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3 Guys Before The Game - WVU Baseball Gavin Kelly Visits (Episode 715) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  Speaker 1: Hey, what's happening. It is time for three Guys before
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  Speaker 1: the game, and can we say it? Can we say it?
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  Speaker 2: Yes? Or no?
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: Can we say it? Say it? Go ahead? Oh, we
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  Speaker 1: got a dandy for you. The summer series continues and
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  Speaker 1: we are joined by WVU baseball player Gavin Kelly, number
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  Speaker 1: two on your roster and no doubt, number one in
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  Speaker 1: your heart. We're got to talk with a mountaineer. Jeez,
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  Speaker 1: I almost said not a utility guy.
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  Speaker 2: I mean he's a versatile player.
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  Speaker 1: I know what he is. Unicorn. We're gonna talk with
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  Speaker 1: a mountaineer. He's a unicorse.
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  Speaker 3: That's a better description.
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  Speaker 1: Mountaineer Unicorn. First ever unicorn on Three Guys Before the Game.
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  Speaker 1: This is episode seven fifteen. Is brought to us by Gomart.
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  Speaker 1: including you. And a very special thank you to the
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  Speaker 1: folks at Diversified Energy and Gold and Blue Enterprises for
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  Speaker 1: making it possible to have Gavin with us today. I've
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  Speaker 1: been looking forward to doing this and it just works out.
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  Speaker 1: We record on Mondays. We'll record any day, but we
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  Speaker 1: record on Mondays, and Monday is the off day from
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  Speaker 1: Mountaineer Baseball, so that worked out quite well. We said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: let's see Gavin, if you could possibly before you come
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  Speaker 1: in on Monday. I know you've got some activities over
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  Speaker 1: the weekend Friday, Saturday and Sunday. If you could possibly
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  Speaker 1: before you come in, just beat the pulp out of
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  Speaker 1: Kansas State three straight and just say hey, thanks for
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  Speaker 1: coming Uh, if you could take care of that, and
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  Speaker 1: he complied.
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  Speaker 3: And maybe go yard a couple of times in the
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  Speaker 3: yard and checked all the boxes.
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  Speaker 1: You did it all. Welcome to the show Man.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you for having me.
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  Speaker 1: It's good, this is good. We've been we've been looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to this.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so when we when we have when we have
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  Speaker 4: been looking seeing the some clips that have gone viral,
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  Speaker 4: and uh, it seems like a good time study.
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  Speaker 2: You notice we don't have any repeat guests.
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  Speaker 1: It's just like no has Savans been on Savans a
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  Speaker 1: couple of multi appearances.
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  Speaker 2: We're glad to have you here. He's a dude, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he's a dude.
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  Speaker 1: First time you had contact with Steve Sabans was when, oh, I.
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  Speaker 4: Mean in person contact, probably like seventh grade and Iraqi.
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  Speaker 1: What you came camp?
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  Speaker 4: I came for a camp and then uh I got
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  Speaker 4: in touch with him, talked with him on the phone
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  Speaker 4: throughout uh, probably eighth grade to my sophomore year, and
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  Speaker 4: committed my sophomore hear of high school.
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  Speaker 1: Dude, Wait a second, a second, I'm calling can baseball?
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  Speaker 1: You can call you call offensive time out in baseball? Now? Right?
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  Speaker 1: Is there a signal? What's a signal for an offensive time,
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  Speaker 1: you just tell the blue Chad, I got I gotta
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  Speaker 1: ask you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to walk out after a short second, so
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  Speaker 2: go ahead and get it in.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a little taken aback by this timeout. So like
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  Speaker 1: in in seventh eighth grade, like most kids are in
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  Speaker 1: middle school's still eating their boogers. Like he's calling you
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  Speaker 1: and you're talking to yeah, well they were some do
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  Speaker 1: not all of them. There's a go ahead, And so
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  Speaker 1: the dude's calling you, You're like, you're chatting with him
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  Speaker 1: in eighth grade.
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  Speaker 4: I think the rules back then where I had to
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  Speaker 4: call him and then he had answer, So it is
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  Speaker 4: like getting him in.
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  Speaker 1: Trouble nor right.
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  Speaker 4: There would be times that he would reach out to
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  Speaker 4: my summer ball coach and give me a time to
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  Speaker 4: call him. Yeah, and that's all fair.
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  Speaker 1: That's how you confiscate the rules because nowadays are on
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  Speaker 1: any rules. But Steve was still playing by the rules
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  Speaker 1: back then. So when you're eighth grade, like, what are
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  Speaker 1: you talking to him?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, what I need to improve on if I
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  Speaker 4: want to play here? What they see me like position wise,
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  Speaker 4: just overall, like what I need to do to get better.
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  Speaker 1: So seventh grade you come down here for camp. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and obviously you I d'd yourself to them. They went like,
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  Speaker 1: wait a second, that one over there, what were you doing?
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  Speaker 1: Were you straight? Didn't feel back then? Were you catching?
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  Speaker 1: What were you doing? What did you think that? They
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  Speaker 1: looked at that they said they liked So I.
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  Speaker 4: Wanted to be a shortstop, so I came in as
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  Speaker 4: a shortstop. But I also I worked out as catching
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  Speaker 4: at the camp, and they told me that my arm
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  Speaker 4: action would be better behind the plate. So I really
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  Speaker 4: worked at getting better at catching. And I wouldn't say
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  Speaker 4: that immediately whenever I went to the camp either that
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  Speaker 4: I like stood out. It was more show that, like
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  Speaker 4: I was there, and then I kept coming, and then
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  Speaker 4: I kept coming.
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  Speaker 1: You wouldn't leave them alone your stocking exactly.
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  Speaker 4: I would send them emails of videos and oh good,
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  Speaker 4: I update them about what I'm doing outside of it,
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  Speaker 4: and just trying to show them that I am improving
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  Speaker 4: and getting better.
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  Speaker 1: Well that's awesome. Yeah, that's a great part part of
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  Speaker 1: your right. So was it always West Virginia in play?
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  Speaker 1: Were they the were they d one or were you
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  Speaker 1: sharing with other schools?
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  Speaker 4: I mean there are other schools that reached out and
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  Speaker 4: that wanted especially after I committed, which await second.
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  Speaker 1: So seventh and eighth as West Virginia the only school
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  Speaker 1: talking to you.
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  Speaker 4: I mean I would say yes and no, like they're
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  Speaker 4: I don't really remember the whole timeline, but i'd say
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  Speaker 4: eighth grade is whenever everything I guess started talking.
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  Speaker 1: When you guys think about think about this now, Sert
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  Speaker 1: in all seriousness, take away that the booger comment, eighth
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  Speaker 1: grade is so young and you're talking with big boy baseball,
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  Speaker 1: and it's amazing. I think it shows everyone out there that,
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  Speaker 1: like people are id'd so early on and it's just
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  Speaker 1: not baseball. I mean it's middle school basketball. You just
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  Speaker 1: know if the kids got a chance. So it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of wild. Did did it seem to be happening fast
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  Speaker 1: for you when you were back at that age, going like, WHOA,
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  Speaker 1: this is going quick?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 4: I don't really know, but I would say no, just
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  Speaker 4: because it's always been something that I want to do,
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  Speaker 4: and so I everything that I've done prior to that,
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  Speaker 4: it was yeah to to have these type of conversations.
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  Speaker 4: So I'd say no, but it was it was unique
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  Speaker 4: for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Were you just playing baseball at that time? Or were
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  Speaker 3: you doing other things?
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  Speaker 4: I was playing? Uh oh, I think I was playing basketball,
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  Speaker 4: but then also hockey up until seventh.
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  Speaker 3: Grade, okay, and then it went straight baseball. Yeah that
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  Speaker 3: point on all right? Position wise, you said you did
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  Speaker 3: catcher in shortstop. Were you playing both at the time,
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  Speaker 3: like through Little League all the way up?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah? So I grew up playing the infield, mainly second
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  Speaker 4: base because I played with an age group up and
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  Speaker 4: uh so I was always a shorter kid and not
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  Speaker 4: really like strong yet I get plugged in at second base.
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  Speaker 4: But eventually, I want to say, one tournament one of
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  Speaker 4: our catchers got hurt, and my dad was one of
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  Speaker 4: the assistant coaches on that team. It was like, get
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  Speaker 4: on back there. Ever since then it was in field
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  Speaker 4: and catcher.
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  Speaker 3: Which do you like more?
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  Speaker 4: I like hitting?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, so you would, Okay, I wants to
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  Speaker 1: be a DH. Wants to be a d H.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but you're really good in the field at both
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  Speaker 3: of those positions we're talking before, and that's a that's
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  Speaker 3: a rare combination. Any catcher, second basement out there.
