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Weekend 7 Recap: Something Upsetting | Ep. 023 · College Baseball Now

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Speaker 1: Something happened today. I'm totally fine. Josh is totally fine,
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JB is totally fine. Jake isn't here, but we assume
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he's totally funny. If you think something upsetting happened this weekend,
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then you might have been watching college baseball. Good thing,
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we've also been watching college baseball. We're gonna talk about
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all the top stories, upsetting or not on this episode
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of college baseball.
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Speaker 2: Now, yeah, there ain't no problems, no problems.
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Speaker 3: I don't want produ.
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Speaker 4: Yeah let me Yet they know what was going for
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a minute hit to be.
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Speaker 1: Out beat, grab a couple wins with a the ID.
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Speaker 5: It's even known the kid I.
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Speaker 1: Had to do with pagns.
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Speaker 5: We can never be average and they want to problem
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with the boy.
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Speaker 1: They don't want no status? How don't need so?
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Speaker 4: Coach Tim run a week God, I want to test
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that to the standing.
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Speaker 1: What's a game? Best believe you shiginning dogs, counting them
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up wins.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I love it when they count me out of counting.
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Speaker 1: I'm the lease sudden shame.
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Speaker 2: Why men at job believe I run the game?
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Speaker 4: No one leaves lam magic to believe out stand this
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lam magic believe I want that stand scan this that
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magic to believe out, won't Dandy.
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Speaker 5: Speed them on, knock them out?
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Speaker 1: They really don't want to stand it. I'm fine, I'm fine,
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and we're back. College Baseball Now, Episode twenty three. Glad
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to be here with you at home. Glad to be
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here with my friends and jurors to talk about the
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wonderful weekend that was the seventh of the twenty twenty
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sixth season of NCAA College Baseball. We are your friends,
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starting with me, your host, your friend, drip Boy Drew Wheeler.
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Glad to be here with you and with my friends
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as well. Joining us. Normally in the top right, but
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lately he's been in the center of your screen at home.
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Is mister Josh Catlet. Josh, I like that we're wearing
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matching blue today. That's nice.
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Speaker 3: Well, I don't really like what's on your blue. See,
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I'm wearing my thunder shirt because it's the only successful
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team that I pull for in any sport ever. Yeah,
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so I just have to make myself feel a little
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bit better about that. The one you're wearing isn't much
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of a what's what we're looking for? Good program? Right now?
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After a certain certain thing happens that. I'm sure.
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure what you'd have wrong at all with
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this shirt? What's wrong with this? Josh?
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Speaker 3: Actually, as a matter of fact, looking at the shirt
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right now makes me happy because I remember when I
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watched on my TV about like four hours ago in
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a certain see not baseball, but that's sport with the
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orange ball that you kind of bounce around a little bit. Yeah,
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that was a really delightful Yeah.
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Speaker 5: The guys like the boozers or something like that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, the losers, the losers.
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Speaker 5: That fits exactly, Josh.
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Speaker 1: All I'm gonna say is is that this has been
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on by like the last couple of episodes. I've had
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this ready to wear and have decided that, since there's
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only one UNC fan around that I control, i'd wait
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until both of you were here to do it. Josh,
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do you want to ask we just saw the intro
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video for college baseball now at this point in the season,
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seven weekends in about two months in who is the
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Who's the most broad omission in the video? If you
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can just magically add like a clip of a player
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or a team, who would it be?
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Speaker 3: Are you asking me like the best play or like,
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here's the biggest name player that we don't have either.
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I'm just curious if we're going in terms of highlight plays.
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This is super recent, z Bias and just me. But
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that robbery at center field that I saw a TI
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head make yesterday in the Georgia Tech game, I mean
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that that can very well be in there. The dude,
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the dude was two feet above the wall when he
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made that cat. It's like, it's pretty awesome video worthy.
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Speaker 1: I think it's pretty awesome. Maybe if we do a
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recap or a redo like mid season, if I can find,
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you know, a spare eight or nine hours, I'll see what.
