Latest / College Baseball Now / Weekend 7 Preview: Magnolia State Matchup | Ep. 022

Transcript

Weekend 7 Preview: Magnolia State Matchup | Ep. 022 · College Baseball Now

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: I hope you're smiling at home. That is to say,
• 0:03
  I hope you're not upset, because in this MIDWEK period,
• 0:05
  there's been more than enough upsets to go around. There
• 0:08
  are huge midweek rivalries and a big weekend of more
• 0:12
  rivalry games to come. And guess what we're gonna chop
• 0:15
  all of it up and break it all down on
• 0:17
  this episode of college baseball.
• 0:19
  Speaker 2: Now, yeah, there ain't no problems. Then no problems. Don't
• 0:30
  want problem with me?
• 0:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, let me not sit a chet then know what
• 0:36
  was going for a minute, hit a p yacht.
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: Beat, didn't grab a couple wins with a be id.
• 0:40
  They even know the kid. I had to do a
• 0:41
  p I G news. We can never be average and they.
• 0:43
  Speaker 3: Want to pull them with the boy they don't know,
• 0:45
  no status. I don't need so coach son run a
• 0:47
  week God, I want to test that to the standing
• 0:49
  to control, run the game best, to believe him signing ducks,
• 0:53
  counting them up wins. Yeah, I love it when they
• 0:56
  count me yall counting of the least sudden shame. Why
• 1:00
  I mean job, believe I run the game, believe.
• 1:06
  Speaker 1: I want to stand.
• 1:09
  Speaker 2: To believe.
• 1:10
  Speaker 3: I won't stand Steve I won't stand the.
• 1:17
  Speaker 1: Really don't want to stand it. I don't know about you,
• 1:32
  but College Baseball Now is feeling twenty two and we
• 1:36
  are glad to be with you, our friends for this
• 1:40
  excellent midweek episode. As we're previewing weekend seven on College
• 1:44
  Baseball Now, your friends are back and start with me,
• 1:48
  your folst, your friends, your boy Drew Wheeler, director of
• 1:50
  inter Scouting in Prospects Life. So glad to be back
• 1:53
  with you. Thankful for my buddies on my on my
• 1:57
  right on the screen hold it down for me as
• 2:00
  I know they always do. So thankful for them. I
• 2:04
  want to introduce them. The gentlemen in the middle. You
• 2:07
  were in the middle of the last episode too. That's
• 2:09
  a good spot for you. Normally your top right, but
• 2:11
  the middle is a good spot for mister Josh Catlet. Josh,
• 2:15
  it's nice to see you, sir.
• 2:17
  Speaker 4: It's nice to see you too. Nice to see you
• 2:19
  back this week. I just want to say that as
• 2:21
  I was typing out the right up for this week
• 2:24
  for the pod the format, I knew you were gonna
• 2:28
  make a Taylor Swift twenty two joke, and I mean,
• 2:32
  look at the room around you. Yeah, I mean, I
• 2:34
  knew it was gonna happen. That's okay.
• 2:37
  Speaker 1: Well, you know I'm a product of my environment. That's
• 2:41
  fair to say, for sure. Lots to talk about, Josh,
• 2:44
  glad to be back. Wanted to thank you so much
• 2:46
  for hosting. You've done great, so so well that hey,
• 2:49
  I have a question. I am, for lack of a
• 2:53
  better word, trying to think of a diplomatic way to
• 2:55
  say this, exhausted. I need sleep terribly, so Josh, it's
• 2:59
  gotten me thinking about sleep. Tell me what conditions do
• 3:03
  you require for a good night's sleep?
• 3:06
  Speaker 4: Cold? I mean, like I don't know, Like I don't
• 3:14
  want to say as cold as you can keep it,
• 3:15
  but like I could figure it out. Like I have
• 3:17
  to have a ceiling fan at all times to keep
• 3:19
  it cool in there. I've slept with the same type
• 3:24
  of like sheets for a long time where it's kind
• 3:28
  of like Jersey sheets, if you know what those are.
• 3:31
  That's my favorite type. And I have like a really
• 3:33
  thick comforter. I also like this is if we're gonna nitpicky.
• 3:37
  I naturally sleep like a dead person, Like I sleep
• 3:39
  with my arms crossed, like I'm at a coffin. I
• 3:41
  don't know why, So like a like a pillow or
• 3:44
  like like a stuffed animal or something like having something
• 3:46
  there is like I don't.
• 3:48
  Speaker 1: Know between you and your chest.
• 3:50
  Speaker 4: You mean, yeah, I get Like I get my friends
• 3:53
  like snipe me all the time taking pictures of me
• 3:55
  if I fall asleep on the couch, like if I'm
• 3:56
  taking a nap, I will take a nap out like
• 3:58
  this and my leg and my legs are cross or something.
• 4:01
  It's really bad. It's concerning, but it's comfortable.
• 4:04
  Speaker 1: I get it because like when I think about like
• 4:06
  a good like couch nap, especially if like I'm I'm
• 4:09
  just up there with no dog like arms crossed like
• 4:12
  this is just man, that's clutch.
• 4:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 4:14
  Speaker 1: Uch, So I get it. And I'm definitely not going
• 4:16
  to knock you for the cold either. No, I think
• 4:20
  I would. I think I would have it in like
• 4:21
  between sixty and sixty four to sleep in my house
• 4:24
  if now I would allow it. So it's I mean,
• 4:26
  but I it's scientific that it's better for.
• 4:30
  Speaker 4: You to sleep us here right now. We keep it.
• 4:32
  If it's like warmer lick right now it's between like
• 4:35
  sixty seven sixty eight, and in the winter it's like
• 4:38
  sixty three seventy five ish, but back home, if my
• 4:41
  mom is controlling the thermostat, it's like seventy two at
• 4:44
  all times, and like I can't keep my ceiling fan
• 4:46
  high enough in my room back home, it's ridiculous.
• 4:50
  Speaker 1: I oh, Mama, Catlet and I might have to have
• 4:53
  some words if that was the case, or I mean, well,
• 4:56
  I won't get into that. I won't give it into that.
• 4:58
  I was about to say, I maybe walking around the catlet,
• 4:59
  how with a little bit less close on it. Nobody
• 5:02
  wants any of that. Coach Jake Bargerie, it's so good
• 5:05
  to see your smiling face. Buddy. How are you?
• 5:09
  Speaker 2: I'm doing great, Drew are you doing? I'm great? Man?
• 5:12
  Speaker 1: Hey, I hurt. An interesting fact from a little bird
• 5:15
  I know earlier. His name is Jake, no relation to you.
• 5:19
  Arcadia on a seven game win streak.
• 5:21
  Speaker 5: Hello, we are on a seven game win streak. You know,
• 5:26
  we got to play some games at home.
• 5:29
  Speaker 2: We're doing it. We're doing it at home on the road.
• 5:31
  Speaker 5: Everything feels like it's kind of coming together at the
• 5:34
  right time, win like our second weekend of conference play,
• 5:37
  and everything's looking good.
• 5:38
  Speaker 2: So we love to see it.
• 5:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we do. I think the world's biggest podcast supporters
• 5:45
  of Arcadia Baseball US for sure. So I mean, as
• 5:48
  the official podcast of Arcadian Knights, I think we're all
• 5:51
  aboard as you guys are just mowing them down. So
• 5:54
  keep it up, Jake curious, tell me about the sleeping
• 5:58
  conditions you require? You kind of SI with me and Josh.
• 6:01
  Speaker 2: Here, Yeah, I think so.
• 6:03
  Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, it's got to be cold, which is
• 6:06
  not too hard of a task up here most of
• 6:09
  the time. Uh, sometimes like the sometimes the heat or
• 6:13
  whatever isn't working, and that that's a okay when it's
• 6:16
  when it's time to sleep.
• 6:16
  Speaker 2: I keep a fan on me. I don't know, we
• 6:19
  don't have ceiling fans, but I keep I keep a
• 6:21
  fan on me all the time.
• 6:23
  Speaker 5: The ac is going when it's warm out, like it's
• 6:25
  gotta be it's got to be cold, be dark. I
• 6:28
  like for it to be very dark when I'm sleeping.
• 6:31
  Speaker 1: Okay. So a buddy of mine this past weekend told
• 6:35
  me like, no tell he was like, no television. I
• 6:38
  don't even I can, like a phone light can't be
• 6:40
  too bright even if somebody's like on their phone while
• 6:43
  like I'm trying to sleep. So were you that kind
• 6:44
  of like just total dark.
• 6:46
  Speaker 5: Uh the phone not necessarily, I mean, I don't think
• 6:49
  I would notice that too much. But I cannot sleep
• 6:52
  with a TV on. That's just not I used to
• 6:55
  when I was in like high school and stuff, so
• 6:57
  that occasionally I would fall asleep with the TV on,
• 6:59
  but now I can't.
• 7:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't do it anymore. I would, I wouldn't
• 7:02
  do it.
• 7:03
  Speaker 1: Interesting, Okay, good to know. Good to know for those
• 7:06
  of you at home if you can't gather. I like
• 7:09
  it extremely cold.
• 7:11
  Speaker 4: Generally speaking.
• 7:12
  Speaker 1: There is a dog, Barney sleeps very close like to
• 7:15
  my side at all times, so he is like a
• 7:17
  little miniature heater, so I it has to be cold.
• 7:21
  And only in like peak coldness do I ever even
• 7:24
  sleep with like the douvet. So it's normally just the
• 7:26
  sheet in the blanket. But we're getting far too detailed
• 7:29
  on sleeping. I think we ought to talk about a
• 7:31
  little bit of college baseball. But let us know how
• 7:33
  any kind of sleeping requirements if you have any odd
• 7:35
  ones at home, would love to hear that, all right, guys,
• 7:38
  midweeks So, like we said in the intro, a ton
• 7:41
  of stuff going on, a lot of interesting games, a
• 7:44
  lot of interesting results, at least from Tuesday slates. Specifically,
• 7:49
  let's go ahead and start breaking down, guys, talking first
• 7:52
  about a rematch of a game that I called a
• 7:55
  couple episodes ago, a top five game of the season
• 7:58
  for me, when Miss Sippy State travel the Hattiesburg's take
• 8:01
  on Southern Myss. Of course, now in reverse, Southern Miss
• 8:05
  coming to start for duty Noble Field on a Tuesday night.
• 8:10
  Curious if you guys had any outstanding thoughts leading into this, because,
• 8:15
  as I said to my buddy who was with me there,
• 8:18
  Luke Maddick, shout out, Luke, I said, you could have
• 8:20
  given me one hundred opportunities to guess how that game
• 8:23
  would go. I don't think I would have named the
• 8:26
  outcome that we received.
• 8:27
  Speaker 4: Josh, It's funny you said that, because so like my
• 8:33
  friends are people that I know that like are big
• 8:35
  in the gambling. They were talking about the lines and everything,
• 8:37
  and the total for that game was twelve and a
• 8:39
  half and wow before the game, I know, before the game,
• 8:44
  when I was talking about it with him, I'm like,
• 8:46
  they're two high flying offenses, like it barely got over
• 8:49
  that number last time. But at the same time, like
• 8:52
  I feel I feel more confident, like going over with
• 8:55
  this game afterwards, I'm like, never in a million years
• 8:58
  did I think that bet would miss, that would be
• 9:01
  chalked because of a run rule, a twelve zero run rule,
• 9:04
  and just one team get completely blanked. Like, never was
• 9:07
  that even in the range of possibilities for me. But
• 9:09
  I guess, like, as you've talked about, that's what that
• 9:11
  home field does for Mississippi State.
