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All Eyes on Arlington | Ep. 014 · College Baseball Now

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  Speaker 1: What would you say if two of our top five
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  teams lost? Midweek? Panic patience, something in the middle. We'll
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  find out how our hosts feel. Plus a loaded weekend
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  pick them session is sure to bring lots of big
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  discussion to this episode of College Baseball Now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there ain't no problems.
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  Speaker 1: There ain't no problems.
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  Speaker 3: Don't want problem.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, let me turn to the chat.
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  Speaker 3: They know what was going for a minute, hit to
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  be out.
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  Speaker 1: Bad, grab a couple of wins with a D if
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  they even known the kid, I had to do a
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  B I G. I can never beat average, and they
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  want to problem with the boy. They don't know no statics,
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  how don need so coach son run a week God,
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  I want to test that title with standing and control.
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  Speaker 4: Un a game best believe of shining.
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  Speaker 1: Ducks, counting them my wins.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I love it when.
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  Speaker 4: They count me y out, counting up.
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  Speaker 1: The least sudden shame while men really don't want to stand.
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  College Baseball Now returns to the airwaves Prospects Live show
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  covering college baseball all year wrong and you've got it
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  right here, right now, your friends, your host your boys
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  are back with you as well. Started with me. Drew Wheeler,
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  the Prospects Live, director of Amateuter Scouting. Glad to be
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  with you, Glad to be here with my friends, to
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  talk about loaded midweek and prepare for the weekend at hand.
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  It's going to be a good one, uh, Starting, of course,
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  with the gentleman, as we always do. To my right,
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  it is coach, Jake Barjorie, Coach, how are you feeling today?
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  Speaker 2: Feeling great? Drew's still trying to stay warm up here,
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  but I got a lot of good midweek baseball We've
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  got to say over the past couple of days.
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  Speaker 1: That we have that we have Jake, I don't know
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  if I don't know if any of you guys are
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  a big fan of what I'm gonna pitch here, but
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  we'll find out. So as we're recording this. It's Wednesday,
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  February twenty fifth, twenty twenty six, the starts of season
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  fifty of Survivor, notoriously my second favorite television show currently airing.
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  I love it. It's a show that's very near and
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  dear to my heart. And I have to ask, Jake,
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  do you have a favorite reality TV show, a favorite
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  like game show of any kind that you'd shout out
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  that you just really.
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  Speaker 2: Like reality show. I don't watch a ton of reality TV,
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  for being completely honest, Yeah, sure, I don't know. I
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  like The Floor. The Floor is a fun game show
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  that I like to watch. I think comes on I
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  watched it on Hulu. I think it comes on Fox.
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  I've been that show. It's pretty cool one.
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  Speaker 1: I'll check it out. I haven't seen that. Do you
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  think I'd enjoy it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I think you would.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for the suggestion joining us as well as he
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  always does because he's invited. I don't know why I
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  said that, like, he's not invited. It's Josh Patlett. Josh, Hi, buddy,
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  how are you?
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  Speaker 3: I'm better now that I know I'm invited to this
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  every single time. I wasn't thirty minutes ago watching Auburn
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  sweat out a midweek game against West Georgia that they
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  absolutely should not have been. But you know what it happens.
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  Speaker 1: I think that they're doing this at this point just
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  to give you something to talk about.
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  Speaker 3: Truly, right, I guess we end up talking about them
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  on every episode and it's not my doing, it's their doing.
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  So you could be right.
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  Speaker 1: You know, to have been in my past called just
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  a bias Tennessee fan. I'm glad it's not me. I'm
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  glad that we're talking about another team every single episode.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm not saying good things about them all the time.
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  So there's I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Not the one saying these things. I'm just telling you what.
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  I'm glad. I'm not hearing. That's all I'm saying, Josh,
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  favorite reality show, favorite competition show, game show. You got
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  to hear.
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  Speaker 3: I'm racking my brain, Like I I know there's something that,
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  like afterwards, I'm gonna think about that. I used to
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  watch all the time, but I can't think of like
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  growing up, like competition shows whatever. Growing up I w
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  watch like The Voice and American Idol and stuff like
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  Wipe Out when I was really young, like all that. Like,
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  I know, there's probably something I'm just blanking on, but
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  I can't think of anything besides those.
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  Speaker 1: That's okay, that's all right, h There are big shows
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  for a reason. The Voice of American Idol, Like people
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  have parties to watch that every week. It makes sense.
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  Cultural phenomenons. Just like the next gentleman, we're gonna talk
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  about a cultural phenomenon in his own right. It's mister JB. Sebastiano, JB.
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  You're a cultural phenomenon.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I guess, yeah, I guess in the fact
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  that you know, today, I that great interaction with Grandpa Catlet,
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  you know, and he told me that we should uninvite
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  Josh from the show due to his Did he say
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  that he did? He said that we really need to
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  yank him off the show for a week to get
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  it together because you know, he wasn't a fan of it.
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  So we'll get him in line here soon, I promised him.
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  So I got to make sure I do Grandpa Catlet proud.
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  Speaker 3: I'll give him a talking to.
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  Speaker 1: So was was mister Catlet? Was he suggesting that we
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  like call in a sub that we benched Josh for
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  an episode? What was the suggestive here?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, he was saying, calling the sub, you know,
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  tell Josh that you know, he's benched until he figures
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  it out, putting Carolina had a sudden miss and his fandom.
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  So you know, we're we'll just wait around and see
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  what Josh does in response.
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  Speaker 1: We'll have to yeah, we'll have to see what happens
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  with that. On tonight's episode Plenty to Do, guys, we
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  talked about it a minute ago. But there is a
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  major news note that we learned about today that we
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  got to talk about super quickly. Injury update Coastal Carolina. Guys, Uh,
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  if our weekend rotation is a three headed dreat this
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  would be like Hercules taking two of the heads with
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  one swing of the story. This is not good, cam
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  Fluky Aden Johnson each out eight weeks for Coastal. Horrible
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  news for this team who is looking to get back
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  to Omaha, who I think consistently outlets across the nation
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  had them in the consideration, if not at the top
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  of the mid major ranks. Now without their Friday and
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  Saturday guys, a team that was already looking to be
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  a little more human than I think a lot of
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  outlets suspected they would.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: I guess, guys, what we're gonna do is we'll go
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  to the injury the injury game. We'll say if Keen
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  is I am as worried as could be? One is
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  I'm not worried at all?
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  Speaker 2: Jake?
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  Speaker 1: Where do you fall on the worry meter here for Coastal?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think you have to be pretty worried.
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  I mean, unless they're really confident that they can come back,
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  like in eight weeks if they think they can get
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  enough wins to you know, stay in the you know,
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  to stake the pay in the sun Belt and all
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  that kind of stuff. I mean, we know when they're
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  healthy what they can be. But yeah, I mean, if
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  you're already putting an eight week number on, I think
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  you got to be you know, you got to be
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  pretty pretty worried about it.
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  Speaker 1: If you had to put the number on it one to.
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  Speaker 2: Ten, I guess I don't know eight for eight weeks, so.
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  Speaker 1: You're pretty worried. Hey, I like that duplicity. I like
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  that Josh will go to you the worry meter. What's
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  it registering.
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  Speaker 3: For you at ten? I mean their Sunday guy already
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  hasn't looked good this year as it is, and cam
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  Fluki is arguably the best arm in the country. Hayden
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  Johnson's been really solid too. Like, this is an offense
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  that's been sputtering. This is as bad as news as
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  you can possibly get because everything they're relying on. I
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  guess the bullpen is still going to be able to
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  be solid, but everything mostly they are relying on is
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  just gone for the next two months. Luckily, their schedule
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  isn't that hard, But just in general, you gotta hope
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  these injuries aren't lingering.
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  Speaker 1: Josh, I would propose to you that if the bullpen
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  has been a strength and we've just lost two of
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  our key pitchers, now is average if nothing, because you're
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  taking two arms that should be pitching bullpen and now
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  they're gonna have to They're gonna step up and sad
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  the Sunday gentlemen that we just referred to as being
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  mediocre at best, your Friday now, big Hoss, best of
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  luck to you, uh JB. The worry meter, what's it
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  reading for you? For Coastal Carolina?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it might be beyond ten at this point
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  for me. I mean as a team, you know, especially
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  with it's kind of freaked the injury a stress reaction
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  in the rib for Fluky and then a stress reaction
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  in the elbow for Hayden Johnson, where for a long time,
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  what I've been hearing is Hayden Johnson was nearing a return,
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  possibly like this week, and now it randomly just popped
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  out into a long term injury. Is concerning of compiled
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  with carbone going down with TJ and Ryan Lynch has
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  been out for a bit. It's a really, really tough
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  stretch for a coastal right now, I'd say.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all these stress injuries, I think that that you
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  need to cut the stress. There's something going on. We
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  just calmed down over there. That's gotta be what that says,
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  all right. I know on the format we say we're
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  gonna go over last week's first, but let's get to
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  midweeks first. Then we'll lead in with last week's Pick
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  them here in a minute talk about some midweek games, because,
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  like we said, guys a couple of times, a lot
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  of crazy stuff going on. Jamie, we are going to
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  keep with you. I see here that you have decided
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  to speak about a team that you spoke at nauseam
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  about in our last episode, Georgia Tech and Georgia State.
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  That had to have gone the way we expected it
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  to write, surely.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I think we talked about this a
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  good bit last time, and I know I've voiced at
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  least my skepticism about this. Georgia's HEC roster for a
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  while now, and they have a lot of talent. There's
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  a lot of offense, you can't doubt that, and it is
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  a midweek game. So, like Josh has stated, you know,
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  you have to take you with the grain of salt,
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  but it's not great to see a team that's playing
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  their first team with a winning record on the season
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  go out at home and not really show much of
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  an offensive performance against midweek pitching from Georgia State and
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  also not put up the pitching performance that they'd hope
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  against an okay Georgia State offense. So I think for
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  Georgia Tech, it's not a great look for anybody that's
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  not completely one hundred percent on the hype train of
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  Georgia Tech right now, especially since you know, we talked
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  about last time a combined record of one to nineteen
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  from their opponents before Georgia State. So it's kind of
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  very very interesting to see how they move forward from this,
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  and I'm sure they'll bounce back, but it's something to
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  be take notice of, at least, i'd.
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  Speaker 1: Say, counselor cat let your rebuttal.
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  Speaker 3: I mean he set up, he set up for me.
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  I mean, like you take midweek games with the great
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  assault everything you have to tread lightly with having these
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  overarching takeaways that's watching that game. It was concerning, but
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  it wasn't like they really like, it wasn't like they
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  completely got shut down on offense. Just watching that game,
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  it felt like they were pressing a lot but just
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  couldn't really follow through like when they needed to, like
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  bases loaded, two runners on with two outs. Like these
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  kind of situations felt like they came up relatively often.
