CB and Gary recap a series win over JMU and reveal Players of the Week. Then a quick preview of the Sun Belt Baseball Tournament before the fellas head off to Montgomery.

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Yeah.

Hello, Monarch fans, and welcome to the Hudson homers podcast.

Yeah.

We're, uh, talking about Old Dirty in the daylight here.

It is Sunday morning.

Yes.

We're gonna get you the episode a day early as we all start

traveling down to Montgomery.

We get two from JMU this weekend.

We secure a spot in the tournament.

Uh, but I think we left, uh, left one on the table there Sunday, feels like to me.

But CB, what do you think?

Yeah, I... It's, you know, it's weird how you, you went into the week and

you wanted to win at least one game, secure yourself in the tournament.

You did that.

You won the series, and you're still a little like, "Eh, that

wasn't quite what we could've had."

Um, you know, win- we went into Sunday, I think you were sharing it,

went into Sunday with the opportunity to, uh, sweep the series and then,

depending on some other things, uh, end up in maybe the fifth seed maybe.

I think, I think by the last day it was the sixth seed.

Yeah.

Uh, but- It was all that was left Sunday or Saturday

we didn't do our job, and then I think the other teams didn't do

what we needed them to do anyway.

So, you know, it's, uh, it's, it feels a little frustrating 'cause,

you know, we, well, we still ended up 15 and 15, which we've been now

four years in a row in the Sun Belt.

So might need to interrogate, you know, how do we make that better.

I think part of it is getting off to better starts and, you know,

we, we don't wanna be a 15 and 15 team every year in the Sun Belt.

But from where we started, 5 and 10, pretty phenomenal.

Went 10 and five in the second half.

Yeah.

We've taken four creative ways to get to 15 and 15 all of those years.

We've had, like, bad starts.

We've had bad endings.

We've been kind of average some of that.

Um, I, I will say that, like, 15 and 15 is not great.

I think if Coach Finny was here, he would tell you there's

probably should've had more wins throughout many of those seasons.

For sure.

But the fact that last year we were pretty much completely on the road

not playing at home, went 15 and 15.

This year we've got the funky stadium set up.

We still find a way to go 15 and 15.

So I think brighter days are ahead, especially with the new stadium opening,

the young talent that's on the team.

I think better days are ahead for ODU baseball than 15 and 15, but-

It's still kind of a miracle we got to that this year starting 5 and 10.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It, uh, like I said, so it's- it's a, it's a weird one where it was a

successful week, but it kind of doesn't feel like it, but then that's where

maybe you need to, again, adjust your perspective and realize, like, "Nope,

that was a great successful..." Finny laid it out when we were 5 and 10.

"Hey-" He called

it.

you got a team..." Yeah, he called it.

He called the shot.

Um, and so that was great.

I mean, that's what we wanted.

We saw, I think, a lot of growth in our guys the last, uh, what,

I guess five weeks of the season.

Um, a lot of guys that stepped up in ways they needed to.

A lot of guys, you... I think you're seeing a lot more competitive at

bats, both pitching and hitting.

Um, you're seeing a team of guys who believe... I really, we went into the

ninth inning there yesterday down, what, four runs, and I really thought, "Oh,

we- we're gonna win." Like, because- Yeah ... we just, they've been doing that.

Uh, so that's a good sign because there are parts of the year where

we're down, uh, one run and times it's like, "We're not gonna win."

Yeah,

there are other times it was, you know, 8-nothing through the third and we were

like, "Well, we just- Yeah. Yeah ... gotta hope we don't burn too many arms and

try to steal one later." Um, but yeah.

But n- uh, neither of the other outcomes we needed yesterday happened.

Texas State completed the sweep.

Louisiana won the series against Coastal.

So even if we would've won yesterday, we would still

effectively be in the same boat.

So you know, it, we were, w- the tiebreakers are not friendly to us,

and Texas State, by beating Marshall a third time, took the common opponent

tiebreaker which kicked out our, our edge that we had with Southern Miss and

Coastal being at the top of the standings.

Um, I, I will say- But it is

nice to win.

Yeah, especially against JMU- Yeah ... 'cause I, I mean, I don't really-

Right ... care about the Royal Rivalry or anything- No ... but that swung

the outcome of that to JMU's favor.

Um, I would say baseball did their part by winning two out of three.

It'd be great if some other sports would, uh, you know, do their part at least once,

especially not blowing halftime leads.

Um, anyway, but- ... still they didn't play, like, horribly yesterday.

No.

We've essentially- No ... had one bad inning, and we had so

many screaming line drives hit right at people in the outfield.

Um, but yeah, uh, w- glad we got the, the two out of three.

It would've been a very different tone on this podcast if we lost the

series to JMU and were out- Yeah

of the tournament.

That'd be- Right ... different conversations today.

We might not even be recording it.

It's weird how things swing.

Yeah.

We wouldn't be recording it on Sunday.

Oh, yeah.

We wouldn't have a need.

Yeah, right.

Uh, but y- the point you just made about, you know, the line drives, some

days it's not your day, and yesterday was one of those where it's like they

were hitting the ball right at people really hard and they, or they make

diving catches, they make great plays.

The, the inning where we scored a few runs, it wa- it, it was like,

"Oh, that's now what's happening." Um, and then the same way all their

little dribblers are going through.

It's just some days it's just, you know- For whatever reason, the, the fates

and the, the baseball gods or whatever, it's just like this is not your day.

So kind of how it went.

Yeah, it was either in the fifth or the sixth inning.

We had runners on, we were building some momentum, hit kind of a shallow

pop-up behind first base into right.

Should have dropped in for a hit, especially with the wind.

Uh, right fielder for JMU just made an unbelievable diving catch.

Great catch.

Ended up keeping, kept the run off the board, and it was at that point

I think I, I sent a message in the group text, "You know it's not your day

when they're making that play." Yeah.

Yeah.

We, we

beat JMU for a- That's how it goes ... like they, they didn't really

have anything to play for Sunday other than this was their last game.

They were playing for pride.

They were pumped up.

They did not lay down, so give them credit for that.

I felt like they laid down a little more on Thursday and Friday than they did on

Saturday.

There's ... Yeah, and, and they, and you know, those guys, a lot of

them, you know, you, you kind of can see them as they're walking out, and

a lot of them look like we're just ready for our season to be done.

Um, you know, which is a shame.

But yeah, we had the one bad inning, the third nightmare inning, uh, on

the Saturday game, gave up five runs.

Even with that, our, our pitching staff in three games, we had 26

innings, five earned runs, so that's a 1.73 ERA, had a 1.12- Yeah ... WHIP

and 31 strikeouts in 26 innings.

