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Episode 30-Jake Mangum · Johnny's World

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  SPEAKER_00: Coming to you live from the Johnny Packer Eyewear Studios in fabulous Dark Vegas, Mississippi, please welcome our co-host, the best iDoc this side of the Mississippi, BW.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now welcome a true hero, a CF Warrior, whose favorite motto in life is Just Keep Living.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's Johnny.
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  SPEAKER_02: What's going on today, BW?
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  SPEAKER_01: Man, not much.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just just turned 40 yesterday.
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  SPEAKER_01: So uh getting have give me some reading glasses like you now, getting old.
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  SPEAKER_02: So that's right.
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  SPEAKER_02: Join the club, man.
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  SPEAKER_02: Join the club.
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  SPEAKER_02: We're we're we're old now, but uh still still kicking, so that's a good thing.
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh that's right.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yep, you have a big celebration.
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  SPEAKER_01: I it was pretty low-key.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, it's it's on a Tuesday, so kind of hard to go out and do a whole lot.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I think we're gonna go out and do some stuff this weekend.
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  SPEAKER_01: I know you and I were talking about maybe trying to get over to a concert or something like that in Austin.
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  SPEAKER_01: So maybe we can maybe we make that work out for both of our birthdays.
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  SPEAKER_02: That'd be awesome.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, we we were talking about that last night.
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  SPEAKER_02: Seems like on our friend's birthdays, somebody wins a wins a championship of some sort.
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  SPEAKER_02: He our buddy uh friend of the show, Chris King's birthday was June 30th, the day the dogs won it, and then the Braves won it on yours, and then uh my birthday was on the Super Bowl when Tom Brady won it.
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  SPEAKER_02: So it's pretty crazy how that how that has come about.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um, but pretty neat.
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh well, you got any updates on uh on the glasses?
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  SPEAKER_02: I actually went into uh Mississippi Hour and Startville last week when I was in town and uh downtown, and uh I met I met one of the guys working there.
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  SPEAKER_02: He actually recognized me.
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  SPEAKER_02: I guess he saw the glasses and heard about their story, and so I got to meet him and um and the glasses are in there.
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  SPEAKER_02: There's they're selling them and um just trying to get more people to come to town and check it out.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, exactly.
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  SPEAKER_01: They've got a good selection over there.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think they got a big shipping in a couple weeks ago.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I noticed they've they talked about them on their Instagram feed the other day.
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  SPEAKER_01: So check them out, Mississippi Iware on Instagram.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can see some some more pictures of the glasses and and all that stuff.
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  SPEAKER_01: Of course, I've got them at my place too, here in Carryville, Tennessee.
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  SPEAKER_01: So anybody that's interested in trying them out, you can go to johnnypacker.com and take a look at them.
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  SPEAKER_01: And if you want to try them on, you know, go to Starkville at Mississippi Iowa down there on Main Street or come over here to my place in Carreville.
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  SPEAKER_01: We'll we'll be happy to show them to you.
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  SPEAKER_02: Perfect.
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  SPEAKER_02: Sounds great.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, that's all I got.
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  SPEAKER_01: You want to introduce our guests today?
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, absolutely.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_02: I'm I'm so uh so honored and thrilled to have our our guest on here.
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh, you know, we've got a lot of uh Mississippi State listeners out there to this podcast.
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  SPEAKER_02: We've got a bunch of state uh athletes and coaches and all sorts of people on here telling their story.
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  SPEAKER_02: And the one that we have on today, I'm so so pleased that he was able to join us.
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  SPEAKER_02: I know a lot of people are gonna listen to it.
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  SPEAKER_02: He's uh he's a living legend among us, Mississippi State fans.
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  SPEAKER_02: So uh so without further ado, I'm gonna introduce our guest today.
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh he is the mayor of Start Wolf, Jake Mangum.
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  SPEAKER_02: Jake, thanks so much for joining us today.
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  SPEAKER_03: Man, thanks for asking me to come on, man.
