S3E6 - Charlotte Recap
The guys recap a 1-2 week against Norfolk State and Charlotte and look ahead to VCU midweek before UConn comes to town. Plus, Coach Finny becomes a grandfather!
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Speaker:Yes, welcome Monarch fans to the Hudson Homers podcast.
Speaker:Got CB and Coach Finny here with me as always, coming off of a one in
Speaker:two week against a tough Charlotte team on Saturday and Sunday for sure.
Speaker:Uh, cb I know you're a little under the weather, but how you feeling?
Speaker:Uh, under the weather.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:We're making it, we're getting, we're getting better than I probably
Speaker:felt, uh, out there freezing on, uh, Saturday and Sunday.
Speaker:Man, I, and I hope you get better.
Speaker:See, this week it's warming up, so hopefully that'll help.
Speaker:Yeah, we're looking pretty solid for this week.
Speaker:Sunday was crazy because we got the ballpark.
Speaker:I think I got out there about eight 30.
Speaker:We stretched at 10 and had bp and I was sweating.
Speaker:Yeah, it was beautiful out by the time I walked back out from.
Speaker:Game time.
Speaker:The wind had turned around and the temperature was dropping, you know,
Speaker:and it ended up just being cold as heck, you know, for most of that
Speaker:game with that north wind blowing.
Speaker:So it was a strange, strange day for sure.
Speaker:My
Speaker:wife was getting
Speaker:better weather coming.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:My wife was getting ready to unload on me.
Speaker:'cause I came home and my face was red and I was like, look, I, I was in no way
Speaker:looking at the sun and then I realized I was looking straight into the wind behind
Speaker:home blade from right center the whole time I looked like I been at the beach.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:It was, uh, it was a strange day.
Speaker:The wind was definitely, you know, played a factor in the.
Speaker:In the, in the game for sure on Sunday.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:Without a doubt.
Speaker:Knocking some balls down.
Speaker:I think it cost Maca home run for sure.
Speaker:I mean, he, he got all of that ball, man.
Speaker:It was just like a had a parachute on it.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Like had a drag shoot just slowing it down.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Uh,
Speaker:but the, the fans showed up well on Saturday and Sunday.
Speaker:Um, I think it was actually, it was much more pleasant to be in those outfield
Speaker:stands than it was to be where we were standing at, at least on Sunday anyway.
Speaker:Yeah, you got some of the, more of the sun for sure.
Speaker:Yeah, because the sun was nice.
Speaker:It was just the wind was cold, so,
Speaker:yeah.
Speaker:Well, we, we started off, uh,
Speaker:with, uh, you know, with a, a midweek win on Wednesday, um, at Norfolk State.
Speaker:I thought, you know, we took advantage of a bunch of walks and, you know,
Speaker:uh, scored, scored a bunch of runs.
Speaker:We were able to.
Speaker:Pitched pretty well, and it was good to get some of those guys some work.
Speaker:You know, I'm always leery about games like that, you know, before
Speaker:you play good people, they just, they, they don't help a lot.
Speaker:Um, in terms of the pitching, you're seeing, you know, from that standpoint.
Speaker:And, and so it's a win, but I, I, you know, it doesn't prepare
Speaker:you to play a good, good team.
Speaker:If we were facing in Charlotte on the weekend.
Speaker:Um, having said that, I thought, you know, we had some guys that needed to get out
Speaker:there and get, get some innings in and
Speaker:mm-hmm.
Speaker:Uh, Shehe, uh, Hubble, you know, guys that hadn't had a ton of success yet this year.
Speaker:Um, Chris cte, Maddox, Jack, they all threw the ball well, they threw strikes.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:And, uh, we played pretty good defense on not a, you know, great surface to play.
Speaker:Kind of wet and yucky out there, but we played a solid game.
Speaker:And then, you know, we get ready to play on Friday and we were hoping
Speaker:that the outfield would dry out.
Speaker:We've had so much water, uh, so much.
Speaker:It is the wettest February, I can remember 15 years here.
Speaker:Just, you know, here it gets to the point where the water just has no
Speaker:place to go 'cause we're so low.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And that's, that's kind of what happened.
Speaker:And then we're, you know, putting the tarp on the infield to save
Speaker:that and then dumping it in the outfield, just adding to it.
Speaker:And so.
Speaker:It just became a point where we walked out there and just felt
Speaker:like it wasn't gonna be safe.
Speaker:Um, so, you know, I did, I did not wanna play a doubleheader for the third week.
Speaker:I think we, uh, you know, I think it cost us a couple players last
Speaker:week being ready to play and, um, just, you know, it's, it's a lot.
Speaker:And, uh, so we just decided to play single game Saturday and Sunday.
Speaker:And, you know, the field was better.
Speaker:Still wet in the outfield, but not as bad.
Speaker:I don't think it.
Speaker:It really affected a ton, um, of, of the game.
Speaker:So that was better.
Speaker:And, and look man, Saturday they just whipped us like we got, you know, we got
Speaker:behind early and you know, sometimes when that happens and you got another game or
Speaker:two to play, um, it's time to get some of them young guys, their, their innings.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:And the college baseball.
Speaker:That's a lot of times when those young guys get 'em, uh, when the game's a
Speaker:little bit out one way or the other.
Speaker:And that's what, that's what happened.
Speaker:And so some guys, you know, didn't throw as well.
Speaker:Um, but we had, you know, if I would've taken one positive away from
Speaker:Saturday, would've been Ben Tanton.
Speaker:I thought he
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Ball really well.
Speaker:He was, you know, up in the low nineties and the breaking ball was good.
Speaker:And that's the guy that we recruited.
Speaker:You know, he's had this mm-hmm.
Speaker:Underwater going through the fall.
Speaker:He's an interesting kid.
Speaker:'cause, you know, he broke his elbow in high school.
Speaker:Um, which can't be good for a pitcher, I would think.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:That's upon Daniel, right?
Speaker:Uh, and you know, he is got a screw in there and, but he, you know, obviously
Speaker:overcame it and had a really good high school career and has just been a
Speaker:little, had it been a little bit tender in the fall, we had to shut him down.
Speaker:Uh, and he, and, and he's kind of taken a little bit of time getting back, but.
Speaker:Ball starting to come out of his hand the right way.
Speaker:And I think our, our pitching, uh, coaches, staff have done a real
Speaker:good job because since breaking ball, excuse me, has gotten
Speaker:progressively better the shape of it.
Speaker:I thought Saturday was the best that look since he's been here.
Speaker:So that's the guy that I think as we move forward, we'll be able to add into that.
Speaker:That bull end mix.
Speaker:Um,
Speaker:I like to give Ben a hard time because, uh, you know, when I share him my
Speaker:pictures of the games, uh, he is like the most popular guy on the planet.
Speaker:Like, it's like 50 different people sharing pictures of him.
Speaker:So like, I'm like, who are you from King?
Speaker:What, what's going on here?
Speaker:I'm a guy,
Speaker:he's a great kid and
Speaker:he's a great kid.
Speaker:He is.
Speaker:I told him Yeah.
Speaker:He kind of quiet around us.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:You know, but has good energy and Yeah.
Speaker:Goes, goes about his business the right way.
Speaker:So.
Speaker:We think, we think he's got a chance to have a bright future.
Speaker:So that was good.
Speaker:Um, and I thought Cole Lanford threw the ball pretty good for us too, out the pen.
Speaker:So, you know, seven inning jobs.
Speaker:I tell the guys, man, you, you know, you lose by one or you lose
Speaker:by 10, you gotta learn from it.
Speaker:We didn't compete enough.
Speaker:We got behind too, too much.
Speaker:And, um, we just, we just, you know, got beat up.
Speaker:And so tomorrow you get the.
Speaker:Practice being brave and let's see what we're made of.
Speaker:And uh, so, you know, we come out Sunday, get behind seven.
Speaker:Nothing again.
Speaker:Huh uh, but I, I really, you know, thought the bullpen did a good job on,
Speaker:on Sunday of, of holding them down.
Speaker:You know, the inning they got the six.
Speaker:Man, we just made too many mistakes.
Speaker:We threw a double play ball low.
Speaker:We should have still got, we get that double play outta that inning.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Um, with two runs and you know, Johnson gets the comebacker and he
Speaker:throws it kind of at Mavs knees.
Speaker:And we, we work on these things.
Speaker:But obviously not enough because if they're making mistakes on it, then
Speaker:I'm also the, a belief that we haven't, we haven't drilled it enough, so we're
Speaker:gonna work on that some more tomorrow.
Speaker:But, you know, you gotta just slow down there and get one
Speaker:out when it's a bad thing.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:Get the out and not try to force the double play.
Speaker:I think that's kind of what, what happened.
Speaker:And then we, we threw a cutoff low and it bounced ricocheted off.