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  They just couldn't. They just couldn't push through. And so
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  I mean it catches up eventually. I guess the pitching
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  allowing nine runs, that's where the midweek thing comes in,
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  because I mean, you aren't using your best arms typically,
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  So yeah, you take that with a grain AsSalt. But
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  everyone that talks to me asked me about like, oh,
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  what's going on in this MOVI week and stuff? Everything
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  I say is like midweek games are so volatile, you
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  just never know what to expect. That said, yeah, not
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  for a one game, simple size, not promising for sure, Josh.
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  Speaker 1: I think the exact words you used to describe it
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  to me were tech can't capitalize on the opportunities they've
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  been given. I think that was exactly what you said,
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  and so you said it again in there with now,
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  of course, the benefit of hindsight, you can add more
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  commentary to it. So I appreciate that Jake. Looking at
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  these two teams, obviously, I think anybody with semblans of
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  knowledge about college baseball would say text can and run
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  away with this. I guess my question to you, Jake is,
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  how does this back to your standing of Georgia Tech
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  going forward? Are they affected terribly?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we've already said it a couple of times.
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  Like I'm trying not to overreact too much about them midweek.
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  I mean, I think it is a concern for all
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  the same things that we've that we've already said about
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  not being able to to hit in clutch moments, not
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  being able to kind of kind of just put teams
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  like this away that you expect to be able to,
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  especially when you're playing at home. But like you know,
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  I'm not I'm not overly concerned about Georgia Tech. I
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  want to see them bounce back. They get Northwestern this
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  weekend at home, and then they get a nice they
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  get a little revenge game right after that against Georgia
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  State again, So I mean, it'll be cool to see
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  them be able to bounce back. I'm not I'm not
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  too worried as long as we uh see them hit
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  again this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Thinks so well, said guys well said, uh Josh, Uh, Now,
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  contrary to what we said in the last episode, contrary
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  to what now your family has been confirmed to believe
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  per JB not your favorite team, but a team you
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  very much like. Southern Miss. They had some interesting midweek
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  action this week as well. Huh Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, as I've been saying these, I don't want
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  to make these overarching takeaways, but boy was yesterday fun
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  to watch. I mean on two fronts, Like I'm not
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  gonna complain about watching Bama get beat like that on
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  a bigger stage. And I'm certainly not gonna complain about
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  Southern Miss looking that good. I mean, guys for Bama,
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  like Justin Lebron didn't register hit the entire game, Bryce
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  Valor struck out three times, like they just couldn't come
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  through and hit to the same level of which Southern
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  Miss could. Like Southern Miss had what I don't know
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  off the top of my head all of their results,
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  but I would assume what is their highest output in
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  runs on the year, So I mean fourteen runs against
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  a pretty solid pitching staff, you know, relatively solid pitching
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  staff is always impressive. Ben Higden and Kyle Morrison both
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  had grand slams at different points in the game, just
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  coming up in big spots like whenever the opposite of
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  Georgia Tech, I guess, like whenever were pressing, whenever they
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  had an opportunity for big situations, they actually followed through
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  and they actually did what they were supposed to do,
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  and it really just did all pound up at the
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  end and led to a like a Molly.
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  Speaker 1: Whopping TM Josh Gatlin Molly whopping, Uh, Jake will go
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  to you here. So Alabama, I think I think it
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  was you who said earlier because you drafted them for
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  your or too early omaha eighth when you said they're
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  gonna go the way of Justin Lebron. So when Lebron
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  obviously does not come up with a hit, Alabama loses
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  Southern Miss. I mean, do you think that we're gonna
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  see a lot of games like that this year?
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  Speaker 2: I mean it, it's hard to predict a lot of
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  games like this one specifically, But we're gonna we're gonna
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  talk about you know, we're gonna talk about both these
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  teams later. But like I mean, I think to a point,
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  to a point, yes, I mean I think Lebron is
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  the guy that cut, like I mentioned earlier, like you
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  already also said that. I mean, he's gonna easy to
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  carry the offense as far as he can take it.
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  And then, like if you got really with any team,
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  if your top guy in the order aren't hitting, and
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  then you're also not getting the production from the bottom,
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  it's going to be hard to you know, put up
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  enough fronts to stay in game. So I wouldn't say
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  we're gonna get a ton just like this one, but
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  I mean Lebron's gonna have to go for this team
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  to be successful. Still, I think so.
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  Speaker 1: Too, JB. I have a question for you, but I'm
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  going to actually let you talk about this this game
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  if you'd like to before I ask the question. So
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  go ahead of any points you'd like to make.
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  Speaker 4: I think they kind of made it, you know. It's
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  just like we could hear a little bit of behind
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  Josh there. You know, the Southern mist train was rolling
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  right through, so they they kind of steamrolled right through
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  Alabama there. That was That's all I got right there.
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  Speaker 3: I thought I muted myself in time. I was so
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  close I.
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  Speaker 4: Heard horn and I was like, that's the train that's.
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  Speaker 1: Coming coming through, JB. My question for you, though, is
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  how would you grade Josh's ability to be unbiased towards
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  Southern Miss and his and his statements there. I think
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  Grandpa Patlet okay, great, so Grandpa Catlet JB has given
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  the thumbs up of approval. I think Josh is reinvited
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  to the cookout.
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  Speaker 4: So we'll reinvite him. I think you know, he wasn't
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  biased at all there. He gave some great points because
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  Southern Mist did truly dominate them. And yeah, I can't.
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  Speaker 1: I do have another really super brief question for you, JB.
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  What are your feelings on the University of Alabama.
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  Speaker 4: I can't say they're very high. Just wanted to make
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  sure I think we know personally in house my stance
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  on one of their star players, so you know, it's
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  not beyond that. It's just kind of they're kind of.
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  Speaker 1: Historically ass problems with Bryce Fowler all of you at home.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure. I I'm just going to be terrible
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  to say because I guess they're kind of not But
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  in terms of baseball, they're they're kind of irrelevant in
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  my eyes, Bama. They're just usually a non factor and
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  in anything usually. I mean, you just don't see a
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  lot from Bamba base.
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  Speaker 1: So I didn't really I didn't really know what to
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  expect from you. Out of that question. I saw, I'm
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  g gotta ask just because I know that genetically, Jake
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  and I are kind of predispositioned to have a distaste
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  for Alabama. Josh has chosen and his has certainly inherited
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  his own distaste for Alabama. I was hoping either you
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  would feel the same way or you would feel stronger
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  the other way, and you have. You have delivered.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, I think it's that's fair.
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  Speaker 1: That's totally fair. Irrelevant was the exact words you used.
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  So Jake, we'll go to you here, man talk about
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  another midweek game. I believe you said incredibly interesting. Uh,
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  we talked about it a little bit before we came
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  on there, the Troy Georgia matchup. Jake walk us through
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  what happened in this one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this was this was just this was just a
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  crazy game, like brock Tapper for Troy, just a bird
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  for for Georgia. Were just rolling through the first three innings,
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  Blake Cavill homeward in the in the in the four,
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  get the score and started, Georgia came back with a
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  couple of their own in the bottom half, Drew Nelson
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  homeward in the fifth for Troy to tie it up.
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  But it started to get pretty crazy after about the
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  sixth inning in this one, like Daniel Jackson hit a
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  go ahead solo homer for Georgia in the seventh. Nolan
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  Booked with the bases loaded bases clearing double in the
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  eighth to take the lead. Trey Phelps ties it back
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  up in the bottom half, and then all the way
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  fast forward a little bit to the twelfth inning, book
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  finishes the job there for for Troy to get the win.
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  You know, again, not to overreact too much in the midweek,
• 18:35
  but I'm sure Georgia fans would have wanted to see,
• 18:38
  you know, their guys take care of business against Troy
• 18:40
  at home, especially after having a lead late in the game.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: I think so too. It's it's so interesting to see
• 18:48
  kind of it come down to the wire and have
• 18:50
  all those opportunities and it just stretch and stretch and stretch.
• 18:54
  We're being blessed with Josh, what did you call it earlier,
• 18:57
  cinematic baseball. So I think that, yeah, you said some
• 19:01
  Josh things in the chat. So, uh, Josh, to that point,
• 19:05
  when you think about Troy and Georgia, what does that
• 19:07
  do to affect your opinions of these two teams, one
• 19:10
  of whom you were incredibly high on in the preseason.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it it doesn't hurt that Troy looked
• 19:16
  like that today. I mean like they their pitchers got
• 19:18
  themselves out of a lot of big spots late when
• 19:21
  when Georgia had two three runners on they haven't looked
• 19:26
  Troy hasn't looked great to start the year at all
• 19:28
  compared to what I thought. All of the issues or
• 19:31
  concerns that I have with them preseason kind of have
• 19:34
  come to fruition.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: And the Bats have mostly done about as well as
• 19:39
  I thought they would. But like today was a little
• 19:41
  bit of both, Like it pretty much evened out, But
• 19:43
  it was just nice to see them fight a little
• 19:45
  bit get themselves thousand tough spots.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, like I want to see more of
• 19:50
  it from Troy before I hop all the way back
• 19:52
  on the on the bandwagon of there all the way
• 19:55
  back and they're the clear Like there's a clear top
• 19:57
  three in the Sunbelt. They could be a top two
• 19:59
  three seed thing like I want to see a little more,
• 20:01
  but today couldn't hurt.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Definitely, JB. The flip side of that coin, man, Georgia,
• 20:08
  I think they have their their supporters and their detractors
• 20:11
  in terms of nationally, in terms of outlets. Where do
• 20:13
  you fall with Georgia, especially after kind of a back
• 20:15
  and forth game like this that it's hard to really
• 20:18
  say they've taken a huge hit in your eyes, but
• 20:21
  I'm curious where you're at.
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: I guess not to go completely off topic, but I
• 20:26
  guess the most concerning thing of the week to me
• 20:28
  that involved Georgia Baseball was the Wes Johnson interview, which
• 20:31
  I don't know if any of you guys watched, but
• 20:33
  it might have been the hardest listen of the week
• 20:35
  to listen to whatever he was trying to make a
• 20:37
  point of which I had no idea, which he had
• 20:40
  to backtrack the next day after the pack. So I
• 20:43
  think the leadership of Georgia Baseball was kind of the
• 20:46
  biggest question mark for me following day. It was like,
• 20:49
  it's like, I mean, he's done a great job everywhere
• 20:51
  he's gone, but I was really confused at what he
• 20:54
  was trying to throw a point at with the dagger
• 20:56
  on after that game. So yeah, I don't know. I
• 21:01
  the culture at Georgia from people have known their like,
• 21:04
  are kind of like fifty to fifty on them and everything,
• 21:06
  and I think they're very talented squad. So I'm somewhere
• 21:08
  in the middle, Like, I think they're a good team.
