my friend mark ethridge now joining us here on today's show a little special episode to talk

incidentably baseball baseball and resumes is now four weekends left in the regular season then

hoover and then the theseason mark. I see there,

you were drinking out of a Rebels cup. It looked like you were your own theme. Do you just have

all 16 lined up on the shelf or whatever you need at the moment? I really do. I mean, it's kind of

a guilty pleasure as I go around the league. I'll grab a cup and I pull this out special

for you today, Chase.

Well, you know, it's funny you said that because I caught you, you were in town for something

pretty early in the season.

I forget who almost was playing.

And, you know, we get the meal tickets for our food, but you can get drinks from the

inside the press box area or whatever.

And I saw you had a cup in your hand, and I thought, he wasted a lot of money, but now it's making sense. You're actually collecting the cup and you did that on purpose. But that went through my head as I saw you down there earlier this year. Yeah, I mean, I've got quite a few. I mean, and not just SEC as you go around the league, you know, I've got all these odd cups. My wife hates it, right? We've got a cupboard full of them. But at this point, I've got so many. She doesn't know if they're new or not. So I just kind of swap them out, right? And it's, she never does. What's it been like for you this year?

Because you're traveling more than I would assume you have in a really long time,

maybe even dating back to the SE baseball days when I first got to know you.

What have you sort of, I don't know, what have you enjoyed about it?

What have you learned from the league differently than just sitting watching ESPN Plus every day?

I do think that you get a feel for a program, both from the atmosphere, from the

how the fan base is approaching the season and obviously just the face-to-face,

talking to, you know, people like you in the press box

and getting, you know, as you go to the different venues, people who are involved and in tune.

Because, I mean, I hop in and then I'm out.

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