Welcome into this week's Real Tree Rebels. I'm Chase Parm. We're going to sit down with Gray Kessinger,

Houston Astero, three-year starter at shortstop for Ole Miss prior to his professional career. Gray was a Brooks Wallace Award winner given annually to the top college shortstop in the country. He had a minor league career that spanned a few years and was called up by the Astros this June. He got his first hit on July 4th and was part of the Astros playoff run. They met at the ALCS for the seventh consecutive year. They've had a world championship. They've had World Series mixed in there as well. But they went to the ALCS just year. So we're going to talk about some of the key moments from his season. We're going to talk a lot about his career, the things he's seen making the jump from minor league baseball to major league baseball. We'll have some Ole Miss topics in there also. So it's a great time to talk to Gray. I really appreciate his time here today as he gets ready for what is hopefully a full season. Wish the Astros next year. He's back in Oxford right now for the offseason. Kessinger family also very important to me.

Don wrote the forward for my book, Resilient Rebels.

It came out after Ole Miss won the national title.

His grandmother Carolyn's one of my favorite people and then the rest of his family as well.

I really appreciate.

So it's good to sit down with Gray here for this interview today. And we

appreciate Realtree as well. RealTree.com. Go to the website. You know about it down. They've got the

recipes. They've got all your gear. They've got all you need for your hunting and outdoors. Gray

mentions in the podcast today that he's getting into duck hunting a little bit, RealTree can help you out.

So realtree.com, see what they've got.

They also have a lot of Wave 3 things with Ole Miss out in multiple vendors all over

the place in Oxford College Corner and other places as well.

So check those out, realtree.com or your local stores for all your Ole Miss-related

Realtree gear. It's a big week for stores for all your Ole Miss related realtree gear.

It's a big week for RealTree and Ole Miss heading into Saturday with Texas A&M and Oxford to face the rebels.

So let's go on with it now.

Here is Gray Kessinger on this week's RealTree rebels.

Great Kessinger now jumping on with this here on the Campbell Clinic hotline.

Great, good to talk to you, good to see you, been following you over the last few months.

She got called up in June, you guys making the ALCS for the seventh straight season at least.

Just kind of tell you, I was there when it ends.

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