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Weekend 10 Recap: The Cream Rises | Ep. 031 · College Baseball Now

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  Speaker 1: Crazy sec action through five and six hour games, acc
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  favorites getting blasted, and also the Big twelve exists. We'll
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  do our best to break down a wild weekend on
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  this episode of college Baseball.
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  Speaker 2: Now, yeah, there ain't no problems.
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  Speaker 3: There ain't no problems.
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  Speaker 2: Don't want problem, you know, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Let me tuta.
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  Speaker 4: Yet they know what was gone for a.
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  Speaker 1: Minute, hit the bot beat didn't grab a couple wins.
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  Speaker 4: With a D I D.
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  Speaker 1: They don't even known the kid. I had to do
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  a B I g DS. We can never beat average,
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  and they want to pull them with the boy. They
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  don't want no status. How don need so coach son?
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  Run a week God, I want to test that Tom
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  was standing ConTroll the game. Best believe them shining.
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  Speaker 3: Dogs, counting them up wins.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I love them when they count me y out,
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  counting up the least sudden shame, Why ben at the dogs?
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  Speaker 3: Best believe I run the game? You know, wanta truly
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  Just let me magic to.
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  Speaker 1: Me entering your ear drums like the relief of lighta
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  Kane cream on some sunburned knees. Very specific reference that
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  three of us in the world will get College baseball
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  now returns and We're glad to be here with you.
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  I'm glad to be here with you and my friends
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  alike to break down the eleventh weekend of the twenty
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  twenty six college baseball season, your host and cruise starts
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  with me, your friend, your host, your boy. Drew Wheeler,
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  the director of amateur scouting that prospects live. Glad to
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  be here with you, Glad to be here with my friends.
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  Starting with the gentleman in the middle. It might as
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  well be your second home now. I feel like the
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  way that our schedules have gone, all of us busy boys,
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  you're in the middle is just as much as you're
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  in the top. Right. It is Josh Catlet, Josh.
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  Speaker 4: Hi, Hey, how are you doing? How was how was Darkville?
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  Besides your you know, sunburn?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, we're just gonna tell people it's me Okay, sorry, thanks?
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Starkville is great Mississippi State. They have this really cool
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  thing they do apparently against LSU, where they give up
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  three runs and then come back to win. So it's
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  a formulaic thing. But you know, like any good story,
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  I like a formula. Plenty of players we can talk about.
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  I don't think we're gonna talk about them a lot,
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  but maybe at the end of the show, if we've
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  got some time, we can get some Mississippi State yap,
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  some LSU yap, because man, I got some LSU thoughts. Anyway,
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  appreciate you asking. I wanted to ask. I heard you
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  say that your head was going to explode from this region.
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  How are you feeling?
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  Speaker 4: Not great? My allergyes decided to come back for some reason.
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  I don't know it. It'll be like two hours ago.
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  Speaker 2: But all of a sudden, I'm like, I can't see
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  straight and this feels like it's like I don't know
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  what the the What's what am I looking for?
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  Speaker 4: The unit for pressure is and science I should probably
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  know that, believer. This is like a million right now.
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  Speaker 1: So okay, I love that we both just outed one
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  another's like medical trauma. Like we're both like on the
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  il currently. I'm glad you're with us. Let's do our
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  best to prop one another up and support one another
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  along with our returning Quinn Martin, Quinn, you're the healthy one.
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  You're gonna have to leave the staff today. I hope
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  you're prepared.
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  Speaker 3: I'm back.
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  Speaker 1: Let's do it. Yeah, we're glad to have you. Thank
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  you so much for being with us. I wanted to
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  ask Quinn, you've had a busy weekend you had. I
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  kind of talked a little bit earlier today, we talked
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  before the show. What was the best thing about your weekend?
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  Speaker 3: Best part of my weekend? I don't know, maybe the
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  Phillies winning for the first time in forever.
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  Speaker 1: I'll give a thumbs up to that. I also appreciate
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  a good Phillies win, So yes, definitely with you, not.
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  Speaker 2: At all, although I mean, like the Braves are the
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  only team in the MLB too still not lose a
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  series this year and beat the Phillies this weekend. I
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  got something good going for me on the Actually I
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  took that back. All of my teams have done really
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  well recently, so I really can't say much on that front.
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  But after the Brave season last year, it's nice to
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  see this again.
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  Speaker 1: You're having exceptionally good sports like, so yeah, I kind
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  of like, I mean, the worst you've got. It is
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  like people have questioned the Dolphins draft.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, there's no well, we're gonna suck next year.
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  Speaker 2: So like, look, this year's draft was cool and I
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  like what we did, but we are already focused on
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  the twenty twenty seven draft. That is what everything is
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  set on. So I'm just punting on that and focusing
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  on everything else in my life.
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  Speaker 3: You mean, Malik Willis isn't gonna guide you to an
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  AFC's title.
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  Speaker 2: Dude, Apparently our new front office thinks he is. They
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  say that he's the quarterback of the future. We gave
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  him twenty two and a half million a year, Like, come.
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  Speaker 1: On, like, he's a quarterback in the future. So, I mean,
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  maybe that's what they were going.
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  Speaker 2: That is technically true. He he's throwing to the three
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  of us next year. I I don't really know what Nick, Yeah,
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  I know, right, isn't that cool?
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  Speaker 1: Quinn awesome? Where we're on the Dolphins.
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  Speaker 3: I knew it was in my future, so I knew
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  it was even surprised.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so proud of you. I'm proud of you, Josh.
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  Way to live that dream, Thank you, thank you well.
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  Speaking of living dreams, guys, this weekend, Georgia and ole
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  Miss lived a dream. They have not They don't have
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  to share the spotlight. I'm pretty sure you said might
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  have been Series of the Year in the format, Josh.
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  I can think of a couple contenders. There's not there's
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  not many Georgia Old Miss certainly the series of the weekend.
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  And Josh, I do want to start with you because
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  we talked about how this was going to be a
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  battle of superpower offense meeting superpower pitching. I don't know
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  that that really came to fruition, at least on Saturday.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 1: I mean.
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  Speaker 2: There were a lot of things that happened on Saturday,
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  but Superpower was definitely not one of them. Now, I
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  mean for either team to be like Hunter Elliott had
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  his worst outing of the year, so that certainly didn't help.
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  But then again, Alic Texta one of my friends, is
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  a big Old Miss fan, and he was like, I mean,
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  we wouldn't have even had to call back from this
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  lead if we like we did a Hunter didn't have
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  his worst outing of the year. But I'm like, true,
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  but if it's gonna happen against any offense, like it's
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  it's a little warranted to happen against Georgia.
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  Speaker 4: This happens to most everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, like Daniel Jackson is he's gonna have
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  a twenty twenty season as a catcher.
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  Speaker 1: Season?
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  Speaker 4: Did he get? I thought he was?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 4: I thought so and back did he hit.
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  Speaker 1: It Saturday night?
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  Speaker 4: Wow, Well I missed that.
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  Speaker 1: Amidst amidst the two thousand in in game he did achieve.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I missed that. But still that's further my point,
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  Like that's yeah, yeah, that's crazy, Like I mean, he
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  he's just one of many stars in that offense. Ryan
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  Ryland Loujo had a really good weekend.
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  Speaker 4: Two. He had like hit a home run, a couple
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  of doubles. I think he was.
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  Speaker 2: He was on base more than half his a B.
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  He's like had five RBI. Really came through a lot
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  this weekend. I think a bigger storyline for Georgia this weekend, though,
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  might not even be the offense I mean, bullpen you can,
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  you know, pick holes everywhere like Grant Edwards, Justin Burd
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  Paul Farley were really good in the whole spot last night.
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  But I think the big storyline is the thing I
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  said coming into this weekend was Georgia is pretty solidified
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  in having.
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  Speaker 4: Joey Volchko and Dylan vig Yu as the one two
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  in engine year three.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Vicky got scratched today because of an injury, so
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  kay Naoki was a starter who we thought might be
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  the third starter anyways, and he looked great. He's been
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  he's been really good out of the bullpen. He didn't
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  look great out of the bullpen actually on I guess
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  it was yesterday. He didn't really look great, but he
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  came in and pitched six innings today, only allowed one
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  earned run on four hits, seven strikeouts. He had been
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  a starter at USC last year, he'd been lights out
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  on the bullpen this year. That could be their third
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  guy this year. They might have really found that. And
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  if he can keep up these kind of performances along
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  with what vig you and Volksko have been doing, that's
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  going to be really really good going alongside that offense
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  that we don't really have many doubts about at all.
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  Speaker 1: Hundred percent. I'm with you first of all. Yes, the
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  Aochi Truther is among us, we're up, stock is up,
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  we're feeling good. Things are great. But yeah, Quinn, I
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  do want to touch with you on something that Josh
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  brought up. Obviously we can talk about we can talk
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  about George's offense, and I think that's what I want
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  to do. Daniel Jackson has kind of reached a level
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  that I don't think any of us thought this was
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  the level he could achieve, at least on staff. Now,
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  I'm sure there's some Wisenheimer out there in the world
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  who's like, actually, I called Daniel Jackson in this article
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  seven years ago, and somebody will say that. But on
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  our staff, certainly none of us thought Daniel Jackson was
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  going to be this, right Quinn.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if there's many people you can expect
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  to go out and have a twenty twenty season, especially
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  as a catcher. So yeah, Daniel Jackson's and pretty unreal,
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  and I think it's somebody we need to be talking
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  about more in draft conversations. I know there's thoughts about
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  his defense. I'm not gonna say one way or another,
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  but there are thoughts. And even if he does slide
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  into the outfield, obviously his offensive production has been legit
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  enough to warrant. I don't know round two, round three
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  conversation at this point. So sure, yeah, it's been fun
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  to watch.
