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3 Guys Before The Game - WVU Baseball Omaha Bound (Episode 720) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  Speaker 1: Hey there, welcome one and all. This is three Guys
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  Speaker 1: Before the Game. We step away from our summer series
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  Speaker 1: It's episode seven to twenty and it is WVU Baseball
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  Speaker 1: Omaha Bound. Who would have thought I mean who, I'll
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  Speaker 1: tell you who would have thought it? In January on
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  Speaker 1: this set, that man, that man laid the seeds down
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  Speaker 1: for a trip to Omaha because he went to the
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  Speaker 1: baseball banquet and he came back and he was bouncy.
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  Speaker 1: He said, they're not talking about just Big twelve championship,
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  Speaker 1: They're talking College World Series.
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  Speaker 2: True.
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  Speaker 1: provider for all mountaineers, including you. All right, so let's
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  Speaker 1: jump in. How about it fellas last time we got together,
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  Speaker 1: the mountaineer were getting ready to host the super Regional,
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  Speaker 1: and they did, and the kel Polys came in and
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  Speaker 1: the cal Poly's left, and it wasn't a great time
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  Speaker 1: to be a cal Poly wherever you may be. In
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  Speaker 1: one of the most dominating performances really in NCAA super
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  Speaker 1: Regional history, you could say it, or did you.
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  Speaker 2: Do the research?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, well, third most runs in a super
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  Speaker 3: Regional in history twenty twelve twenty four Florida State were
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  Speaker 3: the only two that scored more in the first two
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  Speaker 3: games of a super regional. So okay, there, I did
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  Speaker 3: the research for him. But he was his point romains it.
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  Speaker 1: Thank goodness, somebody val research. Twenty nine to three would
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  Speaker 1: be the final score.
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  Speaker 3: Twenty nine to three, Yeah, twenty nine to three.
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  Speaker 1: I'd say it's probably the most one of the most
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  Speaker 1: dominating performances in super Regional history. So there was so
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  Speaker 1: much to break down here, and we're recording on Tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: We leave tomorrow Wednesday, and guess what, We're not going
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  Speaker 1: on vacation. We're going to Omaha. Baby. Why are we
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  Speaker 1: going to Omaha? Because we want to be with you.
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  Speaker 1: We want to be with Mountaineer Nation. For those of
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  Speaker 1: you that are going, we want to just run into
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  Speaker 1: the street with you and just chat with you. And
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  Speaker 1: for those of you that are unable to go, we
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  Speaker 1: will do programming from there. We'll record shows while we're there.
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  Speaker 1: So we're planning right now definitely do another Three Guys
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  Speaker 1: on Thursday, once we get our feet on the ground tomorrow,
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  Speaker 1: which is Wednesday. And for those of you that want
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  Speaker 1: to keep up to date, now would probably be the
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  Speaker 1: best time just to subscribe so you get a notification
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  Speaker 1: that we've got a new episode out there. For those
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  Speaker 1: of you that are going to be there, we're just
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  Speaker 1: going to be kind of bumbling around. If you follow
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  Speaker 1: us on social media, we'll let you know where we're
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  Speaker 1: going to be. But I don't want to speak out
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  Speaker 1: of turn because I've never done that. I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to I don't want to over promise because I've never
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  Speaker 1: done that. So I'm going to turn it on you guys.
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  Speaker 1: So smarty Sammy, safe guy. So what can we say
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  Speaker 1: as to what we're going to do.
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  Speaker 3: We'll be available in Omaha.
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  Speaker 1: But like let It Fly as the bar where things
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  Speaker 1: are going to happen.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and we'll be working in conjunction with Golden Blue
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  Speaker 3: Enterprises in the Mountain Athletic Club. They're going to host
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  Speaker 3: some pregame events on Friday and Sunday. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if that stuff's out yet, but it's coming. They're putting
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  Speaker 3: the final touches on that information. We'll be a part
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  Speaker 3: of that at Let It Fly on Friday and hopefully Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: We've got to do some logistical work there. But yes,
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  Speaker 3: we'll be out there for sure for those two and
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  Speaker 3: then might be some other pop up opportunities where we
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  Speaker 3: are we hope to see people.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So let It Fly is the name of the place.
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  Speaker 1: We hear great things about it, and we're looking forward there.
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  Speaker 1: So basically we're going in on a recon mission tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: So soon as we put feet on the ground in Omaha,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna get in there. We've already got contacts made
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  Speaker 1: and then expect a show on Thursday in some form
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  Speaker 1: of fashion. Might even be video. I mean, we might
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  Speaker 1: even be able to take video on the road, just
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  Speaker 1: besides the audio. So we'll do that, and then just
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  Speaker 1: we're looking forward to running into people I've never been,
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  Speaker 1: never thought I would go, to be quite honest with you,
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  Speaker 1: to the College World Series. I mean, I didn't think
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  Speaker 1: who would have ever thought? You dream about it? But
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  Speaker 1: you don't know if it'll ever happen. It's so hard
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  Speaker 1: to do. I mean, ask you Cla how hard it
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  Speaker 1: is to do six losses in the regular.
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  Speaker 3: Season run down the last time some of these teams
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  Speaker 3: have won national championships, right, blue blood Texas, one of
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  Speaker 3: the blue bloods of baseball. It's like two thousand and
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  Speaker 3: five since last time they won a World's championship. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's hard to get here, it's even harder to win it.
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  Speaker 3: It's remarkable that you're here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So We're going to enjoy every bit of it
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  Speaker 1: and very much look forward to it.
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  Speaker 3: So coming up on, can we start with some storytime?
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  Speaker 3: Can we start here with some storytime? You said you've
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  Speaker 3: never been. I'm just going to tell you I've been twice.
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  Speaker 3: You have to this event first, I've heard of that.
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  Speaker 3: I've been here twice. So I grew up so Omaha
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  Speaker 3: sits right on the border of Nebraska and Iowa, so
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  Speaker 3: I grew up only an hour and a half from Omaha.
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  Speaker 3: You talk about des Moines, Yeah, West wins to be
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  Speaker 3: one of my few sports regrets of something that I
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  Speaker 3: wish I would have done more of an hour and
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  Speaker 3: a half. To me, when I was growing up, off
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  Speaker 3: was a long drive, so I only drove over there twice.
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  Speaker 3: Nineteen eighty and four went to my first college World Series.
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  Speaker 3: Pete and Cavillia and the Oklahoma State Cowboys were there,
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  Speaker 3: so I went back and looked up his numbers. I
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  Speaker 3: was telling Hobby because he was a masher, so the
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  Speaker 3: year in eighty four looked like it was his sophomore year.
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  Speaker 3: He had twenty nine home runs, like eighty five RBIs
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  Speaker 3: in a college season, played more games. Then went back
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  Speaker 3: I thought that that's crazy, but that doesn't sound like
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  Speaker 3: the big number that he put up the following year
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  Speaker 3: his junior year, forty eight home runs one hundred and
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  Speaker 3: five RBIs in a college season, crazy he mashed. So
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  Speaker 3: that was eighty four. I went back a second time,
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  Speaker 3: and it's a long time ago, ninety one, ninety two,
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  Speaker 3: ninety one three, somewhere in there. Drove over and watched
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  Speaker 3: it there, so I've been there twice. But that was
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  Speaker 3: an old Rosenblatt stadium, right, This isn't Charles Swab Stadium.
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  Speaker 3: So this is an event, guys, if you're of a
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  Speaker 3: certain age, of which I am, and you couldn't watch
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  Speaker 3: college sports as much as you can now where everything's available.
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  Speaker 3: When this event came on in the summertime, this was
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  Speaker 3: must see watch every inning of it. I can vividly
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  Speaker 3: remember watching Roger Clemens played for Texas in this. This
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  Speaker 3: was an all timer event for West Virginia to be
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  Speaker 3: going there and us to be able to be there
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  Speaker 3: and see this. Cannot wait to be there and walk
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  Speaker 3: into that building. An antillary tie to that story, Brody Crusher,
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  Speaker 3: Front of our program had him on just recently, so
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  Speaker 3: he's from Jessup, Iowa, which is another hour or so
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  Speaker 3: east from where I was from. So Brody on this
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  Speaker 3: program told us he had not been to a college
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  Speaker 3: World Series, that he wasn't going until he was a
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  Speaker 3: part of it.
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  Speaker 1: How about that?
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  Speaker 3: So just stop there. How ridiculous of a statement is
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  Speaker 3: that that you're not going until you play in it?
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  Speaker 3: And then you do, then you act actually get the
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  Speaker 3: opportunity to make that come true. So for Brody to
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  Speaker 3: be able to walk in so he was only two
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  Speaker 3: and a half hours or so from this stadium, to
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  Speaker 3: be able to walk back there and finish his career
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  Speaker 3: in Omaha, it's just unbelievable. It's a great storybook ending
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  Speaker 3: for a storybook career. Talk to his parents on Saturday
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  Speaker 3: after the cow poly win.
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  Speaker 1: Can you tell me you were from Des Moines?