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  Speaker 4: I like, I like playing defense and I like the
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  Speaker 4: utility uh side of that, But I don't really care
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  Speaker 4: where I play on the field, I just I just
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  Speaker 4: want to hit.
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  Speaker 2: So I got like a ton of questions stunner. So
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  Speaker 2: we were talking about this in our in our pregame meeting.
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  Speaker 2: How do you get that? You don't call the you
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  Speaker 2: don't call the pitches the pitching coach, justin one does
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  Speaker 2: so how how does the picture of the catcher and
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  Speaker 2: everybody get the signal?
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  Speaker 4: So everyone on the on the field has a pitch calm.
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  Speaker 4: It's like a little watch that you can wear on
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  Speaker 4: your rest your glove and it'll say like for fastball,
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  Speaker 4: like f B one or and one is the pitch
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  Speaker 4: location or like f B glove and there are all
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  Speaker 4: different pitch locations after the pitch and catching. Lately, I've
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  Speaker 4: had an ear piece in where it's like a robot
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  Speaker 4: that says fastball one spot.
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  Speaker 1: AI voice, an AI voice.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, where's the So what are the spots? Where's where's
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  Speaker 2: the one spot?
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  Speaker 4: One spot's up and into a batter, Two spots low
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  Speaker 4: and into a batter, three spots low and away to
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  Speaker 4: a batter, four spots up and away. And then you
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  Speaker 4: like five spot which is extended in, six spot which
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  Speaker 4: is extended down, seven spot extended up and then glove
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  Speaker 4: is down the middle low, mask is high down the middle.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, that's incredible. So you know what's and I'm assuming
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  Speaker 2: neither you nor the pitcher can shake off the call. Correct, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: even if you there's a call ever come in and
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  Speaker 2: you go, we won't we won't tell justice. By the way,
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  Speaker 2: the call ever come in and go, oh man, I
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  Speaker 2: don't think I throw that had or you just.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, pictures can shake whenever they want, and they
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  Speaker 4: have they have a little card in their hat that
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  Speaker 4: they can take their hat off, and then it'll be
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  Speaker 4: like let's let's just say it's it says fastball and
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  Speaker 4: then thirteen, so they'll go one three, they'll flash one
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  Speaker 4: three to one and then he'll plug in fastball onto
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  Speaker 4: the PitchCom.
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  Speaker 2: So there is some he does. The picture does have
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  Speaker 2: some flexibility.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but sometimes it gets overrolled, just just based off
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  Speaker 4: like scouting reports. Like let's say a hitters batting one
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  Speaker 4: whenever they get to O two on sliders lowing in,
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  Speaker 4: so it'll get like overrolled for the slider lowing.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, next question is how important is pitch framing where
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  Speaker 2: you put the glove.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it can, it's it can either hurt you or
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  Speaker 4: help you.
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  Speaker 1: So, okay, here we go. That's gonna good. Now I
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  Speaker 1: want to get into the umpires now, okay, because that's
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  Speaker 1: what I'm going with, but go ahead.
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  Speaker 4: Depends on the umpire. It changes with each umpire. So
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  Speaker 4: you can either hurt the situation and lose strikes for
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  Speaker 4: your pitcher if you're trying to make too big of
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  Speaker 4: a move, or the umpire doesn't like the way that
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  Speaker 4: you are receiving it, and or you could help, so
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  Speaker 4: you could steal a couple of strikes and almost full
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  Speaker 4: the umpire into thinking that a ball is a strike.
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  Speaker 2: So what because you can't but you can't do it
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  Speaker 2: too quickly because that's noticeable. So what's the motion when
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  Speaker 2: it's close and you're framing it and just going to
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  Speaker 2: try to, you know, massage that thing a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so you're gonna obviously try to manipulate the pitch
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  Speaker 4: with your glove to try to make it seem like
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  Speaker 4: it's higher than it is with the way that you
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  Speaker 4: move it up than the ones that are close. It's
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  Speaker 4: more so just like sticking it. That makes sense, So like, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: making your move and then like barely moving it and
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  Speaker 4: just sticking it.
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  Speaker 2: So framing, So framing is critic that's one of the
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  Speaker 2: most important things you do.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a nuance.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a new once and one more question on that.
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  Speaker 1: And yes, sir, then Rando, I've ran my following minutes
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  Speaker 1: to the Gentleman from him.
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  Speaker 2: So related to that, you get a feel for the
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  Speaker 2: ump and you can how much can you work the umpire?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that's huge. Just getting a relationship built
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  Speaker 4: with an umpire throughout the game can can be very beneficial.
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  Speaker 4: So you always want that guy on your side, whether
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  Speaker 4: it's whenever you're hitting or catching.
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  Speaker 2: So what do you do? What do you do to
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  Speaker 2: get him on your side?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I'm just trying to be as polite as
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  Speaker 4: I can be and protecting him from any foul balls
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  Speaker 4: or balls in the dirt so he doesn't get hit,
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  Speaker 4: doesn't get beat up. But just building a relationship with him.
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  Speaker 2: So you're talking to him, Yeah, like what what's the conversation?
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  Speaker 2: Is it casual or is it about the game or
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  Speaker 2: what is it?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, so before the game starts, like whenever we
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  Speaker 4: take the field and the picture is warming up, he'll
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  Speaker 4: usually come behind me and you get a feel for
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  Speaker 4: his pitches, So I'll usually just tell him what pitches
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  Speaker 4: he has, what his best pitches, if he's a strike thrower,
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  Speaker 4: if his stuff is really good, just all that so
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  Speaker 4: then he knows going into it what to expect, what
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  Speaker 4: to see. And then from there it's like just being
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  Speaker 4: as respectful as you can if I think he missed
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  Speaker 4: a call, just like almost like there's you can either
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  Speaker 4: like guilt trip him if that makes sense to where
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  Speaker 4: you can say like, uh, it's all good, like we
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  Speaker 4: all make mistakes. And so sometimes that works, and then
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  Speaker 4: other times whenever umpires and you'll get a feel throughout
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  Speaker 4: the game on what type of umpire you're dealing with.
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  Speaker 4: And sometimes umpires are stuck up and think like it's
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  Speaker 4: their way or no way.
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  Speaker 2: So but sometimes he knows when he misses, and you
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  Speaker 2: know when you miss so you could yeah, like that's
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  Speaker 2: that's cool.
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  Speaker 4: That's that's whenever the it's all good. We all make mistakes.
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  Speaker 1: Have you love that? Have has it ever come to
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  Speaker 1: a point where you framed one up there and you
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  Speaker 1: get shided by the umpire like knock it off? Has
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  Speaker 1: he ever said that like stop doing that? No, I
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  Speaker 1: don't care.
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  Speaker 4: I mean maybe like whenever I was younger in high
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  Speaker 4: school or yeah, but not not in college.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever framed one up where it got in
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  Speaker 1: it was a ball but it got to a called
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  Speaker 1: strike where he calls it a strike because you did
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  Speaker 1: a really good job and you kind of giggle inside yourself.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, there's definitely some times where I'm like, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: that was good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah did you see that umpire it was this past
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  Speaker 1: weekend that took that file ball and got knocked out.
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  Speaker 4: I did see that.
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  Speaker 1: Holy yeah, do you guys see that it did? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that was that went painful to watch. I've never seen
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  Speaker 1: that before. I mean, you see him get hit, but
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  Speaker 1: not like knocked out.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, just crazy.
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  Speaker 1: That's interesting. The part of your mindset is to kind
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  Speaker 1: of keep him in protection.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's uh, it's huge, so you just want to
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  Speaker 4: have him on your side.
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  Speaker 1: Let me give you a generalization here. My guess is
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  Speaker 1: that in Big twelve play, so the Big twelve crew,
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  Speaker 1: eighty percent of the umpires are good dudes and they're
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  Speaker 1: trying to work, but there's probably maybe maybe fifteen percent,
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  Speaker 1: ten to fifteen that are just like they're just difficult
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  Speaker 1: to work with.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, for sure. Like even whenever I'm not catching,
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  Speaker 4: i'm at second ace, I always go and introduce myself
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  Speaker 4: to the first base and the second mace umpire before
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  Speaker 4: the game starts, and you can get a feel for
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  Speaker 4: the umpires. So I guess they're friendly. And the umpires
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  Speaker 4: that aren't just.
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  Speaker 1: Big boys like that, they're wait, so am I right here?
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  Speaker 1: This is my perception Like some dudes like they think
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  Speaker 1: they are big boy on the base path, like it's
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  Speaker 1: my game. And I might say there might have been
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  Speaker 1: one this weekend during that series I saw an individual
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of like, yeah, I'm big, bad boy, and
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  Speaker 1: I just find that's part of the I mean, that's
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  Speaker 1: part of the theater of what baseball is.