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I'll see what we can make cap it and joining
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us on the right side of your screen at home.
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A familiar face. Not entirely sure we know who this
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guy is, but his name tag says JB. Sebastianoo. It's
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nice to meet you, sir.
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Speaker 5: True, it's great to be back. You know, it's been
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a minute.
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Speaker 1: It is truly a pleasure to have you back. Buddy.
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We've missed you. We know that you have been out
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trotting the globe, seeing the world, doing the things, meeting
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the people, kissing the hands and shaking the baby. So
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We're glad to have you back on the show. Jb Uh.
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I'm curious if you had to add a clip to
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the intro video, what would you add.
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Speaker 5: That's a great, great question. Yeah, well, Josh kind of
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took mine. Like the first thing at to my head
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that home run robbery, Like, honestly, like maybe maybe like
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you know, somebody striking somebody out pumped up, like you know,
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Lav Honess or somebody I don't know. I said, like
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there was somebody from Wake, you know, one of those
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Weake guys. They usually got some pizzazz to him punching
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somebody out going off the mound something like that.
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Speaker 1: I love that. The answer I had in mind whatever
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I was thinking about it is it was actually a
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home well not a home run robbery, but just a
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great web gym was landed harriston Superman from This Weekend.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I was like, man, what a what a clip that
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would be. And I'll tell you this at home. Here's
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an answer to a trivia question for the inevitable college
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Baseball Now trivia that will never occur from anyone ever.
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Speaker 3: Uh.
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Speaker 1: The clip that I most wanted in the intro video
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is one that I've shown you guys. It's one of
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my favorite clips from the last seasons. Booy going. I
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wanted that clip in the intro video is so bad,
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but it just felt too me So anyway, Uh, We've
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got plenty to discuss, guys. There's a lot going on. Obviously,
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we are without coach Jake Barjorie. He is on his
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way back with the Arcadian Knights. They had they had
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double header today. If I'm not mistaken, and he is,
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he is in the midst of coaching and so we'll
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have to go without him. But we miss you, Jake.
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We'll see you. We'll see you in the mid week. Guys.
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A lot going on as it pertains to SEC teams,
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specifically Josh. Earlier today you said one of you guys said,
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I'm not sure how to distinguish who had the worst
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weekend in the SEC, but there's three really rich contenders
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and I think we should talk about them a little bit. Uh.
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Florida one of the more inconsistent teams this year. They
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have looked I mean mercurial, insanely hot at points and
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then at other times at other times they have been rigid,
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lost looking. Guys. It was certainly not sub zero. They
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were again nuclear this weekend in faithful Josh, what's the
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takeaway from this? Because in my mind, I would have
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never put this result together. I think maybe a one
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of three would have been I could have seen it happening,
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certainly not a.
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Speaker 3: Sweet I don't. I think it's very funny that this
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outcome turned out how it did because I think if
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I were too, just off the top of my head,
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go through in the country, who were the most volatile
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teams that I don't know what's gonna happen week to week,
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And both these teams are my top three or top four,
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And I mean this week was just a perfect example
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of it. I think the biggest takeaway, if I had to,
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I think I'm starting to get worried about Arkansas's pitching,
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like in the long term, not even just in the
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short term. I think in the long term it's kind
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of an issue because I mean, gak Will looked awful
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on Friday, Just to be blunt about it, one hundred
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deats didn't look great. He had some control issues here
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and there. Colin Fisher didn't even make it out of
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the third today. If you're gonna have those kind of
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starts from your starting pitching. You're not gonna make it
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very far into the season straight up. I mean it's
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not like a bacheloque came through either. There were some
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of their more more consistent, more reliable guys that didn't
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come through. Damien Ruiz was one for ten on the
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weekend with four k's. Cam Koch was two for twelve
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with five k's on the weekend. That stuff's not gonna last.
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I would like to say a positive Florida takeaway is
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like I would like to speak on the positive side
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of Florida a little bit, but I don't really know,
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Like if it says more about the film as much
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as like Jackson Barbary looked great and relief, there's that,
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I guess, But I mean, like, I don't know. It's
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I don't know how far I'm gonna drop Arkansas this
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week because I just don't know what to do with them.