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  SPEAKER_03: Happy to help any way I can and uh excited to talk with sports.
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  SPEAKER_02: Absolutely.
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  SPEAKER_02: Well, uh well, yeah, you got a great story to tell.
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  SPEAKER_02: I mean, everybody knows you from from uh Mississippi State being the hit king and just your great your great career at Mississippi State.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um, and now you're in professional ball, man.
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh tell us about what you're doing now.
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  SPEAKER_02: I know you were the Mets organization.
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh what's going on there?
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  SPEAKER_03: Well, first off, in 2019, after I'm seeing the year the Mets took me, uh, a big thanks to Jet Butler, a former Diamond Dog of Mississippi State.
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  SPEAKER_03: Uh, Jet Butler's the area scout for the New York Mets.
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  SPEAKER_03: Um he's kind of uh drafted a bunch of Bulldogs lately, man.
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  SPEAKER_03: In 2019, it was me and Cole Gordon.
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  SPEAKER_03: Uh in 2020, it was JT Genn.
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  SPEAKER_03: And then now in 2021, it was Rowdy Jordan.
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  SPEAKER_03: So we got four Bulldogs or including Jet, we got five Bulldogs in the Mets organization.
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  SPEAKER_03: Um, you know, you don't see that very much um ever really.
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  SPEAKER_03: And the fact that we got five guys kind of from all from the same area is just a really neat deal.
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  SPEAKER_03: Uh I'm just excited to be a part of it.
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  SPEAKER_03: Uh 2019 started off in Brooklyn, uh, Brooklyn Cyclones.
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  SPEAKER_03: We won the New York Penn League Championship that year.
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  SPEAKER_03: That was a really cool experience.
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  SPEAKER_03: Um Cole was in low A.
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  SPEAKER_03: I was in rookie ball that summer.
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  SPEAKER_03: So Cole was with the Columbia Fireflies.
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  SPEAKER_03: And then um 2020 COVID hit.
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  SPEAKER_03: Uh, we did not have a baseball season, but we drafted JT again.
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  SPEAKER_03: And then 2021 rolls around.
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  SPEAKER_03: I start in high A.
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  SPEAKER_03: Um, Cole was in double A.
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  SPEAKER_03: JT was in low A.
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  SPEAKER_03: Um, so we were all three scattered.
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  SPEAKER_03: And then I two weeks into the season, I wasn't I wasn't off to a great start, but the Mets uh they pushed me to double A, thank goodness.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I got to rejoin Cole Gordon for the first time in Pro Bowl.
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  SPEAKER_03: So that was a that was a great, very, very thankful for that.
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  SPEAKER_03: And um me and Cole had a had a pretty good year, man.
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  SPEAKER_03: But we had a good year together.
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  SPEAKER_03: Um, I'm really proud of how Cole took over his role as a starting pusher this year with the with the Rumble Ponies.
• 5:16
  SPEAKER_03: And we were in Binghamton, New York, the Binghamton Rumble Ponies.
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  SPEAKER_03: Um JT Gang got promoted from Low A to High A.
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  SPEAKER_03: So he went from St.
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  SPEAKER_03: Lucie, Florida to Brooklyn.
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  SPEAKER_03: Uh Brooklyn's now our high A team.
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  SPEAKER_03: Um, he had a good good summer through a about a hundred innings with a three ERA.
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  SPEAKER_03: Uh that's that's really good to come off Tommy John with those numbers.
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  SPEAKER_03: Uh then we took Rowdy in the draft this year, and Rowdy got sent to low way.
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  SPEAKER_03: Uh he was in St.
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  SPEAKER_03: Lucie, Florida, and uh he got his feet wet in Pro Bowl.
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  SPEAKER_03: So he's he's got his first offseason.
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  SPEAKER_03: He's gonna he's gonna get ready to roll for next year.
• 5:50
  SPEAKER_01: What was the biggest difference just you know, going from college to pro ball in in terms of adjustments you had to make and and things like that?
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  SPEAKER_03: Uh for me, it was I had to change my swing really.
