State continues portal hot streak
The Boneyard
Steve Robertson
4.4 • 518 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2024
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
Mississippi State adds another intriguing piece from the NCAA transfer portal today.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Boneyard with Steve Roberts and as always I am your good friend and host Steve Robertson here on the Hub Day edition of the yard |
| 0:08.2 | They kind of got away from me a little bit so a little bit later recording that I had initially planned |
| 0:12.6 | But I would be remiss if we did not start the show |
| 0:17.8 | Discussing the news that is kind of reverberating around the Mississippi State community today |
| 0:23.1 | is legendary baseball broadcaster Jim Ellis will retire pretty much immediately. |
| 0:30.5 | He will not be with us next season. |
| 0:32.4 | Got the news yesterday that that was going to happen and and university was going to do a big |
| 0:37.7 | presentation today and I think they've done a wonderful job it won't be the same |
| 0:42.2 | and I want to share a few things with you I wrote a column last night I laid |
| 0:48.0 | in bed for a while just kind of contemplated what it all meant and I just wanted |
| 0:51.6 | to share a little bit about my interactions with Jim |
| 0:54.8 | over the years. I consider Jim Ellis a friend. I've been on his show many times and I've had the |
| 1:00.4 | opportunity to interview him about big moments in Mississippi State baseball and other sporting events. |
| 1:06.2 | And I remember him telling me prior to the 2014 Egg Bowl, like as great as that year had been, with us going the number one, that the year would be incomplete if we didn't have a win over or all missed to cap the season. And, of course, it didn't go the way we wanted to. But, you know, Jim is a guy that has loved to Mississippi State his entire life. And it interesting you know you get a chance you know |
| 1:28.7 | road baseball is like my favorite thing like I love covering road baseball it's so much fun and so |
| 1:33.6 | you know I get a chance to visit with Jim a lot every I always made that pilgrimage every single |
| 1:38.2 | time when I would get to the press box and go say hello to Jim and sometimes compare notes you |
| 1:42.7 | know about kind of what's going on. |
| 1:45.1 | But one day we had the discussion about how he got the job at Mississippi State. |
| 1:50.8 | You don't think about that stuff, right? |
| 1:52.5 | I mean, things today can be so convoluted. |
| 1:54.8 | Times were a lot simpler back then. |
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