• 21:11
  You know, they'll probably be in the fight for Omaha,
• 21:13
  but what happens at the end of the day will
• 21:15
  kind of be left to scene and West Johnston's left
• 21:17
  a lot to be desired. In two years, I'd say,
• 21:19
  so will be definitely like a test year, i'd say
• 21:22
  for them.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely, I think so. Still, guys, beyond just those
• 21:28
  kind of three matchups, tons of tons of games that
• 21:32
  we have lots of meat on the bone with. So
• 21:34
  I'm gonna pitch these two guys for just some quick thoughts.
• 21:37
  McNeice and LSU again, Like we drew it up right,
• 21:41
  LSU's gonna win this midweek game. It's McNeice, right, you
• 21:48
  would think, so, yeah, right, LSU, Hello cricket. So yeah,
• 21:53
  that's actually one of the few games I've gotten to
• 21:56
  watch this week. I know you guys understand that it's
• 21:57
  been insane week, I told you guys, But the few
• 22:00
  games I got to see the back half of it,
• 22:01
  guys entertaining, I think hardly says it and McNee really
• 22:05
  earned that win. I think lsu I certainly did not
• 22:09
  play the way that they normally do, certainly not with
• 22:12
  the fire that they normally do. I think that you
• 22:15
  saw you saw their players step up in odd ways,
• 22:19
  but not as they collected as they have. I think
• 22:21
  LSU's been my kind of my unanimous number one team
• 22:24
  just from the way they play together. But again, as
• 22:27
  you all have alluded to, can't over react too big
• 22:29
  on the midweeks. Any thoughts from you guys out of
• 22:31
  that when Nicknese and LSU.
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: I guess like the only thing I had is the
• 22:36
  interesting thing this year so far has been LSU's pitching
• 22:38
  kind of scuffling at times so far, which is really interesting,
• 22:42
  especially with all the talent we saw going in. But
• 22:44
  if there's anybody I trust to turn around, it's Jay Johnson,
• 22:47
  Like kind of on the flip side of what I
• 22:48
  talked about a minute ago, He's one of the best
• 22:50
  in the business, Like I mean, you full faith in him.
• 22:54
  So if anybody's good enough to do it. I think
• 22:56
  he'll have them right to make a push for sure point.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Another another matchup with guys San Diego State and UCLA.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: JB.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: I'll let you take this one because this one, again
• 23:08
  it had to have gone the way we thought it
• 23:10
  would on Sunday.
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it did not once again, and it was. It
• 23:17
  was a game that was kind of a bought back
• 23:20
  and forth match. I mean, Savants won again for UCLA
• 23:25
  and he looked better than he did in his last outing.
• 23:28
  He went three innings, one earn, so that's a good
• 23:31
  start for him. Zach Strickland really struggled for them, and
• 23:33
  his two innings he gave up three runs, two of
• 23:35
  them earned. The rest of the bullpen really came together
• 23:38
  like we'd expect from them. Alec ballardists for San Diego State,
• 23:42
  had a great start to quality start five and a
• 23:44
  third three earned, followed up by Aiden Russell three and
• 23:47
  two thirds scoreless innings for them. It was kind of
• 23:50
  just the UCLA offense not really doing what we've seen
• 23:54
  them do in the past. Gasprino going over three, melevill
• 23:58
  Levou over four, Chilowski was limited to going one for two,
• 24:03
  and Roman Martin going one for four. I mean, kind
• 24:05
  of the big core of the offense really didn't do
• 24:07
  what we expect them and do per usual, So I
• 24:10
  don't buy too much into it. San Diego State's equality program,
• 24:13
  so you know, it's a tough game. Obviously, UCLA should
• 24:16
  win that game, and you know that's not any knock
• 24:18
  against that, but it's not them losing to poor competition,
• 24:23
  and it's not something to overreact to. I'd say necessarily,
• 24:25
  they'll be in good shape for the weekend.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Jake, Josh, any thoughts on San Diego State.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: UCLA Midweek's weird stuff happens, That's all I got.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: I think that's probably the recurring theme of the midweek
• 24:41
  has just been wow, crazy stuff, right, uh, Jake. Surely
• 24:44
  that streak will break though when we start talking about
• 24:46
  the Hogs. Arkansas take it on a state though, right.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean not really, especially in the in the
• 24:53
  first game, I mean Arkansas, I mean Arkansas State. I
• 24:57
  mean they just they just jumped out early, like Mike
• 25:00
  you hit a home run for for Arkansas in the
• 25:02
  first inning, but like Arkansas State answered with with six
• 25:06
  runs in the second inning. They got another one in
• 25:08
  the third, another one in the fourth. It's just like
• 25:10
  they just kept the offense on. They got three more
• 25:12
  in the seventh than Arkansas just really wasn't able to answer.
• 25:17
  I mean in the second game they've heard their dominance
• 25:19
  a little bit more, but they still only scored one
• 25:21
  on Arkansas State, but they held arc State to just
• 25:24
  one hit. I do like this Arkansas State team though,
• 25:27
  Ashton Quiller, Patrick Kskov, Aiden house Worth of like they
• 25:33
  got some guys in the in the lineup that are
• 25:36
  that are really hitting, swinging the ball, swinging the bat well,
• 25:39
  and it's I mean, I was shocked that, uh they
• 25:43
  beat Arkansas State, I mean Arkansas in general, but I'm
• 25:46
  not shocked at Arkansas State performing well.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think Arkansas State reading about them this this preseason,
• 25:53
  there was a fabulous series where a gentleman on our
• 25:57
  draft team, who shall remain nameless, Jake, went through every
• 26:00
  team in the country D one and Arkansas State's deceptive.
• 26:04
  They got some dudes, Jake. So I'm with you there, JB. Josh.
• 26:08
  Anything on Arkansas or a state.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: Not really Jake cover most but honestly, yeah, he yeh
• 26:15
  nailed it.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: The coach as usual coming in clutch and guys, what
• 26:20
  would what would a midweek be if we didn't have
• 26:22
  a series to hang our hats on? Though, right, the
• 26:25
  same joke I've said over and over, you know, the right,
• 26:27
  and it went the way we thought. Man, we can't
• 26:30
  give ourselves credit. We said the most entertaining outcome for
• 26:33
  as Arizona State and Oklahoma would be a split series,
• 26:37
  and that's what we ended up getting. I think there
• 26:38
  was quality baseball played in both of those. Actually did
• 26:41
  get to see the Arizona State and Oklahoma game today
• 26:44
  and was deeply, deeply entertained by those. I think this
• 26:49
  is too safe top twenty teams regardless of the outcome,
• 26:52
  and this is midweek competition that you can absolutely say
• 26:56
  that's a quality team.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean not many people have had Arizona State
• 27:01
  ranked all year. We have. We have them in our
• 27:03
  top twenty, and it showed like most of the reason
• 27:06
  why we had them ranked for a while was because
• 27:08
  of the pitching, if we're being honest. But I mean
• 27:10
  the bats fully came through yesterday. Like Landon Harrison, I
• 27:13
  had two home runs. You know, new Uvenradas and Dominic
• 27:17
  Longo both looked really good. Like those big names, those
• 27:20
  are the guys that when you go into an Arizona
• 27:21
  State game, you expect them to perform well. And they
• 27:24
  did and they went above and beyond and it was
• 27:26
  over quick. I mean that game was over in the
• 27:29
  second inning. So it's nice to see I guess, as
• 27:32
  you know a podcast, as people that have been talking
• 27:34
  about Arizona State way higher than a lot of outlets,
• 27:37
  it's great to see that come true.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: At least I.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Would agree with that consistently. Josh. I know that you
• 27:42
  and I talked on the last episode about or maybe beforehand,
• 27:46
  out said I really like Arizona State, and that's a
• 27:50
  team I can poke very few holes in, and so
• 27:54
  definitely nice to see them perform against you know, I
• 27:56
  think I even called them last episode the darling thus
• 27:59
  far the come of the pop up surprise Jake jb
• 28:02
  Any thoughts on Arizona State Oklahoma.
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: Series great games honestly, definitely, Jake.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: Any thoughts there body, Uh yeah, no, I mean you
• 28:13
  guys hit the hit the points. I think, just going
• 28:16
  back and forth, it's just two good teams.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: It is, man, that's and that's honestly the beauty of
• 28:21
  it is. I mean, when you get a good mid
• 28:22
  week series between two solid squads, and honestly, had we,
• 28:27
  you know, not known what happened in the first two
• 28:29
  weeks of the season, we may have thought, I mean,
• 28:32
  this is quality teams, quality conferences. But I don't know
• 28:35
  that the intrigue would have necessarily been there if we
• 28:37
  hadn't seen what they had done already. But that's the
• 28:40
  benefit of the benefit of hindsight. I suppose, right, all right,
• 28:44
  we have we can pick them to attend to gentlemen,
• 28:48
  and Josh, you have last week's results as well as
• 28:51
  an updated totals list. Am I right, you are right
• 28:56
  as yours.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: So on the season as a whole, we are all
• 29:00
  separated by one game exactly. I've got the lead. I'm
• 29:03
  eight and seven, and I'm not gonna put the dash
• 29:06
  one at the end because we're not counting the un
• 29:08
  c ECU series is just going to be into the
• 29:10
  abyss for the rest of the season because we're not
• 29:12
  We're not putting the dash one on our records. Good,
• 29:16
  I'm eight and seven, Drew seven and eight, jb Is
• 29:19
  six and nine, Jacobs five and ten. Last week I
• 29:23
  went five and two and the rest of you all
• 29:25
  went four and three. So that's where we are right now.
• 29:29
  I gotta expand on that though, just one week at
• 29:31
  a time. Let's increase that gap.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: I understand I don't like that plan, but I see
• 29:35
  why you would. So I don't like the plan. I
• 29:37
  need to go on record saying that's a bad plan.
• 29:41
  The good thing is, of course, at least in terms
• 29:43
  of interest, what a slate of games, Josh, you have
• 29:47
  gone above and beyond it out of you.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: You.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Actually, I'll give us a modicum of credit too, because
• 29:51
  you shot us a couple of ideas for the last
• 29:54
  couple of guys entertaining baseball. Come in your way this weekend.
• 29:58
  If you're listening or watching it home, make some time,
• 30:01
  carve some time out in front of the old boob tube,
• 30:03
  because there is games galore. You're gonna want to watch UH.
• 30:07
  And as always, we're gonna jump right into it, start
• 30:09
  talking about UH this weekend, and what better way to
• 30:14
  start them with the Energy Bank College Baseball Series. We've
• 30:17
  started with them the last two victims and it just works.