I mean, that, that's including the bad fifth, 'cause actually only

two of those runs were earned.

Um, so you know, you are, again, as I said, despite that loss,

you're seeing what you want to see going into the tournament.

You're seeing the pitching staff.

The guys are finding their roles, finding, you know, some, some length in

their outings they haven't had before.

And the hitting, you know, I think, I think we, we both would agree the

hitting could have done better in all three games, but certainly in the

first two, they, they were timely.

Yeah, we were able to do enough in the first two games, then obviously

get the walk-off in the Friday game to, to win it 10-nothing and run rule.

Walk-off.

Yeah.

Most dramatic walk-off of the year.

That's what I told Mike right after.

It was.

It

was.

Uh, but yeah, I mean, well, you also got what is now my favorite

picture- That's a good one, yeah

uh, for ODU baseball, Scotty and Zach celebrating at second after Zach

hits the walk-off two run double.

Um-

You think when Scotty hit a bomb off him in high school that Zach ever

thought they'd be sharing a picture like

that?

Just add this to the collection of like, "Hey, here's when I hit the

walk-off, or the home run off of Zach-

and here's us celebrating together in college." Uh, uh, props to Zach,

uh, for getting almost the same vertical as Scotty on this, so.

Yeah,

it was pretty good.

I, I, I might... I think he just kind of started late.

I think I caught them both kind of at the peak of their, their jump, and maybe,

I mean, you see Zach maybe getting, uh, stopped from his momentum up by-

by Scotty.

Scotty's like, "You can't out-jump me."

Uh, but amazing

shot.

I think it kind of summed up that game where the guys were just coming

together and doing what needed to be done to get the run rule, save

an inning for the pitching staff.

Uh, and it's just fun.

I, you know, we could have won that thing eight to nothing and nine

and been like, "Oh, ho-hum," but to get the, the walk-off with the run

rule is always just more exciting.

It gets to rub it in a little bit more.

Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah, the guys all did what they needed to do.

I mean, it was, um, uh, Kuskie and Gatti were both phenomenal in their starts.

Uh, it was Kuskie five innings, one run, six strikeouts.

Uh, Gatti five scoreless, um, a walk and a strikeout.

And I... Both of them, honestly, what, Gatti only had 69 pitches, Kuskie had 72.

They both could have gone deeper.

I mean, that was a game they were both were gonna finish six, maybe going seven.

Uh, but because of the situation, you know, knowing that, you know, okay,

Kuskie's pitching on Thursday, if things don't work out for us, which is exactly

what happened, he's probably gonna be starting the game for us on Tuesday.

Well, okay, let's not throw him a bunch and have him be

on the- Yeah ... short rest.

Um, so did what they needed to do to get the win.

That, that was a case of if that game happened two weeks

ago, they're both throwing seven innings and maybe into the eighth.

Yeah, they could definitely have gone longer.

I mean, it's the most efficient I think either one of them has been all year- Yeah

both Darin and JJ.

Um, th- they looked good.

They were in command.

They were hitting their spots, being super efficient.

And that may help us a ton going into, you know, having to play

a Tuesday game in single elim.

Uh, you know, we were able to keep, um, you know, Ben Tanton,

he threw in the game on Friday.

Yeah.

Only got one inning, only threw 13 pitches, so he should be good to go.

Was

disgusting in those 13 pitches too.

Uh, the, the pit... I mean, the pitching on Thursday was really good.

Like, don't get me wrong.

Yeah.

I mean, Darin, Patrick, and Bailey were, were great.

Yeah.

Bailey ate a lot of innings for- Bailey was phenomenal

for a third.

Yeah.

Um- Bailey's

maybe best performance of his career at ODU

Yeah.

I mean, three and a third, no runs, no hits, one walk, six strikeouts

and he did it all in just 50 pitches.

New career high.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Uh, but yeah, 50 pitches is big so obviously he's gonna be available, but-

Mm-hmm ... Friday, I mean, JJ getting to five innings, I, I still can't believe

that's his first win of the season, but I started looking through box scores-

and it makes sense.

That was

weird, yeah.

But five scoreless innings, three hits, one walk, six strikeouts, only 69 pitches.

Um, you know, Kellen coming in behind him, two hits, that was it and w- we

didn't know this until last week's episode that he actually got a, you know,

I think a cortisone shot in his arm.

Mm-hmm.

That's why he was down last weekend.

But he looked good and then Ben Tanton just f- absolutely 18

pitches in two innings

Yeah, that's pretty damn efficient- Crazy ... I gotta say.

Yeah.

For, for Kellen that's pretty awesome.

Uh, the pitching was good and I, I don't think the pitching was that

bad on Saturday, it's just- No

the one inning, but I don't think Jackson got a lot of support in the field in

that inning, as evidenced by the unearned runs, but also- Right ... some hits that,

you know, if we have a normal outfield configuration some of those don't drop in.

Yeah.

I mean, I, you know, I had forgotten until looking at the box scores and

checking things that Sulpizio threw s- three scoreless and looked really great.

Um- Yeah ... he, he's, we were just talking before we started, I think

he's on a stretch his last four games.

It's like 11 and two-thirds, one run, uh, no walks, 14 strikeouts.

So, so Nick is really getting hot here at the right time, which is great to see.

And- And Cavalcante looked really great in the, in the game too.

He did.

He did.

He looked good and I was really happy to see Tyler Stott be able to get-

Mm-hmm

... uh, an inning of work there.

Uh, you know, obviously- Yeah ... last appearance at the bud for him.

He's been around for I think five- Yeah ... maybe six years now,

playing football- I- ... baseball.

Yeah.

I mean, kid's just a, he's just a good teammate, he's a good dude- Yeah

and to see him go out there and he got two strikeouts in his final appearance

at the bud is, is really cool.

He's had some good moments this year.

I'm glad he's, he had a- Yeah ... good final year.

Um, but with that, th- th- that third inning, I mean, y- you get

a, a ground rule double which I, I don't know if anyone could've gotten.

That ball was pretty perfectly placed in the left center gap and

one hopped up, and then you have a home run by that- So, so to hit

that ball where it would land and then bounce almost straight up into the

stands- ... he, that ball was high.

And that's, and I think we talked about, you know, uh, we had Efrain

Morales play in left field, which, you know, he hasn't done a ton of outfield.

And you think, well maybe if TJ's in left and Nick is in center,

maybe one of them catches it.

It's like maybe, you know, it, it'd be a pretty phenomenal play if they had.

Um, I think it's- Yeah ... we can agree, you know, Ef I think is a,

an average- Outfielder at best.