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  Speaker 3: They knew we talked, and so I said to the dad,
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  Speaker 3: I said, this is awesome. The mister Cress, I said,
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  Speaker 3: this is great. This is the closest game you've had
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  Speaker 3: all year, And he said, yeah, it's so called. I
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  Speaker 3: might go to work in the morning and then I'll
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  Speaker 3: drive over to the stadium at the game in the afternoon.
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  Speaker 3: So congratulations to the Cresser's in particular that get to
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  Speaker 3: watch their son Brody finish his career not far from
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  Speaker 3: home at the mecca of college baseball, and Omaha. Pretty awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Happy. We're not ready to begin obvious observations, but you
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  Speaker 1: have any pre Abby, you know, in football, when they
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  Speaker 1: have practice, they have pre practice. That's a pre stretch.
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  Speaker 1: So this is your pre obvious observations.
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  Speaker 2: Well, your tweet and you mentioned reminded me of something
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  Speaker 2: I forgot, and that is I was at the leadoff
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  Speaker 2: banquet homeless night, at the leadoff banquet for the for
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  Speaker 2: the baseball team, I mean months ago before the season began,
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  Speaker 2: and at that time, obviously optimism is running very high
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  Speaker 2: and you meet all the players and coach Sabans gets
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  Speaker 2: up and he's talking about the great success they've had
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  Speaker 2: and how they're building and how that the goal is
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  Speaker 2: to go to omahall and I remember thinking, well, yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 2: I mean you set your goal high. But that's, as
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  Speaker 2: Brad said, that is very very hard to do. And
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  Speaker 2: I thought, well, I'll keep that in context. And here
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  Speaker 2: they are months later, and they're they're fulfilling what they
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  Speaker 2: set out to do. And Tony, you've covered sports a
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  Speaker 2: long time, and and teams always have goals, and typically
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  Speaker 2: they fall short of the goal because they set the
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  Speaker 2: goal too high or the bar too high. In this instance,
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  Speaker 2: just and you want to try to win the thing,
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  Speaker 2: but just getting to Omahall is reaching a very high
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  Speaker 2: goal that was set at the beginning of the season.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, think about this. The to put it in the
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  Speaker 1: pspeci among a bunch of different angles you could go.
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  Speaker 1: The fragile nature of what wv's baseball program just went
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  Speaker 1: through is scary when you think back upon it. It's
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  Speaker 1: like here, here's a car accident. Let's keep watching it
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  Speaker 1: on replay. How close were you to being eliminated in
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  Speaker 1: the regional round? Right? And I think that will always
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  Speaker 1: underscore how difficult it is to get to where you are.
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  Speaker 1: And again UCLA will always now become the poster child
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  Speaker 1: of how hard it is to advance in this tournament.
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  Speaker 1: A six lost regular season UCLA team gets beat hosting
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  Speaker 1: its regional. Okay, so everyone knows the West Virginia story
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  Speaker 1: how close they were to becoming eliminated, and you have
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  Speaker 1: that historic regional weekend, So it sets this scene up
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  Speaker 1: next that you are going to host your first ever
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  Speaker 1: Super Regional. Now I'm going to speak big picture here
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  Speaker 1: instead of just baseball program. But if you've been a
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  Speaker 1: Mountaineer fan through the years, right, and for me it's
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  Speaker 1: like forty three now forty three seasons coming up, how
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  Speaker 1: many times have we had a setup that we all
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  Speaker 1: get incredibly excited for In any sport it's happened, right,
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  Speaker 1: you go look at this setup and then ultimately what
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  Speaker 1: happens you get disappointed. You get disappointed. And we've talked
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  Speaker 1: about on this program so much about optimism and about
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  Speaker 1: the reality that sets in. Right, We've had big football
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  Speaker 1: games that we gear up where we talk about for months,
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  Speaker 1: like the Penn State football game, Right, they're that unbelievable
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  Speaker 1: build up. Or in basketball, we've had situations to go,
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  Speaker 1: it's ramping up, it's ramping and then like a pin
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  Speaker 1: popping your balloon. So let's face it, let's admit that,
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  Speaker 1: even going into the cal Poly series, somewhere in your
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  Speaker 1: psyche and somewhere in your soul, if you've been a
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  Speaker 1: long time Mountaineer fan, you went like you just kind
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  Speaker 1: of took a little deep breath. Okay, but we just
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  Speaker 1: can't screw this up.
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  Speaker 2: It's too good.
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  Speaker 1: So you play the game the first one and it
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  Speaker 1: becomes this, oh my gosh storybook, and I guarantee you
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  Speaker 1: that if you were there, or you're watching it or
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  Speaker 1: you're listening, you're going like, is this really happening? And
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  Speaker 1: then you come back the next day and you go, well,
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  Speaker 1: maybe cal Poly just had a bad day. Maybe the
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  Speaker 1: next guy that they put out there like maybe he'll
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  Speaker 1: twirl one, and all of a sudden, it's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: a three game series and instead what happens in absolute
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  Speaker 1: you couldn't script Disney movie happens, and you're like, you're
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  Speaker 1: pinching yourself, going like wait, a second home run, home run,
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  Speaker 1: home run, home run, home run, Like they just kept
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  Speaker 1: coming like as a video game. So to me, what
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  Speaker 1: it does is it does a couple of things. It
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  Speaker 1: proved and it shows that number one, West Virginia is
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  Speaker 1: not cursed. Good things can happen to West Virginia. And
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  Speaker 1: it's just part of the process when you try to
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  Speaker 1: play at the highest level that there is going to
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  Speaker 1: be at times, there are going to be missteps or
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  Speaker 1: side steps that until you ultimately get there, you fully
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  Speaker 1: appreciate it. So I was talking to Ross Hodge about
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  Speaker 1: this today. You have to be in the party in
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  Speaker 1: order to have good things happen to you, and sometimes
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  Speaker 1: they don't happen quickly. So for West Virginia's baseball program,
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  Speaker 1: what's it been. We suffered that horrific loss against Texas
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  Speaker 1: A and M when we saw a grand Slam home
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  Speaker 1: run go out of the ballpark. We suffered the loss
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  Speaker 1: at North Carolina two years ago super Regional. We saw
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  Speaker 1: the loss to LSU super Regional. You have to be
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  Speaker 1: able to knock on the door before finally you get
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  Speaker 1: admitted into the room, and good things have to happen
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  Speaker 1: for you that you have no control of.
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  Speaker 2: I e.
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  Speaker 1: U c l A losing. So you not only does
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  Speaker 1: u CLA lose, you get to host. And now, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, when you get to Omaha, you're still on
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  Speaker 1: that seed line, and so you end up playing the four, five,
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  Speaker 1: eight nine. It's like compound interest in an account, like
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  Speaker 1: you still keep reaping the benefit. So to put it
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  Speaker 1: all into perspective, like I couldn't be more thrilled for
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  Speaker 1: every single person involved in the program, but for Mountaineer Nation,
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  Speaker 1: because to be a mountaineer it hoppy. You often say this,
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  Speaker 1: right to be a mountaineer, you have to know suffering
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  Speaker 1: is to suffering, is to suffer. And finally this shows
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  Speaker 1: you like anything is possible.
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  Speaker 2: Well, what it gives you is there is suffering associated
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  Speaker 2: with it. Almost every sports season ends with a loss,
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  Speaker 2: and there's if you're vested, there's always going to be
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  Speaker 2: massive disappointment. But sometimes, but sometimes there is this, there's
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  Speaker 2: this incredible joy and like, for example, in these games
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  Speaker 2: at the end of the game, where the team and
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  Speaker 2: the staff and the coaches and the fans are all singing,
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  Speaker 2: Country Roads take everybody who's there and everybody watching, everybody listening,
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  Speaker 2: and at that moment, there's no other place anybody would
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  Speaker 2: rather be. Yep, they want to be right there because
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  Speaker 2: they're part of something that brings them great joy and
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  Speaker 2: that's the magic.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So I think it underscores too, and we forget this
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  Speaker 3: because you're living and dying with West Virginia's results. It
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  Speaker 3: further underscores how hard it is to get here. And
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  Speaker 3: there's not been a tournament champion. We talked about this
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  Speaker 3: more in basketball. How many times does the tournament champion
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  Speaker 3: have a close call? You were almost knocked out of
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  Speaker 3: the tournament, but you made a last second shot or
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  Speaker 3: the other team missed it, and you advance on. That's
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  Speaker 3: almost the story of every champion that goes through. You
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  Speaker 3: have to have one of those near misses with which
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  Speaker 3: West Virginia did in getting through that the other part,
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  Speaker 3: and you're right, I think as a sports fan your
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  Speaker 3: conditioned to like tight. Note if you back into the analysis, now,
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  Speaker 3: col Poly had zero shot all respect you bore buddies
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  Speaker 3: had no shot walking into this buzzsaw that was created
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  Speaker 3: from the regional and that's what this was. You could
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  Speaker 3: have brought a lot of teams in here, man, and
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  Speaker 3: you were not getting out of this place alive with
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  Speaker 3: a win. That that stadium was football esque, maybe even
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  Speaker 3: times two in smaller per capita numbers. It was unbelievable.
