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Dugout Discussions with Chris Rose

Why Colson Montgomery Turned Down A D1 Basketball Scholarship

Dugout Discussions with Chris Rose

Jomboy Media

Sports, Baseball

4.9701 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

This week Chris is joined by White Sox rising star Colson Montgomery. The two talk about his small town roots, promising basketball career and the White Sox early success. After that, we see if a couple of Marlins teammates can get on the same page with a new edition of teammate test. 0:00 How Colson got the nickname "Big Smooth" 0:45 Growing up in Holland Indiana 2:30 Colson was an elite basketball player in high school 6:00 Why Colson passed up playing college basketball 7:27 Indiana University fandom 8:35 The White Sox hot start and promising core 9:55 The impact of Munetaka Murakami 13:33 Teammate test with the Miami Marlins Follow along with Jomboy Media at theshownotes.jomboymedia.com JM Merch Store: https://shop.jomboymedia.com/ Featuring: Colson Montgomery, Pete Fairbanks and Tyler Phillips Hosted by: Chris Rose Edited by: Alex Graap #JMBaseball Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0

Bang! Bang!

0:02.0

What? The polisher. That's all we can say about it, the polisher. It's a little slut. You just call them a slut. I call a lot of people. I call everybody's sluts, in fairness. All right, it's stuck out discussions with Chris Rose. I'm Chris Rose. That's Colson Montgomery. Or maybe I should call him Big Smooth. Is that really the nickname? Yeah, that was my nickname last year.

0:22.1

Our hitting coach last year, Marcus, he somehow came up with that, and it kind of stuck

0:27.3

for a while.

0:27.9

And then I was asked if I had a nickname, so I just said that one.

0:31.8

That's tough.

0:33.1

You come into your rookie season, and they start calling you Big Smooth.

0:36.6

Yeah.

0:37.1

Out the gate. But it's better than bringing it start calling you big smooth. Yeah. Out the gate.

0:38.2

Yeah.

0:39.2

But it's better than bringing it with you, I guess. Yeah. Yeah, no, it was definitely a nickname. I didn't come up with it. You know, it was kind of naturally someone else came up with it. So. You're a Midwest guy at heart. Yeah. Holland, Indiana. For people that don't know, I think you could fit the entire town of Holland in one or two of these.

0:56.7

Is that accurate?

0:57.6

Yeah. Holland, Indiana. And for people that don't know, I think you could fit the entire town of Holland in one or two of these.

0:56.7

Is that accurate? Yeah. We wouldn't probably fill up this stadium, not even close. Well, no, no, no. I mean, it's tiny, isn't it? Yeah, it's little. What is it? I don't know, a couple hundred people maybe. So are we talking like a three stoplight town?

1:10.3

I don't have a stoplight in my town.

1:12.2

That's stop?

1:13.1

I don't.

1:13.8

There's no stoplight in my town.

1:12.2

That's stop. I don't. There's no stoplight in my town. There's there's a gas station,

1:17.9

there's a post office and a legion. That's about it. What did you do? I was just outside. You know,

1:26.1

I grew up on a little farm too. So, you know, I was over at my

1:30.4

grandparents' house on the farm all the time and just being outdoors, playing with football outside,

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