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  Speaker 3: Right away, for clarification, that was your thought on my thought,
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  Speaker 3: Kelly's thought any of the umpiring this weekend. Of course,
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  Speaker 3: that was you.
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  Speaker 1: Did not lead the witness. I did not lead the witness.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so okay, that's that's a huge part of
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  Speaker 1: the game man.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's a huge part of the interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting Friday Night, had you ever had a player? Was
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: it Friday Night? No, it was Matt, Yeah, it was
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  Speaker 1: Friday Night. Max was thrown when the dude, tried to
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: tried to come home and like Max was just sitting
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: at waiting with the ball. Yeah. That was wild.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that was that was bizarre for sure. I've never
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: seen a ultra aggressive Yeah, I've never seen something like that.
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  Speaker 4: So it's that was like Little League. Yeah, I mean
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: I've made some dumb bas running decisions this year, but
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: that I think takes the cake.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mentioned Max Yale. Good to have him back.
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's huge, dude.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: How's it catching him? That's gotta be fun.
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: It's fun, but at the same time, it can be
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: uh stressful for me just because of how good his
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: stuff is and so, uh, it's it's fun catching him.
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: He is probably one of my favorite on the team
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: just because I've built a great relationship with him. I
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: have the most trust in the world with him on
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: the mound. Yeah, so's it's awesome having him back on
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: the team. It's huge for the team.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: Sure. Yeah, what a year he's had. Uh, how old
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: is amit? You're using.
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: Two years?
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: I think two years? Yeah, how long is it? How
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: long does it take you think to break properly break
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: in a glove? Catchers glove?
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: Oh, it's catcher's glove's hard. I a lot of my
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: catcher's gloves. I have one of my uh or I
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: guess my catching coach back home break it in for me.
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: He works with a bunch of little kids, and he's
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: actually the Pirates bullpen catcher now, so wow.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: So he played all the way up to double A
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: in the Chicago Cubs organization and then he is fulfilling
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: his dream of being a catcher for an MLB team
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: through a bullpen catcher.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: So you gotta you got a you got a catching coach,
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: and you got a guy. So everyone's got a guy.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: He's got a guy that breaks in mids. It's hard,
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: breaking in mits catcher's glove.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: That's that's work.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: I mean, work that thing in the first basement's glove
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: that's not like a flounder, you know, it's kind of
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: like a flounder, a thin flat you know, catcher's glove
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: that's like a whale. I mean, you got that thing
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: out there. Okay, that's cool, that's cool, This is good.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: Who's your who's your biggest influence?
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: Ah?
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: My dad for sure.
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah. He gets you into it, and he did.
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: He's been my biggest supporter, my biggest help. He's He's
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: done everything from the on the field stuff to the
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: off field stuff, just making me a better man.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: How about baseball player influence? Who'd you watch? Who do
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: you try and emulate? Who's your favorite player? Who do
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: you take after?
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: I mean, growing up, it was definitely dustin Majoria, and uh,
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: Neil Walker grew up being from Pittsburgh, Neil Walker was
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: a big one. And then uh, Dustin Majoria, just because
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: of how much of a gamer he is and how
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: much like whenever the light's turn on, he's like, let's go.
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: So I that's what I try to do. That's what
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: I try to be, And so definitely him. And then
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: once I got into catching, I'd say Buster Posey and
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: uh uh yeah probably Buster Posey.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, good ones.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: I got a bunch of other questions because that this
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: is all fascinating to me. And you talked about how
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: much you love hitting and you're hitting very well. What
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: two ninety nine, three hundred? What is it?
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: No? Nearly four hundred? Oh I'm hitting nearly four hundred?
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: Okay, I must okay, my bad n and nine was
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: last year? Okay, I mean last year when you're hitting
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: two night No, never mind, So we.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: Want to get it. We want he's been three eighty
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: nine right now nearly four. We're gonna get We're gonna
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: get into We're gonna get into that because I want
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: to know the whole deal. Like your numbers from from
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: freshman to sophomore, like they went like steroid. I want
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: we'll get into that, but go ahead.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: I was only ninety points off.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Hey what's ninety percent points? No big deal?
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: All right? So when you're hitting, how often do you know?
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: What is your confidence level on what pitch is coming next?
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: I mean, there's definitely, like I guess you could say,
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: like a feel throughout the game of like how they're
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: attacking you and what they're trying to do to get
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: you out. But for me, my approach is just going
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: up there, being on time for the fastball and then
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: adjusting to anything else.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: Okay, although once it can I jump in here, yeah quick?
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah? How much has catching more helped you at the
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: plate in terms of thinking along with the picture or
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: do you not does that not factor in and you
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: don't do that? Try and keep it simpler at the plate, Yeah.
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: I'd say I try to keep it simple and stick
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: to my approach. That my coaches and the Scotting reporters
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: helped make but I'd say catching has helped me like
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: understand the strike zone better and know what the strike
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: zone is that day that the umpire is calling.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: So and so are you are you going up looking
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: for the fastball?
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, every bad I'm trying to be on time for
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: the fastball. I'm not sitting for a fastball, but I'm
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: just being on time for a fastball and then adjusting
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: to anything else, whether it's like a pop that I
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: see or spin on a certain pitch.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Okay, on that you say that you see, because on
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: a ninety mile an hour fastball, it takes four tenths
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: of a second to get from the pitcher to the
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: catcher four tenths of a second, less than half of
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: a second, so you can see the ball in that
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: split time. You can see the ball and know what
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: pitch is coming.
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah. So I'm in attack mindset. I'm trying to be
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: aggressive whenever I get in the box, but also under control,
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: so I'm not taking like crazy hacks but being aggressive.
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: And then so I'm always in like the mindset of
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: like like let's go like yes, yes, yes, if that makes.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: Sense, Yeah, yeah, it does make sense, but you can
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: when the pitch is you can see what the pitch
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: is once really.
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: So like I'm on time for the fastball, and then
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: whether it's like it pops out of the pitcher's hand
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: or this certain spin on a ball, you can understand
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: what the pitch is, especially knowing what pitch, what pitches
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: he has going into the bad and then the video
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: that we watch.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Is there that is that's incredible? Is there are there
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: certain pitches that you're looking for the fastball, but you
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: know what the pitch is, but you think, but that's
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: not a pitch I want to hit, so I'll let
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: it go or foul off or yeah.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: So that's been the biggest change from last year. This
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: year was last year I was just trying to put
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: a ball in play and like afraid of getting deep
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: into accounts. But this year, I'm trying to get my
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: pitch that I can get early on accounts to do
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: damage with and hit for extra bases. So there's been
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: times this year where I've I've let pitches go and
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: got deeper into accounts because it's not what I'm looking for.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: If you if you are, so it's going deep deep
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: into the count. You're working, you're working the count. Then
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: you have the more you work the account, the better
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: idea you have of what's coming.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, uh a lot this year. My first a bat,
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: I've seen like every pitch that the pitcher has, whether
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: it's change up, slider, fastball, curveball, or whatever. His mix
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: is almost in every of my first or second of bat,
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: I see every pitch. So going into that second and
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: bat or that third a bat, I know, like, you
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: can't beat me because I've seen everything.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Wow, it's impressive. Well it's bad, you can relate to that.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's just it's an incredible part of the
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: game that people don't spend a whole lot of time
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: diving into. And that's the mental battle that goes on
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: between hitter and pitcher. Right, he's trying to trick you.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: You're trying to trick him. As you said, You're trying
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: to take it deep into the count. You're kind of
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: hanging on there, you know. I Mean, it's the fascinating
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: part of the game that people just kind of all
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: they're seeing is ball glove hit ball, right, and then
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: meanwhile you're looking at there, going exactly where's his arm motion.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Is this going to be an off speed pitch? Is
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: this going to be a curveball? He's coming fastball? Where's
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: he going to put it? Unbelievable? What goes on?
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a I mean growing up, my dad was
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: he has a certification in sports psychology, so oh, here
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: we go. He was huge on the mental side for me.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: So I just understanding like how the brain works, and
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: then all the side of like almost trick it and
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: reset or just being able to have like a mental
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: edge going into and at.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: Bat, coming to play the most during game. Between games,
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: I mean.