He's not bad out there, he's just not, you know, anything special.

Um, so that was a play I don't think you can expect him... I don't know if you

can expect anybody to make that play.

I think if somebody had made that play, it'd be amazing.

So that guy, just you gotta give him credit.

He, he, he smoked the ball, hit it extremely high- ... and

in the perfect spot.

Yeah.

I mean, Ef- you, there's a trade-off in speed with Efren- Yeah

in, in left, but that's about it.

I think he's, he's got a strong arm.

He showed that off a little bit there.

Uh, but there was a play- He gets that whole

body into the throw.

Yeah.

I mean, he's leaving his feet.

I mean, he's, he's strong.

Yeah.

Like, don't, don't make any mistake.

Yeah.

He is.

Ef is a strong dude.

Um, but you know, there's, there's an, an error there at first, which kind of a...

It was a hard hit ball awkwardly hit right at him.

Uh- Yeah ... then there was kind of one of those big popups that went

to shallow center that was just kind of perfectly between the infielders

and Scotty coming in from center.

I think we've just been spoiled by how much range Nick Felton has.

Yeah.

So anytime there's a ball hit to center field, I just automatically

think, oh, it's caught.

Yeah.

It's caught.

Um, and it's just- That sun was

brutal yesterday.

There were a lot of balls lost between both teams.

Um, I don't know if it was just, like, the exact perfect time, you know.

I'm not gonna turn around and stare at the sun to figure it out.

But there were a lot of dropped balls.

I mean, not necessarily, I mean, or ones that were, like, shaky catches even.

Yeah.

Anything on that first base side of the field that was popped up, especially early

in the game, you couldn't see anything.

Like, you- Yeah ... you were just staring right into the

sun, so that was pretty tough.

Uh, but yeah, but that's just kind of how that inning kind of

went off the rails a little bit.

Um, then they got a double that they just snuck just inside the bag- Yeah

down the third baseline, they got two more.

Uh, but if you erase that inning, I mean, the, the pitching

has gotten better each week.

Yeah.

If you erase a little bit of that inning, even though the, only two

of the runs were earned, the, the turnaround for this pitching staff

from where they were at the start of Sun Belt play to now is unbelievable.

I mean, we had guys that could not get out of the first and second inning, and

now we're like, "Well, they could've gone six, seven innings," but we pulled them at

five because we're winning and they were throwing so well and we need them again.

Like,

yeah.

Yeah.

Again.

It comes up every time.

It's unavoidable.

It's amazing how they pick that number and you just, you, it just

so comes up naturally in life.

Um, yeah, no, you're, you're dead on.

I mean, it, it really is a case of, like I said, guys have just stepped

up and decided they need to, to win.

Like I said, I, I, we kind of said it a few times on the podcast,

just, just you have to determine that you are going to win.

You are going to just play each pitch.

You're not gonna worry about what's happened before, not gonna worry about

what could happen in the future, and we're seeing a lot of guys just, just

fighting and competing, and it's really... I mean, we, the, the feelings we have

watching the team kind of the first part of the year where things were not

going very well compared to now, like I said, I'm sitting here, we're down

three, four runs, I'm like, "We're fine.

We're gonna win

Yeah.

Very different mentality than before.

It's like, "Oh, crap- Yeah ... we're down three." Yeah.

Go ahead and start- Right ... thinking about tomorrow.

Right.

It's over,

yeah.

Yeah.

And credit to these guys for sticking together and just

continuing- Yes ... to fight and claw- Yeah ... their way back in.

Um-

They love each other.

They really do.

When you talk to them about each other, they just ... And they're ... You

can see that their eyes light up.

You can see ... You can feel their hearts.

You can feel how much they really care about each other.

Yeah.

It, it's very apparent.

And, you know, there wasn't a ton of energy in the dugout yesterday

early on, but when things started to tip towards ODU, you felt it-

get wild.

Also, a shout-out to the crowd that was there on Saturday.

Yeah.

On all days.

Uh, giving the umpire hell from 375 feet away about balls over the

plate that were not called a strike.

I mean, we had- I mean- We had a packed crowd.

I mean, obviously last weekend of the season, um, we got a ... JMU has

a ton of local kids, so they had all

You could see r- uh, Ryan Goscio, who w- who was one of my students

in seventh grade- Uh, when he ... So he was catching on, on Friday.

You ... Every time he came up, his whole, like, extended family was

out there making a bunch of noise.

Uh, but the crowds were, were huge and packed.

I mean, obviously between, you know, graduation, senior day,

all the things, Mother's Day celebration, we had tons of family.

Uh, so it was, it was really cool to see.

For, for the unique, um, you know, not ideal scenario of our stands, to see

them just completely packed on the nicest weather weekend we had all year, it,

it's what, it's what the team deserved.

And it was great.

Yeah, absolutely.

There was one funky thing that happened, and off the top of my head I can't

remember if it was Thursday or Friday, but it resulted in Scotty Young getting

a put out on a force play at second base.

Oh, yeah.

Uh, I think everyone just- Yeah, I think that was- ... forgot

how many outs there were.

Well, I think that was Friday, and, um, I don't wanna call

anybody out, but I'm pretty sure the scoreboard had two outs up.

Mm-hmm.

Um, which, you know, that happens not just at ODU, happens other places,

where the scoreboard is just wrong.

Sometimes they get the count wrong all the time.

Um, and so when they hit the fly ball, um, you know, the, even the coach for JMU at

third base is telling him, you know, "Just keep running." You know, so when two outs,

just keep running in case he drops it.

Um, and so that guy, he kept running.

And then they kinda

Our, our whole team is, is running into the dugout, and

then our coaches are like, "Wait.

No.

Hey.

Whoa.

Hold on," and, "Stop." And then they're all kind of there, and they're like,

"Just throw it to second base." And so, uh, which I think s- I think you

pointed out that Scotty caught the ball, then also ended up back with the ball

at second base to get, like, a- Yeah.

like, it was, like, a what?

An eight to who knows what?

A three to, to eight double play.

Yeah.

It, it s- I don't ... I can't remember how you would input that into, like,

the stat system, but it's a fly out to right with a throw to Maverick.

So was it nine, four, nine double play with the second out at second base?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Oh yeah, he was playing right field.

You're right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It, it's crazy.

It was, it was weird.

It was, and it's one that, you know, uh, you could argue it was, it was

on the, the score operator, but at the same time, y- you know, you're

the one playing the game, man.

You gotta keep track of the outs.

You know?

If you don't know how many outs there are- Yeah ... it, that's on you.

Uh, it sucks because you do rely on the s- Like, now me personally,

I rely on the score all the time.