• 9:13
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, And what a segue, Josh, because I think you
• 9:16
  know before we came on the air, the three of
• 9:18
  us were discussing for you at home. How I don't
• 9:21
  think it is appropriately discussed in any form of national media,
• 9:27
  especially college baseball media. And that's that's kind of the
• 9:29
  most concerning part. What the effect of a stadium like
• 9:34
  duty Noble has on an opposing team, even in the midweek. Guys,
• 9:40
  I think it was like one hundred and five people
• 9:42
  shy of thirteen thousand in that park on a Tuesday night.
• 9:50
  It's insanity. And everybody invested the cow bells, I mean everywhere, guys.
• 9:59
  I'd be remis if I didn't say that I took
• 10:01
  my buddy Luke's cow bell and I gave it.
• 10:03
  Speaker 2: I gave it a jangle.
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: It's a lip that's about Tennessee. I know, I think
• 10:09
  that Tennessee could incorporate like a hand played instrument of
• 10:11
  some kind into its into its celebrations. But Jake Josh
• 10:15
  put it really he put it really succinctly and really well.
• 10:19
  These offenses are high flying. Other than Miss, I'm gonna
• 10:24
  tell you from first had experience with one or two
• 10:27
  exceptions lost like they like they were completely out of
• 10:32
  their element. And I'm curious how much of that do
• 10:34
  you think was duty Nobles effect.
• 10:39
  Speaker 5: I mean it definitely, I mean it definitely could have
• 10:41
  played a part because like I was looking at their
• 10:43
  schedule as you guys were talking about that, like outside
• 10:45
  of like like the Round Rock tournament, like so the
• 10:48
  MISS hasn't really played in like a very big environment,
• 10:51
  so like that that could definitely play a part. I mean,
• 10:54
  going into an n SCEC stadium in general was not
• 10:57
  gonna be easy, but much less that one with all
• 10:59
  the crowd noise and all the all the other shenanigans
• 11:02
  they had going on.
• 11:03
  Speaker 2: During the game.
• 11:04
  Speaker 5: But uh yeah, I mean I could see where that
• 11:06
  could that could uh that that could have played a
• 11:08
  factor for sure, but like like what Joey Urban, he
• 11:11
  had a couple of hits. Uh yes, Gillespie U Banks
• 11:14
  they had like a double, but like there was not
• 11:16
  much offense going on. They didn't draw any walks, they
• 11:19
  struck out a ton like I don't know, they just
• 11:21
  seemed they just all seemed kind of rattled, especially at
• 11:23
  the plate.
• 11:24
  Speaker 4: One thing I'll add. One thing I'll add is that,
• 11:27
  like if we're gonna talk about this, like it's very
• 11:30
  easy in sports to blame poor a poor road team's
• 11:33
  performance on you know that like atmosphere. I think it
• 11:37
  could have played like a legitimately big role here because
• 11:40
  not only not only could some missed not get on
• 11:44
  base or anything, they kind of got on base at
• 11:46
  like a relatively fine rightly. I think they got six
• 11:50
  seven eight hits somewhere there, remember correctly they were on base.
• 11:53
  They're just like timely hitting and like when you could
• 11:55
  feel the situation like getting kind of tense, like you've
• 11:57
  gotta get it, like you gotta knock one across, You've
• 12:00
  got to get a man over, they just couldn't do it,
• 12:02
  like the pressure of having someone on base, you know,
• 12:04
  time running out that kind of thing. I think like
• 12:06
  that situation could have really gotten to them more than
• 12:09
  just like a you know, no outs knowing on kind
• 12:12
  of heading situation. They seem to be like relatively fine
• 12:15
  in those It was just like when the pressure got
• 12:17
  big and that crowd started to kind of like get
• 12:19
  on their feet a little bit more, that's when things
• 12:21
  fell apart.
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: It really and that's that's so accurate.
• 12:24
  Speaker 2: It really was.
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: You could see Urban specifically, I think rose to I
• 12:31
  think he rose to a level that impressed me just
• 12:33
  beyond the television screen, if that makes sense, seeing that
• 12:36
  atmosphere and knowing Because like you said, Josh, I'll stop
• 12:39
  just short of calling it lazy analysis to say that
• 12:43
  you can't just blame it on the park. These are
• 12:45
  I mean, these are established quality baseball players playing for
• 12:49
  Southern Miss. I mean, dude, we've talked about them all year,
• 12:52
  for the better part of twenty two episodes. We've talked
• 12:54
  about Southern Miss and talked about what a quality team
• 12:56
  this is. But dude, look at looking at their results.
• 13:00
  You kind of led it to it a minute ago.
• 13:01
  They've lost two of their games at home at Pete
• 13:05
  Taylor Park. Two games lost. The other four have come
• 13:08
  on the road. I'm just maybe it's and that's not
• 13:12
  to say that Hattiesburg is it's just an outstanding place
• 13:15
  to play either, because again we've talked all season about
• 13:17
  how they are rowdy, they get into it. Maybe it's
• 13:21
  just I don't know. To me, it's just a very
• 13:23
  interesting thing to note how when the shoes on the
• 13:26
  other foot, with the rowdy fans not being in your favor,
• 13:29
  how that went in terms of specific performances. Though for
• 13:33
  Mississippi State, I'll tell you there's a couple of names
• 13:36
  at the forefront of my mind, but the number one
• 13:39
  that I think I'm gonna be asked about more than
• 13:40
  anybody is gonna be number twenty four. Jack Bauer. Obviously, guys,
• 13:45
  I led into it before the episode, telling you that
• 13:48
  I did a little bit of digging, looked into the presser.
• 13:51
  Bauer has been working with coach Parker pitching coach, trying
• 13:55
  to distinguish and identify and then correct some delivery issues
• 13:59
  that I think really leagued him. Because I'm not mistaken,
• 14:01
  the last time we saw Bauer was Round Rock. I
• 14:05
  haven't looked at that specifically, but that was what I
• 14:08
  gleaned for memory. So either way in seeing him last night,
• 14:15
  the release points seemed much more consistent. The delivery was
• 14:19
  a little bit smoother with Bower, because there definitely was
• 14:22
  some he's a freshman and he's he's up there just
• 14:25
  hucking it. So I mean we're he's needs polishing, needs refinement.
• 14:30
  But I think it's it's interesting for him especially, And
• 14:33
  Jake will go to you on this one. This this
• 14:35
  kind of thought to have so much hype at such
• 14:38
  a young age and to be almost looked at as
• 14:41
  one of this staff's I guess leading guys. The The
• 14:45
  reaction to when Bauer came into the game was, I mean, buddy,
• 14:50
  it's it's almost like this is our guy coming in
• 14:52
  like this. It might as well have been prime Craig
• 14:54
  Kimdrell coming into the game for this startful audience. Many
• 14:57
  they were ready. It's a lot of pressure, is what
• 15:01
  I'm getting at.
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it is. It is a lot of pressure.
• 15:05
  Speaker 5: Like we've we've done interviews with kids before, and that's
• 15:08
  kind of something that a thing that we kind of
• 15:10
  ask him, like, you know, how do you deal with
• 15:11
  the pressure of like the scouts coming to your games
• 15:14
  and like the you know, the going to these showcases
• 15:16
  where you're you know, performing in front of all these
• 15:18
  professional scouts and everything, and like it's kind of the
• 15:21
  same thing, and he's still playing, and he's still pitching
• 15:23
  in front of the scouts. It's just he's pitching in
• 15:25
  front of thousands of other people at the same time. Like,
• 15:28
  you know, it's exciting as a fan to get to
• 15:30
  watch him come in, but it's also like it's got
• 15:33
  it's got to feel, you know, reassuring for him to
• 15:35
  know that, like you know, he just kind of just
• 15:38
  coming out there and getting out the way that he
• 15:40
  did the other night and like you know, he got
• 15:41
  the strikeout and he had another clean ending after it.
• 15:44
  Like it's just got to be building a little bit
• 15:46
  of confidence in these midweek games, and they're obviously feels
• 15:48
  like they're just trying to, you know, prepare him for
• 15:50
  the biggest stage when he when he gets the opportunity
• 15:53
  to start and all that kind of stuff.
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: So I couldn't imagine the pressure he's feeling, though, absolutely.
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: There's a I have some concerns with Bauer. I don't
• 16:02
  want to just get into all of it, because I
• 16:03
  do think people should go to Prospects Live dot Com
• 16:05
  and pay that very low price of seven dollars to
• 16:08
  read the thoughts that'll be in live look for him
• 16:09
  here soon. I had some concerns, some interesting things that
• 16:13
  I need to take a little bit more into. But
• 16:14
  he looked great, and as always, it's fun to see
• 16:17
  a guy who goes out there and just hucks him
• 16:20
  the slider. By the way, I don't think I'm giving
• 16:23
  anything away to say that that pitch playing off of
• 16:26
  the fastball velocity is just disgusting. So many, so many
• 16:32
  swings and misses on that odd it's a weapon. It's
• 16:35
  a weapon. But I'll give you guys, I'll go I'll
• 16:38
  let you take Josh. How about this. I will drone
• 16:40
  on about one more Mississippi State player. We can talk
• 16:44
  either about Ace Reese or Jacob Parker.
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: How about that? Hum I'll talk about let me think
• 16:55
  I think is the big one, because I mean you
• 16:58
  you quote tweeted, not quote tweeted. He sorry, someone else
• 17:01
  just quote tweeted my bracketology with just stupid comments. And
• 17:04
  it's got me that anyways, you tweeted about Ace recent
• 17:09
  just how polish she looked last night. It's been over
• 17:11
  the course of the entire year he's just been ridiculously
• 17:14
  I think polish is the best word for it possible, honestly.
• 17:17
  I mean, like, I personally didn't think he would be
• 17:19
  the type of guy that would be running these ridiculous numbers.
• 17:23
  He's like a three forty eight average at this point,
• 17:25
  so he kind of like he kind of dropped off
• 17:28
  a little bit from the beginning of this year. He
• 17:30
  was over four hundred for a while. But he's just
• 17:33
  such a polish guy and like he gets to his
• 17:35
  power so well. And I think that's like a guy
• 17:36
  who's he's raising my draft boards. I'm gonna put up
• 17:39
  my update of top fifty next week and he will
• 17:41
  see a rise from where he was preseason. For me, personally,
• 17:45
  I sent that guy has such a future. It's it's
• 17:46
  such a beautiful swing and he just like he keeps
• 17:49
  his barrels of the zone so well. It's a psyched watch. Honestly,
• 17:53
  I agree completely. Polish is certainly the word. And I'll
• 17:56
  say this, I saw a lot of players last night
• 17:59
  that I'd say are professionals.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: They're professionals. Maybe there's varying level of professional, but professionals.
• 18:06
  Reese was the one I looked at and said he
• 18:09
  is the professionals professional playing on this field right now.
• 18:14
  He's the guy and that's everything from the way that
• 18:20
  the way that he positions himself prior to you know,
• 18:22
  prior to a pitch, the way that he's readying himself
• 18:26
  in the on deck circle, everything about him is like
• 18:28
  we said, polished. That was my biggest takeaway is that
• 18:32
  there is nothing raw about this gentleman right here. I
• 18:36
  was deeply impressed. And before we go any further into
• 18:38
  the next game, I'll say this too, Jacob Parker is
• 18:41
  absolutely unreal. He has got grown man power and absolutely
• 18:45
  yacked the ball and I think it hit a guy
• 18:48
  in the head. I'm I'm pretty sure that guy might
• 18:50
  be either way. We will move on though, to another
• 18:54
  big time game because off in the great state of
• 18:58
  South Carolina, uh coastal and Clemson based off and Josh,
• 19:03
  I'm gonna go to you here to lead us off
• 19:06
  because I think I think it's fair to say that
• 19:09
  questioning Clemson was not only a not only a valid thing,
• 19:14
  but a smart thing after the last couple of games,
• 19:16
  wouldn't you agree?