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: Definitely all the above. It's it's very hard on the
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: mental game. So like pregame, you can have a really
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: bad VP round or just not feeling it that day,
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: and if that ever happens to me, just remind myself
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: that I rake and a great hitter, and there's certain
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: mantras or or stuff that I do to to reset
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: it and flush it. And then in a game, if
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: I strikeout or something I don't like striking out. I'd
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: rather put a ball in play, but it happens. It's
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: part of the game. So it's almost for me lately
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: it's been working is just reminding myself that I'm blessed
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: to be in the position that I am, and just
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: trying to be overall grateful. But other than that, there's
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: mental activities that my dad has helped me, I guess
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: unlock to to reset and move on.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: All right, let's talk about that improvement. So you're one
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: of the best hitters in the Big Twelve average wise,
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: lead the team in home runs, walk more than you've
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: struck out, So you've gone deeper in counts, but you're
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: not striking out necessarily anymore. What's been the switch?
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Is it?
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: Is it all confidence? Is it more strength? What's what's
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: different for you at the plate?
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: This year?
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: It's definitely confidence. I mean, I know, I knew what
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: I could like I could do in this league and
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: what I can do at every level. And last year
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: is was definitely, I guess a misunderstanding. But uh, I'd
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: say this year it's more so. Whenever I do get
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: deep into accounts, I was like my heart rate would
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: get up and I have like the fear of striking out.
• 26:06
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• 26:09
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• 26:13
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  Speaker 1: So it seems to me is every time thing. It
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  Speaker 1: performer mental right, let's jump in here a little bit
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: on the diet part of things you eat pretty well?
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: I try to, it's say lately, Uh, my girlfriend has
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: helped me get into different avenues of food and where
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: she's making stuff like like what first starters, Like there's
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: been a lot of Italian sausage and pasta to get made.
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: But then there's also been vegetables that I've had to eat.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: I guess you normally wouldn't normally wouldn't like those two.
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: No, So broccoli asparagus. It's good, but I wouldn't go
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  Speaker 4: out of my way to eat it, if that makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: When you eat poorly, what do you eat?
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: Uh? And it's I don't know if it's necessarily poorly,
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: but it's not a great choice. Uh, like Jersey Mikes
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  Speaker 4: or like Chick fil A?
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: Killing yourself there?
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: I mean, so it's sorry, but just I wouldn't really
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  Speaker 4: cook for myself. I'd rather I'd get food at the Collie.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: So yeah, Clark going to Clark Room. It's pretty good dining. Yeah,
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: that's pretty good dining there. Who's the worst eat around
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: the team in your opinion? Guy that just sits around
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: and eats like bad stuff? Anybody really? The way he's
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: been he looks like that he looks like he eats nails.
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: I know he's crazy. He's he's my roommate.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: You live with him. Yeah, and eats badly. Yep, we know,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: honorur Huff. All he eats is candy. I did not
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: know that big it's just big candy. There's a big
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: candy guy. It's all he eats. Remember, it's like one
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: of those candy. He shoots the hell out of it.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: I mean soa yeah. So if you went to Armani
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: with like a plate of good food, he just goes like, no,
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: I'm good.
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: Uh. Well, he doesn't know how to cook for himself.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: That's a problem.
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: So like I'm kind of exposing him right now.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: But okay, that's good, Mike turn him.
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he doesn't know how to work a stove or oven.
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: I guess he knows how to work an oven because
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: he makes cookies. But other than that, it's just.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: It isn't Saban's on you guys about diet.
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah he is. But Armani is a unique guy. He
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: can get away with it.
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's performing. He's putting up numbers. Do you
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: have a do you have a standard pregame meal or
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: do you just mix it up.
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: No, I mean the team does a wonderful job at
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: either getting a Chipotle or JT Caters for us.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: It's fantastic.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, what's that? What's his best dish?
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Oh?
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: I love his breakfast. His breakfast is unbeatable. But usually
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: I'll get an omelet from him and then either pancakes
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: or French.
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: Toast that goes in the omelet.
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: Lately it's been sausage, ham and bacon, so just just.
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  Speaker 1: Heavy meat, heavy meaty, big pro.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, hey, Gvin, you were at that bank. I was
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  Speaker 2: at the baseball banquet where all of you guys went
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  Speaker 2: up on stage and you entered introduced yourselves.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: What it's funny you keep banging up bringing up the
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  Speaker 1: baseball bank because like, that's it on one event in
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  Speaker 1: seven hundred and fifteen episodes that you went and the
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  Speaker 1: two of us weren't there, so you just like to
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  Speaker 1: what those other two guys, but I went to the
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  Speaker 1: baseball Bank.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: Well, there are a lot of events where you two
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  Speaker 2: guys are invited and I'm not.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: Oh that's not true.
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: I ask your question, and each.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: Player got up and introduced himself and said something about himself,
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: and you got up and said what about yourself?
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: I said that I'm from Pittsburgh and that I hate pitt.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: Got a big round of av I want to imagine the
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  Speaker 2: mountain your faithful. But you grew up in Pittsburgh, So
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  Speaker 2: what is what's the reason for your animosity toward.
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: Pitt I mean there's I went to high school on
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  Speaker 4: Pitt's campus, So I went to Central Catholic, which I
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: guess it's it's it's not totally on campus, but it's
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  Speaker 4: like right down the road. And growing up I didn't
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  Speaker 4: necessarily have like a team in college. I would watch
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  Speaker 4: like Penn State football, like LSU baseball, so I didn't
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: really have a team. Then it was more so like
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: once the whole recruiting side of baseball came around, there
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: wasn't any like love, I guess from the pitside until
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: after I committed to West Virginia.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: Then they got interested.
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so it was like where you've been right, Yeah, yeah,
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: it's not a lot of love for.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: Their understood good story.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Your stats, as I said earlier on, have done a
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: while this season. Now there's some you've heard of a
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: sophomore slump. You ever heard of sophomore slump. Okay, you
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: didn't have a sophomore slump. Well, you went the opposite way.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: You went the opposite way of a sophomore slump. So
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: when you take a look at your numbers, I'm super
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: interested to know how much did the performance that you
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: guys have changed your game. Just to give you an idea,
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: of folks, you batted two ninety nine a year ago,
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: you're betting three ninety three eighty nine as we tape
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: right now. So basically, your ninety percentage points up. You've
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: already got fifteen more hits in nine fewer games. You've
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: got ten more doubles, you've got six more home runs.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Your slugging percentage has gone from three ninety five to
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: six five three. You're on base percentage it was forty,
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: was four zero two for eighty Now your strikeouts down,
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: stolen bases changed, right, You're you're you're not doing that.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: You want sixteen to three, but you just unbelievable. What happened.
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: By the way, four hundred is outrageous at this level, Yes,
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: in this league, y, I mean the really good Yeah.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: So when you look at it, like when did this
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: metamorphois I mean, hell, three hundred is a freshman is
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: a super number.
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: What happened, I'd say, like I said earlier, I always
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: knew what I could do, So I knew what I
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: was capable of, And it was more so just like
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: sticking to my approach and not getting away from it.
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: Whenever things do go bad, it's like a zero for
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: four game and like almost like reading into it so
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: much and then like over analyzing it, but then also
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: like taking care of my body and then I guess
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: honing into my routine and sticking to it that like
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: you said, the new facility has been huge with that,
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: getting my routine to understand how my body moves and
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: all that kind of stuff.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: If I'm hearing you correct though, So you're saying it's
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: as much mental as it is any type of a
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: physical change in regard to I'm doing putting my foot forward,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: I'm leaning back more. It sounds more mental.
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'd say it's it's majority mental, probably like percent.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, see, I thought you were going to say, well,
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: I got into the center and I watched my swing
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: and my hips were coming and my hips were going
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: or something like that, and it changed at all.
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: But no, yeah, just because you can have a million
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: dollars swing, but if you don't have the right mindset
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: or a strong mental side, you're not going to succeed
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: at this level.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: By the way, I think he made a T shirt
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: up that we could sell later. I rake it, right, shirt,
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: I rake, I rake, that'd be a great T shirt.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: That's where you should sell those on your nil irate.
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: Like, is that is the is the losing the fear
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: of striking out maybe the biggest change, Like now you
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: know you can drive it in any count I.
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: Mean, yeah, it's a losing that fear is huge, but
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: more so just like having that confidence and almost being
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: like almost like being over like or not over, but
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: like being cocky whenever I step into the box because
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: it's like it's me versus you. Let's go like, yeah,
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: I'm going to compete until I can't this good stuff.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: What I'm trying to read the rules here about I'm
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: trying to read.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: The rules the book rule book.
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I got the rule rule A real rule, boody.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: What do you need.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: About what do you mean about when a runner is
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: coming home and about blocking the plate the runner making
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: contact with the catcher. You know, there's a lot of
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: different things going on there, like the runner can't apparently
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: the runner can't initiate contact, but can you block the plate?
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: I mean, what all's going on there?
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: So, uh play at the plate? You have to give
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: the runner a lane to uh see the plate and
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: make a play on the plate. But once the ball
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: is approaching, you can make a play on the ball.