I look over and sometimes I'm like, "What's the count?" You know?

But I'm not in the game.

If I'm in the game, I'm at a, "Yo, what you got? Hey, we got two outs, two outs."

Like, you

know?

I mean, that, that's, that's all you hear in between plays.

Yeah.

And it wasn't like it was an extended inning where, you know, eight or

nine guys came up to the plate.

Like it was a pretty quick- No ... inning.

Yeah.

Uh, but it, it was, it was very weird and I was watching the ESPN+ broadcast

and I was listening to Ted go, "I've got one out on my score sheet.

I've got one out on my score sheet." Yeah.

And then all of a sudden it was like they could hear Ted from his perch

above the, the visitor dugout there.

Yeah.

Uh, and they, that's when they, you know, Scotty started calling

for the ball back from Maverick- Yeah ... to catch it and stuff.

Well, that's

what I think our guys had the...

You know, we have guys keeping charts and everybody's keeping

stuff, and they're like, "Hey, that's only two outs." You know?

It's-

Yeah.

So yeah, it's, it's, it's unfortunate.

I think, you know... And, and again, I think some of that is the case of

they're, they've got the, the makeshift situation out there in the Rally Alley.

Um- Yeah ... and you know, it's, it's not, it's not the scenario that

they want to have and, and that's led to a couple times things happening.

It's, which, you know, our, our, our crew and our people did a phenomenal job this

year, uh, with everything they had to deal with and, and I'm, I'm not gonna,

I'm not gonna blame them for anything.

Somebody else might.

That's, that's not what I'm gonna do.

They're phenomenal.

They take care of us.

They're great.

Um, if, uh, th- something hap- again, I'm putting that, you know, if you guys

know how many outs there are when you're playing the game, that's on y'all.

Sorry.

Yeah, yeah.

You can't depend on the score, bro.

That's why it's, it's- Yeah ... behind you.

Uh, yeah, and also shout out to the, uh, the camera crew that's been there.

They're basically placed- Yeah ... in the worst spots imaginable.

Oof.

Uh, just baking in the sun, having to look up into the sun to watch a monitor.

Yeah.

Uh, they were one of that was about fall down yesterday.

A- and in the spots

where hard line drives are gonna come down a- and try to kill you also.

Yeah, 'cause they did not have the L screen- Yeah ... at least the

last couple of, uh- Yeah ... series down that third baseline.

That's right.

'Cause they... I basically stand right behind them normally

when I'm, I'm over there.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

And it's, uh, it, it's not ideal and they got a lot of people in their way, too, uh,

as I was- Yeah ... finding out yesterday.

But, uh, o- one note, um, 'cause, uh, we talked about, you know,

four straight years at 15 to 15.

Yeah.

It's obviously not where we want to be.

And we've got to find a way to get to, like, 20 and 10,

get to the top of the league.

I- 18 and 12, you know, something a little, little better.

Yeah.

Six or 15.

Like, securely in... That way we're not sweating the top six

going into the last weekend.

Yeah.

Uh, we were kind of, kind of comfortable there.

Uh, but just a note on JMU baseball.

So- Woof.

... they, they went to NCAA regional two years ago.

Mm.

Since then they are, uh, w- 38 and 70 since going to the regional.

So it's like they geared- As- ... up for the one year and then it's

been, been pretty rough since.

As the Donald Glover GIF I shared when I shared that with y'all, uh, "Good."

Yes.

We gotta be able to get them in something down bad.

Yeah.

Um, and that's, that's what it is for now.

I mean,

that's been my argument.

Again, I think I said this last week we were talking about them, that there

should be no reason that if we are, uh, looking at the same prospect, that if

it's a good ballplayer and they want to come someplace and play at a good school

and a good program and a great stadium, if you want to choose JMU, that's cool.

I don't know why you would, but all right.

Yeah.

For, for baseball, I, I don't understand.

Yeah.

They have plenty of other sports where it makes a lot of sense-

Yeah, sure ... to go there.

Oh, yeah.

Instead of a lot of these.

Absolutely.

Um, b- baseball is not one of them.

I, I think y- you're gonna have to... You're gonna start seeing Group of

Five schools make a lot of business decisions with what sports- Mm

they can actually be competitive in, and they're gonna cut money from the

ones that they can't be competitive in.

Yeah.

Obviously JMU has been fantastic at football since

they've come to the Sun Belt.

They've been pretty damn good at basketball, too.

That's where their investment's going, 'cause there's not, like,

a ton of money to go around at the G5 level, especially at JMU.

Yeah.

Uh, they don't have quite the donor base that, that we do, which is weird,

but that's accurate for athletics.

Um, and I- Ag- as,

as, as we always say, it's a trash school

Yeah.

It'll be curious to see if other schools in the Sun Belt start cutting back

on baseball because they, they can't compete with Coastal and Southern Miss.

I mean, if you're like- Pretty good ... ULM, why are you

spending money on it, right?

You know, it's... But what do they spend any money on, I guess, is the real...

Uh, yeah.

That, they, they have the lowest athletic budget.

I seriously- They- ... think that the Louisiana Tech addition for

the Sun Belt is an insurance- Yeah

policy on ULM dropping back down.

Uh, we should, I mean, I, I hate to like pick on a school, but I don't,

ULM does not fit in the Sun Belt.

It's not a- No ... they're not competitive in anything.

I, it, it's, it's a weird...

Yeah.

They did, uh, we did get their women's soccer coach, so we've got-

There you go.

Yeah ... we're, we're able

to, to, to get something out of that for sure.

Which you

know he must be good because he competed in that place where they spend

no money and don't seem to care, and he, he really- He won ... dominated.

I know he, I saw their, their exhibition game and, and two of the players

that he brought with them played, and they both looked really good.

So yeah, I am looking forward.

It's... We hate to see Angie leave.

You know, she was, she was wonderful and did a ton for us.

Uh, but- Yeah ... and it sounds like she's still really supporting

the, the school and the team.

Um- Yeah.

That's a tough situation for her, obviously.

Yeah.

She was loved here.

Uh, god-

Yeah

... did amazing things.

Uh, you know- Yeah

stinks that she is stepping away kind of for personal family reasons

that she's having to go through that.

But, um, yeah.

Well, anyway, uh- We're gonna talk, we're gonna talk players of the week, then we're

gonna look at- Yes ... the tournament.

So without- Yes ... further ado, let's get our three- Okay ... crew

here for players of the week.

Yeah.

Look at that, three.

Yeah.

So we, um, we talked about our pitching, right?

We talked about Gatti and Kuskie both throwing great.

Um, honestly we could have put the entire staff.