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah, And coming into this game, I was thinking that,
• 19:20
  like Clemson, ironically, this goes. I'm going back again to
• 19:25
  the people that were asking me for gambling advice. I'm like,
• 19:27
  I wouldn't take Coastal here because Clemson needs, like they
• 19:30
  need to get right spot so bad and this is
• 19:33
  the perfect spot to do it. And they had it.
• 19:35
  They had it for They were up I think nine
• 19:37
  to one at the most, and it just crumbled right
• 19:39
  in front of them. It was ridiculous. It was Taylor
• 19:43
  Bell was one of the guys who got just lit up.
• 19:46
  I forget the other one, but it was within the
• 19:47
  same inning, and there was like a five spot put
• 19:49
  up around the seventh inning, and Coastal just kept slowly
• 19:52
  chipping back. There were fielding errors that they just that
• 19:55
  Clemson kept messing up on towards the end there. I
• 19:58
  think the number one thing I'll take away from this though,
• 20:01
  isn't even as much of like an anti Clemson thing,
• 20:03
  because granted, yes, the bullpen looked bad and Coastal hit
• 20:06
  them around a little bit at the end there, But
• 20:08
  it's a midweek that's the whole The whole reason we
• 20:11
  all ever talk about, like disregard midweek results is because
• 20:15
  of the pitching. But if I'm talking about the bad
• 20:17
  side of the pitching, I think the good side needs
• 20:19
  to be mentioned too. For Coastal Carolina, Darren Horne was electric.
• 20:23
  He went in there and closed out that game with
• 20:25
  three innings of I think it was six strikeouts, and
• 20:28
  he just the sinker was so beautiful. He was donning
• 20:31
  up guys, just like on TV. You can see the
• 20:34
  movement on those pitches, not even just the breaking balls.
• 20:36
  It was the fastball. You could see the way it broke,
• 20:39
  it was, it was. It was glorious to watch. Honestly,
• 20:41
  my one of my friends from Clemson, one of the
• 20:43
  guys I enter him with the summer, was manning the
• 20:45
  center field camera at Clemson for that game and he
• 20:48
  was texting me like, Dude, this Darren Horn guy's electric.
• 20:50
  I'm like, yeah, you're telling me there's a reason he's
• 20:52
  like he's been this good for a couple of years.
• 20:54
  Like he's one of their best guys. And if that
• 20:56
  team is gonna continue to hold their own without Cam
• 20:59
  Fluking Hayden Johnson being there, that elite bullpen that we
• 21:02
  saw last year help them win twenty six straight games,
• 21:05
  they got to keep this.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: Up, absolutely well, said Jake. Looking at Coastal, I think
• 21:10
  earlier in the season, I I don't want to put
• 21:14
  you guys in this boat. You may agree with this, though, Jake,
• 21:17
  I think I almost wrote Coastal off in a sense,
• 21:19
  not that they were gonna be a bad team, but
• 21:21
  just you take these huge cogs from the machine and
• 21:25
  how does that thing run? And I don't, I don't know.
• 21:28
  It's it's almost like they're kind of making me wish
• 21:30
  I kept those words soft and sweet because I'm eating
• 21:33
  them now.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we were.
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: I think we were kind of right and feeling that
• 21:39
  way that you were talking about, like not in a
• 21:42
  sense of like writing them off and thinking that they
• 21:44
  were like done, but kind of just there. There was
• 21:46
  many major questions when like two of your two or
• 21:49
  three of your top arms go out, like you know,
• 21:51
  how do you how do you respond to that? And
• 21:52
  I think we questioned that rightfully so, but they also
• 21:56
  have answered the questions like, uh, you know the way
• 21:59
  that saw all the guys that you know, Josh just
• 22:01
  talked about stepped up into roles and the guys they're
• 22:03
  gonna need going forward like like that.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: That's what they've done.
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: They've answered the questions and they've they've come back and
• 22:08
  they filled the holes that that flu Ken Johnson the
• 22:10
  other guys have left. But also like offensively, they've performed
• 22:15
  better than I think we expected coming into the year,
• 22:17
  Like like, uh, they got you know, Trace Mason, Dean Mios,
• 22:22
  those guys, Rex Watson's over a thousand ops. Like, they
• 22:24
  got guys that are hitting, and they got that they're contributing.
• 22:27
  Like they're not like, ah, they're not like the most
• 22:30
  efficient offense like in the country or anything, but they're
• 22:32
  getting the job done and they're and they're backing up.
• 22:35
  They're backing up the pitch in the way that they
• 22:37
  the pitching needs them to be backed up right now
• 22:39
  until they you know, while they're still trying to figure
• 22:41
  some things out. But uh, I mean, I like what
• 22:43
  I've seen out of Coastal, and they've definitely been better
• 22:45
  than I think what we thought once we heard all the.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Injuries and all that kind of stuff. So I like
• 22:50
  what I'm seeing from them.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: I'm definitely with you there, Jake. Let's let's kick it
• 22:54
  to game time really quick for both of you. Uh.
• 22:57
  Let's say, as of right now, with one being, I
• 23:01
  have no faith whatsoever, ten being, this is a national
• 23:05
  championship threatening team, like a contender for a Natty. Where
• 23:10
  are you, Josh with Coastal as of right now with
• 23:13
  their current roster one to ten.
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: I don't know how to answer this question about either
• 23:19
  of these teams, to be honest, right now as it
• 23:22
  stands right now. So like I'm not counting Fluky right right.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Now, because I'm getting somewhere with this, going somewhere.
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: Three two, make same question.
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: I may go a little higher, but not not more
• 23:38
  than not more than five. I mean four is probably
• 23:42
  where I would land with it.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: Okay, So to have seen them come back, and like
• 23:47
  we said, offensive is delivery. The bullpen is stepping up
• 23:50
  when you add Fuki and Johnson back into this mix
• 23:53
  on top of what we're seeing, Josh, what does that
• 23:55
  score do?
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: I'll say like a six? Maybe high? See the only well,
• 24:05
  I'll say like a six. The reason why it's not
• 24:09
  lower is because I don't think it can be overstated
• 24:12
  how good Cam Fluki really is now, assuming that he'll
• 24:15
  come back one hundred percent even with the injury, I
• 24:17
  guess we can't fully assume that that is true. I
• 24:21
  still have him within my top four or five of
• 24:22
  my draft board because I think he's still that good regardless.
• 24:25
  But the reason it's not higher is also because this
• 24:29
  is like a like a stupid cop out thing. But
• 24:31
  I just keep it in the back of my mind.
• 24:34
  I remember talking about this in the offseason. Mid major
• 24:36
  teams that do super well the year before and go
• 24:38
  deep into postseason do not do that the next year,
• 24:40
  no matter how good they are. It's just not a
• 24:42
  thing that happens. And they were in the Championship Series
• 24:45
  last year, so like, I don't know if they can
• 24:47
  do that two years in a row. And so that's that,
• 24:49
  Just that thought just like sticks in my mind. I
• 24:52
  had the same philosophy for LSU preseason, and that seems
• 24:54
  to be working out pretty well.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Also's say you may have you may be on something,
• 24:58
  Swami uh Jake, same question to you. When you get
• 25:01
  back Fluki, you get back Johnson that four score that
• 25:04
  you gave them currently, how does that improve for you
• 25:07
  or does it?
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: I guess it definitely.
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: It definitely improves when you got a guy that you
• 25:11
  can you can run out on a Friday night game
• 25:14
  and feel really good about you know, if you're if
• 25:17
  you're if you can tell your offense like hey, get
• 25:19
  us three runs and you're probably gonna be all right
• 25:22
  for the game.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Like that's gotta feel good. Uh, I mean it.
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: Improves to probably around where Josh was at. I mean,
• 25:30
  I'll probably put it at like a like a like
• 25:32
  a seven. I guess it depends on, like you know what,
• 25:34
  because if we're talking about them coming back, like you know,
• 25:37
  in the postseason or whatever, like they're gonna be able
• 25:39
  to go on some some sort of a run in
• 25:41
  like a regional, like they're gonna need those guys. So
• 25:43
  if if you have them in that situation, i'd probably
• 25:46
  you know, getting game one is the most important. Let's
• 25:48
  say they get game one with Fluki. I think that,
• 25:50
  you know, I'm fine putting them at like a like
• 25:53
  a like a like a seven.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Okay, cool, So my point, and you guys collaborated that
• 25:59
  point without knowing where I was going with it, So
• 26:00
  thank you both in advance the check us in the mail.
• 26:03
  I think that what we're seeing is to handle a
• 26:06
  team in Clemson who is certainly I'm going to say
• 26:09
  they've disappointed me, but they've certainly had questions, but still
• 26:14
  a quality squad. Clemson is a quality baseball team to
• 26:17
  come in beat Clemson, to come back and beat Clemson,
• 26:20
  let me rephrase that. I think shows that Coastal is
• 26:23
  not just a team that you had to roll over
• 26:24
  and die until they get Fluki and Johnson back. So
• 26:27
  I think there's onward and upward for this Chankletiers team.
• 26:31
  So anyhow, let's roll forward, though we've got one more
• 26:34
  game we're going to talk about in a little bit
• 26:36
  more detail with Oregon State and USC. Jake, I think
• 26:41
  if I would have said to you USC is going
• 26:45
  to be twenty four and two as we sit and
• 26:47
  talk on March twenty fifth at the preseason, I think
• 26:50
  several people would have been like, South Carolina's going to
• 26:53
  be good? What are you talking about? And no, no, no,
• 26:56
  I'm talking Southern California, buddy Ill though I don't know.
• 27:01
  Midweek gave Oregon State twelve to four. Not what you
• 27:05
  want to see if you're a fan of the Trojans.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: No, it's truly not.
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: And this was I mean, this was kind of like
• 27:11
  a really weird game where we got stuff that we
• 27:15
  hadn't really seen at USC yet. Like mainly I'm talking
• 27:18
  about we've really deservedly so we've really praised their pitching
• 27:22
  staff and like they completely earned all the praise that
• 27:25
  they've gotten. But like this was, I mean, this was
• 27:29
  a poorly pitched game by USC to be to be
• 27:32
  I mean, i know they're using you know, they're using
• 27:34
  the depth of their bullpen and all that kind of stuff,
• 27:35
  but like in you know, in this entire game, they
• 27:38
  had one strikeout to eight walks and twelve hits. Like
• 27:42
  that's that, that's not that's not that's not what USC
• 27:45
  does or that's not what they have done this year.
• 27:49
  And as much as and we've also talked about in
• 27:52
  the same sense, like we've talked about Oregon State's offense
• 27:55
  not being an elite offensive group and and you know.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: They did that to them. So like this was this
• 28:00
  was definitely like, this was definitely a weird one.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: I'll say that Jake two points to make kind of
• 28:05
  piggybacking with yours that I'd like it if I'd like
• 28:08
  your thoughts on not only was it one strikeout to
• 28:11
  eight walks that spread over ten pictures used on Tuesday
• 28:16
  ten pictures, my boy coach. That ain't ideal.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: No, there I'm looking at it.
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: Uh Ben Ben ben Kushny was the guy that they
• 28:29
  that they that they got the most out of two
• 28:32
  innings only one one base runner, but everybody else was
• 28:35
  either allowing to hit or they're walking guys like I
• 28:38
  don't know.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: It was like I said, it was, it was. It
• 28:41
  was weird. It was a weird one.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: And again, just to further cement this point, Uh, the
• 28:47
  most groundouts that any pitcher got in this game too. Brother,
• 28:52
  Nothing was going the Trojan's way in this game as
• 28:54
  it come to pitch, not a thing but just a
• 28:58
  just a sorry. Like you said, they have gotten a
• 29:00
  tone of well deserved praise for their pitching rotation to shoot,
• 29:04
  well deserved, and they do deserve it. This was just
• 29:07
  not in chief, not it at all. Josh, gonna go
• 29:10
  to you because the pitching wolves did not start or
• 29:13
  nor stop with USC. Mason Pike with Oregon State hurt,
• 29:19
  only got through a third of an inning, Buddy, What
• 29:22
  do we know about Pike and his injury.
