'My full focus is baseball': Why Oklahoma State's Nolan McLean left football program to focus on MLB dreams​

good article by Unruh from the DOK....and the high in Nashville today is 43 degrees with sunshine. In the 30's when the game ends. Don't see why they wouldn't play today.

STILLWATER — Nolan Mclean still often feels like he ended a long-term relationship.
For years, he spent countless hours on a baseball diamond. Nearly every other available moment was at a football field.
Fall nights in Garner, North Carolina, were for throwing the football. Spring afternoons were for mashing a baseball.
That’s the life of a two-sport athlete.
McLean lived it for a year at Oklahoma State, joining the football team as a walk-on quarterback in 2020 and then starring with the Cowboys as a powerful hitter in the spring.
But this school year, it’s all baseball.
Football is a thing of the past. No more spotting blitzing linebackers or open receivers.
“I’m going to miss football for the rest of my life, just because it’s something I played for so long,” McLean said. “It’s kind of like breaking up with a girlfriend you dated for 15 years. It’s tough.
“But my full focus is baseball now. I’m not going to look back to the past anymore and just give all my effort to it.”
When the 8th ranked Cowboys open their season at #2 Vanderbilt much attention will be on the series as a whole. Both rosters are deep.
But there is no more important player to the Cowboys’ everyday lineup than McLean.
He’s moving to third base primarily, taking over for slugger Christian Encarnacion-Strand, who was drafted by the Twins, both defensively and offensively. He could pitch in relief and even play the outfield.
McLean is capable of carrying the team, whether with his ability to hit for power or just his overall talent and maturity.
“Getting him back healthy, a year older, a year more into his baseball development is big,” OSU coach Josh Holliday said. “He’s got a lot of presence about him. He’s a confident player, he’s strong, he likes the big stage.
“I think he definitely has the talent to be himself. And when he’s good and at the peak of his game, he stands for kind of his own game.”
That’s only been boosted by his choice to focus only on baseball. McLean, who is a 6-foot-3, 203-pound sophomore, intended to play football throughout his entire college career. It’s a big reason why he chose OSU. But he’s also a draft-eligible sophomore due to his age. He has a chance to go in the MLB Draft this summer. So, Holliday and McLean met last year and went over the options.
Holliday was honest. The draft is a real possibility, so a fall working only on baseball — especially his defensive skills — would only help McLean.
“As much as he loves football, he is a future baseball player at the professional level,” Holliday said. “That clock is moving along a little faster than a clock would be on a college football career.”
It’s tough to play football and then catch up in baseball. Others have done it. Josh Fields accomplished it with the Cowboys, eventually making the big leagues. OU’s Kyler Murray starred in both sports, being drafted by the Athletics before choosing football as the No. 1 overall pick in the 2019 NFL Draft. But the demands are tough and McLean was not on the same college football path as Fields and Murray. “Really, it just brings to light how difficult being a two-sport college athlete is,” Holliday said.
McLean said he feels more and more polished every day. His teammates have noticed. Outfielder Jake Thompson said McLean really dominated in the fall. And there are few reps in batting practice for Thompson, who often just watches McLean hit home runs. “Nolan is one of the most talented kids I’ve ever seen in my life,” Thompson said.
After a debut season in which McLean started 39 games, smashed eight homers, hit 10 doubles and a triple, drove in 20 runs and walked 27 times while also missing six weeks with a back injury, the added time on the diamond could lead to bigger things.
“I’ve been playing baseball for probably 17 years now, since I could walk pretty much,” McLean said. “But I’ve never fully committed to it.

“So, I think just having one sport to deal with and putting all my time and focus into it is helping me in all aspects of my game.”

Looks like you have single handedly averted WW III and made Putin your bitch! So happy for you and happy for the U.S. because we have the best...Presidink...evah!!!

In team hotel.

My son graduates next year and is looking at computer science. Anyone know anything about OSU? UT is ranked high but I'm not sure he wants to go to that big a campus.

There is a rumor Iran may not come then the dual with Iowa may move to Stillwater.

Is 87 years old? Why has he not retired? So he will retire in 2024?

I have two season tickets but taking some family to the game this weekend to include my niece and nephew for their first OSU game. Need 3 additional tickets if anyone has any extras they need to sell.

