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FM or wherever it is you get podcast from. Brian, here with a guy you might know you may have heard of him if you're a Mississippi State fan

former player you know we like to get those guys on there let them relive the glory days a little bit you know I guess he had some My good friend Jake Mangum is going to join me here. Jake, I'm not even going to talk about MSU for a minute. How are you doing?

Man doing great. Just been down here in Florida for a couple months now, training, getting ready for spring training.

Today we had our first COVID test, our intake test, they called it.

First day of practice is Saturday. I can't freaking wait.

When is the last summer you didn't play baseball prior to last year?

Age 5.

Oh man. How was that just not going through the routines of whatever

baseball season is for you? How how difficult was that mentally? It was difficult mentally but to be honest with you man there was a lot of great things that came out of it

Well whenever COVID hit a year ago and we left spring training to go back home and whenever they call it off the camp.

I actually went on Matt Wyatt Show and I remember saying I remember vividly.

I said, look, you can look at this one or two ways.

You can either look at this optimistically you can be

negative about it just like anything in life and in 2020 it was a it was a big

year of growth for me man I did a lot of things I've never been able to do I was able to get in the weight room

and change some things with my body I was able to get in the cage and change the things

with my swing that I'm really excited about to put on display this year and to see how it

does I grew in my faith more than ever when you

got closer to God I relied on Him to most of it.

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