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Week to week. They did be Mississippi State, that's great,
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but losing this home series is like, I don't know,
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it's a very confusing team to say the least.
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Speaker 1: There's there's certainly a lot of issues that come to
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mind for me with Arkansas, but JP, I'm gonna go
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to you for this question here when you look at
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the flip side of this, Joshua sucking about the questions
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that we have with regards to Arkansas pitching, but Florida
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pitching with again, I think Barbary being the the primary
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antithesis to this. Florida's pitching is not really much better, JB.
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Specifically Liam Peterson. On Friday night, we had four innings
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of one hit baseball, six walks though to seven strikeouts,
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ninety one pitches in four innings. I think my main
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concern here JB, that I want to kind of hurl
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to you. I'm in a softball to you, though, Pale,
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you may be a bit rusty on this podcast a
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couple of weeks away, inconsistent and inefficient with Peterson, I'm
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ready to see the guy that we've been waiting for
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all year long. I'm ready to see some of the
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dominance from Peterson.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I agree, I think Liam Peterson, it's
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been kind of an up and down year. I guess
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you could go to I mean, we've seen flashes of
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the dominance, and you know, we've seen like Miami is
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a game that sticks out to me back a few
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weeks ago, now maybe that's probably like a month ago. Honestly,
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he had five and two thirds. He had two earned runs,
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but that was basically after he was pulled out of
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the game, some bad luck there on, some bunts and
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week hits, and then he follows that up with, you know,
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a solid outing against High Point five innings, two earned runs,
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eleven strikeouts, South Carolina six innings, no runs, ten strikeouts,
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and then we hit the last two weeks where the
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wheels kind of fell off a bit, even though it
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didn't look as bad against Arkansas Alabama five innings, nine hits,
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six earned four strikeouts. This week, like you said, four innings,
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six walks, seven strikeouts, no runs allowed, only one hit.
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I think it was more of a how bad Arkansas's
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offense was this weekend than how good Leeam Peterson was.
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They just going to capitalize on the six walks, and
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I think you're right. I think it's more of finding
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the consistency. You know, there's some other draft arms that
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we've talked about. They've been really consistent this year, and
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I think Peterson, we expect him to be a very
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veteran pedigree that would be consistent, have better command, be
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a leader of the staff, and he's shown that at times,
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you know, a few weeks ago, but these last two
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weeks have really not looked like that. So I think
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it's more of a trying to gain him back in together,
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focus on throwing more strikes, being competitive early in the counts.
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I think it's going to be big for him and
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kind of just trusting in his stuff rather than trying
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to be cute at SEC play trying to dance around
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some of these hitters. So I think it's really just
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going to be them trying to get him back on
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track to attack hitters.
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Speaker 1: I think that I think that that's a great way
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to look at it, JB. And I love the way
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you said quit trying to be cute and SEC play.
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This is hardly the time or place for that. And
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I mean at this point we're I mean, what's seven
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weekends in I think it's hardly the time or place
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for cutesie. We need to see you go out there
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and be the leader of that pitching staff that we've
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expected you to be, especially considering that, I mean, Florida's
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offense are not flouches. I think they kind of have that,
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you know, go as your star goes its a little bit,
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but Peterson specifically, I've been I guess expecting a lot
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more than the inefficiency in the inconsistency. JB. Gonna stick
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stick on that same topic, I know, Josh kind of
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reference to a minute go not exactly knowing what to
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do with these two teams. JB. I think you're a
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little further along in your ranks than I am. Getting
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ready for this week's update. What are you looking at
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for Florida and what are you looking at for Arkansas?
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Because I got no clue.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think Florida. You know, I think a lot
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of people were hard on them after that Alabama series
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and you know, they kind of dropped out of the rankings.