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: It's he seems like he reagitated some kind of injury
• 29:28
  that's kind of been keeping him out for a while.
• 29:30
  From what I can tell, this isn't one hundred percent.
• 29:32
  I just saw it, like reports here and there. He
• 29:35
  threw too. I think two batterers yesterday and he retweaked
• 29:38
  something in his arm and got fulled immediately. So I
• 29:40
  don't know exactly what it was, but it's upsetting to see,
• 29:44
  to say the least, because that's a guy that had
• 29:47
  potentially that's a guy that was supposed to be one
• 29:49
  of their better relief arms. Now granted, coming under the year,
• 29:53
  I would say there were four of their relief arms
• 29:56
  that I was pretty high on, so were most people,
• 29:58
  and two of them close up the game today they're
• 30:00
  going combined four innings, so they're getting, you know, good
• 30:04
  work out of some of those guys. But Mason Pike
• 30:06
  was supposed to be a big staple of what was
• 30:09
  seen as a top three, four or five pitching staff
• 30:12
  in the country. Is just he just can't stay off
• 30:14
  the entry report.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: It's it's unfortunate. There's I mean, we could say that
• 30:19
  about several quality pitchers across the country, but like you said,
• 30:23
  with Pike, he certainly was being looked at and I
• 30:25
  guess relied upon. Uh you're in beaver Land as one
• 30:29
  of the guys who can really really count on. Has
• 30:32
  not been that thus far this year, but obviously it's
• 30:34
  a long season. Still hoping that we can get some
• 30:36
  quality innings out of Mason Pike as the year rolls on, Right,
• 30:40
  I'm sure you're with.
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: Me on it, of course, of course.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: Uh, let's go to the worry meter, though really quickly.
• 30:46
  I know that we're not gonna get super in depth
• 30:49
  on what does this mean for this tape? Who has
• 30:51
  lost this midweek game. We're not gonna do that anymore.
• 30:53
  We're sticking off of that off of that path. But
• 30:56
  with USC, I don't know. The alarm bells are not
• 31:00
  quite ringy, ringy dingy yet, but I think there's a
• 31:03
  guy getting the hammer ready to strike. Josh, where are
• 31:05
  you out of the worry meter?
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: With USC, I'm gonna say like a I'm gonna say
• 31:13
  like a two. And here's why. Because the main I
• 31:18
  think anyone who follows with sport in any way whatsoever
• 31:22
  can tell you what is the main strength of this
• 31:26
  USC team. It's the starting rotation, right, It's an undisputed
• 31:30
  top three, top five rotation in the country, and none
• 31:34
  of them through tonight. Now I would say it's a
• 31:37
  one because of that. But the reason why it's a
• 31:39
  two is if you're thinking like long term, postseason unless
• 31:43
  they were to sweep through a regional. If they're going
• 31:47
  to a game seven on a Monday, they're not gonna
• 31:49
  have one of those three first starters and they're gonna
• 31:51
  have to throw out something like kind of we saw yesterday,
• 31:54
  So that could be an issue. That said that said
• 31:57
  that the starting rotation might be good enough for they
• 32:00
  don't need a game seven. They could just run through.
• 32:02
  They could win three games and run through a regional.
• 32:04
  But I think you just have to have like just
• 32:07
  an ounce of concern because of what we've seen from
• 32:10
  this compared to you know, the first three in their
• 32:13
  primary three guys.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well said Man, Well said Jake, same question to
• 32:19
  you the worry meter for USC. I'm sure you're kind
• 32:23
  of in a similar boat with Josh, but just gonna
• 32:25
  ask you the same thing, where are you at with
• 32:26
  the USC? How about you were?
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: I am in a similar boat with Josh for pretty
• 32:31
  much all the same reasons, Like, like, it can't be
• 32:34
  understated how well they've pitched in, you know, on the weekends,
• 32:37
  with their starters being able to go so deep into
• 32:41
  games where it takes a ton of pressure off all
• 32:42
  the bullpen. But the other reason why I could possibly
• 32:47
  be it's not a one, maybe it's just a two instead.
• 32:50
  It's like, if you know, they haven't shown any signs
• 32:53
  of running into any trouble like Edwards givel Johnson. Those
• 32:56
  guys haven't shown any signs of running into any trouble yet.
• 32:59
  But if they do, let's say that, let's say there
• 33:02
  is a shorter outing, like do they have do they
• 33:04
  have the lineup?
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: They can?
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: They can really keep the pace with a team that's
• 33:07
  you know, they might jump one of these starters at
• 33:09
  some point and late late in the season.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: Like they haven't. They haven't hit for a ton of power.
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: The averages are are kind of low, like Jack Besier's
• 33:19
  doing well, Adrian Lopez, Maximum Martinez like the like, like
• 33:23
  the key guys in their order are hitting hitting well.
• 33:27
  But like let's say, like let's say Mason Edwards only
• 33:29
  goes four and gives up three runs to UCLA, Well,
• 33:32
  how are they going to respond if.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: Something like that happens? Right?
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: So I'm not too concerned because, like I said, they
• 33:37
  haven't given us a reason to be concerned yet with
• 33:39
  the starters. But uh, you know that that's what's keeping
• 33:43
  it from being a one versus the two.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: For me, I guess very good.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: Uh, really quickly, Jake, are there any any hitters on
• 33:50
  the Oregon State offense? I know Josh kind of led
• 33:52
  to it a minute ago. We've we've criticized them, and
• 33:56
  I'm not ashamed to say it, because this offense looked
• 34:00
  off at times thus far this year. We've criticized him,
• 34:04
  but I think it's about time that we gave him
• 34:05
  a little bit of credit as well. They've they've brought
• 34:07
  it together. I mean, we can't knock him for putting
• 34:10
  up putting up twelve runs on USC. I mean, it's
• 34:12
  top fifteen team no matter where you're looking at this
• 34:15
  point in this season. I mean, Jake, shout out a guy,
• 34:18
  shout out one of your favorite beers is what I'm
• 34:20
  getting at.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: I think I think it's Bryce Hupbert. I mean, I
• 34:24
  think he's the guy that stands out the most about everybody.
• 34:26
  It's not just because he's got the numbers, but like
• 34:28
  the way he kind of got that game started against
• 34:30
  against USC with the with the big homer in the
• 34:32
  first inning, he just kind of gave him that gave
• 34:34
  him that spark that kind of set the offense to
• 34:37
  get him started rolling so yeah, Bryce Hoppert's gonna be
• 34:40
  my guy. He's got the most homers iest hope he has.
• 34:42
  He's just the best hitter right now.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: So it's him word h Josh crazy. We're talking about
• 34:48
  Oregon State. It's not like today they their fan base
• 34:51
  gave you any guff. I'm going to give you one
• 34:54
  minute on the clock. You can you can complain about that.
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: Go all right, Well, I think people that read my
• 35:02
  Twitter stelf don't look at everything I put in the caption.
• 35:04
  And it's very frustrating because I very clearly in the
• 35:06
  bracketologies that I post say this is the second stands
• 35:10
  right now. It's a it's a prediction. All right, I'm
• 35:11
  doing good. And Oregon State fans just every every week
• 35:16
  there's a new fan base that gets upset with stuff,
• 35:18
  and Oregon State fans are the one today for whatever reason,
• 35:21
  because they're like, oh, why aren't we hosting? We should
• 35:23
  be a host. Like they're looking at Warren Nolan's predicted
• 35:26
  RPI saying they're gonna be a nine we'll guess six
• 35:30
  quad one opportunities the entire season. Probably if you go
• 35:35
  the entire year, I don't think you should host that's
• 35:37
  just my opinion. And you're gonna like it's March twenty
• 35:39
  fifth right now, you have at the most two quad two,
• 35:43
  I mean two quad one opportunities the rest of the year,
• 35:46
  both against Oregon who you are want, Like, I don't
• 35:49
  understand the thought process behind, Like I don't care what
• 35:52
  the number's gonna say the end. I'm not doing this
• 35:54
  stuff based on more Nolan. I'm doing it based on
• 35:57
  what I think is gonna happen. Look at that.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: Timing one minute point four. Well done, sir, well done? Okay, hey,
• 36:05
  well done. All right, that's awesome.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: I'm glad.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: I'm glad that we could help you get that off
• 36:11
  your chest.
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: Josh, it's just even like during this the Northwestern State
• 36:16
  account that quote tweet to me is like, oh, we're
• 36:18
  just ignoring the first place teams. Now cool? Can you
• 36:22
  not read? I think Lamar is going to be better
• 36:24
  than Northwestern State by the end of the year. Like
• 36:27
  they're also tied. Like it's not like there's like they're
• 36:29
  all eight four. It's just it's some people we got
• 36:34
  to take their social media away. I don't get it
• 36:37
  saying that about me, Like I'm aware that's okay.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: People saying to take your social media away or just
• 36:44
  that they're depriving me as some of my favorite content.
• 36:46
  I need them to watch it is all I'm gonna say.
• 36:49
  All Right, Josh, we're gonna stick with you, because now
• 36:52
  we're at our favorite time of the show. We're about
• 36:54
  to get in to pick them, and I need you
• 36:56
  to walk us through how it went last weekend, because
• 37:01
  if I'm reading this right, you have had the pickup
• 37:04
  weekend of a lifetime. Brother.
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I mean speak of you know you guys.
• 37:13
  You guys did really good in the non conference, right,
• 37:16
  but when once we get into the games that actually matter,
• 37:19
  you know, this is this is just how it's gonna be.
• 37:22
  I'm afraid this is how it's gonna be.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: I appreciate the confidence. That is super awesome. Josh, walk
• 37:29
  us through what happened last weekend before we get to
• 37:31
  picking on tonight.
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: All right, Well, Jake went a season high seven and
• 37:35
  one on the week. Last week, I went five and three,
• 37:40
  gaining a game on Drew who went four and four.
• 37:43
  JB went three and five, losing a lot of games.
• 37:47
  Did Jake Hooser passed him? And our guest Josh Dolglero
• 37:51
  went two and six last week, so I think it's
• 37:53
  pretty clear who the better. Josh is this kind of stuff.
• 37:57
  I think we just need to keep that in mind
• 37:58
  at all times. Right on the year I'm beginning, I
• 38:03
  love Togio. On the year, Drew is twenty eight and nineteen,
• 38:08
  I'm one game behind him at twenty seven and twenty.
• 38:11
  Jake is twenty five and twenty two. JB is below
• 38:15
  five hundred at twenty three and twenty four, and our
• 38:18
  guests are concerning six and ten in their games they pick.
• 38:21
  So we need we need to something to get on
• 38:23
  here and go like six and two or something, just
• 38:25
  to get him back to five hundred.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: If you think you are that guest on the Prospects Live,
• 38:31
  on the Prospects Live Draft team, on the Amateur team,
• 38:34
  speak up, because man, we're gonna need him, I guess.
• 38:39
  On the Private on the individual Guests board, Dodge went
• 38:44
  four and four, Is that right?
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: Okay, four and four for Dodge, So he's still in
• 38:48
  that lead. Not that we have anybody challenging that lead today.
• 38:52
  It is just three of us, and of course, while
• 38:54
  we wait on mister Sebastiano to return to the podcast.
