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Back with you. Here we go, hour number two, the show off and running with you here on this

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Hey, you want some baseball update for today?

Now, far be it from me to feel as though I need to give you play by play for a random

major league spring training game. Great fruit league, Florida.

It's just that it's local guys doing good things and so I'm going to give you an update.

Jake Mangum's two for two. Yep. Two for two today for Jake Mangum against his old team, the raise.

How specific do you want this update to be?

I'm going to pretend I heard you say that I feel free, Matt, going to any specifics that you want.

Yeah, so first time up, he's got an infield single. This time starting off the bottom of the third,

nine hole hit or let off with a single. Jake hops up there and on a O2 pitch takes a fast ball and

I mean, I don't know what the I'd love to know what the mile per hour off the bat was,

but a screaming one hop short hop at the second basement that just ate him up and it was one of those

that they did not give him an error. And so, you know, it ate him up the ball hops up in the area

out into the outfield and Jake's got a single and it moves to run it over to third. But again,

the interesting part of it, they immediately know that Mangum is going to steal second. They know it.

So before they ever even throw a pitch to Brandon Lau, the other player that is over at Pittsburgh

is from Tampa facing his 14. They throw over the first once and again, and then Jake does the whole

thing. There's no outs. And so he intentionally starts lead step, lead step, bigger step.

Okay, the guy's on the rubber. He goes halfway. Jake goes halfway between first and second.

Still, the pitcher has not given him his attention and turned around. So Jake just takes off. And

then the pitcher gets his attention. He turns and tries to throw the second, but he rushed it.

And so Jake takes second. They wouldn't have gotten him anyway because he played it so perfectly

and it's trying his best to draw a throw. Then when he draws a throw, the ball hopped away from

the shortstop. So the guy throws scores from third. Jake never hit one out of the infield and

pretty much himself manufactured a run, a reaching first base, taken second base on a weird thing,

drawing a bad throw and kind of making an anancy and a runner from third scores. And you know

good and well. For those of us that have watched, that's a good question. Will, that is a really good

question. Is that considered? He says on YouTube, is that considered a sacrifice steal?

Why don't we have that? Why don't we have that deal where instead of you having a caught

stealing, if you do that, okay, in that situation, first and third, no outs in that situation,

first third, no outs. But if you intentionally leave first base and go halfway to try your best

to get them to draw a throw to second base, okay. And then I say they spend and see you and they

do, you do draw the throw and you're thrown out while the runner at third and leaves. Instead of a

caught stealing, that should be a sacrifice steal. I agree.

Nobody thought we'd be covering that in the first segment of hour number two of a reaction

Monday show on March the second. By the way, welcome to March everybody. Did you all realize it?

I don't know what the first day of spring is. This dog gone close.

The first day of spring, 2026, March the 20th, it says. All I know is that

some of that dormant grass out there starting to green up

and your dandy lions and once the other thing, what do they call those?

The little thing, you know, that stuff starting to pop up. Your red buds are starting to bud.

And I say that as a kid who grew up watching the Cosby Show bud. And so yeah, the spring is

going to be here before the 20th of March for me anyway. And so welcome to March. March the third.

We'll have headlines coming up. Possibly a new headline or two here in hour number two. We'll

recap what we had in hour one. Now, before the break, there was some conversation going on here

about Chris Jans and MSU basketball. It was started by Jason inflaxf who

I'd be willing to say that much of Jason's reputation on this show is tied

to the reputation of someone who doesn't have a quick trigger on coaches and who's pretty grounded

and doesn't come walking in on a Monday going fire him and fire everybody all the time. He doesn't

do that. He's really the opposite. Some people even text in and say that about Jason.

But he's the one that for the last couple of weeks is like, okay, I've seen enough.

Chris Jans Mississippi State basketball. Let's let's let's do it. Let's make a change. He's the one.

On the other hand,

Resdog again, we talk about reputation. I think Res is kind of one of those that has a reputation of

you lose a game or two. Get ready. You're going to hear from him on Monday. It's time to fire up

the hot board and let's make a change. Fire them all. Quick trigger. They've reversed roles on

this thing. They have totally reversed roles. Resdog texted and said, Jans deserves another year.

Then he went on and just said, look, just spend your basketball money on football, he says.

He came back and said, I don't know how he said, I guess I don't care that much about basketball.