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I think they really are probably a top fifteen team
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in the country right now, somewhere in that ballpark in
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the middle of the pack. I think it's somewhere. For Arkansas,
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they're probably in that similar boat. They're somewhere between on
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the very high end. Maybe rank one of them at
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thirt like thirteen ish. I think like they's somewhere between
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thirteen and probably seventeen for me. So you rank them
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anywhere in there, and I think you're in a pretty
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good spot. I think this Florid team's as dangerous as
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anyone in the country at times. And you know, I
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think there's someone that's gonna slip into a regional at
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some point here and be a team that's really they're
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either really hot or really not hot against somebody. I
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think is kind of the way you put it, you know.
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And they could obviously host too, but they're always inconsistent.
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And then Arkansas is really, what offense are you going
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to see? Like down the stretch, this offense really needs
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to show some signs of life, because it's pretty concerning
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how light hitting this team has been so far, especially
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behind what we thought was going to be an elite
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staff and we thought they'd have an offense to do enough.
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I think it's kind of just more so for them
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finding out the offense, and for Florida it's mainstreaming the pitching,
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especially with them, like we talked about the lack of
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left handed pitching on that staff too. It's kind of
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something that might hinder them in the playoffs.
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Speaker 1: I agree completely. Over the course of the weekend, Arkansas
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amassed one hits twenty one hits over three games. For
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a top tennis team is dreadful and this is coming.
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This is coming from a guy whose team could not
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buy offense for the first two days of the weekend.
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So take it with a ticket with love of Arkansas fans,
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Josh gonna come back to you super quickly on this one. Here.
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Is there any player specifically from either Arkansas or Florida
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whose name doesn't start with B and end with Rendon
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Lawson that you could point out and say, this guy
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looked like a quality, quality draft prospect this week offensively.
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Speaker 3: This weekend specific I mean.
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Speaker 1: And it's okay if the answer is no, because I'm
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asking you to prove me on again.
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Speaker 3: I would say the other offensive guy who looked really
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good for me over the whole weekend was probably Carson Bowen.
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But I'm not really high on him, like long term
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draft wise, But I mean as like on the weekend
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he went six or thirteen with a home run double.
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I mean, like that's a pretty good weekend. I guess
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what's typically considered a good pitching staff, even though I
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just talked about how I don't really feel that way
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about them right now, I would say that's besides Brendan Lawson,
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that's probably the guy i'd.
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Speaker 1: Say, looking over the looking over the sheets before we started,
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Bowen was the name that I kind of highlighted. And
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Carson It's no secret I like Carson Bowen. He's a
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good kid. But it's across both teams. Just a lot
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of a lot of question marks here.
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Speaker 5: Not to throw it out real quick too, then, not
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to not slatch on. Blake's here was another one that
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I thought, like, did this weekend? He had five hits
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for them, so I think it five hits, two or
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three RBI. So the Blake series. I've always been high
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in him draft wise too, though. But Blake's here, that's
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all right.
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Speaker 1: That's all right. Uh, well, we've talked enough about that
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one Arkansas tough weekend. Speaking of tough weekends, Josh, do
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you want to like rock paper scissors for what happens here? JP?
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Who what are we talking about?
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Speaker 5: You know, I'll send it right to Josh because you
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know it's that way too. So we'll just go that
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way and we'll talk about the Battle of Alabama. You know,
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I'll let Josh take it away on that one.
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Speaker 3: I mean, do I just go all right? I don't.
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I don't know where to start. I mean, this was
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it was just so hard to watch. I wanted to cry.
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I mean, if we're we can't we can't beat them
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in anything right now, and boys at frustrating. But that's
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beside the point. It's it's the same issues from this team,
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and it's I hate to boil it down to this
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because this is such like a situational thing that you
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don't really want to have these broad general takeaways from.
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But this team cannot hit with runners in the scoring position,
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and it's pretty consistently too, and it's just very frustrating.
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And it's also it's like, I don't know, I have
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so many thoughts. I probably should have organized my thoughts
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before coming on here. Like I'll just say this, Like
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they flashed a graphic on the screen today that showed
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on Friday, Auburn as a team that atted three for
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twenty five, then on Saturday with runners on not even
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in scoring position, just runners on two for nineteen. That's
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not gonna win you baseball games. Ever, some of the
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most consistent high performers for this team the whole weekend.