• 38:57
  We have his fix as well, So Josh, I will
• 39:00
  trust you with sharing his picks and his logic as well.
• 39:03
  I'll let you assume his logic or if you want
• 39:05
  to do it, if you want to do a jv impersonation,
• 39:08
  maybe that will. Maybe that will insult him so badly
• 39:11
  that he thought, you know, he shows up for work.
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: Whatever it takes. I think he hates us. Now he's
• 39:16
  gonna blame it on technology. But I don't know. I
• 39:18
  don't buy it.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: I don't know, man, my phone just wasn't not anyway,
• 39:23
  all right, getting into the meat of it, let's go
• 39:26
  ahead and talk about it. It's gonna be in Oxford,
• 39:30
  Mississippi State at Old Miss Jake. Not many rivalries. Uh,
• 39:37
  not many rivalries, I guess at least where I'm from.
• 39:40
  You're familiar with this area. Feel as serious. At any
• 39:43
  given point, it could pop off in the middle of
• 39:45
  a store, in the middle of track like Mississippi State
• 39:49
  and Old Miss Camp. What do you think is going
• 39:51
  to be the deciding factor for this game? As Old
• 39:54
  Miss hosts, it's most one of its most dangerous opponents.
• 39:58
  It's face this year.
• 40:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think this is uh, this is it being
• 40:03
  at Ole miss also makes this very interesting because I
• 40:06
  think most people would, you know, look at Mississippi State
• 40:08
  is kind of a kind of a heavy favorite at
• 40:10
  this point if it was especially if it was going
• 40:12
  to be in startable. But the fact that it's at
• 40:14
  Ole miss is h makes makes it a little bit
• 40:16
  more interesting. But I think one of, if not the
• 40:20
  biggest storyline that's going on right now, is the fact
• 40:22
  that Ryan McPherson is very doubtful to pitch this weekend.
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: He went down.
• 40:28
  Speaker 5: I think I saw it was a forearm injury last weekend,
• 40:30
  and I think they said that, you know, I don't
• 40:32
  know how how long term this is, but I think
• 40:34
  they're they're they're said they were very doubtful for him
• 40:37
  to pitch this weekend. And you know, obviously the thing
• 40:39
  to watch is who's going to replace him. I have
• 40:42
  I have a couple of names. This is to me
• 40:43
  just completely speculating, just myself. Uh, Charlie Foster. Charlie Foster
• 40:50
  has a start this year. He's gone twelve innings a
• 40:54
  five one one era A. Brendan Sweeney also has a
• 40:56
  start this year, slightly lower era A thirteen innings.
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: Tyler pitts Er. He probably I wouldn't expect him to
• 41:03
  be the guys.
• 41:03
  Speaker 5: He's a he's a South Carolina transfer, He's a big
• 41:07
  relief guy for them. I think they're probably gonna want
• 41:09
  to keep him out in the bullpen for situations. So
• 41:11
  I guess it would be Foster or Sweeney. But like
• 41:14
  you know, Thomas Falencias was awesome last weekend. H seven innings,
• 41:19
  two hits, fourteen strikeouts and one walk, no runs. Duke
• 41:24
  Stone didn't have his best game last weekend, but he's
• 41:26
  been solid for Mississippi State this year. The bullpen only
• 41:29
  allowed two runs all th thing, So like they have
• 41:31
  the backup I think to potentially make up for mc pherson.
• 41:36
  But like when you have your reliable, you have your
• 41:37
  Friday night guy, he's the one you you send out
• 41:39
  there every weekend in game one, and he's not going
• 41:41
  to be there, Like it's something that you know, that's
• 41:44
  something to watch for sure.
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: Coach, do you have the roster still pulled up for
• 41:48
  Missippi State?
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: No chance I can get it in.
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: Okay, do that because I have a question about Sweeney
• 41:54
  specifically last night talking to my boy Luke about who
• 41:59
  was gonna start, because you know we're discussing McPherson's injury.
• 42:02
  You know, on the car ride home we we had
• 42:05
  the exact same three names that you pointed out. So
• 42:08
  I'm glad to hear that we're si Potoco coach. I
• 42:11
  think it's gonna be Sweeny. So if you haven't pulled up,
• 42:14
  do you have him? Are you looking at him?
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: I have the roster pulled up with his name.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: Okay, is Sweeney six foot eight or is my as
• 42:21
  my mind playing tricks on me.
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: He might be.
• 42:24
  Speaker 5: They haven't listed at six seven, two hundred ten pounds,
• 42:28
  that's what they have.
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: Let them.
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, first of all, first of all, thank you. Second,
• 42:33
  let that hoss go out there on Friday night. Let
• 42:35
  the big dog eat all. I'm saying, man, holy boldly,
• 42:38
  you've got a guy six seven, put him. Put him
• 42:40
  out there anyway, Put him out there. Josh going to
• 42:46
  you really quickly about this one as well. I think
• 42:48
  on the flip side of this, as many questions as
• 42:51
  we have about McPherson for Mississippi State, one of the
• 42:53
  most inconsistent pictures this whole year has been Hunter Elliott
• 42:56
  and I think Ole miss this is the game if
• 42:59
  you want to set any kind of tone, know what
• 43:01
  that you've got Valencius on Saturday. Hunter Elliott's got to
• 43:04
  show up.
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, But if we're being honest, I think of
• 43:09
  the three guys they could try out there on Saturdays,
• 43:11
  I think right now I had the least amount of
• 43:13
  question marks about Hunter Elliott, as weird as it sounds,
• 43:16
  because if we're gonna talk about starting pitching injuries, I
• 43:19
  think that's as much as it sucks, and it sounds
• 43:22
  lame for this rivalry for the biggest thing storyline surrounding
• 43:28
  it to be starting pitching injuries. It is, and Jake
• 43:31
  touched on the Ryan McPherson side of it, the Kay
• 43:34
  Townsend side of it's still very prevalent. Yes, they don't
• 43:37
  know if he's going to be back or not on Saturday.
• 43:39
  Hudson Calhoun pitching his place last week, and he wasn't great.
• 43:42
  He's great in long relief, but he's not great as
• 43:44
  a starter. It doesn't seem Will Libert has been rough lately.
• 43:48
  He's allowed four or more runs in three of his
• 43:51
  last four outings. He has a six four to one
• 43:53
  ERA on the year as a whole, and twenty six innings,
• 43:56
  pitch like Hunter Elliott's still doing like he's getting himself
• 43:59
  back to the norm a little bit. He's got three
• 44:01
  four eight ERA and thirty one innings. He's striking out
• 44:03
  thirty three percent of matters. That's a little more like it.
• 44:06
  It isn't consistent as a whole. That's a little more
• 44:09
  like what we're used to saying from him. But the
• 44:11
  other two spots are really questionable. I don't know if
• 44:13
  they're gonna throw Hudson Calhoun back out there. I don't
• 44:17
  know if they try a guy like Taylor Rabe, who's
• 44:19
  been really good this year. I don't know what they do,
• 44:20
  or if they need rave in a later relief spot,
• 44:22
  like a long release spot. I don't know. But I
• 44:24
  think for just as many question marks as we can
• 44:27
  sit here and speculate about Mississippi State what they do
• 44:30
  in their starting spots, I think Ole miss has just
• 44:32
  as many questions. And it's ironically enough, not about the
• 44:36
  guy who the entire year to this point we've been
• 44:39
  talking about what's going on with him.
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: Fair point Josh Well said, I think that honestly Townsend's
• 44:45
  injury is it's gonna be interesting, man, because really what
• 44:50
  do they do here. It's gonna be an interesting weekend
• 44:53
  at swazy Field. Man. I wish I did not have
• 44:56
  some plans because that's just a quick little joint down
• 44:59
  the road. Anyway, it's all good, it's all good for
• 45:03
  other people to do. Josh, we will go to you
• 45:05
  first for the pick. I'll ask you to pick for
• 45:08
  JB as well, and if you want to do an
• 45:09
  impression with his logic, by all means, I'm not stopping.
• 45:13
  Speaker 4: See, I can't do a JV impression. I don't know,
• 45:16
  because I feel like he's just so like a mellow
• 45:18
  on this podcast, and that that's the issue. Unless he's
• 45:22
  just like, I don't know, here's an issue. Though. I'm
• 45:25
  gonna say this before I even It might spoil it
• 45:28
  for y'all, but for the people that don't know our picks,
• 45:30
  it spoils nothing. Throughout this entire year, six weeks of
• 45:34
  us doing pics. At this point, I went back and looked.
• 45:37
  There has not been a single time the entire season
• 45:40
  where two of the four of us have perfectly aligned
• 45:43
  on all eight picks. That changes this week, because somehow
• 45:46
  JB and I have the same exact picks for every
• 45:48
  single game, So I don't know how it happened, because
• 45:53
  I thought I was going contrarian with a couple of
• 45:55
  picks too, But he's in the same area. So with
• 45:58
  the first game, we're both gonna take State top to bottom.
• 46:03
  Both of these laps I've seemed to be pretty good,
• 46:05
  but I just trust Missisippi States a little bit more,
• 46:07
  and I trust that bullpen depth just a little bit more.
• 46:09
  With all the questions that are going on with the
• 46:11
  starting rotations, I understand Jake.
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: Two Mississippi States on the board already is the graphic
• 46:18
  in danger. With one guy having talked.
• 46:22
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna go Mississippi State too, for pretty much the
• 46:26
  same reasons. I do like the fact that it's at
• 46:28
  le Miss that makes it really really interesting. But I
• 46:31
  like the I like Mississippi State's offense better, and I
• 46:35
  like I think they're gonna be able to to put
• 46:38
  up more runs than I'll miss this.
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: I'm going with them, yeah, I you know, I don't
• 46:43
  want to. I don't want to lopside the graphic. I
• 46:46
  don't want to upset my buddy Scott Smith. I don't
• 46:48
  want to take Swayze Field out of it. Will I
• 46:53
  think I'm gonna have to I think we're gonna have
• 46:54
  to ruin it. I'm going to Mississippi State, Man, the
• 46:57
  questions being what they are, I still can I can't
• 47:01
  make it make enough sense not to choose Mississippi State,
• 47:05
  even on the road, even in the huge rivalry game.
• 47:08
  Josh's gonna go back to you for this one. Here,
• 47:11
  n C State Georgia Tech, two of our most highly
• 47:14
  regarded ACC teams squaring off. If I'm not mistaken, mister Catlet,
• 47:21
  we just got word today that we're gonna have boots
• 47:23
  on the ground at this game.
• 47:24
  Speaker 4: Hello, this is true. I'll be making my first trip
• 47:28
  to bus Chandler Stadium I've ever been before. I'm excited.
• 47:31
  I'm going on Saturday, which should be a interesting pitching
• 47:35
  matchup because I like Jacob Doodan a lot. He should
• 47:37
  be their Saturday guy, and Dylan Lloyd struggled last week
• 47:42
  a lot and he's been iffy on the year to
• 47:45
  this point, so I'll be excited to see how he
• 47:48
  can bounce back against a you know, solid ish lineup.
• 47:52
  Although the bets really haven't been coming through lately for State,
• 47:55
  so maybe if Dylan Lloyd performs the same kind of
• 47:58
  way he did last week, and that's Saturday spot. Maybe
• 48:01
  this is a get right spot for NC State because
• 48:04
  boy do they need it. I mean, guys like besides
• 48:07
  Chrismque tie head freshman Rett Johnson, like a lot of
• 48:10
  the other guys have been struggling a decent bit recently,
• 48:12
  so could be a get right spot. Mc Key hasn't
• 48:15
  been great this year either. There's opportunities here for NC
• 48:18
  State to turn things around. So it'll be it'll be fun.