Jason and Flagstaff says, res hasn't thought it through. Three years finishing ninth in the SEC,

one and done in the tournament. He said, it's like getting swept and someone else's regional

three years in a row as a, as a high seed, getting run-rolled every fifth game in the fourth year

and not even making Hoover. That's what Jason said. Sven says on YouTube,

Coach Jans is not on any hot seed. He says, where do we come from when he was hired?

I'll leave it there. He says, the only head coach who has a more

50% chance to get fired as a football coach. He said, I don't see seven wins, even six coming.

He's he's talking about football and what you may run into there. I don't know. I think if

that would be a weird feeling. If you were to start to go back and

adding up percentages and conference win percentages and postseason appearances and ones and

dunes and all these things under Ben Howland all those years and then comparing it to

Coach Jans. I hate it too because when Jans first came in there,

it sure did feel different than the Howland thing and he coached a different way and like,

if you, anybody that had the chance to go to a practice under Christans, you would walk away the

first one going, man. Boy, this is different than what it's been like under Coach Howland the

last few years. But yeah, ultimately, you get deeper and deeper into it. Now what you see in this

year, I just think that's what it is. It's, it's losing makes everybody kind of unhappy and makes

everything's worth everything worse. But when, especially when you're having losses like week

after week after week after week that are just not even competitive, just embarrassing. No

reason to even keep watching it to the end of the ball game. That kind of stuff makes it worse.

Huh? Sven, what are you doing? Sven says, I think we have a call after the Alabama game on Coach

Levy. What do you mean? Hey, look at there. It has warmed up from the icy temperatures and the

feet of snow that we were 30 to 45 days ago. We were talking about Sven over in Berlin, Germany

that we're having a heat wave is 40 degrees. And afternoon to YouTube, Bulldog Mississippi.

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off on the right foot. Weekend baseball results go around the SEC. Teams in the SEC that did not lose

a game this weekend. Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Texas and of course, Missouri. That's right.

All those teams won all their games. Now Florida only got to play two games against Miami. One of both

Georgia played four games against Oakland. One of them all. Everybody else played three.

The ones that didn't lose. Teams that won the majority of their games. They played this weekend

in the SEC. Alabama, two out of three. They played three different opponents. Arkansas, one, two out

of three against UT Arlington. You had state, two out of three in the deal out there.

In Arlington. Oklahoma took two out of three from Gonzaga. Tennessee out there in Arlington.

Also one, two games and dropped one to UCLA. Same thing for Texas saying him.

Ole Miss in South Carolina. They weren't swept but they lost their series this weekend. Ole

Miss played three different teams. Lost two of them. Lost a Baylor in Coastal Carolina.

We said the win over Ohio State. So it's a one in two weekend, a two in two week for Ole Miss.

South Carolina dropped two out of three against their rival. Clemson and Vandy went

old in three this weekend. Cal Irvine, Arizona and Oregon in some event for Vandy. Lost all three of them.

Meanwhile, Southern Miss. One of the best teams in the country and they, you know,

right up there with UCLA in terms of one of the hottest teams in the country. It's not the

hot. You know, Southern Miss is what? Ten in a row. Lost a season opener against a guy

throwing a hundred miles an hour. Who's going to be a first round draft pick? But then since then,

Ten in a row and they've been blowing everybody's doors off. The midweek win, run rule,

14 to four, Alabama, then went to Rust in this weekend and swept Louisiana Tech. It's pretty good

lot tech team. It's just Southern Miss went in there and they didn't just sweep them.

You know, three games. You didn't even have to play a full 27. Endings play 25 because they run

rule them in seven. Endings 11 to nothing on Saturday. Eight to three, 11 to nothing, six to two.

And Southern Miss is for real. This is, you know, it's going to prove to be

one of their best teams ever that they've put out there. And I know they've got a long way to

go and a lot of water's got to go into the bridge to really stamp their identity as that. But that's

how they look. And so tomorrow night they'll host state in Hattiesbury. That ought to be some more

fun and an incredible atmosphere. Really and truly tomorrow night.

Oh, he hit another one headline number three here. Connor Griffin, Jackson, Mississippi,

way of Jackson Prep, the consensus number one prospect in baseball. He's just 19 years old.

Hit another home run. This was yesterday. His third home run of the spring.

It was in the first inning. The pirates beat the Cardinals six to one. But a third home run for him.

He's batting 214 and then all the talk is, is he ready to be a starter day one? Is it that urgent?

Should you? Could you? Would you? You know, if you do, then what? And or should you wait?