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  Speaker 3: And in the first inning of the game, when col
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  Speaker 3: Poly's pitcher gave it the glove over the ear while
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  Speaker 3: the crowd went into a Louder went up a couple
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  Speaker 3: of notches. I literally said to the person I was
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  Speaker 3: standing next to, done, done, you're what you can't that's football?
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  Speaker 3: As like Louder can't hear the signal has got to
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  Speaker 3: go hands. How often do you have you ever heard
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  Speaker 3: that around a baseball ever couldn't hear PitchCom ever heard
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  Speaker 3: and my man had to put it up there in
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  Speaker 3: order to hear it. But I was like, oh buddy,
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  Speaker 3: you put that up here. That is never going away.
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  Speaker 3: You're not getting out of your own head now. And
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  Speaker 3: credit the IQ of the baseball fans that elevated the
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  Speaker 3: noise and made it even harder. Right, So I'm with you.
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  Speaker 3: I thought, Saturday, okay, you're gonna get your best punch here.
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: They come in hindsight, never a chance. And that's no
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: reflection on cal Poly, who had a wonderful season. That
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: was what was going on here, and you weren't coming
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: into this place and knocking off West Virginia. The other
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: part that struck me is I was watching the end
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: of the game on Saturday, and you'd clinch to College
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: World Series and the Omaner signs were out and you're celebrating,
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: and it still doesn't even feel real that you're going
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: to Omaha. That probably happens, as I said, when you
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: get there. But I'm looking over at Country Roads and
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: I'm watching the cal Poly section and there wasn't one.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: There were a bunch of phones up filming the stadium
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: and the team doing country Roads and their folks couldn't
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: have said nicer things afterwards about the environment and the
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: crowd and how people treated them. Their play by play
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: guy said this should be a bucket list stadium for
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: sports fans, and baseball fans in particular. I mean, think
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: of some of that praise that's coming out. He's not wrong, right,
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: given how that was. But when the opponent is filming
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: what you do postgame, that's high cott man, that's stuff
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: that's reserved for the blue blood of the blue blood.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: And there's a visiting team coming in saying wow, look
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: at this. Right, So you entered This wasn't just a
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: couple of wins. This wasn't even just a super regional win.
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: This transcended a lot of different things. And we're in
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: a weird spot as Mountaineer fans, we are in a
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: weird spot. This is America's team. Now, this will not
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: surprise me. And I know Troy's got the underdog story
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: as well, and they had seven thousand in their part.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: They had a great scene going on down there as well.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: When West Virginia arrives in Omahon, there's always a team
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: that that fan base adapts. You're gonna have eighteen to
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: twenty thousand in there every night. It won't shock me
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: if that team is West Virginia. I mean, this team
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: has unlocked something nationally. We're not used to that. We're
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: used to complaining about the national narrative around West Virginia.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: It's the complete opposite. Right now, you are the darlings
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: of the college football or college baseball and sports world
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: right now.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: I think as a university and as an atholtic department,
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: we are at an inflection point. And the inflection point
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: I think you can go back and I wanted to
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: produce this in video. I'll just speel it now and
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: then maybe we'll do it in video later. But this
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: whole academic athletic year, there have been multiple moments that
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: define what West Virginia uses as its definition definition of
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: a fan base. One was the pit football game. Then
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: you can go to the women's basketball game at the Greenbrier.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Then you can go to Ross Hodge and his crew
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: multiple times coming back from double digit deficits. Then you
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: throw in the women's basketball postseason. Then you throw in
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: what baseball just did. And that's just five example, winning
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: winning Vegas that's five examples about the resilient come from
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: the perseverance. So we define ourselves. Now it's being put
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: on a national scale because of ESPN's coverage and continuing
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: to take Country Roads and people are seeing it. So
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: now you need to bottle that this is the distilled
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: This is the distilled formation of what West Virginia says
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: it is. Now you have to own it, and now
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: you have to continue to propagate it. The fact that
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Pat McAfee is behind home plate for you know, for
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Friday's game, Like now you need to absolutely put it
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: into a bottle and let everyone know this is who
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: we are. Don't try to be anyone, this is who
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: we are. And that will attract not only that will
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: attract student athletes to say they want to be part.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: Of Okay, now go further because yes, that's one thousand
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: percent correct, and that will happen on the athletic side.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: On the university side, it's already happening. So part of
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: the investment from the board and the university with the
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: additional scholarships and all that was to help with student attraction. Well,
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: you don't think that NBC News feature around Country Roads
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: isn't already being mailed to perspectives, email to prospective students.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: Here's what this is about. This right now is a
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: great example. We'll see the numbers grow. There's no doubt
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: they're going to grow. This is a great example of
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: what athletics folks always say. And President Benson in this board,
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: get that that. This is how you let athletics work
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: for the larger university. This last couple of weeks is
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: exactly what you take and you're right on a larger picture.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: But these last two weeks in particular is how you
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: now attract more students to your university. And yes, you'll
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: get more athletes and it'll help recruiting, but this was
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: a this is a university moment too, not just athletics.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Numbercent three guys before the game, Hoppy's obvious observations are
• 21:44
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• 21:46
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• 22:58
  Speaker 2: It's gone something that's overly there. So some of the
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: things we've already talked about. The first obvious thing is
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: this is fun you know what's not sitting here. We're
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: not sitting here going well, if you can just the other,
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: if we can just do this and maybe if you
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: get a break here that can happen. And Brad, you
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: know they're favored, but gosh, if a couple things go away,
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: you're not talking about that. You are not You're having fun, yes,
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: which is what it which is a nut, which is nice.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: That's number one. Number two is I thought the Regional
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: and Super Regional were excellent prep because the Kentucky game,
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: you had that kind of game where you were behind,
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: had the dramatic come from behind. You showed you can
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: come from behind and you know, from the loser's bracket
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: and come behind in the ninth inning. So you had
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: that kind of a game. Then you had the game
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: where you just like crushed it. So you had both
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: ends of the of the spectrum there. So you shouldn't
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: be going to Omahall with great confidence.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: You should because of both.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Because of both of those things. Lots of heroes and
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: Brad you'll probably talk about a lot of those, but
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: a couple of things stood out to me. Greg Carey
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: reported WU had twenty seven home runs in their first
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: forty one games. They hit thirteen in the regional and
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Super Regional, so they had the long ball in those
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: games at least one home run in every game but one.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: Gavin Kelly what hit four?
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: I mean he had.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: Four something like that. Yeah, and you you got you
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: got work from your stars. But the bottom of the
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: lineup stood out right like Lumsden were just like who
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: would only played in eleven games, just had like a career,
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: just was crushing it. Tyers Hall was big and.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: You know him at all bread I did a great kid.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: You know him?
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know him too well?
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Know you ever give him a ride?
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: Go ahead?
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: So those I mean you're eight nine guys. You know
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: you got a lot of production from them. So that
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: was I thought that was cool. I know we're going
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: to talk more about Troy on Thursday. I'll just say
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: one thing in my brief research so far is that
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: if you don't follow college baseball, and I just started
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: about about a week ago, but that you might say, oh, Troy,
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: they're from a mid major and this fluke no, that
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: the Sun Belt is a good baseball conference a B.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: Troy started slowly this season and then got hot. They
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: got hot, and they came out of a region had
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: Florida and beat Florida. They have one of the rising
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: stars in coaching in Skylar Mead who when he got
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: there four years ago. The last three seasons they've won
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: at least thirty seven games, and he's he's seen as
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: this this pitching whisperer that he's really good at developing pictures.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: So they're they're the real deal. And Brad, you may
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: talk I don't know if you want to talk about
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Jay Borolf or not.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: Jabe Ruth as they're calling.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: It, Jabe Ruth, who's on an incredible hot streak.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: Yes, I have some Jabe Ruth numbers. He's there. Ben Lumpston, Yeah,
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: he's much during the regular season. He's had a great postseason.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: It's it's a it's a pretty good parallel to what
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: Ben's doing.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: So it's we'll talk more about this Thursday. It makes
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: for a fascinating a matchup because you have I think
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: West Virginia now you say, is an established national power
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: with a coach and coaching staff that's recognized as one
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: of the best in the nation, versus a Troy that
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: maybe is just a click behind, that is on the
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: come they're right there and busting through. They're not a fluke.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: They're right there. So it's it makes for a fascinating matchup.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: So and I don't know if you want to get
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: into the Swordsby thing yet, you want to wait for Sorsby.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: We can wait for Soorsby. Let's see baseball.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: They play in the league that's produced a World's champion
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: in Coastal Carolina. So it's good baseball. And I asked
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Brad if you'd ever given Tyros Hall, if you knew
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Tyro's Hall. So Tyres Hall needed. Everyone celebrates Brad. This
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: is the Brad Lewis Music City Bowl story. Brad Lewis
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: wins the Music City Bowl MVP and does a bunch
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: of interviews after it. Right ye through, like what two
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: hundred touchdowns to Antonio Brown and the Music City Bowl
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: down Neelands last game, and then the team left, Brad
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: needed a ride home. Sid guys drove him back to
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: the hotel. Similar situation this weekend, like Tyras are doing
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: so many interviews, like he ended up needing to ride home.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: Senator put his uber sticker up, put his little thing
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: that says red stet uber sticker that picked him up,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: just drove him home.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: Can you do sure? It's team effort?
