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3 Guys Before The Game - J.J. Wetherholt Visits (Episode 463) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  Watch because you know this on Longhorn Network. So there's only about four people
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  that can get this game. I can't see it. It's only a lot.
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  I don't know if you knew that courage for Longhorn Network. It's available
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  in six homes right in the Austin area. So people say we should have
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  just gone live, gone down there, said take your longhole network, get
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  it out of here. We'll just show up and watch this. Should if
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  we brought that down to Austin, Skipper Skipper Randy Mazie would come over post
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  game with us and just talk ball. There's no question probably about that.
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  Yeah, but we did the next best thing. We just brought the star
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  to us. Please welcome, JJ weather Hole. How are you man?
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  Good man? Are you? We're wonderful good to have you with us.
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  So you've been on you've been on our nighttime show a couple of times or
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  six or two or four, five or six. We gotta go a super
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  shout out by the way to your your guy, Adam grow S. He's
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  a beast. He has a beat sports information director. He worked. He
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  needs like five gold stars next to his name. Because you know what,
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  it would have been easy here we are you guys, leave tomorrow for your
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  last trip. Would have been easy. Hey, not available? They kind
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  of give you that Sid stuff you know that Sids do, right, These
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  can't wow you know it. They'll say, like he's traveling, he's unavailable.
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  At this point, Grossman five, smardled it, just handled it.
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  He handled it. Yeah. He cracks me up because whenever he shows up
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  to practice, I know he's coming my way and I know I've got something
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  to do. That's what I saw him walking then. And yeah, I
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  saw him like come up to me and I was like, Oh, he's
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  gonna say something that He didn't say anything, and I was like, oh,
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  maybe maybe not. And then a minute later there he came and I
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  was like, yeah, so you get for hitting the eight fifty Yeah,
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  fifty all the way deep in the season, Kirchill, you get interview if
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  twenty nobody paying attention to So a year ago, did anyone ever walk towards
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  you with a request? Or was it very very few? I mean I
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  would do a couple of postgame stuff, yeah, just with like our media,
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  and then I think I did a couple of like Pittsburgh articles from back
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  right. It wasn't too much. It was pretty like standard stuff at Yeah,
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  but now he starts walking towards you this year. You kind of like,
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  here comes a little something. How did he pitch us? No pun
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  intended? Like, what was his pitch toward us? Like, hey,
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  JJ got these guys and how did that go? No, I mean,
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  obviously, now you'd be honest with us what this is all about. Honesty?
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  You can go ahead. What did you say? He said that?
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  Um, it was the guys that, like I called into the sports network.
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  I think they just wanted to do like a little podcast thing, yeah
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  whatever and something like that. And I was like, okay, sounds good.
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  Easy to work with, easy to work with, superstar. He don't
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  get that all easy to work with you. I was gonna three ears,
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  and I asked it. I wanted to know if, at any point when
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  he was describing if the word clowns were used. No, No, that's
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  that's fine. That's fine. So would have been appropriate how to use the
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  word clowns. It would have been fine with that. Hey, as I
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  sat documented, we're gonna bounce around a bunch of different things, Mars or
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  Gibsonia. So yeah, so I live, um the township that I live
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  in, or city Gibsonia. Um, but like the town the high school
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  that went to his Mars. It's kind of weird how it works. I
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  live in like a golf club, um, development, I live in the
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  way back and I'm actually like six minutes away from like six seven minutes away
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  from Pine Erston High School. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, And
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  I'm like ten ish minutes away from my own high school Mars. So yeah,
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  I'm further away from Mars um, but I don't actually live in Mars
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  per se. Okay, So just how to answer the question someone says where
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  you're national meet? Where are you from? I say Mars? Okay.
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  That one always gets a weird look to when they're from. They look at
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  me like, no, like, where where are you from? And I'm
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  like Pluto, Mars. Yeah yeah, do you ever go with Pluto or
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  anything like that? No? No, so, uh golf golf area there,
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  so golf balls in the backyard occasionally. Um, we actually don't live
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  like directly away, okay, of course, but I have actually gone onto
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  the course and like taken golf balls. Yeah, I don't know if I
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  can say that, but no, you're I'm free game, free game.
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  Well wait a second, you t golf balls like someone just shot it.
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  You run out like a golfer and just steal. I'm talking about like rich
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  people. Yeah, in golf right, never goes too well. A lot
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  of nice golf balls. They miss the fair ways and the rough and they
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  get in the woods. So we'll go at night. We actually fish the
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  ponds a couple. Yeah, it's okay, just just normal stuff you do.
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  When there's a golf course around. Absolutely, we'll venture off into the
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  woods see if we can find some stuff. And I mean like it's it's
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  like heaven. I mean you walk in there and there's just hundreds and hundreds
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  and hundreds of golfs. I gotta bucket at home. I could like five
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  hundred. I'll never have to buy golf. Yeah, exactly. You play,
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  Yeah, you play. Yeah, I play a time pretty good.
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  I mean I was on the JV team as a senior so that. But
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  no, I'm actually i'd say I'm pretty decent. I'm no like competitive player,
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  but I can swing it a little bit. Differences in the swing.
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  Yeah, golf righty, golf right, which is weird? Interest hit lefty
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  golf righty? Why and how does that happen? My dad forced me to
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  do it, um to hit lefty or golf righty, golf righty. Okay,
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  he said, uh, he didn't want it to mess with my swing
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  so I could golf during the season. So I kind of just stuck with
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  it. So that's playing chess. He's thinking ahead. He puts the bat
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  in your hand at what age five, I think four or five, So
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  he wasn't He wasn't like super like a three trying to get you in here
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  and getting your stamps. No, no, it was it was more like
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  that's what I tell people. Um, the first time I ever like picked
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  up a bat and swung it was righty, so I would hit righty.
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  And then I looked at my brother and he was a lefty, so I
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  just turned into a copycat started hitting lefty. But yeah, I'm a natural
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  righty, so so I could switch if you want, you could switch hit
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  it. I tried to, and like I was decent at it, and
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  like my exit speed right handed was even better left handed, and my bat
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  speed was better, like my body moves better that way, but the coordination
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  just wasn't there, and like my muscles weren't used to it. SI ended
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  up like hurt my back and then we just gave it up. Wow.
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  How long? How long it was that a real bat? Or was it
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  like that big red whoof football bat that we all I'm gonna go with.
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  I would assume it was probably like a whoa Yeah, when was the last
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  time you tried? Have you got one? Do you ever? Do you
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  ever tinker around like nowadays and stepping stepping for some BP and try to know
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  we all do that kind of like for fun but right like serious. But
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  it was I think before high school, like kind of middle square when I
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  first got the The idea came back and I was like, hey, you
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  should do it. So I would take BP righty and lefty and it looked
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  good and then took a swing, hurt my back and said never again.
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  Yeah you wrenched it. Is that whole little biomechanics. I would imagine the
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  roads already paved. Yeah, yeah, you're you're you're tearing it up.
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  You're batting four sixty six whatever almost, which is seventy almost eighty points above
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  seventy points above the next closest batter in the Big twelve. Okay, so
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  are you are you just? Are you seeing the threads? Are you?
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  Are you guessing the pitch? Do you know what pitch is coming? What's
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  going through your mind when you're up there? Yeah? I mean there's a
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  bunch of different stuff. It varies like pitcher to pitch, but I mean
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  pretty much my approach is always just like look for a fastball over the plate
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  and try to hit like a line drive to left center field is kind of
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  what I want to do with the fastball. And then if I pick up
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  the off speed stuff, that's kind of the stuff that I'm more comfortable like
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  pulling cleanly. But I keep it pretty simple. I'm not really guessing some
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  pitch pitchers like have tendencies that will pick up on They'll throw more off speed
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  pitches in certain counts, stuff like that. So I kind of know gauge
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  what I'll see that at bad, but it's not really like one hundred percent
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  guests sell out on a certain pitch. How are pitchers pitching you now now
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  that they know. Yeah, So there's like a couple teams that we've gotten
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  like the scattering reports. So Kansas they left their scouting report, and the
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  scattering report for me was like guy is on fire, don't let him beat
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  you. And then it was like he swings with two strikes. So that
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  was pretty much it. It was like we might be able to get into
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  the chase with two strikes. And then Oaks State, one of our pitchers
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  asked the guy and like he was like, yeah, our pitching coach brought
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  us together and was like, you got to compete with your best. So,
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  I mean each team can kind of like come up with different stuff,
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  but they're really just trying to throw every pitch at me different counts. They're
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  just trying to pitch to be up pitching around your right. There's the question,
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  why would you still Every once in a while, Yeah, every once
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  in a while. I mean sometimes like a lot of situations where there's like
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  a base open, say there's a guy in second with two outs and I'm
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  up. That's when I'll see like junk pitches and they're okay with walking.
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  The point that I'm being I'm being dead serious here, you're at the point
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  I would consider putting you on or at least not throwing you anything over the
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  plate, even if first base is occupied. Yeah. No, I mean
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  some teams did do that. Like I've been I've been walked, bases loaded.
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  I'd like walk to fill the bases. I think intentionally, Um,
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  I've got in the beginning of they're honestly, teams are doing it more.
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  I forget who it was. It might have been Minnesota one of the early
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  teams they intentionally walking like three and four times. And here's the thing too,
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  one hundred and Brad, you played baseball one hundred and ninety three at
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  bats, only nineteen strike counts. That's that's the pros. Okay, it
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  only struck out nineteen times. Tough out man. Yeah, I mean,
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  I'm just trying to compete with every pitch. I think that's something. Last
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  year I had a ton of strikeout so that was a big point where like
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  I kind of wanted to get better with two strikes this year. Um,
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  and you know I have more confidence, so, um, I just,
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  yeah, I'm more confident in the box. And it's kind of just I
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  don't want anybody to strike me out. It's just kind of like a pride
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  thing, I guess. Okay, so let's jump into that. As he
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  just said, you struck out nineteen times so far this year. Last year,
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  you struck out forty three times. Yeah, struck out forty three times.
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  Your batting average a year ago was a respectable three o eight, and
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  his hobby just said, you're up to four sixty six. So when you
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  when you think, but when you think, and they've been asked, it's
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  probably more times than you want. But like, what do you think change,
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  what has made you go three o eight four to six six. Yeah,
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  I don't. I mean, honestly, just like staying true to the
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  process. I think, Um, I talked about it a lot, how
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  freshman year you can be a lot just it's a new setting. You're not
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  used to this level of competition. You're lifting it like all the time,
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  you're doing sprints, your body's tired. You got school. It's just hard
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  and especially too, like we lived in the dorm, so you don't even
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  get to you know, you're just sleeping with a roommate in the room every
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  time, so you don't get quiet time stuff like that. It's just like
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  it's stressful. So I think that was something that kind of caught me not
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  I mean, I prepared for it, but it's kind of hard to fully
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  prepare for it. So that was something that kind of caught me off guard.
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  So I was I felt like I was always tired, you know,
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  there's just something missing there. And I think it was just an experience.
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  So I think going into like the summer after freshman year, I mean I
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  touched up a couple of things mechanically. I kind of tell people that,
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  like there were a few things swing related that I try to fix and even
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  now, like my swing's not perfect, but your swing never has to be
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  perfect. It's kind of more mental and just landing on time with the ball.
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  So that's something that worked on too, just mentally trying to have more
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  confidence. And that's the biggest thing too, is not having like result based
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  confidence, which is kind of hard because when things are going really good and
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  you have like that one bad day, it's like, oh my gosh,
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  what has happened that shouldn't have happened. So that's something still I'm trying to
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  work on. But I mean, I don't know, there's not really like
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  a crazy thing that I did. I didn't do anything different. It was
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  kind of just staying true the process, like talking to people, getting advice
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  from my coaches, other players, stuff like that, hanging around a group
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  of guys that are like push me and and always pushing myself. Yeah.
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  That you just used in a really interesting phase that I hadn't heard before,
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  results based confidence. Yeah, because if you you use in baseball, especially
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  if you try to use result based confidence, you're probably bumming out most of
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  the time. For example, your teammate this weekend, Grant Hussey, right,
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  he struggled Saturday and he comes back out Sunday and just bangs it.
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  Yeah, So that to me is like that's strong when you're able to do
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  that. That's what it is that you can't have result based confidence because if
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  that's the case, I mean just not gonna good. Like you're three for
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  ten year good in baseball. So that's failing sent at the time. And
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  if you look at those results, that's not good. That's not something to
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  build a case off of. So just taking the little things like you catch
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  a barrel, have a good at bat, walk, stuff like that,
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  just anything to tell yourself, like, you know, the result isn't everything
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  that matter. It doesn't matter if I got to hit it. Yeah,
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  it's a sport of failure. Baseball is a sport of failure. Stay on
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  confidence for a second, because I think that's so critical, not only to
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  baseball in particular, but all of sports. We probably don't talk about that
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  enough because it's it's impossible to quantify, right, we can quantify everything else.