Speaker:GaN and, and allowed them to score another run.
Speaker:So that didnt, kind of blew up on us.
Speaker:Um, the guys didn't quit, they fought back.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:You know, that couple, couple innings of twos, we had the time run, you know,
Speaker:scoring position a bunch of times and just couldn't get that, that extra big knock.
Speaker:You know, we had a chance to get a run and.
Speaker:You know, sometimes when guys aren't going good, you, you're, you know, this
Speaker:is kind of the game within the game.
Speaker:You're, you're looking as a coach out there and, um, that, that ball that jack
Speaker:hit was pretty shallow fly ball, but
Speaker:mm-hmm.
Speaker:That Jay hadn't had a hit or made hard contact in about two weeks
Speaker:and might as well make a bad throw.
Speaker:And he kind of did throw it up the line and the guy just barely got
Speaker:back at the plate for close plug.
Speaker:I thought it was a chance we needed to take right there, so
Speaker:it just didn't work out for us.
Speaker:Um, but overall, you know, TJ swung it back, good late, swung it back good.
Speaker:Matt swinging it pretty good.
Speaker:It was a pretty wide strike zone I thought.
Speaker:Uh, yeah, on the outside corner of the right east, going back and
Speaker:looking at the film today, um, he was consistent calling it out there, but.
Speaker:You know, it's just not, those balls aren't on the plate and like they, um,
Speaker:thought he got a little bit, you know, they were barking at him a little bit.
Speaker:Um, thought he got a little bit intimidated maybe by their guys.
Speaker:Shouldn't happen as well, so.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:Um, you know, so, uh, I mean, unfortunate, you know, we had a chance to get out
Speaker:of that, that same meeting earlier, you know, um, and, and just didn't, couldn't
Speaker:make them, you know, they got a couple.
Speaker:Two strike hits.
Speaker:Again, we gotta make better pitches with two strikes.
Speaker:I thought on Saturday they had seven or eight hits with two strikes and
Speaker:mm-hmm.
Speaker:A lot.
Speaker:So things we learned from, they were, you know, they were, we hadn't really
Speaker:faced what I would say is a really good hitting team yet, and I think
Speaker:they're pretty good offensive team and
Speaker:mm-hmm.
Speaker:Um, they made us pay for our mistakes on the mound.
Speaker:Certainly.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:You learn from it.
Speaker:You grow from it and, and keep moving on.
Speaker:Um, you know, it's hurt us a little bit, not having Scotty in a lineup.
Speaker:I think we'll get him back.
Speaker:We Wednesday, uh, at least, at least by Friday, he just busted
Speaker:that bursa sac in his knee.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:If you ever done that, then's ever done it knows it hurts like heck.
Speaker:It's not something that is debilitating for a long period of time.
Speaker:You've gotta get the swelling down and the bruising down and.
Speaker:Um,
Speaker:yeah, he showed us, it's pretty gross.
Speaker:He got a big puffy knee, those
Speaker:things way up and they look awful.
Speaker:Um, but his bp, it's not affect his swing.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:So, you know, I think, um.
Speaker:You know, at worse we could get him in maybe the DH
Speaker:Wednesday, but we need him back.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I saw you were looking to pinch hit him there toward the end if he got
Speaker:to that spot.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:He was gonna hit Yeah, hit, yeah, he was gonna hit for J next if Jack
Speaker:mm-hmm.
Speaker:You know, somehow got on.
Speaker:So, um, and you know, we're, for the most part, we've got a, some guys
Speaker:having good at baths, I think, um
Speaker:mm-hmm.
Speaker:We're, we're, we're gonna be okay there, obviously, you know, third
Speaker:base right now, we're not getting any, any production outta that.
Speaker:So.
Speaker:We may have to try a few new things there.
Speaker:Um, and then, you know, I, as I mentioned, we've got a, you know,
Speaker:our two started, pitchers have been throwing the ball pretty well and
Speaker:they just didn't have a good weekend.
Speaker:So they're bounced back from it.
Speaker:And, uh, we've got a really good UConn team coming in here this weekend.
Speaker:You know, we go to VCU first on Wednesday.
Speaker:That's all a hard fought game, last game, probably ever at the Diamond.
Speaker:Probably
Speaker:we can hope.
Speaker:And we, and we gotta play at one 30.
Speaker:Because they took all the lights and took 'em over to the right, to the new park.
Speaker:So,
Speaker:but now they might not let the, uh, squirrels play in the new park either.
Speaker:So who knows what's going on in Richmond.
Speaker:Yeah, so they got a brand new ballpark that no one's gonna play in.
Speaker:It's
Speaker:gonna empty, I guess.
Speaker:I don't
Speaker:know
Speaker:what their plan is.
Speaker:Par par for the course up here.
Speaker:I feel like there's just that three-way battle constantly between whatever
Speaker:private entity VCU in the city, and it's just, it, it always turns into a mess.
Speaker:But
Speaker:why does
Speaker:wonderful
Speaker:VC u's gonna do?
Speaker:I mean 'cause the dining Yeah.
Speaker:Getting torn down, isn't it, Gary?
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Into, into this spring.
Speaker:It's gonna be torn down.
Speaker:Uh, I know Henrico just approved.
Speaker:Uh, Henrico County building a new ballpark that VCU might be
Speaker:able to use if they put that up.
Speaker:There's some other options, but I think it gets worked out.
Speaker:I don't certainly know all the details, but it seems like the sale of Sports
Speaker:backers Stadium is the real problem here.
Speaker:Uh, so if they get that sold, I think everything settles then.
Speaker:So hopefully they're there next year for their sake.
Speaker:Why are they selling that?
Speaker:Where
Speaker:are they gonna play soccer?
Speaker:They have like an athletics village now on campus that's gonna let them
Speaker:host soccer and all the other things.
Speaker:They're playing at sports backers.
Speaker:Uh, that's part of like their, their master plan.
Speaker:So it, it's a mess.
Speaker:The ballpark looks amazing though.
Speaker:You'll see it.
Speaker:I mean, they, yeah.
Speaker:I'm looking forward to seeing it.
Speaker:Yeah, it's
Speaker:beautiful.
Speaker:It's beautiful.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Well we were hoping to play it, but that's not gonna happen, so.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So we'll,
Speaker:we'll, uh, we'll get up there for a early game and get home earlier.
Speaker:That's not a terrible thing.
Speaker:The weather's gonna be good.
Speaker:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I think
Speaker:we're both gonna be there.
Speaker:And, um, and then warming up into the seventies through the weekend, man.
Speaker:So,
Speaker:yeah.
Speaker:You know, maybe we get a taste early spring.
Speaker:We're certainly due for it.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:After all these.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:It'd be nice to have a sixties and seventies a week.
Speaker:That'd be all right.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Stop making typos on my, uh, Hudson Homer tweets because my fingers are frozen.
Speaker:Solid.
Speaker:Yeah, that, that'd be fantastic.
Speaker:Maybe look
Speaker:at intelligence.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:These first 10 games, you know, we talk about trying to be seven and
Speaker:three and 10 game stretches and
Speaker:mm-hmm.
Speaker:We ended up six and four and.
Speaker:You know, you, you probably, we deserve to be six and four, I think.
Speaker:Uh,
Speaker:yeah,
Speaker:certainly the four, our six wins we played pretty well,
Speaker:and the four losses we haven't.
Speaker:So it's still the same rhetoric.
Speaker:I mean, when you play well, you're gonna have a good chance
Speaker:to win, and that's a good thing.
Speaker:Um, and we got a, you know, again, we got, you know, a
Speaker:little bit, little bit of time.
Speaker:We're still working some things out.
Speaker:I, I think some of the pitching roles are starting to come around.
Speaker:You know, I thought.
Speaker:Johnson Park and Davis all threw the ball well yesterday for us.
Speaker:Um,
Speaker:how cool to see Kellen go from the guy a couple years ago who is like the one
Speaker:out guy to now you're throwing him out.
Speaker:There are two, three innings and like, he's just nailing the door.
Speaker:I mean, that's, that's awesome to see.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:From where he's started where he,
Speaker:we were, we were talking about cutting him after we registered him as a freshman.
Speaker:Yeah, I'm sure.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:He, he was such a great kid and then we decided to keep him around
Speaker:'cause of that, and he developed.
Speaker:That was the year he developed that gyro.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:You know, alien pitch throws that no one seems to be able to hit and it, um,
Speaker:so I tell guys all the time, you know, here's a right-handed guy throws 86 88,
Speaker:you know, he might pop a 90 now and then, but he, he, he stopped worrying about
Speaker:how hard I throw and he found a bullet to put in his gun that he can fire.
Speaker:Jason Hardline was like that.