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: How loose was he on his home run on Saturday
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: when he like I was watching and he smiled at
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: the play like he's at in the box and he
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: has like this big smile.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: He's he's the smiliest player I've ever seen. What a
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: what a just having a great time, loves it here
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: in West Virginia. I was so happy to see him.
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: He's as good a defensive field or forget position as
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: you've had. But how about how about him? He's playing third?
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: He's only played third like twice in his whole career
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: a couple of games, like literally a couple of games.
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: There is a shortstop which every seemingly everybody on West
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: Virginia's team is a shortstop, which is not a bad approach, right,
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: Recruit shortstops, then put him elsewhere. Tyrs Hall has been fantastic,
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: and then the bats coming along with him. I'll get
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: to some numbers and spreads on SATs.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Here all right, really super quick, because we almost before
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: we started recording, almost got into a fist fight here
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: about the Sowsby situation at Texas Tech. Not going to
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: spend a lot of time on it. We could do
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: a whole show on it. I'm not going to speak
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: for these guys, but I'm going to speak for these guys.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: No you're not.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: I say that the Big Twelve has the opportunity to
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: shut down Texas Tech and center them and say no,
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: you're not going to use them. These guys disagree, that's all.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: That's all you as usually you didn't. You didn't put
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: the argument forth. It's not do they have the opportunity.
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: The opportunity exists, and they're going to talk about it.
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: That's a long way from actually being able to do it,
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: and it's interesting to me. Guys. Here's all I'm going
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: to say on this is, I don't know why I'm
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: still stunned at things that happen in this industry. I
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: don't know why I am. This one is if there
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: was ever a direct, fluorescent bright line that everybody lines
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: up on one side of it, it's betting on your
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: own team. And I'm a guy I've done a sports
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: betting podcast, right, I'm as liberal as it comes in
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: that stuff. When you line it up that you bet
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: on your own team. The fact that that's not a
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: suspension for at least a year. I don't know who
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: disagrees with that other than this judge and soars beying
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: a couple people around Texas Tech. It would seem to
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: be black and white. So a couple just big picture
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: things here. The fact that that wasn't held up. I know,
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: we joke a lot. There are no rules. I don't
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: know how you can say anymore that there are rules
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: when that one's not a rule anymore. Number one and
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: number two, guys, here's the thing, Tony, I would watch this.
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: I would watch this. The fact that the two most
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: vocal folks around this are the Georgia Athletic director and
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: president and Nebraska, neither of which have to play Texas Tech.
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: So you can come out in their position and take
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: that stance and say you set the memo with all
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: your teams and said we're not playing Texas Tech. And
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: there's really no repercussions for that because you're not playing, okay,
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: So you can take that stance. The line that concerned
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: me a little bit more is the Georgia president coming
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: out and saying, see, we thought that we should govern ourselves,
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: we should be governing ourselves, and play it out further.
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: If you're gonna pull a breakaway move, You're gonna be
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: the villains. You're the bad guys in college sports. There's
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: way more people that aren't breaking away with you. They're
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: gonna be pissed off than people that are going with you.
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: They needed a lightning rod if you're truly trying to
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: break away, they needed a lightning rod to help people
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: on their side and the way. So many non Big
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: twelve schools jumped in on this with public proclamations that WHOA,
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: what do you do when you're breaking rules? That's a
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: little bit concerning if they're gonna try and move that
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: you're using this as a way to say that particular
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: group of schools is not doing it like we want
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: to do it. So to on your side of if
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: you're the Big twelve and you're gonna be able to
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: find a way to get consensus among Big twelve presidents
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: to do something and try and do some sort of censure,
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: I think it would be in Matt Vein. You've got
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: to be really careful here that they're not a couple
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: conferences aren't lining up against and using this as the
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: lightning rod to do it and make you look like
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: you're the good guys like, oh, well, we got to breakaway.
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: I mean, they're not. They're what they're doing. They're ruining
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: college sports.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: Of all leagues, of all leagues.
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: But that was a little bit of a concern. When
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: I saw that Georgia president immediately hop on the well
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: you're not fou we should govern ourselves. I thought, hold on, here,
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: that's what I'll say.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we know that. I think that's a really is
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: twute observation I got to. I've followed this very closely.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: I think it's fascinating on a couple different levels. One
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: is that Brad, as you said, there is a rule.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: It's not like there's well it's kind of no. There's
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: a rule. You can't you can't bet on college if
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: you're an athlete, you can't do it, especially if it's
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: your own team. And he's bet on Indiana like forty
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: times when he was in Indiana, So there's that there's
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: no discrepancy in the rule itself. That's the first thing.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: The second thing is that you got a temporary injunction
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: here by a judge who ruled in He's not from
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: Lubbock County, but he was the other judge recused himself.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: Ruled in Lubbock County, Okay, where Texas Tech is located.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: So what's the lesson there is, like, we know, just
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: get a judge in your hometown to rule in your favor.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: That's number one. That's number two. The other thing is
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: that there is a and we will probably argue about this,
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: is there is a bill that's being considered in Congress
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: that a lot of people don't like, but a lot
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: of people do that would do a lot of things
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: to try to bring some standardization to college sports. And
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: one of the things that it would do it would
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: give limited anti a limited anti trust exemption to the NCAA.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: So you so the NCAA can enforce its rules established
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: by law. Now, there would be some exceptions, but you
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: couldn't attack a rule as saying that it's a restraint
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: of trade, which is what's happening here. Your argument is, well,
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: you're interfering with Soresby's ability to make a living, to
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: make money. Well, if this bill became law, that would
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: not be a way to attack the law. Number one
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: and number two. My answer to that is, yes, you
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: are interfering with his ability to make money in college
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: football because he broke a primary rule in college football,
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: and actions have consequences.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Leave it at that. We could talk about it for
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: a long time, but you're exactly right.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: Oh, okay, I'll stop.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: You're exactly right, one hundred percent. We know where we stand.
• 33:47
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  Speaker 3: at the at the stadium, so he was taking in
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  Speaker 3: the games. What were you gonna ask me?
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Is he going to Omaha?
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm talked in this week.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Probably probably, Yeah. You think there'll be any Mountaineer fans
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: in Omaha? Do you think there will be any here
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  Speaker 1: where you just gonna walk around the street and the
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  Speaker 1: other seven schools or just see there's stuff that we
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  Speaker 1: won't see anything like, no one will come up to
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  Speaker 3: Would think western and be well representable.
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  Speaker 2: There a couple you'll know. You'll know that they are there.
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  Speaker 3: Well, listen, based on the based on the number of
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  Speaker 3: people I had my Daniel shift this morning, yeah, based
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  Speaker 3: work today, Yeah, well Tuesday, based on the number of
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  Speaker 3: people that were coming in to buy gear and walking
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  Speaker 3: out with armloads. They'll be going out there, which, by
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: the way, he's got a lot of new stuff.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: I don't know how he does this. So I have
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  Speaker 3: a shift every week.
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  Speaker 2: Huh.
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: I'm there every week Tuesday, and it's always new stuff
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: coming out. He's got like this, four or five new
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  Speaker 3: shirts out there.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: Now, will we be wearing any of the new material
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  Speaker 2: while we're in Omaha? Yes, Okay, that's why I was.
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  Speaker 3: At the end of my shift, I made sure I
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  Speaker 3: shopped for Thank you both of you, for.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: Those of you that watch this and you see, sometimes
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: I look down because I've got things going on here.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: I'm looking at copy, I'm looking at my phone, just
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: received a text mess Because it's a fluid it's a
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• 37:35
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  Speaker 1: who are a partner with Golden Blue Enterprises. This was
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  Speaker 1: even before they made it to the stake, Omaha Steaks
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  Speaker 1: guys when we get there. Yeah, product and gift certificates.
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: You're gonna say product because I'm a big Omaha Stakes user.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but not but not just for us. So for
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: for you that are there, we should have some certificates.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: So maybe what we'll do is we'll do some contests
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  Speaker 3: It Fly events on France. Yeah, yeah, and we'll.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: Do like maybe we'll have like a whiffleball toss, like
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  Speaker 1: who can put them into the bucket, that kind of stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and maybe have some certificates that we'll give away for
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  Speaker 2: Love it.
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  Speaker 1: Shout out to Omaha Steaks. They're made in Omaha.
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: I like Oma Steaks made at any rate. A lot
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: of people coming in buying stuff they're headed to Omaha
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  Speaker 3: can also shop online, Daniel's w store open, what's that Motown?
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  Speaker 3: Daniels morgantowon dons of Morgantown dot com.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know if it was Daniels and we're also.
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  Speaker 3: Google things now just Daniels Men's storing, it'll come up.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: I didn't know if it was Daniels of Morgantown dot Phil,
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  Speaker 1: but it's dot com.
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: But Phil, is there three tape measures on this morning?
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: He went three?
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: I mean it was busy. I'm telling you when it's busy,
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: I dressed two mannequins, did some folding, and we got
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: some of the new gear.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: Out, a lot of pins. He had a lot of pins, and.
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: But I have not seen three tape measures.
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: He went three.
