Yeah.

I'm getting the lowdown from my 13-year-old who was up in Indianapolis playing this weekend.

And he was telling me he was playing 54/80, meaning the, the mound's 54 feet, the bases are 80 feet.

That's the level of ball they were playing, uh, this weekend, 13U.

And he faced a kid throwing 79 from 54 feet.

Well, that's, that's like 88 miles an hour, you know? And I was like, "Awesome.

How'd it go?" He's like, "Well, I got jammed in my first at bat, in my second at bat I had a 10 pitch at bat.

Yeah

Like he literally hit control alt delete on his

rotation.

Well, at Dayton talk, he had one sec Homer one, six in the tournament, one in conference play.

They'd kind of given up on him, and then they were like, let's just go with him.

Yeah.

You know, even down to Kyle Branch getting – having, what, six or seven RBIs in the championship game? Was it seven or six? Six, I think.

You know, he had gone – he went into the championship game one for 16 and then got three hits and drove in seven.

save some of the hay nails, like some of the off-the-radar stuff.

When you look at, at some of the teams that are maybe in the middle of the pack, um, um, maybe not necessarily, uh, the four seed like Ole Miss a couple years ago making a run, which team next week do you think that might be maybe flying under the radar a little bit that could heat up and become a bit of a problem in the postseason?

Well, you know, yeah, Ole Miss is kinda the famous example of a team from, you know, kinda out of nowhere winning the whole thing from this league, and it, it wouldn't shock me if Ole Miss is that team this year.

They, their three starting pitchers, you know, I talked about Alabama's.

Florida's is trending.

Auburn's is trending.

I- Auburn's really been there all year.

But you look at, at Ole Miss, you got, uh, Hunter Elliott [laughs] who pitched the championship game, it's, it's crazy every time I say it, in 2022, still there and, and still gonna pitch game one.

Love him on the mound."

When you look at, at some of the teams that are maybe in the middle of the pack, um, um, maybe not necessarily, uh, the four seed like Ole Miss a couple years ago making a run, which team next week do you think that might be maybe flying under the radar a little bit that could heat up and become a bit of a problem in the postseason?

Well, you know, yeah, Ole Miss is kinda the famous example of a team from, you know, kinda outta nowhere winning the whole thing from this league, and it, it wouldn't shock me if Ole Miss is that team this year.

They, their three starting pitchers, you know, I talked about Alabama's.

Florida's is trending.

Auburn's is trending.

I- Auburn's really been there all year.

But you look at, at Ole Miss, you got, uh, Hunter Elliott [chuckles] who pitched the championship game, it's, it's crazy every time I say it, in 2022, still there and, and still gonna pitch game one.

I love this dude's approach at the plate, love him on the mound"?

Starting pitching this weekend was shaky kind of for the very first time, but what's your overall view of Oklahoma right now?

You know what? It's interesting that you brought up the pitching being shaky.

First of all, I know the last day especially, but I think all three games it was shaky.

very offensive climate there.

I think it was warm and the wind was blowing out.

And they won some offensive games, which, you know, in some regards you're like, okay, you know, I guess it depends on which side of the fence you want to stand on.

But, like, the pitching had been their calling card up until this past weekend.

Can you just, for Bill the Astros fan and, frankly, anybody else, like none of us have ever been in that moment, take us through that moment?

But the timing of it all, this would have been very different, wouldn't you say, if this was May or June compared to the end of October?

Potentially.

I mean, there's also a bunch of other circumstances in May or June that would have shaped how this search would have gone, right? So, like, hypothetically, if they would have just named Josh the interim, and they just had a great, you know, and Danny said, I'm committed to doing a search after the season, but Josh and the team killed it, then who knows? He probably would have called that off midway, right? If what you're asking is Tony would have taken another college job and And there would have been an opening at the end of last season.

Would the search have looked different? Yes.

I think it would have.

I think I will say though, that there is, it's interesting.

We're seeing this right now in college football.

What are your thoughts on Tony, the manager of a Major League Baseball program?