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_03: Um my swing in college was very ground ball oriented, it was very slap and run.
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  SPEAKER_03: I just it it just doesn't play well in the eyes of of major league baseball.
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  SPEAKER_03: And and you know, understandably so.
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  SPEAKER_03: You see these guys hit uh a lot more, you know.
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  SPEAKER_03: You just have to hit the ball hard.
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_03: You just have to hit the ball hard and fro ball in college.
• 6:21
  SPEAKER_03: If you hit the ball soft and get on, it's it's all right.
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  SPEAKER_03: But um, I had to make some swing adjustments just to get allow myself to have the right bat path to hit the ball harder.
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  SPEAKER_03: Um, you know, I was I I never changed it in college because it was just there was if it's if it's not broke, don't fix it type deal.
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  SPEAKER_03: I never wanted to, you know, coming off good years each year.
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  SPEAKER_03: I didn't want to go home and change my swing.
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  SPEAKER_03: I just thought that that was really a risky thing to do.
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  SPEAKER_03: But then when I got the pro ball, I quickly realized like, man, they want you to drive the baseball here.
• 6:51
  SPEAKER_03: So I uh made some adjustments and and I knew it was time to hit the ball harder.
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  SPEAKER_03: And um and this year I I made some strides in that direction, but I gotta keep working and try to lead in the next year with a good start.
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  SPEAKER_01: What about the pitching?
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  SPEAKER_01: Was was there a big adjustment with the pitching?
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, obviously at that level, most everybody's good.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, did you have to feel did you have different feels for that?
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  SPEAKER_01: And were there some guys maybe you saw in college you ran into?
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  SPEAKER_03: And absolutely, man.
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  SPEAKER_03: Uh, double A baseball is a huge jump.
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  SPEAKER_03: That that high A to double A jump was a big one.
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  SPEAKER_03: Um, but double A baseball, man, every pitcher you run into seems to have something he does very, very well.
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  SPEAKER_03: And every now and again you'll see somebody that has three or four really, really good pitches.
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  SPEAKER_03: But most of the time, every pitcher you face has at least two good pitches that can get you out.
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  SPEAKER_03: So, I mean, that that was it's just tough because every day you're facing a really good arm, man.
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  SPEAKER_03: Every at bat's gonna be a difficult at bat.
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  SPEAKER_03: And um, you know, in in college ball, you you had your midweek games, you had your Sunday games where you can kind of you know fall back on if you were struggling a little bit.
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  SPEAKER_03: But in Pro Bowl, man, it's every day.
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  SPEAKER_03: You got five at bats against a really good pitcher, and you got to make those adjustments day by day.
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  SPEAKER_03: You you don't really get any off days in Pro Ball, so you have to be ready to roll each day.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, I gotta ask you this because I'm an eye doctor.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I I do some work with some baseball guys around here in Memphis, and uh since the pandemic, I haven't done as much, but um, you know, one of those things that you've really got to have in baseball is really sharp eyesight.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so, I mean, I think there's a study they did about 10 years ago that said um over 80% of major league players all had 2015 vision or better, at least hitters and all that kind of stuff.
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_01: But you know, there's some drills and things like that that I've done with the baseball players to help reaction time and vision and things like that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Or are y'all doing stuff like that in in training, or is it more just you know, swing swing coaching and things like that?
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_03: Swing coaching and weight room.
• 8:49
  SPEAKER_03: That's that's the two big things on the eyesight stuff.
• 8:51
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, they'll check our eyesight spring training, but it's yeah, I mean that you mean you have to have good eyesight to hit a baseball.
• 8:57
  SPEAKER_03: There's no doubt about that.
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  SPEAKER_03: That thing's moving very, very fast at different speeds and different movements.
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  SPEAKER_03: You gotta be able to pick stuff up.
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  SPEAKER_03: But you know, it's uh it's an ongoing, it's an ongoing thing.
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  SPEAKER_03: But yeah, most of the time it's just swing, swing mechanics and weight room, just trying to get strong, stronger, faster, and quicker.