You know, all those things, fun conversation to have. And so after that third home run he hit

in the game yesterday, the media doing what it does instead of starting off just asking a question,

we need to make a statement first as if Connor Griffin doesn't know that there's been a lot of hype

about him. A lot of hype surrounding you this. How are you able to just, you know, handle it so well?

Yeah, just just working on my middle game, working on, you know, controlling what I can control and,

you know, just trying to be present. So not worrying about too much about the future and trying to

stay off social media as much as I can and just enjoy, you know, spring training, joy my,

when my family's in town and, you know, just just take a day by day and see what happens.

Humble Kid, you know, whether it's opening day or a month or two into the season, whatever it is,

it's going to be really exciting when he gets up there. And, you know, like a lot of these guys,

you know, it's not going to be all roses, but many, he's still really young, 19 years old,

but he's got his head screwed on straight and he's really, really good. He had another one yesterday.

Sounds like a rocket going off every time he hits it.

It has a little bit of a different sound to it. And, you know, even at that level, they, they,

they admit that what is that about the way we communicate? I'm not saying it's an

egregious thing. Anybody deserves to be punished, but reporters and media people who go,

who standing, okay, by the number one prospect in all of baseball at the pro level,

who hit two home runs in a game in the first week of spring, and immediately all the talk in

pro baseball is about him. And whether they should make him an opening day starter at 19 years old.

So anyone anywhere in the sports spectrum has caught wind of it and probably discussed it and

all that kind of stuff. Why would, in, in basic conversation, I'm getting ready to ask a question,

instead of, instead of my mouth opening as a reporter and just simply going, how are you able to

remain grounded and stay humble with everything that's going on? Instead of just doing that, like,

here, like, mouth opens and a question comes out. Like, how are you able to, I got to

qualify it with this. There's, there's a lot of hype around you this spring. Period. I just thought

you should know that. I'm aware of it. Not sure you're aware of it. I just wanted to tell you,

Connor Griffin, there's a lot of hype around you this spring. Now, let me follow that up with this.

How are you able to, I mean, why do we feel the need to do that? It drives me. It's one of those

little bitty teeny tiny small things. It drives me nuts. It's one of, it's not V, but it's one of

the plethora of reasons that I reached a point and I stopped going to any press conference interviews,

teleconferences on the phone, media events, room full of media conglomerates asking some

coach or somebody like, well, I stopped going because I got to a point where, like fingernails on a

chalkboard, like, why do you have to do that? Train your admit admit that it's bad and then work

on it and train yourself. Stop. We're in a room. There's a coach up there at a podium. Here's a

bunch of us. We, you know, media, whatever it is, whatever it is we do. Okay, Matt, your turn.

They call on me. Coach, you did this last week and your team went to and to and in the past,

you've said this that and the other and, you know, so and so had a pretty good weekend.

I haven't asked a question yet. I just made three statements. If I'm writing that down,

it's three sentences with periods at the end of it. Do you really think, Matt, that that guy

doesn't know everything you just said? Why are you filling the word, the air with words? You don't

need to. You don't need to tell coach. He went to and to last week and in the past, he had said so

and so and that is shortstop had a good weekend. Ask the stupid question. Get right to it.

Coach, what did you think about someone so I did as we let him talk? Why you got to make a big

opening statement before you ask a question? I don't understand that.

Another reason I stopped going, I'm afraid they'd call on me and then I'd do it.

I don't want to be in on that. Just ask a question at a press conference. Stop telling the

interview, we, things that they already know.

Pet peeve, all right. The grinds my gears segment is over.

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Back with you, rolling along on this Monday. We're talking about Vandy going

0 and 3 this weekend. Sven said, well, Vandy 11.7 no longer exists.

That's right. You're right, Sven. He said, and guess what? The losses are adding up. Ask me why?

He said, maybe it's because it was uneven, right, Matt? You're exactly right, Sven.

You're exactly right. That piece is a creative piece, a documentary type piece that I made back.

That was in 2021. I published it and posted it and shared it in spring of 21.

Now we're 26, that's five years ago, right. What was it? Right after that, about 2022,

all the NIL stuff blew up. All the transfer portal stuff started happening where it's just

lawsuit after lawsuit. The NCA had had some rules that everybody was, especially the transfer

stuff was for years and hearing too, but then they stopped adhering to it when they realized

they didn't have to. They could sue and not have to.

So that all blew up about a year later. What it did is, let me do the math on 21.