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  Obviously you've got it at the plate personally, but I would think the
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  team winning at the rate in which it's winning has to not only help collectively
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  obviously, but personally as well. Yeah, right, are you to the
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  point like you can't wait to get to the park, you can't wait to
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  get in the batter's box because personally and team wise it's going so well.
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  That's got to help overall. No, Yeah, absolutely. I mean I
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  think it's kind of funny too, because going into like this last stretch,
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  there's obviously, like the negative thoughts can fill your brain, like oh,
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  what if we start losing? Like what if I start playing bad? Like
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  what if I can't finish strong? Stuff like that, And I think I
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  even sent a text to one of our coaches about it. I was like,
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  YEO, like, I'm having kind of these thoughts. How do you
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  wipe in? He kind of just reminded me like that stuff's normal, Like
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  it's gonna come into your head, but you just got to focus on the
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  present, just attack every day. So once you kind of fluster that out,
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  you get back to excited, like you're just playing baseball. It's a
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  game. You're having fun. You get excited to go to the yard,
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  and then we played good. We feed off that. People in front of
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  me you're playing ridiculous. People behind me, you're playing ridiculous. It's just
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  like energy and yeah, we're feeding off of it and everybody's playing good.
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  But it's also good that we had some not struggles, but we had some
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  moments where we got slapped in the face, Like that Penn State game.
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  It was kind of like an embarrassing game that was terrible that we lost to
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  the first time we played them. That was a big moment where we got
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  slapped in the face and we're like, yeah, we don't want this again.
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  And then you take the Kansas series. I think they might have like
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  the worst record in the conference and we got slap at them, like they
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  beat us up pretty bad. So that's the moment too where it's like,
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  you know, we can't go based off Oh we lost, we got to
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  lose all confidence, but we gotta build back off of that. So we've
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  had some ups and we've had more ups and down, so we've had that
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  those downs, and then that kind of helped balance us out a little bit,
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  so we're not playing two heads high like we're the best team in the
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  world. Stuff like that, which you kind of just had against Texas Tech.
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  Right, you lose Friday night, and I told these guys on our
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  show last night. I thought Randy's quote on Saturday after the game when he
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  said to you guys, all right, you lost Friday. Good teams come
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  back and win Saturday, which you did, but great teams turn around and
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  get tomorrow. He was talking about Sunday, which you did. I think
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  that has to add to that confidence that you were able to say, okay,
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  wipe that Friday night. Now we just come back and still took the
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  series from you. Yeah. So I think that's just like a perfect example.
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  If we hadn't faced some of that adversity we faced, like earlier in
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  the year, stuff like that, that could be a moment where we just
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  kind of shove it under the radar, like lose that game and the next
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  thing you know, we was a Saturday game and now we're in trouble.
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  But we found of just had a good year of getting slapped in the face,
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  coming back, staying up, not getting down to if we lose,
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  and we're just we're playing good baseball and everybody's feeding off that. You have.
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  You have this gigantic series coming up at Texas to end the regular season
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  and a chance to win the league. Outright, I think you need to
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  take two of three to win the series out right, I think something like
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  that? Is that, right, bread, That's the cleanest way you can
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  win one. Oklahoma State loses one, you got magic number two. If
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  I'm not saying turn your ears off from it, we're just having this conversation
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  a combination there. But if they take two of three, that's the cleanness
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  they just handled their business. I had. I was talking to Coach Mazie
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  on my show earlier today and I asked him, you're still doing that show
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  I do? Okay, good good? And I asked him about it and
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  he said, he said, I'm not even thinking about it. I'm just
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  thinking about the first bat of the first inning. I mean, he really
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  did not want to get too far. What is your approach? Are you
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  thinking, Okay, if we if we, if we win out this series
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  and that puts us a certain spot. Are you just thinking about the next
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  up, the next game? I mean, what's your approach to this series?
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  Yeah? So I think obviously, like how everyone's talking, all the
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  noise that's been going out there, we kind of know like the situations and
• 18:52
  if this happens and if this happens, But um, pretty much Coach Mazie
• 18:56
  has told us like walk in to that first inning at Texas, So that's
• 18:59
  kind of a word looking forward to UM. And we're not going there with
• 19:02
  the goal to like, oh, win a game and win the conference,
• 19:03
  like we want the series. We want to win the series. UM.
• 19:07
  If we win that series, I means we only series we drops the Kansas,
• 19:10
  that's pretty special. So that's something we want to do. We just
• 19:11
  want to go there and end the year strong and win the series, sweep
• 19:15
  him, if you know, hopefully that'd be awesome, and then the awards
• 19:18
  and all that type of stuff conference whatever it is, that'll come after it.
• 19:22
  But we're pretty much just focus on the Friday game or the Thursday game
• 19:25
  is yeah. Yeah, you you mentioned when we had you on the show
• 19:29
  at Night your dad was a baseball player, correct, And in the MAC?
• 19:33
  Did he play in the MAC or where did he play? My dad?
• 19:36
  He so he went to Edinburgh to play baseball and football, but he
• 19:38
  ended up just playing football. Okay, but okay, I guess the MAC
• 19:41
  thing was your first offers. You were thinking Mid American Conference. Yeah,
• 19:48
  my dream school was Kent State. That that's where he graduated. Okay,
• 19:51
  okay, got you, got you so he graduated. I'm looking at this.
• 19:53
  Pulled this out here, dude, h JJ Weatherholt Nash ranking coming out
• 20:00
  of high school, five hundredth player overall, State of Pennsylvania, thirty second
• 20:04
  best player overall. You didn't fully dive into all that showcase travel and stuff,
• 20:15
  right, So I'm assuming that's probably an indication as to why you didn't
• 20:18
  have these lofty numbers coming out. Yeah, no, soum. My dad,
• 20:26
  My dad and me personally, like we weren't fans of the whole showcase
• 20:29
  thing because I mean, it was cool, you got the exposure that you
• 20:30
  wanted, but you had to pay like three hundred four hundred dollars per event.
• 20:34
  And I kind of knew that I wanted to go to college. I
• 20:37
  knew that I wasn't going to be a professional Caliboo baseball player coming out of
• 20:41
  high school. So I knew I needed to go to college and that was
• 20:44
  my focus. And that happened early where I committed after like freshman year of
• 20:47
  high school. It's like my sophomore summer. That's when coach Savans and the
• 20:51
  staff saw me and they offered me. So I had my days planned out.
• 20:55
  I was gonna come here and I was gonna play well. And when
• 20:57
  that happened, I didn't see a need to go to these like Professional Perfect
• 21:00
  Game PBR all that type of showcases and spend a ton of money to try
• 21:03
  to get noticed. So I went, I mean, did I go under
• 21:07
  the radar? You could say that, But I also wasn't the player that
• 21:10
  I am now. So I was a good high school player, and there's
• 21:12
  a reason that I was a commit here so early. But um, maybe
• 21:17
  I wasn't shouldn't have been recognized like nationally, like a bunch of the other
• 21:19
  people's were. But we weren't really paying attention to the rakings. We were
• 21:22
  just more focused on getting ready to prep for college. So West Virginia tagged
• 21:26
  you at the end of your sophomore year and a freshman and it was your
• 21:29
  fresh for my sophomore year. Yeah, which I think you can't do anymore.
• 21:33
  I think they just passed a rule where you can't like talk to kids
• 21:34
  until their juniors. I think something like that isn't that wild. So they
• 21:38
  recognized you right off the bat, Yeah it was. It was pretty cool.
• 21:41
  It was, um, I mean, like the player that we thought
• 21:45
  I was gonna be Um, I really just wanted to try to go anywhere
• 21:48
  like low division one anything like that. That's why Kent State was like a
• 21:52
  huge place that I wanted to go because I played tournaments there and you know,
• 21:56
  my dad went there, so he's familiar with it. Um, that
• 21:59
  was kind of my goal. And then coach Sabans picked me up and offered
• 22:03
  me there, and then I committed before I even got another offer. So
• 22:06
  it was like West Virginia and West Virginia, so you're thinking, you're thinking
• 22:08
  Kent State and then all of a sudden, here comes West Virginia and Big
• 22:12
  twelve and he says, we'd like to offer your scholarship. Do you remember
• 22:17
  that moment you went like, oh, yeah, not real. I remember
• 22:19
  because he like, he told us to get notebook out so we could like
• 22:23
  break down the numbers. So we were breaking out the numbers to see how
• 22:26
  much it would cost, like to go to school and all this type of
• 22:29
  stuff, and it was just like we had a good idea of how much
• 22:32
  we wanted to spend for me going to college. Obviously you want to try
• 22:34
  to not spend as much, you know, a lot of money, So
• 22:37
  we broke down the numbers and like its kind of just kept adding up and
• 22:40
  adding up, and we liked the campus, we liked the coaches. Obviously
• 22:42
  pretty much all the starts aligned, so we just went for it. Did
• 22:45
  it yep. First recollections of Mazie what stood out because he's a baseball guy's
• 22:53
  baseball guy. I didn't even like really talk to him until I came to
• 22:56
  a camp. Honestly, like all my all my was done by coach Sabins,
• 23:00
  and then um, coach Ginther would would be at some of the showcases
• 23:04
  which I did end up going into, which was a part of a team
• 23:07
  thankfully, so I didn't have to pay for him, right, um,
• 23:10
  but he would end up showing up there after I was committed, but pre
• 23:15
  commitment, it was like pretty much just coach Sabins. And then I got
• 23:17
  to the camp and that's when like the only interaction I had with Coach Mazie
• 23:21
  really was, Um, I was pretty much an OPO hitter at the time,
• 23:25
  which I still kind of am, like that's that's always been my thing,
• 23:27
  And he told me he wanted to see me pool the ball, so
• 23:30
  he gave me like an extra bat at the camp, like brought me up
• 23:33
  and was like, hey, go go pull this pitch, and of course
• 23:36
  me being how I well as I hit it three hundred seven feet to left
• 23:38
  field and that was it. But that was pretty much that. And then
• 23:41
  coach Sabans was one who called me after that. But I thought I thought
• 23:45
  he was just like your typical um, you know baseball coach knows the game,
• 23:48
  just laid back type of guy, and you know he'd be pretty much
• 23:52
  is Yeah, oh boy, that's uh. It's fun when you look back
• 23:57
  and you see how all the pieces come together. Now when you mentioned you
• 24:03
  guys have battled back, You've taken some shots this year and you battle back.
• 24:07
  That doesn't happen unless you've got this team chemistry, Yeah, which is
• 24:12
  the hardest thing to create in all of sports. Why and what are the
• 24:18
  personalities on this team? Which takes you guys to have just big guts so
• 24:25
  to speak. Yeah, we just have a ton of different personalities. I
• 24:26
  mean I could pick something out from like every guy on the team, and
• 24:30
  there's people who don't play who have just as big of a role as like
• 24:33
  I could have. They get the guys involved, like they're always ready to
• 24:37
  pinch it, pincher on whatever, they have to do that day. But
• 24:40
  I mean, we just have a group of guys that really love each other
• 24:42
  and we're attacking every day, which is big. We have fun every day.
• 24:48
  We just want to play good for each other and for the state,
• 24:49
  and we know what it means to be a part of a program like this.
• 24:52
  And yeah, I mean at the end of the day, we keep
• 24:55
  it simple, just attack the day, and that's pretty much it. We
• 24:59
  just have that chemistry. We kind of knew it. That was the big
• 25:00
  thing in the fall that we talked about a ton was like, we have
• 25:03
  the team chemistry. Everyone loves each other and there's not there's not a single
• 25:07
  guy in the team who's like only cares about themselves. There's no selfishness on
• 25:11
  the team. And you add in Traxel and he puts a rubber cone on
• 25:15
  his head. Yeah, he used to he's the dude. He's now he's
• 25:18
  a he's a different character, that guy that guys at Beast. It's uh,
• 25:23
  you know, I don't want to spend a ton of time talking about
• 25:26
  the numbers or that, but do you have or do you have a good
• 25:30
  feel for what you guys are doing and what it means to the state.
