Welcome to this week’s episode of EIUPanthers Podcast (No. 83 in our series).  Eastern Illinois pitcher Hayden Birdsong was selected in the sixth round of this year’s Major League Baseball Draft by the San Francisco Giants.  We catch up with Hayden on one of his off days as he is down in Arizona preparing for an abbreviated first season of professional baseball.  He gives us some insight on the draft process, why he chose EIU and what the early days of his indoctrination to the Giants organization have been like.