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  Speaker 2: I mean from from from a draft perspective, I think,
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  like you said, like he had definitely a Day one
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  guy at this point. I think even if we're going
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  just like a like this season college perspective, I think
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  he's the leader in the clubhouse for SEC Player of
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  the Year, unless I'm forgetting somebody obvious, like like Currell
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  is up there, like Grahovac Robbins maybe yeah, we'll touch
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  on Grohovac later.
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  Speaker 4: That's the name.
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  Speaker 2: But like Lowson, I guess, But like Daniel Jackson, I think,
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  I think would be my favorite right now, which is
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  I mean, like crazy to think about, but like truely,
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  I mean the productions are deniable, Like what he has done,
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  the leaps and the striats he's made this year is undeniable.
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  Speaker 1: Truly, it really is Quinn really quick. When we think
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  about ole miss for this weekend, who stands out for you?
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  Are there any players specifically that jump off the pages
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  being like, hey, great weekend out of this, dude, we're done.
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  Speaker 3: Two big ones, Dom Decker and Will Furness. I was
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  happy to see Will Furness get going. He had three
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  bombs on the weekend. And it's been a down year
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  in production for him as a senior, which you don't
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  love to see. But sitting there, you're sitting the ball
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  in the ground a lot, and obviously he didn't do
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  that this weekend, so good, really good for him. Hopefully
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  he stays. He stays where he's at right now, and
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  if he does keep producing like this, maybe ole Miss
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  has a higher ceiling than we thought. And then Dom
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  Decker out of the leadoff spot, had a really good
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  weekend as well. You can read about both these guys
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  on the daily sheet that'll be out tomorrow. So I
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  have more thoughts there.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, Hey, I love the plug. Also, I love it,
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  Love the plug, Love the plug. Quhenn, that is going
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  to be an extra extra three dollars to your payment.
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  The plug was nice, well done. Hey, remember remind me
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  of that. But yeah, absolutely, Man, the furnace getting hot
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  is something that you like that, That's something that Ole
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  Miss is gonna obviously look. But then you know, you
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  talk about guys like like furnace, they picked up the
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  team when some of their expected guys really kind of
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  craft the bed. If I could be so honest, Josh
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  will tell you. In the College Baseball Now group chat,
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  I spent probably twenty minutes talking about how much I
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  love Tristan Massetta and then he's gonna casually go over
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  ten on a day, so I'm just gonna shut up
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  go forward. But yeah, cold day for him. Quite a
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  series though Josh any kind of wrap up thoughts on
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  Georgia Ole miss before keep doing.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, a word that we've used on this pot
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  a lot is just cinematic.
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  Speaker 2: It was awesome to watch all of yesterday because to
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  be honest, like I had, I didn't turn the game off,
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  but I really considered it when it was eight, oh
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  Georgia yesterday and then almost keep falling back. I came
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  upstairs like a shower and it was like eight, I
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  want to say three or four, And then I had
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  like my almost friend texted me like what is going on?
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  I pick up my phone it's eight to seven, and
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  the next thing I.
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  Speaker 4: Know, like they're up.
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  Speaker 2: It was crazy, and last night I I just wanted
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  to go to bed. I was so tired, and that
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  game kept me up so much longer than I wanted
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  it to. I was really I was pulling for Georgia
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  for the Pickham's sake, but I was like, at this point,
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  I don't care who wins. I just really I want
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  this thing to be over. It's been awesome. I just
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  wanted to be over. And then Trey Phelps came through
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  for me in the top of the fourteenth. I'm like,
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  all right, we got it. And then it really wasn't
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  helping when almost just kept rotating pictures and it's like, dude,
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  this is They did it today too, and the I
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  think was the eighth, ninth, whatever it was, they just
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  kept rotating pictures like every batter and like we got
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  to get a move on.
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  Speaker 4: But it was. It was awesome baseball.
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  Speaker 3: It was.
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  Speaker 4: It was great to watch two of the best.
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  Speaker 2: Seven Ish teams and the SEC maybe higher, which is
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  a top fifteen, top sixteen team in the country.
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  Speaker 4: So it's great to see them in a series like oh,
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  series like that.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, it is absolutely is. Let that head suffer just
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  a minute, josh it. Let it settle down. Man, you
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  got going there, because we're gonna talk about Virginia. Acc favorite.
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  Somebody say, Virginia get blown out, like they got it,
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  they got their stuff all pushed in by Pitt. I don't.
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  Speaker 4: I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not entirely sure what happened here. I don't know.
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  When I looked at the at the results from Friday,
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  nice and that's weird. They'll get this together. Looked at
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  it last night, except that's weird. Virginia will come back today,
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  looked at it on the way home from Startville and thought,
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  what's happening, Quinn, what's happening?
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  Speaker 3: I wish I knew? I mean you can you could
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  ask that about the entirety of the a SEC this year.
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  Speaker 1: It's just weird.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean they weren't at full strength this weekend.
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  I mean maybe that's one reason you could point to
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  no Becker all weekend, no Grossia games one and two.
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  So I bet they got one hit on Saturday, Like
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  that's just that's not what should happen in a top
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  fifth with the top fifteen team going to Pittsburgh just
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  doesn't really make any sense. Pitching wasn't good outside of
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  zak Kowski. Kyle Johnson gave up seven, payone, gave up four,
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  just not really getting much from anyone outside of Takowski.
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  Speaker 1: And I mean that alone, those are a lot of
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  hills to overcome Gwyn and clearly it was too much
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  for Virginia. You take pieces from them. Bad performances kicked
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  into the mix, like that's a cocktail that's gonna really
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  spell and taste like defeat for a lot of teams.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I can't imagine Virginia's depth is as
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  good as they wanted to be given a first year
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  head coach and losing a lot of guys to the
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  portal with O'Connor go in Mississippi State. But yeah, it
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  hurt him for sure.
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  Speaker 1: On the flip side of that, Josh, let's about Pitt.
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  So obviously the format here, you did a great job
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  of describing this team who wants to be in a
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  free fall. Uh, Pitt might have kind of put their
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  arms out and stopped themselves on the sides of the cliff.
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  And I guess my question for you is can they
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  climb back up or was this just a one time
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  blip or flash of the pan.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I would like to say they can, but
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  if we're being real, like for example, this past week,
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  like when Jake and I were doing the bracketology, right,
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  they were on the bubble, and I forget we might
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  have even had them in a couple of weeks ago.
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  Speaker 4: I don't remember, to be honest, but they've been on
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  that bubble this week.
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  Speaker 2: It got to the point where, you know, when you're
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  talking about those last seven eight ish teams in the field,
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  we have a list of like twenty to twenty five
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  ish that you're all kind of considering at one point, Yeah,
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  very early on, we looked at that list right now
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  and we're like pick.
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  Speaker 4: No, see you like no chance.
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  Speaker 2: And after this, like I still lean towards they probably
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  don't have much of a chance, but you have to
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  look at it a little bit more now. I guess
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  their RPI is up to forty five, which is very
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  reasonable for postseason play.
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  Speaker 4: They're above five hundred and quad one.
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  Speaker 2: They're eight and six in Quad one with a four
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  and two Quad two record, Like this weekend might have
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  solely gotten them out of that ditch, and like it
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  depends how the end of season. They have a really
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  I cannot emphasize this enough, really really really tough end
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  of the year.
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  Speaker 4: They go to Florida State in two Chapel Hill and
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  they helped Notre Dame.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I mean, like it's nice right now, and
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  it's a cool story right now, but that's I don't
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  know if you can really pull yourself out of that
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  unless they just do phenomenal in Charlotte. And like I'm
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  not saying they need the auto bid, but like championship
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  game would be probably required. I don't know, but the
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  RPI certainly helps. But you know, it's gonna go down
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  a lot pretty soon. I mean, also shout out Lorenzo Carrier.
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  He's been their best player all year, fourteen hundred ops.
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  This weekend he was six for nine with three walks,
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  a home run in two doubles, so he was on
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  seventy five percent at the time, had three extra base hits.
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  Just an insane weekend against a pitching staff that looked
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  kind of iffy for most of the season, and he
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  really took advantage of it.
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  Speaker 1: He sure did. And you know, Carrier, we we talk
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  a lot about him. I know that he's getting a
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  lot of love nationally. I think that I think a
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  team is going to get a really interesting money saving
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  opportunity for a guy who really has nothing to lose
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  but to go out and just ball out professionally. So
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  that's gonna be really really compelling to see what happens
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  with him. Yeah, another thing, Josh you said just a
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  minute ago, and I've got to get this in about
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  Pitt because this is awesome. Pitt swept Virginia, Like, let's
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  just you at home. Pitt swept Virginia, Like, be sure
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  that that registers with you what I'm saying here, But Josh,
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  you said it a minute ago. This is a great
• 17:46
  story right now, but I wonder how it's gonna end.
