of our
current coaches, he had a seven inning.

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It was a, uh, run rule game against, um,
Charlotte, and then Hunter Gregory was

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one of our Saturday starters that year.

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You might remember during
conference we were playing.

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Scheduled seven inning games as
part of Doubleheaders on Saturdays.

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Ah,

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yes.

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Yep.

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And so, uh, he had, uh, hunter
Gregory had three seven inning

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complete games that season.

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So, yeah, I, I still say it does hold up.

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It was the first complete game,
uh, full, complete game for

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a Monarch pitcher since 2018.

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So, which is awesome.

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I mean, that, you know, that's
just the kind of veteran gutsy

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leadership you expect from Blake.

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And, I mean, it was, he,
he earned it 112 pitches.

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He went all nine, two earn runs, seven
hits, two walks, seven strikeouts.

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Both of those runs came
in the first inning.

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He walked the first batter, and I'm
sure everyone was kind of groaned a

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little bit and then get a home run.

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But then after that, I mean, eight
shutout innings to follow that up, slam

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the door on Marshall and Clin, a series
that we desperately needed to win.

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Yeah, that was the most impressive
part I think, you know, starting out

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it's like, all right, we're down.

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And then just kept the, the
Saturday and Sunday games this week.

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I was talking to, to Hadra at the end of
the game yesterday and I said, you know,

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this is like the first time we've really
played some real baseball where it's

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like, you know, it wasn't this nonsense
of like, it's a 12 to 11 game and we

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had to come back from nine runs down.

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And it wasn't like we, we got
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seven and just happened to win.

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It's like, no, we, both games got
behind, but then got ahead and kept

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grinding and grinding and holding.

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I mean, the game Saturday where,
uh, you know, Dylan does great.

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Six innings, what?

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Seven Ks, four runs and then the
bullpen comes out Hubble with a

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scoreless inning killing with two
scoreless innings and just holds

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on to the wind the way we need to.

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And then Blake, same thing,
just grinding it out.

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We, we came from behind and
just kept on piling runs.

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It was like, this is some real baseball.

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That's what we've been waiting
all year to see some, some

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actual, like good baseball wins.

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I think that was Kellen Davis's
best performance of the season.

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Uh, one run game held the lead was able
to get a two inning save, which set us

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up to potentially save Bailey for Sunday.

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Turns out, didn't need Bailey at all
this weekend, so he actually gets a rest

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weekend, which I think is a really good
thing for him at this point in the season.

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Uh, but Kellen Davis, he
was filthy on Saturday.

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He was great.

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Uh, it, it's been a while since we've been
able to just hold a one run lead over the

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three innings after the starter comes out.

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And the bullpen did a great job
with, with Hubble and Kellen.

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Yeah, we, when we get Finny on here in
a little bit, we need to talk to him.

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'cause I, the pitching management
this weekend was spectacular.

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Um, you know, Friday, Ben had
frankly just a terrible game.

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I think there's no real
other way to say it.

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I think aside from the game, uh, where
he came in relief down in Southern

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Miss, where he gave up, I think six or
seven runs, this is probably his, his,

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if not his worst, his next worst game.

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Um, but they still, they kind of kept
told him like, kind of, I dunno if

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they told him, but I'm assuming it
was just like, Hey, you gotta eat it.

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Uh, so he still pitched into
what, the fourth, fifth inning.

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Um, and then, you know, it was very clear,
like I'm, I was kind of standing behind

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the dugout and uh, Jayce Park was there.

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Um, he was, he was acting as like the ball
boy, you know, you know, they, they need

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somebody to do that there at that park.

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'cause they, we don't have
a lot of student managers.

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Um, and at one point Finney kind of
went over his ear and it was very clear.

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It was like, okay, hey,
get on down the bullpen.

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Um, and you know.

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It was obvious at that point,
they're down by so much.

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It was like, all right, we're
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This is gonna be a game.

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We're not gonna see Bailey and,
and Alex Hunt and Kellen and,

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and Hubble and those guys pitch.

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So they brought out Nick Sulpizio
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Guys who have not pitched great this year.

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All three of 'em were outstanding.

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I mean, Ezio threw two
scoreless innings Park.

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He did give up a two run Homer,
which was, which is not great.

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But otherwise he did get, he got
up a jam at Ezio, put himself in,

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and then Tora, who's only, he only
had like five innings all year,

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threw two scoreless in that game.

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Um, so that sets you up, okay.

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Now you have all your bullets
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on Saturday and Sunday.

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And like you pointed out,
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Good score this inning, Kellen too.

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So you saved, you saved Bailey.

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So you still had Bailey,
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You had, uh, Alex Hunt, you had, um,
Frank Wright, you had Hunter Baes.

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Those four pretty solid arms.

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The bullpen, they were all available
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you didn't have to use them.

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So they got a weak of rest.

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I mean, that, that, this was a phenomenal,
it was weird to say in a game where

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you lost 11 to four, there was a
phenomenal pitching, uh, management.

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But there was, and that part of
that was the guys have to pitch

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well enough to, to make it work.

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I mean, the guys come outta
the bullpen did a great job.

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I think this is probably one of
the best weekends that the bullpens

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had end to end, even in that game.

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I mean, you know, Ben kind of
had to eat the nine earned runs.

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Uh, the, the home runs that were
getting out, by the way, at War

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Memorial, if you were there,
you know what I'm talking about.

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They're not these moonshot,
just rocket home runs.

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A lot of 'em were just scraping the fence.

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I mean, both the ones that Dylan gave up
on Saturday were nothing special there

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in out, probably in most ballparks, but.

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That's where we were playing.

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Marshall took advantage of it.

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They took the right approach
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the line and it worked for him.

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Uh, really liked that.

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But I, on Friday, I think our
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to go make that a slugfest shootout.

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But Marshall defensively made every
play, I mean, every single play.

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And I've gotta give credit to Eddie Leon
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Marshall, uh, made an outstanding play.

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Maverick Stallings rips a
ball down the third base line

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with the runner wrong first.

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He somehow backhands that thing and
turns two, uh, he had another good

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play up the middle between third and
second, their outfielders had some

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crazy plays to Rob hits and doubles.

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So it is 11 to four, I think.

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You know, I think we'd still lose that
game, but it's much more competitive if

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we get a couple shots to, to fall in here.

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There.

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But Marshall was great defensively
and, uh, Eddie Leon, who, who plays for

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Marshall, the third baseman, uh, got to
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high school ball with Cane and George.

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Uh, they're good friends.

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Their dads are good friends.

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And while we were getting, you know,
kind of stomped a little bit there

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on Friday, he was nice enough to
buy Aaron and I some beverages and

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also can's, dad some beverages.

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And if you, you take a close look
at the beer that's in his hand

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over my shoulder, he does have
a Hudson Homer's podcast CZI on.

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So he made sure he did
not go home empty handed.

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Uh, and then you got this
great shot of the two of them.

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Uh, I believe it's after Sunday, right?

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Yeah.

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And it's funny, it, it canan with his,
his jersey untucked is, is funny 'cause

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as they were going to do the review, you
know, the game's over Canan immediately

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is ripping his jersey out and they're
gonna, the review and Finn's like telling

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him like, you gotta put it back in.

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We're still technically in the game.

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Like, we don't wanna get into
kind of trouble for that.

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So it's just funny how, how committed
he was to having that jersey untucked.

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He was done with that thing.

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It had been raining all day.

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Yeah, he was, he was done with it.

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Uh, I'm sure it was wet

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out in the outfield too.

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Yeah, no, you're, you're right man.

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I mean, at, at that Friday game
I said a few times, like, this is

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kind of a microcosm of our season.

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It's like every, every time somebody
can make the best play of their

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life, it's happening against us.

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It's these plays.

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The, if you gave these guys a hundred
chances, they probably wouldn't make it

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again, but they're, they're doing it.

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I mean, there was one play to,
to, I think it was the shortstop.

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It was like a line drive that hit off his
glove and bounced out and he still managed

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to catch it and then throw the guy out.

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It's like, this is ridiculous.

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Like, how does this happen to us?

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Um, so yeah, I mean, props to them
for, for having the game their lives.

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The Friday starter for Marshall Bryce
Blevins, he was a pain for us last year.

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He's a really good crafty pitcher.

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He ended up going seven innings.

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He gave up four earn at three
walks, three strikeouts.

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He had a comebacker come hit him in
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Of course, it hits his cleat, it
just deadens right in front of

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it, and he picks it up for one
of the easiest outs of the game.

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But it was probably, you know, 95 plus
off the bat, which should have been

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just a, a rocket into center field.

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Right.

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So I had a feeling that our offense
was gonna come around there, and I

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also knew that we probably weren't
gonna have that pitching performance

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again the rest of the weekend.

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So I wasn't necessarily nervous,
but obviously you, you lose Friday

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in a series that you really need
to win and you're, you're a little

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bit tighter on Saturday and Sunday.

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But the guys did a great job of just
stepping up, fighting back in every

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game, and then man, just Blake on Sunday,
like, I'm sad I wasn't there in person.

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But it was great to be able
to just watch that from afar.

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I know I'm too invested in not, uh,
managing my emotions about things.

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Well, because the difference between how I
feel leaving the ballpark Friday compared

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to how I feel leaving Saturday and Sunday.

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It's like, I, you, you gotta
be better than this man.

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This is not a good place to mo let
this, this thing I have no control

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over and I'm just hanging out at,
uh, control my emotions that much.

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I, I gotta do a better job.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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I hung out in the parking lot for about
an hour after the game talking with,

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uh, Aaron Zielinski and kind of thinking
of some longer term things and stuff

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like that, but mainly just to blow
off steam so I wouldn't be thinking

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about the game, the whole ride up.

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Right?

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Yeah.

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Uh, but hey, it was, it was worth it.

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I'm glad I went down there Saturday.

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Got to see, uh, a great performance there.

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Hung out with, uh, the Brown family.

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Uh, Alex Hunt's parents were
around, obviously Kainen George.

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A few other ones I got
to meet and chat with.

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Good to just be around good
people all weekend too.

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And, uh, sitting with the
family of the starting pitcher.

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I think they were probably
the more relaxed of a, of

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a crew that I've sat with.

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A little different than, uh,
you know, with the hols last

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year and things like that.

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Hey,

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speaking of Holobetz.

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Yes, yes.

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We had some, there was some breaking

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news today with our, our
good buddy John Holobetz.

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He got traded to the Red Sox today.

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Uh, he, there was a trade, we were looking
up a, a, a picture I'd never heard of,

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but he was with the Red Sox last year.

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And, uh, right there around the
start of the year, he got traded to

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the, uh, brewers and it was for one
player and the player be named later.

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Uh, and that player to be LA named
later ended up being John Holobetz.

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So now he is moving from the brewers to
the Red Sox and he's going to be with the

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Greenville Drive, where he'll be teammates
with fellow ODU alum, uh, Noah Dean.

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So that is some absolute gas coming
out, uh, for the Greenville Drive.

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That's fantastic.

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Steal for the socks to get him
as a player to be named later.

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'cause he's got right around
a three ERA right now.

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He's been eating in low a ball.

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So John gets a promotion outta this.

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He's gonna go up to high
a ball, uh, friendly face.

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And Noah ine really, really excited
for him to see, see how he goes.

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Yeah, they didn't, they didn't play
together, but Noah's been back around

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enough, uh, you know, with the, with
his girlfriend playing the tennis team.

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And he's, he is worked
out at the ballpark a ton.

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I'm, I'm sure he and Noah probably
know each other pretty well, or

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he, and, uh, he and John probably
know each other pretty well.

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Um, and, and the people don't know
you, the player would be named later.

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A lot of times what happens is they
give the other team a list of guys,

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uh, and, and kind of say, Hey, you
know, you could pick one of these guys.

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You have to buy a certain date.

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And my guess would be that with
John, with his his excellent start,

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it was like, yeah, it's pretty easy.

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We're taking that guy.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And he is, he's looked great.

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Well, coach Finwood, I see him backstage.

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I'm gonna bring him on now.

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The man of the hour.

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Coach Finwood how's it going?

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What's up guys?

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That was, how you doing man?

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Great news for, uh, Holbeck.

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Yeah, I heard you guys talking about that.

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That's really cool that him and
Noah are gonna be teammates.

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They weren't ever teammates here,
but they're, and teammates by

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proxy, uh, as, as Monarch alums
and, um, both really good relievers

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for us, uh, in their careers here.

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Yeah, we're excited to
see what John can do.

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I know he was eating pretty
good there with the low a ball.

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I mean, we got to see him in person
and just clearly a, a step up I think

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from the rest of the competition.

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So now, you know, the Red Sox, they do
tend to fast track some guys to get up

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pretty quickly from the draft classes.

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So hopefully that maybe clears a
quicker path for him since they've

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already moved him up to high a ball.

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Yeah.

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I wonder a little bit if Nick Murray
didn't have a little input in that

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one of their pitching coordinators.

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Um, and you know, Nick was here
for two years with us and um,

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got to work with Holts and.

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Um, got to get to know Noah Dean, you
know, uh, when he'd come back for some

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side work and, um, you know, I wonder if
he maybe had some input into helping that

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him become that guy to be named later.

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Yeah.

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So hope so.

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We love it.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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Yeah, that'd be cool.

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That'd be cool.

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Big series win for you this weekend.

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I thought the guys gutted out
a pretty good performance.

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Saturday dominated, I think
on Sunday behind behind Blake.

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Uh, what, what are your
thoughts on this weekend?

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Are you sweating bullets
after Friday, like we were,

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uh, you know, that's the
second Friday in a row.

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We've lost in, in different
fashions of course, but, um, you

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know, Ben is just having a a, i,
I really feel bad for Ben Moore.

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He is having a rotten time with these.

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Migraines and he's gotten some different
diagnosis on what's going on with him,

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and he just hasn't been able to be
himself because he is, I think he and

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rightfully so, you know, you're worried
about, um, you know, what's going on

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in my head, I, I don't feel right.

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And he clearly wasn't
himself on, on Friday.

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So he is got, he is got an appointment,
uh, with a specialist today and,

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you know, we'll hopefully hear some,
have a little more clarity on that.

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But, um, he, he's pitching, you
know, with a big, big weight on

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his shoulder because of all this.

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And, you know, he just, he's had, he's
had flashes of his old self at times

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this year, but very inconsistent.

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And, and Friday just was a bad day.

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Um, they hit the ball, you know, they,
they got a bunch of hits, too many

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walks and you know, it was one of those,
you get behind too early, do a tough.

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I, I just, I think Blevins is tough.

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You know, we beat him up there last year
on, uh, on, in a real low scoring close

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game on Saturday, and he's just that
college lefty that is hard to get to.

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You know, we had a couple home runs
off him and a couple other balls hard.

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They made some nice plays.

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Um, I, I thought you had
to tip your hat to them.

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They played really well Friday
and they've been playing well.

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So yeah, we had our work cut
out for us, without a doubt.

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Um, but these guys, you know, every,
so far, every time their, their

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back's been kind of to the wall.

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They've, they've come out fighting and,
uh, we haven't always won, but they've

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come out, you know, punching and, uh, we
did that again Saturday, you know, uh,

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got behind a little bit early and, you
know, kind of, kind of got a rally going.

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And I thought, Dylan, you know, out
outside of the, you know, he gave

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up what, four runs on two homers.

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Um, and, you know, and the wind's
blowing out at, or memorial

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play small, especially the left.

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Uh, but he battled through some
adversity, got out of a couple jams,

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you know, gave us six solid innings.

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And we, uh, you know, I,
I, I thought, um, Hubble.

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Hubble came in through a really
good seventh and then he came in and

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said his shoulders bothering her.

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Told Mike, and I was like, oh God.

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Okay.

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Um, well, Davis had been up once or
maybe once, just in case of jam row.

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So he was, he was the guy
there mostly right-handed.

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So, you know, we said, let's just,
let's just give, uh, give Kellen

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a shot to go out there and do it.

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And he had a pretty clean eighth
and, you know, went out there and got

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it, got it done for us in the ninth.

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So, you know, I was proud of him.

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Um.

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And, you know, we got some couple
big hits in that game that kind

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of helped us, you know, expand it.

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I, I think, um, you know, Maverick
Stallings got a, a three oh pitch with

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a runner on first and, and, and hit
a double, and that's go ahead, run.

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As it turned out, um, Mavs been
probably in his career, probably

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hitting 800 on 3.0 pitches.

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And we, we usually let him swing
it, especially in the smaller parks.

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You know, if you remember in the, the
tournament, the playing game, he had a

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two run homer, um, on a three oh pitch
against South Alabama to give us the lead

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and, you know, so that, that was big.

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Um, and then, you know, the, the
catching issues were probably the,

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uh, the lead story this weekend.

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Same guy knocked two catchers of
our, of the series on a backswing.

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And so Evan Holman, who's been out because
of no bleak strain, Ken hit left-handed.

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So I told him.

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Saturday morning, then you're just gonna
have to right handed When's the last

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time you get right handed off of righty.

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He goes, I couldn't even tell you.

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I go, well, it's gonna be today.

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Um, and you'll be fine.

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You're actually a way better Right
handed hitter than left handed hitter.

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Anyway,

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I was, I, I was gonna say, I
said that to you this weekend.

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I, this might be your, uh, your, your
fuel for getting them to switch to.

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Just righty.

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Yep.

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And sure enough, you know, he gets
up and hits the bases loaded, bases

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clearing double, um, on a slide hanging,
slider down the left field line.

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Gets us going and, you know, caught, I, I
thought Evan was a, a warrior back there.

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He's, you know, obliques are, no,
they're, they're one of those things

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where everything you do, you feel it.

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Especially in baseball, it's such a
rotational sport, just throwing the ball

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back to the pitcher, which, oh by the
way, a catcher has to do 180 times a game.

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Uh, in case you're wondering, you know,
uh, not to mention when they gotta throw

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down or call third strikes and you gotta
block it and throw the first, and then

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you got, I think they hit him in a knee.

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You got knee capped a couple
times behind the plate.

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So.

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I'm sure he spent most of the day
today in the, uh, in the cold tub.

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Uh, just icing it down, you know.

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Well, we were all anticipating,
'cause we knew the situation with

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Evan, like, best case scenario
doesn't play over the weekend.

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Right.

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You get F and you get
slate and you split it up.

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Then we know he is starting Saturday
and I don't see him take any practice

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swings in the OnDeck circle and he
goes to the plate and we're like,

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all right, what's gonna happen?

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First pitch hits him right on the
elbow and we're like, all right.

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He ends up scoring and then yeah.

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Really the, I think the first swing
he had of the day was that double

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down the line, uh, right at me.

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I was standing on the wall down there.

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But I mean, that's huge.

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That ties the game for you.

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It gets the, the bullpen or
the, the dugouts all fired up.

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I mean, that's a, that's a big
moment for Evan to step up in knowing

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he's held together with Popsicle
sticks and duct tape at this point.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And you know, being that it was a
Morales second concussion and basically

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two and a half weeks, um, he probably
won't catch anymore this year.

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We'll, hope to get him back.

457
00:20:41,460 --> 00:20:45,600
You know, I don't think it'll be this
weekend, but maybe, maybe by the, you

458
00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:49,080
know, Tuesday of Richmond, he will be
able to swing the bat for us again.

459
00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:52,890
But I think his catching days
are, are done for this season.

460
00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:58,830
Um, and so Jack and Evan gotta be the
guys that go and, you know, that's

461
00:20:58,830 --> 00:21:00,570
the way it is and they'll be fine.

462
00:21:00,570 --> 00:21:04,230
And Jack's feeling better, you
know, I'm anticipating him catching

463
00:21:04,230 --> 00:21:06,090
Wednesday night at, at VCU.

464
00:21:06,930 --> 00:21:07,860
He's from Richmond.

465
00:21:07,860 --> 00:21:10,830
It's a home, you know, essence
home town game for him.

466
00:21:10,830 --> 00:21:14,820
So that'll be neat, uh, for, for
him to be able to do that, I think.

467
00:21:15,540 --> 00:21:17,040
Um, so yeah.

468
00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:20,010
And then, you know, yesterday
was the Blake Morgan show, right?

469
00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:26,100
Like what a fantastic ging, our first
complete game in seven years, I think.

470
00:21:26,490 --> 00:21:33,120
Um, and you know, he, and he, and
he actually threw 27 outs without

471
00:21:33,120 --> 00:21:37,050
giving a run because the first battery
walked in the second guy, you know.

472
00:21:37,965 --> 00:21:41,324
Tapped one out of the ballpark and
down two, nothing with no outs.

473
00:21:42,824 --> 00:21:44,175
And then they didn't score again.

474
00:21:44,625 --> 00:21:49,725
And you know, they had some traffic out
there, but he, he just really battled.

475
00:21:49,725 --> 00:21:53,205
He, he gets in those grooves
like that sometimes where he's

476
00:21:53,205 --> 00:21:56,504
got that change up going in the
innings, just go fast, you know?

477
00:21:56,955 --> 00:21:57,314
Yeah.

478
00:21:57,405 --> 00:22:01,725
Um, and through strikes and you
know what, he walked, walked two

479
00:22:01,725 --> 00:22:05,354
guys and struck out seven and we
played very good defense behind him.

480
00:22:05,804 --> 00:22:08,205
Um, so that also is, was helpful.

481
00:22:08,205 --> 00:22:10,365
I thought we played good
defense most of the weekend.