So it was about a seven year run, seven to eight year run of Vanderbilt,

because of that opportunity Vanderbilt fund and then being a private school in the way they could

use that to sort of fund, you know, getting kids to come play baseball with them. They were,

it was there, it was smart and legal. It was their legal workaround of the 11.7, you know,

scholarship thing. They were at, Vandy was a program that was trotting basically a fully funded

scholarship roster out there with what was effectively 20, 25 as much as 30 kids who were like all

scholarship. And nobody else was really able to do that. LSU to a degree because they had the

whole test score thing with a Louisiana kid deal and, you know, the state kicked money back into

it to fund sending kids to that school. So they were able to use it some, but others, you know,

were kind of hard line 11.7, they longer had that advantage. So yeah, if we look at the last

five years versus say the previous five and make 2021-22 be the line. So prior to that and then

after that, you really do see a difference and the thing is, you're right, Sven. It was just their

workaround and advantage went away. They're still good. They still get great players, you know,

but it's not like it was where they were sort of the bell cow there for many years. That's just

not what it was. And so I, you know, the thing for me is even back then when we made that,

Sven, I'm not mad at him. It just is what it is. Here's the thing. Here's the facts. Here's

what's going on. Here's the effect that it has and it had a big effect for them. They were using

it to their advantage. It is what it is. We're not calling them criminals or I wouldn't call them

cheats or anything like that. It just is what it is. The issue really was the 11.7 limitation from

the get go. It's just that here's an example of school that has a workaround because of the private

institution and the opportunity Vanderbilt Fund and the way that I, and a connected sort of college

down the road from Vandy that was connected to them, but you know, not nearly as academically tough

and they could do all of that stuff. That's just, it was allowable. Well, it was like one,

they wanted to kind of hide about it, which they didn't have to do that. You could simply say,

oh, yeah, it's a big advantage and it has a lot to do with why we have a loaded baseball team

every year. We're not making any bones about it. We love it. You know, you'd do it too if you had it.

Right. But instead of thinking that approach, they wanted to be really mysterious about it,

wanted to hide, didn't really want to answer questions about it, didn't want to talk about it,

and then, and then Corbin, whenever he would talk about it, would be really defensive and would say

things like two, he would say things like two, the Vanderbilt media, sarcastic comments like,

yeah, but I guess it's just because we have, you know, a full scholarship baseball team and would laugh

and call anybody who said that they had a full scholarship baseball team, an idiot basically.

Well, see, that's the problem I had with it after all that stuff came out. They wouldn't talk to me,

and I'd run into those people a bunch over the years like face to face. They wouldn't talk to me.

They didn't want to answer questions about it. And then they would pretend as though it was all

overblown and people were just picking on them and mad because they were winning. That's not the

approach to take. Just own it. I mean, the facts are the facts. You're able to use your opportunity

Vanderbilt endowment and get anybody in school and pay for anybody to come to school. And if they,

even if they can't afford it, you can pay it, even if they can't really qualify for Vanity,

they can go to school to the Juco down the street. And we got a whole scholarship baseball team.

It's a big advantage. Well, don't hide behind it. Just own it. Nobody's blaming you. Other schools

would do it if they could, but you want to, you want to do it, but then you don't want to talk

about the fact that you can do it. And then you want to basically make fun of anybody. It points

out the fact that you can do that. That's what was going on back then. And so your rights,

then, the evidence sense is overwhelmingly clear. And here's what you have. He is a good baseball

coach. They have good players and a good program in facilities and support.

But nobody has 11.7 limit now. Everybody can pay and get people in and transform around. And so

they no longer have any sort of major advantage. In fact, I would even tell you if Vanderbilt goes

this year and wins the national championship this year, they might, if they go win it this year,

frankly, it's a whole lot more impressive now than it was at any point when they actually won

during that run of where they had a scholarship baseball team across the board and nobody else did.

That's just real. So again, to summarize, you brought it up. It's interesting to talk about it now.

I hadn't thought about it much. That's five years ago. It's been the 11.7 thing.

And again, nobody was angry at them because of the advantage they had found in the way

they could do it as a private institution. Nobody was angry. Nobody was out to get them.

It's just it was what it was. And the issue was their own attitude about it. Corbin and the people

at Vandy, their attitude about it and the way they handled it, that was the issue of doing it and

then hiding behind it and wouldn't talk about it. And would try to put the honest and other people

that wanted to talk about it. That's that ain't it. That's not respectable. It would have been

totally respectable for them to say, yep, here's what it is. Happy to answer questions about it.