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: So if the ball is like thrown to where you
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: have to move back onto the plate, you can make
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: a play on the ball that way. So technically you
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: would be blocking the play, but you're making a play.
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: So it's like there's a lot of like gray area.
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: I guess, so.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: You so you will? You then move in position like
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: I'm just trying to make a play on the ball,
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: even though you could make a play at another location.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: But you could move to kind of block the plate
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: to catch the ball, right, I.
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: Mean, yeah, you can. You can make that argument, but
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: it's it's I guess I'd say it's harder to try
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: to do that on purpose while everything's going on.
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah that makes sense, Well, it makes it makes perfect sense. Perfect.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: So have you had any really rough home play collisions?
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: Uh?
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: I don't.
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: I don't think so, but again, Cincinnati accidentally tagged a
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: dude in the face, which I was unfortunate because I
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: played summer ball with that kid. Oh fortunate, But swing
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: around and yeah, I mean it happens, So it happens. Yeah,
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: it's part of the game.
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: Sorry, broh.
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: Who do you think the guy is on the team
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: that's not getting enough discussion about? Who's not talked about enough?
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: Hm hmm. I would say probably Ian Korn or Chancing
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: Cool both. Every week they they show up, they they
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: do what they do best, and they compete and throw
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: the stuff and U for chance and Cole's sake, he
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: doesn't throw over the top hard and it's just he's
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: gonna hit his spot. He's gonna compete for us, he's
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: gonna give us the best chance to win. And for
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: Ian Corny comes out of the bullpen gives us. I
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: think this past weekend it was four innings of scoreless
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: pitching and he just he's unreal. Every weekends. He can
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: also get put into any role, so like Cincinnati was
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: our Friday starter and then he'll be our closer. So
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: it's crazy.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: What's it been like playing in front of the home
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: fans at Kendrick Family Ballpark.
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: Oh, it's awesome. I mean this this season, it's been
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: it's been huge, and the amount of fans that we've
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: got in the I guess the hype around it has
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: been awesome and it's special. It's really special, and we're
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: very blessed to be able to play in front of him.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we talked about Steve Sabans earlier. Why do you
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: think he is successful? What's he have that makes you
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: guys go.
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: Oh, he's He's one of a kind. He's, in my opinion,
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: the greatest college coach for baseball. He understands the game
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: to like completely different level. Like he's got the highest
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: IQB ever seen in the game, so he understands that
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: side of it. And then he also is a very
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: hard working coach. Like he always makes the joke that
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: he sees us more than his family, but I think
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: that it's true.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, certainly this time.
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: I think he spends countless hours at the field trying
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: to prepare us to go into the weekend with success.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: Without using exact words, what's a normal conversation like when
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: he walks to the mound, I.
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: Mean it depends, Uh, if it's not a pitching change,
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: he's just coming out to reset because the middle innings
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: are huge for pivoting points throughout the game, so he's
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: just coming to reset the picture to try to get
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: them back on track and competing and throwing strikes. So
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: he's just trying to get them under control, getting back
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: to mechanics, whether it's getting downhill, getting through the catcher,
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: so that would be that. And then if it's a
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: pitching pitching change, he'll come out and sometimes he's I guess,
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: hyped up in a way because that pitch that came
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: in did his job and and got what needed to
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: be done. And other times it's it can be more quiet,
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: I guess.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, And there's probably sometimes he goes in there trying
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: to cut the tension little bit, good little one liner?
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: Does he give you give a little little sometimes let's
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: do this. Let's watch some highlights. Can we watch some
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: highlights from this past weekend?
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: We got highlights?
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, self analysis, Jakie all of a sudden, Jie, if
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: you could, let's go to the highlights.
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: Welcome to Sports Center.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: This is Gavin. Uh oh, there's a well hit ball,
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: a deep right weekly is it's this weekend that Saturday, right,
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: that's out of here.
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the right fielder just turned and looked.
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: Brad didn't even try to just turned and looked, Oh, we're.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: Going home, baby.
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: It was a good one. That was that gapper right,
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: Schoenfeld gapped one. I think on that, Oh it didn't go.
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: That wasn't no home run.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: No, it was the first one was a home run.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: Then that was another different play. There's celebrations field, the dreams.
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: How much she liked those uniforms.
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: Sundays, Yeah, those are the sun days. Here we go.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: Man on a mission says, I'm not even a slide.
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: I'm just here in this well hit deep center field.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: That ball is got what they measure that one at?
• 42:12
  Speaker 4: What was it really? Yeah?
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: Did you know when you as soon as you hit it,
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: did you know?
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: I knew I had a chance, but I don't want
• 42:22
  Speaker 4: to like say yes because it was the deepest part
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: of the field.
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: And so I understand, like my flights, so I understand
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: whenever I back spend a ball well and I catch
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: it on the barrel. I just didn't I didn't fully know.
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: What was the v law on that one.
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: One four four.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: I suppose a launch Agle twenty four okay, he doesn't
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: how many bats? How many bats you're using? And how
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: many bats do you would you consider game worthy? Right now?
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: I just won. So I've been sticking with the Combat
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: country Club that is the Green one, and so they
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: have all these spin offs, whether it's like the hunting
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: one or uh the cookies one. Wait and what's away
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: thirty or thirty ounces? Three?
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Thirty three thirty?
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: Okay, would you rather steal a base or throw a
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: guy out? Trying to steal?
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: Throw a guy out? Yeah?
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: Have you ever thrown the runner out and just looked
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: toward him when he was jogging bangs like sit your
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: ass down? Never said that before? Have you ever thought that?
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, there's been. Actually I got a good story.
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: So at Arizona State this year, a guy got hit
• 43:33
  Speaker 4: and really didn't get hit, No, it didn't get hit,
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: and umpire war on the bag and I was I
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: was upset. Yeah, I was very very mad with the umpire,
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: not like asking his other crew to to uh just
• 43:50
  Speaker 4: asking if it hit him or not. And uh so
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: I was. I was talking to him and not a
• 43:55
  Speaker 4: nice manner like I just was saying and not trying
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: to get him on our and the guy stole. I
• 44:02
  Speaker 4: threw him out and I said, ball doesn't lie. I
• 44:08
  Speaker 4: immediately apologized and I was like, I'm so sorry.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: I was Did he give you any did he say
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: it's okay or did he just protect He.
• 44:17
  Speaker 4: Was like, yeah, you better be or something.
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: So you better be sorry.
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: The Empire did. Yeah, I had retracted it right there.
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: That's one of Brad's favorites.
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so it works. And then sports other than the
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: other than.
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: The basketball, Yeah, we'd like to use that one.
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: What would you be doing if you weren't playing baseball?
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: Uh? Being a professional golfer?
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: Oh you got the golf pug?
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: Have you had it since you were little? Or did
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: you just get it?
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: Yes?
• 44:45
  Speaker 4: I grew up on a golf course.
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 44:49
  Speaker 4: I never played, like on a team, but May and
• 44:51
  Speaker 4: my dad would always go out, and I fell in
• 44:55
  Speaker 4: love with it. And I want to say I got
• 44:57
  Speaker 4: my handicapped down to a five one something.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: I am.
• 45:01
  Speaker 4: I'm played pretty well.
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: You're surprised by that. He hits a ball at.
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: Well different swings. Not all baseball players are good golfers.
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: Now a lot of hockey players are very good golfers,
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: but baseball Golf's a different swing. There's different mechanics there. Yeah,
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: I'm impressed by that.
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: Any golf in season though, is at all off season? Uh,
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: gonna be a little careful there in season.
• 45:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I haven't played this year, but I think I'm
• 45:25
  Speaker 4: gonna go actually after this with my roommate Ben Lombs
• 45:28
  Speaker 4: then going today.
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: He's a nice career.
• 45:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, he's a nice career.
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: We always ask players this when we interview him. So
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: we were talking about Sabans earlier. So what if he
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: thinks guys are old guy quote lolly gagging, If he
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: thinks guys are goofing off, he thinks guys aren't focused,
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: what's his go to?
• 45:47
  Speaker 4: Oh, I mean we can use some examples. There's like
• 45:53
  Speaker 4: there is a we're at Cincinnati for our Thursday night
• 45:55
  Speaker 4: practice and we're doing cuts and relays and I missed
• 45:59
  Speaker 4: the ball and uh, you know, he usually just yells
• 46:02
  Speaker 4: like like let's go or uh, just stuff like that.
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: That's the worst is that that's not bad if let's go.
• 46:09
  Speaker 4: I think he's trying to keep No, he doesn't really
• 46:11
  Speaker 4: get over the top like angry like mistakes that happened,
• 46:15
  Speaker 4: because he understands it it's more so, uh, just like
• 46:19
  Speaker 4: not understanding what you're gonna do or like anticipating stuff.