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Let me just read off some numbers for you to
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help put it in context. Bub Terrell went over seven
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with five strikeouts, Bristol Carter went over seven with three strikeouts.
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Brandon mccrane went one for nine. You're not gonna win
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baseball games like that. Like it's a credit to Bama.
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And as much as it sucks to have those words
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come out of my mouth, but the pitching did look
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good this weekend. And it wasn't even just the starters
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like Ashton Crowther Hagen Banks. There were some great relief
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arms for them this weekend with kind of long relief
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outings that looked really good. Bright This was a Bryce
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Fowler weekend, like it was the Bryce Fowler Show. Who
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went five for eleven, walked three times, He made some
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phenomenal plays in center field the whole weekend. Like, if
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I'm a Bama fan I walk away from this weekend, well,
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I have a lot of emotions walking away from this weekend,
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I'll put it that way, But the main one is
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I think I'm optimistic about this lineup because what has
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been I'm gonna pull the pozzi if y'all are thinking
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the same way that I'm thinking when I say this,
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what is the one thing we have said consistently on
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here that if this Bama team wants to reach their
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fullest potential has to happen with that team.
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Speaker 5: Everybody not named Justin Lebron's got a hint.
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Speaker 3: Bingo and Justin Lebron this weekend three for thirteen, only
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one RBI and it was today. He didn't even look great.
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So like guys like John Lim and Luke Vaughn and
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Bryce Fowler, like them all stepping up and building around
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Justin Lebron because like I talked to Drew about this
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before coming on, Lebron didn't really impress me this weekend.
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He rolled over on a lot of balls grounded into
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like a double play once maybe twelve, Like, it wasn't
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super impressive, but the rest of the team rallied around them,
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especially on Friday when they needed to. So, I don't know,
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I cannot believe we got swept by that team on
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the road. It's just it's so frustrating to watch, even
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like even when like, oh, all my friends that like
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follow baseball and they like Auburn baseball but aren't super
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into it. They know. I'm like, you know, I'm the
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baseball guy. I follow this stuff whatever, and they're like, yo,
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so what happened. I'm like, don't don't talk to me.
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About it, don't ask, I don't know. It's the same stuff.
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It's the same reason Auburn loses every game they do.
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It's the same exact issues, and boys are frustrating.
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Speaker 1: It is frustrating. I get that. But I think you're
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in a good place about it because and I'll come
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back to you with the same question, Josh, so be
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thinking about it. But JB, when you consider this Auburn team,
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where do you think the lapse is for them right now?
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What needs to be adjusted moving forward through the season.
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Speaker 5: I think it's exactly what Josh talked about. I mean,
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it's just offensively, they've looked like they've struggled a lot
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in situations to cash and runs, and especially I think
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it's been for them kind of like adding on to
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leads or trying to put away games. Especially. I think
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the offense has struggled at times too. I just think
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for them it's it kind of boils down to getting
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the offense in a rhythm. They just don't look like
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they're in a rhythm a lot of the time. You know,
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they can't really string hits together. They're very spread out,
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and you know, you got to get guys like Rembert Trell,
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Freylk all hitting together and you know Bristol Carter as well.
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Those guys all got to be working in unison. It
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can't be you know, just a very spread out show
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from them. And you know Alabama on the other hand,
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they really should. They could do that this weekend without Lebron.
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Like Josh said, only one RBI on the weekend. He
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wasn't really the big factor there. So I think it's
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for them trying to get their main stays going because
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I think it's been a big issue for them, even
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their main guys have had struggles this year, and then
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the supplemental piece has got to pick them up if
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they aren't going well.
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Speaker 1: Suh, Josh, do want to come back to you for
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kind of the final word on this? Is there any
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who you left the weekend feeling more impressed with in
21:04
terms of Auburn specifically who you might have you know
21:07
there might have put a little shot on the weekend
21:08
for you.