• 48:21
  I mean, I'll be intrigued to see if they can interesting.
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: Uh, Jake, gonna go to you. Georgia Tech, I think
• 48:29
  an opportunity like this to take a win over such
• 48:32
  a quality opponent in conference? Do you think this is
• 48:37
  a Do you think this is a series that Georgia
• 48:39
  Tech can afford not to win? That's my question. That's
• 48:42
  a little bit of a clunky question. I think you
• 48:44
  get what I'm going for.
• 48:47
  Speaker 5: I mean, it's I think they could. I mean, they
• 48:50
  could afford not to win it looking at the long term,
• 48:53
  I mean it's still it's still early in conference play.
• 48:56
  Like if you're just talking in general, can they afford
• 48:58
  to lose the series?
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: Like?
• 49:00
  Speaker 5: Yes, but it's not one that they want to lose.
• 49:02
  I think that's one that they're fully you know, expecting
• 49:05
  to win. They're playing, they're coming back home after after
• 49:08
  going to pitt last weekend where they come to It
• 49:10
  was kind of a weird weekend for him, where like
• 49:12
  Josh talked about, McKee and Loy both got pretty roughed
• 49:16
  up in their starts. And I mean that pit team
• 49:18
  can they could. They have some guys on that team
• 49:20
  they can hit. But at the same time, like you're,
• 49:22
  you know, the Storgia Tech team that's you know, top
• 49:25
  five team in the country. You think they're gonna go
• 49:27
  up there and and take care of business, and they
• 49:30
  kind of didn't. Luckily, the offense picked up a lot
• 49:32
  of that slack for him. But like still though like
• 49:36
  at Vnkula he was seven for sixteen last weekend, Carson
• 49:40
  Kersey six for thirteen. Like their entire offense is still hitting,
• 49:43
  you know, for an ops over a thousand that we've
• 49:45
  talked about in over average over three hundred except for
• 49:48
  Drew Burris, which is crazy. But the offense kind of
• 49:53
  proved that it can win games for him last weekend,
• 49:55
  But the pitching showed that it can also lose games
• 49:58
  for him. So I mean I think, like you know,
• 50:00
  they can to answer your question, already said it, but yes,
• 50:03
  they can afford to lose it, but.
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: I don't know they don't want to.
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: Obviously all right, word word, Jake will stick with you.
• 50:09
  Then to make your pick n C State Georgia Tech.
• 50:13
  Who takes it?
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: Got I gotta pick Georgia Tech.
• 50:17
  Speaker 5: I still trust the hitters, even if the pitching doesn't
• 50:19
  completely get the job done like they haven't, like they
• 50:22
  didn't last weekend.
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: I trust the offense to keep it going. So I'm
• 50:24
  going there.
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: Well done. Josh. You you alluded to it a minute ago.
• 50:29
  You and JP, You and JV are kind of lined
• 50:31
  up with every pick. What are the two of you
• 50:34
  gonna say?
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: Here?
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: Are you gonna take the get right game for NC State?
• 50:38
  Speaker 4: I got a bad feeling there's gonna be a lot
• 50:40
  of sweeps on this graphic this week. JB and I
• 50:42
  are both taking Georgia Tech. I assume his logic is
• 50:45
  similar to mine. Even though NC State has a clear
• 50:49
  starting pitching rotation, especially Friday and Saturday, I think the
• 50:54
  discrepancy and how good those bats are for Georgia Tech
• 50:58
  compared to NC State, especially over the past three four weeks,
• 51:02
  is way too jarring for me to feel comfortable picking
• 51:06
  in C State in the spot.
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: I love that word jarring because it has been almost
• 51:14
  almost different teams in a sense. Anyway, No, you're right,
• 51:18
  you said it got to take Georgia deck here.
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: I just.
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: The scraphic is going to be something.
• 51:25
  Speaker 4: But it's gonna be easy to me to make. I'm
• 51:27
  just copying and pacing logos down this thing. It's gonna
• 51:30
  be super easy.
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: It will be super easy. I'll tell you what will
• 51:33
  not be super easy is the matchup on hand for
• 51:36
  both Oklahoma and Texas, two of the top teams in
• 51:40
  the SEC, butting heads, a long time rivalry with these
• 51:44
  two squads, and Josh, I'm curious if you'll walk us
• 51:47
  through what you think the deciding factor, the biggest X
• 51:50
  factor of this series will be.
• 51:54
  Speaker 4: The bottom of the lineup for Oklahoma to this point
• 51:56
  in the year has just to be blatant with it.
• 51:59
  It sucked like really bad. And going up against for
• 52:04
  what my I'm sorry, I'm sorry, it's true, and going
• 52:08
  up against for what, my money, is the best pitching
• 52:10
  staff in America. If they don't get it together, a
• 52:13
  little bit. Then you're making me laugh.
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but that was just awful.
• 52:20
  Speaker 4: It's true. Look you want me to it's true.
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: It's true. It's true.
• 52:24
  Speaker 4: Erring alright. So guys that are typically like in the
• 52:28
  sixty nine spots in some way, Jason Walked to this
• 52:31
  point in the year is betting two sixty one with
• 52:33
  the six thirteen ops. He has one extra base hit
• 52:37
  at this point in the year. It is March twenty
• 52:38
  fifth right now, one.
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: Ext But how many walks does he have?
• 52:41
  Speaker 4: Josh, that part I don't know, but I can find
• 52:43
  it for you in the Oh, well, that's okay. He
• 52:47
  is at least one walk I can tell you that much.
• 52:51
  I mean, second baseman. Kyle Branch's betting two eighteen with
• 52:54
  the six seventy six ops. Nolan Stevens is betting two
• 52:58
  seventy three. He only has three extra basics at this point. Like,
• 53:02
  I don't know, there's there's just nothing. What's the what's
• 53:06
  the word I'm looking for. There's nothing appealing to be
• 53:09
  honest about, like the bottom of the lineup, and when
• 53:11
  you're going up against Ruger Riojas, Luke Harris and Dylan
• 53:15
  Balantis and then beyond that that ridiculous bullpen, at least
• 53:19
  their top guys in the bullpen. I don't know, you
• 53:24
  I'll be I'll be shocked if they can get through
• 53:27
  a couple of games. That's spoiling my pick a little bit.
• 53:29
  But I feel like that's really not much of a surprise.
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: Anyway, you're gonna you're gonna splip on your head and
• 53:34
  take Oklahoma. I can't wait to hear why. Uh Jake
• 53:38
  Josh was talking about it. Texas's pitching staff has been
• 53:41
  loaded it. Man, we can't look past Oklahoma. They have
• 53:43
  had some killer pitching themselves this year.
• 53:45
  Speaker 5: Huh.
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they've had They've had some good and and and
• 53:51
  some bad. L J.
• 53:52
  Speaker 5: Mccurious has been has been awesome this year. Uh you know,
• 53:56
  one a one eight seven thirty three innings in in
• 53:58
  his six starts. But like I mean last weekend, like
• 54:02
  Cam Johnson had another another bad start. Like the control
• 54:06
  hasn't been there in his last two Like you know,
• 54:10
  teams are able to kind of take until they get
• 54:12
  a strike or maybe even two strikes.
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: And it's not a problem for him, But I mean,
• 54:15
  but that is a problem for Oklahoma.
• 54:17
  Speaker 5: And they need to figure they needed to figure that
• 54:18
  out quickly, and he's not gonna, you know, have a
• 54:21
  have an easy task of doing that this weekend. But
• 54:24
  like Cord Rager, he's been fining his role. What I mean,
• 54:28
  the the the bullpen was was pretty much rock solid
• 54:31
  against LSU, and I think that's that's very impressive to see.
• 54:35
  Like as much as we've kind of talked about how
• 54:37
  LSU was like uncharacteristically how they've not been good this year,
• 54:41
  but like the Oklahoma they went into, they went into
• 54:44
  Batan rouge. They lost game one, crazy game from sign Evans,
• 54:48
  really good pitch, really well pitched game for him.
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: But like you know, they came back the next day.
• 54:53
  Speaker 5: They battled in a really close one, got the win
• 54:55
  the battle in a really close one the one after that,
• 54:57
  and they got another win and got the series at LSU.
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: And no matter how ill less use playing, that's not
• 55:02
  an easy thing to do. So like.
• 55:06
  Speaker 5: Oklahoma, they need Cam Johnson to figure it out and
• 55:08
  get in the zone. But mer Curious Corderator, they've both
• 55:11
  been especially Mercurious has been really good this year.
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, Jake, we will stick with you. Let's hear your
• 55:17
  pick Oklahoma or Texas.
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: I'm going Texas.
• 55:23
  Speaker 5: I'm afraid this is potentially another sweep for us, but uh,
• 55:27
  I like, I like everything about Texas.
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: Right now I'm going there.
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: It's hard to argue with them. Josh, the moment has come.
• 55:34
  How are you gonna switch it up and pick Oklahoma
• 55:36
  for yourself? And JB?
• 55:38
  Speaker 4: I am not. We're both going with the Longhorns. I
• 55:40
  will say I just thought about this as we're talking.
• 55:43
  The two of you will know what I'm talking about.
• 55:44
  Probably we've talked for the past four or five months
• 55:47
  about when we get to the Red River Rivalry series,
• 55:49
  how we're gonna talk about how Jason walk and Aiden Robbins,
• 55:52
  who's gonna play in the grass the best out in
• 55:54
  center field? You know, I'm gonna I'm gonna let people
• 55:56
  speculate whatever I mean by that, whatever they want to.
• 55:59
  But we mentioned that like months ago with the Shane JB.
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: We sure did, Oh my gosh, we sure did.
• 56:05
  Speaker 4: I just thought, I'll let people speculate whatever they want,
• 56:07
  whatever they think I mean by that. But I just
• 56:09
  I had to mention it before the time passed.
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: I'm glad you did, because honestly, I had forgotten all
• 56:15
  about it. But dude, These are two guys who we've
• 56:17
  said it, you know, we know they can play. When
• 56:20
  they get out there, they can get silly with it.
• 56:22
  So it's gonna be fun to see what they do
• 56:24
  as the Red River rivalry crosses over. Gonna be awesome.
• 56:29
  On a less funny note, I am gonna take Texas.
• 56:33
  I boring graphics, smart play. I don't Texas is just
• 56:39
  one of those teams. Man, How do you how do
• 56:41
  you pick against them? Right now? I'm not gonna all right,
• 56:44
  moving on, Let's talk some Big twelve. Lord, it's been
• 56:47
  a whole episode. We hadn't talked about my boys in
• 56:49
  the Big twelve, and speaking to my boys Arizona State,
• 56:53
  it's finally timed. The world has seen them for what
• 56:56
  they are. After a huge series with Kansas State offensive
• 57:00
  explosion on both sides, they're going to host the Mountaineers
• 57:04
  of West Virginia, who have been one of the Big
• 57:07
  twelves and dare say, one of the country's most surprising
• 57:11
  and potent offenses. To go behind the pitching masterclass by Maxielle,
• 57:18
  Josh gonna go to you, who are you and JB
• 57:21
  picking in this one? And why.
• 57:24
  Speaker 4: We're both taking Arizona State because I mean, frankly, West
• 57:29
  Virginia has been a solid team this year, but Arizona
• 57:31
  State has just overperformed when I even thought they could.
