 Hello and welcome to the Jason Taney show. I'm Joe Wamba, joined now with Jason Taney, head coach of the baseball team. Coach, it's a weekend that you're going to want to quickly forget. One of those weeks, dropping three to Arcadia and one to Bridgewater. But it's still some positives to come out of it, a solid performance out of a backup on Sunday against Bridgewater. Yeah, it was a tough weekend. No doubt about that. But when you strike out 34 times in a three game series, things are not going to go well. I think a couple of good things that are coming out of it. One, we did have a couple of reserves who played well. But in addition to that, if we're going to struggle, we want to struggle early. Because that means we have a lot of time, a lot of opportunity to write the ship again. So hopefully coming into tomorrow's game, we'll be able to get the train back on the tracks and go in the right direction. Let's talk about that game tomorrow against McDaniel. You guys got to stay local a little bit this week. First of all, how important is that game going to be to get back on those tracks? Well, I think there's a couple of things. First of all, McDaniel being close. They're 40 minutes down the road. If that, local recruiting is a big part of that. We haven't played them in a few years. We own the series against them pretty significantly. One of our former players is one of their assistant coaches. So yeah, there's a lot riding on this. And if there's another game that's important outside of our conference, it's probably this game versus McDaniel. So yeah, we're hoping to have our A game for Tuesday and really start getting, like I said, getting us going in the right direction again. Leading into this weekend where we hopefully next couple of series are against teams that aren't expected to be in first and second place in our conference. The struggles that you have been having have been a little bit in the bullpen, a little bit in the starting rotation, a little bit in the field, and a little bit of it. Which one do you need to emphasize most on? Or just get one piece working right, and then the rest will follow? Yeah, I think offensively we've struggled a lot this weekend. That's something I was not expecting from our team. We're a very strong offensive team. And this weekend, I'm not sure exactly what happened. We just lost it. That's the part that I really need to get straight. Our pitching, we're going to have some ups and downs. We like our top three starters. They can be dominant at times. But on the second game on Saturday, we gave up one earned run. We end up giving up three total. But I don't know if you saw the score. We didn't score any. So it doesn't matter if we give up runs or unearned or earned if we don't score any. So our rotation is going to be fine. Our bullpen is going to have its challenges here and there. But really, our hitting has got to get it together. That's where we struggled. That's the part that's probably been the most frustrating. After the game against McDaniel, you guys are going to have a three game set with Albright hosting them first on Friday. How does the McDaniel game going to get you ready for heading back into the conference where you need to start getting some conference runs? Yeah, I'm hoping we come out and we score a bunch of runs. Phone call on the way over. We're hoping for 15. I'm not saying that's going to happen. But we're hoping to score a bunch of runs. Really get our motivation going back in the right direction. We actually played against Bridgewater yesterday. We actually played fairly well. Offense, we did a much better job. Put in the ball and play, hit and line drives. I think we had three strikeouts and nine innings, which is much better than the pace that we were on. So I think that's going to really help us go into Albright. You know, Albright, we swept them last year in a series. And we hope to do the same thing this year. We've got to start getting back on that track of sweeping teams. And we're capable. It's just a matter of us putting everything together at the right time. Well, now's the right time. There's no better time than now. And you talked about the hitting, hitting much better on Sunday. In some of the losses you've had this season, you guys have really been ding in the ball just right at, guys. How do you fight that mentality of just overcoming that, getting that ball to fall the way you need it to? Yeah, that's a tough one, because baseball is a strange sport. You can hit the ball hard and, like you said, hit it right at somebody. And sometimes you'll have a guy that comes up that I heard us saying the other day, hit the ball with the least amount of the bat as possible. And sometimes that's a hit. So it's a funny game that way. We like to think that it all bounces out in the end. But I'll take a guy hitting line drives right at people. Just keep doing it. They will fall, which happened in the Arcadia game. We had a couple of line drive double playouts, because balls were scorched. And shortstop makes a diving play to the hole and turns a double play. Things like that happen. I think eventually they'll turn in our direction and start favoring us. We haven't really had that yet, so hopefully it's coming. Well, coach, we wish you the best of luck this week. And the four games that you're going to be playing. And safe travels is everywhere you're going. Thank you. He's Jason Taney. I'm Joe Wamba. And this has been the Jason Taney Show.