482
00:22:10,875 --> 00:22:16,965
Um, and you know, Tahraun had a big RBI
hit for us out nine or two rbis actually,

483
00:22:16,965 --> 00:22:22,125
you know, and um, Evan got the, a hit
and rundown that moves some guys up and.

484
00:22:22,455 --> 00:22:25,425
We just were letting him off the hook,
though we weren't scoring the guy from

485
00:22:25,425 --> 00:22:29,175
third with less than two outs, which
as we've talked about in the past,

486
00:22:29,175 --> 00:22:33,105
this team's had its issues with, um,
and so we're letting him hang around

487
00:22:33,105 --> 00:22:34,875
three to two going in the seventh.

488
00:22:34,875 --> 00:22:37,995
And then we finally got some big
hits in the seventh, you know,

489
00:22:38,835 --> 00:22:40,305
and, and got that thing going.

490
00:22:40,485 --> 00:22:42,315
And then we did it again in the eighth.

491
00:22:42,705 --> 00:22:46,455
Um, and busted open a, a close
game, you know, and made it look

492
00:22:46,455 --> 00:22:48,015
like it wasn't that close a game.

493
00:22:48,015 --> 00:22:51,045
So that was good to give
Blake some breathing room.

494
00:22:51,645 --> 00:22:55,455
Yeah, I was just gonna, so if, if they
had not scored those runs, extra runs

495
00:22:55,455 --> 00:22:58,665
there in the bottom of the eighth, was
Blake gonna go back out for the ninth?

496
00:22:59,145 --> 00:23:00,045
He was, yeah.

497
00:23:00,195 --> 00:23:00,465
Okay.

498
00:23:00,525 --> 00:23:05,145
Yeah, he was going, you know, I just,
he had that look in his eye, man.

499
00:23:05,235 --> 00:23:05,475
Yeah.

500
00:23:05,475 --> 00:23:13,485
And in today's world of analytics and
numbers, what, what, what they miss

501
00:23:13,485 --> 00:23:16,919
in that I. Is the human element of it.

502
00:23:17,489 --> 00:23:22,169
And when you see that look in a kid's
eye, like I don't need to talk to him.

503
00:23:22,169 --> 00:23:24,060
Like his pitch account was fine.

504
00:23:24,510 --> 00:23:26,550
I think he was at 98 going into the ninth.

505
00:23:26,580 --> 00:23:26,669
Mm-hmm.

506
00:23:27,300 --> 00:23:28,889
Finished at one 12 maybe.

507
00:23:29,219 --> 00:23:32,159
Um, that's not a lot of
pitches for a complete game.

508
00:23:32,820 --> 00:23:37,110
And you know, he, he just had that
look man, he is like, I got you guys.

509
00:23:37,110 --> 00:23:38,489
Like, just let me have it.

510
00:23:38,489 --> 00:23:44,580
And, um, he is a senior and he
deserved a, a chance to, to, you know,

511
00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:46,709
to do something special like that.

512
00:23:46,709 --> 00:23:51,840
And um, you know, Mike, Mike kind of
came down and says, who, who you want up?

513
00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:53,399
And I said, well get these guys up.

514
00:23:53,399 --> 00:23:54,810
But it's his game.

515
00:23:55,260 --> 00:23:56,729
You know, we got a six run lead.

516
00:23:56,729 --> 00:23:59,790
Like he can give up a couple
and still finish this thing.

517
00:23:59,790 --> 00:24:01,500
We're not gonna let him throw 130 pitches.

518
00:24:01,500 --> 00:24:05,100
But, um, he's got a little
bit of wiggle room there.

519
00:24:05,115 --> 00:24:05,235
Great.

520
00:24:06,060 --> 00:24:07,100
Yeah, we threw, yeah, that was great.

521
00:24:07,360 --> 00:24:10,425
We threw a couple extra there while the
referee or the umpires had to go, you

522
00:24:10,425 --> 00:24:14,025
know, review the double play at the end
and slow walk all the way back to the

523
00:24:14,025 --> 00:24:16,695
field and then slow call everything.

524
00:24:16,695 --> 00:24:17,775
But just

525
00:24:18,495 --> 00:24:20,625
if they would've turned, if they
would've re reversed that one out.

526
00:24:20,625 --> 00:24:24,615
I told the guys already, I
said, I tell you what, if they

527
00:24:24,795 --> 00:24:26,505
changed this call on this.

528
00:24:27,345 --> 00:24:29,205
You are gonna see a Earl Weaver type

529
00:24:31,395 --> 00:24:32,475
going on out here.

530
00:24:34,155 --> 00:24:39,195
Y'all can get one more out without me,
and, uh, unfortunately they didn't so

531
00:24:39,585 --> 00:24:39,705
well.

532
00:24:39,705 --> 00:24:41,745
You did win another
challenge this weekend.

533
00:24:41,835 --> 00:24:44,685
Uh, it's on Saturday, the, I
think it was canan sliding into

534
00:24:44,685 --> 00:24:46,365
third that, yeah, that one really

535
00:24:46,365 --> 00:24:47,055
shouldn't count though.

536
00:24:48,765 --> 00:24:51,525
Everybody in the ballpark saw
that he was safe except for

537
00:24:51,525 --> 00:24:52,785
the one guy making the call.

538
00:24:52,785 --> 00:24:54,615
It was a quick, quick
review through the net.

539
00:24:54,990 --> 00:24:57,870
Um, he was a problem on Friday,
I think, behind the dish.

540
00:24:57,870 --> 00:24:58,680
And he heard plenty.

541
00:24:58,680 --> 00:24:59,155
Yeah, he

542
00:24:59,155 --> 00:24:59,610
was terrible.

543
00:24:59,940 --> 00:25:01,260
He was terrible all weekend.

544
00:25:01,260 --> 00:25:03,450
I, he's, uh, it's not, it's not good.

545
00:25:03,810 --> 00:25:07,470
I mean, that was one of the quickest
reviews I think I've ever seen too.

546
00:25:07,770 --> 00:25:08,880
Yeah, that was crazy.

547
00:25:09,120 --> 00:25:14,760
Hey, we gotta walk back
here, but we all know so well

548
00:25:14,910 --> 00:25:17,370
one of the home runs that Dylan
gave up, it was the shot that

549
00:25:17,370 --> 00:25:19,110
was down the left field line.

550
00:25:19,110 --> 00:25:22,290
And I saw who was making the fair foul
call and I didn't care what he said.

551
00:25:22,290 --> 00:25:23,820
I was gonna say it was probably wrong.

552
00:25:24,030 --> 00:25:24,450
Yeah, it was

553
00:25:24,450 --> 00:25:25,380
close to the foul poll.

554
00:25:25,380 --> 00:25:27,900
I couldn't tell from my seat,
but I was like, uh, maybe we

555
00:25:27,900 --> 00:25:28,860
should take a look at that.

556
00:25:29,220 --> 00:25:31,590
Yeah, it was pretty, yeah,
that one was pretty fair.

557
00:25:31,650 --> 00:25:34,440
Uh, I think, um, yeah, that guy was bad.

558
00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:35,670
He was terrible on Friday.

559
00:25:35,670 --> 00:25:37,860
That, that wasn't helpful either.

560
00:25:37,860 --> 00:25:40,320
Like his TrackMan report was just awful.

561
00:25:41,100 --> 00:25:45,720
Um, so one of those things
unfortunately, but that, that didn't,

562
00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:47,340
he didn't cost us a game Friday.

563
00:25:47,340 --> 00:25:48,630
I mean, those guys, ball.

564
00:25:49,175 --> 00:25:50,105
We weren't good enough.

565
00:25:50,105 --> 00:25:54,245
But you know, it's another, you know,
we said we had to, you know, we needed

566
00:25:54,665 --> 00:25:59,044
to win these three series and, and
we've won two of them, so now we

567
00:25:59,044 --> 00:26:01,024
gotta go up in JMU and do it again.

568
00:26:01,024 --> 00:26:03,365
And, you know, two or
three are on the road.

569
00:26:03,365 --> 00:26:07,115
And, um, the other one's
kind of on the road.

570
00:26:07,115 --> 00:26:11,764
So, uh, but I think with the way
things are shaping up, I mean, what

571
00:26:11,764 --> 00:26:13,745
are we tied with Texas State for fifth?

572
00:26:13,925 --> 00:26:14,524
For fifth.

573
00:26:14,555 --> 00:26:14,794
Yeah.

574
00:26:14,794 --> 00:26:17,915
I mean, that just tells you how punched
together it was that, you know, yeah.

575
00:26:18,245 --> 00:26:19,175
You're up there at fifth.

576
00:26:19,355 --> 00:26:20,284
That's pretty impressive.

577
00:26:20,825 --> 00:26:21,065
Yeah.

578
00:26:21,065 --> 00:26:23,135
And you got some teams moving
in the wrong direction.

579
00:26:23,135 --> 00:26:25,774
I mean, a appalachia's lost
like eight in a row or.

580
00:26:26,295 --> 00:26:28,725
Um, Georgia State's lost
a bunch in the road.

581
00:26:28,725 --> 00:26:33,615
Georgia Southern's been scuffling,
uh, Marshall plays at Georgia State

582
00:26:33,615 --> 00:26:37,725
this weekend, so one of those,
whoever loses that one's gonna

583
00:26:38,085 --> 00:26:39,675
probably be out of it, I think.

584
00:26:40,155 --> 00:26:43,485
Um, and they got nine and 10
wins, and then there's some other

585
00:26:43,485 --> 00:26:44,655
people playing each other too.

586
00:26:44,685 --> 00:26:46,005
So, but two more wins.

587
00:26:46,005 --> 00:26:47,505
I think you're gonna be in a tournament.

588
00:26:48,015 --> 00:26:48,465
Three.

589
00:26:48,465 --> 00:26:52,485
I think you got a good shot at
being, you know, in that top six.

590
00:26:53,475 --> 00:26:57,105
I mean, you're not, no one's gonna
catch the top four at this point, but

591
00:26:57,105 --> 00:26:58,845
you could definitely finish fifth.

592
00:26:59,535 --> 00:27:00,165
Um.

593
00:27:00,510 --> 00:27:05,100
And, you know, um, fifth or sixth,
you know, does the same thing for you.

594
00:27:05,100 --> 00:27:08,550
It keeps you out of the, it is just
what bracket you're gonna be in, right?

595
00:27:08,550 --> 00:27:13,830
Like fifth, you're in the one seed, one
seeds bracket, uh, the 1 8, 4, 5, and,

596
00:27:13,830 --> 00:27:16,290
and sixth you're in the two seeds bracket.

597
00:27:16,290 --> 00:27:20,610
So, um, you know, coast or southern
miss, I mean, pick your poison.

598
00:27:21,120 --> 00:27:21,450
Yeah.

599
00:27:21,750 --> 00:27:23,040
Either one would be tough.

600
00:27:23,610 --> 00:27:23,910
Yeah, they're all tough.

601
00:27:23,910 --> 00:27:24,420
Yeah.

602
00:27:24,420 --> 00:27:26,850
I, I think it's really down,
like the five and six spot.

603
00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:29,370
There's, there's five teams I think
that can get there because I don't think

604
00:27:29,370 --> 00:27:30,600
anyone's gonna catch one through four.

605
00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:31,290
Like Right.

606
00:27:31,290 --> 00:27:34,260
Us trying to catch four games on
Louisiana with six to go, probably.

607
00:27:34,415 --> 00:27:34,530
Probably, yeah.

608
00:27:34,695 --> 00:27:34,935
And they got

609
00:27:34,995 --> 00:27:35,575
the five record.

610
00:27:35,605 --> 00:27:35,895
Yeah.

611
00:27:36,405 --> 00:27:36,695
Yeah.

612
00:27:37,230 --> 00:27:41,790
So it's, it's us, Texas State, Georgia,
Southern Arkansas State and app.

613
00:27:41,885 --> 00:27:42,175
Yeah.

614
00:27:42,210 --> 00:27:44,640
And then you've got, I think
Texas State and Georgia Southern

615
00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:45,810
play each other this week.

616
00:27:45,810 --> 00:27:49,110
So you kind of need like a Georgia
Southern to win that series,

617
00:27:49,110 --> 00:27:50,700
like two games to one something.

618
00:27:50,700 --> 00:27:51,960
That's the, the way that helps you.

619
00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:55,110
But a lot of things you can
just root for for teams to lose.

620
00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:57,695
Like app and Arc State, you know, just.

621
00:27:58,060 --> 00:27:59,050
Just reform to lose.

622
00:27:59,050 --> 00:28:01,270
But yeah, I mean, I think three and
three, you're right in the thick of it.

623
00:28:01,270 --> 00:28:04,780
Maybe you come down with some tiebreakers
to that five, six seed, but you know, I

624
00:28:04,780 --> 00:28:06,909
think you, you handle it, handle well.

625
00:28:06,909 --> 00:28:06,970
We

626
00:28:06,970 --> 00:28:09,159
got the tiebreaker over Georgia Southern.

627
00:28:10,179 --> 00:28:10,270
Mm-hmm.

628
00:28:10,629 --> 00:28:13,149
But that's the only one of the
Georgia State I don't think is

629
00:28:13,149 --> 00:28:14,770
gonna be get in, get up there.

630
00:28:14,770 --> 00:28:15,970
So that's not gonna matter.

631
00:28:16,419 --> 00:28:19,840
Um, you know, six and oh
solves a lot of problems.

632
00:28:20,135 --> 00:28:20,425
Yeah.

633
00:28:20,429 --> 00:28:20,889
Yeah.

634
00:28:20,950 --> 00:28:21,580
That'd be good.

635
00:28:21,580 --> 00:28:26,980
Especially since Coastal's 20
and four Uhhuh, uh, they're, uh,

636
00:28:26,980 --> 00:28:31,210
their, their pitching numbers have
been just out of this world, man.

637
00:28:31,780 --> 00:28:33,460
But you never know what can happen.

638
00:28:33,460 --> 00:28:37,750
So we gotta take care of,
we got a Wednesday night BCU

639
00:28:37,750 --> 00:28:38,980
game in front of that too.

640
00:28:38,980 --> 00:28:39,159
Yes.

641
00:28:39,310 --> 00:28:43,689
So, um, go have some fun with that
and get, you know, probably throw

642
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:48,010
everybody an inning, you know, get
some guys didn't pitch this weekend.

643
00:28:48,010 --> 00:28:49,629
Need to get out there
and try to stay sharp.

644
00:28:49,629 --> 00:28:54,790
So one of those type deals and
play at the Diamond and, um.

645
00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:57,840
We've played pretty well at
the Diamond through the years.

646
00:28:57,840 --> 00:28:59,159
You know, I, I couldn't
even tell about that.

647
00:28:59,159 --> 00:28:59,190
Okay.

648
00:28:59,190 --> 00:28:59,850
Last time ever.

649
00:29:00,419 --> 00:29:00,720
Yeah.

650
00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:01,590
Yeah, that's right.

651
00:29:01,620 --> 00:29:02,940
It might be the last time ever.

652
00:29:03,330 --> 00:29:08,280
Um, so, you know, get, uh,
if we gotta arrest somebody

653
00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:09,899
in that game, then we will.

654
00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:13,889
'cause at the end of the day, it means
nothing, uh, other than it's a game you're

655
00:29:13,889 --> 00:29:20,460
playing and you'd like to play well, and
I, I thought, um, you know, all, all in

656
00:29:20,460 --> 00:29:22,560
all the guys did a good job this weekend.

657
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:25,500
And anytime you get, you know, a
couple really good starts, like,

658
00:29:25,500 --> 00:29:29,070
like we did on Saturday and Sunday,
it's certainly helpful and had some

659
00:29:29,070 --> 00:29:31,050
big hits to go, to go along with it.

660
00:29:32,070 --> 00:29:35,669
Uh, so I, I mentioned this before
we were talking before you came

661
00:29:35,669 --> 00:29:36,990
on, and I wanted to bring it up.

662
00:29:37,290 --> 00:29:41,669
Uh, you guys did a fantastic job with
your pitching management this weekend,

663
00:29:42,149 --> 00:29:45,929
um, which is, it's weird to say like
in with losing Friday, 11 to four,

664
00:29:45,929 --> 00:29:47,730
but it was pretty clear after that.

665
00:29:47,730 --> 00:29:50,580
It was like, well, I'm not gonna
use the guys, I'm not gonna

666
00:29:50,580 --> 00:29:52,470
use like the best pictures and.

667
00:29:53,130 --> 00:29:56,370
It was a great scenario where some
guys who had not really done great

668
00:29:56,370 --> 00:29:58,710
all year came out and had some
of the best games of the season.

669
00:29:59,250 --> 00:30:01,860
And then with Hubble and
Davis, you were set up.

670
00:30:01,860 --> 00:30:08,610
I mean, you, you went into Sunday, you
had Bailey and Hunt and baes, and uh, I've

671
00:30:08,610 --> 00:30:09,990
lost the fourth one I had a minute ago.

672
00:30:10,260 --> 00:30:14,550
Um, all ready to go and if you needed
him on Sunday and you didn't end up

673
00:30:14,550 --> 00:30:16,110
needing him, so those guys got rest.

674
00:30:16,110 --> 00:30:20,160
I mean, that was just a, a great,
and, and it, it had to happen.

675
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:23,220
Had to get the good pitching to have
it happen, but a great job of coaching.

676
00:30:23,220 --> 00:30:23,790
You guys did.

677
00:30:24,930 --> 00:30:31,410
Well, I I think that sometimes on Friday,
CB back in the old days, if you got

678
00:30:31,410 --> 00:30:37,320
behind early on Friday by five or six
and the other team's ACE was out there

679
00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:40,680
and you're like, all right man, we're not
gonna score seven more runs off this guy.

680
00:30:40,950 --> 00:30:44,820
You would use that to get your
young guys their experience.

681
00:30:45,390 --> 00:30:48,475
Like you'd throw a bunch of your better
freshmen that weren't quite ready to be

682
00:30:48,690 --> 00:30:51,360
in the moments, the leverage moments yet.

683
00:30:51,810 --> 00:30:52,500
Um.

684
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:57,899
And I thought that Friday, you know, I
thought Park threw the ball pretty well.

685
00:30:57,899 --> 00:31:00,149
I thought Ezio threw the ball pretty well.

686
00:31:00,540 --> 00:31:02,760
And, uh, who was the
other one we threw Friday?

687
00:31:02,790 --> 00:31:03,090
Dylan,

688
00:31:03,090 --> 00:31:04,740
Jimmy Tora, pitch grade and Dylan

689
00:31:04,740 --> 00:31:05,790
threw the ball pretty well.

690
00:31:06,210 --> 00:31:10,920
And that was each, I don't know, each
threw, you know, one or two plus.

691
00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:14,190
But, um, I thought it,
it, it, it was good.

692
00:31:14,190 --> 00:31:15,960
They, they did a good job.

693
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:17,550
They kept the game right there.

694
00:31:17,850 --> 00:31:21,450
Um, you know, and we, we
had a couple shots at it.

695
00:31:21,450 --> 00:31:26,760
We just couldn't get a big hit, but they
didn't let it just fall to crap, you know?

696
00:31:26,970 --> 00:31:27,180
Right.

697
00:31:27,450 --> 00:31:30,300
Um, and so they killed a little
bit of their offensive momentum.

698
00:31:30,660 --> 00:31:35,250
I mean, you think about they didn't score
a lot, they didn't do a lot of offense.

699
00:31:35,250 --> 00:31:36,510
They had three home runs.

700
00:31:36,750 --> 00:31:36,990
Yeah.

701
00:31:36,990 --> 00:31:37,200
Mm-hmm.

702
00:31:37,345 --> 00:31:37,565
Um,

703
00:31:38,295 --> 00:31:40,740
after about the fifth inning on Friday.

704
00:31:41,730 --> 00:31:41,940
Yeah.

705
00:31:41,940 --> 00:31:44,670
I was, if you go after the fourth
inning Friday, we pretty much

706
00:31:44,670 --> 00:31:45,990
dominated 'em the rest of the weekend.

707
00:31:46,260 --> 00:31:46,710
Yeah.

708
00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:47,024
Yeah.

709
00:31:47,024 --> 00:31:50,220
And they had, they're all,
all, they scored six more runs

710
00:31:50,220 --> 00:31:51,389
and they were on three swings.

711
00:31:51,929 --> 00:31:57,389
Yeah, so I thought we really
pitched well after that and um,

712
00:31:57,810 --> 00:32:00,929
I was proud of our guys, you
know, for bouncing back that way.

713
00:32:01,139 --> 00:32:02,669
And it's such a funny dynamic.

714
00:32:02,669 --> 00:32:07,439
I mean, people put so much
importance on the Friday game.

715
00:32:08,370 --> 00:32:08,460
Mm-hmm.

716
00:32:08,700 --> 00:32:14,790
Uh, I've always been of the mind that
they over important overemphasize it.

717
00:32:15,270 --> 00:32:18,480
Um, everybody would love to be
one and oh rather than oh and one.

718
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:19,110
I get that.

719
00:32:19,889 --> 00:32:24,000
But it doesn't necessarily.

720
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:28,080
And baseball's one of those
sports where the momentum is the

721
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:30,090
guy on the mound the next day.

722
00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:31,470
That's where your momentum is.

723
00:32:31,770 --> 00:32:35,429
And our, our two guys on the mound the
next two days were better than their two.

724
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:38,159
And so we were able to
get that momentum back.

