Tennessee Football 2025 Optimism, Vols Bullpen Offseason Questions & Most Underrated Vols In Heupel Era With Griffin Hadley & Alex Sarkis
The Chase Thomas Podcast: A Tennessee Volunteers Show
Chase Thomas
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🗓️ 18 June 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Chase Thomas is the Sports Renaissance Man, Atlanta Sports Guy & VFL. On today's program, Chase is joined by Tennessee swimming and diving alum Griffin Hadley & The Daily Beacon's Alex Sarkis to talk about Tennessee football optimism, Vols bullpen questions next year, why Tennessee baseball will make it back to Omaha, Elijah Simmons and Jeremy Banks most underrated Heupel Vols, and much more.
Host: Chase Thomas
Guests: Griffin Hadley, Alex Sarkis
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| 0:00.0 | Chase Thomas podcast. The Chase Thomas podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | My nephew needs me to record. See, I hate, I already hate it. I hate it. |
| 0:08.2 | All right. Hello. And welcome back to another episode of the Chase Thomas podcast from Still, |
| 0:12.4 | the A for mention Chase Thomas come to you live from Knoxville, Tennessee, Everything School, |
| 0:15.7 | HQ. We've got the next generation. Ryan Shumper, Ethan Stone, Jack Boster, they're out of here. |
| 0:22.2 | They are gone. |
| 0:23.4 | We got the next generation here. |
| 0:24.9 | Get these guys out of here. |
| 0:26.8 | The ball sports guys, they're done. |
| 0:28.5 | They're cooked. |
| 0:29.2 | We've got Alex Sarkis who wants to do anything except watch Pittsburgh Pirates baseball. |
| 0:34.3 | I don't know what he did deserve Pittsburgh Pirate fandom. |
| 0:38.4 | But the man's got a banner on his Twitter cover photo of the Pittsburgh Pirates Baseball. I don't know what he did deserve Pittsburgh Pirate fandom, but the man's got a banner on his Twitter cover photo of the Pittsburgh Pirates, like him at a game. It's not even just like Paul Skeens, just throwing a strike. It's just him at a Pirates game, which can't be fun at any given time, but great views, which is, which is fun. But I mean, sell the team always with Alex Arcus. Alex of the UTK Daily Beacon. How are you doing, sir? |
| 0:57.9 | I'm great. |
| 1:29.7 | Are you doing, sir? I'm great. How are you, Chase? I appreciate you having me. This is cool. Have you been to a Pirates game since you went back out for the summer? Oh my. I've been to six or seven. Yeah. Have they won any of them? Yeah. I have an app that tracks my lifetime record. And right now I'm right at 500, which is the most pirates thing that you could have. So there you go. You might have to be a full-time resident again. You might have to be every, every game. That might be their only path to 500 is how many games Alex attends. That might be it. Man, it's rough. But hey, I enjoy it. Anyway, I love baseball. So there you go i love it we also got griffin hadley first bfl uh swimming and diving someone who can do something athletically that |
| 1:35.1 | just not even in close to my will house like my level of swimming is just so bad uh griffin like |
| 1:41.9 | like i i was doing this is how washed i am a good, like, I broke my foot two and a half years ago, Griffin, week of my wedding. Do not recommend, zero out of ten, do not recommend. I was a long time runner and broke it, the week of my wedding, mile two, stepped off a curb wrong, heard it instantly. It's like's like oh i'm cooked like this is this is bad |
| 2:02.4 | oh no this is very bad but the doctor my physical therapist was like you start swimming like as you |
| 2:09.3 | to avoid arthritis and to get your foot back in order like it's just it's easier on the joints and all |
| 2:14.4 | that kind of stuff and i was never a swimmer like my my brother, like swimming a lot, never in the water. |
| 2:18.8 | Water's not my jam. Not a big water guy. Not an aqua guy. And I'm over there at National Fitness Center. Hey, do it. Like, all right, I'll give it a shot. I'm the only person under 70 years old every time I'm there. like they're all doing aerobics classes |
| 2:34.1 | and I'm just over here trying to get my laps in. |
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