Welcome back to another episode of the Bustin Spring Football Tour.

I know we've been talking about football, spring ball, but coming to the University of Tennessee, we had to get on the juggernaut. We had to get on Coach Vitello. Correct? Tony Vitello. I feel like this most Italian name ever. Yeah. Yeah. Young gun. I mean, look at him. He's handsome. brought before we get into before we sit here and melt on our couches, this thing is brought to you by the Chevy Silverado, the hardest working truck on the planet, dependable, durable, just like the people who drive them. You and coach V. But we had to get the baseball guys on. You guys are crushing it. I hate that you guys just lost one last night because you guys were on an 11-game win streak. 30 and two is that correct 31 and 2 31 and 2 3rd 1st 3rd 1st you ever get that 1 and jack was jack is a huge tennessee guy yeah and everybody's to school here yeah and everybody's been talking about a tennessee baseball and i'm on my phone last night late at night scroll and seeing all your guys's highlights and everything else. And Coach Eccler's giving me a background on you guys.

You guys are kind of like the Detroit Pistons, the bad boys of SEC baseball, college baseball. Yeah, the Raiders. Yeah, would you agree with that? Is that fair to say? Is that a good assessment? I mean, I kind of like that now at this age. I grew up, my old man's from Chicago, so I grew up a Bulls fan, and I hated the Pistons.

But I think if you're a competitor, that's kind of the way it should be.

You should love the guy if he's on your team or you should love your team if they're yours. And then you want to be hated if, you know, if you walk into an opponent's building, you don't want them to like you because that means they're thinking easy victory. Yeah. Yeah, but baseball in a lot of ways, like you don't see guys hitting grand slams and going halfway to first base. Talking shit, dude, talking shit in the air, like it's fucking nothing. Like you, hey, did you walk into the team meeting room one day and go, hey, here's a deal. Fuck these guys, all of them. It's just us. It's our pirate shit. No, I mean, I do think we've got a certain attitude about us, but you have to in order to survive in our league. But the SEC people, man. Sorry. Any Power 5 league. No, stop. But then we had a non-power five team put it on us last night. So no, again, at the end of the day, it's all about competition and and you got to be who you are. And that guy in particular, you're speaking of as one of our team leaders. And he's just very unique. He's a gentleman off the field, and he's an assassin on the field. And sometimes I do my best to control them, but sometimes I can't. Yeah. What's the best kind of players? Yes. Drew Gilbert. He's a fan favorite.

And again, anyone that's got to know him as a person would love him.

But immediately when we go into another place, we're in Oxford, Mississippi recently.

And it took their fans about two outs in the first inning.

And he was just on deck to understand that he's not the one to like. But, you know, our guys do got a little bit away about them that, you know, again, if you're cheering for us, I think you enjoy. And if not, you may question it. But I don't think anyone ever goes over the line to do something disrespectful to the opponent. It's just in baseball, you've got to be a personality. If you look at like the most fun team since we've been alive like the Phillies back in the john crook era darren dalton and those

guys and uh the red socks when millar was on their team i mean it's it's long days as a baseball player

you got to have some stuff going on in the locker room to bring you together and also keep you

entertained or in all those all those hours so this is your fifth season with the volunteers is this like something that's kind of built

over time or is it for whatever reason this year no it's kind of just big you guys have become like

the bad boys of the SEC no I think last year without last year's team this year's team is not

having the success they are and then if you go back to our first

year our pitching coach and i were joking about how we're just starving for any win possible and

that's how we were handling our pitching was just one day at a time we just need as many wins so it's been

you know without going into the whole long story it's been a gradual deal and i'll tell you what

when the fans got on board and you know how crazy

our fans are that's what kind of helped catapult this whole thing I think what's cool too is like

you guys it's clear about your gut you guys having fun and like you said if you're an outsider

and you don't cheer for the for Tennessee you might question it or whatever but baseball for the

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