725
00:32:38,189 --> 00:32:40,080
Their guy was better than ours on Friday.

726
00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:41,189
Um.

727
00:32:41,820 --> 00:32:46,740
But sometimes, you know, you go out and
you, you lose a, a close one on Friday.

728
00:32:46,860 --> 00:32:50,610
Both teams pitch well, and you
know, that happens, that happens

729
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:54,510
oftentimes as well, but you just gotta
bounce back and win the next one.

730
00:32:54,510 --> 00:32:57,600
And then I think the momentum
then switches like, all right,

731
00:32:57,630 --> 00:32:59,610
they won Friday, we won Saturday.

732
00:32:59,610 --> 00:33:01,440
You know, we got the
win going in the Sunday.

733
00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:04,110
We're feeling a little
better about ourselves now.

734
00:33:04,110 --> 00:33:08,460
And you know, we've all won on
Friday and lost on Saturday too.

735
00:33:08,460 --> 00:33:10,770
And you are like, man, we had
a chance to win the series.

736
00:33:10,770 --> 00:33:11,460
We didn't get it done.

737
00:33:11,460 --> 00:33:13,110
Now we kind of gotta win tomorrow.

738
00:33:13,110 --> 00:33:16,320
And the, the other team that lost
Friday and one Saturday's like,

739
00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:19,410
all right, we get to play for the
series now we, we get to try to win.

740
00:33:19,410 --> 00:33:24,540
And so the mindset of it is, you
know, is always so important.

741
00:33:24,630 --> 00:33:28,800
Um, and you know, it's, we
haven't won a lot on Fridays.

742
00:33:28,830 --> 00:33:30,450
I mean, I was looking,
we were looking back at.

743
00:33:31,064 --> 00:33:33,705
Our record on the three days.

744
00:33:33,705 --> 00:33:36,524
You know, if you wanna talk about
what pictures are, you know,

745
00:33:36,945 --> 00:33:39,584
what's your record when this guy
pitches, you know, that stat.

746
00:33:39,584 --> 00:33:40,304
I was think it's cool.

747
00:33:40,304 --> 00:33:40,605
What mm-hmm.

748
00:33:40,845 --> 00:33:41,834
Not necessarily his record.

749
00:33:41,834 --> 00:33:42,254
Absolutely.

750
00:33:42,584 --> 00:33:42,945
Right.

751
00:33:42,945 --> 00:33:46,544
What's your team's record
and Friday's in the league?

752
00:33:46,965 --> 00:33:50,205
Um, I think we are two and six.

753
00:33:51,014 --> 00:33:52,064
Um, we've played eight.

754
00:33:52,725 --> 00:33:53,145
Right.

755
00:33:53,475 --> 00:34:02,895
Um, and then Saturdays, I believe,
uh, we're four and four, um, which

756
00:34:02,895 --> 00:34:04,665
means we're six and two on Sundays.

757
00:34:05,534 --> 00:34:05,865
Right.

758
00:34:05,870 --> 00:34:06,129
Yeah.

759
00:34:07,334 --> 00:34:08,505
About as balanced as you can be.

760
00:34:09,975 --> 00:34:10,545
Yeah.

761
00:34:10,634 --> 00:34:15,225
And so it's like, yeah, we're winning
on Sunday, we're not winning on Friday,

762
00:34:15,225 --> 00:34:17,054
and we're, you know, 500 on Saturday.

763
00:34:17,145 --> 00:34:17,594
Mm-hmm.

764
00:34:17,835 --> 00:34:22,185
So it's, uh, and we're also, you know,
one of those, one of the few teams that

765
00:34:22,185 --> 00:34:24,495
haven't swept somebody or been swept.

766
00:34:24,569 --> 00:34:24,850
Mm-hmm.

767
00:34:25,154 --> 00:34:29,355
Um, so we've just kind of been
standing right in the middle.

768
00:34:30,014 --> 00:34:30,764
Um, and Marshall

769
00:34:30,824 --> 00:34:33,884
Marshall came in Friday
riding a, a great hot streak.

770
00:34:33,884 --> 00:34:35,324
I think they won seven in a row.

771
00:34:35,324 --> 00:34:37,154
They beat a ranked West Virginia team.

772
00:34:37,154 --> 00:34:38,415
That was three games.

773
00:34:38,415 --> 00:34:40,364
Clear of everyone else in the Big 12.

774
00:34:40,605 --> 00:34:40,755
Yeah.

775
00:34:40,755 --> 00:34:43,605
I think at least offensively with
the bats, they were seeing the

776
00:34:43,605 --> 00:34:45,134
ball like it was a beach ball.

777
00:34:45,255 --> 00:34:48,795
And sometimes when you get those teams
that maybe are overachieving a little

778
00:34:48,795 --> 00:34:52,154
bit and kind of on that hot streak,
once they hit that loss and they kind of

779
00:34:52,154 --> 00:34:54,435
deplete that energy, man, they, they fall.

780
00:34:54,585 --> 00:34:59,295
And I feel like the way that we pitched on
Saturday kind of extinguished that Flint.

781
00:34:59,355 --> 00:35:00,194
That's what it felt like.

782
00:35:00,225 --> 00:35:02,955
They didn't really, I don't feel like
they had a whole lot together Sunday

783
00:35:02,955 --> 00:35:04,424
outside of that top of the first.

784
00:35:04,965 --> 00:35:05,385
Yeah.

785
00:35:05,385 --> 00:35:08,175
And obviously Blake had a lot
to do with that because he was,

786
00:35:09,165 --> 00:35:11,235
you know, he kept them that way.

787
00:35:11,235 --> 00:35:14,505
And it's always interesting to see, 'cause
it's always just different, you know,

788
00:35:14,505 --> 00:35:18,615
they gotta go down and play Georgia State,
who they're a game ahead of, we were

789
00:35:18,615 --> 00:35:20,955
a game ahead of them coming into this.

790
00:35:21,855 --> 00:35:26,985
And um, you know, so they, they
gotta go on the road and anything can

791
00:35:26,985 --> 00:35:31,785
happen down in that park down there
too, man, that's an offensive park.

792
00:35:31,785 --> 00:35:35,415
So, and Georgia State can hit, uh,
they just haven't been playing well.

793
00:35:35,415 --> 00:35:39,315
So, um, but they, they're, they're
fighting for their lives now.

794
00:35:39,375 --> 00:35:41,835
You know, they got, they gotta
win that series this weekend.

795
00:35:41,835 --> 00:35:47,115
So, um, and then if they beat Marshall
in the series, then that, that may put,

796
00:35:47,565 --> 00:35:49,005
you know, Marshall pretty much out of it.

797
00:35:49,575 --> 00:35:49,875
Mm-hmm.

798
00:35:50,115 --> 00:35:50,805
Um, yeah,

799
00:35:50,870 --> 00:35:54,375
a lot of, uh, grits and chaos going
on in the next couple weeks here.

800
00:35:55,065 --> 00:35:55,425
Yeah.

801
00:35:55,425 --> 00:35:55,485
Yeah.

802
00:35:56,100 --> 00:35:56,250
I

803
00:35:56,250 --> 00:35:56,430
know.

804
00:35:56,430 --> 00:35:57,540
Yeah, a lot of people.

805
00:35:59,100 --> 00:36:03,870
Um, did you see, did you see, uh,
somebody sent it to me on Twitter,

806
00:36:03,870 --> 00:36:09,000
there was a, some sort of bench clear
or something in the end of the JMU

807
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:11,189
Georgia Southern game yesterday?

808
00:36:11,459 --> 00:36:12,299
No, I don't think I saw that one.

809
00:36:12,540 --> 00:36:13,770
You have to look that up.

810
00:36:13,770 --> 00:36:17,580
I don't know what happened, but,
um, but you know, baseball bench

811
00:36:17,580 --> 00:36:19,709
clears are much a do about nothing.

812
00:36:19,709 --> 00:36:20,250
Bunch of guys.

813
00:36:20,250 --> 00:36:20,520
Yeah.

814
00:36:20,625 --> 00:36:21,765
It, it looks cool because

815
00:36:21,770 --> 00:36:22,140
there's so many

816
00:36:22,140 --> 00:36:23,399
guys, but it's nothing.

817
00:36:23,399 --> 00:36:23,790
Yeah.

818
00:36:24,084 --> 00:36:24,365
Yeah.

819
00:36:24,365 --> 00:36:25,470
It's a lot of chaos.

820
00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:27,299
Bo was telling me a little bit about it.

821
00:36:27,299 --> 00:36:28,830
He was texting me on Sunday.

822
00:36:28,830 --> 00:36:31,740
Uh, I never got a chance to see the
video, but there's, I think there's

823
00:36:31,740 --> 00:36:35,430
been a couple of things up in, uh,
uh, with involving JMU this year.

824
00:36:35,430 --> 00:36:37,830
There's been a couple of, uh,
bench clearing situations.

825
00:36:37,859 --> 00:36:38,459
I will say.

826
00:36:38,459 --> 00:36:41,100
It does make me think of, you
know, the, uh, the big internet

827
00:36:41,100 --> 00:36:43,830
thing going around right now, the
a hundred men versus a gorilla.

828
00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:46,500
The only thing I've seen that
was, the only thing I've seen from

829
00:36:46,500 --> 00:36:49,770
that that was funny was like, what
about a hundred Don Zimmers versus.

830
00:36:50,265 --> 00:36:52,125
Was Pedro Mars who would win

831
00:36:56,265 --> 00:36:56,955
baseball bra.

832
00:36:56,955 --> 00:36:57,765
Maybe think of that one.

833
00:36:58,935 --> 00:37:00,524
But I got, uh, Gary, you got that picture.

834
00:37:00,524 --> 00:37:02,714
I got, I got a picture, uh, at
the end of the game yesterday.

835
00:37:02,714 --> 00:37:03,435
I really enjoyed.

836
00:37:03,435 --> 00:37:03,765
Yeah.

837
00:37:03,765 --> 00:37:05,384
So this was, I thought it was great.

838
00:37:05,384 --> 00:37:06,285
You know, they're in the line.

839
00:37:06,944 --> 00:37:09,795
Uh, you know, I think it's just, it's
just cool to have those moments with

840
00:37:09,795 --> 00:37:12,315
the guys, you know, Blake Blake's
been here with y'all for four years.

841
00:37:12,315 --> 00:37:14,475
I mean, you knew 'em I'm
sure for years before that.

842
00:37:14,625 --> 00:37:14,685
Yeah.

843
00:37:14,685 --> 00:37:17,745
You know, it's just a, it's gotta
be fun to watch these guys grow

844
00:37:17,745 --> 00:37:19,004
up and have these big moments.

845
00:37:19,935 --> 00:37:20,444
Yeah.

846
00:37:20,444 --> 00:37:21,615
Without a doubt, man.

847
00:37:21,615 --> 00:37:23,625
It's, you know, and
especially your seniors.

848
00:37:23,654 --> 00:37:30,345
'cause they, you don't get to be a senior
in a baseball program without going

849
00:37:30,345 --> 00:37:33,254
through ups and downs and tough times.

850
00:37:33,254 --> 00:37:35,685
You're talking about a kid,
you're talking about resilient.

851
00:37:36,045 --> 00:37:40,455
You know, that kid had the
world by the balls his freshman

852
00:37:40,455 --> 00:37:43,065
year, um, came out of nowhere.

853
00:37:43,245 --> 00:37:45,404
Conference, first team all conference.

854
00:37:45,435 --> 00:37:45,524
Mm-hmm.

855
00:37:45,855 --> 00:37:49,335
Which is unheard of for a freshman
in a conference like conference, USA.

856
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:52,710
Uh, first female all conference
pitcher and freshman of the year.

857
00:37:53,220 --> 00:38:00,060
Um, and you know, everybody's, I mean, I
don't even, what was ZRA, like something?

858
00:38:00,060 --> 00:38:01,020
It was like once I

859
00:38:01,020 --> 00:38:02,100
to looked at it yesterday.

860
00:38:02,105 --> 00:38:02,365
Yeah,

861
00:38:02,700 --> 00:38:03,060
yeah.

862
00:38:03,060 --> 00:38:04,350
It was just crazy, crazy.

863
00:38:05,010 --> 00:38:09,540
And, and then, you know, sophomore
year the injury bug got him.

864
00:38:09,540 --> 00:38:09,930
He, uh mm-hmm.

865
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:14,460
Um, you know, he, he, he
was banged up a little bit.

866
00:38:14,460 --> 00:38:18,420
He ended up, you know, missing the
end of the year with, uh, ACL surgery.

867
00:38:18,420 --> 00:38:21,870
And then he had the meniscus thing
and coming back the next year

868
00:38:21,870 --> 00:38:24,000
just wasn't ever quite himself.

869
00:38:24,750 --> 00:38:33,090
Um, and this year he was finally healthy
again and started to show good bits

870
00:38:33,090 --> 00:38:37,020
and pieces of, of, of even a better
version of the old Blake Morgan.

871
00:38:37,020 --> 00:38:39,900
'cause he had a breaking ball now and
he didn't even have that as a freshman.

872
00:38:39,900 --> 00:38:43,740
It was pretty much fast
change, um, fast ball.

873
00:38:43,770 --> 00:38:46,200
And he was still throwing a
fast ball in 91 in the nineties.

874
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:46,410
Yeah.

875
00:38:46,445 --> 00:38:47,325
It was, it was like, good.

876
00:38:47,325 --> 00:38:47,565
Mm-hmm.

877
00:38:48,375 --> 00:38:50,265
So he's carried his velocity.

878
00:38:50,715 --> 00:38:53,055
A couple pro guys were in
there to see him yesterday.

879
00:38:53,060 --> 00:38:53,150
Mm-hmm.

880
00:38:53,230 --> 00:38:54,915
I was so happy about that.

881
00:38:55,515 --> 00:38:57,915
Um, 'cause sometimes it's
when they see you, right?

882
00:38:57,915 --> 00:38:57,975
Yeah.

883
00:38:58,245 --> 00:39:01,335
And a couple of the guys
called me today and said, man,

884
00:39:01,335 --> 00:39:02,685
that was awesome performance.

885
00:39:02,685 --> 00:39:04,035
You know, we were so impressed.

886
00:39:04,035 --> 00:39:08,805
So I like that for him, certainly.

887
00:39:08,805 --> 00:39:11,145
And he's a wonderful kid.

888
00:39:11,145 --> 00:39:12,075
He is a great teammate.

889
00:39:12,075 --> 00:39:15,705
You know, when he is not pitching,
he's on the front rail, the dugout.

890
00:39:15,735 --> 00:39:16,995
He's encouraging all his,

891
00:39:16,995 --> 00:39:18,195
sometimes even when he is pitching.

892
00:39:18,585 --> 00:39:19,425
Yeah, sometimes.

893
00:39:20,415 --> 00:39:20,685
Yeah.

894
00:39:20,865 --> 00:39:22,845
We got, I saw you actually yesterday.

895
00:39:22,845 --> 00:39:24,645
He was, he was there shouting
while they were batting.

896
00:39:24,645 --> 00:39:25,665
I saw you kind of look over.

897
00:39:25,665 --> 00:39:28,365
I don't know if that was, it was at
that, but it in my mind when you're

898
00:39:28,365 --> 00:39:29,415
like, is he really doing that?

899
00:39:29,415 --> 00:39:30,135
Ladies in the middle of this.

900
00:39:30,135 --> 00:39:30,495
All right.

901
00:39:33,285 --> 00:39:35,865
Uh, I think Mike came up to
me after the seventh and.

902
00:39:36,359 --> 00:39:39,600
We were talking about pitching, and I
said, well, he looks pretty good, man.

903
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:40,200
How's he feel?

904
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:40,980
He goes, I don't know.

905
00:39:40,980 --> 00:39:41,970
I'm not talking to him.

906
00:39:46,830 --> 00:39:49,585
That's, that's baseball in a
nutshell right there, right?

907
00:39:49,589 --> 00:39:49,710
Yeah.

908
00:39:49,890 --> 00:39:50,310
Right.

909
00:39:50,310 --> 00:39:51,024
Leave, leave alone.

910
00:39:51,149 --> 00:39:52,890
I might say something else, screw him up.

911
00:39:52,890 --> 00:39:53,504
I leave him alone.

912
00:39:54,654 --> 00:39:55,345
He's doing great.

913
00:39:55,444 --> 00:39:58,259
And that was, I remember talking
to Mike about, I think he had

914
00:39:58,259 --> 00:40:01,589
everything was Mike Tano that he
had, uh, coach, yeah, ano, yeah.

915
00:40:01,589 --> 00:40:02,279
Made the big leagues.

916
00:40:02,279 --> 00:40:02,580
Yeah.

917
00:40:02,850 --> 00:40:03,720
And I remember talking to him about it.

918
00:40:03,720 --> 00:40:05,670
He was like, all I was trying
to do was just not mess him up.

919
00:40:05,670 --> 00:40:07,890
That was my entire plan with him,
is to do everything I could to stay

920
00:40:07,890 --> 00:40:09,240
outta his way and let him succeed.

921
00:40:09,690 --> 00:40:10,049
Yeah.

922
00:40:10,620 --> 00:40:10,830
Yeah.

923
00:40:10,830 --> 00:40:13,500
And that's kind of last night
what it was, man, he just, yeah.

924
00:40:14,009 --> 00:40:15,720
Let him, let him roll like that.

925
00:40:15,720 --> 00:40:19,529
And what, like I said, he, I
mean, I would imagine it'd be

926
00:40:19,529 --> 00:40:22,020
the Sunbelt pitcher of the week.

927
00:40:22,020 --> 00:40:23,399
I don't know if somebody
could, I would hope so.

928
00:40:23,399 --> 00:40:23,759
Better be.

929
00:40:24,270 --> 00:40:24,660
Yeah.

930
00:40:24,720 --> 00:40:25,020
There'll be,

931
00:40:25,170 --> 00:40:28,560
there'll be some guy for Southern Miss
Louisiana that threw, uh, seven innings.

932
00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:29,490
That gave up four runs.

933
00:40:29,490 --> 00:40:30,214
So he would the best,

934
00:40:31,170 --> 00:40:34,710
I mean, complete games are so
rare now in any level of baseball.

935
00:40:35,385 --> 00:40:39,075
Um, you know, college baseball
in particular, so probate

936
00:40:39,285 --> 00:40:40,335
any level, they're rare.

937
00:40:40,335 --> 00:40:45,615
I mean, and so they should be celebrated,
especially when it wasn't like we threw

938
00:40:45,615 --> 00:40:50,925
him 160 pitches to get 'em that, uh,
we would never do that, first of all.

939
00:40:51,255 --> 00:40:57,855
But he, he did it on schedule,
you know, I mean, 112 over nine.

940
00:40:58,335 --> 00:41:03,585
Uh, I'm an English major, so you can
do math mean, it's probably about, you

941
00:41:03,585 --> 00:41:07,935
know, it's probably about, you know, 13,
14 pitches in inning, which is nothing.

942
00:41:08,775 --> 00:41:08,925
Yeah.

943
00:41:09,525 --> 00:41:09,705
Yeah.

944
00:41:09,705 --> 00:41:11,265
And that's really what
you shoot for, right?

945
00:41:11,265 --> 00:41:13,035
Like about 15 pitches in inning.

946
00:41:13,035 --> 00:41:15,795
And I feel like you're on
track in what, two hours?

947
00:41:15,795 --> 00:41:17,835
One, 12.4, which is perfect.

948
00:41:17,835 --> 00:41:18,107
12.4. Yeah.

949
00:41:18,375 --> 00:41:18,615
Yeah.

950
00:41:18,615 --> 00:41:19,845
You want about 13 inning?

951
00:41:19,845 --> 00:41:23,085
I mean, it's, it's pretty much what you
need to do to pitch a, a complete game.

952
00:41:23,565 --> 00:41:23,895
Yeah.

953
00:41:24,135 --> 00:41:24,375
Yeah.

954
00:41:24,375 --> 00:41:25,425
One 20 they say.

955
00:41:25,425 --> 00:41:25,695
Right.

956
00:41:25,695 --> 00:41:27,345
That's, uh, something like that.

957
00:41:27,345 --> 00:41:31,455
So, but he was fantastic and
you know, he only had a couple

958
00:41:31,485 --> 00:41:32,800
innings where he had to mm-hmm.

959
00:41:33,225 --> 00:41:37,335
You know, battle out of something and,
um, we, we've got the one break where

960
00:41:37,335 --> 00:41:41,745
they had the steal in there with one out
and we got the battered interference on

961
00:41:41,745 --> 00:41:43,905
the strikeout and yeah, that saved a run.

962
00:41:43,905 --> 00:41:46,845
But other than that, man, it
was all, it was all him and the

963
00:41:46,845 --> 00:41:48,555
guys picking him up behind him.

964
00:41:48,555 --> 00:41:51,135
So, um, hopefully we can keep that up.

965
00:41:51,135 --> 00:41:54,675
And, you know, I'm glad this isn't a
short week for him coming off that.

966
00:41:54,675 --> 00:41:58,275
'cause the following week will be,
and we gotta get through this week and

967
00:41:58,275 --> 00:42:00,075
then we gotta figure out, you know.