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: Okay, going back to that Cincinnati series, I mean, baseball's
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: Baseball's baseball. Man. How many catches did they make at
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: the wall? Yeah?
• 46:31
  Speaker 4: It was it was unreal. Yeah, Like we had some
• 46:35
  Speaker 4: hard hit balls right at people and then their outfield
• 46:38
  Speaker 4: made great plays, so it really did. So it was unfortunate,
• 46:42
  Speaker 4: but we played great baseball and it showed this weekend
• 46:45
  Speaker 4: that whenever he kept playing that way.
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: This is gonna be fun. Last to two series, right,
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: You've got everything's there man, Kansas is up. Yeah, but
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: you get to go there for three and then TCU here.
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: What more could you ask for? You guys are national ranked,
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: you're going into your last two series. You got a
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: chance to do this thing.
• 47:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean we control our destiny from here on
• 47:06
  Speaker 4: out these last two series and then playoffs, so it'll
• 47:11
  Speaker 4: be it'll be fun.
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: From afar Weather Hold, you probably ran into him a
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: few times. Uh, and is this off season he came
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: down to the performance center as well. What are your
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: when you watch him out there? Now? What are your thoughts? Oh?
• 47:27
  Speaker 4: It's on It's unreal, like the things that he can do,
• 47:29
  Speaker 4: and uh, it's it's really special watch for sure. He's
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: one of one of a kind.
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you guys were up there Monday when he was
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: in the first game against Pittsburgh. You guys were up
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: there in a in a box watching him. What was
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: that like?
• 47:44
  Speaker 4: So I didn't actually go. No, I was taking care
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: of my body on a Monday, on our off. I
• 47:53
  Speaker 4: had a massage at five, so I couldn't couldn't make
• 47:57
  Speaker 4: the trip down deep tissue.
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: When you get massage, you go deep tissue. I do
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: how long as I go ninety.
• 48:01
  Speaker 4: Or sixty sixty, sixty.
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: Or they work on mostly into the into the end
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: of the traps and things like that.
• 48:07
  Speaker 4: Most Yeah, the traps and the quads.
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: Till it hurts. They get down in there like till
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: it hurts.
• 48:13
  Speaker 4: They do.
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, do you ask for that? Do you ask for pain?
• 48:16
  Speaker 4: I mean I like it that way.
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, me too. Elbows they ever going with the elbow.
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: Elbow is the best. My elbows undefeated. When it comes
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: to pain, it is get that elbow in there and
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: just grind in there and bopped all that stuff in there. Okay,
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: this is cool and school's going well.
• 48:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, school's going well, all.
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: Right, once baseball is done and for you, that's going
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: to be like fifteen years from now. But once it's done,
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: what do you see yourself doing when you have to
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: grow up?
• 48:41
  Speaker 4: I mean, being a dad, That's probably what I'm most
• 48:45
  Speaker 4: successful so that, but being a good family man, and
• 48:50
  Speaker 4: then open out in the community that I'm living in,
• 48:53
  Speaker 4: and probably sticking around baseball. So whether that's high school
• 48:58
  Speaker 4: or just being around the game.
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: Do you coaching? Did you coach?
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: See?
• 49:04
  Speaker 4: I don't I don't know, Like I don't know if
• 49:05
  Speaker 4: I want to have the title of being a coach
• 49:08
  Speaker 4: or just being able to just like show up to
• 49:12
  Speaker 4: uh high school's practice and being able to just yeah.
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: You want you want to jerk it? Yeah, in a
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: way you want to basically you want to Jed jerk
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: on it right, Yeah, in a way. Yeah. And your
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: Jed's involved, but like not have the every single second.
• 49:28
  Speaker 3: Well, but is heavily involved in the twelve under team.
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: There's he's deating and coaching at third base. He's heavily
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: involved in that.
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: He does he I mean, that's I mean, isn't it
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: wild what you can take from Jed?
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean here's a dude.
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 49:42
  Speaker 4: It's been a big help. It's been a big help.
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's got a street named after him. Yeah, I
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: mean you got street named after you. Listen.
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: It really is remarkable. I mean, especially for the position
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: you play, that that you're able to have jed around
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: so many different days and take from him JJ playing
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: second base now in the show. That's that's some pretty
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: good mentors that are pretty similar in age to you
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: to to be able to look up to and pull from.
• 50:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's huge. The impact that they've had is massive.
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: By the way, before we end this thing, your microphone
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: that a kid has been outstanding.
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: Best we've had.
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: I think he's bat in a thousand.
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So we for those that don't know, we have
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: these microphones that we use are not really conducive to
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: going off and sometimes we have problems. And we taught him.
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: We we we basically gave him a little tutorial before
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: we started, and he has been spot on.
• 50:33
  Speaker 3: This is one of those I'm not sure the instruction
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: was elite. It's just he followed. Yeah, he just handled it.
• 50:39
  Speaker 4: I mean a great coach, thank you, But I don't
• 50:42
  Speaker 4: know about that.
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: Let's talk about music. You listen to a lot of music.
• 50:45
  Speaker 4: I do.
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: Okay, what are we listening.
• 50:47
  Speaker 4: To a lot of country?
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: And where are we going with it?
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: Country artist?
• 50:52
  Speaker 4: Probably probably Sam Barber, so uh little of the sad country,
• 50:59
  Speaker 4: but that i'll I listened to some rap. I've gotten
• 51:05
  Speaker 4: away from rap. I've I mean growing up and throughout
• 51:09
  Speaker 4: high school I listened to rap, but nowadays it's like
• 51:12
  Speaker 4: very little. So it's a country and then there's a
• 51:17
  Speaker 4: some I guess pop stars like Olivia Dean and that
• 51:20
  Speaker 4: category that I listened to.
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: Sam Barbara is going to be in Pittsburgh September twenty second.
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: I know you got your tickets. You're gonna get your tickets.
• 51:29
  Speaker 4: There's there's somebody who mentioned it to me and say
• 51:33
  Speaker 4: that they're going to try to get me tickets.
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: So it sounds like your girlfriend might get you tickets.
• 51:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's who.
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: That's a plan. Awesome, Okay, So besides Sam Barber, you
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: get to pick two other concerts that you would you
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: would go, like, I'm going to that concert? Who would
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: it be?
• 51:49
  Speaker 4: Morgan Wallen and probably Riley Green.
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: Oh stage coach out there with Charles Wesley.
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's awesome. That's awesome. Well good, this has
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: been good man. We enjoyed it. Yeah you having was
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: it as stupid? You thought it was going to be
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: a good time. That's good. Good.
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: Well, listen, we were on our best behavior today. We
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: were pretty buttoned up.
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: To I mean ninety points, not points. It just determines
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: whether or not.
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: You know, he's I will follow his lead and say
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: I apologize for that.
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: And then he should follow the umpire's lead and say
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: he should.
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: Yes, but he's too nice of a guy. He's not
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: going to do that. He's very very polite.
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: Well this know this. We're following you, you guys, and
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: best of luck in the UH game tomorrow in Charleston
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: against Marshall, your last midweek game of the season, and
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: then this weekend the Kansas and then the TCUs and
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: then off to Arizona for the Big twelve tournament. So
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: we're following you, dude.
• 52:53
  Speaker 4: Thank you. I appreciate it.
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: Continued, best of luck, all right. So this is that
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: awkward change moment where we're going to put on the
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: text dual healing music. Oh wait, let me put it
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: in a second. We're going to put on the textual
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: healing music and then Gavin like a second, No, this
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: is like yeah, this is like a musical thing. This
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: is like Doug Henning magic. All of a sudden he disappears.
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: Special Thanks to Diversified Energy and also to Golden Blue
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: Enterprises for making it possible that we have Gavin with
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: us in the crowd. Textual healing is coming up in
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: just a little bit. Plus we have got the latest
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: Mountaineer basketball signees. We'll do a little spreads on stats
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: with that.
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: I got something for you.
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: Excuse me, go ahead.
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: Congratulations to you on being presented with this year's more
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: House Award.
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: Thank you, you know what I appreciate.
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: Nick name for the former broadcaster and marsha Versus sports
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: information director Gene Morehouse, who was tragically killed in the
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: plane crash to the Marshall football team in nineteen seventy.
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: Every year they give out an award to an outstanding
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: sports journalist, and this year on Sunday, it went to you.
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: You didn't tell anybody. We had to find out later.
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: It was out a while ago. It was out a
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: while ago, I.
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: Think a couple but the banquet was yesterday.
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and let me can I say a couple of things.
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you can back. But it's very let me just
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: say this, it's very deserving. Congratulations to you, Tony.