Speaker:He chased velocity for two years, went to the base, Florida baseball ranch,
Speaker:all the drive line, all this stuff.
Speaker:And then he finally figured out that's, that's not it.
Speaker:Uh, but he developed a cut fastball that he could throw all the time.
Speaker:And you know, it's like you gotta have a thing.
Speaker:And you know, Ellen certainly developed a thing.
Speaker:And so, um, that's, that's been really fun to watch.
Speaker:It's also a good lesson.
Speaker:Just don't be a dick, be a good guy, honestly.
Speaker:Yeah, it is.
Speaker:Well, you know, the, the New Zealand, all Blacks have that sign in their
Speaker:locker room, says no dickhead.
Speaker:Yeah, he, he's such a cool kid.
Speaker:You know, he is in grad school now and he is working on his teaching
Speaker:degree and he, um, he's just tough.
Speaker:He's just a tough Pennsylvania kid, man.
Speaker:He is blue collar.
Speaker:Um, and he really cares about ODU baseball.
Speaker:Nice to have him out there.
Speaker:He was just fired up
Speaker:like that.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:He's fired up coming off the mound, but both innings that he finished there.
Speaker:I mean, getting the guys jacked up and you saw it show up in the bats
Speaker:box too, man, that's another void he's kind of filling from last year.
Speaker:Like just stepping up in a leadership role.
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:Without a doubt.
Speaker:Without a doubt.
Speaker:So it, um.
Speaker:That's been good, you know, and, uh, I think, um, you know, the two guys that
Speaker:continue, the three guys that continue to lead us right now offensively are,
Speaker:uh, late and aching and Stallings.
Speaker:You know, those guys seem to be kind of right in the middle
Speaker:of everything we're doing.
Speaker:Um, so I think Will, Will's been a little bit banged up.
Speaker:He twists his ankle on one of them balls.
Speaker:He's just been nicked a little bit, but I think we're.
Speaker:Uh, Wednesday we're gonna play around with, with putting TJ
Speaker:in the leadoff spot and putting will in two old, late in three.
Speaker:Um, and, and Will does hit the ball the right side a lot,
Speaker:and he's pretty good at it.
Speaker:And so you can play some offense with him.
Speaker:He's a pretty good buner and TJ's been doing a good job, you know, getting
Speaker:some stone bases and things like that, um, you know, are, are lefthanded.
Speaker:You know, Nick Felton hasn't gotten it going yet.
Speaker:I still think there's a, there's a really good player in there.
Speaker:Going through
Speaker:seems like he's like just, just not quite right.
Speaker:Like it's
Speaker:not his bp If you come watch his BP now, it's really good.
Speaker:Good.
Speaker:Um, he just hasn't taken that batting practice swing into the game yet.
Speaker:He gets a little jumpy and,
Speaker:yeah.
Speaker:Just gotta relax.
Speaker:The more you play, that'll happen.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:We're gonna probably get Cole McKenna in there, you know, uh, this week too,
Speaker:because I, I think he's a, you know, he is another kid that can really run.
Speaker:Uh, he is a tough kid.
Speaker:He is a good athlete.
Speaker:And he can move around the field a little bit.
Speaker:So
Speaker:he seems really calm too.
Speaker:He seems like, like the moment's not too big for him when he gets in
Speaker:there, you know?
Speaker:No, I think you're right.
Speaker:Yeah, I think he's, uh, Cole's an interesting cat.
Speaker:He's very competitive now.
Speaker:The moment's not gonna get him.
Speaker:Um, you know, he'll forget a sign here and there, but
Speaker:that's okay.
Speaker:We'll take that right, if you're tough.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And I think he's a pretty tough kid, so, um.
Speaker:Getting Scotty back will help, obviously.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:I thought the Dallas won the bat pretty well for us yesterday.
Speaker:We gotta get him back in there and, and in particular against Lefty.
Speaker:So, um, we got, you know, we got a ways to go certainly, but it's, it's early
Speaker:and I think we're, you know, we're taking our licks some and we're learning from
Speaker:it, and I think we'll be better for it.
Speaker:I think playing those games against those teams always make it better if
Speaker:you go about your business the right way and learn from your mistakes and.
Speaker:You know, just are tough minded about it.
Speaker:I wanted to ask you about, um, I'm sorry, Gary, I had this question for a while.
Speaker:Go for it.
Speaker:I wanna ask you about, you know, like you have the game, we had a few of those.
Speaker:It's like the game on Sunday was a good example where the strike zone is, like
Speaker:I said, it's, it's probably a lot wider than it should be's a lot of balls
Speaker:that are, balls being called strikes.
Speaker:Do you guys have conversations with your hitters that like, look, you're right,
Speaker:it's a ball, but you're not right today.
Speaker:And you sitting there.
Speaker:Believing it's a ball and not swinging at it is not helping us do anything today.
Speaker:You know, you gotta get out and compete.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:There's no doubt.
Speaker:And, and it's hard because what happens then is you start expanding the strike
Speaker:zone like that and it becomes a habit.
Speaker:And then you start, then the next guy's not calling you,
Speaker:swinging a bunch of balls.
Speaker:And you know, I, I think we looked at the TrackMan report, we called 11.
Speaker:On that same side, 11 pitches, strikes that weren't in strike zone.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And that, and most of 'em were fastballs.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:That's tough.
Speaker:Now it
Speaker:shouldn't be hard to
Speaker:track, right?
Speaker:Not wrong.
Speaker:No.
Speaker:In any particular day, old school, we'd be like, all right, well I'm gonna get up
Speaker:on the plate so I can cover that pitch.
Speaker:Then I'll just wear it if it's inside.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:And I don't think we did that a good enough job of that yesterday.
Speaker:Definitely.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And so that's something else we're gonna talk about tomorrow.
Speaker:There's a needle to thread there.
Speaker:You gotta be careful.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Because you don't want guys to start swinging outta the zone.
Speaker:Um, and we've talked about trying to be better.
Speaker:I think we were taking the breaking balls outta the zone better.
Speaker:Um, which you need to be able to do that.
Speaker:And you're gonna take some, if you're good at that.
Speaker:I read a really neat quote.
Speaker:It said The best hitters.
Speaker:And this is counterintuitive to what everybody preaches because
Speaker:everybody's like, oh, be tough.
Speaker:Cover, cover the plate.
Speaker:Don't strike out looking.
Speaker:The best hitter strike out looking just as much as they do swinging, if not more,
Speaker:because they don't expand the strike zone.
Speaker:And sometimes bad pitches get called strikes and they don't think their
Speaker:strikes are not swinging at 'em.
Speaker:And that's the game.
Speaker:There is something to be said for, I gotta choke up and get
Speaker:this ball in play as well.
Speaker:So.
Speaker:What's your philosophy on that?
Speaker:You know, everybody's a little bit different, I think over
Speaker:the course of the season.
Speaker:If we can take those pitches, um, it'll, it'll bo well for us, you know,
Speaker:and it's frustrating when it happens.
Speaker:Uh, but we also took some call thirds right down the middle.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:There were several,
Speaker:several
Speaker:of
Speaker:those.
Speaker:I mean, I was looking at it today with one of our guys in particular, man, I'm like.
Speaker:That's all.
Speaker:The catcher didn't move his mid, he set up down the middle, he
Speaker:threw it down middle, you took it.
Speaker:You're just playing defense up there.
Speaker:Why even bring a back?
Speaker:Um, so I think those are things that, you know, certainly, and
Speaker:that, that's just the hitter man.
Speaker:Like, hitters don't do that.
Speaker:Like hitters don't take pitches down the middle for strikes.
Speaker:No,
Speaker:they just don't.
Speaker:Um, and that, so that could be scary a little bit as a coach, when you see one
Speaker:of your guys doing that, you're like.
Speaker:What in the war was going on in his brain in that batter's box?
Speaker:Like, uh, not a lot of good stuff, usually when that happens.
Speaker:Yeah, unfortunately.
Speaker:So
Speaker:it felt like Charlotte was almost started pitching to that once they knew, at
Speaker:least on righties, they were getting the outside strike, they would throw
Speaker:that fastball away and then they would come inside with a slider or breaking
Speaker:ball so that, you know, a pitch you typically want to take that's gonna
Speaker:be in on your hands no matter what.
Speaker:It seemed like they were doing that, and I think, I think Max struck out on
Speaker:one of those, or a couple other guys.
Speaker:I feel like Charlotte was, was definitely playing with the umpire zone back there.
Speaker:Yeah, well, you know, and that's what you should do.
Speaker:I mean, if he called, called it out there, keep throwing it out there.
Speaker:Um, I don't think we got as nearly as many of those.
Speaker:No, we did according to the two reports.
Speaker:And so, you know, that's something that we gotta talk about.
Speaker:Hey, when that guy's calling it out there, like we need to throw
Speaker:it out there a little bit more.