968
00:42:01,425 --> 00:42:04,425
You guys tell me, gimme some of your
thoughts on what we need to do to set

969
00:42:04,425 --> 00:42:08,685
up the picture for the how do, that's
always a, how do you get Rick, you have

970
00:42:08,685 --> 00:42:13,725
a Thursday, Friday, Saturday series,
the last one, and then you've got,

971
00:42:13,875 --> 00:42:17,385
you know, you're, if you're not in
the playing game, you play Wednesday.

972
00:42:17,835 --> 00:42:19,605
If you're in the playing
game, you play Tuesday.

973
00:42:20,175 --> 00:42:22,725
The whole playing dynamic
changes everything, right?

974
00:42:22,725 --> 00:42:24,735
Because it's one you gotta win, must win.

975
00:42:24,735 --> 00:42:29,775
But if you're in the regular tournament,
then you know, it's, it's a little

976
00:42:29,775 --> 00:42:31,365
different than if you're in play it.

977
00:42:31,365 --> 00:42:35,595
So we'll see what's up and,
uh, let's, let's get there.

978
00:42:35,595 --> 00:42:36,135
First

979
00:42:36,585 --> 00:42:40,335
I say, I imagine this weekend we'll have
a lot, 'cause how you do this weekend

980
00:42:40,335 --> 00:42:44,115
will probably give you a better idea of
where you might be standing, regardless

981
00:42:44,115 --> 00:42:45,345
of what happens against Coastal.

982
00:42:45,795 --> 00:42:46,605
Yeah, I think so.

983
00:42:46,605 --> 00:42:49,395
I, I think if, if you can
win the series this weekend

984
00:42:49,395 --> 00:42:49,995
mm-hmm.

985
00:42:50,850 --> 00:42:51,620
With 14.

986
00:42:52,740 --> 00:42:55,530
Depending on what, you
know, Texas State does.

987
00:42:55,530 --> 00:42:59,610
Um, obviously, and then a couple other,
I don't see anybody below us sweeping

988
00:42:59,610 --> 00:43:02,580
some of their plan, um, at this point.

989
00:43:02,580 --> 00:43:09,090
So, uh, it'll probably tell you,
Hey, we're in, but we gotta, um,

990
00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:14,160
we gotta win one to, you know,
maybe be in the, in the top six.

991
00:43:14,580 --> 00:43:14,760
Mm-hmm.

992
00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:17,880
I, I think, I really do think fifteen's
gonna get you in the top six this year.

993
00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:18,780
Feels like Yeah.

994
00:43:18,780 --> 00:43:20,670
It's looking like it
here a couple weeks away.

995
00:43:20,670 --> 00:43:21,000
Yeah,

996
00:43:21,150 --> 00:43:21,390
yeah,

997
00:43:21,390 --> 00:43:21,630
yeah.

998
00:43:22,410 --> 00:43:25,230
Make 'em down to some tiebreakers
if you're at 15 and 15, but

999
00:43:25,230 --> 00:43:26,490
you'll be in the conversation.

1000
00:43:26,490 --> 00:43:28,110
I think 16 and 14.

1001
00:43:28,110 --> 00:43:31,890
You're pretty much at this, I would
think guaranteed a five or succeed.

1002
00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:33,990
Um, yeah, just based on, and like I said,

1003
00:43:33,990 --> 00:43:36,000
18 and 12 will really get you somewhere.

1004
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:36,090
Yes.

1005
00:43:36,540 --> 00:43:38,305
Yeah, definitely.

1006
00:43:38,575 --> 00:43:38,865
Yeah.

1007
00:43:39,240 --> 00:43:42,060
Started nipping in Louisiana
there for that, that five seat.

1008
00:43:42,570 --> 00:43:45,150
Yeah, it that, that's, that's a
lot to figure out, manage too.

1009
00:43:45,150 --> 00:43:49,110
'cause you also have a midweek next
week before we play coastal at War

1010
00:43:49,110 --> 00:43:53,550
Memorial and that may be you just
the whole kitchen sink out there.

1011
00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:54,870
Just see what happens.

1012
00:43:55,350 --> 00:43:55,980
Yeah.

1013
00:43:55,980 --> 00:44:00,360
That'll be one of those games,
um, that you're just gonna go

1014
00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:02,220
think about it like a practice.

1015
00:44:02,220 --> 00:44:06,000
It's a, it's a good day to just get
some guys some work and you may play

1016
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:09,450
a few guys and get 'em outta there
and rest 'em, and depending on what

1017
00:44:09,450 --> 00:44:14,580
we need to do against, against Coastal
and that kind of thing, um, and then,

1018
00:44:14,610 --> 00:44:17,280
you know, you gotta figure out what
you want to do on with your pitching.

1019
00:44:17,730 --> 00:44:25,680
Um, I, I've been in situations before
where you really only needed, um,

1020
00:44:26,670 --> 00:44:30,570
well you remember Covid, we, we
didn't play, uh, have they had a

1021
00:44:30,570 --> 00:44:33,690
open weekend that last weekend before
the conference state tournament?

1022
00:44:34,210 --> 00:44:37,065
And we ended up going down and
playing Louisiana Tech and we

1023
00:44:37,065 --> 00:44:38,654
played them Friday, Saturday.

1024
00:44:39,134 --> 00:44:45,165
And we threw our, our our, um,
we threw, uh, uh, Moore and, and

1025
00:44:45,165 --> 00:44:47,325
Gregory both in the Friday game.

1026
00:44:47,654 --> 00:44:47,835
Mm-hmm.

1027
00:44:48,345 --> 00:44:53,505
Um, just to give 'em an extra couple days
for the tournament if you need one win.

1028
00:44:53,505 --> 00:44:56,355
And we ended up winning both of
those games, but we didn't need to.

1029
00:44:56,355 --> 00:45:01,485
But, um, 'cause it was already set for
the conference, if you need one win, it

1030
00:45:01,485 --> 00:45:06,795
could be a scenario where, you know, you
would just throw Blake at the end of one

1031
00:45:06,795 --> 00:45:11,595
of the first two games, a couple innings
to close and try to win it and that,

1032
00:45:11,595 --> 00:45:15,134
and then he's done for the week and you
could throw him first in the tournament,

1033
00:45:15,674 --> 00:45:17,505
um, if you had to, something like that.

1034
00:45:17,805 --> 00:45:22,125
So, but gotta go beat JMU and then all
those things would be fun to talk about.

1035
00:45:22,875 --> 00:45:23,505
Yeah.

1036
00:45:23,505 --> 00:45:24,705
And they're, and that's not gonna be easy.

1037
00:45:25,005 --> 00:45:27,465
They, no, they, you know,
they, they obviously, they're

1038
00:45:27,465 --> 00:45:28,725
one of the better pitching.

1039
00:45:29,220 --> 00:45:32,189
Staff's in the league, top to bottom.

1040
00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:35,250
Um, they got some guys that
can throw the ball and a couple

1041
00:45:35,250 --> 00:45:36,569
lefties that are pretty good.

1042
00:45:36,959 --> 00:45:37,649
Um, yeah, Aiden, uh,

1043
00:45:38,069 --> 00:45:39,899
Aiden Kools brother is doing really well.

1044
00:45:40,290 --> 00:45:41,160
Yep, yep.

1045
00:45:41,939 --> 00:45:48,089
They haven't hit a ton this year, um, but
it's an offensive ballpark, so, and I, I

1046
00:45:48,089 --> 00:45:50,100
did look at the extended weather forecast.

1047
00:45:50,100 --> 00:45:53,669
It's gonna be cool up there
on, uh, on, on Friday night.

1048
00:45:54,149 --> 00:45:58,470
Um, so shocker in Harrisonburg,
but, uh, and then Saturday

1049
00:45:58,470 --> 00:46:00,720
and Sunday look nice, so,

1050
00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:02,520
all right,

1051
00:46:03,209 --> 00:46:03,839
well, let's do it.

1052
00:46:03,839 --> 00:46:04,140
Let's go.

1053
00:46:04,140 --> 00:46:05,910
I'm, I'm all for six and Oh, let's do it.

1054
00:46:05,910 --> 00:46:07,020
Let's go out and get some wins.

1055
00:46:07,740 --> 00:46:11,939
Hey, we were supposed to have the
groundbreaking ceremony today for the

1056
00:46:11,939 --> 00:46:18,029
Elmer Family Stadium and the, uh, I
guess whatever meteorologist they were

1057
00:46:18,029 --> 00:46:23,189
talking to told 'em that it was gonna
be, uh, some pretty bad weather around.

1058
00:46:23,189 --> 00:46:25,169
So they postponed it to June 5th.

1059
00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:27,480
Instead of May 5th.

1060
00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:32,250
So we got that giant tent at our,
our home plate right now looks

1061
00:46:32,250 --> 00:46:34,589
like a, a Star Wars spaceship.

1062
00:46:34,589 --> 00:46:35,549
I mean, it's huge.

1063
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:39,419
And I was like, how are we gonna
practice tomorrow with this thing there?

1064
00:46:39,419 --> 00:46:42,569
So yeah, we're gonna have to be creative.

1065
00:46:42,569 --> 00:46:46,410
I think they're trying to get it down,
but I haven't been given any guarantees.

1066
00:46:46,410 --> 00:46:49,770
So just one more thing to
around, it's like turtle, right?

1067
00:46:50,370 --> 00:46:50,759
Yeah.

1068
00:46:50,850 --> 00:46:51,750
It's, it's huge.

1069
00:46:51,750 --> 00:46:51,810
Yeah.

1070
00:46:52,350 --> 00:46:56,189
Um, so yeah, we may, maybe
I'll take BP inside it.

1071
00:46:56,189 --> 00:46:56,580
Maybe.

1072
00:46:57,060 --> 00:46:57,240
We'll see.

1073
00:46:57,240 --> 00:46:57,990
That's what I was thinking.

1074
00:46:58,200 --> 00:47:00,810
Just you have to hit everything
on a line or on the ground.

1075
00:47:00,810 --> 00:47:03,180
If you pop it up, we gonna,
you, you owe money for the tent.

1076
00:47:03,180 --> 00:47:03,330
Yeah.

1077
00:47:03,569 --> 00:47:04,890
Don't come pick without, but have

1078
00:47:04,890 --> 00:47:08,129
a bunch of holes in it
from all the popups.

1079
00:47:08,220 --> 00:47:09,419
And that's a good lesson for the hitters.

1080
00:47:09,419 --> 00:47:10,365
We're not trying to get popups.

1081
00:47:10,584 --> 00:47:10,950
Hit it out.

1082
00:47:10,950 --> 00:47:12,720
There's Right, exactly.

1083
00:47:13,055 --> 00:47:13,605
There you go.

1084
00:47:13,634 --> 00:47:14,125
Exactly.

1085
00:47:14,879 --> 00:47:15,990
Uh, any questions?

1086
00:47:15,990 --> 00:47:17,939
Anybody chime in on anything?

1087
00:47:18,990 --> 00:47:22,620
No, you've an, you answered a couple
questions that I had picked up just

1088
00:47:22,620 --> 00:47:27,120
in person about, you know, approach to
pitching and, and all of that good stuff.

1089
00:47:27,330 --> 00:47:30,600
I will float you one because
Chiron Hammond is gonna

1090
00:47:30,600 --> 00:47:31,920
be our player guest today.

1091
00:47:32,190 --> 00:47:32,340
Yeah.

1092
00:47:32,370 --> 00:47:35,280
Uh, watching him be the bullpen
catcher and then having to run

1093
00:47:35,280 --> 00:47:36,570
out and warm up the pitchers.

1094
00:47:36,900 --> 00:47:40,950
Uh, I I guess, is he the emergency
backup catcher now given the situation?

1095
00:47:41,130 --> 00:47:41,400
He

1096
00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:42,150
is, yeah.

1097
00:47:42,150 --> 00:47:47,190
He is the, um, he's the guy that,
he's been in the bullpen this

1098
00:47:47,190 --> 00:47:51,300
year times when we've had to get
two guys going and he does fine.

1099
00:47:51,300 --> 00:47:59,820
And, um, you know, his biggest issue was
he said, I don't have a cup, A cup, but

1100
00:47:59,820 --> 00:48:01,350
yeah, we probably need to do that, Ron.

1101
00:48:01,770 --> 00:48:07,410
Um, he is, he is an amazingly
wonderful kid, great kid.

1102
00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:10,800
His energy, you know, is infectious.

1103
00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:13,050
He loves being a part of a team.

1104
00:48:13,605 --> 00:48:15,585
Um, he plays hard.

1105
00:48:15,585 --> 00:48:19,154
He is, he is just great and he
gave us a big spark yesterday, man.

1106
00:48:19,575 --> 00:48:23,505
And, um, you know, he hadn't played
for a couple weeks much at all.

1107
00:48:23,865 --> 00:48:26,714
A couple pitch hit,
appearances, but he never mopes.

1108
00:48:26,714 --> 00:48:28,005
He's always in the game.

1109
00:48:28,725 --> 00:48:34,275
He, um, he is just a really, really fun
guy to have on your team in your program

1110
00:48:34,275 --> 00:48:36,585
and we all appreciate him so much.

1111
00:48:38,895 --> 00:48:39,105
Yeah.

1112
00:48:39,105 --> 00:48:41,535
We're excited to talk to him
and, and talk all about the

1113
00:48:41,535 --> 00:48:43,125
weekend and his whole journey.

1114
00:48:43,125 --> 00:48:44,654
And he's from Essex County.

1115
00:48:44,654 --> 00:48:46,960
I went to Middlesex County, so
we got a little, there you go.

1116
00:48:46,960 --> 00:48:48,435
Little something, something there too.

1117
00:48:48,765 --> 00:48:48,915
Yeah.

1118
00:48:49,035 --> 00:48:52,725
Uh, but no, I think, I think that's
all we had and as always coach, we

1119
00:48:52,725 --> 00:48:54,225
appreciate having you on here, man.

1120
00:48:54,225 --> 00:48:56,205
It's an awesome boost for
us and get to hear it.

1121
00:48:56,685 --> 00:48:59,205
The information directly
from you is always a big win.

1122
00:48:59,505 --> 00:49:02,234
Trying my best to get to
the diamond this week.

1123
00:49:02,234 --> 00:49:04,365
I think CB's coming up, I'll be there.

1124
00:49:05,025 --> 00:49:05,325
Yeah.

1125
00:49:05,325 --> 00:49:06,194
So we'll do that.

1126
00:49:06,194 --> 00:49:10,185
And then, uh, of course we watching this
weekend on ESPN plus for the JMU series.

1127
00:49:11,174 --> 00:49:12,165
Hey, one of the things

1128
00:49:12,165 --> 00:49:17,595
we are gonna try to do with, um,
Tahraun, and you usually only wanna

1129
00:49:17,595 --> 00:49:19,815
do it as a, in a, in a home game.

1130
00:49:20,565 --> 00:49:25,515
Um, but I thought it would be cool to,
to try and, and we're not gonna do it

1131
00:49:25,515 --> 00:49:30,435
Wednesday night, uh, but we may try
it at Richmond the following Tuesday.

1132
00:49:31,035 --> 00:49:34,395
Um, never had a guy try to play
all nine positions in the game.

1133
00:49:34,575 --> 00:49:35,265
Oh, yeah.

1134
00:49:36,645 --> 00:49:37,815
And so we're gonna give that award.

1135
00:49:37,815 --> 00:49:38,115
Of course.

1136
00:49:38,115 --> 00:49:40,305
We need to have the lead Yeah.

1137
00:49:40,995 --> 00:49:43,845
In the, or at least be tied in
the ninth grade to work, or else

1138
00:49:43,845 --> 00:49:46,065
you're like, wasted a bunch of time.

1139
00:49:46,065 --> 00:49:47,985
So, um, I don't know.

1140
00:49:47,985 --> 00:49:48,465
Well, you know, he

1141
00:49:48,465 --> 00:49:50,595
actually has a ton of pitching experience.

1142
00:49:50,595 --> 00:49:53,654
I'm like, I know we were he gonna do
this with, with, uh, Bryce Windham.

1143
00:49:53,654 --> 00:49:56,654
We were gonna, which he had not ever
pitched in college, so he pitched some

1144
00:49:56,654 --> 00:50:01,395
bull, but, but, uh, Ron has a decent
amount of, uh, pitching experience.

1145
00:50:01,545 --> 00:50:01,995
He does.

1146
00:50:01,995 --> 00:50:02,235
Yeah.

1147
00:50:02,235 --> 00:50:05,805
And he is actually been throwing
bullpens, you know, um, he

1148
00:50:05,805 --> 00:50:07,125
looked pretty good last week.

1149
00:50:07,125 --> 00:50:08,174
He threw the hitters.

1150
00:50:08,490 --> 00:50:13,380
So we may, we may still use him in that
capacity, so we're gonna think about it.

1151
00:50:13,380 --> 00:50:14,430
I'd love to be able to do it.

1152
00:50:14,430 --> 00:50:16,350
I wish we had one more midweek home game.

1153
00:50:16,740 --> 00:50:16,890
Yeah.

1154
00:50:16,980 --> 00:50:17,970
Um, to do it in.

1155
00:50:17,970 --> 00:50:20,970
'cause like I said, if you go
through all that and then you don't

1156
00:50:20,970 --> 00:50:23,940
get to, you know, play the night,
that's when he is got a pitch.

1157
00:50:23,970 --> 00:50:24,120
Yeah.

1158
00:50:24,450 --> 00:50:27,180
Um, it kind of defeats the
purpose of it a little bit.

1159
00:50:27,600 --> 00:50:31,440
So, uh, but, but it's something
we'd like to do, so we'll see.

1160
00:50:32,100 --> 00:50:32,705
That would be pretty awesome.

1161
00:50:32,705 --> 00:50:33,210
You know, it's always

1162
00:50:33,210 --> 00:50:36,780
that mid, uh, switch of the eighth, you
know, if the situation we're gonna, we're

1163
00:50:36,780 --> 00:50:38,730
gonna be winning the game, we're not
gonna worry about it, but just in case.

1164
00:50:38,730 --> 00:50:39,000
Yeah.

1165
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:39,660
You can always throw in here.

1166
00:50:39,660 --> 00:50:39,870
That's true.

1167
00:50:39,870 --> 00:50:39,990
We

1168
00:50:40,265 --> 00:50:42,120
could, we could, we
could just bring 'em in.

1169
00:50:42,120 --> 00:50:43,560
Bring 'em in the eighth top.

1170
00:50:43,620 --> 00:50:43,860
Yeah.

1171
00:50:43,920 --> 00:50:46,260
Off the field to pitch two outs in eighth.

1172
00:50:46,260 --> 00:50:47,430
I mean, ECU does it right.

1173
00:50:47,430 --> 00:50:48,060
Why not us?

1174
00:50:48,330 --> 00:50:48,810
That's right.

1175
00:50:48,960 --> 00:50:49,320
Yeah.

1176
00:50:49,410 --> 00:50:49,620
Yeah.

1177
00:50:49,620 --> 00:50:50,730
That's a good, that's a good call.

1178
00:50:50,730 --> 00:50:52,350
We might, we might need to try that.

1179
00:50:52,440 --> 00:50:52,770
So.

1180
00:50:53,100 --> 00:50:57,105
Alright guys, we'll your time
to Ron and thank you Goman.

1181
00:50:57,105 --> 00:50:57,905
Appreciate you man.

1182
00:50:57,905 --> 00:50:58,385
Thank you, coach.

1183
00:50:58,565 --> 00:50:58,785
Go

1184
00:50:58,785 --> 00:50:59,145
Monarch.

1185
00:51:00,570 --> 00:51:02,910
All right, we're gonna take a quick
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1186
00:51:02,970 --> 00:51:05,940
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1187
00:51:05,940 --> 00:51:07,620
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1188
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1189
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1191
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1193
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1194
00:51:29,874 --> 00:51:32,814
Welcome back, Monarch fans
to the Hudson Homer podcast.

1195
00:51:32,814 --> 00:51:37,914
We are excited to bring on
infielder slash bullpen catcher.

1196
00:51:37,914 --> 00:51:39,174
Little bit of everything.

1197
00:51:39,684 --> 00:51:42,294
Senior Tahraun Hammond
has joined the podcast.

1198
00:51:42,294 --> 00:51:42,754
Tahraun.

1199
00:51:42,774 --> 00:51:43,884
How is it going, man?

1200
00:51:45,054 --> 00:51:45,264
Uh,

1201
00:51:45,264 --> 00:51:45,714
going

1202
00:51:45,714 --> 00:51:46,344
really well.

1203
00:51:46,344 --> 00:51:46,614
How you

1204
00:51:46,614 --> 00:51:47,184
guys doing?

1205
00:51:48,564 --> 00:51:49,284
We are great man.

1206
00:51:49,584 --> 00:51:50,514
We are great.

1207
00:51:50,514 --> 00:51:55,614
We know you are, uh, kind of in the middle
of your journey back to campus from Essex.

1208
00:51:55,944 --> 00:51:59,124
Uh, back in my home county of
Middlesex where we apparently just

1209
00:51:59,154 --> 00:52:00,564
still don't have cell towers there.

1210
00:52:00,564 --> 00:52:01,974
They haven't upgrade since I graduated.

1211
00:52:04,509 --> 00:52:05,874
Middlesex always gonna be like that.

1212
00:52:08,454 --> 00:52:08,844
Always.

1213
00:52:08,844 --> 00:52:09,174
Yes.

1214
00:52:10,254 --> 00:52:12,534
We'll be flying cars and they'll
still be like, man, this, this

1215
00:52:12,534 --> 00:52:13,434
wife out here is terrible.