• 17:49
  Game of Thrones was a really great story then it ended.
• 17:53
  So I wonder how many of our favorites will be
• 17:55
  beheaded and who will end up being the new the
• 17:58
  new whatever, the new King of wester Ros, the new
• 18:01
  King of Pittsburgh. Will it be Noah Wiley? I don't
• 18:07
  know either way? Uh wait, I want to stick with
• 18:10
  you here, buddy, because we talked about it pit three
• 18:14
  games over Virginia that had to have been the only
• 18:16
  insane thing that happened in the a sec right, like
• 18:18
  that hadn't be Surely no other major sweeps.
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: Oh no, there were? Sorry, Yeah, Stanford swept Florida State.
• 18:30
  Huh how about that?
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: How about them as well? You know, Josh, I feel
• 18:36
  like it was just yesterday that I kept saying on
• 18:38
  our podcast Stanford could do some stuff, guys, now, now,
• 18:42
  what if?
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: What if?
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: Stanford? And then as the year went on that that
• 18:45
  I just gotta put my Stanford hat for it back
• 18:48
  there and just ignored it. I ignored my dark toward
• 18:52
  past of being a Stanford Truther.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: I love that Sanford Truther. I would put my.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: Stanford come back on though, and say what if gosh
• 19:00
  I called this all along?
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: I mean, what's so funny about it?
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: As you were taking victory laps on Stanford after beating
• 19:08
  Arizona on Game one and now we know what Arizona
• 19:12
  is and it's just so yeah, I mean they did
• 19:16
  if I remember Kirk, I think they beat Nebraska that
• 19:19
  first week, which is like a very good win now,
• 19:23
  but it is funny the thing in heinzde about Stanford
• 19:25
  that way. I mean like they're there. They have no
• 19:28
  chance of an at large or anything, so I mean
• 19:30
  we can kind.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Of got it.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: You know, some of those they could be a little
• 19:34
  fun In Charlotte, I don't know, they have an easy
• 19:36
  schedule to end the year, but I don't know it
• 19:39
  is it is funny.
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: I thought about you.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: I'm like, you know what I's telling you, Like, I
• 19:43
  don't know a month and a half ago that Stanford
• 19:46
  sweet Worter steak, You're probably thinking like, oh yeah, are
• 19:48
  we like hosting or like like what's going on here?
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Then here we are, so run us through Stanford's end
• 19:54
  of year schedule, because that's a great point. I'd love
• 19:57
  for the listening.
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: Let me. See they have.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: They go to Notre Dame, they host n C State,
• 20:07
  and they go to col which isn't the easiest thing
• 20:10
  in the world, but like compared to how other ACC
• 20:12
  schedules could be, like, it's really.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Not that bad all things considered. That's not terrible.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: No, it's not. But also I saw this earlier or
• 20:21
  not I saw this. I just noticed this earlier. If
• 20:23
  you look at the ACC this year, there's like no
• 20:28
  bad teams.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: I would say, like there's not there's like obviously some
• 20:31
  teams that aren't great, but like, I don't know who's
• 20:34
  the clear worst team. It might be col Or Like uh,
• 20:38
  I mean, geez, Clemson maybe, which is nuts to say,
• 20:41
  but like it could be like, uh.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: I would say cal but Clemson's in that next two.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: I want to say Duke. But like they gave Carolina
• 20:51
  a little bit of their run for their money this
• 20:53
  weekend and well they just got waxed yesterday, but that's
• 20:58
  a different story.
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: I don't know. It's tough.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: So, like there really is no easy series, but compared
• 21:04
  to what you could get drawing a I mean they
• 21:07
  already played a Florida State, but drawing at Georgia Tech
• 21:09
  or a Florida State or a Carolina Boston College whoever
• 21:13
  like they called. They drag none of those, like they pulled,
• 21:15
  none of those. And I don't know if they got
• 21:17
  a shot to at least help their seating in Charlotte
• 21:19
  a little bit.
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: That's all. That's the only upside I can think of.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Quinn, Meanwhile, Florida State, you know, we've we've talked
• 21:26
  the last couple of weeks about how this is a
• 21:28
  team that we all kind of had up on the
• 21:30
  pedestal and we were saying, look at our boys, Florida State.
• 21:33
  We've called them, we have praised this team from the jump,
• 21:37
  and now the pedestal's crumbling. Uh, there's some nonsense happening.
• 21:41
  But Quinn, my question, do you who if anybody held
• 21:45
  the beacon up and said, if the team shall falter,
• 21:48
  I shall stand, who's the who's the seminoles? We can
• 21:51
  credit and we can praise here.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: So I was a little worried about Florida State once
• 21:58
  Miles Bailey went down at He's obviously big, big power bat,
• 22:04
  he obviously has that questional hit tool, but he was
• 22:06
  that guy that like really kind of opened the lineup
• 22:09
  up that gave some protection right now, they don't. I don't.
• 22:14
  I don't know if they really have that. I don't
• 22:16
  think they hit a home run this week if I'm
• 22:19
  not mistaken. One home run, Eli Putnam, Oh right, you're
• 22:26
  nine hitter you yeah, Hunter Karnes, if there's one guy.
• 22:32
  I've been a fan of Hunter Carns.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: For a bit.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: It's been a little shaky over his first two years,
• 22:38
  but he had a pretty good weekend. Two hits on
• 22:42
  Game one, hitting Game two, two hits in Game three.
• 22:46
  So if you're looking for any hope, Hunter Carnes maybe
• 22:49
  takes that leap into stardom that you maybe expected when
• 22:53
  he was a freshman.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: I know Carns on a strikeout problem this weekend, though,
• 22:57
  So I mean that's kind of us that where there
• 23:00
  was not much to hang your hat on this weekend.
• 23:03
  So even the guys that looked pretty good, you know
• 23:04
  you could there's both sides.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Do it, yeah, war Yeah, Well, you know you'll have
• 23:10
  that sometimes, and it is kind of interesting that we
• 23:13
  maybe we put it on the ten and we're kind
• 23:15
  of ignoring the main point. This is a team who
• 23:18
  kind of, like you said about Pitt Josh I wouldn't
• 23:20
  say Florida State's in a free fall, but they are
• 23:23
  definitely kind of tumbling down the hill. I don't know
• 23:25
  if you guys have seen the movie Hot Ride where
• 23:27
  Andy Seenberg is rolling down the gigantic hill that's just started.
• 23:31
  He's not rolling for another two or three minutes extended now,
• 23:34
  but they're rolling down a hill and hopefully they can
• 23:37
  get their bearings a lot quicker than rod Ken bollten.
• 23:40
  Uh Ah, now this sight for sore eyes. Can guys can't?
• 23:48
  I'm begging? Can we talk about how Alabama has dropped
• 23:52
  a third straight series. Josh, why don't you take it
• 23:57
  from here? I believe it was the University of Tennessee volunteers.
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: Yes, good old Rocky Top.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: I mean, I'm sure you know a thing or two
• 24:05
  about that.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: Look, no one wants. No one wants to hear what
• 24:07
  I have to say about this series. You go, you talk,
• 24:10
  and then we'll take it from there. No one wants
• 24:11
  to hear it.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: We had say first, well, if you insist, I think
• 24:17
  that the key thing here is that what did I
• 24:23
  say in our last episode? These two teams both need
• 24:27
  this win. This series win tremendously but for radically different reasons. Uh,
• 24:33
  if you'll recap with me, Josh, I believe the logic
• 24:36
  here was Alabama needs to put a stamp and say
• 24:39
  we're fine, this is okay, this slide stops now. We
• 24:43
  are still who you all thought we were we were
• 24:47
  prior for Tennessee. Of course this needed to be hold
• 24:51
  up now. But this is the team that swept Mississippi State.
• 24:55
  At the dude, this is the team who came in
• 24:58
  a top five, ten, fifteen ish team in the nation.
• 25:04
  We can still handle this, and especially at home. Friday
• 25:07
  night did not go the volunteer's way. Alabama did pretty well.
• 25:11
  I'll credit them Teak and Coons on Saturday, absolute matt Man.
• 25:16
  That is the Teac and Coons that we had in
• 25:19
  our top thirty if trending towards twenty five at the
• 25:21
  beginning of the season. That's the Teac and Coons that
• 25:23
  all of us have said, if the stuff is on,
• 25:26
  if he has got that swagger about him, if he's on,
• 25:29
  he's untouchable. Almost the breaking balls are just stupid. It's
• 25:33
  a professional fastball, a pro body. This guy went out
• 25:37
  and proved I'm the day one guy. Fight me on
• 25:40
  it and if you don't believe me, then hit me.
• 25:42
  And I mean looking at the numbers this weekend, eight
• 25:47
  innings pitched with a grand total of three hits and
• 25:51
  nine punchies. I'll take that from Teak and Coons. Awesome stuff.
• 25:55
  We want to talk about Trent Grindlinger really really quick
• 25:57
  as well. I think that he has had a coming
• 26:00
  out party the last couple of weeks. But man just
• 26:03
  crushed a homer in the second second inning of the
• 26:05
  first game. Going into that second game in that doubleheader,
• 26:09
  Obviously Alabama did kind of push a little bit earlier,
• 26:12
  but Tennessee really kind of put the kebash on the game.