21:11
Speaker 3: No, like objectively, no, Jackson Sanders look solid on Saturday.
21:18
But I mean, if I okay, if I can answer,
21:20
I have an answer for the question you asked JB
21:22
that you said you were for. I have a legitimate
21:24
answer and this is very like very specific, but I
21:27
think it's true. There is no consistency in the structure
21:32
than the building of this lineup from game to game
21:34
to the point where like the top four are always
21:37
it always goes Bristol, Carter, Rembert, freylk Guivara. That's always
21:42
how it is from five to nine. It is just
21:45
like throwing darts at a wall, and it changes from
21:47
game to game so often defensively and offensively. There's just
21:51
no rhythm and no cohesiveness or anything at the bottom
21:54
of the lineup because they have no I'm not saying
21:57
this is because of but it certainly doesn't help. There
21:59
is no structure from game to game where you're seeing
22:01
the same kind of guys that said I have. I
22:05
don't want to say complain, Like something I've said about
22:08
this team is like we kind of have an embarrassment
22:10
of riches in terms of like good offensive bats you
22:12
can put into spots like this, but we've gotten to
22:15
the point of the year where you kind of know
22:16
who are your more reliable guys and who's more consistent,
22:19
Like if Brandon mccran can't figure things out, he might
22:21
be out Whenever Ryan Farber comes back, but like Eddie
22:24
Madrigal came back this weekend, he's gonna stand that lineup.
22:27
I think Binghaman's got to be in there somewhere. I
22:30
think obviously Bob I haven't mentioned him yet, but I
22:33
think you just have to have some kind of consistency
22:36
from week to week and some kind of structure because
22:38
a lot of these like best teams in the country,
22:40
if you go look at how the lineup is constructed
22:42
from game to game, it's pretty consistent. Besides, maybe it's
22:45
just eight to nine Oliver once you gets passed four
22:49
good luck like bub is typically but like what yeah,
22:51
all bets are off exactly, and so I think that
22:54
would help. I'm not saying it's going to solve everything,
22:56
but it certainly can't hurt.
22:58
Speaker 1: It's it's almost painful how I can relate to that
23:03
statement though there's been so much turnover and I mean
23:06
get not to get into the psychology of it, but
23:09
I mean, knowing what you're gonna do in a given
23:11
day makes you perform, you know better. I'm not gonna
23:15
sit here and quote the studies because I don't know them,
23:17
but I'm assuming that the science would back me up
23:19
on that because I feel that way in my day
23:21
to day life. And I'll say this too, Josh, I
23:25
asked you about a specific player that might have salvaged
23:28
your kind of vibe on the weekend on the team,
23:30
because I'm gonna need you to ask me that here
23:32
in just a minute.
23:34
Speaker 3: Okay.
23:37
Speaker 1: As you might have seen, there was not just in
23:39
that Battle of LBMA, there was a Battle of the
23:41
Great State of Tennessee. The volunteers of Tennessee traveled to
23:45
Nashville to take on Vanderbilt at hawkins Field, and boy,
23:49
oh boy, I hope you had cleared about seven hours
23:54
on Saturday to watch the game, all sixteen innings of it,
23:57
the longest game Tennessee baseball history. Boys, crazy state. Yeah,
24:04
absolutely yeah. It did cross over into that as it
24:06
got to the Yeah, you're absolutely right, crazy stuff. I
24:11
think I'll kind of open discussion with this if you
24:15
guys don't mind. The number one problem I have here
24:19
is that Tennessee couldn't I think if you put half
24:23
of the money that this team dedicates to NIL to
24:26
to funding all the money in this program, if you
24:31
put half of it on the open market trying to
24:33
buy offense this weekend. It still wouldn't have happened. It
24:38
was the most truly painful experience of my life watching
24:44
those I mean Tennessee would put runners on first and second,
24:49
and it's it's the craziest thing because there's so many
24:51
parallels to an Auburn this weekend.
24:54
Speaker 3: Yep.