1216
00:52:14,664 --> 00:52:14,724
You

1217
00:52:15,384 --> 00:52:17,004
definitely hop in a little time machine.

1218
00:52:17,484 --> 00:52:19,254
I actually didn't know
you was from Middlesex.

1219
00:52:20,289 --> 00:52:20,919
Yes.

1220
00:52:20,919 --> 00:52:21,219
Yeah.

1221
00:52:21,219 --> 00:52:24,009
Graduated from Middlesex, played
down in Deltaville, ballpark.

1222
00:52:24,009 --> 00:52:25,899
Uh, it was obviously well
before you were there.

1223
00:52:25,899 --> 00:52:28,749
This is 2005 when I graduated high school.

1224
00:52:28,749 --> 00:52:32,789
I think the, uh, the big name for
Essex then was Harold Muzingo.

1225
00:52:33,069 --> 00:52:33,849
I don't know if you heard that.

1226
00:52:34,389 --> 00:52:34,629
Oh yeah.

1227
00:52:34,814 --> 00:52:35,354
Harold heard

1228
00:52:35,354 --> 00:52:35,474
that.

1229
00:52:37,779 --> 00:52:39,999
I actually trained with
Harold a few times.

1230
00:52:41,259 --> 00:52:41,829
Okay.

1231
00:52:41,889 --> 00:52:42,879
Yeah, he was a beast.

1232
00:52:42,879 --> 00:52:45,939
He was throwing like low nineties
to me and I was like 15 years old

1233
00:52:45,939 --> 00:52:47,229
and it did not go well for me.

1234
00:52:52,389 --> 00:52:52,749
Yeah.

1235
00:52:52,839 --> 00:52:55,419
Well, Tahraun you had a, a great weekend.

1236
00:52:55,419 --> 00:52:58,299
I know you spent a lot of time running
back and forth from the dugouts of the

1237
00:52:58,299 --> 00:53:02,469
bullpen to catch the guys when we were
down two catchers, but huge hit on

1238
00:53:02,469 --> 00:53:04,479
Sunday to kind of break the offense open.

1239
00:53:04,479 --> 00:53:05,619
What'd you think about the weekend?

1240
00:53:07,629 --> 00:53:12,579
Um, I thought the weekend
started off a little shaky, but

1241
00:53:12,579 --> 00:53:14,589
uh, in the end it went well.

1242
00:53:14,589 --> 00:53:15,999
We, we rallied together.

1243
00:53:15,999 --> 00:53:18,189
We stayed together as a
team to keep fighting.

1244
00:53:18,564 --> 00:53:21,174
To overcome the obstacles that
got in our way of winning.

1245
00:53:21,174 --> 00:53:24,864
So I think it went really, it went,
it started off bad, but ended.

1246
00:53:24,864 --> 00:53:25,164
Ended.

1247
00:53:25,314 --> 00:53:26,934
Ended up ended up really good.

1248
00:53:29,304 --> 00:53:29,544
Yeah.

1249
00:53:29,544 --> 00:53:32,754
You're one of those guys that you're
just such an important part of any

1250
00:53:32,754 --> 00:53:36,954
team, like you show up every day, you've
got a great attitude, you're always

1251
00:53:36,954 --> 00:53:40,764
smiling, you can see you're out there,
just always uplifting the guys man.

1252
00:53:40,764 --> 00:53:41,064
Like it.

1253
00:53:41,274 --> 00:53:43,554
Do you, is that a thing you think
about doing or just something

1254
00:53:43,554 --> 00:53:44,634
that just comes naturally to you?

1255
00:53:45,834 --> 00:53:48,954
Uh, I would say it's a little bit of both.

1256
00:53:50,094 --> 00:53:53,094
Uh, of course I'm human so
sometimes I don't have a good day.

1257
00:53:53,094 --> 00:53:58,374
But I just feel like if energy's a
really important thing to, like in

1258
00:53:58,464 --> 00:54:01,974
baseball to me, because like if you
don't have good energy, then like

1259
00:54:02,184 --> 00:54:04,764
how are you gonna perform well or
how are you gonna do anything good?

1260
00:54:04,764 --> 00:54:08,544
So I just feel like being the person
I am to bring the energy to the

1261
00:54:08,544 --> 00:54:12,834
team and to the dugout or on the
field, like it just helps out a lot

1262
00:54:14,844 --> 00:54:16,854
more than what anybody would think.

1263
00:54:18,339 --> 00:54:18,489
Yeah.

1264
00:54:19,599 --> 00:54:19,749
Yeah.

1265
00:54:19,749 --> 00:54:21,489
And you've moved around a
couple positions this year.

1266
00:54:21,489 --> 00:54:23,439
I think you've, you've played
third, you've played second,

1267
00:54:23,439 --> 00:54:24,819
you've done a couple other things.

1268
00:54:24,879 --> 00:54:29,829
Um, but how is that for you just kind of
always having to be at the ready to go?

1269
00:54:29,829 --> 00:54:32,409
Is that part of that just positive
energy you're bringing to the dugout?

1270
00:54:34,239 --> 00:54:37,389
Uh, I'm just somebody that,
that's just wants to play and win.

1271
00:54:37,479 --> 00:54:41,289
Like, uh, when I was younger, like
we just always wanted to compete.

1272
00:54:41,289 --> 00:54:46,089
Like, especially like in Essex, like
it's not many good baseball players.

1273
00:54:46,089 --> 00:54:49,689
So like, of course, like I had to be
that guy to play every position like

1274
00:54:49,749 --> 00:54:51,519
that was needed whenever we needed it.

1275
00:54:51,519 --> 00:54:58,089
So I just feel like the competitive nature
is something that helps me bring, uh,

1276
00:54:58,089 --> 00:55:00,189
like a winning mentality to the team.

1277
00:55:02,529 --> 00:55:02,829
Yeah.

1278
00:55:02,829 --> 00:55:04,509
And, and to that end, you know, you.

1279
00:55:05,124 --> 00:55:06,534
This is your first year
playing division one.

1280
00:55:06,534 --> 00:55:09,324
You, you've, you've got as much college
experience as pretty much anybody on

1281
00:55:09,324 --> 00:55:12,654
the team, you know, playing at D two at
Virginia State and, and Bluefield State.

1282
00:55:12,984 --> 00:55:16,824
But this first year at D one, but also
the first time, you've really haven't

1283
00:55:16,824 --> 00:55:19,134
been in the lineup every single day.

1284
00:55:19,344 --> 00:55:20,484
I mean, other, other years.

1285
00:55:20,484 --> 00:55:21,654
You know, you're playing
shortstop every day.

1286
00:55:21,654 --> 00:55:22,794
You're even pitching every day.

1287
00:55:23,094 --> 00:55:26,514
What's that adjustment been like
for you to have, to learn how to,

1288
00:55:26,874 --> 00:55:28,254
like I said, be ready anytime.

1289
00:55:31,554 --> 00:55:31,584
I,

1290
00:55:34,434 --> 00:55:37,079
uh, most of the time, of course,

1291
00:55:43,704 --> 00:55:44,094
thanks.

1292
00:55:46,164 --> 00:55:49,674
Not like, I'm not gonna say I'm not
gonna be the best for the team, but as

1293
00:55:49,674 --> 00:55:54,414
in like, if he sees something that like
we don't see, then we have to just trust

1294
00:55:54,414 --> 00:55:56,064
what he sees because he's been in here.

1295
00:55:57,204 --> 00:55:58,014
20 plus years.

1296
00:55:58,014 --> 00:56:02,274
So it's just the adjustment has
been just, just being myself

1297
00:56:02,274 --> 00:56:04,524
and just being there to help.

1298
00:56:04,644 --> 00:56:08,274
Like, you know, like, like you said, like
I've been, I've been at the college level

1299
00:56:08,274 --> 00:56:13,494
for three years, so like I've seen the
ups, I've seen the down, I've seen it all.

1300
00:56:13,494 --> 00:56:17,364
So I just wanna be here to help
my team win and succeeded in,

1301
00:56:21,994 --> 00:56:24,664
Just asking a little bit about, you
know, how you got recruited to ODU.

1302
00:56:24,664 --> 00:56:27,304
Obviously you're at Virginia
State for, for coup for two years.

1303
00:56:27,304 --> 00:56:30,034
You're at Bluefield State for a
year, you know, what's that journey

1304
00:56:30,034 --> 00:56:32,924
like going get eventually coming
from Bluefield to old Dominion?

1305
00:56:35,314 --> 00:56:42,634
Uh, I would say that was a good, it was
a, at first it was, it was a little rough.

1306
00:56:42,724 --> 00:56:45,874
Uh, like when I first had entered
the portal, I ended up entering

1307
00:56:45,874 --> 00:56:48,874
the portal because my coach for
Bluetooth state ended up leaving

1308
00:56:48,874 --> 00:56:50,164
and going to a different school.

1309
00:56:50,884 --> 00:56:55,804
So the recruiting, like I remember I
just, one day, like I had, I honestly,

1310
00:56:56,104 --> 00:56:58,174
I'm not gonna say I committed to
another school, but like, I had

1311
00:56:58,174 --> 00:57:01,744
told a school that was coming, but
I just wanted to like battle myself.

1312
00:57:01,894 --> 00:57:06,244
And, uh, one day, I just remember I
text Hayes my sophomore year at college

1313
00:57:06,304 --> 00:57:07,564
when I first entered the portal.

1314
00:57:08,584 --> 00:57:12,244
And we had a little conversation and
whatnot, and then I just was like,

1315
00:57:12,244 --> 00:57:15,214
I just wanna, I'm gonna text him
this year just to see, see what the

1316
00:57:15,214 --> 00:57:18,514
odds are that I get the opportunity
to be able to play at division one.

1317
00:57:21,064 --> 00:57:21,724
Glad it worked out.

1318
00:57:22,119 --> 00:57:22,409
Yeah.

1319
00:57:22,414 --> 00:57:22,744
Yeah.

1320
00:57:22,744 --> 00:57:23,824
It worked out really well for us.

1321
00:57:23,824 --> 00:57:25,114
So we're, we're glad you landed here.

1322
00:57:25,489 --> 00:57:29,764
I, I literally, like, when h first got
to ODU, the first thing I told him is,

1323
00:57:29,764 --> 00:57:34,414
you know, the guys you recruited at VMI
were always some of my favorite human

1324
00:57:34,414 --> 00:57:37,234
beings because I'd see 'em, you know,
playing here local in high school.

1325
00:57:37,534 --> 00:57:40,864
And so it makes perfect sense that you
were the guy that you texted Hayes.

1326
00:57:40,894 --> 00:57:41,464
'cause I was like, yep.

1327
00:57:41,464 --> 00:57:41,854
There you go.

1328
00:57:41,854 --> 00:57:44,524
Just another top notch,
fantastic human being.

1329
00:57:44,914 --> 00:57:45,244
Yeah.

1330
00:57:45,694 --> 00:57:46,534
That's what I try to be.

1331
00:57:47,989 --> 00:57:48,209
You

1332
00:57:48,209 --> 00:57:48,369
go.

1333
00:57:50,074 --> 00:57:50,404
Awesome man.

1334
00:57:50,404 --> 00:57:53,494
Well, we've, uh, we, we've talked
to several other guys on the team.

1335
00:57:53,494 --> 00:57:57,094
I think you're living in a house with
Scotty and who's the, the third with you?

1336
00:57:57,454 --> 00:57:58,114
Zach.

1337
00:57:58,114 --> 00:57:58,489
Zach, yeah.

1338
00:57:58,719 --> 00:57:59,009
Zach.

1339
00:57:59,009 --> 00:57:59,419
Zach Leite.

1340
00:57:59,439 --> 00:57:59,729
Okay.

1341
00:57:59,729 --> 00:58:00,129
Mm-hmm.

1342
00:58:00,574 --> 00:58:00,754
Yeah.

1343
00:58:00,754 --> 00:58:02,494
Tell us a little bit about
living in that house.

1344
00:58:02,944 --> 00:58:06,154
Uh, it's a great household
to live in, honestly.

1345
00:58:06,574 --> 00:58:07,174
Uh.

1346
00:58:07,909 --> 00:58:10,699
All of, like, me and Scotty,
like we're we'd loud ones.

1347
00:58:10,699 --> 00:58:14,899
We the talkative ones, uh, Zach don't
really talk as much, but we get Zach

1348
00:58:14,899 --> 00:58:17,749
out of his, like, out of his comfort
zone when we're in the house together.

1349
00:58:17,749 --> 00:58:20,539
So the household is just a
fun household to live in.

1350
00:58:20,539 --> 00:58:23,929
Like, we always laughing, joking,
uh, we, we cook for each other.

1351
00:58:23,929 --> 00:58:24,619
We do everything.

1352
00:58:24,619 --> 00:58:26,209
Like it's a really good
household to live in.

1353
00:58:27,109 --> 00:58:29,329
Does Scotty ever get you do
pterodactyl sounds with him?

1354
00:58:33,649 --> 00:58:36,139
That's not something do, that's,
that's more of him exact thing.

1355
00:58:36,139 --> 00:58:37,309
Like, I'm more than one.

1356
00:58:37,309 --> 00:58:39,379
Like I'm just gonna sit here
and just laugh at them doing it.

1357
00:58:39,379 --> 00:58:40,039
Because like what?

1358
00:58:40,279 --> 00:58:40,489
Like,

1359
00:58:43,399 --> 00:58:45,474
just like a competition
heard, we heard about in

1360
00:58:45,529 --> 00:58:46,999
the left field on like Saturday.

1361
00:58:46,999 --> 00:58:48,499
He was out there at the end of the game.

1362
00:58:48,499 --> 00:58:49,069
He was just out.

1363
00:58:49,069 --> 00:58:50,959
You could hear him yelling,
nobody else out there.

1364
00:58:50,959 --> 00:58:51,709
He was like, let's go.

1365
00:58:52,069 --> 00:58:52,939
Just being Scotty.

1366
00:58:52,939 --> 00:58:53,389
Just saying.

1367
00:58:53,749 --> 00:58:54,319
Yeah.

1368
00:58:54,769 --> 00:58:54,979
Yeah.

1369
00:58:54,979 --> 00:58:55,399
That's Scott.

1370
00:58:55,939 --> 00:58:56,299
Definitely.

1371
00:58:56,299 --> 00:58:57,019
Scotty right there.

1372
00:58:59,794 --> 00:59:00,274
That's awesome.

1373
00:59:00,274 --> 00:59:04,384
Well, I mean, I, I noticed you down
in the bullpen catching, I think early

1374
00:59:04,384 --> 00:59:07,564
in the day on Saturday and 'cause
I kind of knew the situation with,

1375
00:59:07,564 --> 00:59:09,604
with f and then with Slate as well.

1376
00:59:09,964 --> 00:59:12,994
Uh, but I assume you have caught
at some point before 'cause

1377
00:59:12,994 --> 00:59:15,424
you looked a little too natural
out there, even in the bullpen.

1378
00:59:15,844 --> 00:59:15,964
Mm-hmm.

1379
00:59:16,564 --> 00:59:19,054
Yeah, I've caught
throughout my whole life.

1380
00:59:19,234 --> 00:59:23,524
Uh, I probably started, my catching was
actually the first position I played.

1381
00:59:23,554 --> 00:59:25,474
Like I played in baseball.

1382
00:59:26,284 --> 00:59:29,914
I didn't start playing
shortstop until about my seventh

1383
00:59:29,914 --> 00:59:31,264
grade year, middle school.

1384
00:59:32,464 --> 00:59:35,779
But like, catching is something
that like I started doing, like that

1385
00:59:35,779 --> 00:59:36,964
was one of the first things that,

1386
00:59:36,964 --> 00:59:41,134
and pitching, pitching as long as you
have the proper equipment to catch, right.

1387
00:59:41,599 --> 00:59:41,889
Yeah.

1388
00:59:44,134 --> 00:59:44,689
That's, that's the big issue.

1389
00:59:46,684 --> 00:59:49,294
Yeah, I was about to say, you can go
ask Evan if you can go without one.

1390
00:59:49,294 --> 00:59:53,164
'cause I'm pretty sure he caught one right
off the plate into him, uh, on Sunday.

1391
00:59:53,704 --> 00:59:55,324
Yeah, definitely.

1392
00:59:55,654 --> 00:59:56,044
Oh yeah.

1393
00:59:56,044 --> 00:59:56,224
Yeah.

1394
00:59:56,284 --> 00:59:57,244
Sunday, yes.

1395
00:59:58,354 --> 01:00:01,144
I think Evan got hit twice on Sunday.

1396
01:00:01,144 --> 01:00:04,144
I believe he's gotta be just

1397
01:00:04,144 --> 01:00:06,454
living in an ice bath
this, uh, next couple days.

1398
01:00:06,904 --> 01:00:08,524
Yeah, definitely.

1399
01:00:09,904 --> 01:00:12,184
And yeah, you were talking about pitching
and I, I, I brought that up a little.

1400
01:00:12,184 --> 01:00:12,844
We talked about Finney.

1401
01:00:12,844 --> 01:00:16,414
You, you pitched a ton between
Virginia State and Bluefield State.

1402
01:00:16,444 --> 01:00:17,374
What, what was that like?

1403
01:00:17,374 --> 01:00:19,834
I think, I think you told me one
time that it just kind of happened.

1404
01:00:20,914 --> 01:00:26,734
Um, I pitched in high school and, uh,
I think my freshman year of my freshman

1405
01:00:26,734 --> 01:00:30,154
year of Virginia State, I believe
one of our starters had got hurt.

1406
01:00:30,154 --> 01:00:33,604
And uh, we just was looking for
somebody like to just do it.

1407
01:00:34,144 --> 01:00:36,214
And I just remember, like, I
was like, man, I could do it.

1408
01:00:36,214 --> 01:00:40,264
Like it's, you know, I, I'm not gonna
say I was the hardest store my freshman

1409
01:00:40,264 --> 01:00:44,224
year, but I can definitely say from my
freshman year to now, like I've picked up

1410
01:00:44,224 --> 01:00:47,104
a lot more vlo than what I started with.

1411
01:00:48,184 --> 01:00:52,624
Well, I, I wanna tell the fans out there
just actually how good you were pitching.

1412
01:00:52,654 --> 01:00:58,084
So at Virginia State, 30 appearances,
3.81 ERA two 16 batting average

1413
01:00:58,084 --> 01:01:00,304
against conference player of
the year while you're there too.

1414
01:01:00,724 --> 01:01:05,914
Then at Bluefield, was it 12
appearances, 2.53 ERA with three saves,

1415
01:01:06,214 --> 01:01:08,044
uh, player of the Year award again.

1416
01:01:08,464 --> 01:01:12,214
So I would say you were more than
just like, getting filled into a spot.

1417
01:01:12,214 --> 01:01:15,334
Like it seems like you may have upgraded
the position by throwing you up there.

1418
01:01:15,754 --> 01:01:20,524
Yeah, I was, like I said, I just, when
I'm a, I'm a competitor, so I always,

1419
01:01:21,094 --> 01:01:25,114
when I'm up on the mound, like it's just,
it's you versus me, and I'm gonna bet

1420
01:01:25,114 --> 01:01:29,434
on myself 10 times outta 10, no matter
who it is or who step into the box.

1421
01:01:29,434 --> 01:01:31,804
Like, I'm gonna bet on
myself no matter what.

1422
01:01:34,789 --> 01:01:38,299
Uh, I had a picture, uh, Gary, if
you got the one of, uh, him and Mav.

1423
01:01:38,329 --> 01:01:42,109
Uh, and this is, and I probably got a, a
ton of these, but, uh, I noticed you guys

1424
01:01:42,109 --> 01:01:44,089
take a take a minute before every game.

1425
01:01:44,179 --> 01:01:44,929
Uh, whoop it went away.

1426
01:01:44,929 --> 01:01:47,809
Is that, uh, take a minute before
every game to to pray with each other.

1427
01:01:47,809 --> 01:01:50,299
I tell, tell me why that's
important for you guys and how

1428
01:01:50,299 --> 01:01:51,109
did y'all start doing that?

1429
01:01:51,979 --> 01:01:55,849
Um, I forgot what series started it.

1430
01:01:55,849 --> 01:02:03,049
I believe it was, um, the series after
Charlotte, when we were, when we were

1431
01:02:03,049 --> 01:02:05,479
going to Auburn, like our Auburn series.

1432
01:02:06,499 --> 01:02:10,129
Uh, it just was a thing, like we just came
to each other like, uh, before the game.

1433
01:02:10,159 --> 01:02:11,839
'cause we usually, we
usually pray as a team.

1434
01:02:12,289 --> 01:02:15,439
So like we would present, we would
break off and throw and stuff.

1435
01:02:15,439 --> 01:02:18,199
So like one day, like me and Mav
just like, 'cause me and Mav are

1436
01:02:18,199 --> 01:02:21,589
really close and like we both like,
believe, like God is like the number

1437
01:02:21,589 --> 01:02:23,179
one like thing person in our lives.

1438
01:02:23,179 --> 01:02:25,339
So like, we do everything through him.

1439
01:02:25,339 --> 01:02:28,654
So like, I. Me and him just
one day, like disagree, like

1440
01:02:28,894 --> 01:02:30,574
let's just pray before the game.

1441
01:02:30,844 --> 01:02:36,214
And we just been praying in every
game and it hasn't stopped since.

1442
01:02:37,324 --> 01:02:37,714
Yeah, I know.

