re: Two good articles on coach of the year Jay Johnson and Cape Cod article on Pearson/Jones

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“Man, one of my favorite stories about Jay is I had to pick up something from his house one time while he was an assistant — he lived out in Point Loma. Anyway, it was late in the year, and I walk in, and the guy has two huge white dry erase boards up on his living rooms walls,” he said. “One of them had the potential NCAA tournament bracket on there with where we stood in terms of an at-large berth, and the other board had all of our recruits color coded by catchers, infielders, outfielders, you know name it.

“And oh yeah, there were a couple of pizza boxes and fast-food items laying around, too,” he said with a laugh. “I just looked at him at that point and said there’s no way you’ve turned that oven on since you moved into this place.

“That’s just Jay, man. He’s baseball all the time. I thought that situation pretty much summed up who he is as a person and coach.”

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