Speaker:And then if he ain't calling for us, then we can get, get all in.
Speaker:You know, chop.
Speaker:I just told him when he warned me, I said, just make the ball
Speaker:be over some of the plays.
Speaker:Some part of the, yeah.
Speaker:Like those aren't strikes, so, you know.
Speaker:Um.
Speaker:And then I think he'd been getting yelled at by their dugout.
Speaker:Well, he was getting yelled at by both dugouts.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:So
Speaker:yeah.
Speaker:He's getting
Speaker:yelled at by a few people.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:He, he probably couldn't hear the people in the stands, but I'm
Speaker:assuming they were yelling at him too.
Speaker:Yeah,
Speaker:yeah,
Speaker:yeah.
Speaker:He didn't have a good dad, but it was a good college baseball game.
Speaker:I hate that we lost it.
Speaker:I, we had chances to win it.
Speaker:You know, we had, we left a bunch of guys in the scoring position and.
Speaker:You know, you gotta cash, cash some of those in, uh, to have a chance to win.
Speaker:So those are things that we gotta, certainly, we've been pretty good
Speaker:at it up till, up till yesterday.
Speaker:We weren't good enough at it yesterday.
Speaker:So
Speaker:yeah, you definitely have to feel better about the way they came back on Sunday,
Speaker:after Saturday, just getting your doors blown off and, you know, they didn't pack
Speaker:it in, they, they said, Hey, let's fight.
Speaker:Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker:No doubt.
Speaker:So that was a good sign and, and hopefully we'll carry that
Speaker:into this week, uh, with us.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And your, your six and four record, I mean, it could easily be nine and one
Speaker:or seven and three because three of those losses you've had at least the
Speaker:tying run on base in the ninth inning.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So it's like, you know, you're, the six and four, you know, could easily
Speaker:be much, much better, or obviously could be, could be worse too, I guess.
Speaker:But
Speaker:yeah.
Speaker:And
Speaker:it
Speaker:seems like y'all are in it except for Saturday
Speaker:overall.
Speaker:No doubt.
Speaker:Um, we've been out of one game, out of our first 10.
Speaker:Not bad chance to win all the others.
Speaker:And the overall not to take anything away from anybody we
Speaker:played, I would never do that.
Speaker:But the overall competition level is gonna keep going up.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:It's
Speaker:gotta keep improving, um, as, as we do so, you know, um, I mean, playing at BCU,
Speaker:we, we've won a bunch at the Diamond man.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:But we gotta play well to do it.
Speaker:You know, they've been pitching pretty well.
Speaker:Uh, it looks like.
Speaker:And so, you know, we'll have to, we'll have to do a good job offensively.
Speaker:And then UConn's always a tough opponent, you know?
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:They played a heck of a schedule up till now.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And they dropped two outta, three out Wilmington, but they're, you
Speaker:know, they're, they got a couple lefties starters that are really good.
Speaker:Um, so our ready hitters are gonna have to, you know, be ready to
Speaker:help us in that, in that game.
Speaker:So, um, that'll be good.
Speaker:But it's a, it's a, it's a long journey, man.
Speaker:And you know, it's just so funny every year.
Speaker:If you look out there and you go through all the fall practice and all the spring
Speaker:scrimmages and a month into the season, it's nothing like what you thought it was.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:It's crazy what, how, how some guys go this way when the competition
Speaker:changes to other people and some guys go the other way.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Uh, and, and it's just part of it, man.
Speaker:You can't, you can't learn it when it doesn't matter.
Speaker:You can, you can get a feel for it, but I don't think you can actually
Speaker:know, and you know, I think we're, we're starting to figure some of
Speaker:that out now, you know, unless you got a bunch of guys back, you know?
Speaker:Um, yeah.
Speaker:But I think our veteran players are playing like veteran,
Speaker:like you hope they would.
Speaker:And, and that's good to see.
Speaker:And I'm really proud of tj, man.
Speaker:He is having super competitive at bass.
Speaker:He's
Speaker:hitting the ball all over the place.
Speaker:And, you know, I thought the, uh.
Speaker:The kid made a heck of a catch on him on Saturday on that ball he hit mm-hmm.
Speaker:Far before the line.
Speaker:That was a great catch.
Speaker:And then he hit kind of the same ball yesterday and he tipped
Speaker:off the guy's glove and mm-hmm.
Speaker:Scoring people like you can think that might, if you call that an
Speaker:error that you never played baseball.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Because there ain't nothing about that play.
Speaker:He robbed him on Saturday, it was the same ball.
Speaker:That wind's blowing, you know, 15, 20 miles an hour out there.
Speaker:It's moving that ball 30 feet and knocking it down.
Speaker:And you gotta, these guys aren't professional players.
Speaker:Like you gotta give them the benefit of the doubt when it's not a routine play.
Speaker:And that was, it's
Speaker:also the home team.
Speaker:You gotta give your home guy a hit come on,
Speaker:and you say, oh, he should have caught it, whatever.
Speaker:But I said, man, I, I, you know, I I, you go out there and let me shoot you
Speaker:about 10 of those balls in that win.
Speaker:If you catch three of 'em, we'll call it an error.
Speaker:Uh, and, and so we got that changed today.
Speaker:I thought that should have been a, he hit the ball really hard.
Speaker:Um, you know, he got robbed on Saturday, like, give the kid a hit, you know,
Speaker:so we, we, they, they changed it.
Speaker:But I don't, I don't tend to.
Speaker:Make a habit out of complaining about scoring things unless it's, I think
Speaker:it's pretty clear and, um, you know, I, I thought that one was pretty clear.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:It, that wind has been hell on, I think everyone in the stadium this year.
Speaker:'cause I mean, you can go back to Quinnipiac.
Speaker:There were some drop pop flies that they look like you're just, you know,
Speaker:can of corn going up in the air and then you realize you had to run a
Speaker:hundred feet to get back underneath it.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Um, and then, and especially those shallow pops.
Speaker:You know, right field.
Speaker:And I feel like just in the left field, man, those have been been brutal on
Speaker:these middle infielders this season.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:It's part of it here, for sure.
Speaker:You gotta learn how to play in the wind and we take a lot of
Speaker:popups, you know, to work on that.
Speaker:But that doesn't, that doesn't mean they're always gonna get caught.
Speaker:You know, we try to spend a lot of time working on those balls.
Speaker:Um, but that wind changes daily here, you know, it's say, Hey,
Speaker:the wind's always bull like this.
Speaker:I said.
Speaker:The wind always blows.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:We dunno which way it's gonna blow.
Speaker:If you don't like it, it'll change tomorrow.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So, but you know, it's like just part of baseball at the, at the, at our ballpark.
Speaker:Yeah, you got four games left here.
Speaker:Before we get into conference play, which is kind of crazy to think about
Speaker:already you're at vc, you got three with UConn, then you go down to East Carolina.
Speaker:You know what, if there's one or two things you're really looking to find
Speaker:out or figure out, or is it five ccb?
Speaker:I missed one.
Speaker:That's five.
Speaker:That's,
Speaker:yeah, it's five.
Speaker:Yeah,
Speaker:five.
Speaker:Gary.
Speaker:You're not making an old opinion degree looking great right now.
Speaker:No.
Speaker:Between that and my misspelled tweets, I'm just, I'm the worst advertisement
Speaker:for the, the university ever.
Speaker:What, what's, I'm
Speaker:an English major and I can count the five.
Speaker:Well, what are one or two things you're kind of looking to figure
Speaker:out over this next, like week and a half before we head down to Troy?
Speaker:Well, I think it'll be, um.
Speaker:So we're thinking that the Sunday deal, pitching wise is right now is looking
Speaker:like a piggyback between she, he and Hubble kind of treating those guys.
Speaker:You know, when you use the term piggyback, you're kind of treating
Speaker:those two guys as one person.
Speaker:And so I think what we're gonna try to do here is, at least this week, is same
Speaker:thing we were gonna do this weekend if we'd have had three games is, is, um.
Speaker:Use she, he and Hubble on Wednesday to get into the game.
Speaker:They'll throw two or three innings each, and then they'll come back and do the
Speaker:same thing on Sunday with three days rest.
Speaker:So then they'll probably get a week, um, uh, going into, you know, because the next
Speaker:game's Tuesday and that's clearly Yeah.
Speaker:You know, not, not gonna work.
Speaker:I
Speaker:know.
Speaker:So that, that would be the first, you know, through midweek where.
Speaker:Uh, not necessarily a, that, that'd probably be that one of those
Speaker:midweek staff type guys, but those guys, you know, seem to be our
Speaker:best two guys to have that option.
Speaker:And may hopefully we can get 'em both lengthened out and they give you,
Speaker:you know, a chance to get six innings between the two of 'em, or seven
Speaker:between two of 'em, something like that.