We talked about Matela had probably his best outing of the year.

Uh, Sulpizio, Davis, I mean, we already stated all these stats.

Tanton, Cavalcante, the whole staff, they were phenomenal.

Um, hitting wise, we really, it wasn't a super deep week.

I mean, it's only three games too.

But Will Johnson, third straight week, he, he, he's four of 11, homer, three

RBIs, uh, a walk, couple hit by pitches.

Um, Zach Leite was four for 12 with a double, three RBIs.

Uh, Mack Dye only played two of the games with three out of seven.

Uh, which is good to see him getting in the right direction.

Yeah.

Uh, Nick Felton only played in two of the game, but he was two for four with

a walk, uh, a couple hit by pitches.

So he was, he was good.

Um, Will Johnson, I want to point out, you know, it's his third straight week.

So in those three weeks where he's been player of the week, and I think, I, I was

looking, I didn't quite do all the stats, but he's been hotter since before then.

Probably about the last, um, seven weeks he's probably been hot.

But last three weeks, Will is 20 for 41.

Ooh.

Four doubles, two homers, 11 RBIs, um, six walks, three hit

by pitch, nine runs scored.

So the slash line there, a .488 average.

A .580 on base percentage.

So almost 60% of the time he comes to the plate, he's getting on base,

which is, he's leading off now.

That's fantastic.

A .732 slugging percentage.

For a shortstop.

And then,

for a shortstop.

And so that, it equals out to a 1312 OPS.

Oh, my gosh.

Woo, those are some numbers, and that's again, over a

course of 48 bats, three weeks.

Like, that's, that's doing work.

That, that's an unbelievable hot streak.

Yeah.

And he's still just as scrappy as ever because I, I'll put players of the

week back up, but- I mean, dude got drilled- Yeah ... in the spot that I-

Oh ... blow out every time I sneeze, so I know exactly what that feels like.

I, I mean, that was a breaking ball, so at first I was like, "Oh, he's fine."

And then he was in the dugout.

He was... He did not appreciate it.

He was not happy about that one.

No.

That got right in between the, the spine- Yeah ... and the, and the muscle there.

Like, that's a, that's a painful one.

But I mean, dude doesn't care.

Like, you can see he's- No ... got his feet locked.

He's getting on base any way he can.

Yeah.

But u- unbelievable.

Like, never mind just being a shortstop, but just to have that

slash line in the Sun Belt, like, that's absolutely- Yeah ... insane

for Will to, to come back like that.

Yeah.

He's, he's had a pretty solid year.

I mean, Will, you know, obviously as we, as the season ends, we'll, we'll talk

about our overall players of the year.

Um, he's, you know, hey, if he has an amazing, uh, tournament,

he might sneak in there, you know?

But he's, he's had a pretty solid s- he, he's had, obviously he had defensive

issues the first half of the year and those have kind of cleaned up.

Um, but he's, overall hitting, I mean, he maybe had a little lull at

one point for a few weeks, but he's been a very good hitter all year.

The home run that he hit yesterday- Ooh.

... hit the Jim Jarrett building.

Yeah.

He smoked it straight down the line.

It got us going.

It got us like, "All right. W- we can-" Yeah ... "get back into this thing.

We can try." Like, it was, it was no longer a library in that place, but that

ball was- Yeah ... absolutely smoked.

And he's not a big dude.

Like, he- No, he's really not.

He's, he's very s- He, he looks like a shortstop ... he's

6'1", but he's very... Yeah, he looks like, sure, he's 6'1",

very, pretty, pretty thin.

That's the swing right there he hit the home run on, too, in that picture.

Uh, yeah, he, he's, yeah, he's not a guy where you're like, "Oh, man, of course

he's gonna hit the ball 9,000 feet."

Yeah.

Uh, so it, it kind of surprised you.

But he's just got quick, quick action, like the bat gets through the zone fast

and, I mean, you left that thing up and he smoked it out of the ballpark.

Yeah.

Well, well congrats to the players of the week.

I, I do like the- Yes ... three person layout.

I know we probably won't always do that, but you know, Daren, JJ, Paulsen.

Sometimes we deserve it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, that, the, the, we probably could have filled that whole thing

up with- I, I really- ... this old pitching staff ... we thought we'd just,

just have like a, like a nine grid of just all the pitchers that were really good.

But yeah, yeah, we got to, uh, just again, shout them out.

The, the, the pitching staff frankly was, was the, uh, was

the, the star of the week.

I mean, again, you take out that one bad inning and, and, and again, Jackson's

had that sometimes before where he's looked phenomenal and then all of

a sudden it's just not phenomenal.

Um, you know, he's a freshman.

Uh, you know, there's some, always some argument at this point in the

year, the guy's not a freshman anymore.

Okay, whatever.

Yeah.

He's still young.

Um, ton of talent.

I think, you know, again, we'll talk about the future probably as, as after the

season ends, but the reality is, like, we could have the same rotation next year.

Uh, you think you can have Kuskie.

Now Kuskie, he's back to getting scouts looking at him again, uh, because

he's been doing so well, you know.

So who knows, he might, you know, pitch his way to getting drafted.

But you theoretically could have Kuskie and, and Gatti as seniors, and then

Okonkwo as a sophomore come right back in and be the rotation again, and that

would be... I'd feel pretty good about things if we started out with that.

I would feel really good about it as well.

Also, there are a lot of younger guys that would push all three of them- Yes.

Yeah ... which is also a nice thing to have.

And who know, we, you could, you could always deal with injuries.

We've dealt with plenty this year.

Yes.

Uh, so to have a little bit, little bit deeper pitching staff is good.

Um, one other, a c- couple other notes just to kind of wrap the JMU series.

Uh- Yeah ... the Thursday game, we did not hit the ball particularly well.

We only had nine hits.

We had to manufacture a lot of runs, and Scotty I think had two key sack bunts.

Uh, one of them drove in a run, uh, but I j- I thought the shot was awesome.

You get a- Yeah ... bat on ball contact on the sack bunt.

And he loves it too.

I thought it looked good.

He's,

he's, he's running in the dugout, he's running out, like, the Bunting Monarchs.

Like, he's just, you know- ... Scotty is all personality and he's gonna

have fun no matter what he's doing.

Oh yeah.

He's, he's gonna have a good time.

Uh, and then also TJ Aiken breaks out of what's been a really tough slump for

him with a grand slam that just- Yeah

kind of put the game, uh, away on Friday, made it eight to nothing.

Uh, really pumped for him, getting the, the fire helmet and all that.

Great picture of

him.

Yeah.

Uh, th- And what a nice easy swing too.