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: Well, guys in there needing pants. There's a couple of
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: suit jackets or sport coats bought and great sports. But
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: his new West Virginy stuff, I'm just telling you, is elite.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: So well. When we had Michael Hawkins on and we're
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: delaying the Michael Hawkins episode with the baseball going on,
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: but next week we'll drop Michael Hawkins, the Mountaineer quarterback,
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: he was full out.
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: Peter Malar, Yeah, he's big Peter mlar guy.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: And that's what Daniels I mean, Phil, Yeah, that's what
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: he outfitted him. Yes, he loves it, he says soft well.
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: And then I met Michael later that day. We were
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: over at Phil's doing a little looking around in there,
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: so you could see the st Yeah he's in. Speaking
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: of clothes, by the way, remind me of I tell
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: you something of Michael Hawkins afterwards. It's not for the
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: show yet, but when I'm efforting something with the Hawkins crew.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: When does our show stort?
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: Which one?
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: We're talking now, this production meeting, it's not this inting
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: on the.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: Air speaking the new clothes. I was over Mountaineer basketball
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: and you know, practices started, not actual practice workouts workout there.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: These are the they call them individual workouts, but they
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: take the guards and then they take the bigs and
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: they come out at separate times and they work. They
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: do stuff just the just the very it's the it's
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: the embryonic stage of putting your team together. They've got
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: new duds. Now Phil isn't in charge of that, he's not,
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: but they got some. They got a gold practice short
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: now with the Star City w VU logo on the
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: butt and pockets. You don't have to see the pocket,
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: but it's it's summer, right, It's summer because you got
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: your car keys and things like that. So a couple
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: of things. Number one that the new the new practice
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: gear pops. That's one two. Again, this is the embryonic
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: stage of starting to put the team together. I'm just
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: going to give you a really super general observation. To
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: no surprise. They're long, They're long and can move. They're
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: long and fluid. The bigs are fluid. That's all.
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: Okay, good story, more to come.
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: Do you know how basic it starts off at?
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: Do you know how you know? No, go ahead, I'm
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: just going to give you one thing I said. I
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: said to Ross because the coach, I mean, the assistants
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: are handling this and Ross just kind of, you know, observes. Yes,
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: I said, what's the very very because I thought last year,
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: and I've said it many many times, it was the
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: most connected team that I've ever seen. No drama, no
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: bs off the floor, on the floor, they were just tight,
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: and it showed the ability to come back from double
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: digit deficits. It's the amiliity they just persevered. I said,
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: what's the very because I think that's his magic. Among
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: many things, that's one of the things. So what's the
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: very first thing, he says. Yeah, obviously one of the
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: things you start doing is connectivity, right, connectivity, Like to
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: the point where they're going through drills, does a player
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: dap up another player when he gets to mid court
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: and he's sitting there and he's observing that, he said,
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: because they have been since the season ended, it's been
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: all about them individually. Where's their deal, what school are
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: they going to? They're working out by themselves, like they're
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: in their own little thing. Now you have to let
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: them know they are now in a new family and
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: everyone is here to support them. And so it literally
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: starts off with dapping up, whether it's a student manager,
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: whether it's Sean, whether it's another player, Like, does he
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: dap him up? And he's just watching that? And that's
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: how I mean, the minuscule, little teeny thing like that
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: is that how it starts, and then how it builds.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: So you get to the point when you go on
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: that floor and it just grows.
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: Now it'll move from just observing it to telling him
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: that's what they do. And if you walk by somebody
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: and don't dap run. That's true. I mean it'll be like,
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: see that would be good for us, like you walk
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: by you dap high five.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: See, it wouldn't be what It would not have been
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: good for him in his heyday because he self describes
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: as a loof and distant. Yeah, so he wouldn't be down.
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: You're not a loof and distance and then you can't.
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: Carry handgel with you in the layup line, Hoppy, so
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: you would not be you'd be you constantly.
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: There is no you gave some you gave some fascinating insight.
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: There's no need to attack me based on that.
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: That's actually true too.
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: I said, I want to see how many people when
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: we get to Omaha that come up to us, because
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: all three of us will be together and go like,
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: you're too hard on Hoppy.
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: I'm self actualized. It doesn't bother me.
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: Okay, sure, all right? Did you play the music already?
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: We've been talking so long with filibusters.
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he plays it good.
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: So the first number I have is what we talked about.
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: I just can't get over the total domination of cal
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: Poly twenty nine to three. As we mentioned, thirty three
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: hits in the two games, fifteen walks. That's forty eight
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: just right there, eleven stolen bases, seven home runs. Just
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: an absolute amazing performance by this baseball team. You mentioned
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: Ben Lumpston again, we'll go down in the record books.
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: It's remarkable that he's westered in his all time postseason
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: RBI leader for a guy that didn't play a lot
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: during the regular season. Here's the stat d one Baseball
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: had this. Ben had sixteen total bases in the regular season,
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: so you get four for a home run, three for
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: a triple, two for a double, had sixteen total bases,
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: he had nine on Saturday against cal poly Z. Seven
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: game postseason hitting streak for him ten of twenty three
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: four to thirty five average combined in the Regional and
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: Super for your number eight hitter. So you go further
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: the bottom of that lineup. In the two games of
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: the Super Regional seven eight nine Kresser, Lumpston hall twelve
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: of twenty four five hundred fifteen RBIs in two games.
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: So let's never mind the ridiculous numbers Armani put up,
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: or what Guzman did, or what shown with all of them.
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: You can go all down the list of as you said,
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: the stars were out Sean Smith with a big home
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: run to give you the lead early in game one.
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: If seven eight nine is going to drive in fifteen,
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: you're done. You're just You're just done. I'm sorry, cal Poly,
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: you got no shot. The offense was so good and
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: elite and ridiculous that we're really not even talking much
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: about Chance and Cole and max Eale And for the
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: second straight week you talk about how is Mountaineer Fenser.
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: You're always kind of holding your bread, like are we okay?
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: Here?
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: Second straight clinching game in the Regional and then in
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: the Super and I this just doesn't happen hop the
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: second straight time when that when the advancement is on
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: the line and the guy that's due up for you
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: to pitch is the big twelve pitcher of the year.
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: Like normally you're like, all right, we're scrapping through here,
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: We're we're hamming egging this thing. Who do you got?
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: That's two elimination or advancement games in a row where
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: Maxiale has been available to pitch and gone out and
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: again we went out five four hits, one run, Yeah,
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: I mean seven seven pitches. So you can get back
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: and rest that arm. A little further and get ready
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: for Omaha. Just it's just remarkable how everything came together
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: and how you and again, weird things happen in baseball.
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: Scores get lopsided. You don't see it often in the
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: super regional. We saw one earlier this season that so
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: many people lost their mind about. It was it was
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: a one off game, and you rather not lose like
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: that to a big rival. I understand that weird stuff
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: happens in baseball, and westfor didn't to just return that
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: favor in a super to get onto the college world serial.
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: You wish you could have banked some of that right,
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: simply remarkable.
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: Fourteen runs ago, Okay, hang.
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: On, hey, I'm going to take five of these with
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: me to push five in on the next.
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: I think Guzman is still on base. He was on
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: base the whole like the whole time.
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: I compared him on on sports Line to like an
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: elite shot blocker. From from this perspective, when you're an
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: elite shot blocker, it's impressive if you get three blocks
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: a game, that's awesome, and you had a game where
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: you had seven, But how many shots do you alter
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: and how many times do you dribble into the lane
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: and spin back out because you don't want to challenge
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: the shot blocker. That's Guzman, his Guzman. His stolen base
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: numbers are ridiculous. He tied Victor Scott for the single
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: season lead. He'll break that the first time he gets
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: on base in Omah like best of Lectroit, whomever going,
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: and you're not gonna throw him out. So he's on base,
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: and you know, the the raw stolen base numbers are elite.
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: The disruption he causes when he's out there and you
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: got to throw over the first two times before you
• 47:23
  Speaker 3: make a pitch, and he knows you're gonna throw over
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: the first two times. And now if you've thrown over
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: two times, now he's gonna take a little bit more
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: lead and his foot's gonna be on the green grass,
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: and you know he's going, and I know he's going,
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: and everybody knows he's going. And again cal Poly was
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: the latest victim. You got no chance. I mean, you
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: go ahead and throw down and work on your throat.
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: You're not gonna throw him out. And then he's on
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: second and he's dancing and you're worried about him.
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: So now you got you got a guy on third
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: and the guy on third's going and he's leading the youth.
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: Do you throw it down? Do you not throw it down?
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: Do you just eat it? What are you gonna do?
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: Point? He had one on Saturday where he was three
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: quarters of the way down the third baseline. I thought
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: he was stealing home and he's slamming the bikes on
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: with Sean Smith up and I thought, oh my god,
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: he's good. He's gonna steal them right here. The disruption
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: he causes, and therefore the reason he's in the one
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: slot is because now Gavin Kelly's behind him, and you
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: can't screw around with Gavin Kelly, and you're going to
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: see better pitches because you got him dancing all around
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: out there. It's just it's remarkable. So the number of
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: things he affects like a great shot blocker is really staggering.
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: College World Series RPI numbers. Where does West Virginia stack up?
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: And this is again it's a really good field the RPI.
