Dedeaux Download: Starting pitcher Eric Hammond joins the show after best start of his career
Peristyle Podcast - USC Trojan Football Discussion
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🗓️ 13 March 2024
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Shotgun Spratling and Jack Smith return with another episode of the Dedeaux Download Podcast to break down the fourth week of action in the 2024 season, including the opening Pac-12 Conference series. Again, it was a week where USC baseball showed glimpses of the team it can be, but ultimately struggled to get in the win column.
They break down USC's 2-3 extended week, which included a 'home' series loss to Arizona where the Trojans were blown out in the first two games and then got an electric outing from junior starting pitcher Eric Hammond in the series finale to salvage the weekend.
Hammond joins the Dedeaux Download Podcast to discuss how he was able to rebound from a poor start in his home state of Texas to produce the best start of his career. He also talks about his decision to commit to USC and what the Trojans have to do to turn around a season on the rails.
After the visit with Hammond, Shotgun and Jack look at where the Trojans stand and go three up, three down in a new segment looking at three positives and three negatives from the recent action. They then preview the upcoming series at Stanford, who profiles as a very similar team as the Trojans.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another edition of the Dado Download podcast, the part of the Parent Style |
| 0:17.6 | Podcast family of shows. I'm your host Shotgun Spratling alongside my co-host, Jack Smith, |
| 0:22.4 | the baby face of the group Jack how we doing today? |
| 0:25.8 | I'm doing well and don't call yourself old Chuck and that's... |
| 0:28.8 | Whoa whoa just because you don't know what facial hair is does not make me old because I do have it. What facial hair is does not make me old because I do have it. |
| 0:35.0 | How are we doing Jack? |
| 0:37.0 | How are you, you got spring break, right? |
| 0:40.0 | I do, you must be jealous. |
| 0:41.0 | It's nice, get to enjoy, I I mean only have a couple more years of having a spring break or even a summer break for that matter but uh it's good it's Wednesday when we're recording this I've had a couple days off Still will get some USC baseball and over spring break |
| 0:53.3 | since I'm already in Northern California. |
| 0:54.9 | I will be at the Friday game against Stanford, |
| 0:57.4 | which I will talk about that series later, |
| 0:59.0 | but can't get away from baseball over spring break. |
| 1:04.0 | You decide not to rather. You and me both. |
| 1:05.0 | I did not have a spring break until I went to grad school. |
| 1:08.0 | Outside of two days, we had our senior year, our coach, we had a weekend series, we played on Sunday, and the night before on Saturday, he was like, all right, after we play tomorrow, you guys have two days off, I expect you back on Wednesday for practice in the afternoon. We were like, oh my gosh, what? We get two days off. And so in the next 24 hours or next 12 hours basically, we devised a plan, got some hotel rooms, went to Myrtle Beach, was about a six hour drive from my undergrad, and it was freezing cold still. It was barely anyone there and we had an amazing time because as baseball players you don't get a spring break like everyone else and |
| 1:50.4 | Jack being a baseball announcer is deciding that he doesn't get a spring break either. |
| 1:55.0 | He's back home. |
| 1:57.0 | Jack, that's not how he's supposed to spend spring break in college, buddy. |
| 2:00.8 | We got to work on this a little bit. |
| 2:02.2 | I spent last week in Texas the whole week so I need a little bit of a break and I used my trip a week early. |
| 2:09.1 | All right, all right. As long as you had some fun in Texas, that's what's important. |
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