It wasn't, I mean, that was like, that again, I mean we, I, I talk to him all the

time, you know, I try to keep reminding him like, "Hey man, just be an athlete.

Just have fun." And that was a case of he just saw the ball, hit the ball.

He didn't try to do too much.

Like, he's, he's so naturally good- That just a easy swing and

just destroyed that baseball.

Yeah, it got left up in the zone and he- Yeah ... absolutely crushed it.

Yeah.

So

good to see him kind of get off the side.

Yeah.

Then he came into the game later on Saturday, uh, to g- get some reps,

but i- if he can get back on the right track, that'd be a nice bonus to the

line-up with a bunch of guys that are hitting the ball pretty well right now.

And as Nick Felton pointed out, um, uh, after the game on Thursday, it's all

mom's cookies 'cause mom brought- Yes.

the cookies and, uh, got, got some wins, so.

And I, I have been told that, uh, he will be bringing some cookies for the bus

ride- Yes ... down to Montgomery- Yes, we get- ... when y'all leave later today.

Yeah,

so yeah, so today is Sunday.

We are gonna leave this afternoon.

I'm taking the bus.

I'm riding right down with them.

We're, we're leaving this afternoon, gonna stay in Charlotte.

Uh, and then tomorrow, Monday, uh, we're gonna drive to Auburn, uh, and

work out, uh, do our, do a, do a BP and workout, uh, with our friends at Auburn.

I don't know if they'll be there or not.

Um, which they're like number eight in the country or something like

that, which is phenomenal for them.

Mm-hmm, pretty good.

Pretty

good.

Uh, they might even be six.

They might be higher than that.

Um, and then we're gonna drive the last hour to Montgomery, and then of

course tomorrow at, uh, what is it?

Uh, 6:30 local time, we'll be, or thereabouts depending on the game before

us, um, we'll be playing our game.

Yeah, that'll be, uh, Tuesday at 6:30 Central, 7:30 Eastern.

Yeah.

I try to put that reminder out there that Sun Belt- Yeah, yeah ... publishes

everything in Central Time, so don't let that, uh, make you miss

the game by an hour or anything.

Right.

Yeah.

Don't... Or, or the other way because we also, we have plenty of our players

from the West Coast, you know, so they-

Yes

... which I feel like on the West Coast you're more aware of it.

On the East Coast we, again, we always have the East Coast

bias when they say a time.

We're like, "Obviously that's, that's our time, obviously. No one

would talk about anything else."

Yeah, America's time, the East Coast time.

Yeah.

Uh, and I'll also point out too, we were talking, the weather

forecast is not great this week.

Hot.

There's a lot of chance of the thunderstorms.

It's gonna be hot- Yeah ... and humid.

Hot and humid.

Typical kind of Deep South summer.

Last year we got lucky.

It was a little cooler.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, so pay attention to social media and game times- Yeah ... 'cause things can

change quick, fast, and in a hurry when you've got 10 teams, uh, trying to play a

whole bunch of games in a short timeframe.

But- Yeah, I was trying to tell some of my, uh, my coworkers, you know, about

what I was doing next week, and I was like, "Yeah," but they have a couple

of these days where there's like four games scheduled over the course of the

entire day, and- ... a little bit of rain can really ma- play with the schedule.

So, uh, it's gon- it's gonna be hot and sweaty.

It's gonna be one of those days we're all gonna be sticky and gross

and just gonna have to deal with it and, and be together as people.

Yeah, and someone was asking me, "Well, why do they bus down there?" And it's

like, well, it's easy to plan when you're gonna go there on the bus.

Yeah.

But you have no idea when you're coming back.

We could be coming back- No ... Tuesday night.

We could be coming back Thursday night.

We could be coming back Sunday or Monday.

Um,

so-

Hopefully we're coming

back Monday.

That's, that's the goal.

That would be great.

That would be, uh, the best, uh, Memorial Day weekend ever, I think-

It is ... if we were to pull that off.

But we got a long way to go because we- Yeah Going to be the eight seed going

up against ninth seeded Georgia State.

Yes.

Uh, probably the most heartbreaking loss of the season occurred

down there at Georgia State.

Yeah.

Losing that third game, blowing a big lead in the ninth, and losing

in extras to a walk-off home run.

Chance for some redemption though, 'cause I feel like we more or

less dominated them that series.

Yeah.

We just kind of melted down in that final inning of the third game, and

kind of comes back to haunt you a little bit 'cause we'd be in a very

different boat in terms of seeding if we had won that game and been 16 to 14.

Yeah, and you know, and this is where confidence comes in.

Like I said, I, I think, you know, we're playing Georgia State.

I think we, obviously we showed we can beat them.

Um, you know, again, we had that mistakes.

If... I don't think those same things would happen.

Those same pitchers would do the same thing, I don't think the same...

And, and you know, I think what, what is it?

If, if we, we win the game, depending on what happens, uh, on Wednesday,

you're either gonna be playing Coastal Carolina or Southern Miss, just depending

on who else wins the other game.

And you'll know that ahead of time, uh, 'cause the, the first game will tell you.

Yep.

Um, and obviously we know we can beat Coastal Carolina, and frankly the same

thing happened against Southern Miss.

We blew the game at the end there.

I, I feel very confident about these teams.

I don't... Y- you know, again, it's the way this team is playing.

It feels like, hey, we can beat them, you know?

So I, I feel good.

You know, obviously the goal is you wanna win on Tuesday, uh, you wanna

win on Wednesday, you wanna win on Thursday, and have a day off on Friday,

which you'll need at that point.

Uh, that's the goal.

Yeah, the only realistic path is o- obviously you gotta win Tuesday.

Yeah.

And when you put baseball in a one game playoff, anything can happen.

Anything.

Anything can happen.

You can kind of throw a lot of things out.

You just have to do what you have to do to win that game, and then- There's a reason

baseball is played in series.

It's, it's not a one game, because one game- Yeah ... rarely gives

you the, the real test of a team.

Uh, so it's always weird when that happens.

Even the three game series that they do for super regionals and in the first

round- Yeah ... of the MLB playoffs, like, you're not really, you're not

really valuing the best team, but, like, who can win two before losing two- Yeah,

right ... is basically what that is.

Uh, but the way the seeding works there is Southern Miss, because of

Coastal's little collapse down the stretch here, won the regular season.

We broke Coastal.

That's hilarious.

We did.

We broke their hearts and their soul.

I think what, their fans had that realization after our series that they

are not gonna win a national championship this year, which of course led them

to all be like, "We're the worst team ever." I mean, they're still gonna go.

They're probably gonna win their regional.

They might win a super regional, who knows?