1443
01:02:37,714 --> 01:02:38,974
It's always a ni it's a nice moment.

1444
01:02:38,974 --> 01:02:42,154
Anytime another photographer is
at a game, that's where, oh, you

1445
01:02:42,154 --> 01:02:44,884
see, you can see it kind, see that
photographer like click form to get it.

1446
01:02:44,884 --> 01:02:45,214
But yeah.

1447
01:02:45,484 --> 01:02:45,664
Yeah.

1448
01:02:45,664 --> 01:02:47,584
I remember the first time I met
you was at a volleyball game.

1449
01:02:47,584 --> 01:02:49,024
It was You were hanging out with Mav.

1450
01:02:49,294 --> 01:02:51,514
Yeah, that was, and I was immediately
like, well, I love this guy.

1451
01:02:51,514 --> 01:02:53,014
I can't wait to see him
get to play all here.

1452
01:02:53,944 --> 01:02:54,064
Yeah.

1453
01:02:54,064 --> 01:02:57,784
Mav was like, Mav was the first, like
one of the first teammates that I had

1454
01:02:57,784 --> 01:03:00,664
here that like, we actually clicked
like as soon as we met each other.

1455
01:03:00,664 --> 01:03:03,994
So like, that's, that's
my boy, like, so yeah.

1456
01:03:04,714 --> 01:03:08,884
So he, now that's interesting 'cause
you know, it, I see him when he

1457
01:03:08,884 --> 01:03:11,674
gets kind of hyped up on the field,
especially when things start happening.

1458
01:03:11,764 --> 01:03:15,094
He's a little louder, but in general,
like, I've known Matt like two years

1459
01:03:15,094 --> 01:03:16,984
and he maybe hadn't said 12 words to me.

1460
01:03:17,374 --> 01:03:19,324
So it's funny 'cause you're,
you're much more talkative.

1461
01:03:19,324 --> 01:03:21,934
Is he, is he like that when y'all
hang out or is it just like, you

1462
01:03:21,934 --> 01:03:22,924
gotta open him up a little bit?

1463
01:03:23,404 --> 01:03:27,574
Uh, I'm gonna say like, I remember
'cause everybody tells me like

1464
01:03:27,574 --> 01:03:31,684
Mav, like ma, even Mav will tell me
like he didn't talk to nobody last.

1465
01:03:31,684 --> 01:03:36,604
His, uh, the first came here and I just
remember like when I first came, I, it

1466
01:03:36,604 --> 01:03:40,894
was like August and like we just, like
all of us went to, um, our teammates

1467
01:03:40,894 --> 01:03:45,004
house and we was just sitting there and
talking and vi vibing with each other.

1468
01:03:45,004 --> 01:03:48,424
And I just remember like him coming
up just like introducing himself and

1469
01:03:48,784 --> 01:03:50,464
showing me around the different things.

1470
01:03:50,464 --> 01:03:53,344
Like we just had like a talk, like
he, I found out he was from Florida.

1471
01:03:53,854 --> 01:03:54,994
Uh, just different things.

1472
01:03:54,994 --> 01:03:57,394
Like, it just was like a, a instant bond.

1473
01:03:57,394 --> 01:03:58,624
Like as soon as we started talking,

1474
01:04:00,694 --> 01:04:00,904
just

1475
01:04:00,904 --> 01:04:01,804
soulmates, I get it.

1476
01:04:01,804 --> 01:04:02,104
All right.

1477
01:04:05,194 --> 01:04:08,614
CB got a couple other great
shots from this weekend too.

1478
01:04:08,674 --> 01:04:11,554
So, uh, if you ever need evidence
that you caught at OD, if you sent

1479
01:04:11,554 --> 01:04:12,814
out, don't up behind the plate.

1480
01:04:13,249 --> 01:04:15,019
Uh, CB has got you covered.

1481
01:04:15,019 --> 01:04:15,409
I mean

1482
01:04:15,474 --> 01:04:17,299
Oh, of course.

1483
01:04:17,299 --> 01:04:18,139
The smile, right?

1484
01:04:18,229 --> 01:04:18,649
Of course.

1485
01:04:18,654 --> 01:04:18,854
Yeah.

1486
01:04:20,119 --> 01:04:20,629
Yes.

1487
01:04:20,839 --> 01:04:21,649
That is awesome.

1488
01:04:21,649 --> 01:04:24,319
And by the way, no one is gonna be,
uh, trying to railroad the catcher.

1489
01:04:24,379 --> 01:04:27,619
'cause that's a, it's gonna
be a tough one to get through.

1490
01:04:27,619 --> 01:04:28,399
I can tell you that.

1491
01:04:29,659 --> 01:04:30,169
Yeah.

1492
01:04:31,939 --> 01:04:32,629
Did you play football?

1493
01:04:32,629 --> 01:04:34,579
I have to assume you played
like every sport there.

1494
01:04:34,639 --> 01:04:34,729
Uh, yeah.

1495
01:04:34,969 --> 01:04:35,749
In high school

1496
01:04:36,049 --> 01:04:39,439
I played football and I also
played basketball in high school.

1497
01:04:39,589 --> 01:04:39,979
Right.

1498
01:04:39,979 --> 01:04:43,699
Yeah, just, I just assuming, like
you said, in a small town anyway, and

1499
01:04:43,699 --> 01:04:44,719
you're a pretty phenomenal athlete.

1500
01:04:44,719 --> 01:04:46,399
I had to imagine you were
just like top of the world.

1501
01:04:46,399 --> 01:04:47,779
So what, what'd you play in?

1502
01:04:47,779 --> 01:04:50,959
I'm mis, I'm, I don't wanna put
any disparagement on your height,

1503
01:04:50,959 --> 01:04:54,829
but I'm assuming point guard
and basketball and uh, yeah.

1504
01:04:54,859 --> 01:04:57,139
And what were you football
like running back, linebacker,

1505
01:04:57,679 --> 01:04:58,549
running back, and safety.

1506
01:04:58,789 --> 01:04:59,149
Actually.

1507
01:04:59,299 --> 01:04:59,959
Safety, yeah.

1508
01:05:00,364 --> 01:05:00,784
There you go.

1509
01:05:00,814 --> 01:05:01,144
Okay.

1510
01:05:01,744 --> 01:05:02,044
All right.

1511
01:05:02,044 --> 01:05:02,554
Yeah, I see it.

1512
01:05:02,554 --> 01:05:02,674
Some

1513
01:05:02,674 --> 01:05:06,544
of those, uh, smaller county high schools
out there, if you can run 50 yards

1514
01:05:06,544 --> 01:05:09,514
without falling over, they're gonna be
like, oh, you're a three sport athlete.

1515
01:05:09,904 --> 01:05:12,124
Then there's Tahraun who ends
up being like the best player

1516
01:05:12,124 --> 01:05:13,414
in every sport that he plays.

1517
01:05:13,414 --> 01:05:14,239
So I That's awesome.

1518
01:05:14,239 --> 01:05:14,559
Right.

1519
01:05:14,854 --> 01:05:16,834
That's exactly how it
is at the small schools.

1520
01:05:17,164 --> 01:05:17,944
Everybody plays out.

1521
01:05:19,114 --> 01:05:19,414
Yeah.

1522
01:05:19,924 --> 01:05:20,374
Oh yeah.

1523
01:05:20,434 --> 01:05:23,194
I have a year of cross country
for some reason because they just

1524
01:05:23,194 --> 01:05:24,724
didn't have enough guys to run, so

1525
01:05:27,694 --> 01:05:27,814
that's

1526
01:05:27,814 --> 01:05:28,054
funny.

1527
01:05:28,054 --> 01:05:29,224
Uh, awesome.

1528
01:05:29,224 --> 01:05:32,734
Well, Tahraun, we ask everyone who
comes on, uh, you know, we've got a

1529
01:05:32,734 --> 01:05:35,734
college elements to MLB, the show, you
got the college football game back.

1530
01:05:35,734 --> 01:05:39,934
So if they were to make a college baseball
game, what would be your overall rating?

1531
01:05:40,144 --> 01:05:42,814
And then what within the
ratings would you spike?

1532
01:05:42,814 --> 01:05:47,044
Could be like contact versus righties,
power versus lefties, fielding.

1533
01:05:47,044 --> 01:05:49,474
So overall and then your best attribute.

1534
01:05:49,894 --> 01:05:54,154
Uh, I probably would be like a 85 overall.

1535
01:05:54,394 --> 01:05:55,234
85 I think.

1536
01:05:56,164 --> 01:06:01,564
Uh, and my best attribute would be
my contact versus rights and lefties.

1537
01:06:02,224 --> 01:06:02,374
Yeah.

1538
01:06:02,374 --> 01:06:05,344
Just contact all around, like putting
the ball in clay, hitting line drives.

1539
01:06:05,644 --> 01:06:08,164
That's, that would probably
be my best attributes.

1540
01:06:09,004 --> 01:06:11,764
This is, so you joined the, the
growing list again, you see kind

1541
01:06:11,764 --> 01:06:12,879
of who the people we have at odu.

1542
01:06:13,174 --> 01:06:16,624
'cause most of our guys give
that like 81 to 85 range.

1543
01:06:16,624 --> 01:06:17,944
It's like, yeah, I'm, I'm good.

1544
01:06:17,944 --> 01:06:19,954
You know, I'm not a mid, so,
Hey, you can, you can, you can do

1545
01:06:19,954 --> 01:06:20,914
something with this ball player.

1546
01:06:21,244 --> 01:06:21,304
Yeah.

1547
01:06:21,334 --> 01:06:22,534
Except for Was Zach.

1548
01:06:22,534 --> 01:06:23,914
Wasn't Zach the only like No, I'm 99.

1549
01:06:24,214 --> 01:06:24,814
99.

1550
01:06:24,814 --> 01:06:25,474
Yeah, he's nine.

1551
01:06:25,479 --> 01:06:25,799
Nine, yeah.

1552
01:06:27,789 --> 01:06:30,454
Yeah, that sound like too,
Zach definitely would say 99.

1553
01:06:32,284 --> 01:06:32,494
Yeah.

1554
01:06:32,644 --> 01:06:35,494
I think Scotty said he is somewhere in
the low eighties or something like that.

1555
01:06:35,494 --> 01:06:35,914
So, uh,

1556
01:06:35,974 --> 01:06:36,394
yeah.

1557
01:06:36,424 --> 01:06:36,544
Yeah.

1558
01:06:36,544 --> 01:06:39,994
We, yeah, a lot of, lot of 80,
81 to 85 range, which is it.

1559
01:06:39,994 --> 01:06:40,534
Which is fine.

1560
01:06:40,534 --> 01:06:42,154
Another, I mean, especially the game.

1561
01:06:42,454 --> 01:06:44,554
I mean, you guys are young, you know,
put you in, put you in a ball game.

1562
01:06:44,554 --> 01:06:45,124
That's pretty good.

1563
01:06:45,484 --> 01:06:45,844
Yeah.

1564
01:06:47,164 --> 01:06:49,054
Well, I know you had finals this week.

1565
01:06:49,114 --> 01:06:52,954
We won't make you say how you felt
you did on those, but what is, uh,

1566
01:06:52,954 --> 01:06:56,854
what's next for you once the season
wraps and the semester's over?

1567
01:06:58,534 --> 01:06:58,624
Um,

1568
01:06:59,704 --> 01:07:00,844
I'll ask you the harder question.

1569
01:07:01,684 --> 01:07:03,424
Yeah, I would definitely try.

1570
01:07:03,424 --> 01:07:04,684
I'm a, I'm play travel ball.

1571
01:07:04,714 --> 01:07:08,134
I mean, uh, fall ball, I'm sorry,
spring summer ball somewhere.

1572
01:07:08,134 --> 01:07:12,244
I'm gonna play summer ball somewhere
just to, uh, keep, keep everything

1573
01:07:12,244 --> 01:07:17,254
good and, uh, hopefully like either at
the draft or during the draft, like,

1574
01:07:17,254 --> 01:07:22,894
you know, I'm just trying to do my
best to get a shot at the next level.

1575
01:07:23,644 --> 01:07:24,094
Honestly.

1576
01:07:25,444 --> 01:07:27,424
There's lots of indie
ball opportunities too.

1577
01:07:27,424 --> 01:07:28,654
If it doesn't, you know, affiliate there.

1578
01:07:28,654 --> 01:07:31,414
There's, and it's not, you know,
Indy ball a few years back, you

1579
01:07:31,414 --> 01:07:34,024
know, 10, 20 years ago was like,
oh man, this is not that good.

1580
01:07:34,024 --> 01:07:35,734
But now it's, it's, it's pretty solid.

1581
01:07:35,734 --> 01:07:38,464
You can actually, I was talking
to, um, Kyle Battle's mom,

1582
01:07:38,524 --> 01:07:39,874
Kyle is one of our alums.

1583
01:07:39,874 --> 01:07:42,514
He played, he got, uh, picked up by the
Yankees for a few years and he's playing

1584
01:07:42,514 --> 01:07:44,434
indie ball right now in, uh, Nebraska.

1585
01:07:44,914 --> 01:07:47,104
And we're talking about, so, you
know, now they actually pay enough.

1586
01:07:47,104 --> 01:07:49,834
You can actually live and like,
pay your bills and do Okay on.

1587
01:07:49,834 --> 01:07:50,974
So it's, yeah.

1588
01:07:50,974 --> 01:07:54,064
Even if it doesn't, uh, work out with,
uh, with affiliate team, that's an

1589
01:07:54,064 --> 01:07:55,744
option for you to, to try that out too.

1590
01:07:56,014 --> 01:07:56,224
Yeah,

1591
01:07:56,224 --> 01:07:56,704
definitely.

1592
01:07:56,794 --> 01:07:57,004
Just

1593
01:07:57,004 --> 01:07:57,484
somewhere,

1594
01:07:57,814 --> 01:08:00,184
just somewhere at the next
level just to keep playing.

1595
01:08:00,184 --> 01:08:00,244
Yeah,

1596
01:08:00,334 --> 01:08:00,754
for sure.

1597
01:08:01,504 --> 01:08:02,494
Doing what I love.

1598
01:08:03,724 --> 01:08:04,414
That's great, man.

1599
01:08:04,564 --> 01:08:07,054
Position flexibility should help
you out quite a bit with that.

1600
01:08:07,054 --> 01:08:07,114
Yeah.

1601
01:08:07,144 --> 01:08:07,594
'cause All right.

1602
01:08:07,594 --> 01:08:08,314
We need a catcher.

1603
01:08:08,314 --> 01:08:09,214
We need a right fielder.

1604
01:08:09,214 --> 01:08:10,114
We need a second baseman.

1605
01:08:10,564 --> 01:08:10,744
I've

1606
01:08:10,744 --> 01:08:11,554
got it all.

1607
01:08:11,584 --> 01:08:12,154
Come get me.

1608
01:08:12,214 --> 01:08:12,454
Yeah.

1609
01:08:12,454 --> 01:08:12,634
I'm.

1610
01:08:14,934 --> 01:08:17,059
And you played a few games for
the, uh, chilia peppers for a

1611
01:08:17,154 --> 01:08:18,169
couple, couple years, right?

1612
01:08:18,469 --> 01:08:19,194
Yeah, I did.

1613
01:08:19,264 --> 01:08:19,554
Yeah.

1614
01:08:19,879 --> 01:08:23,359
I think, I think I looked, and there
was a game I was at taking pictures

1615
01:08:23,359 --> 01:08:25,909
where y'all were playing at the pilots.

1616
01:08:26,059 --> 01:08:26,149
Mm-hmm.

1617
01:08:26,389 --> 01:08:27,949
And you came in at the end of
the game, but I just didn't

1618
01:08:27,949 --> 01:08:28,909
happen to get a picture of you.

1619
01:08:28,909 --> 01:08:31,249
So I was, I was, I was sad about that one.

1620
01:08:31,249 --> 01:08:31,369
And I,

1621
01:08:32,509 --> 01:08:33,349
yeah, I did that.

1622
01:08:33,349 --> 01:08:35,299
That was my freshman year actually.

1623
01:08:35,809 --> 01:08:36,259
Yeah,

1624
01:08:36,619 --> 01:08:39,379
because you had to like, wait out
like it was raining or something.

1625
01:08:39,529 --> 01:08:40,579
That's probably why I
didn't get a picture.

1626
01:08:40,579 --> 01:08:41,509
I might have not been there anymore.

1627
01:08:42,859 --> 01:08:44,299
The game ended up starting really late.

1628
01:08:44,899 --> 01:08:45,619
I definitely remember.

1629
01:08:45,654 --> 01:08:45,944
Yeah.

1630
01:08:47,054 --> 01:08:47,404
There

1631
01:08:47,404 --> 01:08:47,604
you go.

1632
01:08:48,949 --> 01:08:49,069
Yeah.

1633
01:08:49,069 --> 01:08:49,759
Let, all right, man.

1634
01:08:49,819 --> 01:08:53,389
Well, Ron, we, uh, I, I thoroughly enjoyed
you being on the team this year, man.

1635
01:08:53,569 --> 01:08:55,849
I, I'm really glad that that's
how it turned out for you.

1636
01:08:56,269 --> 01:08:58,519
Um, you know, you're, you're the man.

1637
01:08:58,579 --> 01:09:01,339
Uh, you're, you're awesome and
you're, it's, you're just wonderful

1638
01:09:01,339 --> 01:09:02,629
having your energy around the field.

1639
01:09:03,079 --> 01:09:05,359
Uh, and so hopefully we can bring it here.

1640
01:09:05,359 --> 01:09:07,159
And, uh, I was telling Finney earlier,
we were talking about all the different

1641
01:09:07,159 --> 01:09:09,499
variations about things we're, I'm
like, six oh, in conference, let's,

1642
01:09:09,529 --> 01:09:10,729
let's finish it out that way, right?

1643
01:09:11,089 --> 01:09:11,209
Yeah.

1644
01:09:11,269 --> 01:09:11,719
Um.

1645
01:09:13,234 --> 01:09:16,234
Yeah, so, uh, so just
appreciate you coming on, man.

1646
01:09:16,234 --> 01:09:18,934
We appreciate you being a monarch and,
and just thanks for everything, man.

1647
01:09:19,444 --> 01:09:20,224
Yeah, of course, man.

1648
01:09:20,224 --> 01:09:23,404
Thank, thank y'all for just
accepting me and giving me a shot.

1649
01:09:23,404 --> 01:09:24,364
I, I love it here.

1650
01:09:24,604 --> 01:09:25,384
I love Norfolk.

1651
01:09:25,714 --> 01:09:28,984
I never really came down here,
but I definitely feel like

1652
01:09:28,984 --> 01:09:29,944
it's a home down here for me.

1653
01:09:31,024 --> 01:09:31,744
That's awesome, man.

1654
01:09:31,744 --> 01:09:31,894
Good.

1655
01:09:31,954 --> 01:09:32,374
That's awesome.

1656
01:09:32,374 --> 01:09:34,354
We're ha, definitely happy to hear that.

1657
01:09:34,354 --> 01:09:36,124
So, well Tron, thank you so much.

1658
01:09:36,364 --> 01:09:38,194
Uh, drive back to Norfolk safely.

1659
01:09:38,194 --> 01:09:41,344
Watch out for the deer in Middlesex
and Gloucester on your way back.

1660
01:09:41,974 --> 01:09:46,084
Um, but yeah, but take care and, uh, good
luck this week against VCU, then heading

1661
01:09:46,084 --> 01:09:48,214
on up to Harrisonburg to beat the Dukes.

1662
01:09:48,994 --> 01:09:50,344
Yeah, definitely.

1663
01:09:51,124 --> 01:09:51,604
Yes.

1664
01:09:51,664 --> 01:09:52,504
Alright, thanks Ron.

1665
01:09:52,504 --> 01:09:52,894
Take care.

1666
01:09:52,894 --> 01:09:52,954
All

1667
01:09:52,954 --> 01:09:53,374
right, Ron.

1668
01:09:53,409 --> 01:09:53,999
Thank y'all.

1669
01:09:53,999 --> 01:09:54,959
Thank y'all for having me.

1670
01:09:54,959 --> 01:09:55,439
Thanks Ron.

1671
01:09:55,984 --> 01:09:56,614
Appreciate it man.

1672
01:09:57,904 --> 01:09:58,444
Good kid.

1673
01:09:58,744 --> 01:09:59,104
Good kid.

1674
01:09:59,104 --> 01:09:59,554
That's awesome.

1675
01:09:59,554 --> 01:10:00,274
We say that every time.

1676
01:10:00,364 --> 01:10:01,354
Every time we finish with these.

1677
01:10:01,354 --> 01:10:01,654
Good, good.

1678
01:10:01,954 --> 01:10:02,584
Just a good kid.

1679
01:10:02,644 --> 01:10:02,884
Yeah.

1680
01:10:02,974 --> 01:10:04,144
Ron, Ron's a great guy.

1681
01:10:04,354 --> 01:10:06,724
Yet to find someone on
the team I don't like, so

1682
01:10:07,504 --> 01:10:09,664
that's, I'm sure there, there's
probably one of 'em when we hide 'em.

1683
01:10:09,664 --> 01:10:10,654
Well, yeah.

1684
01:10:11,104 --> 01:10:13,954
All right, so let's get to
our players of the week.

1685
01:10:14,254 --> 01:10:14,734
What did we say?