• 26:15
  A seven run sixth inning. That's gonna started with Blaine
• 26:20
  Brown rocking his first of two homers. That'll be a
• 26:24
  double dong day, Quinn, know, is what I'm talking about.
• 26:27
  Henry Ford with a big single, Grindloger come up with
• 26:29
  another big Headstone Lawless driving the runs around. Tennessee did
• 26:34
  exactly what I've wanted to see from Tennessee all year, Josh.
• 26:37
  They lifted one another up. It was a consistent offensive effort.
• 26:41
  And since we're talking pitching, Evan Blanco looked solid. RV
• 26:45
  looked good, Rudy looked good. This is the Tennessee that
• 26:48
  I want to see going forward, and it gives me
• 26:50
  so much hope that maybe we can see a sweet
• 26:53
  next weekend. What if this team takes a game off
• 26:56
  of Texas? What if this team it takes I'm not
• 27:01
  gonna get selfish. What if this team takes too off
• 27:03
  of Texas? I don't know, Quinn. I want to start
• 27:06
  with you. Most impressive performance from the Tennessee side this weekend,
• 27:10
  will say.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: Grind linger, easy, that one more one hundred and thirteen
• 27:15
  mile an hour laser beam. If there's a word that
• 27:20
  is stronger than laser beam, I would use that out
• 27:22
  to centerfield off the batter's.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Hide, rock rock. I love that. Yeah, I mean it
• 27:28
  literally was just a cannon ball, just fast, firm, insane.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, nasty, It was nasty.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: You're absolutely right, dog one hundred and thirteen dollars. Kids
• 27:42
  are freshman, love it, Josh. I do want to task
• 27:45
  you with a particularly difficult thing for any of us.
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: I don't like where you're going, I know.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: But somebody's got to do it. It ain't going to
• 27:54
  be me, and that's what delegation gets. You can you
• 27:56
  point out an Alabama player who you were particularly impressed
• 28:00
  with over the weekend.
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: Can I do a good and a bad one so
• 28:05
  I don't just have to do the good? All right?
• 28:09
  Thank you? Also, something I do want to hit on
• 28:11
  that you said, just like kind of to touch on it. Well,
• 28:15
  the taking Kons thing is obvious.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: I mean, like his curve ball looked awesome in his
• 28:18
  game and like he I think you said a clear
• 28:21
  day one guy.
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: I think that's like no debate at all. I think
• 28:25
  round one is the debate.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: And actually, I on my life I had a conversation
• 28:29
  with someone an hour ago about whether or not, like
• 28:32
  I think taking Koons is the Round one guy or not.
• 28:35
  I lean towards borderline no right now, but it could
• 28:39
  very well be a yes. He could very well work
• 28:41
  his way in there. It wouldn't shock me at all.
• 28:42
  I think, like will he be? Probably should he be?
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: What? We can talk about that.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: But at the point back to Bama, there really wasn't
• 28:53
  anything that like stood out in particular, like Tyler Fay
• 28:57
  and Miles up Church didn't look bad and there's still
• 29:00
  they weren't good.
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: They weren't bad though, Zane Adam's different story.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Eric Hines and Brendan Holt had pretty solid weekends, but
• 29:08
  those were the only like mostly consistent offensive guys I
• 29:11
  can think of. Justin Lebron again did like the I
• 29:18
  don't know what to say because I feel like I'm
• 29:19
  a broken record at this point. He with four strikeouts,
• 29:24
  not a single RBI, like he had that hitting streak
• 29:27
  going on for a while, and I would really if
• 29:29
  I ever have too much free this is probably not
• 29:32
  gonna happen, but if I ever have too much free
• 29:33
  time in the New York future, I would like to
• 29:35
  see how many games of that hitting streak of his
• 29:37
  were one for fours or one for threes, because it
• 29:40
  seemed like a lot, and he tends to just do
• 29:43
  that every game.
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: I kid you not, it is.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: I wish I had account of this too, because I
• 29:48
  would love to know the numbers on it. How many
• 29:50
  times I turn on a Bama baseball game Justin Lebron's
• 29:53
  up to bat and he rolls over to the left
• 29:55
  side of the enfield for a ground out, it is
• 29:57
  like at least seventy percent.
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: I'm not kidding.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: That's probably not an accurate number, but it really feels
• 30:02
  like it. I think every time it happens. I kind
• 30:04
  of laugh and I just sit back and I'm like,
• 30:06
  it's every time. Yeah, I mean, like, look, I see
• 30:11
  I see the potential with them in the future. But
• 30:13
  he's doing the same thing he did last year, where
• 30:15
  he just beats up on bad pitchers and non complay.
• 30:18
  He gets the SEC and he's like their fourth best bat.
• 30:22
  Like it's it's kind of ridiculous from a consistency standpoint
• 30:25
  at least, Like I mean, also, defensively, this was Lebron's
• 30:29
  had these issues this year, but the team as a
• 30:31
  whole is the main thing. This team had six errors
• 30:34
  again this weekend. It is one of the worst defensive teams.
• 30:39
  It might it's probably pretty easily the worst SEC defensive
• 30:42
  team besides like the Zoo I can think of, because
• 30:45
  they just consistently mess up so many errors. You're going
• 30:48
  down these pitchers box scores and it's like four runs allowed,
• 30:52
  zero earned. It just consistently happens. Yeah, and they have
• 30:57
  some guys like Bryce Faller that makes seller plays and
• 31:00
  makes them really stellar plays sometimes, but it's just they
• 31:03
  had these really bad like duffs every once in a while,
• 31:05
  and it just really comes back to bite them, especially
• 31:08
  in these close games. I know, like Game two wasn't
• 31:10
  close at all, but like Game one that ended up winning,
• 31:13
  that could have shifted something very easily, and they've had
• 31:15
  a lot of games like that. We're just an air.
• 31:17
  I'm waiting for it to happen in a big spot,
• 31:19
  in like a postseason game, because the way that God
• 31:22
  probably do to happen.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: And it'll be so much more visible at that point. Josh,
• 31:27
  I know that we we it's no spirit you I
• 31:31
  I think, JB. Jake, we've been down on Justin Lebron.
• 31:35
  That's a fair easy way to put it. I don't
• 31:37
  think any of us can deny though, that he has
• 31:40
  what some might call magical skill set right Like there's
• 31:43
  there's a lot of magic to what he can do.
• 31:46
  But the magic I saw this weekend was making himself
• 31:48
  disappear when Alabama needed it. And it's disappointing because that's
• 31:52
  not what Alabama needs. We've said it all year long, Josh,
• 31:55
  that team will go as their star goes, and this
• 31:58
  week and when he ran into a big right hand,
• 32:02
  a big orange vist on Friday and it just was
• 32:05
  not what they needed. That said Quinn, I know you
• 32:09
  are actually one of those who defend Justin Lebron, and
• 32:11
  you almost you push back on our dislike, I'm curious
• 32:15
  when you look at this weekend, are there positives you
• 32:18
  can take from Lebron's performance or was this maybe just
• 32:21
  chalking up to bad again?
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: No, I mean, I defend Lebron in the point that
• 32:29
  he has potentially four plus tools, and you don't get
• 32:34
  that a lot, right, But you can't deny the lack
• 32:40
  of conference play. He's just been bad in conference but
• 32:44
  over the last two years, you can't really deny it.
• 32:47
  It's his his closest taste to professional pitching, and I'm
• 32:51
  sure scouting directors are going to weigh that heavily. So
• 32:55
  as much as I want to defend the tools, if
• 32:58
  you can't if you're not hitting them and they don't
• 33:01
  mean a ton to me.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: I was about to say, it's also hurts that, like,
• 33:04
  if you're gonna have, like you said, potentially four plus tools,
• 33:08
  which I think is a very accurate statement. As low
• 33:11
  as I am on him compared to people, that is
• 33:12
  a very accurate statement. The one tool you don't want
• 33:15
  to be the non plus tool, is probably the hit tool.
• 33:18
  Exactly so, and the fact that it's like and it's
• 33:22
  it may it may be a thirty right, No, that's
• 33:24
  what I'm saying, Like it's I think I personally I
• 33:27
  float back and forth between forty and forty five, and
• 33:29
  like that could be generous depending who you talk to.
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: I gess I.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: As the year went on, I was thinking, like, say,
• 33:37
  a non conference play, he was kind of starting to
• 33:40
  open my eyes, like, all right, he might have fixed things.
• 33:42
  But I kept saying, like, let's see it in conference play,
• 33:44
  because this is exactly what happened last year and now
• 33:46
  the exact same thing is happening again, so I kind
• 33:51
  of want to see him, Like you said, the reason
• 33:53
  why a lot of people want evaluating prospects look at
• 33:57
  data versus SEC pitchers, whether you're in the conference or not.
• 34:00
  If you have a sample size against SEC pitchers, it's
• 34:02
  really important because that is objectively, like some people, you know,
• 34:07
  conference probably is a big thing in college sports, obviously,
• 34:09
  but objectively, in baseball, SEC pitching is the closest thing
• 34:12
  you have to pro pitching, and Lebron just he lays
• 34:16
  a goose egg every single year at this point, and
• 34:18
  it's not really comforting to seeing a guy that you know,
• 34:21
  projection is the name of the game with him.