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_03: That's that's the big big three.
• 9:17
  SPEAKER_02: Well, Jake, I I know y'all were in town.
• 9:19
  SPEAKER_02: You were in town this past weekend for the um the Bulldog Alum based baseball alumni gathering and um and at the football game, they were they were presenting the national championship rings and all that sort of stuff.
• 9:30
  SPEAKER_02: How cool was it to be back with with your former teammates and other former Bulldogs?
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_03: It was awesome, man.
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  SPEAKER_03: To see all the alumni was was a really cool deal.
• 9:38
  SPEAKER_03: Uh we're a very tight group, and uh everyone's a lot of people stay in touch with each other.
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  SPEAKER_03: And it's uh it's just a special bond you got when you've been wearing the M over S for a long time together.
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  SPEAKER_03: And uh really happy to see some former teammates and some older older guys, you know, some of the 80, some of the guys from the 80s, some of the guys from the 90s, and some of the guys from the early 2000s.
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_03: And it's it's just a it was a really really cool deal we had.
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's awesome.
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_02: Uh I think I I think I heard you say this for, but I want to ask you again.
• 10:05
  SPEAKER_02: When when when we won the national championship in June, now you and Cole, you were y'all listening to it in the after a game, or what what was that all about?
• 10:15
  SPEAKER_03: Uh we were, yeah.
• 10:17
  SPEAKER_03: So it was uh we were in the VCU visitors locker room because that's where the uh Richmond Flying Squirrels, the double A for the Giants are.
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  SPEAKER_03: And we we watched in the locker room on the TV and uh me and Cole got to celebrate together.
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  SPEAKER_03: It was a it was a great night, man.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's great.
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  SPEAKER_03: Great for the university.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm glad we finally got one.
• 10:36
  SPEAKER_02: Absolutely, absolutely.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_02: Well, Jake, let's uh let's kind of transition, talking about Bulldogs football, man.
• 10:41
  SPEAKER_02: Wow, we're we're uh Mike Leach is uh is doing her doing his thing, man.
• 10:45
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I know you and Gardner Mitchell are good friends.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_02: He probably told you a little bit about Mike Leach, he's he's the he's the real deal.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_02: Like he's showing it, seems like, and just uh it's where you can really tell in the past few weeks how we come along.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_02: Wilver Rogers is slinging it out there, and man, I was so impressed.
• 11:01
  SPEAKER_02: Our defense, just all around game against Kentucky was was really, really good.
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  SPEAKER_02: So what are your thoughts on what off football?
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_03: Uh I'm I'm excited, just as anybody else is.
• 11:12
  SPEAKER_03: You know, you look back at the losses this year, that Memphis loss kind of sting, it stinks.
• 11:16
  SPEAKER_03: That's a tough loss.
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_03: But you know, we won that game nine times out of 10.
• 11:19
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, I'd say the same thing with LSU, man.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_03: We were better than Memphis and LSU.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_03: Um you look back and you really could say we could only have one loss right now.
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_03: And things would be a lot different if that was the case.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_03: But uh we, you know, it is what it is, and uh Mississippi State's playing a lot better.
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_03: We're the only team in the country with three top 25 wins.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_03: That's a really, really cool stat.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_03: Um, you know, it's a lot of big, big games coming up though.
• 11:47
  SPEAKER_03: You got Arkansas on the road, Auburn on the road, come back home for Tennessee State, and then we got the school up north coming to town on egg ball day.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_03: So it's um it's gonna be an interesting finish.
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_03: You know, we we definitely need to go take one from Arkansas.
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  SPEAKER_03: That's a big win for us.
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  SPEAKER_03: We need to go play well on the road.
• 12:04
  SPEAKER_03: Um then we need to go play well in the plains in in Auburn.
• 12:07
  SPEAKER_03: Uh we never seem to play Auburn well, so I would I would really like us for us to roll out there at Auburn and you know and take one of the plains.
• 12:16
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, do you ever go to any of the away games or do you just like to go to games in Starfleet?
