Nate Ament vs. Ja'Kobi Gillespie MIP Vol Debate, Favorite Tennessee Baseball Transfer & Peyton Lewis vs. Mike Matthews With Griffin Hadley, Caleb Jarreau & Alex Sarkis
The Chase Thomas Podcast: A Tennessee Volunteers Show
Chase Thomas
5.0 • 548 Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Chase Thomas is Tennessee's Sports Renaissance Man, Atlanta Sports Guy & VFL. On today's program, Chase is joined by VFL Griffin Hadley, The Daily Times' Caleb Jarreau & UTK Daily Beacon's Alex Sarkis sits down with Chase to talk about Ja'Kobi Gillespie vs. Nate Ament for Tennessee basketball, favorite Vol baseball transfer, Tyler Myatt's intriguing importance in 2026, why Glen Elarbee is underrated by Vol Nation, most surprising loss of Josh Heupel era & Mike Matthews vs. Peyton Lewis offensive playmaker question.
Host: Chase Thomas
Guests: Griffin Hadley, Caleb Jarreau, Alex Sarkis
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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. |
| 0:08.6 | All right. Hello. And welcome back to. |
| 0:11.3 | In another episode of the Chase Thomas podcast where I'm still the A for mention Chase Thomas |
| 0:14.3 | from T live from Knoxville, Tennessee, Everything School, HQ. |
| 0:17.9 | We have a jam-packed group tonight. You thought he was out. He's all the way back in. |
| 0:23.7 | You never know one of the hardest people to pin down what he's going to be doing day in, |
| 0:27.8 | day out. It's Alex Sarkas of the UTK Daily Beacon, taking some time away from PNC Park. |
| 0:33.0 | His summer tour at PNC Park where what, why am I blankie on his name now? Paul Skeens has given up like, what, six runs total, basically all summer and just nothing to show for it. Alex Sarcus, how are you? I'm good, but the pirates aren't. They've lost four in a row, and they've been, they were shut out in Seattle this past weekend. So I'm good, but the pirates aren't. So that kind of means I'm not good in a way. Hey, the Braves are cooked too. And only a couple games up on the Pirates in the standing. So it's just everybody's cooked here. Very true. Very true. And I've been making fun of all my Braves fans, buddies, which is good. So if I can swim on the Braves, that's fine. |
| 1:11.7 | I would argue that's not good, Alex. |
| 1:13.5 | I would say it's actually bad. |
| 1:15.2 | It's actually bad that the Braves are cooked here on July 8 for the first time since 2017. |
| 1:21.0 | Pretty wild. |
| 1:22.5 | It's pretty rough. |
| 1:23.8 | Griffin Hadley also here, BFL Swimming and Diving and Yahoo Sports. |
| 1:28.3 | Griffin, how are you doing? |
| 1:30.6 | I'm doing well, Chase. |
| 1:31.6 | Thanks for having me back on once again. |
| 1:33.8 | It's exciting to continue talking about some Tennessee sports. |
| 1:38.8 | Lots continue to go on MLB draft right around the corner. |
| 1:43.1 | It's Big 12 media days started today. So it's |
| 1:45.9 | talking season, which means SEC and Tennessee right around the corner. So some exciting |
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