• 25:34
  Yeah, no, we definitely know. We try not to pay attention too
• 25:38
  much of the Stuff's kind of funny because whenever there's like a new article that
• 25:41
  comes out saying this, this, and this about us, our coach will
• 25:44
  like send it into the group chat and be like, this is poison,
• 25:47
  and it's kind of funny. We we we all like make fun of it
• 25:48
  because it's like, oh, it's poisons poison. But at the end of
• 25:51
  the day, it is like it's a lot of noise. There's so much
• 25:52
  hype behind us now and all that type of stuff, but we we kind
• 25:56
  of try to silence it out. Um, we know what it means and
• 25:59
  we know all stuff, but at the end of the day, we have
• 26:00
  one more series to go and then the conference tournament, and we're just focused
• 26:04
  on that type of stuff and just finishing strong. Now. The flip side
• 26:07
  to that, though, what that poison provides is the environment that's created at
• 26:11
  the ballpark. Right that hype. You don't want it to get to you,
• 26:15
  but it's creating some great environment. I would think the energy and fun
• 26:18
  that that brings for you guys playing in front of instead of just twenty five
• 26:22
  fifty family and friends. Playing in front of thousands of people each night in
• 26:26
  your home ballpark has to be an awesome thrill. Oh yeah, it's not
• 26:29
  even like a comparison. We've played some games earlier in the year where there
• 26:33
  weren't really environments. We did a tournament at VCU and environment we didn't even
• 26:37
  play VCU at one of the games we played at VCU, but it was
• 26:40
  against KENNISHUS, so of course no one's going to be there. And that
• 26:44
  was just we played kind of slow, and you know, you could see
• 26:47
  we weren't really excited, and then you get to hear and we got fans
• 26:48
  screaming at the other teams. We got fans hyping us up, they got
• 26:52
  a beer snake going, all this type of stuff. It's just it's fun
• 26:56
  in games and we see it and it really gets us going. And at
• 27:00
  the end of the day, we just we want to win so badly before
• 27:02
  the fans that show up. The you know, the environment is like a
• 27:06
  football game. It's good. Yeah, it's really especially the fans just smaller
• 27:10
  numbers, but atmosphere it's yeah. And plus you know Mountain, your fans
• 27:15
  they might have a beverage or two about the six or seventh inning. I
• 27:17
  mean, the thing gets really it's it's rock, it's it's loud. Yeah,
• 27:21
  it's awesome, and I love it because they are they're yelling at the
• 27:22
  other team. You know, they're yelling at the umpire. I mean,
• 27:25
  yeah, there's there's balls that are getting thrown in the dirt and the crowd
• 27:27
  screaming at the umpire for calling it a ball, thumsoning, cracking up.
• 27:30
  But truly that can help perform, absolutely, I mean that's I think fans
• 27:34
  know they help, but how does it? But it helps right later innings
• 27:37
  drives you through, you're down, it picks you up. There's a tangible
• 27:41
  benefit to that crowd. Now it gives you a reason, like every inning
• 27:44
  to to come back. So we're down by two or three whatever gets the
• 27:48
  seventh inning, there's no environment. It's easy to just pack it in be
• 27:51
  like oh no one cares. But you got a bunch of three thousand,
• 27:55
  four thousand people. They're screaming, like all all locked in, not leaving
• 27:57
  yet they want to see us come back. It just gives us another reason
• 28:00
  to get excited. That was like Sunday, right, it was three to
• 28:03
  two. Yeah, they were there Yeah, they were, and you step
• 28:07
  up there and took care of that. I think, you know, the
• 28:10
  crowd wasn't really panic and they might have been a little bit, but regardless,
• 28:11
  they were still into the game and they were watching with us, and
• 28:15
  people weren't leaving, so we were right right there with them. You missed
• 28:18
  a half a dozen games this year because of a hand injury when you slid.
• 28:22
  Um, what did you learn about yourself when you were forced to be
• 28:26
  a spectator? Um, honestly, I just I knew that I could still
• 28:29
  like have an impact on the team. Um, I kind of became a
• 28:32
  dugout noise guy. I was screaming all the time and just picking people up.
• 28:36
  So I also kind of got to experience how important that is for somewhere
• 28:41
  or people to be on the bench that aren't playing, to be into the
• 28:44
  game because it really does help, Like you provide a lot of energy,
• 28:47
  and it was cool to just experience that type of stuff. Yeah, you're
• 28:51
  at bats have turned into a I don't want to say circus, but you're
• 28:55
  almost like Judge last year chasing the home run title. You come up and
• 28:59
  it's electric there. Do you feel that specifically if you tried to tune that
• 29:03
  out. You're locked into the picture. How much of that are you aware
• 29:06
  of? I definitely I hear some of it. Um, I'm sure there's
• 29:08
  like some my bats that might be louder than I think they are. Some
• 29:11
  of my bats, I don't hear it as much. But even if the
• 29:12
  crowd's still gone crazy. But there's been certain instances when I'll walk up to
• 29:17
  the plate in like all year, how loud people get, and um,
• 29:19
  you know, I'd take it in for a little bit, but then I
• 29:22
  just try to lock it back in, lock on the picture, and it
• 29:26
  might hype me up a little bit. Maybe it helps me out. I
• 29:29
  don't really know, but I do know that it's it's pretty cool experience.
• 29:32
  Um. But still just like once I step into the box, it's just
• 29:34
  I'm trying to telling stuff out and just focus on the picture. Even even
• 29:37
  when you're at Oklahoma or Oklahoma State weather hold you suck well, it's actually
• 29:41
  funny. Um. At Oklahoma State right before the first game started, which
• 29:45
  was the game that ended up getting hurt. But I was in the batter's
• 29:48
  box before the game and the old fan was like, are he's a leadoff
• 29:53
  hitter, and I was like, yeah, he goes, aren't you hitting
• 29:56
  like four sixty or something else? Like I don't know, It's like you
• 30:00
  take it easy on us. And then I think I ended up hitting like
• 30:03
  a leadoff home run that game. Sorry, but no, it is pretty
• 30:07
  cool. But um yeah, some of the opposing teams do do get a
• 30:11
  little bit chirpy. Yeah, sure, yeah, tough to chirp when you're
• 30:15
  hitting five bills, you like summer down. You mentioned beer, shut it
• 30:18
  and let him go ahead. You know our boy, you know, our
• 30:21
  boy over there has got his own craft beer, did you Yeah, and
• 30:23
  he's got his own Oh yeah, highly incredibly highly ranked. So there's a
• 30:29
  website or an app called untapped where people ring a boy's coming at three nine
• 30:33
  eight. Now you're batting four to six six, he's at three nine eight,
• 30:37
  which is pretty dog gone good. Yeah. So after, you know,
• 30:41
  maybe when the season's over and might be able to get him, get
• 30:44
  him a kerch of veil and we'll take care of that. All right.
• 30:48
  Let's do a little food right now. Already, all right, go to
• 30:52
  food, Like what is it? You're not gonna know it. It's a
• 30:56
  Korean food. It's called yeah, I'm part are in. So it's called
• 31:00
  bogoge and it's just, uh, it's like a Korean marinated steak. So
• 31:04
  what's the marination? What are we use in there? I think my dad
• 31:07
  says it's like there's like a bunch of sugar in it, which is probably
• 31:11
  why I like it. I'm not really too sure the extent of it.
• 31:14
  We don't make it, which is why it's kind of like my favorite food
• 31:15
  because we only get it once every so often when we go out to the
• 31:18
  Korean restaurants. But yeah, it's definitely my favorite. Okay, So okay,
• 31:23
  got it. That's interesting. That's interesting. Give me, give me
• 31:26
  food too, healthy eater. Becoming a healthy eater you mentioned rest earlier,
• 31:33
  if you learned how to treat your body as a pro. Oh yeah,
• 31:34
  absolutely, I mean I like my eating habits from high school's an hour way
• 31:41
  different. I mean, of course, you know, I'll throw some Wendy's
• 31:42
  and McDonald's in there every once in a while, but I try to keep
• 31:45
  in moderation, so I mean healthier. I would say, like, if
• 31:48
  I'm just looking for a good post practice meal, it's Chipotle, and I'll
• 31:52
  get like a chicken brito. That's right. That's my god too. Yeah,
• 31:56
  that's all clean. Game day foods. Is it always the same thing,
• 31:59
  you superstitious food? No, but they do get us a pregame meal,
• 32:01
  which is it's usually Chipotle um, but there's kind of like a mixed
• 32:05
  like Chipole Boston Beanery and then Texas Roadhouse. So they'll get us that type
• 32:08
  of stuff. But I don't really have any but you you won't. You
• 32:12
  don't have anything you have to eat. Nope. Just I think I said
• 32:15
  one time, I drank a cup of black coffee. That's pretty much it.
• 32:20
  I have a coffee. That's that's fair with you, favorite favorite curse
• 32:23
  when you do, in fact, rarely strike out. Uh. I don't
• 32:29
  really say anything, to be honest, I'm just like, dang, that's
• 32:30
  that's that's pretty much it though. Dang, yeah, dang. You think
• 32:35
  that was a Yeah, we had a little we had a little kerfuffle there
• 32:37
  at the end of the game. The other night they're on that interference called
• 32:39
  adn't we That was Jake, Oh my gosh, well what happened there?
• 32:44
  Were you? What was your perspective on that? So it was kind of
• 32:45
  funny because I was talking to the umpire the whole game. And that guy
• 32:49
  we had him at Kansas State and he was, you know, just complimenting
• 32:52
  me of the year that I'm having. And then when he was there,
• 32:54
  he's like, when I saw you at Kansas State, I didn't think your
• 32:58
  stats could get better. And then it was like then here I here we
• 33:00
  are. Yeah, so he was he was super cool to me the entire
• 33:04
  weekend um, and then when that happened, I was like, dear lord,
• 33:07
  I mean, he like flew a gasket. Oh gosh, that went
• 33:12
  up for a zero to sixty real quick. I mean, I don't know
• 33:15
  what Saves said to him, but I'm sure it was not enough for like
• 33:19
  him to freak out like that, Oh my god, like he was gonna
• 33:23
  go after him. And that's what I was talking about. It was like,
• 33:25
  you can't take the type of stuff that gets said, you know,
• 33:29
  umpired to coach as it's not on a personal level, like it's just like
• 33:31
  how the game's going. Obviously he's not gonna say that to you. It's
• 33:35
  just like daily life. But that's how the guy reacted. He was like
• 33:37
  he was that mad. And then poor Jay Garb was just trying to slow
• 33:40
  him down and then got ejected, and it was just it was something I've
• 33:44
  never seen before. Do you work the do you work the jump at all?
• 33:47
  Now? I mean, um, home play guys, I usually never
• 33:51
  say a word to them. Um. The biggest thing I'll do is like
• 33:53
  shake my head if I And that's more just like reassuring my stuff, like
• 33:58
  that's you know, not in the call. But I'll never try to show
• 34:00
  up in ump um. Sometimes I'll question like the field dumps on certain plays.
• 34:05
  Um honestly, sometimes when the rules too, like I don't know about
• 34:07
  like when tracks all got thrown out, I was like, what happened there?
• 34:10
  But the celebration that they got thrown out the vinyl cone you can't do
• 34:14
  it in front of the dugout came out, came out of the dug out
• 34:16
  cone said a little celebration the celeb Yeah. So, I mean, I
• 34:22
  try not to talk too much, um sweet talk to the umpires, but
• 34:24
  I'll have like some conversations about them, just like where they're from. Pretty
• 34:28
  much basic stuff. What about other players when they're on the base and you're
• 34:30
  covering the bag, get to chat a little bit with them? Oh yeah,
• 34:32
  I mean I'll always try to talk to the guys. Um. You
• 34:36
  know, if someone puts a good swing in the ball, it's some good
• 34:37
  swinging, just pretty much normal stuff, and ask them where they're from,
• 34:42
  you know, that type of stuff. Just just try to have combos.
• 34:44
  I think it's kind of funny too, because what we'll talk about that as
• 34:45
  a team, and if there's some guys who don't talk back, I'm just
• 34:47
  like, man, what's your deal? Like, I'm just trying to be
• 34:50
  nice. Um. But I think the funniest thing too is I'll go to
• 34:53
  like compliment. I think I happy to pit the first basement, their first
• 34:57
  basements. A heck of a players having a great year. I was like,
• 34:59
  dude, you will not stop hitting the ball. And then he's like,
• 35:01
  nah, man, what about you? And I was like, oh,
• 35:02
  man, Like I'm just I'm trying to talk about you right now.
• 35:06
  But yeah, So I'll always try to talk to some of the guys.
• 35:08
  But I mean, every once in a while you'll find a bad apple who's
• 35:12
  you know, showing up the team or whatever, and there's a type of
• 35:14
  guys you just let them go. I bought the series sweep over Pit.
• 35:17
  Huh you got that was awesome. Their placed last week PNC and then here
• 35:22
  that was that's great. Yeah, that was a that was something cool.
• 35:24
  We want to do that. I know last year we lost at their place,
• 35:28
  Um that was it. So this year we kind of finally got to
• 35:31
  to get the sweep. It was pretty cool. And the biggest bum out,
• 35:34
  it sounds to me, all season was blowing the lead at Penn State.
• 35:37
  Yeah. I hated that game. That game sent me into a frenzy.