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: I mean, I guess what I just said.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: Parsley could be thrown on my face a little bit like, oh,
• 34:28
  he could get better at it, which is like true.
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: But I mean like it's kind of like we talked
• 34:32
  about other guys.
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: I kind of want to see it at a certain point, like, yes,
• 34:35
  this level, because other guys are doing it at this.
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: Level and he's not. That's the thing. The other guys
• 34:39
  like drafted way lower, like in way lower, rounds way
• 34:44
  for the boards, are doing it and he's not.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: I did not intend for this to come up. Judgment.
• 34:48
  Let's look at it like this. Let's say last year
• 34:50
  you have two players. One of them, Justin Lebron, does
• 34:53
  incredibly poorly against does less than expected against SEC pitching,
• 34:59
  if not incredibly poorly. Another player overperforms excels against a
• 35:05
  kind of a lower mid major and now moves to
• 35:09
  the SEC because who's been a better hitter against SEC pitchers,
• 35:12
  Aiden Robbins or Justin Lebron.
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I felt that's where you're going with this.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: I well, the thing is with Aiden Robbins is he
• 35:19
  even had the swing and miss issues last year and
• 35:21
  that was in the Big East.
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's kind of fixed that.
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: Like, if I remember correctly, his swing and miss numbers
• 35:30
  and sec played this year are better than they were
• 35:34
  in Big East play last year exactly, which is like,
• 35:39
  which is an insane progression that you know you love
• 35:41
  to see. And the guy that who like projection is
• 35:43
  the name of the game with him, he did really
• 35:45
  well in the Cape. Like, that's the kind of stuff
• 35:47
  you were looking for coming into this year and we
• 35:50
  just haven't seen it from Lebron at all.
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's part of it. You're not seeing it right now.
• 35:56
  And I pulled up some numbers from his conference play
• 36:01
  three eighteen opp and I think the part that hurts
• 36:05
  the most is three ninety two slug because six x
• 36:08
  ray hits in eighty eight plate appearances. His overall with
• 36:13
  rate is thirty percent, and that climbs to forty seven
• 36:16
  percent on sliders, which is disgusting. She's chasing a lot,
• 36:21
  he's swinging a lot. I think he's probably pressing because
• 36:25
  of that noise in the back of his head. So
• 36:29
  maybe when he gets to maybe if I'm taking the
• 36:32
  positive side, maybe he gets to Loway and all of
• 36:36
  that noise is gone. He's able to just crush some
• 36:38
  Carolina League pitching. Maybe it helps, maybe maybe that noise.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: Goes away realistically, No Quinn, that's a that's very valid.
• 36:46
  You you lose the noise of I need to play
• 36:49
  well so that I can provide for a future for
• 36:51
  my family. I need to play well so that I
• 36:53
  can get drafted as highly as I want to. I
• 36:56
  need my dreams to come true. Stop screwing this up
• 36:58
  for me. You lose all that and you say, I'm here,
• 37:01
  it's time to play the game. It's time to play
• 37:03
  some baseball.
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: That's a great point though, because there is so much
• 37:06
  of this that is mental that we as as pundits
• 37:10
  we'll never see. We can empathize with it, and I
• 37:14
  hope that we are. But again, the performance has been lackluster.
• 37:18
  But when you're absolutely right, if it's four plus tools
• 37:21
  and the hit tool is the one, I mean, what
• 37:23
  if he goes to an ORC who has phenomenal advancements
• 37:26
  in hitting, that's a dream project.
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, send them to Cleveland.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, why do I You.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: Doesn't strike me as a Cleveland player and the slightest
• 37:39
  but like you know, we'll see what happens so much.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: Cleveland also needs a middle dfielder, like I need a
• 37:44
  hole in the head. Let's move on talking about what
• 37:48
  does this say Auburn. Well, that cues you right away, Josh.
• 37:51
  Auburn keeps rolling a top fifteen series win over Oklahoma
• 37:57
  more evil.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: Huh And yeah you could say that, yeah, war Eagle.
• 38:05
  But there's a lot of things I could take away
• 38:09
  from this. Today was awesome. The first couple of games
• 38:10
  are pretty close. I Guessterday was a little frustrating with
• 38:15
  the low offensive putouts.
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: I think I'm trying to think.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: I actually I don't come into this with Auburn notes
• 38:23
  because I just kind of want to stream of consciousness
• 38:25
  that I have two things that come to mind big time.
• 38:29
  Auburn has out of nowhere become a home run team,
• 38:32
  and they like they showed a number on the broadcast today,
• 38:35
  and I forget, like I kind of been noticing this
• 38:37
  and then like I saw this. I saw a number
• 38:39
  and it like really popped off. But somewhere along the
• 38:42
  lines of let's just say, like, well over half of
• 38:45
  Auburn's runs this weekend came from the long ball, and
• 38:48
  recently it's like, how do I put this, the amount
• 38:52
  of home runs Auburn has in their last ten games
• 38:56
  is like ten more than they had the entire beginning
• 38:59
  of the season, probably, and that was against worst pitching too.
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: So I don't really know what's clicked and what's happened,
• 39:04
  but it's awesome to see.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: I mean, like guys like Ethan Binghaman, Eric Guvara above, Terrell,
• 39:09
  Chase Freylick, all putting the bat on the ball super
• 39:12
  super well, getting to their power very well. Freylik has
• 39:16
  become really good on that front. Bingham Man had three
• 39:19
  home runs today. Seven RBI came on those three home runs,
• 39:22
  one of which being the walk off, even though it
• 39:24
  was a run rule walk off. It's really good to
• 39:28
  see because I mean, think about it, who's the name
• 39:31
  that I did not just mention right there?
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: Chris Rembert, right, and if all those other guys.
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: I mean, granted, I've talked about this at nauseum, but
• 39:39
  like Bove, Terrell hasn't really been phenomenal lately, but he's
• 39:43
  still like when he makes contact with the ball, he
• 39:44
  gets a hold of it. Although this weekend he was
• 39:46
  pretty good. He went five for eleven with two home runs,
• 39:48
  A couple of doubles. He looked pretty good this weekend
• 39:50
  against that I don't know the word for that Oklahoma
• 39:54
  pitching staff. The relievers were solid, but the starters put
• 39:58
  them in too much.
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: Of a hole.
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: Fresh really matter. All I have to say I come
• 40:03
  around to this. My second big takeaway on the weekend
• 40:08
  is this kind of I don't want to say. It
• 40:09
  paints me to say, because like he's a good guy
• 40:11
  and everything, but as a whole, I've been really low
• 40:14
  on Eric Guivara compared to most people. The people I
• 40:18
  worked with last year have been too. It's just there
• 40:21
  are so many things you just like, the human element
• 40:23
  of it. There's so many things you see from a
• 40:26
  guy over and over time and time again, you just
• 40:28
  kind of get frustrated with it. But the numbers, like
• 40:32
  the data, the metrics are purely undeniable with him this year.
• 40:36
  What he's doing, Like, you take those numbers and you
• 40:38
  would expect that to be some offensive stuff. You expect
• 40:42
  that to be on a round one guy, truly, Like
• 40:45
  if you take the whiff numbers and the power numbers
• 40:46
  and everything that's a round one guy, you would expect
• 40:49
  the chase is a little it's a little rough, but
• 40:52
  like some of the best players in the game have
• 40:54
  chased issues like it does happen this weekend. He was
• 40:57
  or sorry today in particular, four for four with a
• 41:01
  home run, two doubles, three RBI. On the weekend as
• 41:05
  a whole, seven for twelve, two home runs, two doubles,
• 41:09
  six RBI. He has been the best offensive guy for
• 41:13
  this team for a while. It seems like he's on
• 41:16
  a oh what's the hitting streak up to now? It's uh,
• 41:19
  somewhere in like the late teens, and he's been batting
• 41:22
  well over four hundred in that stretch. He's been awesome lately,
• 41:25
  and Alburn needed a bat like that. Freylink has been
• 41:28
  pretty consistent too, but Alburn needed a bat like that.
• 41:30
  And the Crane brothers did worse this weekend than usual.
• 41:34
  Everyone else stepped up around them. Patrick Vick looked great today, Yeah,
• 41:39
  I mean like I mean L. J. Cormier was great
• 41:41
  in relief yesterday. Like a lot of the pieces really
• 41:43
  came together this weekend.
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: Oklahoma.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: There's some other notes on that too, but like from
• 41:47
  an Auburn perspective, a lot of really comforting things that
• 41:50
  have kind of been like an accumulation of the past
• 41:53
  few weeks that just really all came through this weekend
• 41:55
  at once, or really today in particular for being honest.
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, great transition, Josh. You normally get one or
• 42:02
  two of those per episodes, so I'm glad you ticked
• 42:03
  that off the list. Quinn, that's perfect transition to you, though. Oklahoma,
• 42:08
  obviously this is not the outcome that they wanted. A
• 42:11
  two to one tough for them, but again, like Josh said,
• 42:14
  it's a top fifteen series. Who stands out for you?
