Biggest Vols Baseball Portal Needs, Tegan Kuhns Was Mismanaged & Tyre West 2025 Tennessee Breakout With Locked On Vols' Eric Cain
The Chase Thomas Podcast: A Tennessee Volunteers Show
Chase Thomas
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🗓️ 19 June 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Chase Thomas is the Sports Renaissance Man, Atlanta Sports Guy & VFL. On today's program, Chase is joined by Locked On Vols & Volquest's Eric Cain to talk about Tennessee's biggest transfer portal needs in baseball, if Tegan Kuhns was mismanaged by the Vols this season, Garrett Wright as best baseball portal addition, betting on Jay Abernathy in 2026, and why Tennessee really needs Tyre West to breakout in 2025 on the Vols' defensive line.
Host: Chase Thomas
Guests: Eric Cain
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| 0:00.0 | Chase Thomas podcast. The Chase Thomas podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | My nephew needs me to record. See, I hate, I already hate it. I hate it. |
| 0:09.0 | All right. Hello. And welcome back to another episode of the Chase Thomas podcast from Still. The A for mention Chase Thomas coming to you live from Knoxville, Tennessee, Everything School, HQ. |
| 0:17.4 | Joining me for the first time as a father. It's Eric Kane of Lockdown Balls and BallQuest. Eric, how is the sleeping these days? It's funny. I just got done recording the BallQuest podcast, and I'm the moderator. I kind of read everything out, and there was a question about baseball in there. It was like, name your nine plus nine plus starting pitchers and da-da-da-da from the |
| 0:38.9 | Tony Vitelloair. |
| 0:39.7 | And I've just read it. |
| 0:40.3 | I'm like, okay, the nine best pitchers. So I started rattling off all these names. And it's like, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Starting nine plus pitchers. And I'm like, oh, I'm just so stupid. I don't sleep anymore that I didn't I didn't realize that so not a whole lot of sleep |
| 0:55.1 | but uh it's uh it's great man man. I mean, he's, he's really, really cool. It's, it's, it's really interesting to see a little piece of view in a living form. So he's awesome. So we're, we're adapting and never been happier. There you go. How, how, uh, what, what age are we at right now? How long has it been |
| 1:11.6 | since he was born? So we are, we are about a little over seven weeks. So we're almost okay. Yeah, two months. You're getting settled in. That's a pretty good amount of time that you're, you're, you're getting situated. You know what you're doing. Do you have any dad hats? Because Ben McKee of Coval's 247 is loaded up on the dad hats and dad merch. |
| 1:29.8 | Are you loaded up on that? |
| 1:31.0 | Are you going to be a dad merch guy? |
| 1:32.9 | I don't know. I don't have anything right now. I'll be open to it. I mean, right now, I just want to try to get my microphone to stay working. But I don't have any dad merch, but I'm big on mowing the lawn. So if I could get a dad hat to mow the lawn, maybe some Adidas old sneakers, then I'd be well on my way, right? |
| 1:44.2 | Are you a push mower or a riding on a person? |
| 1:51.2 | So right now, we moved, you know, houses in the last year. |
| 1:53.6 | And, you know, with it being spring and now summer, I'm going to go by a zero turn here soon. |
| 1:57.8 | So, |
| 2:02.7 | um, |
| 2:03.3 | I don't have a ton of land. |
| 2:03.7 | Don't get me wrong. |
| 2:05.0 | But I have a pretty big yard. And, um, it take, I have a pushmoe right now. It takes a while. So, uh, I enjoy it. Like mowing, this is a very bad thing to say. |
| 2:05.5 | Yes. |
| 2:14.0 | Like, mowing is kind of like my time. |
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