• 35:40
  I think it was funny. I don't get too worked up after games
• 35:44
  are too emotional. Um, I mean, if I have a bad game,
• 35:46
  I'll get I'll be a little bit quieter than usual. But um,
• 35:50
  that game was something that I was like angry, like I just wanted to
• 35:53
  throw something or do something. I was just I was upset. That was
• 35:55
  a game that we should have won. And I don't like those guys,
• 35:58
  and you know, it's just wanted to win that game and we kind of
• 36:01
  we beat ourselves. Yeah. Finance major, yes, sir, Yeah,
• 36:05
  why and what do you want to do? My dad? Um, he
• 36:07
  major in finance and modern economics and he ended up becoming a sales director for
• 36:13
  a pharmaceutical company. So it was something that he liked to do, and
• 36:16
  I've just always been interested on kind of being financially stables. That was a
• 36:21
  side of things. When I was eighteen, opened up, you know,
• 36:22
  an investing account, and that was something I kind of really liked to do
• 36:25
  in school, and so I knew that was kind of the route that I
• 36:29
  wanted to take. My brother also it's a finance major. Um, he
• 36:31
  graduated already, but so like I said, I followed in his footsteps,
• 36:36
  so that that might have been part of it too, But um, I've
• 36:38
  kind of just been that way. That was only the stuff that interested me.
• 36:42
  I wasn't a big science guy or stuff like that. So you opened
• 36:45
  up your own account at eighteen, would we go? We go? What
• 36:47
  index fund? Would we do first? What would we put in here?
• 36:51
  No? I mean I had no idea what I was doing. I think
• 36:53
  I bought five dollars of CVS, five dollars of four and five dollars emty.
• 37:00
  And if I would have, if I would have spent all my money
• 37:04
  on CVS, I'd be a lot richer than I am today because that that
• 37:06
  one actually ended up blown up. But I keep it, keep it in
• 37:09
  five hundred, gonna be all right, you're gonna be all right, Yeah,
• 37:14
  you know what you're doing. Fun, it's gonna grow, all right.
• 37:15
  Two part questions superstition again, your superstitions game day, helmets, bats,
• 37:22
  gloves number one. Second part who is the most superstitious on the team?
• 37:27
  But start with you? What do you do your helmet have to be
• 37:29
  in a certain spot? Do you get dressed to say? Yeah, none
• 37:31
  of that, I do nothing. Player bless your heart. Yeah, because
• 37:36
  he played college baseball and he's as crazy as a well he's yeah, maybe
• 37:38
  I should have been less crazy. I wasn't as good as I think.
• 37:42
  Um, I spent too much time on where my helmet was. Really no,
• 37:45
  I think I think I put my right cleat. I don't know which
• 37:49
  one it is. One of the cleats goes on first. That's pretty much
• 37:52
  it. That's it one. I don't really know. But it's like habit.
• 37:54
  So even during a game when you're hot, the helmet doesn't have to
• 37:58
  be facing the same way the bat in the same spot, same number.
• 38:00
  Now nothing, well something, My pre ad bat routine is the same every
• 38:05
  time. Like I'll do like a kind of like behind the backstep swaying and
• 38:08
  that type of thing. And then the actually the only thing that I don't
• 38:12
  know how much superstition it is, maybe a little bit, But I chew
• 38:15
  gum and if I have, like, if I get out, I'll get
• 38:16
  a new piece of gum flavor. What are just the regular double bubble double
• 38:21
  ball straight so gum. So you more, it's routine for you, less
• 38:24
  superstition. You just call it the routine. See mine was routine, you
• 38:28
  guys ride It was routine alright. Most superstitious or most routine oriented on the
• 38:34
  team or do you even pay attention to what they're doing? Don't you just
• 38:37
  think I don't know who is I don't think we have like a guy who's
• 38:40
  that like has to have everything the same way. Well, you know Mai
• 38:45
  Wore. I talked to him today. He wore a hockey jersey to the
• 38:49
  game I think on sun on Sunday, Sunday or whatever they was. And
• 38:53
  then his son went wore a hockey jersey too, and then they you all
• 38:58
  won the game, and they woke up the next day and this and said
• 39:00
  you got to wear the hockey jersey. Okay, So then it was a
• 39:01
  Saturday because they showed up on Sunday with it on. That's when I saw
• 39:04
  it. So you're not the same pair of socks or undershirt or any of
• 39:08
  that. Sometimes I like it for sleeves if I can, but if it's
• 39:13
  hot out, I just won't wear an undershirt. Yeah, it's it's really
• 39:16
  I don't know. I mean, don't talk him into being nuts. Like
• 39:19
  you guys listening to me right to care what I'm saying. I'm just trying
• 39:23
  to get a question answer here. He's gonna do what he's gonna do.
• 39:27
  No, But I mean, my biggest problem is I think too much,
• 39:29
  so I try to do stuff that makes me think less. Yeah, I'm
• 39:31
  smart. Is he's like, especially among us, he's like remarkably normal.
• 39:37
  I was going to say that normal. Yeah, especially guy. You know,
• 39:42
  we keep fishing for someone that's pretty normal. It's actually sky normal guy.
• 39:45
  It's funny you say that, because like I'll get team people in my
• 39:51
  high school, like they'll text me. I'll be like, oh my gosh,
• 39:52
  dude, like you're insane all this type of stuff. I'm like,
• 39:54
  no, dude, Like I'm still the same kid. Like I'm just saying
• 39:57
  I'm pretty normal just playing baseball. You keep doing that, um pitching clock
• 40:00
  affect you at all. Um, No, you're good. I mean you
• 40:06
  gotta pay attention to it a little bit, but it's not really. It
• 40:09
  doesn't. It hasn't really affected me personally. I know last year there's one
• 40:13
  time where the pitcher like went too long, and I thought it meant that
• 40:16
  I got walked, so I was like running to the basis. But it
• 40:19
  was a warning. That's the only time I remember we got ding this weekend,
• 40:23
  didn't we one of our guys? Yeah it was Barry, yeah,
• 40:25
  Berry. Yeah. That was kind of like that bumps you out when it
• 40:28
  sound like an odd call too. Yeah, it did. It was weird
• 40:30
  and it was a super exciting moment, and then it just ended like that,
• 40:34
  exactly like scarning position. I think on that. Yeah, what what's
• 40:38
  your walk up music? Um? I have one of them. It's it's
• 40:44
  like it's like a rap song. It's called calling My Spirit um. And
• 40:46
  then the other one's a different right, it's actually a Christian rap song.
• 40:50
  That's one that's probably my favorite one. Okay, but you make that request
• 40:52
  that they come to you and say what do you want? Yeah, so
• 40:54
  they'll give you, like you have two options. So one of them I
• 40:58
  just carried over from last year and then I got a new one. Now,
• 41:00
  they didn't have that where you played right, they had a close and
• 41:02
  play. They were probably just trying to get you wait and then walk up
• 41:05
  me. Did you have a PA? I don't think we did. It
• 41:08
  was a long time good. No, I don't think we had PA.
• 41:10
  By the way, they need a better pat the baseball stadium. Excuse me,
• 41:14
  hold on, I've got information on that. Just hold on, because
• 41:16
  you've been so outspoken about this. I didn't even know this. It's it's
• 41:20
  our I was. I was approached this week this weekend, late in the
• 41:22
  week last week actually at an extracurricular of that, I had somebody approached me
• 41:27
  about his complaints and they actually said, it's what did he do? It's
• 41:31
  already been looked into efforting, but it's like a little bit past efforting.
• 41:37
  It's going to happen. Good. So, I mean, so it was
• 41:38
  a valid observation. I was there Sunday. I heard everything perfect. Well,
• 41:44
  you're probably sitting in an executive seat now that it sounds like he shockingly
• 41:49
  had a valid complaint and they're on it and it's getting fixed. Good.
• 41:53
  But unfortunately it was attributed directly to his complaining, which will only make him
• 41:57
  complain more. He doesn't he doesn't get out much. Who did you got
• 42:01
  apposed to tell? Hoppy? They started? The conversation started with Hey,
• 42:06
  good to see you tell Hoppy. That's how it began. I thought,
• 42:08
  oh no, now I'm gonna have to take a hit for you. Who
• 42:10
  did you go see? Play? Hop? When you went? Who they
• 42:14
  play? I think it was there Kansas, Kansas State. I think I
• 42:16
  think it's when you all lost to Kansas at home. Right. It was
• 42:21
  like you all start out and you were ahead, and then they came back
• 42:22
  and it was like, I don't know, ten eight or something there Kans,
• 42:25
  I don't know. It's he he went, he doesn't get out much.
• 42:30
  He came back and said, boy, you guys should go check this
• 42:32
  out. They serve hot dogs and you can buy beer, and those players
• 42:38
  hit that ball and they run around that thing there and listening his life.
• 42:43
  Froud was yelling they play music and everything. It was like it was a
• 42:45
  great and it's like going going like Kennywood. You know, it was like
• 42:49
  it was a big day. Well, and I'll tell you what I like
• 42:51
  too. And I talked amazing about this and this and there works for you.
• 42:53
  JJ, Is that Amazie likes it when you swing the bat right?
• 42:57
  He likes runs? Yeah, I know he does. I mean everybod he
• 43:00
  likes runs. We're trying to score a bunch of them every Yeah, he's
• 43:01
  like, yeah, I want runs. He likes th stuff. I mean,
• 43:05
  and you get it fine, but he wants runs. And if you're
• 43:07
  a pitcher, you better throw strikes. Yeah, he keeps it pretty simple.
• 43:10
  But speaking of the power, what what what is the opposite field power
• 43:16
  thing? You You mentioned that too. We've talked about this. The alignment
• 43:20
  you get sometimes is bizarre shift on the infield to pull outfield s other way
• 43:24
  going opposite field? Why or do you know? No, I mean I
• 43:29
  know why. That's that's kind of like there's this thing called synergies. You
• 43:31
  can see no synergy well, JJ, But anyway, so they pretty much
• 43:39
  will print out like a spreadsheet of where I hit the ball, and most
• 43:43
  of my flighted stuff like home run flighted balls are left center. Is yeah,
• 43:46
  But I guess I'm not asking about why they switch. I get that.
• 43:50
  Why do you have more? I don't know. I think it's just
• 43:52
  like swing path and um kind of just it's it's it's almost my approach.
• 43:58
  My dad always like would make me hit the ball up the mill and like
• 44:00
  the white type of stuff. You never wanted me to be um Pool happy,
• 44:02
  right, And so I think I could always pull the ball like when
• 44:06
  I was younger, and then I think once like velocity and pitchers started getting
• 44:09
  better, pulling stuff became more, I had to like actually get better at
• 44:13
  it. So that was something I've been working on and I'm I'm getting there,
• 44:15
  but I still think, you know, like inside fastballs and stuff like
• 44:19
  that, if you're not on that pitch ninety five inside on your hands is
• 44:22
  gonna be yea, So are you getting more pitches away from you? Teams
• 44:27
  trying to stay away. That's what they did last year in the beginning,
• 44:30
  and then once I got the conference play, they kind of found like the
• 44:31
  loophole of just like jamming me in. Yeah, And so that's kind of
• 44:35
  something that I've really taken a lot of pride in getting better at. And
• 44:37
  every once in a while, like, well, I still get beat inside
• 44:39
  one hundred percent, that's going to happen, but I've gotten way better at
• 44:44
  it to where it's teams don't want to come in as much because they also
• 44:46
  do know if they miss like middle in, that's when it you got a
• 44:49
  problem. Right, So it's like, if you're gonna come in, you
• 44:51
  gotta it better be way in. Yeah, yeah, you better hit your
• 44:53
  spot. Um, so you know that. The other two guys don't want
• 44:58
  me to say this, and but here we go. You know you're you're
• 45:04
  going to be uh you already are a hot commodity and a lot of people
• 45:07
  are gonna be coming at you. And I'm not gonna put you on the
• 45:09
  spot, but I'll just say, I hope you stay. Do you think
• 45:13
  about next year? Yeah? Yeah, I'm not going anywhere. You're not.
• 45:19
  Did we just break news? I mean a lot of people. Look,
• 45:21
  you're gonna get a lot of I mean a lot of people. Look,
• 45:23
  Coach Mazie was saying today how much and I always helped the program,
• 45:27
  And you're gonna get a lot of people coming after you, man, And
• 45:29
  that's and that's good. That's fine. I mean that that's what you deserve.
• 45:31
  I'm just saying that you and this team have been given this mountain of
• 45:36
  nation a ton of thrills. Oh yeah, and it'd be great if you
• 45:39
  came back. No, I mean that that's one hundred percent the goal.
• 45:42
  I know a lot of people that's kind of funny. I'll see stuff that's
• 45:45
  like, yeah, he's going to the draft, there's no chance he goes
• 45:46
  back. People don't even like that. I can't, can't do it.
• 45:52
  Um No, but yeah, I mean there's there's a ton of that stuff
• 45:55
  like going around. But no, I mean I chose West Virginia to finish
• 45:59
  my career like that, so so we can so we can pin you down.