We use it. It's not a workaround. It's just something legal that we're absolutely able to do.

It helps get people in here that might not be able to afford it. And we absolutely use it

in, you know, for the baseball program. Somebody didn't like it. They get to court whatever, but we're

we're doing it in other schools. If they could, they would. Answer it that way. I just,

you know, why wouldn't you answer it that way? What are you hiding? What are you hiding?

But anyway, all in the past, right? Five minutes later. That's all in the past.

Sven said without that 11.7, there's no Jack Lider Kumar Rocker on one team, but they paid the bill

in 21 finals and I'm not mad about it. Somebody, okay, yeah, I thought about this too. Similar to

Southern Miss, isn't it? Southern Miss lost a season opener to who was it? You see what? Santa

Barbara, whoever that was from California, and they had a first round or opening night throwing

a hundred miles an hour. And since then, they're 10 and 0 and just beating a tar out of everybody.

Southern Miss is a good baseball team as there is in the country. It'll play out that way.

Well, somebody said people are sleeping on Florida. They lost their opener to UAB and now they've

won 10 in the road. That's right. Beat Miami, who's really good. Beat them twice this weekend.

Were they scheduled to play three games and just didn't get to that? I don't know. The only

play two in Florida was two and 0. You're right. And you know what? It's a virtual guarantee.

There's at least one SEC team that nobody's talking about right now. That'll be right there

down the wire in Omaha. That's almost a guarantee. All right. A little bit of time left with you. We

come back on this Monday. I'm mad. Stick around.

Winning the game.

Or even losing the game. You're going to hear about them all and get to talk about it.

With that wire right here right now.

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Yeah, we'll have a chance to preview that game some more tomorrow. Southern Miss can

I host Mississippi State and baseball tomorrow night in Hattiesburg at Pete Taylor Park.

The roof's down in right field out of the.

I'd be jumping buzzing.

What are they doing? A roost? I don't know. But Sven says he's got Southern Miss win

in eight to six pointed to pitching on that. What do you think? What do you think?

Yeah, talking about the reporters who like to make statements before asking the question.

Johnny Reb commented earlier on the country, please in text line. You know, the questions are

longer than the answers. It's true, isn't it? Now, and I, you know, what sparked it for me was the

the young. He sounded young. Maybe he's not. I don't know if he's sending a reporter. He was

talking to Connor Griffin. And I'm not picking on him at all. It was really short. He just says,

a lot of hype. How do you stay grounded? I probably shouldn't have gone. I didn't go off about him.

It just made me think about the ones who do like to make about, you know, a paragraph statement

before they actually asked the question. This one wasn't bad pirate spring training with Connor

Griffin. A lot of hype surrounding you this way. How are you able to just, you know, handle it so well?

Yeah, just, uh, just working on my middle game, working on, uh, you know, controlling what I can

control and, um, you know, just trying to be present. So not worrying about too much about the future

and, uh, trying to stay off social media as much as I can and just enjoy, you know, spring training,

enjoy my, my, my families in town and, you know, just, uh, just take a day by day and see what

happens. I'd say what also helps you to stay grounded is when you hit three home runs off

major league pitching and two of them have gone out of the stadium, not just over the fence.

Know what I mean? Like parking lot. That helps you stay grounded too, right? I'm having a good time.

I bet you are. That would be too.

Regarding the reporters, Jason and Flagstaff said, uh, what is it, Bill Burr said about sports reporters

asking dumb questions, something like it's a bunch of nerds bothering experts.

That's actually really funny. That's about what I, that's the way it feels sometimes when you're

the one asking the question, okay, and this is an expert and you can tell, like, he, he's totally

giving me his time because he doesn't need this at all. He doesn't need my question. He doesn't

need this interaction and he does not need the exposure. Out of the goodness of his heart or some

obligation, he's answering my question here and I feel like I'm a nerd and I'm simply bothering an

expert. A bunch of nerds bothering experts. That's great. We had a comparison also and he sent me

the screenshot. Jason said, that's my thing. I was absolutely convinced that Jans was going to be

better so far. He's not hung around that last four in, first four outline for three years.

No showed in the tournament and now the bottom has fallen out, not the first bit better in four years.

And he compared it to football. He said, levy's had two years while having to completely rebuild

the program. So you know, Jans took over after Howland. He's pointing out here.