• 30:21
  Are gonna stay with it there, guys. This is I'll
• 30:27
  just go out on a limit and say, this is
• 30:28
  a ridiculously loaded group of teams.
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: I mean top to bottom is the field from out
• 30:34
  from Arlington so far for sure, get.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Far and away, Josh. I am one hundred percent with you,
• 30:39
  and we'll cut attention. We've got UCLA, Mississippi State, the
• 30:44
  University of Tennessee, Texas A, and m Arizona State who
• 30:48
  had just finished talking about and Virginia Tech. I mean
• 30:52
  that that's gonna be three days of insanely quality baseball.
• 30:57
  Uh taking part in Arlington. Uh, Jake, we will. I'll
• 31:00
  start with you here looking at those crops of teams
• 31:02
  thinking about the weekend of baseball to come there at
• 31:05
  the Energy Bank College Baseball Series. What is the standout
• 31:08
  storyline for you?
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: The storyline I just want to I just want to
• 31:17
  talk about how good Mississippi State's playing right now. Like
• 31:22
  Ace Reese is going absolutely psycho mode to start the season.
• 31:25
  He's hitting four five to fourteen, eight doubles, three homers,
• 31:30
  fifteen rbs and just nine games like him, and him
• 31:33
  and Bryce Chantce have been the most steady guys in
• 31:35
  the lineup for them right now. But the pitching, to
• 31:38
  be honest, has been what's driving this team for the
• 31:40
  most part. Like thas Valencias two starts, eleven innings, zero era,
• 31:46
  Ryan McPherson two starts, ten innings, two seven. Duke Stone
• 31:50
  He's got three appearances, one start, ten innings, two seven. Like,
• 31:53
  all three of those guys have been so big for
• 31:55
  the Bulldogs, And it helps when you got guys like
• 31:57
  like Jack Gleeson, Brandon Sweeney, Ben Davis out of the
• 32:01
  pen you can trust to get innings and just get
• 32:03
  you to the end of the game. And I can't
• 32:05
  wait for the for the Sunday game with them versus UCLA.
• 32:09
  It's gonna be a ton of fun to watch his
• 32:11
  pitching staff go up against the ucl offense.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Yes, indeed, Josh, we're gonna go to you again. Maybe
• 32:19
  it's a storyline, maybe it's a particular player, maybe it's
• 32:21
  a particular matchup. What are you looking at when you
• 32:24
  see this college baseball series sponsored by Amity Bank Bank There,
• 32:29
  I guess, And what do you what do you highlight
• 32:31
  on your page?
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: I'll give you a little bit of all that kind
• 32:34
  of based around one team. I don't want to steal
• 32:36
  y'alls thunder, but I kind of want to talk about
• 32:38
  Tennessee because I feel like that's besides Mississippi State, I
• 32:41
  feel like that's the most interesting team going into this
• 32:43
  from a storyline perspective, you know that top of that
• 32:46
  lineup absolutely has to get back on track. They kind
• 32:49
  of spluttered out last week. Henry Ford on the year,
• 32:52
  sitting three seventy nine, he has three home runs. Jay
• 32:54
  Abernathy's penning three forty eight, has an eleven sixty OPS.
• 32:58
  Blaine Brown has a ten thirty four OPS with three
• 33:01
  home runs. Like those are performances from the first from
• 33:03
  the midweeks and the first weekend that really carried over
• 33:06
  made those averages look a little better because besides, Henry
• 33:09
  Ford didn't really look that great last weekend, so they
• 33:12
  have to get back on track. Also, more specifically, I
• 33:15
  am really interested to see how Tigan Kuns looks against
• 33:19
  UCLA on Friday. That is such a fun matchup he has.
• 33:23
  He's pitched twelve and a third innings this year with
• 33:25
  only a point seventy three ERA, only a seven to
• 33:28
  five batting average allowed, and UCLA has arguably the most
• 33:32
  stacked lineup in the country. So how does he match
• 33:34
  up against that as compared to a team like Kent
• 33:37
  State or I'm blankingho to Tennessee played the first weekend.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: I'm blanking, oh, Nichols, I thought, yeah, Nicholas, thank you?
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: How was that thank you? Yeah? Exactly so, Nichols kent
• 33:48
  State compared to UCLA. Those numbers look really good right now?
• 33:52
  Are they inflated? Has he actually taken that much of
• 33:54
  a step up? I guess we'll see. That's what I'm
• 33:56
  really interested to watch, I think.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: So, Uh, what we know? We know for fact that Coons,
• 34:00
  at least from last season, has had the benefit of
• 34:03
  an incredible season on the cave. We know that the
• 34:06
  confidence is there for him as well. But like you said,
• 34:09
  this is going a step even further beyond. This is
• 34:13
  testing him to the highest level against UCLA and guys,
• 34:16
  we've talked about this offense a ton, but something we
• 34:20
  hadn't really talked about a ton is Teak and Koons.
• 34:22
  And probably that is me trying not to be biased,
• 34:26
  which suck it. Tennessee's an awesome team. Go for something
• 34:30
  else to complain about if that's honestly on your mind. Whatever,
• 34:34
  But seriously, like Teak and Kons has been insane this year.
• 34:37
  He has been as advertised and probably better than advertised
• 34:41
  this season absolutely untouchable almost for Tennessee. One earned run,
• 34:46
  you said, a point seven three ERA right over twelve
• 34:48
  and a thirty. It's one one earned runs. That's what
• 34:52
  Tennessee needs to lean on. And like you said, the
• 34:54
  bats need to come alive. JB looking at this crop
• 34:57
  man six, very talented team. What are you looking at
• 35:00
  and highlighting here?
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the one that I wanted to talk about, which
• 35:04
  I'm surprised josh Din hit on, was Arizona State. I
• 35:07
  think Arizona State. This will be a super fun weekend
• 35:10
  to see them get tested once again against Misissippi State,
• 35:13
  Tennessee and Texas A and M all in order. And
• 35:16
  to start off, we get Cole Carlon as Jake pre
• 35:18
  looted against a very very good Mississippi State offense, very
• 35:22
  good team. So that'll be very fun to see Col
• 35:24
  Carlan get out there and get tested like that and
• 35:27
  the whole ASU pitching staff honestly against those offenses. So
• 35:30
  that'll be something very interesting along with kind of leading
• 35:33
  into that Texas A and M two. For me, I
• 35:35
  think it'll be interesting to see how their offense performs
• 35:37
  and they get a little bit of a somewhat warm
• 35:39
  up game playing Virginia at Tech on Friday, so it'll be,
• 35:43
  you know, a more one of the probably the weakest
• 35:47
  squad in there. Sorry to the Hokies fans, but that's
• 35:50
  they're a good team, but they are not up to
• 35:52
  the caliber of everybody else that's playing in this tournament.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: I agree, but I think again, JB, just to kind
• 35:58
  of further on your point, I think that's a test
• 35:59
  to the five teams they're with. If I mean, if
• 36:02
  you were to supplement Virginia Tech and put them in
• 36:05
  either the well, really any of these the Las Vegas Classic,
• 36:09
  Bruce Bolt, Frisco, Virginia Tech looks kind of like a threat.
• 36:13
  But maybe, and I mean again, guys, we've seen we've
• 36:16
  seen these series where like we were like, hey, you know,
• 36:19
  what's Kansas State gonna do here? And then they do
• 36:21
  a lot. You know what really is Oklahoma gonna do here?
• 36:24
  They do a lot?
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: Ready for VT to win out the series, Tech went out,
• 36:30
  everybody thinks maybe we'll.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: Just pick Virginia Tech. Then no, any anyway, interesting stuff though,
• 36:36
  like you said, didn't really kind of give a lot
• 36:38
  of credence to Texas A and M there JB, I'm
• 36:40
  glad you talked about them, Arizona State, Virginia Tech. I
• 36:43
  think we've hit on all the teams. The only thing
• 36:45
  left to do. I guess we got to pick a
• 36:47
  winner here of this series. And Josh, remind the people
• 36:49
  at home how we do series like this. Uh, It's
• 36:52
  very simple, but we narrow it down to one winner.
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: Go ahead, Yeah, just whoever has the best record at
• 36:57
  the end of it. Point different a tiebreaker. And I've
• 37:01
  learned recently because I saw all bring out a trophy.
• 37:04
  Apparently at the ones in Arlington, they actually do declare
• 37:06
  a winner. Like the first weekend there at the Oklahoma
• 37:10
  TCU game at the end there was like there was
• 37:12
  promotion on the Flow Sports broadcast saying, like championship game
• 37:18
  and last week all bring out a trophy after winning.
• 37:20
  So apparently it's not just us, like it's a legit
• 37:22
  thing for this one.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: All right, that's good to know. I didn't know that.
• 37:25
  Good All right? Jake, Uh, I'm curious, man, loaded crop here,
• 37:32
  where are you gonna go? Coach?
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: I mean, this just feels this feels like an impossible
• 37:38
  pick to make, to be honest with you, with the
• 37:40
  amount of teams in here. I was kind of hoping
• 37:41
  you wouldn't call on me to pick first, but uh,
• 37:44
  do you want me to think, Oh no, no, no,
• 37:47
  I'll go. I'll go. I think I think my pick
• 37:50
  is gonna be is gonna be U c l A. Okay, Uh,
• 37:55
  I like the offense. I mean we just talked about
• 37:58
  how Teakan Kuns is gonna match up. It's gonna be
• 38:00
  his first test against like an elite offense. We don't
• 38:04
  necessarily know how that's gonna go. I'm gonna go. I'll
• 38:07
  pick U c l A. I think they got the
• 38:08
  best best lineup top to bottom.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: Good, thank you, Josh, will go to you. What are
• 38:15
  you thinking here?
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: I want to be different so bad because there are
• 38:19
  two teams on this list that I and we have
• 38:22
  been way higher on the most people. And U c
• 38:26
  l A does have the hardest schedule drawing all the
• 38:29
  SEC teams, but they are the best team.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: What do you what are you trying to choose between here?
• 38:37
  Can you let us in on that.
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: At least four teams like you know what? You know what?
• 38:42
  Forget the matchups. UCLA looks like the best team in
• 38:45
  the country right now. I'll go with them. They can
• 38:48
  they can scrap together. If anyone can scrap together three
• 38:51
  wins against these teams, it's probably them. So I'll just
• 38:54
  go with them and just hate myself when either am
• 38:57
  M or Arizona State wins this, even though we've talked
• 39:00
  about them way more than we should.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: Understood that that's okay. I like your logic, JB. Going
• 39:06
  to you here thus far to u c l A's
• 39:08
  on the board. Where are you thinking?
