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Riverlandroofing.com. 662-644-4297. That's Riverlandroofing.com. If you have been here doing more for Ole Miss and the name, image, and lightness space, then Riverland Roofing. Our thanks to them. Mike Clement, Ole Miss Hitting Coach, coming back into the Riverland Roofing Studios here shortly. Want to give a shout out to being a bank, Drew Moak of USA Benefits Group. Man, they've done so much to help us here at Talk of Champions. If you're unhappy with or shopping your health insurance, Drew Moak of USA Benefits Group is the person to call 601-953-8449. That's 601-9-353-8449. You visit him at his website at Quoteswithjury.com. Also being a bank, my hometown bank, Bank of New Albany, just my people, man. Carolyn Brownson, Whit Spencer, Bob, Mike, all the guys over there, they'll take care of you. They're my hometown personal bank, and they care more about you than they do anything else. So give them a call today. 6-6-6-2-5-34-8171. 6-6-2-5-34-8171. Let's see if Mike Clem is back with us. Hey, Clem, how you doing? You did a nice job of filibustering. Is that what they call it? That's what they call it. It's almost like I've been doing this way too long, you know, that I know just to not panic. I got to get rid of these pumpkins back here, Clem. It's now Thanksgiving time. Do you have any suggestions as far as what I should put back there before we get started here talking about almost baseball? If you lived in my neighborhood, you would move straight to Christmas.

Yep.

We got our Christmas tree up.

What about y'all?

No, no.

Three kids, six and under, no shot.

No shot.

Mine are 13 and 9.

Once we got to Halloween Day, my uncles were saying, oh, that means we're putting up the Christmas tree tomorrow.

Tomorrow be November 1st. I'll be honest with you. I don't really care. I love a Christmas tree. But also, yeah, we've gotten aware now. We go straight from Halloween to Christmas. And, buddy, Thanksgiving is getting a little short change, Clem. Yeah, I think so, too. It's a great holiday. It's a great holiday.

Yeah, this guy's a Christmas, a little more meaningful. But, yeah, you can't shortchange Thanksgiving.

Because of the way the calendar works, Thanksgiving is going to get shortchanged regardless, especially with children.

Yes.

And I don't think you appreciate Thanksgiving until you get older anyway because you love food more,

a little more sophisticated palate, not macaroni and cheese and hot dogs.

And so, yeah, I think the older you get, the more you appreciate Thanksgiving. Like, hey, it's a, it's a hall pass to sit around and watch football. Yep. Hopefully you have family in. And when you have young kids like I do, they will watch said kids. It's a big holiday in the Clement House. So how has fall ball been going? I haven't talked to you in a little while. I mean, I think the last time we talked was before fall ball even began. And now the pizza

ball is coming up on Friday. Give me the good that may be not so good. And then,

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