• 46:01
  You're coming back, yeah, I mean yeah, I mean I don't
• 46:06
  think it should even be up in the air, like I don't. There's
• 46:08
  no intention of me going anywhere. That's great, that's good news. Good
• 46:13
  news. Then just take care of him here, Okay, take care of
• 46:15
  here. Hey, I got a couple more quickly care of him here.
• 46:17
  You guys, you guys do a lot of in exactly in inner squad scrimmage
• 46:22
  stuff. What picture on your team do you like to space the least?
• 46:28
  Um? Well, his name is Will Watson, um and he's he's this
• 46:34
  tall, like six six guy, can throw like ninety five ninety six And
• 46:37
  he just started dropping down throwing like submarine side armish. My first I beat
• 46:42
  back from the summer, drove me right my foot, which is why I
• 46:45
  wear a leg guard. Now I think he's hit me like will Yeah,
• 46:49
  I think he's hit me three or four times, and it's just he struck
• 46:52
  me out more than that. So it's like he just he's got He's effectively
• 46:57
  wild is what I call. You know when somebody hits you in the foot.
• 47:00
  You know when somebody hits you in the foot A problem? Oh my
• 47:05
  gosh. We'll get into that later. Um, how have you bet you
• 47:08
  using? It's at thirty three? Thirty three thirty Yeah? Would you use
• 47:14
  Skippy? I can't remember that long ago? You probably we probably made up
• 47:16
  thirty six. That's probably rap out in the range. Best glove? Who's
• 47:22
  your glove? What do you use? Um? It's eleven and a half
• 47:24
  inch, but manufacturer is who? It's Rawlings wrongings are Easton. But it's
• 47:30
  actually what I was gonna say. It's I've always used Wilson, So like
• 47:35
  when we customize the gloves, I didn't even know what to do because I've
• 47:37
  never really had rawlings. I still don't know what I'm doing. I would
• 47:40
  just go to like Dixon buy, I would get the Dustin Pedroia model,
• 47:45
  which is my favorite one. I had that one like all high school.
• 47:47
  Yeah, so we need to customize the glove. I was like, what
• 47:51
  do I do? I just I knew that I got eleven and a half
• 47:53
  and that's pretty much all I know. You're happy with your glove? Yeah?
• 47:55
  I like it? Um. Uh. The thing that stinks about it
• 47:59
  now is I have to wear a thumb guard now because of my thumb injury,
• 48:02
  and so it's like winding the glove out and it's kind of like forming
• 48:06
  to the thumb guard. So like I'm probably always gonna have to wear the
• 48:08
  thumb guard now with that thing, which kind of stinks. But we'll get
• 48:10
  a new one next year. Yeah. Two thousand, Wilson two thousands?
• 48:15
  What I used? Yeah? Yeah? Um, you need to you need
• 48:19
  to really understand how to slide in the bases at Wagner Field. Don't you
• 48:23
  mean it's an art? Because other can we see the posing team that slid
• 48:29
  out in the left field right? What's the key? Uh? You kind
• 48:31
  of slide early, um, and you got to hold on for dear life.
• 48:35
  That's pretty much it. It's kind of funny that you say that,
• 48:37
  because at pit they got slow turf and I had stolen the first inning and
• 48:42
  I slid where I usually slide, and I was like, this is taking
• 48:45
  awfully long and you have to swim in and next thing you know, the
• 48:51
  freaking balls on me, and I'm out what just happened? But yeah,
• 48:55
  I slid like it was our turf and it was not our turf. That's
• 48:59
  the best judged the moisture on the turf though, too, because that adds
• 49:01
  a little bit more too. When it's wet. I think the pig game
• 49:06
  at our place. I stole that that game and it was wet and I
• 49:08
  flew right fast the back. You've got no shot, Like when it's wet,
• 49:12
  you I mean, I don't even know what it is. Well,
• 49:14
  what about the Sunday Oklahoma game when it was starting to rain and they hadn't
• 49:17
  gone into the three plus hour lay. That dude from Oklahoma, he almost
• 49:21
  was in the left field, right, That's what that's what see. He
• 49:24
  messed up where I did better at this. When I went by the back,
• 49:28
  I just kept running the third he he just flew past. Didn't think
• 49:32
  he was going to and he's like yeah, I'm out the fastest fastest dude
• 49:36
  on the team, Barry, I think Kevin Tucker. Yeah, well I
• 49:38
  tell you what you guys got speed. Yeah, there's there's a couple of
• 49:42
  us that are they can fly. You have a good time to the straight
• 49:45
  forty. I have not. I've actually always wanted to, though, I'd
• 49:47
  hope it'd be good. My dad ran a four to five, so he
• 49:52
  was a speedster. Yeah, that's that's smoking it that you go stub four
• 49:54
  or five. Though you fast, I'd be I'd be cool, but I've
• 49:58
  never ran anything like that. I don't know. Actually, um parents at
• 50:01
  the games. Parents travel to tournament what we got going on here. They
• 50:05
  pretty much only go to the home games unless it's My dad's sister lives in
• 50:10
  a favor in North Carolina, so last year when we played at Campbell,
• 50:15
  he came to that one because they ended up coming to that too, so
• 50:17
  kind of North Carolina. If my aunt and uncle go, he'll come down
• 50:21
  for that. But other than that, they obviously go to the pit games,
• 50:24
  and then pretty much they'll just come to home games. My mom can
• 50:28
  only make it on the weekends because she teaches, but my dad's at pretty
• 50:31
  much every home game that we have, but the tournament they'll have to watch.
• 50:36
  Yeah, they my dad and my brother. My brother had finished his
• 50:38
  season, so they actually flew down for that one, which is pretty cool.
• 50:42
  They got to experience kind of um Arlington and Dallas and all that that
• 50:46
  area, which was pretty awesome. So that was a good trip. But
• 50:49
  I don't think they're gonna do that again. Now, hop you'll be able
• 50:51
  to watch the Big twelve tournament because it's not on that long Horn network.
• 50:53
  Where do you see at ESPN Plus? Well, this weekend, he's what
• 50:58
  he's saying is this weekend they're playing three Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Texas
• 51:00
  and it's not available on regular ESPN Plus. It's only on the Longhorn network,
• 51:05
  which you can't get. And so that was gonna be a big deal,
• 51:08
  like yeah, well, big radio audience. It would be a big
• 51:13
  radio Yeah. And it's going away, Oh it is, Well, yeah,
• 51:15
  they're joining the SEC. It's going away. Yeah. Well, dude,
• 51:20
  we can't thank you enough. Awesome. I probably has just been enjoyable.
• 51:23
  Yeah, a lot more than when Grossman came over and said, hey,
• 51:27
  you want to do a podcast with those ividiots? Probably right, probably
• 51:30
  a direct quote. Probably a direct quote, not a direct quote, right,
• 51:35
  this is this is really good. Okay, so this is the point
• 51:38
  of the show where it's like this really super weird time that like you'll stand
• 51:44
  up and leave and then we'll do what we call to you. No,
• 51:47
  we're gonna do textual healing. But like I just this is I don't know
• 51:52
  how. There's no good way to do this. What do you think we
• 51:57
  should do? If you like, don't you remember in Johnny Carson. He
• 52:00
  doesn't know who Johnny Carson, but you yeah, and somebody come back like,
• 52:05
  hey, listen, um uh, Charlie Weaver, thanks for coming by,
• 52:08
  Thanks for coming by. I know you gotta got rich little rich little
• 52:13
  you know, we got a show to do. Thanks for coming by.
• 52:15
  Thank you, Thank you everybody. So I guess what I'm saying is I
• 52:19
  guess what I'm saying is you can you can be it. You can be
• 52:21
  adjourned because I don't want you to have to just stay here. You got
• 52:23
  other things to do. He's got a pack, he's gonna be gone for
• 52:27
  like two plus weeks. That is true. I mean he's got they're not
• 52:30
  coming back. They're going to Austin. Then they're going to Arlington and they're
• 52:35
  gonna go eat. They got head practice this morning. Get you're working on
• 52:37
  this morning? To tell Grossman to buy you something. Put it on the
• 52:40
  Athletic Department credit card. You can do that right, Well, sure I
• 52:44
  get a big four pound burrito or some rules anymore, you get them whatever
• 52:46
  he wants. What I need to do is I go fishing. I gotta
• 52:51
  find some places. I'm a big fisher. Excuse me, Yeah, dude's
• 52:55
  Colorado. Let me just tell you something you just said to Austin. He
• 52:59
  just said the wrong thing. Because the number, the thousands of people that
• 53:02
  listen to this that just heard JJ wants to go fishing. Like when you
• 53:07
  come back and like you're going to get accosted, You're going to get people
• 53:10
  going like you want to go fishing. I'm over here, young man.
• 53:15
  You'll have more people. You'll have more people that will take you fishing than
• 53:20
  you will. Never flipping around. This is an nil deal waiting to happen.
• 53:22
  Go fishing with JJ. Yeah, I mean, hey, pay to
• 53:27
  go fishing with JJ. I just want to find some bass bonds though,
• 53:30
  and like around the area you want to do I did trout, But I
• 53:32
  mean, I don't know when Trout's getting. Well. The biggest you probably
• 53:35
  don't know. The biggest bass fisherman locally is former West Virginia football assistant Steve
• 53:39
  Dunlap. Steve Dunlap and Steve McMichael and other former sists say they go out
• 53:45
  and they catch like dozens. Okay, bass. Here's what The greatest thing
• 53:50
  is, dude, that you unintentionally, the unintentional consequence of you coming on
• 53:54
  this show is your desire to go fishing has just been sold. Trust me
• 54:00
  when I tell you this. Dunlap's got the most beautiful boat. Oh yeah,
• 54:05
  he's got a boat like Dunlap keeps his boat in his living room.
• 54:07
  That's how. That's a piece of furniture. And he will take you,
• 54:10
  absolutely will take you. I know. But if he goes with Dunlap,
• 54:14
  Dunlap will want to talk about the ninety six defense and what he did.
• 54:16
  Can do Curtis the whole time, he won't be able to get any actual
• 54:19
  fishing. We'll get your fishing. How about we got a dude named Curtis
• 54:22
  Fleming who was based in West Virginia, who is has a national show based
• 54:29
  in West Virginia, Richport guy, he'll take your fishing. We'll take you.
• 54:31
  This is done. This will be the greatest thing that ever happened.
• 54:35
  We're getting a guy fishing. Let me fishing. Needs to get a sea
• 54:37
  to go fishing. I'm just saying it needs to be an anil deal.
• 54:39
  Somebody needs to pay him to go fishing. I get to a pond and
• 54:43
  I'll fish. I don't need paid. I just fishing. I'll have fun.
• 54:45
  Edit that out, don't say let let him get through the season.
• 54:51
  We'll hook him up with Dunlap or we got Flemming or Chris Lawrence, and
• 54:54
  we'll get I'm just telling the our text line is going to blow up with
• 54:57
  people soil. Here's my name, here's my nun. Here's what I got.
• 55:00
  I'm taking him fishing done. Also, put in your best offer what
• 55:05
  you'll pay jishing. Have you fished with amazing? It's a big fisherman.
• 55:08
  No, I actually get with wam. You just put him on the spot
• 55:10
  about money. You asked him about money. I'm just trying to help out
• 55:14
  fair enough. Okay, Well we're gonna make this special. Okay, so
• 55:16
  you're out. We're gonna blow you out. Of here. Thank you so
• 55:19
  very much, dude. We appreciate it. Yeah, that's great, Um,
• 55:22
  best of luck, Thank you man, appreciate it. There he is
• 55:24
  out the door. He goes Adam Grossman the sid Thank you. Jack takes
• 55:30
  him out of it. Thank you very much. Boy. All right,
• 55:34
  we this is a four hundred and sixty four hundred and sixty second episode.
• 55:38
  I still don't know how to do that thing. It just didn't even excuse
• 55:42
  him. It's okay, it was you was not off. Yeah, but
• 55:44
  we didn't get to talk to him and say thanks for coming good. Let
• 55:46
  me just see you didn't. We didn't get any post show. I think
• 55:50
  you gotta I think we I know it's against our DNA to edit. I
• 55:53
  think you got to stop the thing, have our goodbyes, and then restart.
• 55:58
  I don't think it's that big of a duo. I don't think anybody
• 56:01
  people. That's because you're more cold and aloof and just want people to go
• 56:05
  away. You just used it. You want to go away. We wanted
• 56:07
  to. We want to have a little conversation with him, So thank you,
• 56:09
  thanks for coming by. Thank you. Yeah, that's all you want
• 56:12
  to do. Then you want to be done with it. I wanted to
• 56:14
  talk to it. Maybe he wanted to be done with it and get on
• 56:16
  to the next thing. We use an hour of his time. You know
• 56:20
  what, he's outstanding. I'm trying to make him a little money. What
• 56:22
  a wonderful Man's great? Can I tweet that about him staying? Yes,
• 56:32
  absolutely, We'll pull the cut and we'll also put it out there. I
• 56:37
  mean that's bred. Yes, can we finish the show? Okay? You
• 56:45
  see he's done. Now you want to you want to excuse him because now
• 56:47
  he can't stand himself. He's worried to teach him. That's ten minutes.