Speaker:So that's kind of where.
Speaker:Where we're sitting right now.
Speaker:So they gotta go do it, you know, best life plan, because the kids still
Speaker:gotta come, make it happen to, to make it, make it look like a good idea.
Speaker:Um, and so we'll see.
Speaker:We'll, you know, start, it'll start Wednesday.
Speaker:Dream world.
Speaker:You get four and four, right?
Speaker:I mean, that's the, uh,
Speaker:yeah, that would be perfect.
Speaker:You know, and, and that's possible.
Speaker:We'll get linked.
Speaker:Neither, you know, I don't, I think Hub maybe three, I think is most,
Speaker:he's gone since he's been here.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:But you know, he was a starter in junior college and he could do it.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:Um, and he, he just says it was good to see him throwing strikes last Wednesday.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Trouble early throwing strikes.
Speaker:And so it was nice to see him get back to that.
Speaker:Hopefully he will do that again.
Speaker:I think we're not gonna have a con this week or weekend.
Speaker:He's got a little bit of.
Speaker:Soreness in there.
Speaker:Nothing, nothing major, but he just probably needs a break.
Speaker:Um, and so, you know, he'd be a guy that we wouldn't probably have
Speaker:for any of these next four games, but it opens up some opportunities
Speaker:for some other guys and mm-hmm.
Speaker:You know, I'm excited, you know, Maddox, Jack, I mean, he, the kid's got a
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Stick arm.
Speaker:Um, you know, coming off Tommy John's surgery, you just
Speaker:gotta keep getting out there.
Speaker:Uh, so PGO can be a, be a big help for us, and obviously putting Bailey back in the
Speaker:bullpen gives us another experienced guy.
Speaker:Uh, he was gonna come in there for the, you know, 10th if we tied it.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:Uh, yesterday.
Speaker:So, um, he didn't get any burn.
Speaker:We'll get him out there probably for a meeting for sure on, on
Speaker:Wednesday so he can get out there.
Speaker:Awesome.
Speaker:Well, fans, if you do come to the VCU game on Wednesday in Richmond,
Speaker:bring your own food and drink, they will not have concessions open.
Speaker:So I told CB I'm gonna get an old school picnic basket and just start handing
Speaker:out food at the gate or something.
Speaker:It is free
Speaker:admission
Speaker:though.
Speaker:That's that's nice
Speaker:for folks.
Speaker:It's free to get in.
Speaker:That is nice.
Speaker:Go do, uh, what's the barbecue place there?
Speaker:Is it Parker's?
Speaker:What's the.
Speaker:What's the, there used to be an old barbecue place down by the stadium.
Speaker:Uh, I can't think of the name of it now.
Speaker:I forget.
Speaker:I think it was, was it Ray's Barbecue?
Speaker:I think it's a Walmart one now.
Speaker:Yeah, yeah,
Speaker:yeah.
Speaker:Walmart now.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:The dirty uh, uh, bus station across the street.
Speaker:That was the,
Speaker:oh, you all will not recognize it.
Speaker:Like they've already started developing that.
Speaker:There's a cane's over there, there Starbucks, there's all kind.
Speaker:There's high rise condos.
Speaker:Wow.
Speaker:It's while the Greyhound station's closed.
Speaker:I can't remember if it's been torn down or not, but
Speaker:they'll make it condos.
Speaker:It'll be somebody's house.
Speaker:It'll be where a homeless guy used to urinate.
Speaker:Yes, probably.
Speaker:So they got, they got a condo down the street.
Speaker:That was my middle school.
Speaker:There are people that live in the same room where I used
Speaker:to get, um, get picked on.
Speaker:Uh, so that's, so this, which is to me gotta be weird energy for your home
Speaker:to be where kids used to have their.
Speaker:Horrible hormonal situations.
Speaker:Uh, so that's me.
Speaker:Well, there's the old
Speaker:cookie
Speaker:factory down
Speaker:the
Speaker:road that
Speaker:people live in.
Speaker:Well, hope fans will come out Wednesday, you know?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Good chance for for them to see us there.
Speaker:And then we got great weather this weekend, so everybody come out.
Speaker:Yeah, they are happy.
Speaker:The first, uh, four or five of the, uh, concert series they're having
Speaker:during batting practice out there.
Speaker:Oh, really?
Speaker:Back, um, yeah, they're calling it the, I don't know, the left
Speaker:field concert series or something.
Speaker:Probably cooler than that.
Speaker:But they're, they're gonna have a band that plays out there for an hour, um,
Speaker:an hour and 15 minutes before game time.
Speaker:And then they get done 15 minutes before game time.
Speaker:Uh, back there and I think it's free with a ticket.
Speaker:So, you know, trying That's gonna be an awesome
Speaker:day
Speaker:for
Speaker:it then.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Need, need for some of the people.
Speaker:So we'll see how it goes.
Speaker:It sounds kind of cool to me.
Speaker:I, I don't know any, what, any of the band names.
Speaker:It's probably local bands or something like that.
Speaker:Really, people enjoy it on a nice day, man.
Speaker:Why not come, come and get a beer and, uh, a burger and hang out
Speaker:and then watch some baseball?
Speaker:Yeah, there should be some good baseball going on this weekend
Speaker:too with, with UConn in town.
Speaker:They did a little bit of a rough start to their season, then they
Speaker:went oh and four in a tournament out in Arizona, but took three out of
Speaker:four from Arizona who was ranked.
Speaker:Uh, they've been pretty, pretty solid since, so
Speaker:well,
Speaker:should do some great baseball.
Speaker:They always play a great schedule early.
Speaker:Um, they'll be, you know, certainly battle tested and
Speaker:they've seen a bunch of good arms.
Speaker:And I think they'll be, you know, up to this point, they'll
Speaker:be the best team we've played.
Speaker:Um, so the competition's going up and that's good.
Speaker:Getting us ready for, you know, the Sunbelt conference play.
Speaker:Uh, VC u's been good this season too.
Speaker:They played a brutal schedule.
Speaker:Um, yeah, they played
Speaker:tough schedule.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:They swept Holy Cross, but then they went and played, you know,
Speaker:Illinois and they played coastal.
Speaker:They actually got a win over Illinois, uh, UNC then, um, they took UVA to
Speaker:extra innings on Saturday night.
Speaker:They had a couple, they
Speaker:shoulda have won that game.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Saturday game.
Speaker:They should've won the, the, the first baseman broke for a ball he
Speaker:shouldn't have broke for, and then that trouble getting back to the bag.
Speaker:And they threw it in the dirt.
Speaker:And the, the tie run score from third and winning run scored from second.
Speaker:Oh,
Speaker:on that.
Speaker:Oof.
Speaker:They just, they just played it.
Speaker:Yeah, they just misplayed it too.
Speaker:Just played.
Speaker:And then I think all three of those games were pretty low scoring.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Two runs, one run.
Speaker:Two
Speaker:runs.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So, and that'll be good.
Speaker:We'll see some more good arms than, uh, it'll be fun to, fun to get to Richland,
Speaker:you know, play the Diamond one last time.
Speaker:Yeah, take your piece of cinder block with you on the way out.
Speaker:'cause it'll be Ed here by the summer.
Speaker:Yeah, for sure.
Speaker:So, well thank you guys.
Speaker:Appreciate
Speaker:you.
Speaker:Well hold, hold on.
Speaker:Finny, we got, we got one.
Speaker:One more announcement that might be the most important thing
Speaker:that happened this entire week.
Speaker:Sir, I'm gonna let you take it away here, but you send me a
Speaker:picture, I gotta throw it out.
Speaker:Yeah, please do.
Speaker:So you became a grandfather this week, correct?
Speaker:I did, yeah.
Speaker:Sterling Royce Fenwood.
Speaker:I was born at two 30 in the morning.
Speaker:Um, I think it was Tuesday or what was the 25th?
Speaker:That was
Speaker:Wednesday.
Speaker:Wednesday, yeah.
Speaker:Yeah, that's right.
Speaker:'cause we had a game.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:So it was early in the morning, so I thought it was still when I got the
Speaker:text, I thought it was Tuesday night.
Speaker:But, uh, so it was born Wednesday morning, two 30 in the morning, eight
Speaker:pounds, 14 ounces, 22 inches long.
Speaker:Um, and you know, just everybody's healthy Mama baby.
Speaker:Everybody's doing good.
Speaker:Just so.
Speaker:Happy for Gray and Chrissy and um, beautiful boy, Chrissy got
Speaker:that British name in there, huh?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah, both of them.
Speaker:He sounds like a James Bond character, you know.
Speaker:Um, so it definitely got the British name and, um, just happier, man.
Speaker:I got a great picture.
