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Kevin Griffin Breaks Down MS State & Ole Miss College Baseball Weekend · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  baseball polls. College baseball is underway, Kevin Griffin and studio with us three
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  till four point thirty BV. I appreciate you setting us up and letting Kevin
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  in here. Kevin, what's going on by how you doing? I'm great,
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  man, It's been been too long. Everything's been crazy lately with my
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  softball season getting started and everything else going on high school baseball. But looking
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  forward to uh chatting it up today. Absolutely a lot of notes and a
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  lot of stuff. We do want to get into a lot of baseball because
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  college baseball. You know, we were joking about this Friday, Missippi State
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  and Air Force. They started about four o'clock. I think we're on the
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  air, and that game went tip for tat State of course wins Game one
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  loses Game two, wins the rubber on three on Sunday. Ole Miss.
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  You know, with a little bit of a sluggish start, it's a long
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  season, we know that. But I think for Mississippi State and Ole Miss,
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  and we'll start right there, and I do want to get to some
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  notes that we have as well. When you talk about State and Ole Miss,
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  I mean it's for those two coaches and those two staffs. They got
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  to win pretty quick. Yeah, especially coming off not necessarily last year,
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  but pretty recently national championships with Mississippi State and Old Miss. There's a lot
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  of expectations around here and across the South with those two schools, and you
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  know, one weekend is not going to tell the story of how the year
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  is going to go. And Mississippi State off to a two and one start,
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  obviously they would have liked to swept that series. Ole Miss split a
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  four game series with Hawaii. They probably had a lot of distractions out there
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  going you know, I think it's six or seven hour difference and changing time
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  zones and then having to play baseball, a lot of distractions. Finished two
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  and two and then Southern Miss went too and one, So pretty good start
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  for them as well. It was, and you know, it's hard to
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  tell because fans are going to overreact. Two and one, two and two,
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  What does that mean? You know, you're a coach, You've done
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  this for a long time. You play ball. I mean, I don't
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  know. Internally, you don't ever hit the panic button. But you just
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  have to kind of look down the schedule because unlike college basketball, where you've
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  got kind of a longer non conference schedule, baseball you rock and roll three
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  or four weeks in bam, you're in conference play. So you got to
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  have this thing buttoned up pretty quickly, you really do. And fortunately for
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  all three programs, especially Old Miss, the mistakes can be corrected. They
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  made a lot of errors this weekend. Looking at note here I had written
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  down, they hit one eighty three As a team. You know, Old
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  Miss is a better hitting team than that. In Mississippi State had three local
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  guys that got off to great starts. Bryce Chance was five for twelve.
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  He hit four seventeen with a home run this week. Dakota Jordan hammered two
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  home runs, and Hunter Hines also hit three point fifty seven on the weekend.
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  The only thing that excuse me, people would probably look at with Dakota
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  and Hunter is. They each struck out five times, But I think you
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  can take that trade off. If you're going to drive in runs and hit
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  a bomb every game or two and strike out five times, I think people
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  will take that trade off with those two