• 56:54
  Stamill just tweeted it. He's sitting out in the alley listening. Got it
• 57:00
  now, then that's massive. Captain obvious kid's going to be. If he's
• 57:06
  not Player of the Year nationally, he should be top two. I don't
• 57:08
  I don't know how he doesn't get national Player the year would be Big twelve
• 57:10
  player. But also in the nil world. He needs to get some money
• 57:14
  here, and that's a guy. If you're gonna take care of a guy,
• 57:15
  that's a guy gets to take care of here. Find it on my
• 57:19
  Public Affairs program earlier, Randy Mazie when I was just loving him up about
• 57:22
  the great year and everything, and he said he complimented the university in Il,
• 57:28
  the foundation it's raising money. What's the Mountaineer, what's it called?
• 57:30
  The country Roads? Country Roads Trust? He credited all them. I mean
• 57:35
  just was was over the moon about the job they had done. So in
• 57:39
  Il he loves in Il, loves it. This is working for him.
• 57:44
  So I don't know what this young man's getting, but whatever he is,
• 57:50
  do better. Now, you do understand Randy's wife works for Country Roads Trust.
• 57:54
  That's right forgot. So, yes, I think there's there's a god
• 58:00
  about that. Yeah, there is a there's absolutely communication that goes on to
• 58:05
  make sure that that gets done. There's no question about well, baseball too
• 58:09
  real, real quick, and then I know we're gonna have the text here.
• 58:12
  But baseball, it's incumbent upon them that that sport. Remember, all
• 58:15
  those guys aren't on full scholarship Baseball. I mean that this is different than
• 58:20
  every other sport that we normally talk about, and that there's guys over there
• 58:23
  that are playing at a high level that are not on full scholarship. So
• 58:27
  you talk about somebody that should now in the nil world that should make some
• 58:30
  money and be as much Chipotle as he wants to buy. Should be that
• 58:34
  guy that investment account needs to get. I received a correction. I've been
• 58:38
  told this is episode four sixty three eight. That's maybe I said four sixty
• 58:42
  two. Don't I want to listen to How do you? I mean,
• 58:45
  he's he's batting brand four sixty six. Stupid four sixty six, which is
• 58:52
  sixty six seventy. It's like seventy five points ahead of the next person.
• 58:55
  Silly, silly, theyre he's having he just hasn't cooled off. That's one
• 59:00
  thing to start the season. It's one thing to have through the nonconference.
• 59:04
  It's one thing to be the first Big twelve series of the year. And
• 59:07
  then you're facing pros. I mean, this is a heck of a baseball
• 59:08
  league. You're facing pros and he just has not cooled gets injured, still
• 59:14
  doesn't cool off, comes right back in off the injury, and just keeps
• 59:17
  hitting. But you're you're right. I mean, why isn't a scouting report
• 59:20
  like, don't throw them a strike? I'm not kidding. I would I
• 59:23
  would think about pitching around him, even with a runner on first Now that's
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  a credit to the rest of this lineup that they can't because everybody. Yeah
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  Skippy, Yes, you're over there tweeting, aren't you. I am so
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  I knew he couldn't cannot help him solve himself. You are absolutely absolutely can't
• 1:01:39
  help yourself, which is good. That's why you're still doing this at seventy
• 1:01:43
  eight years old. He's a sophomore, right, yes, okay, had
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  to get the inshow tweet and just said good news from outter nation. Mountaineer
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  baseball standing out JJ Weatherholt just said on three guys, did you go at
• 1:01:57
  three? The number three guys? Dot? Can you give it? Can
• 1:02:00
  you give it that? I can do that. You don't even know what
• 1:02:01
  you're saying to him right now at three guys, Just give me the computer.
• 1:02:09
  Sometimes sometimes we sometimes we do this on Saturday. Fix it. Okay,
• 1:02:14
  now, first show you've been back since your injury forever? Yeah,
• 1:02:17
  So how are you feeling? I feel okay, I mean I feel fine.
• 1:02:22
  It's just again I would I guess you all announced it is that right?
• 1:02:24
  Yeah? You got it? You got was a release from the hospital.
• 1:02:28
  We just went with it, kind of like you're going with the weather
• 1:02:31
  Hole. We're just kind of like going with it. So, um,
• 1:02:35
  my wife and I had planned to hike portions of the Appalachian Go ahead,
• 1:02:43
  I mean, I it shows the show is a freaking mess. It is.
• 1:02:52
  Had planned to hike portions of the Appleachian Trail in Virginia, and not
• 1:02:57
  just day hikes. We weren't camping or anything like that, and the first
• 1:03:00
  few days were fine, and in fact we hiked Mount Rogers, which is
• 1:03:05
  the highest point in Virginia, so on the Appalachian Trails. Was it windy
• 1:03:09
  up there? Roll that bean? Videos? That good video? Would you
• 1:03:17
  look at that? This was extremely uncomfortable. This was in January and Wyoming.
• 1:03:22
  Is that where you were? This was This was a week and a
• 1:03:25
  half ago. We were hiking to Mount Rogers there. Look at it.
• 1:03:30
  That is miserable. Why would you do that to yourself? Watch this at
• 1:03:34
  the end where I'm trying to like a walk away a walking stick. I
• 1:03:37
  had a walking stick. Okay. So so I thought when I first heard
• 1:03:45
  that you broke your foot, yeah, that it was on the Appalachian Trail,
• 1:03:49
  right, But it was no, no it because we hiked four days
• 1:03:52
  on the Appalachian Trail. And then I got sick a stomach bug. I
• 1:03:57
  got a stomach bug gastro intestinal yes, GI issue in Blacksburg, no offense,
• 1:04:01
  Virginia Tech. And so I got over that, and then we took
• 1:04:06
  a day off and went to Monticello, which we'd planned to do. Tom
• 1:04:10
  Jefferson. Tom Jefferson's house. We have a picture of that with me with
• 1:04:13
  mister Jefferson too, before the injury. This is before the injury. Okay,
• 1:04:18
  cool, just place that's coming up later. And so we had a
• 1:04:24
  wonderful day. It's a beautiful day. Did the whole tour, did the
• 1:04:26
  whole thing. And we were walking back down the path to the parking lot,
• 1:04:29
  just a gradual path with the you know, pea stone. It just
• 1:04:32
  was as smooth as it could be. And I'm not when I hiked the
• 1:04:36
  Appletan trail, I'm looking down right, where are you stepping? Where you
• 1:04:40
  stepping? Be careful. I got my hikers on, well, I got
• 1:04:42
  my sneakers on now and I'm walking down his path and it was a little
• 1:04:45
  place where the water had washed away and some rocks were there, and I
• 1:04:49
  just misstep, just a misstep, fell down, rolled like you went down.
• 1:04:55
  He went down, didn't just roll the foot, You went down on
• 1:04:58
  the ground. Yeah, and a lot of people around, did you know,
• 1:05:00
  wait a second, p gravel you're walking down and you said gradual,
• 1:05:05
  And then there's a hole just like a little indentation, you know, where
• 1:05:09
  the wire and we'll miss wait a little bit, and I just stepped on
• 1:05:11
  a rock, misstep, folded my foot over, rolled, got up and
• 1:05:15
  said, oh that's not good. You heard it? Yeah, I knew
• 1:05:17
  right away. You're right away, so limp me. What did the wife
• 1:05:20
  say? Oh my god, are you okay? So you have to limp
• 1:05:27
  back to the car? Was there? Back? I walked off, but
• 1:05:30
  I lived. You walk over, You're gonna lift back. I told you,
• 1:05:44
  hoppy Kerchivale, you walk on over, You're gonna limp back. Come
• 1:05:47
  to my house, Mariovich. So limped down, and I knew something was
• 1:05:58
  not right because usually if Ricky Lake you so, you knew you were in
• 1:06:04
  trouble early. Yeah, yeah, the result was a break. Yeah.
• 1:06:11
  And so Nick and so the whole time, and we've gotten on the hike.
• 1:06:15
  We got lost one day, we got lost for two and a half
• 1:06:17
  hours, and then I got sick, and then and the whole time,
• 1:06:20
  I'm going to my wife like it's an adventurous, an adventurous adventure and hurt
• 1:06:25
  my foot. I said, it's over cashing in cutter losses. Going home.
• 1:06:30
  You went Duran, Roberto, Duran, no moss, no moss.
• 1:06:33
  Yeah, came home, went to went to doctor, broken bone and it
• 1:06:40
  was interesting because the doctor said, you can you can get a foot cast
• 1:06:44
  so you can walk in it, and then that would be two months and
• 1:06:46
  then we'll see where it is. It's probably gonna be okay or otherwise pretty
• 1:06:50
  good health. But if it's not, we'll have to operate or even go
• 1:06:54
  ahead and operate. And he says, if you're an athlete, i'd operate.
• 1:06:58
  So I took the surgery. You're an athlet, Well, it took
• 1:07:00
  the surgery. Surgery was fine. Now I'm just in um, you know,
• 1:07:05
  dealing with it now light cast light casts able to move around with moving
• 1:07:10
  around, but you know, and this is I mean, I don't deal
• 1:07:13
  with adversity very well. But it's it's and you've had some leg injuries,
• 1:07:17
  I mean antony, you have to. It's just you're limited. Inconvenient.
• 1:07:20
  Yeah, it's inconvenient. It's inconvenient. Yeah, so that's the biggest thing.
• 1:07:25
  It's inconvenient. So like when the electric goes off, you don't appreciate
• 1:07:28
  it until right when you can't move. You don't appreciate it while you're moving
• 1:07:31
  until you can't. So now like in my house, I got a lot
• 1:07:33
  of steps. Now I think, well, I better position myself here because
• 1:07:35
  I have to go to the bathroom, you know, all the bat It's
• 1:07:39
  just that kind of stuff, I mean, inconvenient. So just right now
• 1:07:41
  as we sit here, you're not necessarily in too much pain. No,
• 1:07:44
  No, if you happen to bang it or something bangs into it, though
• 1:07:45
  it does. If something would bang into it brand, yeah, it would
• 1:07:48
  hurt a lot, especially something heavy coming at you unexpected. If it's collided
• 1:07:53
  with your foot, that probably caused some pain. It caused a lot of
• 1:07:56
  pain. Has that happened to you since you've been recently? It did?
• 1:07:59
  Yeah, you and explain what happened because you witnessed it. Well, Skippy
• 1:08:03
  over here comes in and typical and ride on brand with him. It was
• 1:08:10
  concerned about your foot, right, He had questions, he wanted no aboudy
• 1:08:13
  asked about it, and then that was about it. The extent of it,
• 1:08:15
  and his attention to detail isn't the best, right, And he was
• 1:08:18
  trying to move your scooter. He was trying to help you, yes,
• 1:08:24
  right, yes, but he only goes halfway to the helping because he doesn't
• 1:08:27
  want to pay too much attention, so he kind of kicks the back end
• 1:08:30
  of the scooter at you and it bangs directly off the broken foot. True
• 1:08:33
  or false? True? True. I feel horrible about that. I do.
• 1:08:39
  That's a true story. I know it's true. It's absolutely happened.
• 1:08:42
  We were around him for fifteen seconds and you drilled him. Look at that,
• 1:08:47
  don't bang it on the thing he did, Zach, Can you get
• 1:08:49
  that camera down a little lower? Careful, careful? We don't last night
• 1:08:55
  get Oh is that what you're wearing? So the hospital didn't give you that
• 1:09:00
  I had one, but I mean, yeah, yeah, jeez, can
• 1:09:02
  you get that leg down there? You get be careful here? You know
• 1:09:05
  what? We forgot to ask weather Hole what's the JJ stand for? Probably
• 1:09:11
  should ask him that how that thing come around? Probably should have hoppy.
• 1:09:13
  I feel bad Number one. Number one that you have to go through this.
• 1:09:16
  Number two that I hurt you well. I was swinging the thing over
• 1:09:21
  to try to you said you needed it. Well, Uh, thank you.
• 1:09:27
  I appreciate that. In fairness, it didn't hurt that much. But
• 1:09:30
  I wasn't gonna let you off the hook right brand when when one of the
• 1:09:35
  three is weaker, wait to send on. We felt bad, so we
• 1:09:42
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  People are traveling around, pull up at a go market, gas,
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  recy cups, slim gyms and all that kind of stuff. You want to
• 1:10:30
  do a little bit of this, uh textual healing sure shell that we believe
• 1:10:49
  it's ever been there? Now, that's a good stop. That's a good
• 1:10:55
  stunt. What's a good stop? Hunting minded shell? Been there? Yeah?