Let's see. So you had last four years, you had 21 and 13, 21 and 14, 21 and 13. This year,

your 13 is 16. Previous three years for Jans tied for ninth in the league when eight and 10.

This year, you're five and 11. So the bottom has fallen out. But in those years leading up to him

getting the job, this was Howland. Um, one, two, three, four. Okay. It was, well, five,

25 and 12 tied for seventh, 23 and 11 tied for six, 20 and 11 tied for fourth, 18 and 15,

ninth, 18 and 16, 10. That's what he's saying. I is no better. Look, it's the same.

And Bill Burr, a bunch of nerds, bothering people who know what they're doing.

That is fantastic. I mean, the great way to describe media who cover sports, a bunch of

nerds, bothering people who know what they're doing. Oh boy, that's good. But we don't say that

about politics, dude, because I'm not entirely sure we, you know, are convinced that they know

what they're doing. Uh, MSU 1980 texted the show and said, Matt, we took our daughter up to a tour

of Vandy and found out that they only accept about 4% of the applicants. But if you get accepted,

they pay most of your costs, which is close to $100,000 a year. So that is how they did it.

Well, I, you know, that's probably, yeah, on the academic side. And MSU 1980, listen,

the, if you look up and read about back, I don't know what it is now. I hadn't looked it up recently

in 26, but in 2021, you know, you had opportunity Vanderbilt fund. Okay. And the genesis of that was,

you know, Vandy is a huge savings account, if you will, but like endowment. And the idea was,

there are brilliant minds, young academic kids that academically,

so rebrily, they do fit in at Vanderbilt. They can go there and, you know, become a doctor who,

you know, finds a cure for cancer someday. The problem is they come from a background that in no

way, can they afford to go to Vanderbilt? So the, the idea was the opportunity Vanderbilt fund is for

that. Somebody who absolutely, you know, mentally, academically in every way fits in here and would

really thrive. And we'd be glad to have them. We got this money over here for those that can't afford

it. Don't worry about it. We got it. Okay. But what was going on was some of that was being used for

baseball. It was period had nothing to do with fitting in academically. It had everything to do with

fitting in athletically. You know, there's somebody out there who we would love to bat, you know,

place center field or shortstop or bat lead off or bat third. That would make Vanderbilt baseball

great. And he could certainly do the curriculum at the juco down the street that we're attached to.

Okay, but he can't, he can't afford to come here. We only got 11.7. Well, opportunity Vanderbilt

means we got about 28 to 30 scholarships. We can fund. And if he wants to come here, we can,

for sure, find a way to frame to come because we want him. We'll see not everybody else could do

that. So that was the way that I understood it back then.

Does it make sense at all?

You know, we said it was not a, I mean, the original purpose of all of it was a very good idea

and very noble, frankly, and good and warranted and all. And it's just what they could do. They

should have just owned it instead of trying to hide it. Why would you hide it?

I mean, just be what it is. And you're like, well, why didn't they do that for football back then?

Well, because, you know, in baseball, you got nine players on the field.

You got a roster back then of limit. What was the limit? 30? Total, I think.

I mean, football, you got 100 guys. You know, and they probably were looking at it back then,

at least initially going, okay, even if you do, even if you did do that for, you know,

three football players, once they're going to cost, how's that going to work out? What difference

is actually going to make any end? You know, which, truthfully, it wouldn't make much back then.

Now we're in a different era where it's just straight up.

Pay for play. Hey, we want you. What's your price tag?

You know, well, vandys in on that too, because you can transfer them in there. You don't have

to negotiate with high school kids. The risk of get players off other teams. So, and, you know,

be interesting to see what they do and how they look and how it goes for them. Now that that

little quarterback has had to move on, even though he and they were trying their best to get him some

more time. And I guess rightfully so. They'd be interested to see what they look like going for.

Jake had another at bat grounded out to the pitcher, Megan today, spring training baseball for the

Pirates. As you update, I think he's two for three now. He straight up, Jake did,

Jake Mangum did straight up, manufactured a run like all by himself earlier. It was a thing of

beauty. It was the most Jake Mangum thing ever. Just terrorizing everybody out there,

totally in their head, caused a throw away at second base guy from third scores without ever

throwing a pitch. It was beautiful. All right, that'll wrap it up for today in the bureau.

For Beaver, I'm Matt, all of us here on the show. We'll see you tomorrow, same time, same place. See you

then. See you.