Your Tennessee baseball team is made up of great kids

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I figured this would be a good place to put this interview. Ben McKee's Extra Innings interview with Evan:

 
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AthensVol2007 said:
I took my son to our opening game in Hoover last year and about the 7th inning we were standing on the berm down RF line. The bench players and pitchers ran to the fence in between innings to stay loose. On their way back to the dugout Chad Dallas went down the wall giving high 5’s to the kids. When he got to us I stopped him and told him how once my son started wearing glasses (a few months into the season) he dumped Beck as his favorite player, despite knowing him outside of baseball, and he was now his favorite player due to having glasses in common. He took a few minutes to talk to him right there and told me to come find him after the game. Upon us losing the game, I was a little hesitant to seek him out but we went out and waited by the bus anyway. In a crowd of 50-100 people seeking autographs and pictures, Chad found us, unsolicited. He talked to him about his glasses and how much “cooler” his were than Chad’s and asked my son if he would take a picture with him. It’s a moment I hope my son will always remember and I know I will. It quickly turned my frustration of losing to Bama around and put things in perspective; this kid and his teammates just lost a game that means more to them than it ever will to me yet they can come out here and put on a genuine face and treat 4 yr olds like this, what do I have to be grumpy about?
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That's Cheese!
 
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ENGRVOL said:
We are really fortunate to have so many great athletes wearing the orange in a variety of sports who are kind and considerate to our fanbase
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It’s a good point that it extends to other sports as well. At various events we’ve run into players like Santiago Vescovi, Josiah Jordan-James, Lamonte Turner, Jordan Bowden, John Fulkerson, Uros, Yves Pons, Marquez Callaway, Brian Maurer and others, and they’ve all been super nice to my kids.
 
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Volprofch05 said:
It’s a good point that it extends to other sports as well. At various events we’ve run into players like Santiago Vescovi, Josiah Jordan-James, Lamonte Turner, Jordan Bowden, John Fulkerson, Uros, Yves Pons, Marquez Callaway, Brian Maurer and others, and they’ve all been super nice to my kids.
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Putting faces and names to “the front porch” I can dig it!
 
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Volprofch05 said:
It’s a good point that it extends to other sports as well. At various events we’ve run into players like Santiago Vescovi, Josiah Jordan-James, Lamonte Turner, Jordan Bowden, John Fulkerson, Uros, Yves Pons, Marquez Callaway, Brian Maurer and others, and they’ve all been super nice to my kids.
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Cordarelle Patterson too.
 
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VolPack22 said:
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@preacherman20 you got yourself a good kid. All the boys took time to sign my son’s hat after the game. Kirby, Honcho, Trey, Fireman, Luc. I know we say it a lot but we have some great kids on this team. We don’t say it enough so I just wanted to give them exposure and thank you for raising a great boy there preacherman.
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I had posted this in the Bellarmine thread last night but I wanted to put this here to go along with the theme of this team being littered with great young men.
 
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AthensVol2007 said:
I took my son to our opening game in Hoover last year and about the 7th inning we were standing on the berm down RF line. The bench players and pitchers ran to the fence in between innings to stay loose. On their way back to the dugout Chad Dallas went down the wall giving high 5’s to the kids. When he got to us I stopped him and told him how once my son started wearing glasses (a few months into the season) he dumped Beck as his favorite player, despite knowing him outside of baseball, and he was now his favorite player due to having glasses in common. He took a few minutes to talk to him right there and told me to come find him after the game. Upon us losing the game, I was a little hesitant to seek him out but we went out and waited by the bus anyway. In a crowd of 50-100 people seeking autographs and pictures, Chad found us, unsolicited. He talked to him about his glasses and how much “cooler” his were than Chad’s and asked my son if he would take a picture with him. It’s a moment I hope my son will always remember and I know I will. It quickly turned my frustration of losing to Bama around and put things in perspective; this kid and his teammates just lost a game that means more to them than it ever will to me yet they can come out here and put on a genuine face and treat 4 yr olds like this, what do I have to be grumpy about?
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I like how the perennial promotion at LNS is that each strikeout is a "K for queso." That means we're dedicating every single home strikeout to Cheese!
 
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preacherman20 said:
The replies and retweets are so funny. Looking for a shampoo company and mustache company. I would have thought someone would have jumped on this NIL deal but no one has even the mustache wax companies we have contacted.
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Sounds like a natural fit, good luck with that.
There were a lot of wonderful comments.

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