• 1:11:01
  I went once? I feel bad. There, you're good. I
• 1:11:08
  went over to uh went over to Popton over at tire Land on Saturday at
• 1:11:14
  a wheelbarrow tire I need to have fixed. And uh, there's a cat
• 1:11:17
  sitting in the waiting room there. Saturday morning at tire Land is just an
• 1:11:23
  absolute Oh, I bet it's busy. It's well. Yeah, and there
• 1:11:25
  was a there was a dude there works for the guy that made this song
• 1:11:29
  in Lexington, really works for sab huh in Lexington. Morgantown native so Sab
• 1:11:34
  now recruiting took him out of the portal from here in Morgantown working selling Geico
• 1:11:39
  and Lexington small World. That's a fun place to be able. That was
• 1:11:43
  just there two sundays ago. It's an absolute sitcom, is what it is.
• 1:11:45
  Sundays are good too. You were there on Saturday? Yeah, I
• 1:11:47
  was there on a Sunday. Mary was there Monday? Was there Monday?
• 1:11:49
  Mary's not open on Sunday? No. I was there Sunday dropping it off.
• 1:11:54
  Then I had to regroup see maryan on Monday. Texter Wayne from Fredericksburg,
• 1:12:00
  I've been effordine to buy a gold Mountaineer baseball jersey. That jersey harder
• 1:12:05
  to find than hoppy on a Three Guys show? Where can I find a
• 1:12:10
  gold baseball jersey? I have a white one. I want the gold one
• 1:12:13
  to wear to state college spreads? Can you bring this up when pulling your
• 1:12:15
  shift at fine looking fills. Well, Phil does not do baseball jerseys.
• 1:12:20
  He doesn't. He doesn't. Although I was over today doing my shift,
• 1:12:26
  open some open some new shorts. Well they arrive, you open those up
• 1:12:33
  and he catalogs and puts them out. Did that. But here's the real
• 1:12:36
  bonus was in the back there, just finished opening up all kinds of new
• 1:12:43
  Nike WVU stuff, I mean fresh fresh, not even out yet, new
• 1:12:47
  design, new design, new colorways, all beautiful. What of what shirts?
• 1:12:55
  Pull over Nike West Virginia stuff, all of it over shirts. Excellent,
• 1:13:00
  Three guys, Bravo gentlemen to one of the better shows. Bravo gentlemen
• 1:13:05
  to one of the better shows ever. In a challenging week of Mountaineer sports
• 1:13:11
  news, John Spiker is a life well lived in a breath of fresh air.
• 1:13:15
  You miss Spike. He was a really good Did you go back and
• 1:13:19
  listen watch? I did not, you know, Hope. I started thinking
• 1:13:23
  about this, think about this until someone says I'm wrong, which certainly wouldn't
• 1:13:29
  be the first time. I think he holds the longest span of involvement with
• 1:13:35
  Mountaineer football in its history. Listen to his argument here. He might he
• 1:13:40
  might be right. I don't think there's ever been a person associated with WV
• 1:13:44
  football longer than Spike. Now listen, longer than Whitey Gwin. Yeah,
• 1:13:49
  I bet you, I bet you. Okay, think about it. He
• 1:13:51
  went from Bobby Bowden to Dana Holgerson fifty years. Yeah, it's okay.
• 1:14:00
  Yeah, I mean, and I'm not saying, hey, a thousand percent
• 1:14:02
  of I'm right, but like, go ahead and prove me that it's not
• 1:14:04
  right. Yeah, it would be almost fifty. And he has intellectual property
• 1:14:11
  that no one else has. You talk about how many think about this?
• 1:14:15
  The kids that he has come in contact with on a day to day basis,
• 1:14:19
  Oh my gosh, it's the lives that I mean. It was.
• 1:14:24
  Yeah, we're getting a ton of positive on the Spike Show. Hello,
• 1:14:30
  Dougie Fresher ear from Merle's Inlet, South Carolina checking in. I wanted to
• 1:14:35
  let you know the John Spiker interview wasn't just yeah, pretty good. It
• 1:14:40
  may have been your best ever. Brought back a flood of emotions and almost
• 1:14:44
  tears as he described different moments of mountaineer lore. I was honored that I
• 1:14:47
  personally witnessed live his top four plays, and he brought back great memories of
• 1:14:53
  when I was one of the water boys during the Bowden years. I love
• 1:14:57
  the Summer series and don't forget the offer still stands to come on down for
• 1:15:00
  his show in South Carolina, signed by Dougie Fresher ear Merle's in that great
• 1:15:06
  area. Yeah. So I had a conversation about Dougie when I was down
• 1:15:15
  at the cancer Gala and a friend of his who had been down there,
• 1:15:19
  and he said, this guy is totally serious. He wants us to come
• 1:15:24
  down there, and he showed me his backyard. He showed me like a
• 1:15:28
  number of pictures of his backyard and we talked about party may have to shuttle
• 1:15:31
  in, Yeah, because he's on an end. Sure you know you're familiar.
• 1:15:35
  Sure, that's okay. How'd your auction go? Now that you're almost
• 1:15:41
  a professional auctioneer? I don't know. Maybe you want to tell me how
• 1:15:44
  it went? Eight items, ninety four thousand dollars. It's a good pair
• 1:15:49
  of air rings for twenty eight thousand. Really, Yeah, well done,
• 1:15:54
  whiskey barrel that said, it's a great day to be a mountaineer wherever you
• 1:15:57
  may be. For forty five hundred twice that's nine grand. I know you
• 1:16:00
  tell me that I told you I wasn't doing small boy stuff. I wasn't
• 1:16:04
  doing saucer cups. It had to be an elite level. A good job
• 1:16:10
  on your part, well done. I didn't feel totally comfortable to people sitting
• 1:16:15
  in the audience too. You know they actually paid the money. That's a
• 1:16:16
  fair point. Yeah, I did. I'll due respect to him with I
• 1:16:21
  didn't feel comfortable doing my chant though you didn't. No, I just kind
• 1:16:27
  of was doing more of a a mona almost like almost like you were to
• 1:16:30
  the arts auctioneer. Yeah, it was because it was so high end anybody,
• 1:16:34
  but I want to get you now what I'm gonna get you now.
• 1:16:36
  I didn't use any of that. You could, Okay, I could have,
• 1:16:40
  but I didn't. I don't know. But I am open for auctions
• 1:16:45
  available. You want to make money at your fundraiser, come see me.
• 1:16:50
  I might sell hoppy. He'll come in. Fall down in your house and
• 1:16:56
  you can recover and recuperate in your home. Zach and Charleston writes, I
• 1:17:01
  just listened to the Spiker episode, which was amazing. A couple of notes,
• 1:17:04
  I too would like to golf with Phil Brady and one of the listeners
• 1:17:09
  at Pete Die before the Duke Kane game, please include my information when a
• 1:17:12
  member of Pete Die reaches out. Also, I like Spiker's suggestion of taking
• 1:17:15
  retirement in phases. I think the last phase for you three should be the
• 1:17:19
  podcast. At that point, let's bring in Nate, Adrian, Gary Jennings
• 1:17:24
  and Steve Slayton and transition completely to a WV food podcast. Yeah, we
• 1:17:29
  could do that. By the way, I texted Nate yesterday. I said,
• 1:17:33
  we're you at with the season? What's going on? He said,
• 1:17:35
  they just began playoffs. They won their first game Sunday, so if everything
• 1:17:40
  goes well, he they go, they win the thing. He'll be back
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  on the third week of June. Texter, Hey guys, longtime listener.
• 1:17:48
  I've listened to almost every episode, as well as Sports Line Daily, even
• 1:17:53
  the commercials. I am sad to say I have unsubscribed from the podcast and
• 1:17:58
  will no longer be listening. The clucking sound has gone on far too long.
• 1:18:03
  This is the most obnoxious sound I have ever heard. I wish you
• 1:18:06
  all the best and thanks for the previous entertainment. Signed by Greg and Webster
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  County. I tell Greg thanks for listening but he's not listening to this.
• 1:18:17
  Yeah. Thanks, thanks for the previous listening. Greg. I hate I
• 1:18:23
  mean it's like we don't want to lose anybody. I mean, no,
• 1:18:26
  you don't want to lose anybody, but at the same time, you can't
• 1:18:30
  keep everybody fair. Yeah, yeah, I mean that's true. I mean,
• 1:18:34
  you know, the clucking is somewhat controversial. It is I've kind of
• 1:18:40
  lessened certain other people that aren't. You continue to enjoy it, but that's
• 1:18:45
  fine. I'm not going to criticize. I think sometimes a clock is in
• 1:18:47
  order. I don't use it as much, but I think sometimes it's kind
• 1:18:53
  of an exclamation point. It's a verbal exclamation point. Texter listening to the
• 1:19:04
  Gary Jennings and John Spiker episodes back to back has me thinking about this.
• 1:19:10
  What do you think are the greatest catches in WVU football history. First few
• 1:19:15
  that come to mind are obviously Gary Jennings Texas to kill SHORTZ toe tap td
• 1:19:23
  Baylor Shelton Gibson helmet ripped off Kansas State Kevin Whites until your season, and
• 1:19:30
  Darius Reynaud's first down catch. I think it was against Georgia where he was
• 1:19:34
  parallel to the field midair for a short gain. I don't know why,
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  but that comes to mind. I was nine years old. Forgive me if
• 1:19:41
  I missed any obvious ones that outdate me. I actually do enjoy listening to
• 1:19:45
  old school guys and learning about WV sports from years ago. I keep up
• 1:19:49
  the good work. Did they mentioned Dante Stills? That was a good one.
• 1:19:54
  Oh, that was a great catch. Us later out caught it.
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  Defensive lineman. That's got to be in the top five. John Pennington's got
• 1:20:03
  to be as well. Yeah, Penny Bryce Ford Wheaton had that one in
• 1:20:08
  the back of the end zone that was unbelievable. Just last was that last
• 1:20:12
  season? Season four? He was he was parallel but in reverse. Yea
• 1:20:15
  chest facing up on his back. Unbelievable. Who was the w defensive back
• 1:20:20
  two years ago? Who made that interception deep in the end zone? Who
• 1:20:25
  was that? That was a great catch? Are you talking about overtime of
• 1:20:29
  the Baylor game? May ran out of the back of the end zone?
• 1:20:31
  Yeah? Who was that? Someone that left it went portal? That went
• 1:20:35
  portal? Yeah, it was a great catch. You know. Another one
• 1:20:38
  that's just the top of my head Steadman Bailey at South Florida in that big
• 1:20:43
  moment set up the field goal that got the kick that enabled last to get
• 1:20:45
  to the orange point. He landed on the ball, knocked the air out
• 1:20:46
  of himself and they ran over and had to pick him up in the Yeah,
• 1:20:49
  that was a tremendous catch. Ye, tremendous catch and in the moment
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  there's two parts of that text continues. Maybe you guys could go over some
• 1:20:58
  of the all time single game performers in West Virginia history. I know guys
• 1:21:00
  like Tavan and Pat Leave had some mega games, but there are some guys
• 1:21:04
  from the eighties and nineties that had incredible games that you old geezers could tell
• 1:21:08
  us about. That was an unnecessary shot shot Um. Willie Drewy had a
• 1:21:14
  couple of wows um wild performances and he a mid eighties the speaking of previous
• 1:21:23
  games, I ran into Steve Dunlap a couple of days ago. He's still
• 1:21:27
  upset over the whole Syracuse Marvin Craves. It came up. It came up
• 1:21:30
  organically. Okay, it wasn't even like, hey you remember that, No,
• 1:21:33
  I mean somehow we were just talking Brad about stuff and somehow that this
• 1:21:36
  was a lap. It Dunlap and he coached there afterward. You know,
• 1:21:42
  you know why I can't you know why I came up. I shouldn't,
• 1:21:44
  but I think it was known at the time. He broke his hand because
• 1:21:46
  on the next play was the big completion by and they went on to win
• 1:21:53
  win the game, and he slammed his fist into like the windows, broke
• 1:21:58
  his hand. Yeah, so upset about that. Football is kind of Football
• 1:22:02
  is that one sport where coaches leave drywall damage a lot? Seriously, Like
• 1:22:09
  there's stories that coaches kicked the wall in the press box. They punched the
• 1:22:13
  wall in the press box. They broke this, They broke that. No
• 1:22:15
  other sport, assistant coach, it's the only sport where you have access to
• 1:22:20
  that, and in the old days you were out of the public view.