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: These are RPIs entering the NCAA tournament, so it doesn't
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: take into regional and super. These are RPIs entering Carolina four,
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: Texas five, Alabama six, Georgia seven, Ole, Miss sixteen, West
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: Virginia seventeen, Oklahoma twenty four, and Troy thirty five. So
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: everybody's top thirty five RPI. West Virginia's side of the bracket,
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: the average RPI is eighteen. The RPI on the other
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: side ten and a half. So again, every team's tough
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: at this stage. Troy included, certainly, but you've got a
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: little bit at least from analytics.
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: It's a good draw.
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: It's a good draw, and go take your swings in
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: your chances here. So that's one. Let's look at Okay,
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna give you. So this was I mentioned earlier
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: how hard this is to win national championships. This is
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: from College Baseball Hub. This is the most recent year
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: of a national title. For the eight teams that are
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: in Omaha, West Virginia, North Carolina, and Alabama have never
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: been there. Caroline has been to thirteen College World Series
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: and not one one, so there's three teams that have
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: never won. Troy won a World's championship, but it was
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: Division two in nineteen eighty seven, so they haven't won.
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: Half of your field has never won. Ole Miss the
• 49:40
  Speaker 3: most recent in twenty twenty two. Texas has every available
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: thing you would want.
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: All the money in the World Series.
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: Blue Blood of the blue blood they can get. They
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: should probably win it every other year at least. I
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: think if you're Texas, you're probably underachieving if you don't
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: win it every other year. If you're Texas, because what
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: don't you have? Hopey, what don't you have?
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: You got everything?
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: Got everything you want? So they should probably win it
• 50:03
  Speaker 3: every other year. Have a get not won it since
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: O five? Since five, guyoneers, two decades since Texas has
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: won one. Oklahoma, What do they need? What are they
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: looking for? Right? They left to go to the SEC
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: because they needed more money. They got more money. What
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: do they need? What do they want for? Last time
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: they won a world championship in baseball? Nineteen ninety four? Wow, Georgia?
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: What does Georgia need? What's Georgia one great recruiting weather? Right?
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: What do you what do you need? Nineteen ninety the
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: last time Georgia won a baseball World's championship. This is
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: hard and you're in you're in rarefied air here, guys.
• 50:42
  Speaker 3: This is hard to win these things.
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: It is I remember being at Kansas's basketball practice facility
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: when you're in West Virginia was getting ready to play them,
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: and you go into their practice gym and they have
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: their their championship banners up there, and you look at
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: it and you go, man, there's like these huge gaps.
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: They're a multinational chair, but you just you see how
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: hard it is knowing who they are and there's just
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: massive gaps between you. It's just so and people might
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: get tight. It's so freaking hard. It's like winning a lottery.
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: Man, and the margin of errors slim as we saw
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: in this region. All right, last thing, Rob Anderson is
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: a media The side at Creyton does a wonderful job
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: with some numbers around these College World Series. But this
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: is so here's one. Eight of the last twelve Men's
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: College World Series champions have been first time champs.
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: Say that again.
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: Eight of the last twelve Men's College World Series champions
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: have been first time champions.
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: That's good.
• 51:41
  Speaker 3: West Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama, and Troy would be your
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: first time champions there. Eight of twelve have done that.
• 51:48
  Speaker 3: Ole miss and Georgia one title each in their history.
• 51:50
  Speaker 3: Oklahoma two Texas six titles in their history, which is
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: a lot, but again, given how many years they've played baseball.
• 51:56
  Speaker 3: It doesn't seem like it's enough. All right, I'll give
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: you another one if you want to niche it down.
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: I should probably say this for Thursday, but we're rolling,
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: so let's go. How important is it to stay out
• 52:06
  Speaker 3: of that loser's bracket if you.
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: Can probably want to win the first one?
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: You say, Forty of the last forty four Men's College
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: World Series champions won their first game in Omaha. Forty
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: of forty four. Again this from Rob Anderson. Wonderful status here.
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: Thirty three of the last thirty five champions have won
• 52:23
  Speaker 3: their second game in Omaha, and twenty nine of the
• 52:27
  Speaker 3: last thirty five have started two and zero. So winning
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: early is important. So we'll talk more about that on Thursday.
• 52:33
  Speaker 3: But there's some history and historic numbers for you.
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: Good stuff. Yeah, so we're going to record again on Thursday.
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: We'll drop another episode Thursday, and we'll break down, excuse me,
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: more of Troy in detail coming up, t actual healing.
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: There's some incredible there's some incredible West Virginia connection stories.
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: Guy hit me with one this morning that just damn
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: near Florida. Damn near Florida.
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: After all these years, you're still.
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: I'm shocked by it's a weird it's a weird one.
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: It's like Thomas Jefferson, Yeah, exactly.
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: Thomas Jefferson once said, it's a great night. Three guys
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• 53:44
  Speaker 2: Hey Brad, you mentioned Victor Scott. You see you got
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: sent down to Memphis. Hey, yeah, a little little retrack
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: he'll be back up. Yeah'll be a little little retrack
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: on that.
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: All right. So it's time for textual healing and again
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: these West Virginia can necks and things, honest, make they
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: make me giggle, Make me giggle, I tell you, they
• 54:04
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• 54:51
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• 54:58
  Speaker 1: Would did you drop your contact lens? What do you
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: got there?
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: Gift unconfirmed? McAfee may be there Friday.
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he is doing a show you. He's on the
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: roof of Blat. There's a bar called Blats. He's on
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: the roof from eleven until one. Okay, ten to one,
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: eleven to one, whatever it is.
• 55:20
  Speaker 3: Okay, So you want to do your gift and I
• 55:22
  Speaker 3: forget to open them.
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: Okay, we'll do the gift. Here we go. First off,
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: by the way, just not the three of us are going.
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: If you're going to run into us. Homeless, Dave's coming
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: with us, yeah, which is awesome. So here you go homeless.
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: Dave was recently on his real job and I'm want
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: to put up that picture there Jake of homeless, and
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: there you go. So here's the West Virginia connection. Homeless
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: was working in Santa Barbara, California, which is a little
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: bit it's a little distance away from Montgelia County. And
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: right there he said, I always knew Laurie Wetzel, whose
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: family is from Baker in Hardy County, West Virginia. But
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: also these are people that he works with. There's Abby Hog,
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: Clarksburg native WVU grad now eight years working for UGG.
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: Her dad is Tim Hogue, who's best buddies with our
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: buddy Jed Drenning in the pharmaceutical sales business both legalized
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: drug dealers and the best edition of the week. Ava
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: a recent graduate of Washington State University and a new
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: UGG hire. I asked Ava if she was much of
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: a sports fan, and she says yeah, as a matter
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: of fact, big interest in volleyball. She immediately said, wait,
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: Jen Greeney turns out that Ava had TACOA high school
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: science teacher, Andy Stinson who's volleyball coach Jen Greene's brother
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: in a graduating class of thirteen students well versed with
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: Jen and WVU volleyball. The population of Tacoa is eight hundred.
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: My goodness, So there you go.
• 57:03
  Speaker 3: Why wouldn't that be the case?
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: Of course it is.
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: Hey, let me tell you football fans put that graphic
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: up if you would, Jake, We're inviting you to a
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: free football clinic if you are the ages.
• 57:14
  Speaker 3: Of kindergarten through eight.
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: Kindergarten through eighth grade. Diversified Energy in conjunction with Golden
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: Blue Enterprises is hosting a free youth football camp on
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: July nine from nine in the morning until one in
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: the afternoon, and Mountaineer football players will be the camp counselors.
• 57:34
  Speaker 3: Fun time.
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: So if you have one from kindergarten through eighth grade,
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: youth football camp at Mylin Pushcar Stadium July nine, nine
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: to one. Thanks to Diversified Energy and Golden Blue Enterprises.
• 57:46
  Speaker 3: They put a lot of players out there too. That's
• 57:48
  Speaker 3: a really fun fun camp to attend real quick. While
• 57:51
  Speaker 3: you're on that same thing, another Diversified Energy free camp
• 57:54
  Speaker 3: with Golden Blue Enterprises, Yeah you got July thirteen, so
• 57:58
  Speaker 3: just a couple of days later, but this one at
• 58:00
  Speaker 3: Herbert Hoover High School. I was just down in that
• 58:02
  Speaker 3: area Hoppy for the state softball tournament. Down that went
• 58:05
  Speaker 3: right by Hoover High School. Yeah, that's open kindergarten to
• 58:08
  Speaker 3: eighth grade. Is what's Puly thirteenth? Oh, I'm sorry, girl soccer.
• 58:12
  Speaker 3: It's a girls youth soccer camp at Herbert Hoover High
• 58:15
  Speaker 3: School coming up on July thirteenth, nine to noon. So
• 58:18
  Speaker 3: more information on that available on the three Guys social channels.
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: Texter thanks to Versified, Thank you, Diverse fight energy, Tony.