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_03: Uh when I was in college, I go to about two away games a year, but uh not not so much anymore.
• 12:25
  SPEAKER_03: Um, I'm typically at most of the games in Starfleet.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_03: And uh, you know, uh missed a couple a year, but I'm at most of the games in Starfleet.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_03: But nowadays I typically don't go to road games unless it comes up and I'm able to.
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I guess you finish up your season, and so this is mostly just like training time and and all that.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_01: So you have a little bit more time to catch up on games and you like you like to hunt and stuff like that too.
• 12:51
  SPEAKER_01: Is that right?
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_03: Absolutely, man.
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_03: Uh I like to hunt right now.
• 12:54
  SPEAKER_03: I'm in golf mode, but once it once it gets a little colder, I'll start hunting again.
• 12:58
  SPEAKER_03: Uh duck duck season's my favorite.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, I'm looking forward to duck season, but for now it's kind of golf season still while the weather's still warm.
• 13:05
  SPEAKER_03: But once it cools up, I don't like being out in the woods when there's snakes still out, man.
• 13:09
  SPEAKER_03: I'm not I'm gonna wait until it gets a little colder and um we'll see how it goes.
• 13:14
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so y'all uh get to play any golf when you're on the road, uh playing playing major league.
• 13:20
  SPEAKER_01: Do you have time for that?
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_03: Uh well this year and in the the season we had Mondays off, so occasionally I would go play Mondays, but that was about it.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, not too much golf when you're up north.
• 13:30
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_01: So you don't get to get any courses up like uh Beth Page Black up there or anything like that?
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_03: No, but I I'll try to next year.
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_03: I'll be in Syracuse or I'll be in Binghamton or Syracuse next year.
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_03: I'll be back in Binghamton or Syracuse next year.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_03: So um regardless wherever I'm at, I'll I'll go out and play some golf.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_02: Hey, I have to ask you this.
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_02: When when you were with the uh the Cyclones, uh I always watched that uh 4th of July hot dogging contest.
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_02: Was that is that right there near the stadium?
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it's uh this year was the first year they did it actually in the stadium that they didn't do it outside the hot dog.
• 14:08
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so uh it was good.
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_03: I I'm glad they did that because the year I went in 2019, it was tough to see, man.
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_03: So I'm glad they put it on the stadium so that way everybody can watch it a little bit better.
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_03: But I think that was a good move and uh it was cool, man.
• 14:20
  SPEAKER_03: Seeing Joey Chester beat all this hot dog is different, but it it's it's a lot of fun.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I've always wondered what it was like at being because I watched it every year, like being right there, like so many people.
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_02: It's like wow, but uh yeah, I bet that that was fun.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_02: That seemed like a really cool, cool stadium where it was located right there.
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, Coney Island's a cool place to play, but uh it's unique, but it's a cool experience.
• 14:44
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_01: Well, it seems like a lot of the fans up there, I mean, they're not afraid to tell you what they think and and you know, harass you and yell at you and tell you you did something wrong.
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_01: How's how's that been, you know, playing up there versus playing in the south?
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_03: Well, you we don't get too big of crowds in the minor league.
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_03: So right now it's it's been pretty laid back in that regard.
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_03: Um but look, playing at Myssipe State, I I got I got my fair share of that.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_03: Um we were we struggled early in the year, and then there wasn't some there wasn't so friendly stuff out there for us, but uh it it got a little nicer whenever we started winning.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_03: And that's but you don't blame them.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_03: Uh whenever you're a die hard fan and and your team's losing, it's it's it's hard to be happy.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_03: I get that, but um all I can do is uh work hard and play as hard as I can each day.
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_03: And if someone's unhappy with how I'm playing, I'll I'll try to do better.
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_03: It won't bother me though.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_02: Well, what about uh what about Coach Lamonis, man?
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_02: I keep seeing all these tweets all the time.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_02: We got a new dude, we got a new dude.