• 42:18
  For the Sooners, who is it that when you think
• 42:20
  about this weekend, maybe made a marker said, hey, we
• 42:23
  lost the series, but I am satisfied with the ever
• 42:25
  not put in.
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: Nolan Stevens had a pinch at home run today. I've
• 42:31
  liked Nolan Stevens for a while. Hasn't had the year
• 42:33
  that I would have hoped, but hit a pinching at
• 42:36
  home run today. Happy with that. I really like Jackson Willets,
• 42:41
  even though he didn't do a ton this week a
• 42:43
  ton this weekend. Just really like the bloodlines and just
• 42:47
  overall skill set there, and then pitching wise, it was
• 42:51
  a little tough. I'm gonna defend Cameron Johnson a little bit.
• 42:56
  I know the strikes are a massive issue, but the
• 42:59
  stuff's really good and he did manage five walks and
• 43:02
  three hits really well, not allowing any runs. A guy
• 43:07
  that is going to be pretty polarizing, but if you
• 43:10
  can figure out a solid development plan for him, he
• 43:13
  could be very good, potentially out of the bullpen. Probably
• 43:17
  out of the bullpen. But gives you some muldable play
• 43:20
  to work with.
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, yeah, I can't argue with that. It's
• 43:26
  certainly clay and there's there's a lot of intrigue to it.
• 43:29
  I think that you could make something really good as
• 43:31
  a professional with it. So I'm with you there, Quinn.
• 43:35
  I'm curious what do you know about Robert Lewis Stevenson.
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: That name is not familiar to me.
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: Ah, okay. He is an author. He wrote a very
• 43:45
  famous book called The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and
• 43:48
  Mister Hyde. Yeah, it's it's a pretty famous book. One
• 43:52
  of our favorite references. Here is a team. We're going
• 43:55
  to talk about Doctor Florida and mister Gators Florida. So
• 44:00
  finally the same series result back to back. Jake's logic
• 44:05
  is flawed. He has been debunked. Mind your lot, Josh,
• 44:10
  your logic flawed, flawed, Sir Quinn and continues rolling gets
• 44:18
  the series victory over Florida. Curious, what are your overarching
• 44:22
  thoughts on that series, Sir A and M's roll.
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Gaviner Hoovac is mashing right now. Toryan Wilson
• 44:30
  is like Barry Bonds right now. He's one of the
• 44:35
  most powerful freshmen. I think I've ever seen you to
• 44:38
  throw from right field today where there's a flyball he
• 44:43
  couldn't really see, kind of shallow towards the line and
• 44:46
  caught it facing the stands and right flipped his hips
• 44:50
  and through a dot to second base. Toryan Wilson's been
• 44:55
  very impressive. Yeah, I'm just I'm happy for Texte of
• 45:00
  A and M because kind of earlier in the year,
• 45:02
  I think there was like a little bit of a
• 45:03
  specifically good little they got a little sticky, just weren't
• 45:07
  we weren't sure what they were gonna do, given their
• 45:10
  pitching staff, some hitting question marks, whatever. But they figured
• 45:14
  it out. And it's in large part due to Grihovac
• 45:18
  and the rest just hitting the heck out of the ball.
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: That they are Girhovac has really kind of turned to
• 45:25
  court really A and M's turned a huge corner with
• 45:27
  me this year. I really was doubting them, but Girhovac
• 45:30
  has been a huge driver of them in my brain lately.
• 45:33
  He's been so special and it's really been doing damage. Josh,
• 45:37
  want to go to you for two things. First, U Sah, Obviously,
• 45:41
  we can't talk about AMM without talking about Sirell. He's
• 45:43
  he's continuing to kind of push his case towards Hey,
• 45:46
  if we're gonna talk about Day one guys, if we're
• 45:48
  gonna talk about Round one guys, and he does the
• 45:51
  kind of double thumbs out himself. Uh. The other thing is,
• 45:54
  I'd love it if you could talk about Florida just
• 45:56
  to kind of surmise and kind of encapsulate this very
• 46:00
  bipolarism that we've kind of talked about ad nauseam. Who
• 46:04
  are the stars of the bipolarism with Florida this weekend?
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we actually, you know, while I'm thinking
• 46:12
  about it, I meant to say this earlier. Uh, Tennessee
• 46:18
  is like sneaky a poor man's Florida When it comes
• 46:22
  to the Doctor Jeckyll, mister Hyde, thing like if you
• 46:24
  look at their series results week to week.
• 46:26
  Speaker 4: I just want to mention that I have noticed that.
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: No, no, they're fighting, it's working.
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: It's not necessarily a terrible thing like you would take
• 46:35
  that it compared to just the straight losing that it
• 46:37
  seemed like they're going on whoa, it's true.
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: Sorry, yeah, if they can stay in jeckal mode, I'll
• 46:44
  take that comparison. For Tennessee, that's fine, and that's not untrue.
• 46:47
  You're right, I'm stating Bunny.
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: I guess Aiden King would probably be the bright spot
• 46:53
  for Florida. Yet, I mean he's been pretty consistent week
• 46:55
  to week. I mean Liam Peterson died to Liam Peterson
• 46:59
  thing again this week where he has the bad outing
• 47:01
  after the good one, and then after the bad went.
• 47:03
  Speaker 4: After the good one, and it's so on and so forth.
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: That's probably the best thing to point here, because I mean,
• 47:12
  like some of your best bats didn't really come through
• 47:15
  and the losses. Ethan Sawick went over eight with three k's,
• 47:18
  Kyle Jones went one for nine with two k's.
• 47:20
  Speaker 4: That's kind of the headline there, Kitten Cerell.
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: I mean like he actually really didn't have that good
• 47:28
  of a weekend, which is strange because like the rest
• 47:30
  of the team really picked up for him, which is
• 47:32
  like comforting to see, I guess, but he was I
• 47:35
  think one for fourteen with like six strikeouts or something.
• 47:39
  I think Quinn within the first five seconds of talking
• 47:42
  hit on the two names that I wanted to talk
• 47:44
  about for a and m immediately Jordian Wilson has just
• 47:47
  been ridiculous and as a like, you know how in
• 47:51
  sports discourse sometimes people like everyone collectively will start to
• 47:57
  be like, we're not talking enough about filling the blank
• 47:59
  person him to the point where everybody is talking about them.
• 48:03
  That's what's happening right now with Jordian Wilson, and it's deserved.
• 48:06
  Like I'm glad he's being talked about, but I think
• 48:08
  everyone's like I was gonna do the thing that's like
• 48:10
  nobody's talking.
• 48:11
  Speaker 4: About Jordiyan Wilson, but now everyone is the name.
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: If we're talking about like round one stuff is a
• 48:21
  no for this that would be more of currel. But
• 48:23
  if we're going kind of like I mentioned earlier, I
• 48:26
  think Gavin Grohovac has a golden spikes argument. He wouldn't
• 48:28
  get my vote, but he most certainly thement at this point,
• 48:32
  like this weekend he went six for fourteen with two
• 48:34
  home runs five ARBI And this wasn't even like his
• 48:38
  best weekend ever, like it, don't get me wrong. In
• 48:40
  Game two he went four for four, I mean he
• 48:43
  had a home run in that game too, Like it
• 48:44
  was that was the peak of the weekend, very clearly.
• 48:48
  But I know guys like take Davis Landon, Harrison Rock Cholowski,
• 48:53
  they all have the biggest case of Daniel Jackson, They
• 48:55
  have the biggest cases for SEC player of the Year.
• 48:58
  Speaker 4: Or sorry for Golden Spike.
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: But Grohope is right up there, and he's been putting
• 49:04
  it together week to week and he's been kind of
• 49:05
  increasingly getting a little better week to week two. So
• 49:08
  I'm curious to see how that improves now. Unfortunately, they
• 49:11
  do host a certain Auburn team next weekend, which I
• 49:14
  would really personally prefer if he kind of like toik
• 49:17
  that on like a little bit.
• 49:18
  Speaker 4: But I'm not getting my hopes up at this point.
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: That is gonna be a fight, that's yeah, that's gonna
• 49:25
  be a tough one. Yeah, I'd hate to be on
• 49:28
  a podcast where you have to pick the winner of
• 49:29
  that one. Rough for whoever that might be all right,
• 49:34
  wrapping us up, Let's see.
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: You have one more comment about Jorian Wilson.
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: Please.
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: I love him. I think it's really really exciting that
• 49:45
  this is happening for Jorian Wilson. However, we do need
• 49:48
  to temper our expectations a little bit. He is running
• 49:51
  a forty right right now. I mean just need to
• 49:55
  I think we just need to temper our expectations a
• 49:58
  little bit. He's not this is not gonna to continue
• 50:00
  to happen.
• 50:01
  Speaker 4: I'm with you. But the big issue on that front,
• 50:06
  I would say, or not sorry, that's the big issue,
• 50:08
  The big how do I put this?
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: The big thing that can make you feel a little
• 50:14
  bit better than that about that is he is a
• 50:17
  freshman at the end of the day.
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: Yes he is.
• 50:19
  Speaker 4: Yes, that does happen.
• 50:21
  Speaker 3: Like that, it happens. I'm just saying, you don't. I
• 50:25
  want everybody to be freaking out with you. And then
• 50:27
  he strikes out in the eight of his next tenant
• 50:30
  bats because it may happen.