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: Well, I mean that was they weren't even in the
• 39:14
  picking realm for me after looking at the draw, honestly,
• 39:17
  I mean, I know Josh is gonna hit on that,
• 39:19
  but they played three of the hardest teams, so I
• 39:21
  had to pict strategically and oh, you know, I'm probably
• 39:28
  gonna go with and that. You guys are gonna laugh
• 39:30
  that this is what I'm gonna take. But I'm gonna
• 39:32
  take your Tennessee volunteers here, funny enough, which is if
• 39:37
  they can get through UCLA and Friday, I think they could.
• 39:40
  They could clean up the last two days. So somehow
• 39:43
  I'm not the Tennessee guy and I'm taking them. But
• 39:46
  I'll go with it.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: JB. What if I told you I had the same thought.
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: What if?
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: What if? What if Tikan Kudes could shut this team
• 39:56
  down for seven and then we just finish it out.
• 40:00
  We get Brady, Frederick bo Rudy r get some arms
• 40:04
  in there to just close the deal, and then you've
• 40:06
  got a state and v Tech. There's a world where
• 40:11
  this happens. And if the one person out there that
• 40:15
  thinks that this is just me being a homer, whatever,
• 40:20
  Tennessee is my pick, and I'm thrilled to make them.
• 40:24
  I'd rather go down with the team that I love
• 40:26
  and have good logic behind it.
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: So are we going to really have no Mississippi State
• 40:32
  on this graphic?
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: I mean I wanted to take him until I saw
• 40:37
  that and then I you know, I love he didn't
• 40:39
  think Drew was gonna take Tennessee. So that's why I
• 40:41
  want to.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: If you want to change JB, you can, because I
• 40:44
  was gonna pick Tennessee from the jump.
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: Here.
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: I think that they again, and you heard me say it,
• 40:49
  it's because.
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: I believe I Drew. I'm rocking with it. I picked it,
• 40:54
  so I'm rocking. There's no going back. So you know
• 40:56
  it's it's already.
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: If it helped, if it helps any of y'all the
• 40:59
  trainers coming through again? Is that the state train trying
• 41:01
  to make its way?
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: Or But Josh, which state? Could we all be looking
• 41:09
  foolish for not picking our You can tell.
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: You right now?
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, nonsense is afoot? Well, speaking of a foot,
• 41:24
  this state doesn't look like a foot. It looks like, well,
• 41:27
  it's not really important what body part. It looks like
• 41:28
  we're talking about a battle from the state of Florida
• 41:31
  as Florida takes on Miami loaded Jake like that? Thank
• 41:39
  you appreciate that? Well, I appreciate it. You know what, Josh,
• 41:43
  you snarky man, Why don't you go first here talk
• 41:46
  about Florida in Miami? Because in my opinion, and I'm
• 41:49
  curious what your take is, this is a superloaded pitching
• 41:52
  staff who's got good beats taking on a superloaded offense.
• 41:57
  It's got some pitching.
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: This is the and I have the toughest time to
• 42:01
  figure out who I'm gonna choose. I really don't know.
• 42:03
  I think Florida's a slightly better team if they do
• 42:05
  have to go on the road. I'm really interested to see, like,
• 42:09
  can the Florida offense maintain the production they've had. They
• 42:11
  have four big guys batting over four hundred, Brendan Lawson,
• 42:15
  Kyle Jones, Blake Sear. I mean they're like they're taking walks,
• 42:19
  like you know, Brendan Lawson's twenty four percent walk great
• 42:22
  right now, like that, they're gonna They've had good at
• 42:24
  bats so far. H pitching staffs haven't been as good
• 42:29
  as the one they're gonna face in Miami. Although that's
• 42:31
  not Miami's strong suit. I'm interested to see how Miami's
• 42:35
  offense holds up against this pitching because Florida we've been
• 42:37
  on record saying it's one of the best rotations and
• 42:40
  staffs as a whole in the country. But I mean,
• 42:43
  they've had this is this is a fun tidbit. I
• 42:46
  found this the other day. If you filter, if you
• 42:49
  look at w RC plus in the entire country right now,
• 42:51
  unless the filter that I had on was like wrong,
• 42:54
  of the entire country, Miami has the top four bats
• 42:58
  and w RC plus right now, top four being Alonzo Alvarez,
• 43:02
  Derek Williams, Daniel Kovey, and Alex Sosa. And if that's
• 43:05
  even not one hundred percent accurate, it's pretty close. And
• 43:07
  that goes to show you a lot. I mean, those
• 43:09
  guys are Raking alonzo Albros. Right now has a five
• 43:13
  eighty eight batting average with a twenty one thirty two ops.
• 43:18
  He struck out four percent of the time, like he
• 43:20
  is conscious correct, Like they're there. Their bats are just
• 43:24
  on another level right now, and I'm really interesouted to
• 43:27
  see how they hold up against the deep, deep Florida
• 43:31
  pitching staff that hasn't looked the best in the world
• 43:33
  to start the year, like Aiden King has Liam Pearson
• 43:36
  looked great last week, But can they hold up over
• 43:38
  the course of three games?
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: Understand JB looking at you, man, Florida to Miami. It
• 43:45
  goes deeper than sec acc This is a long term
• 43:48
  rivalry across all sports. Are you what? What kind of
• 43:52
  are you highlighting?
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: Here?
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: Is the main point to watch here? Yeah?
• 43:55
  Speaker 4: I think, Well, it's always a very fired up series.
• 43:58
  I mean I remember watching it for years now since
• 44:02
  Judd Fabian I think is like my first memory of
• 44:04
  watching this series just Judd Fabian going off against Miami
• 44:07
  and going crazy and starting fights with them and the
• 44:09
  whole deal. So I know there's a lot of bad
• 44:12
  blood between the two teams down there. I think it's
• 44:16
  it kind of just comes down to the pitching, honestly,
• 44:18
  on both sides. If the Florida pitching strength shows up
• 44:20
  and if Miami's pitching staff does enough, I think would
• 44:23
  be my my take on it.
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: I think, so, okay, okay, I like what you're like,
• 44:28
  what you're throwing down, Jake, looking at you now, man
• 44:32
  historic teams across n CUAA athletics of any sport, And
• 44:36
  like we said, there's there's a lot of questions that
• 44:38
  both teams still kind of need to answer, but they've
• 44:40
  been exciting thus far too. What's the story you're looking
• 44:43
  at of the player you're looking at is impactful most?
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I don't there's not really a single
• 44:50
  player these Josh NJB both named all the named all
• 44:53
  the guys there. But like the thing that I'm paying
• 44:56
  attention to is like Miami. Miami has yet to lose
• 44:59
  a game this season, and the have just been dismantling
• 45:02
  my beloved Patriot lead to start the year. But like
• 45:05
  the I think the I think it's just gonna I
• 45:08
  think it's gonna come down to, like, like we've kind
• 45:10
  of all mentioned Florida pitching right now, has looked as
• 45:13
  good as we could have hoped it would have looked
• 45:16
  at the beginning of the year. And then they're going
• 45:17
  up against this crazy Miami offense with guys that are
• 45:20
  leading the country and all the all the top hitting
• 45:23
  metrics and all the top stats. I mean it's gonna
• 45:25
  be is that is that Florida pitching gonna be enough
• 45:28
  to cool them off?
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: What happens, guys when the immovable objects meets the irresistible force.
• 45:36
  I guess we're gonna find out. It's gonna be interesting.
• 45:38
  And Josh, we'll start with you, Florida or Miami. Who
• 45:41
  are you picking?
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: I'm glad you mentioned the sec acc thing because I
• 45:47
  didn't even process that, So I guess I just have
• 45:50
  to go with Florida now. I mean, also, the logic
• 45:53
  behind that could be I think I think the most
• 45:56
  vulnerable unit in this series is the Miami pitching staff,
• 46:00
  So I'll just bank on that being the unit that's
• 46:04
  taking advantage of the most rather than either of the offenses,
• 46:07
  which haven't shown any signs of stopping sputtering anytime soon.
• 46:12
  So I'll be I'll bank on that that pitching staff
• 46:14
  being more what we thought they would be coming end
• 46:17
  of the year already, looked.
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: I get it. I get it, uh, JB, I see
• 46:22
  you're already typing, and I'll let you go ahead and
• 46:24
  make your selection here who you like?
• 46:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll take Florida all the way flow rye of
• 46:29
  baby chump chumph going down.
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: HiT's the gator chomp. Okay, Jake, looking at it here too.
• 46:37
  Florida's on the board already, You making it three or
• 46:39
  you go on Miami.
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: I think I think I will go Miami. I like
• 46:43
  I like them at home. I like them, uh with that,
• 46:47
  with that little bit of advantage there, and I just
• 46:48
  I mean, I'll just keep looking at the numbers that
• 46:51
  the offense is putting up, and if this does turn
• 46:53
  into any sort of high scoring affair, I think I
• 46:56
  like Miami's offense to come out on top.
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: I get that. I'm really torn here, Jake, because I'd
• 47:05
  love it if the Tennessee guys just didn't pick Florida.
• 47:08
  What a what a story? What a story? Mark, And
• 47:12
  Miami's offense is so sick. But man, Josh kind of
• 47:15
  hit my exact thoughts in a very concise way in
• 47:18
  saying Miami's pitching is where I have the least confidence.
• 47:22
  I think they'll be taking the most advantage of I
• 47:25
  guess give me the Gators as well. So Jake are
• 47:28
  an island alone Miami on this one. Let's move on, guys,
• 47:34
  to the next one. We're gonna talk about another event
• 47:36
  the Live like lou Las Vegas Classic four teams Vanderbilt
• 47:41
  ore again, you see Irvine, Arizona teams who have either
• 47:45
  been highly considered by US or are now highly considered
• 47:50
  by US. JD. We're gonna start with you when you
• 47:52
  look at this, what's kind of the key thing that
• 47:54
  you're looking at or taking away before the season start
• 47:56
  the series starts there.
• 47:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's another great opportunity for Vanderbilt first
• 48:02
  of all, Like it's the obvious for them to kind
• 48:04
  of show out in another tournament and kind of bounce
• 48:06
  back from their last showing Oregon. It's their first true
• 48:10
  test and I know a lot of people have had
• 48:11
  them ranked for a while, so it's a good test
• 48:14
  to see them. And the last one. And I guess
• 48:16
  i'd hit on is UC Irvine, like coming off of
• 48:19
  a series of lost against col last week, you know,
• 48:21
  I know we've talked highly of them, is a great
• 48:22
  mid major program. I think it's really big for them
• 48:24
  to kind of bounce back and show up this week.
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: Interesting. I do agree with that, Josh. Looking at these
• 48:31
  four teams, is there any that sticks out more than the.
