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Hey, your Wednesday, everybody. Welcome into a little bonus content of Lockdown Balls. I'm your host, Eric Kane. Here with me today is Chase Thomas. It does a lot of riding, does a lot of great stuff covering the University of Tennessee. Chase Thomas podcast, you've probably seen that all over your Spotify boards and Apple Podcasts and all that. He's been doing it for quite some time

and got a lot of great stuff coming up in the future there as well. So I'm glad to have Chase

on to the pod front of the show. Hey, how you doing, buddy? Thanks so much for being here.

Like we talked about first time, like just coming out of, I'm the bullpen arm. I'm like the

Mike Remlinger of Tennessee podcast voices

because I, I've been on the shelf here for two months. And this is the first surprise

appearance. I kind of like this. I like guest surprise appearances where you just don't know

where you're, uh, where you're going to get me, uh, right now as the podcast is on hiatus. Um,

but yeah, no, writing every day, doing all that, uh, doing some Tennessee, uh, now as the podcast is on hiatus.

But yeah, no, writing every day, doing all that, doing some Tennessee, Atlanta Sports, read about the Hawks, that'll go up later today, actually.

But yeah, just a lot of different moving parts here.

And always happy to jump on and talk some Tennessee because Eric, you and I spend so much time

watching, thinking, writing, greeting about our Tennessee volunteers here. And it's a big week,

you know, it's a big week. Tennessee, the baseballs are back and the smoky grays are good.

So those are good. It's a step in the right direction the sunday creams are are bad and uh that's just the the nature of the beast

there like toss those out but maybe we just get through the one year of those and we can bring back

the ogs that we all like but i'm just happy to have baseballs back uh back in my life this weekend because I've missed them dearly, and I just, I really want to see what it looks like. I'm tired of being like, I don't know how it's going to be with Josh Ealinger post. Like I just, let's just do this. Like I let's move forward. It is a big week for Tennessee baseball opening week. Of course, first pitch coming up on Friday. and, you know, we'll talk about that, you know, right here on this platform, you know, all weekend long and all that. Chase's going to write about it at sportswrenasautsman. Go check that out. Today's episode is presented by the great people over at Fandall Sportsbook. The winner games are on. There's no better way to follow them than to bet on them with over at Fandall. Fandle where you can play your game every day. Thanks so much for being here. We are going to talk Tennessee football here in this bonus space. Simple question, Chase. I'm just going to, you know, right here from the top. Has Josh Heipel won the off season? Oof. Um, what, and you're going to be more specific here.

What do you mean in terms of like just in like for fans, like how fans should feel it for national perspectives and how national analysts view Josh Heipel and where Tennessee's at?

Where do you want to go with that question?

I guess.

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