Listened to the entire show. Definitely no apology whatsoever to Rex, I'm sure Josh feels he said nothing wrong. Lots of the usual excuses early in the show. The travel is tougher in the new Big 12, Tucson was a tough trip, they had travel issues on the way back and were tired on Tuesday. The record is poor because he chose to schedule tough and if he'd done what others had done and scheduled a softer non conference schedule they could have gone 14-2 in non conference and the record would be different.
The discussion on hitting and strikeouts was bizarre because as you said, Josh seemed totally detached from the issue and acted like it was completely out of his control. He talked about how he battled as a player and how he'd like to see the guys do more of that and focus more on making 2-strike contact but it just doesn't happen in today's game. I'd buy that if this year's team was the exception to the rule for Josh's teams but we all know the strikeout numbers are always high and 2-strike contact hasn't seemed to be much of a priority in the last 5+ seasons.
He was a bit defensive at the end, making sure people knew that they've had a lot of damn good teams around here over his tenure and won a lot of games and challenged the fans to be "loyal and true" and keep supporting the team/players.
All in all, pretty status quo from what we've all heard many times from him. He's well spoken and articulate, just wish we'd see some changes in the team's performance.