• 57:34
  Cole Carloan has been phenomenal. Landon Harrison has been ridiculous
• 57:39
  betting four fifty two with the fourteen to twenty four
• 57:41
  ops and ten home runs. Donovan Longo Austin Roliga both
• 57:45
  looked great too. I mean, like Alex Overband, Cole Clicker
• 57:50
  Probe need to pick it up a little bit behind Carloan,
• 57:52
  but I trust them. I trust the lineup as a
• 57:55
  whole way more than West Virginia's. West Virginia doesn't have
• 57:58
  much of a power lineup, and behind Gavin Kelly Matt
• 58:02
  and I can never pronounce his name and Paul show
• 58:04
  in the field, there's really not much beyond beyond that
• 58:06
  that they've really showed this year. So I trust the
• 58:08
  top to bottom of Arizona State more than I do
• 58:11
  WVU at this point, Well.
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: Said Jake, who are you picking in this big twelve collision?
• 58:19
  Speaker 5: I'm also gonna go Arizona State. Uh, But you know,
• 58:22
  West Virginia is a team that we haven't talked about
• 58:25
  hardly at all. I don't feel like on this on
• 58:27
  this podcast, and like, I just one thing I want
• 58:29
  to mention Max Yell Sunday starter. I mean six starts,
• 58:33
  thirty two innings, forty four strikeouts, a one eighty done
• 58:37
  bat average against, and a zero point eight four ERA. A.
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: Uh, he's nasty.
• 58:44
  Speaker 5: It's not a great that's not a great setup for
• 58:46
  me saying that I'm gonna pick Arizona State because I am.
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: But he does he deserves, he deserves to be shadowed.
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: Out, yelled out if you will.
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 58:56
  Speaker 4: Also, oh, I like that.
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna shout out Big twelve one good time
• 59:01
  here at home, big fans of what I've gotten to
• 59:04
  see out of the Big Twelve this far this year.
• 59:07
  I really think I think that if West Virginia could
• 59:10
  need a lout either Friday or Saturday, they can do
• 59:13
  this because Yelle on Sunday, I think he's got the
• 59:17
  stuff to shut down this offense because we've seen Arizona
• 59:19
  State when they are met with a dominant pitcher, they
• 59:23
  can be tested. But I just I'm gonna, I'm really
• 59:29
  tempted here, give me West Virginia. I'll break I'll break it. Here,
• 59:33
  give me West Virginia. I want to say, these are
• 59:37
  my children. You're making me choose between, mister Callan, and
• 59:40
  I don't appreciate it me, but I I'm gonna pick
• 59:44
  West Virginia. This is all your fault, Josh, I'm picking
• 59:48
  West Virginia. But this is no knock on Arizona State. Tremendous, tremendous,
• 59:53
  and i'd say I mean two of certainly the top four,
• 59:56
  the top eschelon of the Big twelve right here going on,
• 59:59
  speaking of the top echelon in something, top echelon of
• 1:00:03
  teams in Alabama, perhaps Auburn and Alabama. Really quick, Josh,
• 1:00:09
  what is Alabama gonna have to do to take this game?
• 1:00:12
  And I'm talking like, give me one sentence this series
• 1:00:14
  for it to go Alabama's way?
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 4: What are we gonna have to see one sentence?
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: Oh, I think I've got it.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 4: You go for it then, because I don't know if
• 1:00:27
  I can boil it down in one sentence.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: Tyler Faye repeats last week's performance over the weekend, so
• 1:00:34
  he pitches three games like he did last week.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 4: Person, I don't know, I got a better shot than that,
• 1:00:40
  but like, I don't know, I don't know. I don't
• 1:00:42
  know how you bounce back off of a no hitter,
• 1:00:44
  so per game something if I can go in like
• 1:00:48
  actual something important for this series. Eddie Madrigal is gonna
• 1:00:52
  come back, probably in full fource for Auburn this weekend
• 1:00:54
  for the first time all season. He's been kind of
• 1:00:57
  like he's coasted in on a dhroll for a little bit.
• 1:01:00
  Maybe he's a penchant role for about a week. I
• 1:01:03
  think he might be fully back in the lineup this weekend,
• 1:01:05
  So I'll be very interested to see how that plays
• 1:01:07
  out and how the lineup construction kind of works.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: I assume you and JB are gonna go Alabama.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 4: Then right, you don't You don't need to come to
• 1:01:15
  me for my pick on this one.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: I think we can move on, Jake, Uh, what are
• 1:01:19
  you thinking? Man? Auburn Shirley here.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: First of all, it's hilarious.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 5: You just basically tried to beg Josh to say anything
• 1:01:27
  good about Alabama and he just couldn't do it. Like
• 1:01:29
  me and you were Tennessee fans, openly Tennessee fans great
• 1:01:33
  about Alabama, but like you basically tried to prove one
• 1:01:37
  single sentence out of Josh about Alabama.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: He couldn't do it.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: So Jake, I need you to be I need you
• 1:01:43
  to be the rational and unbiased host I know you are,
• 1:01:46
  and say something good here.
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 5: I'm not gonna I'm not gonna pick. I'm not gonna
• 1:01:51
  pick Alabama. But one thing that I didn't notice last weekend,
• 1:01:55
  like we've talked about the offense being the Lebron show,
• 1:01:59
  like they actually had some step up outside of the
• 1:02:01
  just the really good pitching that they had like Brady Neil,
• 1:02:05
  Bryce Fowler, John Lim, Brandon Hole. They all kind of
• 1:02:08
  showed that they might be able to carry a little
• 1:02:10
  bit more of the load and take a little bit
• 1:02:12
  of that heat off of Lebron to make it seem
• 1:02:14
  like it's not just like if he doesn't hit then
• 1:02:16
  the team is not gonna score any runs. So that
• 1:02:18
  was kind of promising for them. But that's my one
• 1:02:22
  good point on Alabama. So I'm gonna take offer.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 4: Can I make it? Can I make a point on
• 1:02:26
  Bama two while we're at it? This is not this
• 1:02:29
  is not me doing an Alabama hate bit. Like I
• 1:02:31
  truly just think like this needs to be said because
• 1:02:33
  people don't talk about it. This has not been a
• 1:02:36
  very good defensive team this year. If you just watch
• 1:02:38
  them play, they are not very polished on the defensive end.
• 1:02:40
  So if they don't figure that out a little bit,
• 1:02:43
  I don't think they have much of a shot this
• 1:02:44
  weekend either, but they very well could. There's a lot
• 1:02:46
  of potential for those guys. It's just been like weird
• 1:02:48
  spots here and there that they're committing terrible errors. We
• 1:02:51
  saw it early in the year, gets something was Oregon State.
• 1:02:53
  It just keeps happening. Yeah, and you're gonna laugh at
• 1:02:55
  me for hating what is true?
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not gonna laugh at you for hating
• 1:02:59
  I was actual. Are gonna tell a funny anecdote because
• 1:03:01
  that will take the place of the interest because this
• 1:03:03
  is another sweep. I'm going to Alabama, right, I'm going
• 1:03:05
  to Auburn. Well, I was gonna say, because the story's
• 1:03:08
  about Alabama. Friend of mine last weekend will say, and
• 1:03:11
  how's Alabama's team this year? I said, m and he goes,
• 1:03:15
  but they have Justin Lebron I said, yeah, what else?
• 1:03:19
  I said? This is a devastatingly bad team. Unbeknownst to
• 1:03:23
  me as I'm saying this, Tyler Fay throwing, so I
• 1:03:27
  looked very silly for my friend. When we checked the
• 1:03:29
  course later, I was like, well, I'll be so anyway,
• 1:03:31
  Auburn sweet, let's go quicker through these next couple guys.
• 1:03:35
  East Carolina ut San Antonio, Josh, what's gonna be the
• 1:03:40
  deciding factor in this one? And who's your pick?
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 4: I would say that something's gotta give for these two teams,
• 1:03:48
  that there are certain things they both did really well.
• 1:03:50
  First of all, both teams have a lights out reliever
• 1:03:52
  Shawn Jenkins East Carolina and Sam Simmons for UTSA. How
• 1:03:58
  both teams utilize them in whatever spot they want to
• 1:04:00
  put them in, I think will be very interesting both
• 1:04:02
  in sub two eras. But I think something's gonna get
• 1:04:05
  m on the side because East Carolina starters don't walk
• 1:04:08
  guys very often, like Ethan Norby, as as he's been
• 1:04:13
  this year seven only a seven percent walk great. You know,
• 1:04:17
  Sean Jings don't want guys either, even out of the pen.
• 1:04:19
  UTSA takes really good at bats. They have a really
• 1:04:22
  good approaches, it seems like, and that's part of what
• 1:04:23
  makes their offense so good. Like Kaden Miller twenty two
• 1:04:26
  percent walk great this year Lane Hayworth has an eighteen
• 1:04:29
  percent walk great, it's just a matter of who plays
• 1:04:32
  that side better. I think it's a really little nitpicky
• 1:04:35
  thing that I could play a big role in this series.
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: So what's the pick for you? What's pick for JB?
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 4: I'm actually wait I for okay, No, we are okay, yeah,
• 1:04:47
  we're both going UTSA. For a moment, I had a
• 1:04:50
  moment there I forgot. I thought he might have taken ECU.
• 1:04:52
  I'm taking UTSA. That offense is just significantly better.
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: Very good, Jake. What's your pick here, coach?
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I want to pick something different from them,
• 1:05:03
  but I'm also gonna go UTSA, like you know, ECU,
• 1:05:07
  Like you know, they had their most reliable starting pitcher
• 1:05:12
  this year, Gavin Van Kempen.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 2: You know, he goes down last weekend.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 5: I haven't seen any reports for about how long he's
• 1:05:17
  gonna be out or anything, but you know, I think
• 1:05:19
  it was an arm injury, and like arm injuries of
• 1:05:21
  any severity isn't anything to play with, so I assume
• 1:05:24
  he at least probably misses a start or two at
• 1:05:26
  this point, with the way those injuries have kind of
• 1:05:28
  been this year. Also, UTSA is not into at home.
• 1:05:32
  I really like their offense, especially against ECU Pichi and stuff.
• 1:05:36
  That's down one of their one of their top guys.
• 1:05:38
  I'm going UTSA.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: Man, what a boring selection. You guys took my two
• 1:05:42
  notes that I had prepared for this series and we're
• 1:05:46
  all picking the same team. Boring UTSA sweep again. All right, Jake,
• 1:05:52
  we're gonna go to you for Tennessee and Vanderbilt. H
• 1:05:56
  The Volunteer State implodes as we've got two of the
• 1:06:00
  SEC's teams who need to answer some pivotal questions in
• 1:06:04
  a big weekend series in Nashville. Jake, curious, who are
• 1:06:08
  you taking in this one? And why.
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 5: You think I'm gonna get a Tennessee Vanderbilt series and
• 1:06:15
  not take Tennessee.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: I knew who you were gonna take.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 5: I just need to I'm gonna pick Tennessee, but I
• 1:06:21
  will talk about them for just a second. You know,
• 1:06:23
  they had a little bit of a scare again last
• 1:06:25
  weekend against Missouri. I mean they won the series, but
• 1:06:27
  I mean it wasn't the way that you kind of
• 1:06:30
  expected them to win it.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 5: You know, Game one was a weird one where the
• 1:06:35
  pitching kind of let them down and nobody was able
• 1:06:36
  really to keep any runs off the board. Second one,
• 1:06:40
  you know, mac Appenzella Rudy kind of took care of business,
• 1:06:43
  but it was close to the very end of that one.