But maybe not with the injuries they have.

But they, I think that they are, it is accurate to say they're not gonna

win a national championship this year.

They don't have the bullets.

No.

And you know, you can only expect so much.

They were in the final last year- Right.

Yeah ... but they've had a ton of injuries.

But they really have gone into a tailspin.

The Cajuns were- Yeah ... smelling blood in the water, and

they took two out of three.

And that- Yeah ... you know, Louisiana's not an easy place to

play, especially if you're down.

Uh- Yeah ... so I would much rather see Co- uh, Coastal on Wednesday if

we win Tuesday than I would Southern Miss, who's won nine in a row.

Um- They're ... I think they said they won 13 out of 14 Sun Belt games to

finish the year or something like that.

Yeah.

Just one

crazy amount at the end that, that Southern Miss is, is on.

And, and you know, I personally, I kind of always root for Southern Miss

because they seem like they, they're pretty nice folks, and we like them.

Yeah.

But I don't wanna root for them anymore than-

Yeah, I don't wanna have to play them ... unless, unless

next week when they're in like the regional, yeah.

Yeah, we'll, we'll root for them then.

Uh, but basically- Yeah ... Southern Miss will play the lowest

seed out of those first four.

So- Mm-hmm ... uh, if you go and, and look at the schedule, uh, you know,

if Marshall upsets Louisiana, then Marshall will play Southern Miss.

And no matter what happens in our game, the winner of that would play,

uh, would play Coastal Carolina.

But so we'll, we'll kind of have a good idea.

Yeah.

Uh, but the only true path is win Tuesday, win Wednesday, and win Thursday.

You gotta win three games in a row, something that we really

haven't done this season.

Uh, if you do that, Friday is basically just a loser's bracket day.

So if you've come through the f- the, the Wednesday, Thursday, and you've

won, you get the day off, which we would obviously desperately need-

Yeah ... because the alternative is you have to basically win two games on Friday.

So it's a big swing coming out of those first two games.

It's a lot.

And that's, that's where we've seen the champion for the Sun

Belt come from historically.

They've had that Friday off, and they haven't played in the first round.

So it's a long and a very difficult road.

Yeah.

But I mean, this team has the ability to get hot.

They're consistently inconsistent.

If this is a week where they're inconsistently good,

we could be in great shape.

Yeah.

I imagine the teams are not wanting to play Old Dominion right now.

I think that they, the people who are paying attention realize this team has

a lot of talent, probably should've been better than it was this year, is playing

really well right now, and they're aware that like they could really...

I mean, like I say, when you go and punch Coastal in the mouth at their place, it's

like that's a wake-up call to like- Yeah ... "Hey, these guys have some stuff." Um,

we, we've got to, you know, when our, when things are going right, we've got

a really dominant pitching staff, and we've got a really dominant lineup.

Yeah, and we, we played some tougher teams, uh, you know, early in the

season, but I, what I was most impressed by is we went three and three against

the top two teams in the league.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

And that has to give you a lot of confidence and put some

fear in some other people.

We can play up to-

Probably should've been four and two

I mean, probably so.

We, we kind of blew that game to Southern Miss, so it could be- Yeah ... a

very different, different situation.

Uh, but our ability to play up to the best competition in the Sun

Belt's not something I worry about.

It's those shooting yourself in the foot mistakes against a team-

Mm-hmm ... that doesn't make it.

Um- Yeah

you know, we had to walk off Arkansas State who somehow, despite their hot

start, they did not make the tournament, uh, which is kind of unbelievable to me.

Marshall was able to sneak in above them.

I, I

think they're like, they're like 16 RPI for the whole country

and didn't make the tournament.

Yeah.

They- Right?

I mean,

they, they finished- Yeah ... 29 and 24.

Uh, so they- Yeah ... they just had one less loss than us this season, but-

They should be having a conversation about like, are they a, like, at large bid team,

you know, if they have a good tournament and they're not even in the tournament.

That's, that's wild.

Yeah.

Th- there was a ton of parity in the Sun Belt.

I mean, Southern Miss- Yeah ... and Coastal were kind of up there, but again,

we went three and three against them.

Yeah.

And then South Alabama, App, and Troy finished tied for third at 17 and 13.

Mm-hmm.

So we were two games back of third.

It's just a tough league, man.

Like-

It's a hard league.

I mean, it's a, it's a- It's hard

it's a Power Four conference.

Um, that was when the, the other day somebody on Twitter was, was

pointing out, it was like the percentages of players from Virginia

that each Virginia school has.

Um, which I think like VMI was number one with like 97%.

And I think- Mm-hmm.

Yeah ... you know, I don't believe they give out scholarships,

so that makes sense, right?

It's in-state tuition.

Um, ODU was at like 23% of our roster is from Virginia, which is... Or 24, which

is right where, I mean, UVA had 23 also.

It's not like... Uh, and, and th- so the, the argument was, you know, of

course being biased living here in Hampton Roads was like, "How do we

keep 757 kids from going other places?"

And I said, "You know, I l- personally, I love it. I love getting to see 757

kids because I could see them in their high school. A lot of times I've known

them for years." Uh, but at the same time, it's like that's the plus side

of playing in a Power Four conference is we can get the best talent.

We are, I mean, you see we have guys from California, we have guys from Florida,

we have guys from all up the Northeast, New Jersey, all the, all the places.

Texas, everywhere.

Uh, Texas.

Getting a lot of North Carolina guys now.

I mean, we are, because we are a power conference, we might not

be for all the, all the sports.

For baseball, we for sure are.

We are a power four.

Um, and we can get the best players.

So it's like, yeah, is it nice to have local kids?

Sure.

Is it...

Does that matter more than having talent?

No, I'd much rather have the talented players and they're from somewhere else.

So it's one of those, yeah, I get from like a fan perspective, it's

fun to root for our local guys.

But at the same time it's like, hey, you know, if... And, and, and the reality

is, you know, uh, some of these g- I'm, I'm trying to think of some guys off

the top of my head who are, like, going.

And some, it's like, hey, if a, if a SEC school or a ACC school wants you,

it's hard to turn them down, frankly.

The, just, just the, the, the allure of it all.

If- Now, in two years when you haven't played and they, and they dump you - Yeah,

you come right back home ... you'll be wishing you'd gone Old Dominion.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And, and I think that's where we can kind of bring a lot of those guys back.

'Cause at, at a certain level, I mean, it's similar to football.

If kid's a four or a five star, he's not coming to ODU.

Like not, at least not initially.

Yeah.

Like it's just, it's just not happening.

Yeah.

Why, why would you when you can play on a bigger stage

and make more money elsewhere?