Bc the "men" in this country failed to do it. We as men are to watch out for those that need us and can't take care of themselves all the times: kiddos,handicapped, elderly, Pets etc

We failed the elderly as they got stuffed in a hospital, Separated from Their families and died alone - Suffocating /Drowning from their fluids On ventilators with a 90 percent kill shot -After letting them receive experimental Remdesivir that has a 50 Percent kill shot- all to line the demonic POS tyrants' grubby pockets.

We have failed the kids that have had to wear those God awful disgusting control diapers on their faces for hours a day- breathing in their CO2- getting bacteria that builds up in those pieces of crap then goes Into their lungs. With any kind of research at all we would've found out buildup in the masks caused all the deaths during the spanish flu - so everyone died of bacterial Pneumonia from having to wear the control diapers even back then

. What damage was done to their respiratory and cardiovascular systems , and emotional damage from all of this. We basically taught them it's ok for tyrant POS to take your liberties and they are to obey lockstep.

We failed miserably- and now they are lying and jabbing kids with experimental deadly shots.

Good for these kids- should've happened long ago. The ONLY reason they got away with all this is bc we obeyed and complied- and that's all I have to say about that

Holding out hope we can finish higher than the Goons. About the only thing left for this season.

This episode is a triathlete who has a support/ program for vaccine injured "React 19" I think and he covers the Canada Truckers/Castro Trudope

For the leftist that only believe leftist sources

In other words, Democrats are being told to lie and mislead the American People about their true intentions.

So she Came around after 3 shots- if you haven't seen the fall- it's freaky!

Now actually in this post I'm coming from another angle...and that is-

Exactly how much funnier are guys than girls? We could name 10 hilarious guys In a heartbeat : Eddie Murphy, George Carlin, Chevy Chase
bill Burr, Will
Ferrell et al

Name one truly funny comedian or
Actress that's a female? Or 2 or three- I can't name one- but not saying there's not one or so

This may say more about Herm Edwards/ASU than the portal in general but yikes.

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is now non-binary drag queen who enjoys 'pup play' and worships 'Daddy Fauci'​

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Perfect parody of the current administration........

Baseball was my first love and I loved playing it but at 31 I became a scratch golfer and I have always wondered what if I focused on golf. I will admit, I am working on my 11 year old daughter to became a golfer and she is left handed like me.

Also growing up in KS and OK I did not ski a ton but I loved it. I remember in college going skiing with another student from Switzerland and she told me she has skied all her life and I skied life a European. Back in the day I could ski every run on any mountain.

“A state cannot simply declare federal laws invalid,” said Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brian Boynton, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Division, in a statement. “This act makes enforcement of federal firearms laws difficult and strains the important law enforcement partnerships that help keep violent criminals off the street.”

Was reading this article which contained the quote above. I'll be curious as to how this plays out, given that the exact same positions could be applied against sanctuary cities who choose not to enforce federal immigration laws. Who gets to choose which Federal laws can be ignored at that state and city level and which can't?

Take the time to watch. Pretty brilliant commentary.

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We need to not forget what they did, who did what and also realize they did it bc WTP let them. We need to totally understand how tyrannical, Moronic and demonic they are and what they think of us- don't forget what they did.

This year might put your theories to the test. Rutgers has a similar profile to what we had that year. Horrendous metrics , but a lot of high quality wins. Will be interesting to follow.

They had to stick all the way up to your brain- especially if what they told you you were so contagious within 6 feet😳

Half a year ago to 6 months doctors et al were raising the concerns about these test swabs from China. Just one more thing they lied about- and how about the time the Chinese stuck them up the US reps down there- up their arse? Pure power and submissive art there.

So not only should people be pissed about the shots to no end- these tests also they have totally violated the people they disdain so much. I have refused them and yes I had it better bc I have my own biz and could- if I was still in some corporation that was making people do this crap- it would have been Interesting bc I've heard nothing but bad things about them- of course NOT on the Tv or even talk radio- disgusting. Even when I got sick I just took the therapeutics and was way bette in a few days. They knew these things worked all along.

Many waking up but many of the Normies need to come around - quickLy.