Speaker:My son carrying, uh, his car seat with his son out of the hospital.
Speaker:And that's a surreal kind of thing to see as a, as a father and now grandfather.
Speaker:So I, I can't wait down.
Speaker:Get down to meet the little guy and it's gonna be a little while with our
Speaker:season, but, um, that'll be all right.
Speaker:We will let them get through all the, get all kinks out.
Speaker:They don't need me bothering 'em right now.
Speaker:Um, but, you know, just, just so proud and happy for them.
Speaker:Uh, certainly Thank you for mentioning that.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Two of the best people you could ever meet too, because congratulations
Speaker:to, to Greg and Chrissy.
Speaker:Congratulations to you Finny.
Speaker:That's, that's all just awesome.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Super happy about it.
Speaker:Thanks.
Speaker:Thanks y'all.
Speaker:Yeah, well thank you so much Finny.
Speaker:Uh, I'll definitely see you Wednesday in Richmond and, uh,
Speaker:too weekend for the UConn, so,
Speaker:yep.
Speaker:Hope you have a great week and uh, see you soon, man.
Speaker:Go Monarchs.
Speaker:Thanks guys.
Speaker:Go Monarchs.
Speaker:Thanks man.
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Speaker:Welcome back to Hudson Homers, uh, no player guest this week.
Speaker:We're gonna give the guys a little bit of a break here, uh, but CB and
Speaker:I have some, some items to tie up.
Speaker:And one thing I wanted to talk about from Sunday was bark at the park.
Speaker:Uh, there were at least a dozen dogs there and you could hear them the entire game.
Speaker:It was actually pretty fun.
Speaker:They, they were doing some sound effects, I do know that.
Speaker:But there were not all sound, 'cause the cow was over there
Speaker:by the booth a couple times.
Speaker:They're like, was that us?
Speaker:They're like, Nope.
Speaker:That was just a, a very loud chihuahua.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:A bunch of golden retrievers running around and know some of
Speaker:the parents brought their dogs.
Speaker:Uh, they, whenever they played the barking sound effect from the scoreboard,
Speaker:that's when all the dogs went nuts.
Speaker:That's, uh, and I've been, I've been some places they'll do the doorbell
Speaker:ring or the ring camera ring Yeah.
Speaker:To get 'em fired up.
Speaker:Uh, but they were, they were getting loud there, at least towards the
Speaker:end, trying to rally the guys back.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:That's always a neat thing.
Speaker:I think it's, it's cool that stadiums figured out.
Speaker:I mean, I back, way back in the day of the bud, they just let dogs
Speaker:in all the time, and so you would regularly see dogs at the games.
Speaker:Constantly.
Speaker:Um, for all kinds of reasons, it probably is better.
Speaker:That's not a thing.
Speaker:I'm sure there's all kinds of liability and stuff, you know,
Speaker:most, you know, I love dogs.
Speaker:Most dogs are fine, but things do happen with people.
Speaker:Um, I in general, I would just like, why can't you, but whatever.
Speaker:Uh, but yeah, it's, it's cool.
Speaker:A lot of same, even the tides even had a cat day, which I thought was interesting.
Speaker:No, that's, that's a little more dangerous.
Speaker:You have cats all over the place there?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Uh,
Speaker:I went to a minor league hockey game in Jacksonville and you
Speaker:could bring your dogs to that.
Speaker:So we brought our golden retriever.
Speaker:They had like two sections in one of the corners there.
Speaker:You could sit and my dog was just constantly watching where
Speaker:the puck was going and trying to figure out what all the noise was.
Speaker:Uh, but it, it got a little loud in there 'cause there were probably,
Speaker:you know, a couple hundred dogs down there, Jacksonville at that game.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Well, you're
Speaker:indoors too.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And you got a, a puck that all the dogs are watching through the glass going by.
Speaker:Yeah, I, I brought our, um, our dog that passed away last year.
Speaker:Maddie, uh, took her to, uh, ODU, I think at least twice to bark in the park games.
Speaker:Took her to Tides games a couple times.
Speaker:Um, and, and she, it was one of those where she got, you
Speaker:know, pretty overstimulated.
Speaker:And then by like the fourth inning, she's just like, laying
Speaker:there with my legs asleep.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Felt worn out.
Speaker:The current dog, my, that my parents had is Daisy.
Speaker:She's only like four, I think about to be five, and she's
Speaker:still too amped up to do it.
Speaker:A couple more years.
Speaker:She might be able to go, but she'd still be way too insane to take
Speaker:out doing something like that.
Speaker:Yeah, yell 'em, calm down a little bit.
Speaker:Uh, sat Saturday night at the ballpark.
Speaker:Uh, it's military appreciation night, first responders and
Speaker:service members as well.
Speaker:Uh, so I love that the, the promotions are coming back, the nice side of
Speaker:being able to play games at home.
Speaker:And seriously, if you haven't been out to an Odu u baseball game yet,
Speaker:make plans to come this weekend.
Speaker:Weather's gonna be nice.
Speaker:It's great opponent coming in.
Speaker:I mean, it's, it's gonna be a good time at the bud.
Speaker:It, it should be packed.
Speaker:There's no excuse not to pack the place this week.
Speaker:I mean, Friday obviously two o'clock.
Speaker:I mean, I gotta take off so I can, I can go in the afternoon, you know, so I
Speaker:understand if you can't make that one.
Speaker:But Saturday and Sunday there's no real excuse.
Speaker:I don't think there's any other, the only other game happening at home is
Speaker:Friday night, I think, or Saturday night.
Speaker:One of those is lacrosse is playing.
Speaker:So it's nice at seven, so they're not even like overlapping.
Speaker:Um, and it's just gonna be amazing weather.
Speaker:So this, this is a really good weekend to come out and see some mo to you.
Speaker:Baseball, it's gonna be, it's not gonna be too super hot,
Speaker:you know, it'll be really nice.
Speaker:What it sounds like we're gonna have a, um.
Speaker:Uh, band playing before the game.
Speaker:I think he said Saturday.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And then having the military appreciation too.
Speaker:I mean, it's, it's a good, good weekend to pack out the place.
Speaker:Um, and we know it doesn't take a ton.
Speaker:I mean, a thousand people are gonna pack, pack the joint out, so
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:It'll be, be fighting for seats if you get there after first
Speaker:pitch.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I
Speaker:think on Saturday, uh, I finally got smart, which I
Speaker:know that's hard to believe.
Speaker:Consider I couldn't count any games left until we played Troy.
Speaker:Uh, but I'm actually gonna come down Thursday night and stay in
Speaker:a hotel in Norfolk so that way I don't have to fight tunnel traffic.
Speaker:Like I have the last, ah, several Fridays of trying to get down there and basically
Speaker:walk in as first pitch is being thrown.
Speaker:So, make plans, get out there.
Speaker:It can be a beautiful weekend.
Speaker:Plenty of stuff going on around Norfolk too.
Speaker:So, uh, if you haven't been, you should.
Speaker:And before we get to players of the league, there's one other
Speaker:thing I wanted to talk about.
Speaker:'cause you got some great shots of this.
Speaker:I, I didn't see the collision at second base with Maverick.
Speaker:And then I looked at your handy Dany Google Drive link that you sent me
Speaker:and realized that the reason he went down is yeah, he got pretty much just
Speaker:straight pleaded in the shin Yeah.
Speaker:And into his knee as he's trying to make the turn there.
Speaker:Uh,
Speaker:there's actually one, I think between the two of those that where his, like you can
Speaker:almost see his leg kind of going in and then he gets back for a second here is
Speaker:kinda like, Hey, I gotta make the play.
Speaker:Which tells you again how tough Maverick is.
Speaker:That's one thing.
Speaker:I don't think anybody's ever questioned that, that he's a tough dude and
Speaker:he's about the, about the job.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah, he was tough and loved that he stayed in the game.
Speaker:I don't think this is intentional by any means.
Speaker:It's not what I'm getting at here.
Speaker:But
Speaker:no,
Speaker:little things like this are why will and Mav get dinged up throughout the year.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:In addition to try and chase those weird fly balls in the wind.
Speaker:Uh, so I think we've just been lucky to.
Speaker:Have, you know, van Alstein, this is obviously an injury we're gonna miss.
Speaker:You know, Scotty's a little banged up, but as he was showing us, it seems like he's
Speaker:gonna be okay here in the next week or so.
Speaker:There's, and there's a mil, if you're down there walking around, which as
Speaker:you and I are walking around the dugout talking to Guy, there's all kinds of
Speaker:little dings and things, and you, you're.
Speaker:Guys come in the, in the dugout, you high five and they're like, oh, I didn't
Speaker:realize he had his hand all wrapped up.
Speaker:You know?