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: Others, positively or negatively?
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: I was gonna leave that up to you.
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: Negatively, I would say the offenses for You could say
• 48:47
  all these teams but Vandy. But I'll say Irvine and
• 48:50
  Arizona is just particularly sad right now. That's like the
• 48:54
  word disappointing doesn't really do it justice. It's just sad.
• 48:57
  Irvine is at one home run the entire year, one
• 49:00
  home run, and I mean, just like the veterans for
• 49:02
  Arizona have been super disappointing too, Like Maddox Mahow I
• 49:08
  can never pronounce his last name, mah mahe maheleekis whatever.
• 49:11
  You know what I'm trying to say. He has an
• 49:14
  eighty six average and a three to three OPS the
• 49:17
  twelve strikeouts. Tyler Bickers has a one to sixty seven
• 49:20
  batting average, no extra base hits. Bo Sylvester has a
• 49:24
  five h nine OPS, hasn't taken a single walk. It's
• 49:27
  just sad, Like across the board, it's really pathetic, and
• 49:30
  at everything we've seen from them, a full turnaround might
• 49:33
  not even be in the works. They just need to
• 49:36
  pick it up a little bit. I mean, we talked
• 49:38
  in the last part about Oregon State's offense, and we
• 49:40
  might touch on that again later, but we were comparing
• 49:42
  it to mid major offenses and I was like, I
• 49:45
  would take that over Irvine's offense. I stand by that.
• 49:48
  It's kind of it's pathetic at this point. They've had,
• 49:50
  like I don't know, one guy who looks pretty good,
• 49:53
  like Alonzo Reyes looks pretty solid. Besides that, it's sad.
• 49:56
  They've got to pick that up at least a little bit.
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: I think so too, Jake, looking at these four squads,
• 50:02
  any specific player, any specific storyline that you've got highlighted
• 50:05
  as being super important to who wins this Classic.
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll talk about Oregon. I don't think we've talked
• 50:13
  about them probably enough this year yet, but this tournament
• 50:17
  is going to be the first real test for them,
• 50:19
  which is why they've remained near or at the bottom
• 50:22
  of our rankings. But I do think they're top twenty
• 50:25
  five team and they looked really good against George Mason
• 50:28
  and Youngstown State, like George Mason, is a proven program
• 50:32
  in the A ten. And we just saw Youngstown State,
• 50:34
  you know, compete with Auburn for three games to start
• 50:37
  the year. But neither are obviously at the level of
• 50:39
  competition that they're going to see in this tournament. They
• 50:43
  got six guys hitting for an ops over one thousand.
• 50:47
  Drew Smith, Angel La Maddix Maloney all have multiple homers.
• 50:51
  Ryan Cooney's also hitting well. He's tied as a team
• 50:54
  leader in doubles and leading the team in stolen bases. Also,
• 50:59
  the offense looks strong, and also so does the pitching.
• 51:01
  Like they've they've played back to back four game series.
• 51:04
  But I'd assume we're gonna be getting Colin Clark, Will Samford,
• 51:07
  cals calari as the rotation, and that each of them
• 51:10
  have combined for six starts, thirty one innings, and a
• 51:14
  point eighty seven era. U. Now, they're gonna be tested
• 51:17
  this weekend. But but I mean, if you're just going
• 51:19
  off of how they've performed against the competition that they've played,
• 51:23
  the ducks team, this ducks team's as hot as anyone
• 51:26
  coming into it.
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: Well said, Okay, all right, well then Josh will start
• 51:31
  with you looking at this classic, who do you like
• 51:34
  to take the win?
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: I think I'm gonna take Vandy solely because kind of,
• 51:39
  like I mentioned, I have less question marks about their
• 51:41
  offense than anyone else's all. The pitching staffs look solid
• 51:45
  at this point. But that's the differentiator to me right now.
• 51:48
  I mean, like our concern coming end of the year
• 51:50
  with Vandy's offense was are they gonna be able to
• 51:53
  hit for power? And boy, have they hit for power.
• 51:57
  I mean, it's not even slightly a concern right now anymore.
• 52:01
  I don't think it's gonna you know, I mean, might
• 52:03
  it might level out a little bit, but I mean
• 52:04
  they have hit so many home runs a start of
• 52:06
  the year. The long ball is looking really good for them.
• 52:08
  I don't expect it to stop, even against these other
• 52:11
  good pitching staffs.
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: JB, who do you like in this one?
• 52:16
  Speaker 4: I'm sticking with them. I'll go Vandy. I mean, they
• 52:19
  got a pretty favorable draw in the order as well,
• 52:21
  you know, so I think it's gonna be a good
• 52:24
  weekend for Vanderbilt honestly, for them to kind of turn
• 52:27
  the ship around from the last tournament appearance that they
• 52:29
  had and show off an elite pitching staff that they have.
• 52:32
  So taking Vandy two.
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: Jake to Vanderbilt's on the board, are you gonna make
• 52:37
  it three?
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: I am, I'd like I'd like to. I wish I
• 52:41
  could do something different here, but I think Vanderbilt is
• 52:43
  just the top to bottom best team in it right now.
• 52:45
  And I think it's uh, it's kind of their it's
• 52:48
  kind of theirs to lose right now.
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: I think I think so too, and that will make
• 52:52
  it a sweet Guys, I had Vanderbilt written down before
• 52:56
  we started. I agree. I think that's just the strongest
• 52:58
  team in the pool. Myself, it is gonna be interesting
• 53:00
  to see Oregan tested. I think that's gonna be my
• 53:03
  favorite storyline of the weekend. And I'm glad you guys
• 53:05
  pointed it's It's gonna be really interesting to see. Then
• 53:08
  it gets competition at their level, all right? Talking about
• 53:13
  let's let's get through one that I think we may
• 53:15
  all agree on. Shall we? Let's talk about Nebraska and Josh,
• 53:19
  another of your supposed favorite teams at Auburn. Curious, guys, Josh,
• 53:24
  really quickly, what's the major outlook on this series this weekend?
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: I'd say for Auburn, they just have to get hit
• 53:34
  with rison scoring position. It's been the number one issue
• 53:37
  so far. It seems the pitching, the rotation on the
• 53:39
  weekend has looked really good to this point. Besides the
• 53:42
  first inning for Jackson Sanders's past Saturday. I think it's
• 53:46
  just can you have timely hitting? And I mean for
• 53:49
  Nebraska it's that team goes as the offense goes. To
• 53:52
  this point, it seems like, I mean like they've had
• 53:56
  two guys betting over four hundred right now, and whenever
• 53:59
  they win games, it's or sorry whenever they lose games
• 54:01
  because the offense goes Nowhere. Tya Horn and Gavin Belhovitch
• 54:04
  looked really good in the Friday and Sunday spots. Can
• 54:07
  they continue to follow through against an Auburn offense have
• 54:10
  been super inconsistent. If you're gonna pick off a couple
• 54:12
  of wins, those are probably the days you're gonna do it,
• 54:14
  because even though Carson Yasa has potential like high upside,
• 54:18
  I think Friday and Sunday there's been more proven guys
• 54:21
  at this point of the year, and that's where you
• 54:22
  take advantage of Auburn. If they're not getting that time
• 54:24
  with hitting.
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: I think so too, Josh. We will ask you to
• 54:28
  go ahead and make your official pick then for Nebraska Auburn series.
• 54:31
  Speaker 3: I will I will take Auburn, no matter what I
• 54:34
  said on the reaction pod, I don't think the upset's happening.
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: What oh my god, JB, who you got in that one?
• 54:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll also be falling up and taking Auburn. I mean,
• 54:45
  they played really really well this past weekend, so I'll
• 54:49
  take them again.
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: Very good, Jake, what are you thinking for that one?
• 54:53
  Auburn or Nebraska.
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: I'm also gonna go Auburn. I think. I think we
• 54:58
  finally got to see and a kind of the potential
• 55:01
  that that Auburn could play at long term last weekend.
• 55:04
  And I think, you know, if they can just repeat
• 55:07
  what they did last weekend, then we'll see them win again.
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: Very good. Another sweep. Say it ain't so, Say it
• 55:14
  ain't so God, say it ain't so. All right, JB,
• 55:18
  We're gonna have you run us through another non series, well,
• 55:22
  another non event series as Clemson in South Carolina, another
• 55:26
  storied rivalry from the old pal Meadows State. I'm curious man,
• 55:30
  walk us through the major storyline of this historic Matcham.
• 55:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think Clemson's look really good so far. I
• 55:37
  think the biggest story will be South Carolina. Honestly, I
• 55:40
  think it's kind of been their struggles and their struggles
• 55:43
  against non powerful opponents. I mean, they play it against
• 55:47
  some fairly okay schools like Queens and Army Northern Kentucky.
• 55:53
  They've dropped three games there between that, and you know,
• 55:57
  they haven't really been tested against a good opponent yet,
• 55:59
  like a high end of opponent, and Clemson will be
• 56:01
  their first one, and I know the rivalry is probably
• 56:03
  gonna bring something out of them, But I think Clemson
• 56:06
  is a much better prepared team to face this series
• 56:09
  in South Carolina right now. So I think it's honestly
• 56:11
  just a kind of rundown of what the South Carolina
• 56:15
  teams gonna look like for the year in SEC play
• 56:18
  word all right?
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: Uh so, JB will ask you to go ahead and
• 56:22
  pick first, then Clemson or South Carolina.
• 56:24
  Speaker 4: Tick Clemson. I think there's just a lot more prepared
• 56:27
  for a series like this.
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: Okay, cool, Jake will go to you, what are you
• 56:30
  thinking for that one?
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: Uh? Yeah, I'm also going Clemson for the same reasons
• 56:37
  that JB mentioned. I think they're just a better team.
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: Okay, cool, Josh, your thought I.
• 56:43
  Speaker 3: Was like Clemson. I mean the offensives have been really
• 56:46
  well rounded so far. South Carolina starting pitching has ben solid,
• 56:51
  but they just can't put together full game efforts. I
• 56:54
  think it's a pretty cut and dry pick, although I
• 56:56
  will mention my guy Aidan Cannock have to put in
• 56:59
  some propaganda. The changes is that I love so much
• 57:02
  sixty six percent with right on the year so far,
• 57:04
  Just throwing that out there. I just need people to
• 57:06
  know that sixty six I'm pushing my agendas as much
• 57:11
  as possible.
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: Well, since we're pushing agendas, I'll just say one more time.