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_02: He is just racking it up on recruiting right now, and it's just it's just unbelievable the guys that we're getting in.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_02: It's it's really special.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I've said it for a long time.
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_03: Coach Lamonis is uh the one of the best recruiters in the country.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_03: Um, and alongside his assistant coaches that are extremely good at recruiting as well.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_03: Fox, cheese, and goat are top-notch, man.
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_03: And um, they were they've got a good thing going in those baseball offices and in Starkville.
• 16:10
  SPEAKER_03: And uh I'm happy for them.
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_03: Um, they're gonna keep winning for a long time.
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, absolutely.
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_02: It's uh it's really special to see how it all took place and I and the way it's come because it's it's so cool for you know when Dak was here, you know, the insight excitement in town, he could feel it.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_02: And I feel like it's we're back right there with that with the baseball team, winning the national championship, and just the town's just electric, you know, just everyone just rallied behind it.
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_02: It's just it's just so cool to see how it all took place and and um and and all what y'all did when y'all are up here and just really cool thing.
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_02: And I know it's uh it's a bond that y'all y'all cherish and have for the rest of y'all's life.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_02: And uh it's really really cool for us to get get to witness it and see it happen.
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, um uh I was just I was very pumped up that they won a national championship.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_03: Man, I can't tell you how happy we were.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_03: Um our university desperately needed one.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_03: It was it was time for us to at least get one in baseball.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_03: Um the right direction.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_03: Basketball is gonna be good this year, so we we need some people to go out and support the basketball team this year.
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_03: Uh the hump's been pretty empty the last couple years, but not empty, but we need to do a better job of supporting our basketball team.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_03: And uh I think we got the talent to win some ball games this year, and Halland's a great coach.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, when when me and Brandon were in in school at Mississippi State, we were we were rocking, man.
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_02: We were uh we had Lawrence Roberts, Shane Power, all that bunch, and and the hump was rocking.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_02: And I just hope we can get, and I feel like we will get back to those days.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_02: Eventually, Coach Holland's doing a great job.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_02: These transfers that we have coming in this year gives us something to really look forward to.
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_02: Really, really excited about the the way the way the program is headed, especially, you know, last year making to the NFT championship.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_02: That builds you off for the this coming year, it builds a bit off on something.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_02: So um, I know the tournament is their goal, and I really feel like the the pieces that they have that they click and get together, you know, I think that that's possible.
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_02: So good time to be a bulldog all around, absolutely.
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_03: It was a great time to be a bulldog.
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_03: We've had a good couple of years, and it's probably one of the best decades of our university.
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_03: So uh we're trending in the right direction.
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_03: We gotta keep going.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_02: Absolutely, absolutely.
• 18:18
  SPEAKER_02: Well, Jake, if you're ever if you're ever in town and you want to check out these glasses, we've been talking about check them out.
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_02: Mississippi Iwear and start.
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_02: Well, they're on Main Street.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_02: So the Iwear, yeah.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_02: I'll I'll have to come by check out my eyesight, man.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_01: Never know.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_01: Man need some glasses.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_02: Well, we got them for you, sunglasses and everything.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_02: So anyway, uh, I think that's about all I got.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_02: Brandon, you got anything?
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_01: No, that's it, Jake.
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_01: We appreciate it.
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_01: Um, what's the best way for people to keep up with you?
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_01: Like Instagram, Twitter?
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_01: All I do is on Twitter, man.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_03: I'm not on this.
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_03: I got there's enough social media platforms, I don't need another.
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_03: So Twitter and Instagram is the best way to keep up, but uh that's it, man.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_03: That's about it.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_01: Well, we're looking forward to seeing how you do this year.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_01: I I know I know you're getting ready.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_01: So um think you got big things coming.
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_01: So thanks for taking the time to talk to us today.
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you guys so much for having me on the show.
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_03: Um, y'all keep doing this thing, man.
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_03: Thanks so much, Jake.
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_03: Really appreciate it, buddy.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_03: We'll talk soon.
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_00: Bye.
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 19:18
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• 19:21
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• 19:28
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