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: We bumped into We bumped into you guys. Walking into
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: one of the games. I mentioned Kentucky's series record. They
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: lived up to it this weekend against US. Met Paul
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: Schoenfeld and his family after the last game. Super kiddin
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: family got my head autographed. Shout out by the way
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: to Blue and Gold Graphics. Called them from the Atlanta
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: airport and I put an order in form my MGK
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: machine Gun Kelly T shirt, so he ordered it. Gets
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: to Morgantown. There's the T shirt machine Gun Gavin Kelly
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: and all so got his hat autographed as well kind
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: of nice. Sean and Raleigh, frequent listener watcher says, I
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: think I've watched that Country Roads video around five hundred times.
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: That's the text Texter John and Morgantown. I wanted to
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: share our this is Is this the one? Yeah, this
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: is unbelievable. Watch this one, guys, this is chronological John
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: from Morgantown here, I wanted to share our special memory
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: that accompanied an unforgettable couple of weekends here in town.
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: My wife and I recently moved back to West Virginia
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: to start a family and to be close to ours.
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: Our baby was due first baby June seventh, and like
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: most first time parents, we were anxious at home and
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: needed a good reason to get out of the house.
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: A couple of tickets open up. Tickets open up, and
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: my wife felt up to getting out of the house
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: to head to the Sunday evening game against Kentucky. After
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: a movie like ending on Sunday and mom and baby
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: doing well, we decided to attend Monday's regional founal. So
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: there she is. She he's in the stands, and that
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: you can see right there she's expecting yes at this game.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: Fellow mountaineers city nearby were helping come up with a
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: birth plan at Kendrick Family Ballpark. If my wife, they're
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: helping her, if she wanted to go into labor. These
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: people next to them were giving name suggestions. They were
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: suggesting Armani, Gavin and Tyrs. Now fast forward to hours
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: before the super Regional on Saturday, and guess what we
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: got to meet our baby boy at nine to thirty.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: A m awesome picture of the baby. There's the dual.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: He went from in the stands. He went from in
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: the stands to wear in his first mountaineer gear. He
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: must have thought the audio sounded good at the Kentucky
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: game on Saturday and Monday, wanted to see what all
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: the excitement was about, and so he showed up for
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: the super Regional. He's there, Giovannin, Giovanni Geo. Anthony Martino
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: was born and we are enjoying every moment. We'll be
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: cheering on the mount near nation's newest member. He is
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: now a perfect four and oh as a WVU fan
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: two and oh at the games and then the womb
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: two and oh for all of us, how about that dude,
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: congratulation in the stands and then he's born.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 3: Welcome aboard Geo.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: He's the dude.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 2: That's awesome. It's great.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: Braden from Morgantown by the way, a hurricane, longtime listener,
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: first time I've texted. Great to meet with you again
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: and Brad. On our way into the game Saturday, we're
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: talked about how my dad and I watched game one
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: of the Soupers from our annual family vacation in the
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: Outer Banks as a static. As we were watching the
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: last few mountain near wins on TV. We're kicking ourselves
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: now being there. As soon as game one ended, we said,
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: that's it. We decided to pack the truck up a
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: day early get home for game two. Got home around
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: one in the morning. Eight hours later, we're at the park.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: Credit to my mother for sacrificing her last day on
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: the beach to allow us to witness history. Hashtag Africa.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: There they are.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 3: I know. That was awesome. Met him on the back
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 3: gate there, entering there in line. Jumped out, told me
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 3: that story there. Hoped that they hustled back from the
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 3: beach to be there. So good to see you guys.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: He said, you said, wouldn't it be nice to get
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: through this stress free for once. It truly was, but
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: I'm ready to sweat again for Omaha, let's go.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: That was nice that you had such a big lead.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: You didn't have to be all text.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 3: It wasn't. It was an enjoyable two days at the park.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: In fact, they were scoring so many runs that in
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: an inning, if they just scored a run, the fans.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: Were like, oh, just air, just a one run, no
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: crooked number. I'm not happy, guys. It's George from Mingo County, Brad.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: I feel we got disrespected with the sixteen seed is
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: hosting a super regional and the ultimate ball don't lie. Yeah,
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: probably we'll take it. Texter. I've been reflecting on this
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: past weekend. It's crazy where we have come from with
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: the program in a relatively short time. Steve Savans has
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: proven to be an amazing hire. Randy Mayzy made sure
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: of that because of how good of a coach he is.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: I really hope that Randy is put into the Hall
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: of Fame soon. He took this program from where it
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: was a bad program and to get rid of the
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: baseball program to where we are today because it was
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: so bad when he was hired. As to where we
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: are it's truly amazing what he did for the program,
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: contribution he has provided for our beloved university. So there
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: you go. Yeah, it's unbelievable. It's just simply unbelievable. My
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: last one, let's go in Green. Oh yeah, watch this
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: guy writes in my last one, Let's go in Greenbouw
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: guy had a kerch of al that could not have
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: tasted good. I mean that it's been old, that's old beer, hoppy.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: I bet it still has you think so.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: I don't want to get ahead of myself because I
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: never do.
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: No, you never do.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: I'm hear in some Rombeens kerch of ail.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: Maybe coming back for I can ask about it all
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: the time.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: Maybe coming back for a limited run in the fall.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 2: I do get asked about it.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: That was a good beer.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: It was good, It was good. It was refreshing.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: Texter, big Tony from Daniels. What a run for our team.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: You can sum it up in one word, teamwork. It's
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: beautiful to watch, Texter. How much is Omaha the Omaha
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: run gonna cost Ren in contracts for the baseball staff, Well,
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: I'd say at least another twenty thirty bucks.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: When you Ren was I guess it was Friday. I
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 2: was in the radio booth with Junior and watching how's Junior?
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: How's Junior? Did he stand up? Or is he said?
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: What's he doing?
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: He stands up? He stands up. He's got paper, he's
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: got a computer, He's got about three things going.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: But he goes, he goes phone, computers.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 2: He just he does. He does a nice job. And
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 2: Wren was there sitting right between the two announcement.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: He wedged himself in between Jake and Andrew.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: And he gets into it. Oh, yeah, he's involved.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: You think we put Junior on three guys when we
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: get down there in Omaha? Absolutely, probably we gat probably
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: pretty good insight.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: Wall Well, I mean he's been with the team all year.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: I think he would know everything about the team.
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: Speaking of the director of our athletics. Next text, I
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: got a Ren Baker at Alfredo's in Somersville. He may
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: be on to something. Uh, there's another that hideous, hideous
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: pasta with Elfredo.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 3: I celebrated with some Renfredo up at Cafe al of
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 3: Aias after the the College World Trace Clinching went. Had
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 3: a big group there in the back room. Patrick took
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 3: care of us. Yeah, Renfredo's.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: It was good.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 2: That was good.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 3: Texter Fellas had Renfredo last night as a send off
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 3: meal to Oma who did the team Well.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: You hate it? What now?
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: The whole team where they yeah, at your house, at
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: my house, all of areas, but.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 3: All of areas delivered.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: It edrin Fredo's.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: They brought Alfredo and chicken and palm.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 3: They had Renfredo.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: So they're out there. No tomorrow tomorrow, Well that's when
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: we leave.
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 3: Anyway. It's catching fire. Go order a Renfredo.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: Roger here in Bluefield two years ago, we watched Armani
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: Guzman play for the Bluefield Ridge Runners during the summer.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: Tony was great seeing you at the caravan at Glade Springs.
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  Speaker 1: This is Roger, folks. He is the absolute ultimate mountaineer
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  Speaker 1: and at the Glades Springs caravan they honored him the
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  Speaker 1: trophy he's holding for his dedicated years of support and
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  Speaker 1: also had a picture made that night me and him
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  Speaker 1: and coach Rocks headball coach head Baucus. Roger is just
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  Speaker 1: the best Mountaineers fan. Thank you, good to see you.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: Roger Ben from Youngstown, Ohio. Rights, is it fair to
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: say this baseball run has ignited, ignited this fan base
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  Speaker 1: in a way we haven't seen since the Orange Bowl win. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: probably close, Yeah, I thinks pretty much. Yeah, Texter, it's
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  Speaker 1: not getting just to Omaha, but doing it at home.
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  Speaker 1: Back to back weekends, come from behind, dramatic wins against Kentucky,
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  Speaker 1: Randy's Ridge, ESPN showing Country Roads not cutting it out,
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: talking over raccoon guy, how about that guy? It came
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: down with the raycoon crazy That was the best ever.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: And the fact that this team is just a bunch
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: of guys that are easy to get behind made this
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: run incredible. And with Chance and Cole and Max Yale
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: and a hot lineup, we got a chance to make
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: noise in Omaha. Also Pat White retirement with Pat McAfee
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: present and the shot of Pat getting choked up with
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: Rich crying behind him, and then Rich and McAfee slugging
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: beers on ESPN to Friday. What a time.