Yeah.

But- Just

the, just the, the ability, I mean, look at the draft.

Like how many SEC guys are drafted first five rounds compared to how many... We

haven't, I mean, our highest draft pick in the last 20 years is a fourth round.

I think Yarbrough was the highest draft pick the last 20 years.

Yeah.

Right?

I mean, so it's like that's just the reality and that, and that's, in the

Sun Belt we're, if we have a guy, like a first rounder, it's kind of like, oh,

there's a Sun Belt guy up high, right?

You know, it's just not- Again, and that's maybe that's part of them

not realizing where the talent is.

Um, because, you know, you get Vinnie Pasquantino who's an 11th round pick

who then gets to the big leagues in three years and is phenomenal.

Yeah.

So.

Every day starter

now.

Yeah.

Right.

Yeah.

I mean, this is, this is not the days of the CAA when we were

one of the best teams in a- Yeah

you know, an okay conference, but they were never a top 10 conference.

You know- Yeah ... Conference USA would push into the top 10.

There were some years there where they were really good.

But the Sun Belt, even in a year where, you know, maybe Southern Miss and Coastal

are down a little bit, we're still trading off fourth, fifth best conference in RPI.

Yeah.

So i- it's just a little different, and when you play at that stage you

have to widen your recruiting net.

Like, we still target guys that are local.

You,

you get to widen your recruiting net.

It's not you get to.

Yes.

You're allow- You know, but whereas if you're playing in the CAA,

it's like, yeah, you're gonna kinda g- get Virginia and anybody

who's heard of your school before.

When you're in the Power Four or Power Five group, yeah, you're allowed to

go out and grab guys from everywhere.

And we've been successful.

I mean, how many guys from, like, Washington and Idaho have

we brought in in the past couple years that have been phenomenal?

I mean, we got a

kid from, uh, yeah, we got a kid from Indiana coming, uh, so...

And apparently, I think, I think I remember Finny saying this kid,

like, if it wasn't for all the weird rules and things they've done with

all the NIL, this kid wouldn't have, wouldn't have ended up coming to us.

But because things have, have worked out and because we are- Mm-hmm ... actually

a power school, and he's hype.

I see him sharing stuff about ODU all the time.

He can't wait to be here, which is great.

That's, that's what you want.

Yeah.

I, I mean, I'm j- You know, I'd love if 757... I'd love it.

I love it when 757 kids are here, but at the same time it's like,

hey, I love it when we get talented players and have a good team.

I, that's, uh, just give me good people that can play some good ball and-

Yes ... and we'll be in good shape.

Yeah.

But that is the difference.

And I, you know, y- you can ask yourself the question, and I don't know

if there's a right or wrong answer.

You can be 15 and 15 in one of the best baseball conferences, or you

could be 20 and 10 in the CAA or the A10 or something like that.

Like, what, what are you- And still maybe lose a

tournament and have no chance of being in the, in the regional.

Yeah.

I mean, look, like, look at men's basketball for the Sun Belt.

If you don't win the tournament- Yeah ... you don't get in

the NCAA tournament, period.

That's right.

So at least in the Sun Belt we could finish third and be 18 and 12- Yeah

and host a regional.

I mean,

like- So it's just different,

different playing field.

You know, we got a schedule here.

Southern Miss and Coastal are both going to regional.

Yes.

We already know.

Um, South Alabama, App State, and Troy, I'm not, I don't have their

RPI in front of me, but all three of them and maybe two, probably two of

those three, especially depending on how the tournament goes for them, are

probably going to the, the regionals.

Yeah.

App- We're usually a three or four bid league.

Yeah.

App State may have shot themselves in the foot by dropping their

series to Georgia State.

There you go.

But they're still playing.

I mean, we've talked about Arkansas State has an RPI in the 60s and they

didn't make the Sun Belt tournament.

Right.

Yeah.

It's, it's pretty, pretty wild.

Um, all right.

Well- We're gonna be heading down to Montgomery.

I know you're hopping the bus- Yeah ... and riding down,

which I'm, I'm very jealous of.

I'm sad I have to work on Monday- ... 'cause it sounds like a fun time.

We- we'll see.

We'll see how jealous you'll, you'll be of that.

I'll, I'll, I'll keep you updated.

It might be, you know.

I, I, it was very funny this week at work, you know, I said that,

yeah, I'm on vacation next week.

"Oh, what are you doing?" I'm taking a bus ride to Alabama.

Like it does not ... What I'm doing is super fun when I explain

what it is, but when you just say what's happening, it sounds not fun.

Yes.

Uh, but I will catch up with you on Monday.

I'm gonna, gonna get down to Montgomery probably around

00 or 7:00 on Monday.

Uh, we'll have some additional content for you.

We're gonna try to record some things with the 6-7 on either Monday-

Yeah ... uh, depending what the schedule is, or Tuesday before the game.

Hopefully we're bringing you stuff all week because we won Tuesday-

Yeah ... and we're guaranteed two more games after that.

Yeah.

We'll be down there.

We'll be live.

I've got all the fun and exciting equipment that I don't really know how

to use, but- We'll, I'll figure a way to get the- We're gonna figure out.

We're gonna- Get the shot and frame here.

Um- Yeah ... certainly, uh, not, not CB level of, uh, shot framing here, but

we'll try.

Yeah.

We're gonna figure out.

We're gonna try.

We- we'll try to figure out what we're doing and try to do some fun.

It might be live and maybe you see it later or maybe you're

yet to be part of it live.

Who knows?

We're gonna, we're gonna figure out what we're doing and I'll, I'll try and, you

know, as we're working out at Auburn I'll maybe try to figure out some stuff, at

least maybe some video and who knows.

We'll ... Who knows what we're doing.

As you know, we're not professionals.

We're just a couple of guys.

And so we'll do what we can.

Yes.

We're using our, uh, our PTO from work to take a bus to Montgomery.

Yes.

Yeah.

So.

Right.

Exactly.

Yes.

100%. The PTO we saved up from work to take a bus to Montgomery.

That's what it is.

Exactly.

It's

good.

But make sure you're following us on social media.

Uh, h- @HudsonHomers on Twitter, at X, uh, Hudson Homers on Instagram, also

the ODU Monarchists account on YouTube.

That's where all of our content is at.

So make sure you're subscribed and got alerts and all that fun stuff.

We'll keep you in the loop.

But I'm excited.

I mean, we're gonna go down there and just see what happens.

We, we got nothing to lose.

Just go down there and try and win some ballgames.

Go down and be fully committed to the having the funnest summer ever.

Funnest summer ever.

Go Monarchs.

Go Monarchs.