Speaker:And there's, there's always a million little things and, and 'cause it
Speaker:is, it's just, it's a sport and it's, and and they play a lot more.
Speaker:I mean, we know like, football guys get banged up, right?
Speaker:They play 12 games.
Speaker:Um, ot, we're in our third week.
Speaker:We're, we're gonna have more than 12 games.
Speaker:Uh, here in the, the season, they haven't even got to conference yet.
Speaker:Um, you know, basketball play where they play like 20, 30
Speaker:games and we're gonna hit that.
Speaker:Well, baseball just plays more games more often than other sports.
Speaker:They get banged up.
Speaker:It's a lot, it's a lot on the body.
Speaker:I know these kids are all 18 to 2007 years.
Speaker:How old they're now, depending on what team you're with now.
Speaker:No, no.
Speaker:Jim Wil.
Speaker:We had Jim Wilkerson at one point.
Speaker:He was like 27 when he played here.
Speaker:Uh, former Marine.
Speaker:Um, but we, uh, you know, it's.
Speaker:You get ped up.
Speaker:So yeah, it's one of those things that sometimes, you know,
Speaker:why isn't a guy doing as well?
Speaker:Well, he might be hurting in a way you don't realize and
Speaker:he's really gutting it out.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:That's certainly happened before where some guys have had their
Speaker:seasons kind of derailed by things.
Speaker:Um, Kyle battle's a great example of he, when he finally had that great
Speaker:senior year, fifth year, senior years, because he finally felt healthy.
Speaker:I mean, his body was just crushed for years.
Speaker:Um, and he and he got better.
Speaker:So it's, it's, it's not a, I mean, look at Tommy Bell.
Speaker:Tommy Bell's last season was.
Speaker:Pretty much derailed by a back injury.
Speaker:Um, so yeah, those, those nicks and tear, it's not, it's not, you know.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Like I said, pointed out, Marcus having that, you know,
Speaker:very obvious, very huge injury.
Speaker:It takes him out for the whole year.
Speaker:But there's lots of other little things you just don't see all the time.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And certainly wish him a speedy recovery.
Speaker:I was Deming back and forth with his dad during the week, so
Speaker:obviously want the best for him.
Speaker:I think he's, he's trying to come back next year and play and we'd love to.
Speaker:Yeah, love to see that for his last year.
Speaker:Uh, end on a little better note than what it unfortunately was, uh, this season.
Speaker:Um, I hope Zach, uh, late got a, an ice bath.
Speaker:'cause not only was he, you know, hitting very well if played on Sunday, he,
Speaker:that's probably the most offensive place he's made at first base in the game.
Speaker:It was like a joke.
Speaker:Every softball that was hit was going to Zach at first.
Speaker:Some
Speaker:a lot of ball.
Speaker:Yeah, I, I, I didn't, I haven't gotten to go through those pictures yet, but
Speaker:yeah, I got a lot of shots of him.
Speaker:You know, usually get a lot of pictures of first baseman, fielding ground balls.
Speaker:Usually when you, they get 'em, it's like real fast.
Speaker:And he did, he had a lot of little soft ones.
Speaker:A lot of cool little different angles of the glove.
Speaker:So.
Speaker:He getting his workout
Speaker:man over there.
Speaker:But speaking of Zach, you probably got the shot of the weekend with
Speaker:him celebrating this two run shot there in the game on Sunday.
Speaker:Uh, we have our players of the week with Kellen and Zach.
Speaker:Yeah, these, and these are actually, if you recall, these were our
Speaker:plays of week for, uh, week one.
Speaker:Um, and, and the hitting wise, you know, we, we picked Zach.
Speaker:I think you could have easily had, uh, TJ Aiken or, or Tyler Zedalis or
Speaker:Maverick Stallings were all good options.
Speaker:Um, but Zach, he was four for 10, had a double a homer, six rbis, two walks
Speaker:scored six runs, got hit by a pitch.
Speaker:So I think just the filling up the stat sheet with everything
Speaker:is what kind of did it for us.
Speaker:I said TJ four for 10, double three walks, five runs, two steals.
Speaker:Um, Dallas was four for eight, had a double in RBI had a walk.
Speaker:Maverick was, uh, five for 10.
Speaker:So actually, you know, more hits, but five for 10, two doubles, five
Speaker:rbis, three, three walks, two runs.
Speaker:So Maverick's off to all, all those guys are after great starts.
Speaker:Um, and mac dye was three for nine with two rbis, uh,
Speaker:two runs that hit by a pitch.
Speaker:So a lot of.
Speaker:Despite not getting any hits hardly at all in the, uh, the Saturday game.
Speaker:Uh, we, we did have a lot of good offense, uh, throughout the, I think all those
Speaker:guys did have hits in that game anyway.
Speaker:Um, and then Kellen, you know, came in again, again, it's, it's, it's so much
Speaker:easier for a starting pitcher to be player of the week, pitcher of the week.
Speaker:So it's, it's a big deal I think when relievers get it.
Speaker:Uh, but Kellen had three scoreless innings, um, following up five
Speaker:fits, no walks, four strikeouts.
Speaker:So, so a great performance when they needed it.
Speaker:I mean, that was the only.
Speaker:One of the reasons they had a chance to win that game on Sunday is because of him.
Speaker:Uh, Jace Park came in right before him, two innings, no runs, two
Speaker:hits, no walks of strikeout.
Speaker:So those guys throwing five scoreless at the end of that game
Speaker:has really made it, uh, plausible.
Speaker:They could come back.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Uh, Ben Tanton, I'm.
Speaker:I was gonna say Patrick Johnson was key in that too.
Speaker:Like
Speaker:yeah, he was,
Speaker:he got a ground ball, double play.
Speaker:That should have ended the inning.
Speaker:You may have thrown a little bit low a second, but you know, we probably
Speaker:good chance we win that game 'cause we keep a couple runs off the board.
Speaker:Uh, he is, he's thrown well.
Speaker:But, uh, Jace Park.
Speaker:0.0 ERA 0.71 WIP, and four and two thirds so far this year.
Speaker:Kellen Davis.
Speaker:Yeah, 1.13 WIP in seven and a third innings, no runs allowed.
Speaker:It's pretty damn good production outta two guys from the bullpen just right there.
Speaker:We've had some others throw the ball well this year.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Uh, and a couple of freshmen that had good appearances with, uh, Ben Tanton and Chris
Speaker:Ante, uh, both had scoreless innings where they struck out all three they faced.
Speaker:Um, I mean, that's pretty big deal when you're a young guy.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Trying to make an impression.
Speaker:And all the guys that pitched on Wednesday were great.
Speaker:She, he and Hubble, Sulpizio Jack, um, they, they combined for seven scoreless.
Speaker:I mean, that was, that was one of the things.
Speaker:I mean, you know, again, you don't ever wanna say anything
Speaker:bad about Norfolk State.
Speaker:I, I, I do root for Norfolk State.
Speaker:I wanna see 'em do well.
Speaker:I think it's.
Speaker:We can all kind of be aware it's not the same level of Division one baseball.
Speaker:Um, so, you know, old to me, when they play them, they should beat them.
Speaker:But I think when we saw that game on Wednesday, what it showed to me was that
Speaker:our pitching is better than last year.
Speaker:Um, which, you know, obviously didn't show up on the game on Saturday, but
Speaker:when we went to, if you remember, we went to Norfolk State last year.
Speaker:We beat them, but it was 12 to eight.
Speaker:We walked a ton of guys.
Speaker:We gave a bunch of hits, though they have really good hitters.
Speaker:Um, this year, this time, our guys went out and did their job and really threw
Speaker:strikes, as we said, stacking zeros.
Speaker:Um, and, you know, got the dominating win that we should have gotten.
Speaker:Um, and we play them in a couple weeks again, yeah, on the 18th, um,
Speaker:on a Wednesday here at, at, at ODU.
Speaker:So hopefully you do the exact same thing again.
Speaker:You know, you, you go out and you, you should do that to a team.
Speaker:Um, but otherwise, I mean, I, I, Norfolk State, great guys,
Speaker:great coaching staff now.
Speaker:Um, a lot of good ball players.
Speaker:I hope they, you know, they had had another rough weekend, but
Speaker:I hope they get some wins here.
Speaker:Start moving things in the right direction for 'em.
Speaker:I've,
Speaker:I've gotta go back through more schedules, so I'm trying to remember the last time
Speaker:we shut someone out during a midweek.
Speaker:I know it was not last year, potentially the year before.
Speaker:Uh, but y you know, we played Norfolk State last year, played VCU last year.
Speaker:We had a lot of high scoring midweek games and the few that we were able to win.
Speaker:So the fact that we're able to go, you know, ninth, 10th, 11th guy in
Speaker:the bullpen and complete a shutout on the road, that it's exactly what
Speaker:you're saying with how much better the pitching Seth is this year.