1686
01:10:14,734 --> 01:10:16,114
Hey, you had that ready?

1687
01:10:16,114 --> 01:10:16,714
Look at you.

1688
01:10:17,074 --> 01:10:17,734
Oh, I'm learning, man.

1689
01:10:18,124 --> 01:10:20,134
We, episode 16, I got this finally.

1690
01:10:21,784 --> 01:10:23,824
So, uh, pitch of the week was really hard.

1691
01:10:23,824 --> 01:10:25,984
It was really hard to pick who was
gonna pitch for the week this week.

1692
01:10:26,044 --> 01:10:28,084
Um, no, it was not obviously the plague.

1693
01:10:28,084 --> 01:10:30,514
Morgan, uh, complete game, nine innings.

1694
01:10:30,814 --> 01:10:31,804
Finney's Point was great.

1695
01:10:31,804 --> 01:10:35,014
They got 27 outs actually in
a row, or 27 outs, uh, without

1696
01:10:35,014 --> 01:10:36,634
giving a run after the first two.

1697
01:10:37,054 --> 01:10:40,444
Yeah, two runs, seven hits,
two walks, seven Ks, and just

1698
01:10:40,444 --> 01:10:42,544
absolute just senior leader.

1699
01:10:42,844 --> 01:10:45,424
Um, you know, Kellen Davis, as
you pointed out, probably one of

1700
01:10:45,424 --> 01:10:46,654
his best performers of the year.

1701
01:10:46,654 --> 01:10:49,474
Two innings no hits, two
walks, three strikeouts.

1702
01:10:49,864 --> 01:10:53,164
Um, Ethan Hubble, a scoreless
inning with a couple of strikeouts,

1703
01:10:53,434 --> 01:10:54,184
hopefully his shoulder's.

1704
01:10:54,184 --> 01:10:54,754
Okay.

1705
01:10:55,174 --> 01:10:58,294
Dylan Brown, you know, you, it wasn't
the greatest start of his, of his

1706
01:10:58,294 --> 01:10:59,734
season, but a very nice start, right?

1707
01:10:59,734 --> 01:11:02,434
Six innings, four runs, seven strikeouts.

1708
01:11:02,434 --> 01:11:04,894
He's up over, what, 82
strikeouts this year.

1709
01:11:04,924 --> 01:11:08,704
So he, he is getting up there, I think, I
think I looked up in, in the most recent.

1710
01:11:09,284 --> 01:11:12,164
Highest strikeout total within the
last, like, since Fenwood has been here.

1711
01:11:12,434 --> 01:11:15,134
Uh, hunter Gregory had 85
1 year, 86 another year.

1712
01:11:15,134 --> 01:11:17,234
So I mean, Dylan is
gonna blow right by that.

1713
01:11:17,864 --> 01:11:22,514
Um, Nick Sulpizio with two scoreless
innings, which he has not done all year.

1714
01:11:22,514 --> 01:11:23,744
It was fantastic.

1715
01:11:24,014 --> 01:11:24,254
Dylan.

1716
01:11:24,254 --> 01:11:24,974
Toss strip, same thing.

1717
01:11:24,974 --> 01:11:25,784
Two scoreless innings.

1718
01:11:25,784 --> 01:11:29,414
So the pitching we had, we had some
set, you wouldn't think in a, a week

1719
01:11:29,414 --> 01:11:30,644
where we lost a game, 11 to four.

1720
01:11:30,644 --> 01:11:31,994
We had some really great
pitching, but we did.

1721
01:11:32,714 --> 01:11:36,104
Um, and then Maverick
Maverick, second week in a row.

1722
01:11:36,104 --> 01:11:36,884
Maverick Stallings.

1723
01:11:36,914 --> 01:11:40,064
It is, it is now, uh, past April 15th.

1724
01:11:40,154 --> 01:11:42,314
So, so Maverick and I'll go
through that here in a minute.

1725
01:11:42,314 --> 01:11:44,414
I did some, I did some deep
dive on the stats here.

1726
01:11:44,774 --> 01:11:46,904
Uh, but Maverick for the
week, he was five for 10.

1727
01:11:47,294 --> 01:11:50,744
Uh, had two doubles, a Homer,
four rbis, pick up three walks.

1728
01:11:51,124 --> 01:11:52,474
Uh, some other guys who did really well.

1729
01:11:52,534 --> 01:11:54,184
Uh, Canon George, another great week.

1730
01:11:54,184 --> 01:11:56,374
He's, he's been really
consistently good lately.

1731
01:11:56,374 --> 01:12:00,184
Four for 11, a double a homer,
three walks, uh, stolen base.

1732
01:12:00,184 --> 01:12:01,864
Three, uh, three rbis.

1733
01:12:02,374 --> 01:12:04,504
Uh, Evan Holman, two for four.

1734
01:12:04,504 --> 01:12:05,494
Had that basis clearing.

1735
01:12:05,494 --> 01:12:07,204
Double had four rbis.

1736
01:12:07,834 --> 01:12:09,544
A couple hit by pitches of sacrifice.

1737
01:12:09,544 --> 01:12:11,044
Kyle Edwards, another good week.

1738
01:12:11,284 --> 01:12:15,334
Four for 10, two doubles, three rbis,
a walk, a sacrifice, a stolen base.

1739
01:12:15,334 --> 01:12:16,564
Just fill up that box score.

1740
01:12:16,924 --> 01:12:20,344
And, and Zach late, not his best
performance, but still three for

1741
01:12:20,344 --> 01:12:22,294
10, two walks and hit by a pitch.

1742
01:12:22,324 --> 01:12:27,154
I mean, again, he, he's sta statistically
Zach has been our best hitter all season,

1743
01:12:27,604 --> 01:12:29,014
uh, and he just kept on proving it.

1744
01:12:29,254 --> 01:12:32,524
Um, you, and I'll give you an opportunity
here, Gary, 'cause I talk, we know

1745
01:12:32,524 --> 01:12:33,994
I talked too much to add anything.

1746
01:12:33,994 --> 01:12:35,674
And then I'd like to, I'd like
to break down a little more on

1747
01:12:35,674 --> 01:12:39,394
the, on the Maverick's kind of
numbers over the last couple years.

1748
01:12:39,874 --> 01:12:40,174
Yeah.

1749
01:12:40,204 --> 01:12:42,814
I mean, obviously Blake with
the cg, that's an easy pick

1750
01:12:42,814 --> 01:12:44,704
for the picture of the week.

1751
01:12:44,764 --> 01:12:47,194
Uh, very close second
with Kellen, I think.

1752
01:12:47,734 --> 01:12:50,164
The biggest takeaway for me
this weekend was the pitching.

1753
01:12:50,164 --> 01:12:53,794
We know, you know, it didn't go
well early on Friday, but to see

1754
01:12:53,794 --> 01:12:57,844
Nick Ezio get two scoreless innings,
Kellen Davis with potentially

1755
01:12:57,844 --> 01:12:59,914
the best stuff he's had all year.

1756
01:13:00,184 --> 01:13:04,324
Yeah, these guys potentially rounding
into form or stepping up into big spots

1757
01:13:04,594 --> 01:13:06,064
two weeks before we go to the conference.

1758
01:13:06,064 --> 01:13:07,804
Tournament is really, really important.

1759
01:13:08,044 --> 01:13:12,004
Like even someone like Dylan to like,
these guys are gonna have to eat

1760
01:13:12,034 --> 01:13:17,074
innings and have good innings for us
if we actually want a chance to win the

1761
01:13:17,074 --> 01:13:20,344
conference tournament because it's, you
know, the top six of the Sunbelt is gonna

1762
01:13:20,344 --> 01:13:25,084
be brutal and we gotta have guys that
can have some quality innings for us.

1763
01:13:25,084 --> 01:13:28,414
And we see, seen a couple guys
emerge over the last couple weeks.

1764
01:13:28,534 --> 01:13:33,484
I think it came to a head later in the
day, Friday and Saturday of Guy Arms in

1765
01:13:33,484 --> 01:13:35,584
the bullpen stepping up in a big, big way.

1766
01:13:35,734 --> 01:13:38,434
And that makes me feel a little
bit more positive heading into

1767
01:13:38,434 --> 01:13:39,304
the conference tournament.

1768
01:13:39,844 --> 01:13:41,884
Um, and then, yeah, it's Mav season.

1769
01:13:42,754 --> 01:13:43,234
I gotta hear that.

1770
01:13:43,234 --> 01:13:44,099
This is crazy.

1771
01:13:44,674 --> 01:13:45,544
This, these stats.

1772
01:13:45,544 --> 01:13:48,394
So a again, I know, uh, hopefully
when I just throw all these numbers,

1773
01:13:48,394 --> 01:13:49,414
it's not too much for focus.

1774
01:13:49,414 --> 01:13:52,324
I think it's at some point I'll get, we'll
get good and actually put graphics up.

1775
01:13:52,324 --> 01:13:54,964
But that, you know, again, you know,
hey, if that's the kind of stuff you

1776
01:13:54,964 --> 01:13:57,904
want, figure out a way to make this
be my, our full-time job where we

1777
01:13:57,904 --> 01:13:59,494
just take care of OU sports and stuff.

1778
01:13:59,499 --> 01:14:00,079
That'd be amazing.

1779
01:14:00,084 --> 01:14:00,094
Uh,

1780
01:14:00,574 --> 01:14:03,694
give, give enough to the collective
that, that we can just make it be a job

1781
01:14:03,724 --> 01:14:05,164
and still also give money to players.

1782
01:14:05,164 --> 01:14:07,174
I don't, but until then, you
just have to listen to it.

1783
01:14:07,174 --> 01:14:07,504
Sorry.

1784
01:14:07,864 --> 01:14:11,914
Um, so Maverick is currently
on a nine game hitting streak.

1785
01:14:12,394 --> 01:14:16,024
Um, during that streak,
he is, uh, 16 for 36.

1786
01:14:16,474 --> 01:14:17,464
Four doubles.

1787
01:14:17,614 --> 01:14:18,454
Four homers.

1788
01:14:18,484 --> 01:14:19,594
12 rbis.

1789
01:14:20,014 --> 01:14:21,124
So nine game hitting streak.

1790
01:14:21,124 --> 01:14:25,204
He's hitting 4 44 with a 1423 OPS.

1791
01:14:25,744 --> 01:14:26,104
Okay.

1792
01:14:26,164 --> 01:14:26,554
Whew.

1793
01:14:27,904 --> 01:14:28,924
Phenomenal, right?

1794
01:14:29,434 --> 01:14:31,564
I mean, 1423 ops is ridiculous.

1795
01:14:31,564 --> 01:14:34,864
That's like Mike Trout and, and
uh, Barry Bonds and their prime,

1796
01:14:35,194 --> 01:14:35,374
yeah.

1797
01:14:35,404 --> 01:14:36,784
Steroid era Barry Bonds.

1798
01:14:36,964 --> 01:14:37,234
Right.

1799
01:14:37,504 --> 01:14:44,074
Um, so in the 23 Games Maverick
played, before that, he had one double.

1800
01:14:44,434 --> 01:14:50,914
One Homer and two rbis, and
he hit 1 93 with a 5 25 OPS.

1801
01:14:51,664 --> 01:14:53,884
Some you could not talk about,
more of a switch around.

1802
01:14:54,754 --> 01:14:56,644
Um, this continues to trend.

1803
01:14:56,644 --> 01:15:00,274
We, people may remember last year,
Maverick was kind of, you know, he

1804
01:15:00,274 --> 01:15:04,084
was, he was there and then end of the
year he just blew up and went crazy and

1805
01:15:04,084 --> 01:15:05,434
ended up leaving the team at home runs.

1806
01:15:05,884 --> 01:15:10,534
So I looked at it and pretty much on the
exact same date I looked at April 15th.

1807
01:15:10,534 --> 01:15:13,324
So this from April 15th on is when
these nine games are this year.

1808
01:15:13,864 --> 01:15:16,324
It was April 16th last year
starting with the game of UVA.

1809
01:15:16,804 --> 01:15:25,444
So last year, um, before April 15th,
Maverick hit 2 36 with a 7 0 9 OPS.

1810
01:15:27,544 --> 01:15:27,844
Right.

1811
01:15:28,059 --> 01:15:30,934
It's, it's not terrible, but
it's not great, obviously.

1812
01:15:30,934 --> 01:15:30,994
Yeah.

1813
01:15:31,504 --> 01:15:35,374
Uh, you know, it's, it's like all
right, you know, uh, after that

1814
01:15:35,374 --> 01:15:41,164
date, hit 3 46 with an 1117 OPS
hit eight of his 12 home runs.

1815
01:15:42,094 --> 01:15:42,604
That is.

1816
01:15:42,919 --> 01:15:43,759
Absolutely nuts.

1817
01:15:43,759 --> 01:15:45,949
So he, I mean, he's from Florida.

1818
01:15:45,949 --> 01:15:48,199
It makes sense as the
weather heats up, so does he.

1819
01:15:48,589 --> 01:15:51,979
Um, and it's great to see
that he, he's on this stretch.

1820
01:15:52,039 --> 01:15:55,279
Um, it, it, he also, he also
weirdly has more home runs

1821
01:15:55,279 --> 01:15:56,509
than doubles for his career.

1822
01:15:56,824 --> 01:15:59,044
He has the same amount this year,
but last year he had 12 doubles.

1823
01:15:59,134 --> 01:16:00,994
12. 12 homers, only five rbis.

1824
01:16:01,114 --> 01:16:02,554
Or 12, I'm sorry, I'm gonna stop.

1825
01:16:02,764 --> 01:16:05,944
He had, last year he had 12
home runs and only five doubles.

1826
01:16:05,944 --> 01:16:09,634
This year he, he is got five and five,
so he, he weirdly, a lot of guys, you

1827
01:16:09,634 --> 01:16:11,704
know, you tend to hit more doubles
and then you get some home runs.

1828
01:16:11,704 --> 01:16:13,534
He just tends to knock him over
to the fence when he hits them.

1829
01:16:14,374 --> 01:16:14,614
Yeah.

1830
01:16:14,614 --> 01:16:17,944
And uh, Finney mentioned it earlier,
the big home run he hit in the playing

1831
01:16:17,944 --> 01:16:21,094
game against South Alabama, the two
run shot to help us go and win that.

1832
01:16:21,094 --> 01:16:25,324
So, I mean, if you, if you're gonna
get on a hot streak, this is the

1833
01:16:25,324 --> 01:16:26,554
perfect time of year to do it.

1834
01:16:26,554 --> 01:16:30,454
It seems like that's kind of Maverick's
warming up point is April into May,

1835
01:16:30,484 --> 01:16:31,174
so I'll take it.

1836
01:16:31,234 --> 01:16:33,499
It will not hurt my feelings if
every single week we're putting

1837
01:16:33,574 --> 01:16:35,074
his, his picture on the board.

1838
01:16:35,074 --> 01:16:36,604
I'll find a new picture of him every week.

1839
01:16:37,774 --> 01:16:40,024
He does seem like he's having
better at bats, even in some of

1840
01:16:40,024 --> 01:16:41,614
the at bats where he is gotten out.

1841
01:16:41,734 --> 01:16:42,814
His approach has been good.

1842
01:16:42,814 --> 01:16:46,114
He is working counts, he's getting in
very favorable accounts where I feel

1843
01:16:46,114 --> 01:16:50,944
like he will just reach back and, and try
to hit the ball back across the river.

1844
01:16:51,244 --> 01:16:53,974
So love to see him coming on late.

1845
01:16:53,974 --> 01:16:55,684
I think there's a couple other
guys that probably need to.

1846
01:16:55,759 --> 01:16:57,589
And maybe plateaued a little bit.

1847
01:16:57,589 --> 01:17:00,739
They need to start kicking into
gear, but we're getting contributions

1848
01:17:00,739 --> 01:17:02,119
all throughout the lineup.

1849
01:17:02,509 --> 01:17:05,899
And even Evan Holman, I know
it's, it's not an award we have,

1850
01:17:05,899 --> 01:17:08,209
but if I, we just had to say the
toughest dude of the weekend.

1851
01:17:08,209 --> 01:17:08,989
It's Evan Holman.

1852
01:17:09,409 --> 01:17:09,559
Yeah.

1853
01:17:09,559 --> 01:17:12,289
Uh, having to get plugged into
the catcher spot, already injured.

1854
01:17:12,289 --> 01:17:16,249
When, when f and it Slater go down
and then he comes up with the biggest

1855
01:17:16,249 --> 01:17:18,109
hit of the game on Saturday to tie it.

1856
01:17:18,439 --> 01:17:24,559
Um, got the dugout, juiced, Dylan comes
out and his, his lights out from there on.

1857
01:17:24,889 --> 01:17:29,059
So just some big guys stepping
up in big moments for us in the

1858
01:17:29,059 --> 01:17:30,319
most critical point of the season.

1859
01:17:30,319 --> 01:17:33,049
'cause I actually think we are ahead
in the standings as compared to

1860
01:17:33,049 --> 01:17:34,399
where we were this time last year.

1861
01:17:34,639 --> 01:17:37,219
And that's hard to believe with
what we saying, which Crazy.

1862
01:17:37,909 --> 01:17:38,299
Yeah.

1863
01:17:38,569 --> 01:17:39,019
Absolutely.

1864
01:17:39,019 --> 01:17:39,439
Nuts.

1865
01:17:39,949 --> 01:17:40,459
Yeah.

1866
01:17:40,549 --> 01:17:41,204
So I know.

1867
01:17:41,914 --> 01:17:43,384
I, I've gotten a couple of messages.

1868
01:17:43,384 --> 01:17:44,674
Who do I need to root for this weekend?

1869
01:17:44,674 --> 01:17:46,084
Who do I need to root for this weekend?

1870
01:17:46,594 --> 01:17:50,794
So not a lot has changed, but there are
more teams for us to go and root for.

1871
01:17:50,914 --> 01:17:54,214
So we've already said no one's
gonna catch the top four.

1872
01:17:54,214 --> 01:17:57,394
So Coastal Southern, miss Troy,
Louisiana, feel free to root for them

1873
01:17:57,394 --> 01:17:58,924
and anyone that they are gonna play.

1874
01:17:59,344 --> 01:18:01,444
And then I really think
your bottom three are done.

1875
01:18:01,474 --> 01:18:05,644
South Alabama, J-M-U-U-L-M, Georgia
State's, teetering Marshall.

1876
01:18:05,644 --> 01:18:07,924
They could get back in it,
probably not super likely.

1877
01:18:07,924 --> 01:18:12,574
So Texas State, who we're currently tied
with, they go to Georgia Southern and then

1878
01:18:12,574 --> 01:18:15,334
they finish at home against JMU, Georgia.

1879
01:18:15,334 --> 01:18:18,994
Southern has said Texas State, and
then they go to Marshall, Arkansas

1880
01:18:18,994 --> 01:18:21,664
State has Troy, and then at the Cajuns.

1881
01:18:22,174 --> 01:18:26,854
Then App State has South Alabama
and Georgia State, so a lot of

1882
01:18:26,854 --> 01:18:29,794
good opportunities for teams to go
and root for that can help us out.

1883
01:18:29,824 --> 01:18:34,324
I think the tough ones are gonna be Texas
State ho we're tied with, because Georgia

1884
01:18:34,354 --> 01:18:37,114
Southern's been in the slump, and JMU
is down at the bottom of the standings.

1885
01:18:37,114 --> 01:18:41,614
Now with ULM, uh, they could in theory go
four and two, five and one and those last

1886
01:18:41,614 --> 01:18:43,774
six games, and that will push us to six.

1887
01:18:43,864 --> 01:18:44,434
But I'm okay with

1888
01:18:44,434 --> 01:18:44,884
six.

1889
01:18:45,784 --> 01:18:47,104
Six didn't feel possible.

1890
01:18:47,104 --> 01:18:48,004
Not that long ago.

1891
01:18:48,094 --> 01:18:48,154
No.

1892
01:18:48,364 --> 01:18:51,604
Uh, you know, 10 was like,
seemed like a stretch.

1893
01:18:51,814 --> 01:18:56,494
So it's, it's pretty great that we're
in a situation where right now we can

1894
01:18:56,494 --> 01:18:58,324
control some things by winning some games.

1895
01:18:58,834 --> 01:19:00,724
I mean, that's just crazy.

1896
01:19:01,504 --> 01:19:01,804
Yeah.

1897
01:19:01,804 --> 01:19:04,954
Three and three and we're definitely
in the tournament and we're in some

1898
01:19:04,954 --> 01:19:07,894
tiebreakers, most likely for five or six.

1899
01:19:08,224 --> 01:19:08,314
Yeah.

1900
01:19:08,344 --> 01:19:12,394
Uh, if we go four and two, I
think it's five or six for us.

1901
01:19:12,394 --> 01:19:14,824
I don't think anyone's gonna
come up and tie us and push us to

1902
01:19:14,824 --> 01:19:16,924
seven, but we just gotta go win.

1903
01:19:16,924 --> 01:19:20,734
I, if we were to somehow go to
Harrisonburg and sweep them.

1904
01:19:21,244 --> 01:19:24,094
Then it's like, okay, how do we
just get one game from coastal?

1905
01:19:24,544 --> 01:19:26,579
And it goes into also just going up and

1906
01:19:26,584 --> 01:19:28,324
sweeping, going up and sweeping.

1907
01:19:28,324 --> 01:19:29,644
JMU just feels really good.