• 57:15
  I don't think people are talking enough about kJ Scooby,
• 57:17
  Uh talented player, but I think we're gonna have another
• 57:19
  sweep on our handskins Clemson. It is for me as well, Uh, Jake,
• 57:25
  We're gonna go to you going back to one of
• 57:26
  the event type games here when we're talking about the
• 57:29
  Frisco College Baseball Classic, looking at four teams here Oregon State, Alabama, Houston,
• 57:37
  and Iowa. I don't think I'm wrong Jake and saying
• 57:40
  that this is a bizarre group of teams odd group
• 57:42
  of teams I'm gonna make for some really bizarre but
• 57:46
  compelling baseball. I would say, what's the big storyline there?
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: You think, yeah, I mean, you're right, this is a
• 57:54
  this is a weird grouping of teams to meet in
• 57:57
  to meet in one specific tournament. But like I guess
• 58:01
  the storyline is, Like we've talked about the offensive woes
• 58:05
  of Oregon State, we talked about that last episode. Alabama
• 58:09
  hasn't just been we already talked about them earlier in
• 58:11
  the episode as well. They haven't been just set in
• 58:13
  the world on fire with their offense. Like I don't know,
• 58:17
  I think it's gonna it's gonna come down to which team,
• 58:20
  which team hits I don't think. I mean, I think
• 58:23
  I like Oregon State's pitching. If there's a if there's
• 58:25
  a massive strength, I think that's the obvious one of
• 58:28
  any of these four teams. But it's gonna be it's
• 58:31
  gonna come down to which to which offense gets going
• 58:34
  out of these four teams.
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: I think, interesting, Okay, Jake, well then I'll let you
• 58:38
  lead off. Who's gonna take the Frisco College Baseball Classic.
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: I think I am gonna go Oregon State. I mean,
• 58:46
  I have to think that you have to think that
• 58:48
  their that their offense is gonna get going at some point,
• 58:51
  Like I know, they haven't really given us much hope
• 58:53
  to start the season yet, but like they're they're They're
• 58:56
  pitching has been too good for them to not back
• 58:58
  it up for any kind of offense. So I'm gonna
• 59:00
  go oork In State.
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: Very good, Josh Frisco Classic, Where do you think of pal.
• 59:06
  Speaker 3: Same kind of concept as Jake? Honestly, one thing I'm
• 59:11
  interested to see this is like very specific. But on
• 59:13
  that Friday, Tyler Fay and Tyler Greeran of Iowa and
• 59:17
  Alabama are going to be facing off, and they both
• 59:20
  had rough starts of the year. Tyler Fay is an
• 59:23
  eight three to one with a seven H seven FIP.
• 59:25
  Tyler Gueran has a sick I mean a nine ERA
• 59:28
  with only two strikeouts, two slow starts. Those offenses are
• 59:32
  not good enough, or at least I think the Iowa
• 59:35
  offense isn't good enough to like really really pound Tyler
• 59:38
  fag I think he has a chance to maybe bounced
• 59:40
  back off of that. I'll be curious to see how
• 59:42
  that looks as a whole. I probably will go with
• 59:44
  Oregon State. For as bad as that offense has been,
• 59:47
  the pitching is also that good or if not better.
• 59:51
  I mean, they're they're gonna strike you out. That rotation
• 59:53
  is gonna strike you out. Dax Whitney has a fifty
• 59:55
  percent strikeout rate this year, Ethan Kleinschman is a forty
• 59:59
  five percent strikeout right, Ericson Guerrez is twenty nine. Like
• 1:00:03
  they've been doing it all year to this point. And
• 1:00:05
  whereas Alabama's had a solid offense, Houston's has been all right,
• 1:00:09
  I was not so much. I think they're gonna be
• 1:00:12
  able to keep that up and that's gonna be the
• 1:00:14
  force that pushes them through and be able to win
• 1:00:16
  at least, you know, two games handily without all three.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: Interesting, Okay, JB looking at the Frisco Classic, what what
• 1:00:22
  direction are you leaning?
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah? I would love the Beavers so far, and I've
• 1:00:28
  always wanted to take them, and now I feel like
• 1:00:34
  they let me down enough, especially offensively, which guides me
• 1:00:37
  to not want to just sweep this series out. And
• 1:00:40
  after Josh kinda went in the opposite direction, I'm going
• 1:00:44
  to probably take Iowa I think is going to be
• 1:00:46
  my pick for this set. Just from the draw standpoint.
• 1:00:52
  They get to play Oregon State last, which means that
• 1:00:54
  they will not have to face Kleinschmidt or Whitney, and
• 1:00:58
  I would prefer or Houston, but them facing Dax Whitney
• 1:01:02
  makes me believe that that's a tough win on a
• 1:01:04
  Friday night. So I'm gonna go with Iowa just to
• 1:01:08
  be different than everybody else.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: So I have the same thought, but not I feel
• 1:01:13
  like in my lean here, I'll just go ahead and
• 1:01:15
  say I'm gonna I'm gonna also take over your time.
• 1:01:17
  I'm gonna go Houston. But I think I'm gonna take
• 1:01:19
  them on the virtue of I think we can chalk up.
• 1:01:23
  Friday is likely lost, like there's really no other way
• 1:01:26
  around it, But what if Saturday and Sunday we can
• 1:01:29
  pull this together? Because Houston has been inoffensive. That's my
• 1:01:32
  favorite word for them this year and all of my
• 1:01:35
  Big twelve is that they've been inoffensive. I like their
• 1:01:40
  pitching as much as Alabama's. I like their offense and
• 1:01:43
  more than Oregon States. I just I don't know I
• 1:01:49
  and part of me wants to take Alabama here. I'll
• 1:01:52
  take Houston. I'll take Houston. I think this is gonna
• 1:01:55
  be a crapshoot, though, guys, I really don't know what's
• 1:01:57
  gonna come out of that for that group of four teams.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 3: So i'll, i'll, I'm not saying I disagree, but do
• 1:02:02
  you remember a couple of podcasts ago or a couple
• 1:02:04
  of weeks ago, the last time we talked about an
• 1:02:06
  Oregon State matchup and we said, and I quote, you
• 1:02:09
  can chalk up that Friday game as a loss.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: It's actually so true.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 3: And then they won. This exact thing has happened before.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: What Josh, Hey, okay, there you go. Uh speaking of Josh,
• 1:02:23
  I'll let you walk us through the last individual two
• 1:02:26
  team series. We've got your favorite team, Southern Miss and
• 1:02:29
  Louisiana Tech. What's the what's the story there?
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 3: We gotta stop putting Southern Miss on this, like we
• 1:02:34
  gotta stop talking about them.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: When they when they stopped playing, well, we'll stop.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 3: Putting on you fair enough, honestly, I mean, the offense
• 1:02:41
  speaks for itself. We've talked enough. They haven't put up
• 1:02:43
  like huge run totals in each game, but they've picked
• 1:02:48
  up what they needed to do or they don't what
• 1:02:50
  they need to do in big spots picked it up
• 1:02:52
  when they needed to. The starting pitching a hass to
• 1:02:55
  get it together though. I mean Kolbe Allen has a
• 1:02:57
  two seven o e r A but aosing betting average
• 1:03:00
  allowed of a three forty two, so he's just getting
• 1:03:03
  himself out of tough spots honestly. Yeah. I mean Graydon
• 1:03:06
  Harris is the three seventy five era with a three
• 1:03:08
  twenty four betting average allowed. McCarty English only struck out
• 1:03:12
  four guys compared to walking six. Not great looks. They've
• 1:03:15
  got to keep that or they got to get that
• 1:03:17
  together to keep up with the Louisiana Tech offense that
• 1:03:20
  has some guys at the top that have looked pretty good.
• 1:03:22
  Kolbe Lunsford has been on a tear. He's betting four
• 1:03:25
  fifty five with a fifteen thirty eight ops and four
• 1:03:27
  home runs this year. That's crazy stuff early in the year.
• 1:03:31
  I mean, starting pitching has been awesome for them. All
• 1:03:33
  their pitchers have so are Those starting pitchers have eras
• 1:03:36
  below two right now, So I think it's gonna be
• 1:03:38
  a way better matchup than people think about on paper.
• 1:03:41
  With how good Southern Misses looked and going to Louisiana Tech.
• 1:03:44
  That's an extra wrinkle on that too.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: That's a good point. Did not consider that. But yeah,
• 1:03:50
  it's gonna be an interesting matchup, and I was glad
• 1:03:52
  to see you through in the depth there about what
• 1:03:54
  Louisiana Tech has done this year, and we weren't strictly propaganda.
• 1:03:57
  Who's your pick, though, Homer? Who what are you thinking here?
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 3: Do you think?
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's go on, Jake, What's you're picking this one?
• 1:04:04
  Southern Miss or Louisianattack.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: Look, man, we've we've heard Josh talk about Southern miss
• 1:04:10
  so many times in so many episodes so far this year,
• 1:04:14
  Like they're going down to Louisiana Tack, They're going down
• 1:04:16
  to rust in Louisiana. You know, the folks get rowdy
• 1:04:19
  down there, just like they do at Southern Miss. I
• 1:04:21
  think I think Southern miss Is gonna get get a
• 1:04:24
  taste of their own medicine with that hostile environment. So
• 1:04:26
  give me Louisiana Tack.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: What Wow? I love it. I love it one and one.
• 1:04:34
  What's the thought here?
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 4: Well? You know, as much as I hate to do it,
• 1:04:42
  I'm gonna have to go with Josh and Southern Miss.
• 1:04:44
  You know, I think that they're gonna they're gonna go
• 1:04:47
  down the train and just they're gonna get business done.
• 1:04:50
  So I gotta stick with them. As much as it
• 1:04:52
  pains me to go along with Josh and his new fandom,
• 1:04:54
  I have to do.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 3: Sorry, that part wasn't necessary. By the way, you didn't
• 1:04:59
  have to throw that in there.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: That part was not necessary. Stops. That's funny. Uh okay, Jake.
• 1:05:06
  I want to be with the unlousing attack because you're right,
• 1:05:09
  Rusting's gonna get crazy. But I just Southern Miss has
• 1:05:13
  looked very solid. I just I can't go against me.
• 1:05:15
  I'm gonna go Southern Miss. But I respect what you're
• 1:05:17
  doing here, Jake. You've got you've got some swings on
• 1:05:21
  this board.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: I like what you now. You said you wanted to
• 1:05:24
  go with me on and you left me.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: I'm really sorry.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 4: I'm really a lot of points this week.
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: It's really though, this is a this is actually kind
• 1:05:35
  of playing out well for you, Jake, if you get
• 1:05:37
  if you're we'll see how that plays out. Finally, Bruce
• 1:05:41
  Bolt College Classic, will Bruce Bolt be there? We'll find out.
• 1:05:46
  I guess they're gonna be there in some regard, are
• 1:05:48
  they not? Uh huh, there's gonna be gloves giving out
• 1:05:51
  and the team's available. Texas, Coastal, Carolina, OL, miss UT,
• 1:05:57
  San Antonio, Baylor, and Ohio State. Deceptively interesting teams here, guys.