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: Thank you very much. I truly do appreciate it. So
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: a couple of things I want to say about that
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: number one, Uh, it was a wonderfully I think about this.
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: I've been to those before where they have gone on
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: close to five hours. No you haven't four plus easy,
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: you know what it went through yesterday? What ninety ninety?
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: Nice ninety you say that good pitchclock was working ninety minutes,
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: good jump. So congratulations to Jim Workman, he's taken over
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: or for the legendary Doug Huff. And also when I
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: was there, I was greeted by these students they come,
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: take your ticket. Everything good, and they were they were
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: dressed wonderfully. They were from Charleston Catholic High School Sports.
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: They have a sports media class, and their teacher, Jake Nelson,
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: was there and chatted with him. But like they had
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: these kids, you would have been you guys would have
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: been like whoa good blew me away? So congratulations to
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: everyone else. And I was just on a picture Jake,
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: if you can put that picture up that I just
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: texted you. If you have it if not, but I
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: met someone for the very first time. But I've heard
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: his name since I came to West Virginia.
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: What that's hard to believe.
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: It's got to be.
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: Rare true story. So, like I'm looking over there, and
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: there was you guys know, the legendary Carl Lee. Right,
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: legendary Carl Lee. So I look over there and I said, Hey,
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: who's that guy that Carl Lee is talking with? Is
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: by any chance that And then I said, and they said, yeah,
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: that's him, And I went, I'm meeting that dude. So
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: when Jake gets it up, Jake, whenever you get that
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: up there, there it is. That's the legendary Archie Tally.
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: Archie Tally, Like I have talked to him. There's a
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: documentary there. The only dog gone problem is that there's
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: no there's that we know of. There's no film when
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: he played. Now for those that don't know, like the
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: legend goes, and I've heard it enough. He would come
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: down the floor. He would come down the floor and
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: he would bounce the ball, cross crossing over, dribble behind
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: his back while he was advancing the ball. And they said,
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: as soon as he came over midcourt, it was live. Yeah,
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: it was. It was on and just legendary.
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: He I just checked this, we knew he just he
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: just bombed, Brad he have at Salem No three, No three,
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: three point average forty one, just bombing and that was
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: And when he was here, it was a huge story.
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: He came to play here.
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: They played say he was just bombing like Archie.
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: Town and and I and uh at one point there's
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: a story went to a game, full tuxedo, walking stick
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: and top hat. I came to the gate best friends
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: growing up with Sugar Ray Leonard really yeah in Baltimore,
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: well yeah, Maryland area there. Yeah, so anyway, Uh, it
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: was awesome to meet him and all of the winners there.
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: It was Uh, it's it's fantastic.
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: Bred in thirty three games one year he made he
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: made one thousand, three hundred and forty seven field goals.
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: Bizarre. That's pretty good. So he's a motivational speaker. In fact,
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: he's got his own. Uh they named a school after him.
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: There's a school because that's what he does, like motivational speaking.
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: And let me see. Yeah here it is Archie Talley
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: Middle and High School from our administrator, the Archie Telly
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: Middle in high school will set the new standard for
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: education in West Virginia. Excited to lead a new era
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: and academics where each student specific learning needs are met
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: will give each child confidence, courage, skills set to achieve
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: their dreams and become leaders. A huge win for Appalachia.
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: It's awesome.
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: I have no schools named after me, well, not yet.
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: Got a D. I got a D in art first grade.
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: So they're never going to give that.
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: Now that Tony Greedy school broadcasting, probably somewhere the wing
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: at Syracuse will be named for you.
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: That'll do her. Okay, let's do this. I got one.
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: I've got one textual healing.
• 58:49
  Speaker 3: We got top hoops.
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah we are, We're going to do that. Okay, you
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: want to tell you what? Why do we talk coops?
• 58:55
  Speaker 3: Let's talk hoops. This is big been waiting an hour here,
• 58:57
  Speaker 3: this is big news.
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: I mean, what do you want? Would you want to
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: get Kelly out of here? By the way, I thought
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: he was tremendous, knew he would be.
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's great to have man.
• 59:05
  Speaker 3: He is having a year.
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: Man, he's having me.
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: I keep forgetting how young these guys are.
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: Well you do because you they.
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: Are I keep forgetting. I asked him, like before we
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: started recording, I said, you ever watch Seinfeld? He like
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: looked at me like I had seven heads.
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: Well you forget, you forget.
• 59:19
  Speaker 3: It's been off the air longer than he's been born.
• 59:22
  Speaker 3: I mean, I know it runs in syndication.
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: I just thought people would find so I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: stats before you give me spreads on stacks? All right?
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: Mountaineers continue to build the basketball roster for the coming
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: season and rivals as listed its rivals one fifty for
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: the twenty sixth class top one hundred and fifty players
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: in the world in the nation, West Virginia's got three
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: in the top ninety. Okay, that's that's uncharted. Miles Sadler eighteen,
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: Seenee fortieth, ALU ninety.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna do Scenie really flying up those charts now.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's good. There you go to the young guys.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 3: I doesn't even talk about the others.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: We'll get it.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna get into those here in these numbers coming up.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: Okay, go ahead, let's.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 3: Start big, big weekend for the old Golden Blue. There
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 3: two additions to this roster, and both, I think again,
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 3: are are really good fits. And this staff guys has
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 3: had a tremendous offseason putting these players together. Let's take
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 3: it in chronological order. Say, do Treori the first guy
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 3: coming in. We've seen him, West Virginia saw him. He
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 3: came into the coliseum last year while playing with Utah
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 3: and Hopwood. Stood out to me is when I heard
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 3: we were involved with this particular guy. The first thing
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 3: that jumped out to me is I remember a comment
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 3: I made on the broadcast during the game was it
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 3: was visible during the game, and I had said TRAIORI
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 3: did about as good a job on Honor Huff as
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 3: anybody did all year in this league. And he brought
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 3: some size. He's six', six maybe even a little bit
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 3: bigger than. That and it was surprising at the time
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 3: during The utah game because we talked going in Who
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 3: utah would use Against honor because their two guards were their.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 3: Scorers so generally that's not who's going to Match. Honorance,
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 3: okay they're gonna have a mismatch who they're gonna put on.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 3: Him they end up Putting trayori on him for a
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 3: big chunk of the, game AND i thought he Handled
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 3: honor as well as anybody did In big twelve, Plays
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 3: so that's. ENCOURAGING i think you get a really, good,
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 3: long versatile defender in here for This Ross hodge. Team
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 3: what that does is not just in and of, itself
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 3: you got to have, that but it gives you a
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 3: guy that can drop down and guard a smaller guard
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 3: in the backcorn he can also go up and guard
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 3: a six, seven six eight sixty nine wing on the front.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 3: Line that gives you the perimeter defender that you need
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 3: to have in this defense to make it really. Good
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 3: you couple that with what could be an elite shot
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 3: blocker In mocilla on the back. End that makes this
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 3: defense potentially guys really. Good, again and remember this is
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 3: the top twenty defense from last. Year but now you've
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 3: got an elite defender on the perimeter with a guy
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 3: backing him up that can come from anywhere in block.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 3: Shots if you're a team that doesn't have a five
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 3: that can step out and make, THREES i think you're
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 3: gonna have some problems With West virginia're really closing that
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 3: lane off and allowing its shot blocker to hang.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: Back so you're looking at him not as a primary scoring,
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 2: threat but as a key.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 3: Defender, YEAH i think that's what he brings the. Most
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 3: he was top twenty in steel. Percentage was a guy
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 3: that was in The let me make SURE i get
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 3: this right. Here he was in the ninety fourth. Percentile,
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 3: now this is a STAT i have not used. Much
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 3: steeal foul. Ratio ninety fourth percentile steal foul. Ratio you
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 3: know what that. Does that's a walking embodiment of one
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 3: Of ross's number one maxims guard without, fouling And treiori
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 3: did that at a really high level last. Year so,
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 3: yeah he can. Score he scored seventeen Against West. Virginia
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 3: he knocked down three. Threes he can elevate. Up he'll
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 3: be another great lob Option West virginia suddenly with multiple
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 3: lob options with a point guard that loves to throw the.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 3: Lob BUT i Think traiori's biggest value comes as a, long,
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 3: big athletic perimeter. Defender. THERE i think that's a that's
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 3: a big get For West.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: Virginia were going to create a STAT. Mlo what's that?
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: Lobbs multiple loob?