• 1:22:24
  Yeah, I mean the assistant coach on the basketball floor can't do a whole
• 1:22:27
  lot, right. Baseball coach can do a little, but you probably gotta
• 1:22:30
  go back in the tunnel, get a clubhouse, you get a water cooler,
• 1:22:32
  can do that. But football coaches have that access there in a small
• 1:22:36
  confined space to drywall. That's a punchall um coach to questionnaire here is Randy
• 1:22:45
  Maze to West Virginia baseball what don Neilan was to WVU football. I think,
• 1:22:50
  So how about you guys, you know that's a that is I think
• 1:22:55
  a good argument. And Mazie today made reference to the success at West Virginia
• 1:23:00
  had under under Ramsburg, and but this is at a different level now because
• 1:23:04
  of the new stadium and the league, and so I think it's a You
• 1:23:10
  can certainly argue that it's Neil and Esque of the modern era. I think
• 1:23:14
  Neil and esque. Yep. You know what I'm enjoying the most is that
• 1:23:17
  Randy's having a riot this season. Like not only is he having fun coaching
• 1:23:23
  these guys, but his talk show that he does over at Monday's on Monday.
• 1:23:30
  I mean, the thing is the hoot of the all hoots shoulder to
• 1:23:32
  shoulder and he just sits there and he just holds court, doesn't go anywhere.
• 1:23:36
  It's like it's a show, but it's not on the air, it's
• 1:23:39
  not taped, none of that. But he just does it for the people
• 1:23:43
  that are there. And he brings two players with him and they sit up
• 1:23:45
  at a table and it's just it is an absolute hoot. So he's having
• 1:23:47
  fun, which is great. It's just great, he said. He said
• 1:23:51
  today when I interviewed him, he says he's half having fun and half tight
• 1:23:58
  because you know, Brad, you know, I mean, if you're playing
• 1:24:00
  but you don't have that depth, then oh we're hot, we're doing well.
• 1:24:04
  As a coach, you know that, it's very tenuous, right,
• 1:24:10
  you know that, and this may be a very unique time. How many
• 1:24:13
  shots do you get you can get tight. We've said this before too.
• 1:24:16
  It's it's part of their nature for coaches, but it's also part of the
• 1:24:20
  job. They're constantly looking ahead. As fans, we don't have to look
• 1:24:27
  ahead to the Texas Series until the Texas Series begins. We can live in
• 1:24:30
  that interim of you just came off another series when you're doing right, But
• 1:24:35
  a coach can't celebrate that Texas tex Series and then flip the page and they're
• 1:24:40
  onto the next thing. So coaches live in a world where they're always ahead
• 1:24:44
  of what has happened, and fans are always living in behind what has happened
• 1:24:47
  and anticipation of the good. Right. So some of that we get on
• 1:24:50
  coaches because it's their nature and they're never happy and they can never enjoy and
• 1:24:54
  why don't you enjoy it? They just they just can't because you got to
• 1:24:57
  get to the next thing. Okay, we won, that's great. Now
• 1:24:59
  what's next? How do we prepare? How do I get them ready?
• 1:25:01
  So some of that's just nature of the job. Yeah, yeah, absolutely,
• 1:25:05
  Ted from Colorado. Let's assume eight teams in the ACC are successful and
• 1:25:12
  breaking away. Let's also assume the Pac twelve gets a bad TV deal and
• 1:25:16
  schools start looking for a life raft. What does that mean for the Big
• 1:25:21
  twelve? So, Ted, here's the delo on your question. Understand where
• 1:25:29
  you're going with it, but you are presuming too much to happen. That
• 1:25:35
  isn't going to happen. So you're just assuming that eight teams in the ACC
• 1:25:41
  are going to be breaking away. Probably not. Here's the thought on that.
• 1:25:45
  And this is a good point. Even if the unhappy Big ACC schools
• 1:25:50
  leave, it is said, Okay, let's just say they break off and
• 1:25:55
  form their own island. There's not gonna be enough television money to make them
• 1:25:59
  happy to they want to be, just isn't They're going to have to the
• 1:26:03
  answer I think to your question is that those schools would go to the Big
• 1:26:08
  Ten to the SEC and maybe some to the Big Twelve if you want to
• 1:26:13
  go down that route. So it could be a combination of ACC or PAC
• 1:26:16
  twelve schools that and some go to the three leagues that I just mentioned.
• 1:26:25
  As I mentioned last night on the show, what's really interesting is that a
• 1:26:28
  lot of those thoughts and conversations are going to happen here in West Virginia.
• 1:26:31
  At the end of this month, presidents and ads from the Big Twelve are
• 1:26:38
  meeting at the Greenboro Oh yeah, And so those conversations are happening. I
• 1:26:45
  read a good story yesterday. It might have been Ross Dellinger's story that said,
• 1:26:47
  like, maybe we're in a thirty to sixty day windows from some movement
• 1:26:50
  to start happening because of the PAC twelve deal having to are you gonna or
• 1:26:56
  get off the pot? And so that could cause movement. And your Mark,
• 1:27:00
  Bret, your Mark, the commissioner the Big Twelve, he's yet,
• 1:27:02
  I mean, incessantly just banging a drum. Let's go, let's go,
• 1:27:05
  let's go. What he got, what you got? What he got?
• 1:27:06
  So who you need to go down and do your show there. No one
• 1:27:10
  will talk, though, sure they will know they won't talk. They won't
• 1:27:13
  talk. You know, they won't. They're going to be sworn to secrecy.
• 1:27:15
  Eno if we find out that there could be media opportunities there, then
• 1:27:20
  I think we will go down probably stop down at the Briar Garden, which
• 1:27:27
  serves Kerchival. Maybe we do the show there and right and do that,
• 1:27:32
  do the show from there or the Flatwoods go marn't. Wow, it's not
• 1:27:36
  close to the Greenbrier, but you can on the way. It's on the
• 1:27:39
  way. Hit a couple of things. Number One, TV will tell these
• 1:27:43
  commissioners what they're doing. I mean, these aren't commissioners just sitting around coming
• 1:27:47
  up with what their game plan is. The TV's gonna tell you what they're
• 1:27:49
  gonna do. Number one. Number two, I think you're exactly right on
• 1:27:54
  that. If Florida State or Clemson's who are reportedly leading this push, if
• 1:27:59
  they had the opportunity, if the SEC or the AND or the Big ten
• 1:28:01
  opened up, that they'd be going and you probably wouldn't hear from them talking.
• 1:28:06
  They're talking right now, which tells me, yeah, nothing that the
• 1:28:11
  grant of rights is as ironclad as people are reporting. The SEC and or
• 1:28:15
  Big Ten haven't extended an offer. In the short term, they're trying to
• 1:28:18
  get some more money out of their own league with this unequal revenue share that
• 1:28:24
  people are reporting they're looking for. The fact that the leaks are getting out
• 1:28:28
  tells me most likely that a move somewhere else is not immediately eminent, or
• 1:28:34
  it would have gone. They're trying to, Okay, how can we leverage
• 1:28:38
  this situation? They want some unequal revenue share. Now, I'll say this
• 1:28:42
  unequal revenue share doesn't seem like a long term solution for a league. You
• 1:28:45
  go down that path, and that league's getting getting in some trouble in my
• 1:28:48
  opinion, because I don't think a group like that can exist for long term
• 1:28:54
  when people in that league are getting an unnecessary amount. I mean, I'll
• 1:28:58
  due respect to Florida's state here and what coach Bowden built that hasn't been the
• 1:29:02
  same thing for a number of years now. They were very good last year,
• 1:29:05
  but there was a long stretch and there where Florida State was not even
• 1:29:09
  remotely nationally relevant. There was a long stretch for Clemson where it was not
• 1:29:14
  nationally relevant. What happens if one of those downturns hits again and here you
• 1:29:18
  are as the ACC and you've chipped in on equal money to Florida State and
• 1:29:23
  Clemson, but those schools aren't relevant. Something Carolina is the best or Virginia
• 1:29:27
  is the best, and they go on a run and you're paying more because
• 1:29:30
  then doesn't North Carolina come back to the table and say, well, hold
• 1:29:32
  on, we're good long term. That's not a winning strategy for a collection
• 1:29:36
  of schools. That just that ain't gonna work. Remember the Big East was
• 1:29:40
  having those discussions. Miami tried to come in and say we need on equal
• 1:29:44
  shares and we need more. Once you start down that path, good League
• 1:29:46
  is in some trouble. Agreed, The ACC is suffering through some of what
• 1:29:51
  the old Big East was. Right, Unlike minded institutions like Wake Forest is
• 1:29:57
  like this big, like this big, and like these other schools want to
• 1:30:00
  go they want to be big boys and Notre Dame's part in and they're part
• 1:30:04
  of that's a mess. That's a mess. And I know a lot of
• 1:30:12
  Mountaineer fans say we need to be in the ACC. Not right now,
• 1:30:15
  you don't, No, not right now. You don't be going into a
• 1:30:18
  bad situation right now. No. And plus West Virginia signed as granted rights.
• 1:30:24
  It's not going anywhere for a decade. They signed on the line not
• 1:30:28
  going anywhere, uh Texter. This year's Mountaineer baseball team a lot like the
• 1:30:33
  two thousand and four or five basketball team. To me, football team that
• 1:30:38
  year didn't live up to the hype, wasn't fun to root for. And
• 1:30:41
  then along comes Tyrone Sally, JD. Collins, Kevin Pittsnagle, et cetera.
• 1:30:45
  Those guys love to play the game, fun to watch, and West
• 1:30:47
  Virginia fans just wanted something to root for. That's the baseball team this year.
• 1:30:51
  A little unexpected, but they love the game, they're fun to watch.
• 1:30:55
  Yeah. I think that's perfect way to put it. Right there,
• 1:30:57
  yea perfect way to put it. That's stadium makes all the difference. It
• 1:31:01
  mean, it's just it's the classic field of dream story. If you build
• 1:31:05
  it, they will come. And Mountaineer fans have you know. I was
• 1:31:10
  over there Sunday and there's the bank on the third base line where people put
• 1:31:14
  blankets out there, and you said, and I was standing there with Wren
• 1:31:17
  Baker. I said, Hey, Rand, see these people here on this
• 1:31:19
  grass area. That's how many people used to go to a game in holly
• 1:31:23
  Field. It was about that. Yeah, yeah, it was about that
• 1:31:27
  big so so see you were in premiere seating, hanging with rend Baker.
• 1:31:31
  No, I was standing in the inn in an aisle way. I never
• 1:31:33
  sat down the whole the whole game. I just literally was standing on the
• 1:31:36
  third base line. Yeah. I met a nice guy from Winchester, home
• 1:31:43
  of Patsy Klein. You know that. Of course you knew that, didn't
• 1:31:46
  it. Yes, I didn't you knew that. Um, so that's that.
• 1:31:49
  That was really this. I don't know, that was fun to do.
• 1:31:51
  I really appreciate. Uh, well, my man's got a ton of
• 1:31:57
  people pastoring him right now, JJ weather Hole. And for him to come
• 1:32:00
  in awesome spend time with us. Yeah, that was fantastic. What a
• 1:32:05
  great approach. You talk about a likable superstar. Yes, that's it,
• 1:32:11
  Yes, exactly right. He has a great tan. He was well tan.
• 1:32:16
  Why they played the game outside, I mean it's not playing he's not
• 1:32:18
  playing indoors. I mean, you know, unlike that picture of the video
• 1:32:23
  you showed us when you're on that Appalachian trail and looked like you were in
• 1:32:26
  the North Pole. It was not a fun pleasant. Look Like I cringed
• 1:32:30
  when I saw that, going like, why look at you, Why in
• 1:32:33
  the heck would you consider that to be a vacation. Look like, that's
• 1:32:36
  not a vacation, that's a punishment. It was spectacular up there. Oh
• 1:32:41
  yeah, spectacular. That's like that one of those Weather Channel reports, Live
• 1:32:48
  to Hoppy Kerchival in the eye of the storm. There he is. Now,
• 1:32:53
  let's check in with Hoppy and he steps off, and I'd tell you
• 1:32:56
  that was not I mean, the wind was blowing that far. I'p We're
• 1:33:01
  worried about your safety. Thanks for the report, but take cover. And
• 1:33:08
  you know we went into through hikers. You talk about some dudes, they're
• 1:33:12
  just going all the way down that they're doing the right down in Georgia.
• 1:33:14
  Two thousand, one hundred ninety miles takes five months. They do twelve to
• 1:33:18
  fifteen miles a day in camp. Yeah, it's it's awesome. I have
• 1:33:23
  sixteen injury. That's what you like. That's what you like. That's awesome,
• 1:33:27
  that's good. Not gonna I'm not gonna hike shame them, but that
• 1:33:30
  wouldn't be my cup of tea. Understood, understood. We had a whole
• 1:33:34
  new crew, and we had Zach Carroll check as our producer today because Tyson,
• 1:33:41
  our normal producer left. He left asn't come back. He went to
• 1:33:45
  Las Vegas, and I don't know what's gonna happen. Maybe he doesn't make
• 1:33:50
  it back. Also one of those buffets, yeah, just killing it day.
• 1:33:55
  What He's gonna beat the hell out of those buffets this weekend. They're
• 1:33:57
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• 1:34:03
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• 1:35:14
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  be out talk to you again. Three guys before the game. See y'all,