Speaker:I think we just kinda get the bats together.
Speaker:I don't care how well you would've pitched on Saturday, we lost 13.
Speaker:Nothing, uh Right.
Speaker:Didn't, didn't get any runs on the board, so,
Speaker:yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:No, you're, you're dead on.
Speaker:I mean, it's, it's, last year that was certainly a problem.
Speaker:We, we got to where at a certain point in the year midweek, it was
Speaker:like, well, we're not gonna win this 'cause we're gonna give up 15 runs.
Speaker:The, uh, it doesn't matter how many we score because
Speaker:we're just not pitching well.
Speaker:So, yeah, if you can have the entire staff throwing, well, I mean, you don't have
Speaker:to, you don't have to shut anybody out.
Speaker:But if you're, you're throwing out and, and having a good time.
Speaker:I'm just saying words if you cold catching up to you, my man.
Speaker:I was like, yeah, that was, that was, that was having a seizure right there.
Speaker:No, but if you're, you know, if you're going out and really competing
Speaker:well in the midweek, what it means is all your guys are competing well.
Speaker:Um, and so, yeah, I, I do think it's a sign that we might have a better
Speaker:pitching staff than last year, which if you can, as you said, start getting
Speaker:hits in the right spots, you really have something because I, I always say every
Speaker:year people ask how the team's gonna be.
Speaker:It's like, well, how well are we gonna pitch?
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:And that's the thing that typically carries you when
Speaker:you get down to Montgomery for the conference championship.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Playing
Speaker:all those games need, you
Speaker:gotta have
Speaker:arms depth.
Speaker:Oh yeah.
Speaker:It's, it's nuts.
Speaker:That's usually what get, that's what got us last year, right.
Speaker:I mean, we, we were down there and we just got to a certain point where
Speaker:it's like, well, where's our arms?
Speaker:Got us the year before too, a certain point.
Speaker:The year, the last time we won in 2021, um, we were still in CUSA is because
Speaker:we had an insanely deep pitching staff.
Speaker:We just had arms on top of arms, on top of arms, and throughout the
Speaker:whole tournament, it was like, all right, we got this next guy up.
Speaker:He's gonna come in, throw some zeros too.
Speaker:Um, so that's what you gotta do.
Speaker:And we have, you have the potential.
Speaker:I mean, you can see it here when some of these, some of these young
Speaker:guys really have a lot of talent.
Speaker:And the guys we have that have been around that have a lot of experience
Speaker:and you see the potential for a very deep pitching staff here.
Speaker:And we'll continue to see some adjustments in the lineup, in the positioning.
Speaker:I mean, we've had several different guys play right field this year.
Speaker:We've had a few subbing in and out and left.
Speaker:I do like the Finny left TJ in center where he's super comfortable.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:And he's a real plus defender for us there.
Speaker:And, uh, you know, you see Nick in, in left or f in, in left.
Speaker:We've got, you know, as the Dallas has played, right, uh, I think Grace
Speaker:Spar played right a little bit.
Speaker:I, we've, we've had some dudes go into right field and just kind of figuring
Speaker:out the offensive side of things.
Speaker:Uh, that was the first good pitching test I think we've had this year.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And it, it, I think it unveiled some things and you're gonna see
Speaker:even better pitching from UConn.
Speaker:Uh, but the good news is like, we're not in conference play yet.
Speaker:It is fine to still be figuring that stuff now.
Speaker:Stuff out now.
Speaker:Uh, but TikTok, I mean, a week from Friday, we, we play Troy and Troy's good.
Speaker:If you're looking around the league at
Speaker:Troy.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:There's some good teams.
Speaker:Uh, I know Coastal's down there, top two arms for at least a little while,
Speaker:but Southern Miss is a buzz saw.
Speaker:Uh, I
Speaker:bet Coastal's three and four are pretty good though.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I mean, that's a little different world there.
Speaker:Uh, but yeah, I mean, you, you need that kind of stuff to, to get through
Speaker:as everything you're doing now is to get ready for conference play.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And that's what you wanna do.
Speaker:You wanna go out and, and compete and win.
Speaker:And, and we've seen, I was saying this the other day, we were having a conversation
Speaker:with one of our text threads that, you know, if you're number two or number
Speaker:three in the Sunbelt, you probably are going to the NCAA tournament.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:So you wanna be one of those teams.
Speaker:You know, you, they very clearly picked the start of the year.
Speaker:They said the 1, 2, 3 was what, whatever order you wanna put 'em in,
Speaker:Troy and Coastal and Southern Miss.
Speaker:Well, you wanna elbow your way in there and say, no, it's us.
Speaker:We're one of those three.
Speaker:Um, and so then maybe we become a four bid league.
Speaker:I don't know, but whatever it is, you wanna be one of those top
Speaker:three, because the top three seem to be pretty cemented that they're
Speaker:getting a, a invite to the tournament
Speaker:and we play all three of 'em this year.
Speaker:We got no, no relief across
Speaker:the
Speaker:Sunbelt for, for
Speaker:us, but you got your opportunity.
Speaker:That's, that's really, it's no relief, but it's also, it's your opportunity.
Speaker:You go out and you show you're as good or better than them, and ideally better.
Speaker:Yeah, I feel like the Sunbelt for baseball is backwards at the way we even think
Speaker:of like college, college basketball, or even historically for ODU baseball where
Speaker:you can't really earn the, a large bid in your non-conference play, you can
Speaker:actually earn it through conference play by being second or third in the Sunbelt.
Speaker:You know, uh, UConn got off their rot and start the season, otherwise
Speaker:they'd probably be ranked right now.
Speaker:So that'd be really great to go and get a series win over ranked team.
Speaker:But we dropped two to Charlotte.
Speaker:I'm not gonna be shocked if Charlotte goes and wins the American.
Speaker:Yeah, I mean, if you watch, they had.
Speaker:Dude, 6, 6, 6, 7, hitting the ball hard.
Speaker:They got a ton of arms out there.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:They're a loaded up team and gonna be a dangerous one to watch.
Speaker:So I,
Speaker:and we still got opportunities against UVA and ECU who are always good.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And always up there, if not ranked close to being ranked.
Speaker:So there are, there are lot opportunities, like I said, inside the conference and
Speaker:outside the conference to show you belong in those conversations at the end of
Speaker:the year and you see the, the potential, you see the personnel to make it happen.
Speaker:Uh, it's just up to these guys going out and taking advantage of their
Speaker:abilities and, and taking advantage of the competition and, and rising to it.
Speaker:And Finnie mentioned it earlier, the defensive side of things.
Speaker:We've, we've made quite a few errors this year.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:We've gotta, gotta clean those up.
Speaker:I mean, you can trace back the number of runs we gave up there on that Sunday game
Speaker:where probably win if we just have some cleaner defense that'll come with time.
Speaker:Hopefully a little bit drier field and nicer weather this weekend too,
Speaker:so we don't have to worry about that.
Speaker:Uh, but I, I'm excited to get over to, to the diamond on Wednesday.
Speaker:I'm gonna bring my own food and drink.
Speaker:I'm, I'm not kidding.
Speaker:They're not selling concessions in there.
Speaker:There's a Wawa across the street at Cane's.
Speaker:There's some other stuff.
Speaker:Uh, if you get down there early, go into Scott's edition, go to
Speaker:Boulevard, uh, burgers and Brews.
Speaker:That's a good spot.
Speaker:Uh, but yeah, no, no concessions there.
Speaker:However, this weekend.
Speaker:Great concession set up out there in left center.
Speaker:Um, plenty of good place to hang out, good food, all that fun stuff.
Speaker:So just hope to see you at some point here this weekend.
Speaker:Yeah, I mean, I'm, I'm excited.
Speaker:I'm looking for you 'cause you're gonna be all four games
Speaker:this week, just like me, right?
Speaker:That, that is the plan.
Speaker:I'm even gonna get down there at night early.
Speaker:So my commute is just a walk down 43rd, uh, potentially from that hotel or.
Speaker:You know, a quick ride down from downtown
Speaker:and, and a great day to walk, unlike some of these other ones.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:That's usually the best day to be on campus.
Speaker:Uh, when the first 70 degree day in March, it's a, it's a party out there normally.
Speaker:Yeah, it's a good time.
Speaker:All right, well hopefully it'll be a party.
Speaker:Uh, 'cause you got a nice little four oh week, uh, in beautiful weather.
Speaker:Oh, I'd be celebrating that just about as hard as it possibly could on Sunday.
Speaker:I think if we get to 4.0, but we just, let's just go one oh against vcu.
Speaker:Let's close the alpha dining there with a win there.
Speaker:And, and we'll worry about UConn on Friday.
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:Well, it sounds good here.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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