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we haven't mentioned that, but Pet retiring Pet White's
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 2: jersey something.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: We'll get into that once we get in football.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah yea hey, real quick too. I also think I
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 3: suppressure I mentioned in the beginning. I do think that's
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 3: part of why this this run has captured so many. Normally,
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 3: when you get to postseason and have postseason success, you're
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 3: somewhere else. This is one of the rare times and
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 3: getting both regional and Super it's one of the rare
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 3: times when you can have that success and all be
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 3: together and celebrated. So I do think the texture is
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 3: right that kicks this into another level that it's happening
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 3: here on your home turf with it. I think that's
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 3: been a nice little addition to that.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, one note, and I don't want to
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: be a downer here, but it must be mentioned that
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: was an unfortunate accident that happened on Saturday, Saturday when
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: that storm kicked up, and that was those winds kicked
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 2: up and the tent fell over, and I think half
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: dozen people got injured. I'm not sure anyone were that serious,
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: but MS responded quickly, and it was kind of a
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: dangerous time. They're a scary time. Yeah, so you were there.
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  Speaker 2: You guys were there.
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  Speaker 1: Five people transported, four treated and released, one state overnight. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so yeah, it could have been much worse. Yeah, Mother Nature,
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: as we often say, undefeated all times.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 2: Kept hoping. I mean, you want West Virginia to score runs.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 2: You kept thinking to just get the game over.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: With Nathan from Charleston, South Carolina. Over under on Rocos,
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: Jello shots consumed by WVU and Omaha, he's listening to
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  Speaker 1: forty thousand.
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  Speaker 3: That's over by a billion over.
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: Texter, What a weekend. We made the trip up early
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: Friday from Princeton without tickets, headed to Randy's Ridge, drank
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: some cold beer, saning country roads, went to Keglers to
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: celebrate Saturday. Same thing. My little boy got too hot midgame,
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: so we go to B Dubs to cool off. Storm comes.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: B Dubs becomes packed, some guy breaks out a guitar
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: and mike and speakers. Place was rocking during the rain delay.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: Made me wonder, can you imagine if we can do
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: something this special in football? This city may not survive. Lol.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: Let's go omen Ears, Joey and Princeton.
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 3: Carry over at B Dubs taking care of it. Yep,
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 3: on it as always.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: Texter Jenning's my quick three takeaways from the regionals. Wonderful atmosphere,
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: Shout out to the fans and on Randy's Ridge for
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: giving us the ultimate home field pleasure to run into.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: Homeless Dave in the bathroom during the rain delay special
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: shout out to the Senators. My friend Chris and I
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: yelled hello to him and homeless Dave. After the game,
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: Will walking up the hill to the Walmarts.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 3: So Jennings was across the street. He was with another
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 3: friend of ours, Chris. They were walking on the other
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 3: side of the street. As we were walking up with
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 3: Tyrs Hall after the game, Say Wave waved over and
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 3: said no.
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: That's when he gave Tyrus the ride.
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 3: So said, good see Jennings. Jennings everywhere, everyone, Jennings everywhere.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: Yes, he's so damn proud of this team. Let's keep
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: it going in Omaha. Safe travels to all of you,
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: and please keep an eye on Hoppy. We'll do it
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: if memory serves me. Texter Ben Lumsden was batting one
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: ninety seven before he was reinserted into the lineup after
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: the final kal Poly game. He's at two to eighty
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: eighty three point swing in three weeks. Is that some
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: sort of WV batting record regarding improvement in batting average
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: over such a short period of.
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 3: How hard it is to raise your average that much
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 3: late in the season when you've got at bats as
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 3: that's how hot he's been.
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: Okay, so here's the one that made me go wow
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: when I put it together earlier today, Hey, three guys,
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: if I wasn't fully bought into the bit about there's
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: always a West Virginia connection, I'm all in now. Quick context.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: My wife and I, Megan Drew, just got married in
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: late May. However, the last time you saw us, we
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: were only newly engaged. That was the night we split
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: a jerry bomb of camus with you, Brad and Hoppy
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: at the Winding Yar in Morgantown after Meg's dad, Brett
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: and his friend Mike won the dinner supporting the WVU
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: Cancer Center, which was an awesome night for a great cause. Anyways,
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: night back to our story. For our honeymoon, we obviously
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: asked ourselves what would Tony Courridi do, and we decided
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: to go to Italy. Our second stop was at an
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: agro turismo, basically a bed and breakfast in the Tuscany countryside.
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: It's a beautiful spot, but the place holds maybe twenty
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: total guests and is a rural area south of Florence
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: near a small town San Jaminiano. Been there, you have
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: two We've been following the baseball team throughout our trip.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: We're pumped up to wake up on our second morning
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: in Tuscany to find out we're going to the College
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: World Series. We caught up on the highlights and the
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: coverage over breakfast, so it's the place seats about sit.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: It was about twenty places twenty rooms. After breakfast, we
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: hit the pool to relax. We overhear some nearby discussion
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: of country roads at the pool and a baseball team
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: going Omaha. Quick conversation with a super nice couple. We
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: found out that they were both WVU grads. They're from
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: Morgantown and Charleston, and we're also closely following the WVU
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: baseball team on a trip through Italy. Of course, were
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: nothing like being four thousand miles from home in the
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: middle of nowhere, Italy and still being able to find
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: some fellow mountaineers to celebrate with. Like you guys say,
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: there's always a West Virginia connection always. So that's where
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: he said, Tony, we're enjoying some Chiante classics right now
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: for you. Next up is Sorrento. That's when I said, well,
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: wait a second, so I texted him right back this morning,
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: and I said, what was the name of the place
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: that you stayed at in San Jeminiano And he writes
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: back to me it was the same place I stayed
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: at four years ago. Really, And I said, get out
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: of here. So I sent him a picture of the
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: guy who runs it with my my buddy back to him,
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: same exact place.
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  Speaker 2: That's a cool town. We stayed there too. I'm not
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: not the same place you did, but we were in
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 2: San Jiminiano. Yeah, so lovely town.
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: It's just yeah, I would go I would go back there. Yeah,
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: I'd go back and stay at the same at the
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: same place. So just positively amazing.
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: Well to say, look, it's Brad called me down today
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 2: because what we're you nervous about? What? Well? I was
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 2: you know how I get I get tight and what
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 2: do you mean? And Brad said, just relax and try
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 2: to enjoy this. I get tight. I get tight about
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 2: travel and stuff we should do and stuff we have
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 2: to do and logistics and things like that. And I
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 2: talked to him. I did no good, No, it did
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 2: didn't No, it helped, it helped.
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 3: Didn't help, it helped. Can I do one more thing
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 3: for the good of the order?
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: Did someone give us something from Switzerland?
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 3: Did well? I think there's a there's a shop in Orlando.
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 3: This is our guy, Mike Pouncy. Oh yeah, Mike was
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 3: in town.
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: We went to dinner with him, we did, and.
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 3: His lovely wife. He just said he had to be here,
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 3: so he came up for this. Is he going to
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 3: Omaha Super Regional? He's working, efforting, efforting. So I met
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 3: him Sunday on his way out of town. He said
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 3: he had a gift for us, and we delivered.
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: We went to a party at his house the night
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: before the u c F football We went to Valentine's
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: dinner with him and his wife at uc At.
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  Speaker 3: A wonderful time.
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: It's a wonderful time, beautiful steak.
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 3: Place of a gift here?
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 2: Oh look at that.
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: No fricking way is that that's chocolate from Switzerland. Oh
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: my especially, I have not eaten a thing yet today.
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: I'm still eating that. I might eat the whole thing.
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 3: A piece on Yeah, that's what we're going to open
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 3: right now. Unlike him, Mike did say, he goes, You've
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 3: made the effort to come get this. If you if
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 3: you happen to eat it all, I won't tell anybody
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 3: else that was there. I said, no, no, I'll deliver
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 3: it to the whole team.
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 2: You're a team guy, You're a team going like that one.
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 3: But anyway, thank you Mike. Great to see you. We'll
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 3: see when we're back playing UCF, but we'll dive into
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 3: this shortly. Appreciate you and hope to see you in Omaha,
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 3: Omaha for the omen ears.
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: Okay, so once again, it's Tuesday as we record the
• 1:15:12
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• 1:15:15
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• 1:15:21
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• 1:15:25
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• 1:15:55
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• 1:16:02
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• 1:16:05
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• 1:16:08
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• 1:16:10
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  Speaker 1: including you can't wait to get to that Omaha steak stuff.
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: You think like you think they'll just file at with
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: like bacon on top of that thing certificates. That'd be nice.
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 3: I sure hope. So can't wait. Thrill those things up
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 3: out back. Let's go.
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  Speaker 1: So they got they got some beef there in Omaha.
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 3: It'd be good, be good, steakdown, steakdown, steak down.
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: I are pretty good Italian too. They got a little
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: lily there.
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that'd be fine. I'll probably order Renfreder when we
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 3: get there.
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  Speaker 2: See how that goes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't wait. Seriously, I can't wait till the
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: first time we're together and you guys do try to
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: order it, and like the guy, the guy just goes
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: completely like the surro go like like yells at you.
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah. So like the guy in Vegas, Yeah, what happened
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 3: in Vegas?
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  Speaker 1: He was embarrassed.
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 3: What happened in Vegas?
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: He said, all right, I'll go back to the chef
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: and ask did we get ren freder Or did we
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: only because it's the game, we get it?
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 3: Or not? Yes or no question? Did we get it?
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: I don't go into your little Did we get.
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 3: Things Yes, seeing Omaha, guess who was paying the bill?
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: Be good?
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 3: We got the rent
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  Speaker 2: M m