24:56
Speaker 1: It was an inability to cash in the runners on base.
25:00
It was an ability to.
25:01
Speaker 3: Well, you'all score fifteen runs in a game today.
25:04
Speaker 1: But I don't look again, I thought, I thought to
25:07
myself earlier, and I'm going to pull the numbers up
25:10
today just to make sure I'm not talking out of
25:12
my butt here. Two runs on Friday, five runs on Saturday,
25:18
fifteen today. I would have rather than split those fifteen
25:22
runs among the three games. I mean again, seven to
25:27
three Tennessee win, eleven to six Tennessee win, five to
25:32
sixteen Tennessee lost. I'll take that. And that feels more
25:36
radically in the realm of possibility that Vanderbilt goes nuclear
25:41
and wins in the night thought of insane come back inning.
25:45
That feels more logical to me of what I would
25:47
have expected from this team. But you know what we
25:52
expect and what happens are two totally different things A
25:54
lot of the time, guys, JB. I want to go
25:57
to you first. Josh and I have talked to the
26:00
last several episodes, and you've not been here. I want
26:02
to give you the opportunity to talk about it. About
26:06
Vanderbilt specifically, we've called them one. I'll say it because
26:10
I don't want to speak for Josh. Josh, you can
26:12
not if you agree, this is one of the most
26:14
maddening teams in the country. They have got the potential
26:19
to be elite, but play like garbage a lot of
26:23
the time. Are again, so inconsistent. We said that their
26:27
offense looked terrible, to be rather terribly inconsistent. Their pitching
26:32
was not what it is at standard, and yet this
26:36
weekend I feel like they've jekyl and hided me. JB.
26:39
I feel like Connor Fennell was electric over If I'm
26:42
not mistaken, seven to two thirds the offense today showed
26:46
up when it needed to. What is Vanderbilt, JB. That's
26:49
my question for you. What is Vanderbilt now seven weekends
26:52
in the series of the season.
26:54
Speaker 3: Yeah.
26:55
Speaker 5: Well, the thing I'll start off with is Vandy might
26:57
be talked about going away way back. If we can
27:01
even think that far back is where's the power coming from? Well,
27:03
Vandy once again this weekend hits six home runs. Randomly.
27:07
The home runs are showing up again for Vandy. So
27:10
when they hit home runs, they like winning games. Six
27:14
homers I think, you know, in total, I think they
27:16
had nine or ten extra base hits on the weekend.
27:19
I think total, six of those being long balls. There
27:23
you go, like, you know, I mean, I think that's
27:24
the secret to success for them. You know, the pitching
27:26
staff hasn't been what we've been accustomed to usually Vandy.
27:30
Speaker 1: I'd say.
27:32
Speaker 5: Fenel being their Friday guy is kind of funny when
27:34
you look back at previous Vandy Friday guys and you
27:36
see a guy throwing eighty eight to ninety one going
27:39
out there for them rather than their typical like Carson
27:42
Fomer or whoever you want to throw out there. You know,
27:48
upper nineties fastballs. You see Rocker Lighter. I mean, it's
27:53
just you see all these upper ninety fastball elite pitching prospects,
27:56
then you get him. So it's kind of different. You know,
28:00
a lot of the other arms are kind of inconsistent.
28:02
Struggle with command, you know, it's a lot of that
28:04
type of stuff with them, and the offense has been
28:06
really bad. Also, the defense hasn't like just crisp as
28:09
we're used to with the Vandy team. So when they
28:12
hit homers and they play defense, they look really good.
28:14
When they don't play defense, they usually don't play offense either,
28:17
so you know, it's good they don't hit, they don't
28:19
play defense. It's kind of how it seems like they run.
28:21
And it's a very streaky team that I would say
28:24
is very similar to like Florida in a sense. Right now,
28:28
they're very bipolar. You know, you get a really good
28:30
team or a really bad team every week, even no
28:32
idea you're going to watch play baseball. So I think
28:35
it's a team that probably again, you know, they probably
28:39
will play well enough. I think that they're going to
28:41
get to play some postseason baseball. I'd hope at least,
28:43
you know, the talent that they've got there, but it
28:46
kind of depends on what they have, you know, going
28:49
into it. But that's that's what I think on Bandy Baseball.