• 1:06:46
  And then in the third game, Evan Blanco was fantastic
• 1:06:48
  seven to two thirds, one runt aloud. But it was
• 1:06:51
  kind of the same story as we've been talking about
• 1:06:54
  all year for Tennessee. Is like, especially in the first
• 1:06:57
  two games, like only one guy had multiple hits in
• 1:07:00
  the Friday end Saturday game, the first four hitters in
• 1:07:04
  the series, no matter whatever combination that they used, they
• 1:07:07
  hit for a two fourteen batan average and had one
• 1:07:10
  RBI in the first four hitters on the weekend, or
• 1:07:13
  like like on the year, you know, Henry Ford's got
• 1:07:16
  good numbers. Blame Browns ran into some homers, but just
• 1:07:18
  an inconsistent offense at some point is going to come
• 1:07:21
  back to get them.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 2: But it's not gonna be this week. I'm going Tennessee.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: Josh, it's your turn to say nice things about a
• 1:07:29
  team for Tennessee. You can pick which one, but I
• 1:07:32
  know who I'd pick if I were you.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 4: Uh, I mean, okay, I am gonna take Tennessee here,
• 1:07:39
  but I think it's all right, go ahead. I think
• 1:07:43
  it's more of an anti Vandy thing than it is
• 1:07:45
  a pro Tennessee thing. And that's not a knock on Tennessee.
• 1:07:48
  It's just like I wouldn't bet on this, don't. I
• 1:07:52
  don't believe one out in this Vandy offense right now.
• 1:07:56
  There's just nothing appealing about it whatsoever. To be right now,
• 1:07:58
  they take pretty good abs, walking at a decent rate,
• 1:08:01
  but they're not hitting the ball well whatsoever. As simple
• 1:08:03
  as it sounds, I mean. Also something else that should
• 1:08:06
  be mentioned. They've moved to more of an open role
• 1:08:08
  on Sundays, it seems because, as it was announced last night,
• 1:08:13
  Austin And is officially out for the year and Connor
• 1:08:17
  Finnle and Wyatt Nado are pretty much established the Friday
• 1:08:23
  Saturday guys. It seems Nate Taylor hasn't really worked out
• 1:08:25
  on Sundays. They're kind of trying different things. They're trying
• 1:08:28
  not a guy for ending and moving on. I don't
• 1:08:30
  know how sustainable it is long term in the SEC
• 1:08:33
  to be honest, But that's partially why I'm down on
• 1:08:36
  Bandy as a whole. But a lot of it's the offense,
• 1:08:38
  like they just haven't been putting up good numbers at all,
• 1:08:40
  and the bottom of that lineup drops up a cliff.
• 1:08:43
  It seems like.
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: We have to see Tennessee's offense find a consistent grouping,
• 1:08:51
  a consistent order.
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: We have to.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: It's running We're running out of time for that offense
• 1:08:58
  to find an order and click, because if not, then
• 1:09:02
  this is going to we're reaching critical mass. I think
• 1:09:05
  with this offense is what I'm getting at. The pitching
• 1:09:07
  has been, for the most part, very trustworthy. I mean,
• 1:09:10
  I could say that for myself. Jake, I'm sure you'd
• 1:09:12
  agree it's been a very the starting pitching let me
• 1:09:15
  let me choose my words carefully here. Starting pitching has
• 1:09:18
  been very trustworthy for the most part. So it's the offense.
• 1:09:20
  But I'm gonna go Tennessee as if you would didn't
• 1:09:23
  know that already, Josh, really quickly walk us through Oregon
• 1:09:27
  and you see Santa Barbara. We're going out west, some
• 1:09:30
  folks from JB's Nick of the Woods gonna be playing
• 1:09:34
  as Oregon takes on one of its toughest tests outside
• 1:09:37
  of conference, and you see Santa Barbara. What's the story?
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 4: Who are you picking. I think both the starting rotations
• 1:09:44
  in the top of their pitching staff is the story,
• 1:09:47
  because that seems to mostly be the strength of both
• 1:09:49
  these teams. I mean, Drew Smith and Angelaya are performing
• 1:09:54
  really well for Oregon, both with Ops's over twelve hundred
• 1:09:58
  Andrelia's batting three four for actually, and on the other
• 1:10:03
  side of that, UC Santa Barbara's offense has been bad,
• 1:10:07
  say the least, But that's a I don't know JB's logic.
• 1:10:11
  I am taking UC Santa Barbara, and literally the extent
• 1:10:15
  of my analysis is like just upset pick and I
• 1:10:19
  could see weird things happening. That's all the analysis you're getting.
• 1:10:22
  I have no competitive see Santa Barbara has no competitive
• 1:10:26
  edge over organ in my opinion, but baseball is a
• 1:10:29
  weird sport, and this was my pick. I was just
• 1:10:31
  trying to be a little bit different, Like maybe I
• 1:10:33
  didn't expect either of you to pick Santa Barbara and
• 1:10:36
  lo and behold, JB took them too, But I probably
• 1:10:38
  could have seen that coming from the you know, old
• 1:10:40
  Santa Barbara, Southern California.
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: Whatever thing, the connection was there, the lines were in place,
• 1:10:47
  or the dots were in place. It was enough to
• 1:10:48
  us to connect them. Coach, curious where you're gonna go here.
• 1:10:53
  Oregon certainly have some guys that are playing incredibly well,
• 1:10:56
  But Santa Barbara does have this cat pitching on Friday nights.
• 1:10:59
  I'm not sure these folks at home have heard of. Yeah,
• 1:11:04
  that's a that's a joke.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 5: They do, they do have, they do have that one guy.
• 1:11:08
  But I'll keep it short. Uh, you know, Oregon looks
• 1:11:12
  really good right now. They're seven and two. It open,
• 1:11:15
  big tim play. They're coming off a weekend against Northwestern
• 1:11:18
  where they scored thirty six runs. Not that the I mean,
• 1:11:21
  I think this UCSB pitching staff is much better than
• 1:11:24
  the Northwestern pitching staff, but they scored a ton of runs.
• 1:11:27
  The ball was flying out of p K Park last weekend.
• 1:11:29
  They had eleven homers. Helman had four, gran Cooney had
• 1:11:33
  a couple. Ryan Kuchak hit five hundred on the weekend
• 1:11:37
  for Northwestern. By the way, but uh, yeah, I like
• 1:11:40
  I like what I like what I like what Oregon's doing.
• 1:11:42
  And then one quick shout out though for for UCSB,
• 1:11:45
  go check out Dodges Will Dodges Live looks for the
• 1:11:49
  uc Davis UCSB game he went to where Floor pitched
• 1:11:52
  excellent work on his end there. It's very much worth
• 1:11:55
  a read, great stuff from Will.
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 2: But uh yeah, I'm gonna go. I am gonna pick or.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 5: I mean, obviously, I have to think that ucsp's gonna
• 1:12:02
  have a clear chance to win the first game with Flora.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 2: But I like Oregon in the long run, so I'm
• 1:12:07
  going with Oregon.
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: I love that shout, Jake. That was gonna be my
• 1:12:11
  point to bring up is that if you've read Dodger's
• 1:12:14
  analysis of Jackson Flora, you know that he is elite.
• 1:12:18
  And I'll say this, I am pretty sure that he
• 1:12:21
  and I are simpatico one to one on where we're
• 1:12:24
  holding Jackson Flora in this class right now. So, Jake,
• 1:12:27
  I know you know what I'm talking about. Josh, I
• 1:12:29
  think you have read this as well. I think you
• 1:12:31
  know what I'm talking about. Flora's special. I think that
• 1:12:34
  U see Santa Barbara can win on Friday, but I
• 1:12:36
  think Oregon's probably gonna take it. And this is coming
• 1:12:38
  from a guy who has been incredibly critical in Oregon
• 1:12:41
  this year. I've been so critical, so harsh on Oregon.
• 1:12:44
  I don't know that Santa Barbara's offense is going to
• 1:12:46
  do enough to stand up to them, especially over the
• 1:12:50
  Saturday Sunday stretch of this series. So I'll make this
• 1:12:53
  one Oregon, and I'll side with coach will split it
• 1:12:56
  to to how about that? What a boring graphic? But
• 1:12:59
  I like the way we're playing here. It's gonna be
• 1:13:02
  a good weekend to baseball, So I'm looking forward to
• 1:13:04
  that as well, Toddy, And also I'm looking forward to Coach.
• 1:13:07
  Why don't you tell these people where they can find
• 1:13:08
  you between our episodes of College Baseball? Now what you're
• 1:13:10
  working on?
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 4: Sir?
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 5: You can follow me on Twitter at Jake Barge. There's
• 1:13:17
  not a ton of things that I'm actually currently working
• 1:13:19
  on other than other than getting some love look stuff
• 1:13:22
  done the mid Major Top thirty. It's been a crazy
• 1:13:26
  busy week. I haven't even gotten it out this weekend.
• 1:13:28
  We've had a lot of a lot of a lot
• 1:13:31
  of schedules and stuff moving around with Arcadia and just
• 1:13:33
  a ton of a ton of other stuff going on.
• 1:13:36
  But I will be getting that out before this weekend's games,
• 1:13:39
  and I think this weekend I may try to get
• 1:13:41
  up to Ruggers Michigan. I could get up. I could
• 1:13:45
  get up to the Friday game, get some take carry action.
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 2: That'll be fun. But yeah, that's what I got planned
• 1:13:51
  would love.
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: Sounds great And congrats again to Arcadia seven game win streak. Hey,
• 1:13:57
  keep it up, Keep it up. Josh working the folks.
• 1:14:00
  Find you at home between our episodes and what are
• 1:14:03
  you working on? Sart?
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 4: You can find me on Twitter at Josh catlet three
• 1:14:08
  posting the same stuff. Typically, although I've finally gotten to
• 1:14:11
  the point in my life, I've heard people, podcasters, whatever,
• 1:14:15
  talk forever about if you're putting out content of any sort,
• 1:14:20
  every fan base thinks that you hate their team for
• 1:14:23
  a different reason. I think I've finally gotten to that
• 1:14:25
  point where every fan base thinks I hate their team.
• 1:14:28
  So go check out my stuff and see if I
• 1:14:30
  inevitably hate your team because I sent them to it
• 1:14:32
  too tough of a regional or they're one seed line
• 1:14:35
  too low. Go check it out.
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: Chances are you do hate my favorite team because you
• 1:14:40
  didn't have them hosting in your most recent bracketology.
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 4: So that is true, But it's also this is the first.
• 1:14:45
  This is the first bracketology I've put out where Tennessee
• 1:14:49
  is not somehow conveniently going to the Chapel Hill regional.
• 1:14:52
  So the end of that.
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: You had to quah, Yeah, you had to quash that
• 1:14:57
  one way or the other. I'd hate for Chapel for
• 1:15:00
  North Carolina and have to visit Knoxville in a regional
• 1:15:02
  that would be devastating for them anyway. Not that it
• 1:15:06
  will bother you. Not that it will bother you, Josh,
• 1:15:07
  you don't care anything about you NC.
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 4: No, not at all.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: No, not at all, not at all. If you're interested
• 1:15:16
  in following me between our episodes, you may do so
• 1:15:18
  on the Twitter machine, on Instagram, on Blue Sky at
• 1:15:20
  Drew is okay, gonna be working. As you may have
• 1:15:23
  guessed earlier on a Live looks article covering Mississippi State
• 1:15:27
  Southern miss from last night, What a wonderful game, awesome time.
• 1:15:32
  Appreciate you joining us on this episode of College Baseball. Now,
• 1:15:34
  I want to advise you again check out Prospects Live
• 1:15:37
  dot Com memberships as low as seven dollars. We can
• 1:15:38
  get all these live looks we're talking about, plus tips, tricks, tools, lists, ranks,
• 1:15:42
  and all the things that you need for your baseball fandom.
• 1:15:45
  Want to encourage you as well to drop a comment
• 1:15:47
  down below let us know which series you're most looking
• 1:15:50
  forward to. But that's gonna do it for us today,
• 1:15:53
  for Jake, for Josh, for JB. I'm Drew. We will
• 1:15:56
  talk to you soon. Take care, remember me. Now to
• 1:15:58
  yourself and each other. Bye bye,