1908
01:19:30,574 --> 01:19:30,694
Oh yeah.

1909
01:19:30,694 --> 01:19:33,304
Because, you know, uh,
unfortunately in our other

1910
01:19:33,304 --> 01:19:34,924
sports, it's not really a rivalry.

1911
01:19:35,404 --> 01:19:37,924
Uh, or at least in football
and basketball, it's not

1912
01:19:37,924 --> 01:19:39,004
really a rivalry Right now.

1913
01:19:39,004 --> 01:19:40,024
We're just a little brother.

1914
01:19:40,024 --> 01:19:43,114
They just whip up on, uh, in baseball.

1915
01:19:43,114 --> 01:19:45,064
It has been a rivalry, but
maybe, actually, maybe it

1916
01:19:45,064 --> 01:19:45,814
might not, might not be.

1917
01:19:45,844 --> 01:19:48,064
'cause we tend to handle
'em pretty darn well.

1918
01:19:48,484 --> 01:19:51,334
Uh, and so maybe from their end,
it's not a rivalry, but the fact that

1919
01:19:51,334 --> 01:19:52,894
we, we beat 'em pretty consistently.

1920
01:19:53,284 --> 01:19:56,404
Uh, but yeah, so we gotta, if, if
we're gonna, if we're gonna make the

1921
01:19:56,404 --> 01:19:59,344
royal rivalry actually a thing and
'cause we handle 'em pretty okay in

1922
01:19:59,344 --> 01:20:01,744
some of the other sports that are,
they're not basketball and football.

1923
01:20:02,224 --> 01:20:04,864
Uh, but we gotta, you know,
hopefully we can start setting

1924
01:20:04,864 --> 01:20:06,394
that tone for, for everyone else.

1925
01:20:07,114 --> 01:20:10,474
Since Jamie MU has joined the Sunbelt,
we have not beaten them in football,

1926
01:20:10,474 --> 01:20:12,424
men's basketball or women's basketball.

1927
01:20:12,484 --> 01:20:12,694
Yeah.

1928
01:20:12,784 --> 01:20:13,144
And

1929
01:20:13,144 --> 01:20:15,814
that's problematic and that's a
problem for those sports to go

1930
01:20:15,814 --> 01:20:17,224
and figure out and deal with.

1931
01:20:17,674 --> 01:20:20,044
Uh, baseball's beating 'em,
soccer's have beaten 'em.

1932
01:20:20,044 --> 01:20:21,514
Field hockey, tennis has beaten 'em.

1933
01:20:21,514 --> 01:20:21,874
All the things.

1934
01:20:21,934 --> 01:20:27,184
Um, but man, it would feel really good
for ODU U fans to go and sweep JMU.

1935
01:20:27,184 --> 01:20:30,274
There'd be some football fans that maybe
haven't watched a single ODU baseball

1936
01:20:30,274 --> 01:20:34,174
game that are maybe, uh, beating their
chest over that I know basketball.

1937
01:20:34,564 --> 01:20:37,474
Um, but we just gotta go
win the series period.

1938
01:20:37,504 --> 01:20:40,504
If we go one and two at JMU, things
start getting real ugly and that

1939
01:20:40,504 --> 01:20:43,864
play in game and it, it, it's
just not gonna set up well for us.

1940
01:20:43,864 --> 01:20:48,004
So gotta go win that series and
then do everything you can to get a

1941
01:20:48,004 --> 01:20:50,704
game, maybe two from Coastal, which
we've been able to do that all year.

1942
01:20:50,704 --> 01:20:51,844
So I feel pretty confident.

1943
01:20:52,729 --> 01:20:52,939
Yeah.

1944
01:20:52,939 --> 01:20:55,369
JMU if you look at their offensive
stats, they're pretty gross.

1945
01:20:55,369 --> 01:20:57,949
They're pretty much at the bottom
of everything in the league.

1946
01:20:58,339 --> 01:20:59,659
Um, and they've got some good hitters.

1947
01:20:59,659 --> 01:21:02,239
I mean, like Ryan Dooley, I've gotten to
watch him the last couple years with the

1948
01:21:02,239 --> 01:21:04,639
pilots, and he is a phenomenal hitter
and he's having a terrible season.

1949
01:21:05,059 --> 01:21:08,329
Um, and our, our buddy, uh, Jackson
to, from Old Dominion who, uh,

1950
01:21:08,359 --> 01:21:12,439
transferred to JMU, um, he, he is,
uh, he's not having a, a great year.

1951
01:21:12,439 --> 01:21:15,169
He is, uh, he's, I think
he's five for 40 Outlook.

1952
01:21:15,169 --> 01:21:16,429
He got his first college home run.

1953
01:21:16,879 --> 01:21:19,339
Uh, but I mean, it just, it's
not just him, you know, he,

1954
01:21:19,339 --> 01:21:20,239
we know he's a good hitter.

1955
01:21:20,239 --> 01:21:21,799
It's just, uh, the team in general.

1956
01:21:21,799 --> 01:21:23,749
So we gotta, we gotta pitch.

1957
01:21:23,749 --> 01:21:27,079
Well, we gotta go out, we gotta, we
gotta beat him because they're beatable.

1958
01:21:27,529 --> 01:21:30,259
Uh, they do have their, their
top starter has been really good.

1959
01:21:30,709 --> 01:21:34,969
Um, and then a, uh, Aiden KO's brother
Max Kool is, uh, has pitched really well.

1960
01:21:35,329 --> 01:21:39,019
Um, and after that, you know,
so we just, we gotta go out

1961
01:21:39,019 --> 01:21:40,099
and they're a beatable team.

1962
01:21:40,099 --> 01:21:40,699
Let's go out and beat em.

1963
01:21:42,019 --> 01:21:46,099
Yeah, last couple weeks the team has done
everything they've needed to do to put

1964
01:21:46,099 --> 01:21:49,849
themselves in this position where last
two weeks are here and we've got a shot at

1965
01:21:49,849 --> 01:21:51,619
the five or the six seed to get into that.

1966
01:21:51,889 --> 01:21:53,149
They just have to continue that trend.

1967
01:21:53,149 --> 01:21:56,719
I don't think they have to go crazy
and reach outside themselves, grind out

1968
01:21:56,719 --> 01:22:00,829
some baseball games, have good at bats,
do everything you can on the mountain

1969
01:22:00,829 --> 01:22:03,919
to just keep the ball in play, trust
your defense, which was much better

1970
01:22:03,979 --> 01:22:05,419
over the weekend, I think, for us.

1971
01:22:05,959 --> 01:22:10,309
Uh, so it, it, it gets the feeling
that the team has finally started

1972
01:22:10,309 --> 01:22:15,529
truly gelling and coming together
and you, if you just gotta keep that

1973
01:22:15,529 --> 01:22:17,209
momentum going into the tournament.

1974
01:22:17,239 --> 01:22:22,039
'cause ODU is a team that if they are
the five seed or the six seed, if you're

1975
01:22:22,039 --> 01:22:26,269
coastal, if you're southern, miss, if
you're Troy, probably not super excited

1976
01:22:26,269 --> 01:22:29,569
to see a matchup with us because of
how good our starting pitching is.

1977
01:22:29,809 --> 01:22:33,469
And if you stay in these tournament
games, even as an underdog, you just

1978
01:22:33,469 --> 01:22:37,099
open the door for weird shit to happen
and then all of a sudden, well we did

1979
01:22:37,099 --> 01:22:37,219
it.

1980
01:22:38,074 --> 01:22:39,844
Yeah, we did it last year to, to Southern.

1981
01:22:39,844 --> 01:22:40,054
Yeah.

1982
01:22:41,074 --> 01:22:41,314
Yeah.

1983
01:22:41,314 --> 01:22:43,624
Last year was we, it was weird stuff.

1984
01:22:43,624 --> 01:22:44,614
We made weird stuff happen.

1985
01:22:44,614 --> 01:22:47,104
We were not going to that tournament
thinking we were gonna get very

1986
01:22:47,104 --> 01:22:48,454
deep when we almost won the thing.

1987
01:22:49,114 --> 01:22:49,384
Yeah.

1988
01:22:49,409 --> 01:22:51,124
We, we fought like hell down the end.

1989
01:22:51,124 --> 01:22:52,984
We literally just had no arms left.

1990
01:22:53,254 --> 01:22:56,704
But our starting pitching gives us
a chance and just about every game.

1991
01:22:57,154 --> 01:22:58,384
So does just get there.

1992
01:22:58,384 --> 01:23:00,874
Give the tie game in the
seventh against the higher seed.

1993
01:23:00,964 --> 01:23:02,254
I'll bet on ODU every time.

1994
01:23:03,004 --> 01:23:03,304
All right.

1995
01:23:03,304 --> 01:23:06,574
One more thing that we wanted to
cover before we headed out of here.

1996
01:23:06,574 --> 01:23:08,814
We got an update on Cole Lanford.

1997
01:23:09,229 --> 01:23:10,894
And cb I think you have the details.

1998
01:23:10,894 --> 01:23:11,074
Sorry.

1999
01:23:12,874 --> 01:23:13,834
No, I, I, trust me.

2000
01:23:13,834 --> 01:23:15,514
'cause I did it for like a whole
year before he showed up to

2001
01:23:15,514 --> 01:23:18,754
ODUI was, I was saying it wrong
in my head, so I Yeah, yeah.

2002
01:23:18,754 --> 01:23:19,384
Cole Lanford.

2003
01:23:19,384 --> 01:23:19,534
Yeah.

2004
01:23:19,534 --> 01:23:22,624
He, and so he was a freshman,
he's a freshman pitcher for us.

2005
01:23:22,684 --> 01:23:24,964
Um, pitched some games, has
some good appearances, you

2006
01:23:24,964 --> 01:23:26,314
know, pitched like a freshman.

2007
01:23:26,644 --> 01:23:28,834
Uh, and you may have noticed
he has a, in a while.

2008
01:23:28,954 --> 01:23:30,364
Well, there was a reason for that.

2009
01:23:30,364 --> 01:23:34,209
He, um, he had told me about this a while
back and, you know, obviously I don't

2010
01:23:34,209 --> 01:23:37,564
want, don't wanna share his business, but
because he, he mentioned this publicly,

2011
01:23:37,894 --> 01:23:41,104
uh, we thought it was okay to mention, um,
yeah, we were at the Norfolk State game

2012
01:23:41,344 --> 01:23:43,504
and hadn't, you know, hadn't seen a week
or two 'cause they've been on the road.

2013
01:23:43,504 --> 01:23:44,374
And I was like, oh, hey
man, how's it going?

2014
01:23:44,374 --> 01:23:45,244
He's again, I'm have surgery.

2015
01:23:45,244 --> 01:23:47,674
I was like, oh man, it's a shame we
get arm surgeries, no brain surgery.

2016
01:23:48,154 --> 01:23:50,224
He is like, and I'm
like, no, but for real.

2017
01:23:50,224 --> 01:23:51,394
And he is like, no, like for real.

2018
01:23:51,694 --> 01:23:54,604
Um, and so that was, you know, that
was, I dunno, when that Norfolk

2019
01:23:54,604 --> 01:23:56,224
State game was over a month ago.

2020
01:23:56,614 --> 01:23:58,744
Um, and so I'm, I'm looking
to make sure I get it right.

2021
01:23:58,744 --> 01:24:00,994
So he said he had a
cavernous malformation.

2022
01:24:01,384 --> 01:24:02,254
Uh, in his brain.

2023
01:24:02,674 --> 01:24:06,214
Um, and it was having, making him
have, was it focal aware seizures?

2024
01:24:06,214 --> 01:24:09,124
He was telling me, he said, it's
been happening for a few years.

2025
01:24:09,424 --> 01:24:11,374
Uh, but he said it was really
getting progressively worse.

2026
01:24:11,374 --> 01:24:13,984
And, and, you know, and I, I'm not a
doctor, I don't know what that is, but

2027
01:24:13,989 --> 01:24:17,734
I'm, I'm sure part of the stress of,
you know, going away from home, going

2028
01:24:17,734 --> 01:24:19,684
to college, you know, trying to compete.

2029
01:24:19,684 --> 01:24:23,824
And at this level, I ha I, I don't know
this specifically, but you know, our

2030
01:24:23,824 --> 01:24:25,924
health is affected by those things,
so I'm sure that had an effect.

2031
01:24:26,374 --> 01:24:30,004
Um, and so he had the surgery
and they said it was successful.

2032
01:24:30,304 --> 01:24:31,054
Um, he's recovering.

2033
01:24:31,054 --> 01:24:33,844
He had actually, along with this
same tweet, he had a little video

2034
01:24:33,844 --> 01:24:36,964
of him just on, like, on his
knees, kind of just throwing.

2035
01:24:37,264 --> 01:24:39,994
Um, he said in about three, four
weeks he can start throwing again.

2036
01:24:39,994 --> 01:24:41,224
Then he can start lifting weights.

2037
01:24:41,554 --> 01:24:43,594
And so he, he's on the path to recovery.

2038
01:24:43,744 --> 01:24:47,104
He told me, um, when I was talking
to him, he said, this surgery

2039
01:24:47,104 --> 01:24:51,934
has about a 95% chance that he
will not have seizures anymore.

2040
01:24:52,384 --> 01:24:54,274
Uh, it still be, you know, it's
still along with medication.

2041
01:24:54,544 --> 01:24:57,004
And I told him, I was like, well,
you don't get a 95% chance of pretty

2042
01:24:57,004 --> 01:24:58,894
much anything alive, especially,
you know, you're a baseball player.

2043
01:24:58,894 --> 01:25:00,634
There's nothing that's 95% sure.

2044
01:25:01,054 --> 01:25:04,324
Uh, so he, you know, that's why
he, he, I think I said they had

2045
01:25:04,324 --> 01:25:07,774
about 10 days to decide to, there
was an opening for the operation.

2046
01:25:07,804 --> 01:25:08,704
He was like, yeah, let's do it.

2047
01:25:09,184 --> 01:25:12,124
Um, so Cole, Cole's an awesome kid.

2048
01:25:12,124 --> 01:25:12,544
I know.

2049
01:25:12,544 --> 01:25:14,404
Uh, we haven't had a chance
to talk to him on here.

2050
01:25:14,584 --> 01:25:17,134
We haven't had a chance to really
see him much with ODU, but he,

2051
01:25:17,344 --> 01:25:18,394
I got a chance to meet him.

2052
01:25:18,454 --> 01:25:19,504
Uh, last year.

2053
01:25:19,714 --> 01:25:21,814
Uh, he was playing high
school there, pro five.

2054
01:25:21,814 --> 01:25:23,974
He came here, actually pitched
a game here in Virginia Beach.

2055
01:25:24,394 --> 01:25:26,194
Um, and he's just a,
he's a phenomenal kid.

2056
01:25:26,194 --> 01:25:27,724
His family are just wonderful people.

2057
01:25:28,114 --> 01:25:32,914
Uh, and you know, it, it's, I'm,
I'm, I really hope he comes back.

2058
01:25:32,914 --> 01:25:34,804
I, I know he's gonna work his butt off.

2059
01:25:35,134 --> 01:25:36,874
You know, it's all kinds
of things, but I, I, I.

2060
01:25:37,249 --> 01:25:40,489
Would not bet on anybody harder than I
would bet on Cole to come back and be

2061
01:25:40,489 --> 01:25:44,689
strong and, you know, hopefully we see
him on the mound next year for ODU and

2062
01:25:44,689 --> 01:25:48,949
come back out and, and pitching the way he
can pitch because he's, he's a great kid.

2063
01:25:48,949 --> 01:25:52,099
He's a really, really good pitcher
and it's a tough thing to have

2064
01:25:52,099 --> 01:25:54,919
deal with any age, but I mean, he's
always 19 years old doing this.

2065
01:25:54,919 --> 01:25:55,999
I mean, that, that's, that's hard.

2066
01:25:57,649 --> 01:25:57,889
Yeah.

2067
01:25:57,889 --> 01:26:01,129
It, what's amazing to me is that you
can have brain surgery and sometime

2068
01:26:01,129 --> 01:26:03,739
in like a three week window you can
start throwing a baseball again.

2069
01:26:03,769 --> 01:26:03,829
Yeah.

2070
01:26:03,829 --> 01:26:05,869
That's pretty, pretty impressive.

2071
01:26:06,259 --> 01:26:10,159
So certainly send in all the good
thoughts and vibes over Cole's way.

2072
01:26:10,219 --> 01:26:10,309
Yeah.

2073
01:26:10,549 --> 01:26:12,049
Uh, as he recovers from this.

2074
01:26:12,049 --> 01:26:14,989
And we would love to see him back
on the mountain in the fall or, or

2075
01:26:14,989 --> 01:26:16,579
in the spring when he is ready, but.

2076
01:26:16,984 --> 01:26:20,434
Uh, I mean, that's, I, I can't
imagine trying to do all the things

2077
01:26:20,434 --> 01:26:24,454
he's doing with school and baseball
while having seizures going on.

2078
01:26:24,874 --> 01:26:26,914
Uh, so glad to hear the
surgery was an option.

2079
01:26:26,914 --> 01:26:28,264
I love the 95% Yeah.

2080
01:26:28,264 --> 01:26:29,164
Success rate on it.

2081
01:26:29,164 --> 01:26:30,844
I mean, that's not just a baseball thing.

2082
01:26:30,844 --> 01:26:31,954
That's a quality of life thing.

2083
01:26:32,044 --> 01:26:35,194
So, yeah, glad he was, uh, brave enough
to kind of take the shot on this.

2084
01:26:35,194 --> 01:26:37,354
And I hope the results all
turn out the way that, uh, him

2085
01:26:37,354 --> 01:26:38,374
and his family are hoping for.

2086
01:26:39,214 --> 01:26:39,784
Yeah, we hope.

2087
01:26:39,784 --> 01:26:41,824
See you back out there, 2 -2

2088
01:26:42,124 --> 01:26:42,874
. 
Absolutely.

2089
01:26:43,204 --> 01:26:45,094
All right, well, I think that's
gonna do it for us today.

2090
01:26:45,184 --> 01:26:48,184
Uh, appreciate you all listening
and sharing the good word.

2091
01:26:48,484 --> 01:26:52,504
Uh, we may have our episode drop
a day earlier next week, because

2092
01:26:52,504 --> 01:26:55,594
unfortunately, I'm gonna be stuck
in Texas for work all next week.

2093
01:26:55,804 --> 01:26:58,954
So you may record on Sunday and drop
us on Monday, but we'll keep you tuning

2094
01:26:58,954 --> 01:27:02,134
in through the market, social media,
and also through my social media and

2095
01:27:02,134 --> 01:27:05,854
CBS and all the other fun ways that we,
uh, try to get information out to you.

2096
01:27:05,854 --> 01:27:07,294
But anything else, cb

2097
01:27:08,104 --> 01:27:08,584
Hey, man.

2098
01:27:08,764 --> 01:27:10,144
Uh, you be safe traveling.

2099
01:27:10,144 --> 01:27:10,684
We're gonna go.

2100
01:27:10,684 --> 01:27:11,554
Uh, I'm, I'm telling you.

2101
01:27:11,554 --> 01:27:11,884
Six.

2102
01:27:11,884 --> 01:27:12,544
Oh, we're doing it.

2103
01:27:12,604 --> 01:27:13,324
It's, it's happening.

2104
01:27:13,354 --> 01:27:13,924
Let's go.

2105
01:27:14,299 --> 01:27:14,809
I would love it.

2106
01:27:14,809 --> 01:27:17,029
It all starts with a winning on Friday.

2107
01:27:17,029 --> 01:27:20,479
I don't know when your, uh,
curtain fell, but it has fallen

2108
01:27:20,484 --> 01:27:21,484
into spectacular fashion.

2109
01:27:21,604 --> 01:27:21,764
I know.

2110
01:27:21,764 --> 01:27:22,969
It's fallen aggressively.

2111
01:27:22,969 --> 01:27:25,219
Yeah, it's, I I noticed it
when we were talking to Ron.

2112
01:27:25,489 --> 01:27:25,699
Yeah.

2113
01:27:25,699 --> 01:27:26,539
It really went down.

2114
01:27:26,539 --> 01:27:27,799
Usually it's the other side, isn't it?

2115
01:27:27,799 --> 01:27:28,099
The fall?

2116
01:27:28,099 --> 01:27:28,459
I don't know.

2117
01:27:28,459 --> 01:27:28,639
It's,

2118
01:27:28,639 --> 01:27:29,179
it is.

2119
01:27:29,179 --> 01:27:30,589
That's normally where I can see it.

2120
01:27:30,589 --> 01:27:31,579
I think you were actually in the way.

2121
01:27:31,579 --> 01:27:32,239
It's why I missed it.

2122
01:27:32,239 --> 01:27:32,809
But don't worry.

2123
01:27:32,989 --> 01:27:34,279
We'll get the timestamp on that.

2124
01:27:34,279 --> 01:27:36,709
For those of you betting at home,
we appreciate your bets and we

2125
01:27:36,709 --> 01:27:39,379
will honor them all here, so.

2126
01:27:39,889 --> 01:27:40,219
All right.

2127
01:27:40,219 --> 01:27:41,389
Well that'll do it for us.

2128
01:27:41,449 --> 01:27:42,709
Uh, thank you so much.

2129
01:27:42,709 --> 01:27:43,939
And go Monarchs.

2130
01:27:44,269 --> 01:27:45,199
Go Monarchs.