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 3: Options, yeah there will be lobbs this. Season we should
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 3: chart the lobs going To sela And treori is another
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 3: guy that can go get. It the next pickup another
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 3: really talented, Dude Joe Son sanin arrives From Saint john's most,
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 3: recently but he was a freshman At Arizona state a
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 3: couple of years. Ago he was on the team when
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 3: Usfl lee was one of the. Assistants WHAT i remember
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 3: about him AND i remember this vividly and it didn't
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 3: strike me until AGAIN i Heard West virginia was involved in.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 3: Him was sitting on the bench before the game With
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 3: darren that year Playing Arizona state and we were watching
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 3: the Sun devils warm up and it was Clear sandon
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 3: wasn't going to play in that. Game AND i remember
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 3: having the, Conversation, hey that's that, dude that was a five.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 3: Star he was a top twenty. Recruit he's going to
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 3: sit out tonight now didn't help us get the win
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 3: now those that, Night but that was a big discussion
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 3: point because that's a, long, tall good looking. Athlete he's
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 3: six' five ish. As well now he's the flip side.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 3: Of this he is a dude you want to you
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 3: have a problem at the end of the, shock clock
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 3: give him the ball and get out of. The way
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 3: he can shoot the three nearly thirty nine Percent At
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 3: arizona state his, freshman year thirty five for. His career
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 3: he is. Really talented he Gives Now west. Virginia guys
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 3: that's the third player over the last two recruiting classes
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 3: that's been a top twenty five. National Recruit miles saltha
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 3: you mentioned. Is eighteen this kid was a top. Twenty
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 3: five mozilla was a top twenty five kid when he
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 3: came out two. Years ago so that's three guys on.
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 3: One ROSTER so i know we make a lot of
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 3: the transfer PORTAL and i get, fans frustrations but this
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 3: is where it's. A benefit you're able to go get
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 3: two Guys in scilla and especially in sand in here
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 3: that Played At saint john's. Last year his numbers took
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 3: a dip last Season At. Saint john's this is a
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 3: supremely talented basketball player that's looking for a bounce back
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 3: season and he can be, coached. Hard Right rick patino's not,
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 3: a softy so he'll come in HERE and i think
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 3: this coaching will be good. For him but that's two
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 3: Guys in scilla And sand and that both thought they
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 3: had one and done possibilities in college that were going
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 3: on to the. Next level you've got them both looking
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 3: for bounce. BACK seasons i think the talent upgrade here
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 3: is really terrific by what this staff.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: HAS done i had the chance to run into him
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: last week when he was on, his visit and he's
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: got a body build that is thick and unique for.
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  Speaker 1: That position he does not fit the mold of like
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  Speaker 1: the long lanky guard. He got he's got some power
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  Speaker 1: in his in, his wheel in his in. His pot
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  Speaker 1: we call that that would be the. Power system got.
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  Speaker 1: Some hips he got some hips on him and some
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  Speaker 1: and he's got some stuff to him and that is
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  Speaker 1: so important in.
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  Speaker 3: This league to, that end he was one of the
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  Speaker 3: nation's leaders a smaller sample, size here but one of
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 3: the nation's leaders in points per possession in the last
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 3: four seconds of a shot clock can finish through contact
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  Speaker 3: and make tough shots at. The end here's the. Other
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  Speaker 3: Part and i'll say this because we've already been going
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  Speaker 3: long today and we have time to talk about, this
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  Speaker 3: summer about roster construction and how that's. Come Together but
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  Speaker 3: i'll leave you with this one last Number for samon
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  Speaker 3: fifty six percent from three on unguarded catching shoots as
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  Speaker 3: a Freshman In. Arizona. State crazy that's now the Second
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  Speaker 3: Player west virginia has added that is fifty five percent
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  Speaker 3: or better on unguarded. Catching shoots so you talk about
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  Speaker 3: a point guard that should be able to penetrate and
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  Speaker 3: get by the first line of defense and have a
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  Speaker 3: defense collapse because you're going to be worried about a.
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  Speaker 3: Lob descilla now you open up some wing shooters and
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  Speaker 3: two guys that have already proven at the elite level
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  Speaker 3: that they can make shots. WIN open i think there's
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  Speaker 3: some things cooking here For This west. Virginia Offense but Sannon,
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  Speaker 3: and trejore the last two in you're probably right up
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  Speaker 3: to the end of this class you have another spot you,
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  Speaker 3: can ADD but i think for the, most Part assuming
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  Speaker 3: buchanan gets, his waiver you're looking At This west. Virginia rotation,
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  Speaker 3: that again in a, future show we'll sit down and
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  Speaker 3: kind of go through each. Of them but what a
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  Speaker 3: heck of an off season Here For Ross. Hodgen company
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  Speaker 3: good report for what.
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  Speaker 1: It's worth everyone has their rankings out there and some
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: you look at and you, go, like well. That's it,
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  Speaker 1: for example like them. Or Not jeff goodman has listed
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: his off season portal winners and He has, Florida one
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: Illinois Two saint Louis. Three Texas For west virginia, five wow,
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: All schools, So Yeah. West virginia what do, You think brad?
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  Speaker 1: You sniff? You sniff others receiving votes top twenty Five
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: preseason well.
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  Speaker 3: YOU should i don't know how the national media will
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  Speaker 3: view this or how much they'll dive into it or look,
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  Speaker 3: past it but you. Really should this is this is
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 3: a group that is put together a tremendous amount of
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 3: talent here in. The offseason, so yeah. You should you
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 3: should be very excited if You're a mountaineer fan, RIGHT now.
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  Speaker 2: I think what you get anymore The preseason top. Twenty
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 2: five you just get a lot of, familiar, names sure
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 2: a lot of. FAMILIAR schools, i mean who's going to
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: do who's going to do the deep dive on all
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: these players on all. THESE teams, i mean somebody who's
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 2: really done the work might Slip At west virginia, In,
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: There tony but normally it's like the.
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  Speaker 3: Usual suspects, you know here's the other thing, Guys TOO
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 3: and i won't dwell, on It but i'm no LONGER
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  Speaker 3: than i. WANTED to i think we. This illustrates you
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 3: can look at the talent that's been a mass this
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 3: offseason and something is now a truism that's been talked
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 3: about for, A while. Ren said wren's been on the
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  Speaker 3: show And Said west virginia would be in a position
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  Speaker 3: to compete in this. New era, With Resources west virginia.
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  Speaker 1: Would be able.
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  Speaker 3: To compete you can look at how this roster's come
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 3: together and know pretty definitively that's. The Case west virginia
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  Speaker 3: had a bunch of guys identified in, the portal as
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 3: we knew, they would and they went out and got
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  Speaker 3: nearly every one, of those maybe every one of them
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  Speaker 3: that they'd identified at the top of. Their list so
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  Speaker 3: a great job By The Golobal, blue enterprises FoST By,
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  Speaker 3: ren baker by all, the folks the donors, quite frankly
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  Speaker 3: and the businesses contributing to. The nil It's Put west
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  Speaker 3: virginia in a position to be able to go out
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 3: and put this.
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  Speaker 1: Roster together and there is a noticeable difference and where
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: this year's players are. Coming, from yes These are, power
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  Speaker 1: four power five guys where a Year Ago, west virginia
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  Speaker 1: you Know when ross first came, in there he did
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  Speaker 1: not have. Those guys right now he's getting guys that
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: have played at a. Higher level for whatever.
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  Speaker 3: It's worse next spreads, ON stats i will have an
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 3: exact breakdown for you on that across. The league my
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 3: early results show me about about twenty percent Of the
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 3: power four players coming Into The big twelve Are On west.
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  Speaker 3: Virginia's team it's the most In The big twelve right
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 3: NOW as i. Can, FIND again i reserve the right
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 3: to change THAT as i get deeper, the numbers but
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 3: it's mattered, now again that's not, a gimme and that'll
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 3: be part of. My analysis the number of teams last
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  Speaker 3: year that had powerful guys didn't even MAKE the, ncaa
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  Speaker 3: tournament so that's not, a, Guarantee correct but there, are
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 3: guys there's a significant number. Of guys most rotation will
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 3: be guys that have played at the highest level and
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 3: understand what they're.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: Walking into so that's. Beneficial obviously now the next massive
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: piece that you need to have happen as you get
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: ready for, next season and it starts here in a
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: month when they get Together. In june so you got
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: a bunch, of again you got a bunch of different
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: dudes that have played at a bunch of, different places
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: and some guys have played at multiple. Schools already so
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: now you have to bring them all together and you
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: have to find a way to put them on the proverbial.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: Same page that's the magic that will determine how far this.
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  Speaker 1: Team goes that's what this past team was able. To
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  Speaker 1: do the coaching staff today off, the chart good job of,
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: doing that and so now you have to mold. These
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: guys it will be harder this year in, my opinion
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  Speaker 1: because you have had guys that have played at the
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: power for level multiple schools and now you're going to
• 1:11:20
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