• 1:06:05
  Lots of loaded stuff here, JB. We're gonna start with
• 1:06:08
  you looking at this crop of teams, what stands out
• 1:06:12
  as being the most interesting story of the weekend?
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 4: I mean, I guess, following up what we talked about earlier,
• 1:06:18
  who does Coastal trot out there to the mound for
• 1:06:20
  three games this weekend to take on this big test?
• 1:06:24
  I mean, it will be very interesting to see what
• 1:06:26
  they trot out there would be the first thing, and
• 1:06:28
  then seeing if UTSA can continue the hot streak. I
• 1:06:31
  guess for me it'd be the second thing.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: Absolutely all right, Josh, any any major thoughts about this one?
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, I have thoughts on probably each of
• 1:06:41
  these teams for very different reasons, but I mean I
• 1:06:43
  think the big ones probably I'll stick with Texas. I'll
• 1:06:49
  stick at the top. I mean, like the top of
• 1:06:50
  this lineup just isn't striking out at all. Besides, like
• 1:06:53
  Carson Tine, like Ethan Mendoza, eleven percent strikeout right like
• 1:06:57
  other guys like a Rods like nine percent, like you
• 1:06:59
  go across the board, You're not striking these guys out.
• 1:07:02
  And not a lot of these other teams have pictures
• 1:07:04
  with the putout stuff and the put away stuff to
• 1:07:07
  like really change that narrative at all. Hunter Elliott hasn't
• 1:07:13
  looked like he didn't look like himself last week like
• 1:07:14
  typical he and four and two thirds, He allowed four
• 1:07:17
  and runs on four hits, six walks. So I mean, well,
• 1:07:21
  they don't match up against each other, but point stands,
• 1:07:24
  I think Texas probably has the best chance to follow
• 1:07:29
  through and when this thing, solely because they get coastal
• 1:07:31
  with that depleted lineup. Baylor and Ohio State are the
• 1:07:34
  clear cut two worst teams in this I think. I
• 1:07:38
  think it just plays out really well for them, especially
• 1:07:40
  as dominant as that pitching staff has looked all year.
• 1:07:42
  I mean, all the pitchers in the rotation of a
• 1:07:44
  sub two era already, that's probably gonna keep up with
• 1:07:47
  the way those other offenses I've looked that they're gonna
• 1:07:49
  be playing against.
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: I think so, Jake, your thoughts looking at the Bruce
• 1:07:53
  Bolt Classic, any anything standing out particularly to you.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I do. I do really like Texas for all
• 1:08:01
  the reasons that Josh just mentioned, but I do want
• 1:08:03
  to I do want to kind of shout out ole Miss.
• 1:08:05
  I mean, they're they're playing, they're playing really good ball
• 1:08:08
  right now, like they're undefeated, but I mean they haven't
• 1:08:10
  played any like power opponents yet, but they've played some
• 1:08:13
  really solid mid major teams in Nevada, Missouri State, and
• 1:08:17
  Arkansas State, who we just talked about. Knockoff Arkansas this
• 1:08:19
  past midweek. Like Ole Miss they got they got four
• 1:08:23
  huge bats in the lineup with Colin Ruder, Tristan bassetto
• 1:08:27
  Will Furness, jud Utermark who has six homers already on
• 1:08:32
  the mound. Josh just mentioned Hunter Elliott kind of got
• 1:08:34
  hit around a little bit against Missouri State in his
• 1:08:37
  last start, but Will Libert, Kye Townsend I have made
• 1:08:40
  back to back really nice starts to start their season,
• 1:08:43
  and I mean Ole Miss has been fun to track,
• 1:08:45
  and you know, with a big weekend at this event,
• 1:08:47
  they could set themselves up pretty nicely going forward.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: I think that that's a good point. Jake jb. We
• 1:08:54
  will start with you, who's gonna take the Bruce Boult
• 1:08:56
  College Classic.
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 4: Like Josh was talking about, just from drawing strength of talent.
• 1:09:02
  Texas For me, Josh, they're.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 3: My Presea is the number one team that my preseason
• 1:09:08
  Natty pick. That pitching is just too good. I'll take Texas, Jake, what.
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: Are you thinking?
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: I'm I'm also going Texas. It's it was a you know,
• 1:09:18
  pretty easy pick for me. I like the matchups, I
• 1:09:21
  like the team. I'm going to Texas.
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: I really like what what Lee Ellis is doing right
• 1:09:27
  now in Ohio State. We had we didn't really talk
• 1:09:29
  about him. He's really really hitting the ball well. Seeing
• 1:09:31
  it well one more time.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 3: Seven stolen bases.
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: I should have hit the clap sound effect. Jeez, Okay whatever,
• 1:09:43
  seven solar bases is accurate. Though Baylor relatively inoffensive, less
• 1:09:48
  so than Houston U T s A. Obviously, I rode
• 1:09:51
  with them. Uh got a big win there. I really
• 1:09:54
  wanted to pick them Coastal really what I'm sorry, that's
• 1:09:58
  what number that wouldn't a old miss is what I
• 1:10:01
  wanted to take here. But when today I looked at
• 1:10:03
  the scheduling, Texas is just it's so boring to take
• 1:10:08
  Texas here, guys, to complete the suite, but I think
• 1:10:10
  I have to. I think I have to. I will
• 1:10:13
  say my heart is gonna go with Ole Miss though,
• 1:10:17
  bring going Texas, heart going Ole Miss. So that's going
• 1:10:20
  to conclude weekend. Pick them, We'll see how it goes.
• 1:10:24
  I mean, obviously Sunday night we will be recording to
• 1:10:27
  UH to fill us all in and see what the
• 1:10:30
  word is on on how we done this week? Really quick,
• 1:10:36
  just one one answer, Jake, if you had to pick
• 1:10:39
  one series, one of these events that you could be
• 1:10:42
  at every game every day, what would it be.
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 2: I think like just like one of the series, not
• 1:10:50
  not events.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the event. Excuse me, I'm sorry, the event.
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 2: So one of the one of the events. It's the
• 1:10:56
  one of the events.
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: I apologize.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 2: The the Energy Bank, the UCLA, Missippi State, Tennessee, A
• 1:11:02
  and M. It's just so many good teams.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: Jb any disagreement there.
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 4: I mean to be different. Honestly, just my personal opinion,
• 1:11:12
  I'd want to watch Florida Miami. I think it's just
• 1:11:14
  like such a heated rivalry. It's so awesome to get
• 1:11:17
  to watch. I'd probably choose that, especially with the talent
• 1:11:19
  this year.
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: Josh. Let's say hypothetically that somebody offers you tickets to
• 1:11:23
  weekends at two of your favorite colleges. Which one would
• 1:11:27
  you be the one to choose? Where would you pick
• 1:11:28
  another another series.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 3: For no for similar reasons, I'm going to actually take
• 1:11:34
  one that's probably not gonna be as competitive of a series.
• 1:11:37
  I'll say Clemson South Carolina because I have a very
• 1:11:40
  close friend up there that it's like, diehard Clempson baseball
• 1:11:43
  fan has been for years and has talked about how
• 1:11:46
  intense that rivalry is and how into it those fans
• 1:11:49
  get every single year, And I just kind of want
• 1:11:51
  to experience it for once and see what it's truly like.
• 1:11:53
  I'll get there at some point in my life, I'm convinced,
• 1:11:56
  but I've heard so much about it, like I just
• 1:11:58
  want to actually see it once.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: I think you will. I think I would be as
• 1:12:04
  well as Jake. I think at the mGy Bank series
• 1:12:06
  is going to be absolutely insane, but just surrounded off
• 1:12:08
  with a different pick. Let me go to Frisco. Let
• 1:12:11
  me see this freak show coretet of teams. Just the'll
• 1:12:15
  bludget each other and we'll see what happens at the
• 1:12:17
  end of right awesome. Another great episode of College Baseball.
• 1:12:21
  Now you've heard our picks, we want to know yours.
• 1:12:23
  Drop them in the comments below, leave a five star
• 1:12:26
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• 1:12:35
  doing that, JB. Tell the folks what you're working on
• 1:12:38
  and where they can find you on social media in
• 1:12:40
  between our episodes.
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's at JB Underscorse Topastiano on Twitter and kind
• 1:12:45
  of the same old deal. Going to some games, see
• 1:12:47
  some stuff about it and that'll be it.
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: Very good, mister Catlett, Where can they find you? What
• 1:12:51
  are you working on?
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 3: You can find me on Twitter at Josh Catlet three,
• 1:12:56
  Same old, same will pretty much. I don't know how
• 1:12:57
  much new is going to be in the next few days,
• 1:13:00
  just tweeting out stuff, but yeah, catch me there for
• 1:13:03
  other content at other times.
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: Other content other times. Very good, coach, very very vague,
• 1:13:11
  but hey, that's the way to keep it, buddy. You
• 1:13:12
  don't ever want to disappoint coach. Jake. Where can they
• 1:13:15
  find you between episodes? What are you working on?
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 2: You can follow me on Twitter at Jake Barge. There
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  is still, like I've been saying for weeks now, snow
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  on the ground. It's cold. We're supposed to be getting
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  more snow tomorrow. I think like it's just it's never
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  gonna go away. Hopefully it does go away at some point,
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  but I'm gonna be getting out to the ball field
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  as soon as possible.
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  Speaker 1: What are we looking at for Arcadia coming up? Anything? Good?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? We had well, we had our our our game
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  this week got canceled due to the weather. But we're
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  going down to Salisbury, Maryland for a game this weekend.
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  So it's a good team down there. It'll be fun.
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  You're gonna have some crab, some lobster if I'm If
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  I'm lucky, they'll get us some crab for for or
• 1:14:00
  the hotel meal. Maybe.
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  Speaker 1: All right, well that sounds great. You'll have to fill
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  us in on that. And if you want to follow
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  me for whatever reason between our episodes, you may do
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  so on the Twitter Machine, on Instagram, on Blue Sky
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  at Drew is okay. Right now, we are, of course
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  working on the College Daily Sheet. If you like college
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  you can do so for us little seven dollars a month,
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  where you can get all of the daily sheets that
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  we release four times a week. It's a ton of
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  updates on college baseball's best and brightest performers from the day,
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  across all of your major conferences and mid majors. It's
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  great stuff. The team is working hard and until next time,
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  we will tell you guys that we'll see you later.
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  Hope you're gonna tune in for some baseball this weekend,
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  because like we said, there's gonna be some bangers. Can't
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  wait to see what happens, And until next time, we'll
• 1:14:46
  see you later. Bye.