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: Sometimes the offensive equivalent to like, you know how for pictures,
• 50:35
  it's like, man, if there's a freshman picture, it's like
• 50:38
  they have really good stuff, but what can they not
• 50:40
  do they have no control, Like they just can't throw
• 50:42
  strikes right, they have the stuff for it. The hitting
• 50:45
  equivalent to that is running high prades.
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: So absolutely, just something to keep an eye on.
• 50:51
  Speaker 4: I'm with you, I'm with you. You're right, but I thought.
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: You were going to finish that aut I have another note.
• 50:57
  I love the gun and that just really tickle me,
• 51:00
  very very good stuff. All right, Quinn, you're new to
• 51:04
  You're not new, but you're coming back after a little
• 51:07
  bit of a break on the show. So I'm gonna
• 51:08
  throw you into the deep water of the Big twelve
• 51:12
  with no life vest and just lets you swim. Let's
• 51:15
  talk Big twelve Quinn this weekend West Virginia and Cincinnati,
• 51:20
  Kansas and Kansas State UCF in Utah. As I quoted
• 51:25
  to my buddies in the group chat, I said, I
• 51:28
  no longer want to be referred to as the Big
• 51:30
  twelve expert. I will now take Big twelve watcher because
• 51:34
  I believe I've missed every Big twelve series that I
• 51:37
  guessed Quinn looking at the Big twelve, looking at these matchups,
• 51:41
  Kansas takes a three to zero series over Ks. You
• 51:45
  Cincinnati two to one over West Virginia. I think a
• 51:48
  lot of folks probably didn't see that coming. Arizona State
• 51:52
  also took a three to zero win those of us
• 51:54
  truth in Arizona State. But I've told you that was coming.
• 51:56
  What do you what's your take on the Big twelve
• 51:58
  right now? Man?
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: Well, I am with you. I missed most of these games,
• 52:02
  so I am going to be swimming in deep waters.
• 52:05
  Like you said, Kansas is playing well. I like to
• 52:10
  see Brady Ballander hitting. He was a big name coming
• 52:13
  into the year, and I think he was kind of
• 52:15
  a subpar start to the year, but it seems like
• 52:18
  he's starting to get going. Outside of that, UCF is
• 52:23
  really good. I really like UCF. They have a lot
• 52:28
  of guys from my old Brewster White Caps teams. I've
• 52:31
  been following them for a little bit. Sure Diamas Ross
• 52:35
  JD Rogers like in Roman Kimball. He's from South Carolina.
• 52:39
  Sure Well, just been following them for a bit and
• 52:42
  they've been playing well. And they also have Jordan Lodies.
• 52:45
  Fun freshman to watch.
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, Quinn. I've noticed that when J. D. Rogers hits
• 52:49
  home runs, he doesn't just hit one in a game.
• 52:51
  It's always two or nothing.
• 52:54
  Speaker 3: Yes, he is incredibly strong, but does not hit the
• 52:59
  ball in the air often.
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: There you go, JD. You should consider that.
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: Really nice guy, a really nice guy.
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: Well, if you're a nice guy, JD, we gotta have
• 53:09
  you on the show. Get in touch with your buddy Quinn.
• 53:10
  We'll get you on the show. You can talk about
• 53:12
  home runs. Can how much stronger you are than all
• 53:14
  of us? Josh curious, man, the Big twelve. Clearly, I'm
• 53:19
  not an expert. I'm just a Big twelve watcher. I'm
• 53:22
  curious what's your take on the Big twelve right now?
• 53:23
  Because man, I feel like every time I think I
• 53:25
  have my thumb over it, they just break my thumb
• 53:28
  and then move someplace else.
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: Guys, have some fun news, because no, this is fun news.
• 53:34
  Actually you'll enjoy this. Probably this get aged so poorly.
• 53:38
  But I don't think it's going to the Laura.
• 53:40
  Speaker 4: It's regional. It's coming. The Regional is coming. It's gonna happen.
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: I think it is.
• 53:47
  Speaker 4: Kansas has won seventeen of their last eighteen. They are
• 53:50
  rolling right now.
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: And I mentioned this yesterday and or yeah, actually the
• 53:57
  Kansas Kansas State Series. Neither of those teams even considered
• 54:02
  good pitching, Like it didn't even cross anyone's mind there'd
• 54:05
  be actually good anywhere else other than at the play,
• 54:08
  Like it was.
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: What are the odds that this was a gentleman's agreement
• 54:13
  going in between the coaches to just like batting practice.
• 54:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, like pretty much.
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: Well, it was like at the bottom of the the
• 54:21
  eight yesterday it was just home runs tee and off,
• 54:24
  and that broadcast was doing something really cool where it
• 54:26
  was like every home run they would have, they would
• 54:28
  flash the metrics on the screen of like everything like
• 54:31
  down to like the distance act of all that stuff,
• 54:34
  but like the super specific stuff too you wouldn't expect.
• 54:37
  It was like really cool if you were seeing a
• 54:40
  million of those popping up because it was just back
• 54:43
  and forth. And today to start the game too, it
• 54:45
  was back and forth and back and forth. I mean
• 54:46
  it was awesome. Brady Bollinger, Tyson le Blanc, k Balderers,
• 54:50
  they all looked awesome this weekend. I've recently become way
• 54:53
  higher on Tyson the Blanc long term than I was
• 54:57
  as recently as a few weeks ago. But he's really
• 54:59
  popping up on everyone's radar, to be honest, I mean
• 55:04
  that from the Kansas first perspective, I think they have
• 55:06
  a three game lead on the conference now, So that's
• 55:09
  also part of me saying that, like the Big Twelve
• 55:13
  is the third best conference. If you're gonna win that
• 55:14
  conference by multiple games, you're probably gonna host a regional,
• 55:20
  because I mean I will. For the other side of
• 55:22
  this is the team that was pretty clearly in second place,
• 55:26
  or it seemed to be in second place to take
• 55:28
  that crown from was West Virginia, and they dropped the
• 55:30
  series at Cincinnati this weekend. Maxiel was injured, so that
• 55:37
  definitely doesn't help West Virginia, but I don't think that
• 55:39
  was the entire story. Like matt Inini didn't look really
• 55:42
  good this weekend.
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: Several yeah, several bats not there.
• 55:47
  Speaker 4: Montesa had some control issues this weekend.
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: I mean, on the other side, like Cincinnati looked really good,
• 55:53
  Like Nate Taylor looked really good in Game one, Jack
• 55:56
  and Tilly looked pretty good the whole weekend.
• 55:58
  Speaker 4: Shout out Brendan Garula today.
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: Uh, he just he really shut West Virginia down on
• 56:02
  a spot where they could have come back and taken
• 56:05
  over in a spot they typically do. To shout out
• 56:08
  to him, Cincinnati's pressing. I mean, they could work their
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  way back to the two seed range. A lot of
• 56:12
  people already have them there, to be honest, but yeah,
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  I mean, like the West Virginia loss or the Kansas sweep.
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  I don't know which is the biggest story from this
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  weekend coming out of the Big Twelve. But for me personally,
• 56:24
  I think it's just Kansas is making themselves known truly.
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  I mean like it's they're they're red hot. I forget
• 56:30
  who they have next weekend, but they end the year
• 56:35
  against Oh, it's one of the big ones. It's gonna
• 56:39
  come to me in a sec. Is one of those
• 56:41
  two series they have West Virginia in two weeks.
• 56:44
  Speaker 4: That's what it is.
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: I was gonna say, I know another team you have
• 56:47
  not mentioned since we're talking number two in the Big twelve. Uh,
• 56:52
  your your erasure of Arizona State continues, that's.
• 56:55
  Speaker 4: Where that's where? Well, No, I still actually I like
• 56:59
  Arizona State a lot, to be honest.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just thinking, like in terms of this weekend results,
• 57:04
  like we think Baylor is good because Baylor was like
• 57:07
  range two. Like, no, that's certainly a good win. Don't
• 57:09
  get me wrong. I think just like in regards to
• 57:12
  other big results, I mean, considering you're right, Arizona State's
• 57:17
  gonna cement themselves in that top of the Big twelve,
• 57:21
  like they actually to be honest, if I had a
• 57:23
  guess right now who ends up number two, it probably
• 57:25
  will be them, just because the schedule the way they
• 57:27
  end I remember correctly.
• 57:28
  Speaker 4: I think it's uh, let's see, I can pull it
• 57:30
  up here.
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: They go to UCF next week, which is not easy
• 57:33
  at all, that's a great series, and then they host
• 57:36
  Oklahoma State and they go to Houston. So that's a
• 57:38
  pretty relatively easy or quote unquote easy way to end
• 57:43
  this season compared to other teams in the Big twelve.
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: Two Well, I mean I think, but yeah, I mean,
• 57:51
  you see f Arizona State, it's gonna be a dog fight. Quinn,
• 57:54
  you were gonna talk about Arizona State as well, Go.
• 57:56
  Speaker 3: Ahead, man, I just think they should go unnoticed. I
• 58:01
  think their pitching staff is really good obviously, have Land
• 58:04
  and Harrison, who may win the Golden Spikes. Kid's been
• 58:08
  nasty and just have really good supporting pieces too. Like
• 58:12
  I think p J. Woods ritis is still a little underrated.
