USC baseball started the 2024 season poorly, and none of the players and coaches have hid from that reality as the Trojans got hot during the second half of the year. And a win away from the Pac-12 Tournament semifinals, catcher Connor Clift explained how they started to get right midstream. The beginnings of USC’s turnaround was a speech by assistant coach Travis Jewett, in which he invoked the 2004 film adaptation of “The Polar Express.” Clift explained it further on the Pac-12 Network broadcast. “It’s a speech that Coach Jewett actually gave us. Did you guys ever see the movie the Polar Exp…