Baseball tidbits

I know someone that got to sit down and listen to one of the current coaches speak at an event.

- Someone asked if the staff knew who was going to be our starting pitchers for the upcoming year. Coach responded that there are 2 starter positions that have been decided on. He said he was not going to give names but both of the guys they have pegged as starters are LA natives, Anderson and Guidry?

- Schmidt has been awfully impressive so far.

- Something we already probably knew but Coach said that Paul Skenes had the leadership skills like none of the coaches have ever seen. He said if Skenes wanted to be POTUS he could strictly based on his leadership ability.

- Finally a cool Tommy Tanks story to cap it off:

It came during the Wake Forest game that he hit the walk off homer. So in the 8th inning Pearson led off with a walk, Milazzo sac bunted him to 2nd, then Crews struck out. They then proceeded to intentionally walk Tommy, and in typical Tommy fashion he let everyone know that he was not happy about it.

After Morgan got out and they were going back into the dugout Tommy started slamming his helmet, still visibly upset. Coach walked up to him and told him that he had to keep his head in the game because it wasn't over yet and asked him why he was so frustrated still.

Tommy responded "I have waited my whole life for an opportunity like that and they just took it from me." Coach said he responded by telling him he he needed to stay focused because there was still a chance that he was going to get another opportunity at some point. Sure enough, we all know what happened in the bottom of the 11th inning.

I think it's cool that Tommy wasn't necessarily mad about the result but the simple fact that they took the opportunity away from him. Turns out, coach was right and he got another crack at it, and boy did he make the most of it.