• 58:16
  A guy like New Contrades has been really good and
• 58:19
  Toygo has been good. Just a really solid team, and
• 58:24
  I don't want them to go unnoticed. It's very solid,
• 58:27
  very solid team with one of the best players in
• 58:29
  the country.
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: They are I'm glad that you're here. I give the
• 58:33
  guys a lot of guff a lot of the time
• 58:34
  because in our rankings, I've been very it's very aggressive,
• 58:38
  a good way to say it, Josh, almost too aggressive
• 58:41
  on Arizona State. But I just I'm so impressed with them.
• 58:44
  Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, I mean, you've certainly been aggressive, but
• 58:47
  also I feel like I have been to for a while.
• 58:50
  It's just recently trying to give love to other teams.
• 58:53
  I'm gonna have them at nineteen this.
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: Week, which is like about as high as a lot
• 58:58
  of other people, if not a little aggressive, to be honest,
• 59:00
  But like I was high on them in the preseason
• 59:02
  compared to a lot of people. And it's funny, I'm
• 59:04
  right now I'm looking at the spreadsheet, like I have
• 59:06
  a spreadsheet of like my rankings week to week, and
• 59:09
  it's color code, so it makes.
• 59:10
  Speaker 4: It easier for me to tract this.
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: I don't think Arizona State has dropped out of my
• 59:15
  top twenty five a single time this year.
• 59:17
  Speaker 4: But they floated like in this same range.
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: I'm looking at my eyes and it's just doing like this,
• 59:21
  just kind of like near that like sixteen to twenty
• 59:24
  five range.
• 59:25
  Speaker 4: So they've stayed right in there for me. I just
• 59:26
  can't get them up and like can't bump them up
• 59:28
  in that top range yet.
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: I understand. That's that's understanding. But like we said, guys,
• 59:34
  the Big twelve has been messy certainly, and this weekend
• 59:37
  it did not help those matters in me. Let's talk
• 59:41
  really quickly about some midweek stuff. I know you guys
• 59:44
  heard me talk at home about how I was in
• 59:45
  Starkfule this afternoon to see Mississippi State complete the sweep
• 59:50
  against LSU. Plenty of thoughts about that. You can ask
• 59:53
  me later. You can send me messages on the socials
• 59:56
  or on prospects, lives, discord, whatever you want to do.
• 59:58
  If you want to talk about that. The Governor's Cup
• 1:00:00
  in Mississippi, they are going to be there's gonna be
• 1:00:03
  a game this Tuesday, Mississippi State taking on Ole miss
• 1:00:06
  Neutral Ground in Pearl, Mississippi, as the Governor's Cup is
• 1:00:09
  decided I'm gonna have my eyes glued to this one.
• 1:00:13
  I'm not sure what the starters are gonna look like
• 1:00:15
  pitching wise, but old Missus offense needs to come and
• 1:00:19
  they like they've got to be there at their fullest potential.
• 1:00:24
  Let me rewind what I said. They mean to be
• 1:00:26
  there with their fullest potential, and I didn't say anything
• 1:00:28
  else because Mississippi State's offense looked very good over this weekend,
• 1:00:34
  and I think top to bottom, even guys like guys
• 1:00:38
  like Bryce Chance at the end of ninth spot today
• 1:00:41
  looked very good. Pinch hitters looked very good against credible relievers,
• 1:00:47
  credible pitchers from LSU all weekend. So Ole miss needs
• 1:00:51
  to be prepared, uh for a big Governor's Cup matchup
• 1:00:55
  on Tuesday. Quinn, what game are you looking at? Across
• 1:00:59
  the MIDWEK session.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 3: I got Round two of UCLA UCSP very very excited
• 1:01:05
  about this one. Honestly, I hope they just run it back.
• 1:01:08
  All the pitchers both of them used were very interesting
• 1:01:11
  and I just want them to do the exact same
• 1:01:13
  thing and see what happens again, like we got Calvin
• 1:01:17
  Prosky started, then aj Cardell, then Cole Triva three three
• 1:01:22
  interesting arms, and then we went to UCLA, started with
• 1:01:25
  Servantes who was obviously drafted in the second round, and
• 1:01:28
  then just went through basically their entire bullpen. All of
• 1:01:32
  them are interesting. I just want the exact same thing.
• 1:01:34
  See if UCLA scores this time.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's going to be a very interesting
• 1:01:39
  contest on the West coast. Shout out, shout out JB.
• 1:01:43
  And it's a very JB game. Meanwhile, since we're gonna
• 1:01:47
  talk about JB, the North Carolina fan of the group, Josh,
• 1:01:51
  you've got a cool game to talk about in MIDWEK two.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we got a probably top ten matchup in the
• 1:01:55
  midweek North Carolina Coastal Carolina. A couple cool things to
• 1:02:01
  talk about here. North Carolina typically trots out Jackson Rose
• 1:02:05
  and more of an opener role in their midweek games.
• 1:02:09
  They typically throw like anywhere between five and seven arms
• 1:02:11
  barring some exceptions. But he is a one three nine
• 1:02:16
  ERA on the year, he's been awesome. I like him
• 1:02:18
  a lot as a freshman, like honestly, kind of like
• 1:02:21
  I mentioned earlier, he's one of those freshmen where he's
• 1:02:24
  got solid stuff. He could add a fourth pitch to
• 1:02:26
  make him better. But he's got a little bit of
• 1:02:28
  control issues. That's a freshman though. That's kind of just
• 1:02:30
  how it works. He walks a decent amount of guys,
• 1:02:33
  but he's been really good in that specific opener role
• 1:02:36
  for them. Proklee Carolina trots out Jackson Smollletts most of
• 1:02:41
  the time. He's already has a three seventy five era
• 1:02:44
  on the air. Nothing crazy, but I think it's more of,
• 1:02:46
  like I said, an opener role for most of these
• 1:02:48
  teams at this point. Fun little tidbit, though North Carolina
• 1:02:52
  sneakily has not lost a MIDWEK game the entire year.
• 1:02:56
  It is April twenty six as we were recording this,
• 1:02:58
  they have not lost a single midweek game, and Coastal
• 1:03:01
  kind of tends to do the opposite. Coastal kind of
• 1:03:03
  struggles in the MOVI week, especially as of late against
• 1:03:05
  these better teams too. So just a interesting little thing
• 1:03:09
  to look for, you know, if you're a betting person
• 1:03:13
  out there, like maybe it makes me maybe lean towards
• 1:03:15
  North Carolina a little bit with some spread bets. That's
• 1:03:18
  typically how it seems to work. I don't want to
• 1:03:20
  jinx it, but it should be interesting to watch. I
• 1:03:23
  like I like some of the arms that they glober
• 1:03:25
  typically get some innings in the midweeks, it seems, so
• 1:03:27
  it's fun to watch.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: Gloverer Glover will be a big one there to see
• 1:03:31
  what happens. I didn't talk about Coastal, but obviously they
• 1:03:34
  had a big return this weekend. Gonna be very meaningful
• 1:03:38
  for them to get camera Fluki back for the remainder
• 1:03:41
  of the season, especially Josh, as you said now that
• 1:03:44
  they're hitting a stride. Certainly a top ten team at
• 1:03:47
  the moment. All right, that'll do it for this episode,
• 1:03:49
  episode thirty one of College Baseball Now, Quinn, I would
• 1:03:52
  love it well. First of all, thank you for joining
• 1:03:54
  us last minute. You have filled in as admirably as
• 1:03:58
  you always do for both Jay and coach Jake. You
• 1:04:01
  lifted two men's weight. You supported Josh and I as
• 1:04:04
  we were both on the edge of the il on
• 1:04:07
  this episode. Thanks for joining us. I would love it
• 1:04:10
  if you could tell the people at home what you're
• 1:04:11
  working on where they can find you on social between
• 1:04:13
  your appearances on the show.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 3: I'll be on Twitter at Quinn Underscore Martin seventeen. Happy
• 1:04:19
  to be here any week, anytime. Always enjoy it. I
• 1:04:24
  think my next thing I'll be working on is a
• 1:04:26
  my guys piece for this coming draft. Guys I like
• 1:04:31
  guys who maybe are a little underappreciated, and just recently
• 1:04:35
  put out a live live looks at Rutgers of course
• 1:04:39
  UCLA from a couple of weeks ago.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: That's good stuff. You did really well.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: Your editor appreciated it. He let me know it will
• 1:04:47
  he let me know though. Josh, where can people find
• 1:04:51
  you good weight episodes? What are you working on?
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: You can find me on Twitter at Josh Catlet three.
• 1:04:57
  Same We'll say all content typically coming out. I'm gonna
• 1:05:02
  get some more. I'm working on those refined college and
• 1:05:06
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• 1:05:07
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• 1:05:10
  week coming up with exams and interviews and stuff. But
• 1:05:14
  like I should have that stuff. A lot of good
• 1:05:17
  stuff coming out next weekend or not next week and
• 1:05:20
  next week at some point. I'm working on it in
• 1:05:23
  some way. But it's gonna be some fun stuff, especially
• 1:05:24
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• 1:05:26
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• 1:05:28
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• 1:06:42
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• 1:06:55
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• 1:07:09
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