28:51
They're kind of weird.
28:54
Speaker 1: JB a team you just described as kind of weird
28:57
and bipolar. Swept a team high. I just want to,
29:02
I just want to. I just want to put my
29:03
chips on the table in that, Josh. Another major storyline
29:08
that I've got before, I let you ask me my
29:09
question about the inspiration of hope because I need it.
29:14
I need it. The other kind of major storyline I
29:16
was looking into this weekend was going to be what
29:18
happens with Teak and Koons?
29:20
Speaker 3: Uh?
29:20
Speaker 1: The answer being after Brandon Arbitsen comes in and throws,
29:24
you know, five innings to run ball, seven strikeouts, Coons
29:28
comes into the game for to round out regulation, ends
29:32
up going four and a third, gives up one earned
29:35
run with six strikeouts, single walk, five hits. Not really
29:41
outside the realm of what we see from Teak and
29:42
Coons in a starting capacity. I guess my question to you,
29:46
Josh is do you think that this is going to
29:47
be a long term move for Coons or I kind
29:50
of could almost see it flipping back and forth from
29:53
week to week potentially Coons Arvidson where they're each expected
29:56
to go four or five innings.
29:59
Speaker 3: I'm actually so glad did you ask me this, because
30:00
this was the main thing I wanted to talk about Tennessee. Wise,
30:03
I loved how that looked on Friday. Personally, I think
30:07
if you're gonna take any kind of positive takeaway from
30:09
this weekend, that would be mine, because I think keeping
30:13
it like this with Arbitson into Koons is a perfect
30:16
piggyback because it gives such different looks. Like Arbitson's a
30:21
lefty that shows you, like only about three or so pitches,
30:24
you know what you're kind of getting from him, not
30:25
as much as like a strike thrower or whatever, but
30:27
like it's decent stuff. Kekon Kuns on the other side,
30:30
he's got a little bit faster velocity, gives you more looks,
30:32
different things that you have to be expecting. And I think,
30:35
almost from a mental standpoint, I think the bullpen could
30:38
be better for coons because you see this happen sometimes
30:42
with guys that they just work better out of the
30:43
bullpen because you know, as a starter, you can go
30:46
out there thinking I need to get to five inning,
30:49
six innings at these certain marks. Bullpen guy, you're just like,
30:51
I'm gonna go out there until I go and get
30:53
as much out of me as you possibly can. And
30:56
I know there was a lot of conversations within, like
30:58
you know, draft people this week of I think it
31:01
was Dodge that asked in a in our group, like
31:03
our big group the draft guys, it was like, when's
31:06
the last time we've seen around one guy be sent
31:09
to the bullpen mid season? Which to that I said,
31:12
are we sure Coons is around one guy? But that's
31:14
neither that's a different conversation. I think the point still
31:17
stands that it is kind of alarming from that perspective
31:19
to have to see him take that not job. I
31:22
guess that regression in the middle of the year, but
31:23
from Tennessee's perspective, that worked really well. I think. I
31:26
think that's probably a specific piggyback that I think you're
31:31
gonna have to use from the future, because I mean,
31:33
you've seen what happens from Coons in the starting role
31:36
already to this point. I don't think you're at the
31:38
point where you can really risk that happening again because
31:42
next week Tennessee is what LSU I think. And even
31:45
that offense has also been inconsistent. They put up like
31:47
seventeen on Kentucky today, So I mean, hey, if if
31:50
the ball bunce is the wrong way once or twice
31:53
in those kind of games, it's over, Like that like
31:55
it's already away from you, like kind of like it
31:57
happened a couple times this weekend, so I think it's
31:59
something should stick with permanently, Drew, I do. I do
32:02
have a question for you, though, Yeah, what what is
32:05
a one player from the weekend that, like, if there
32:08
is anything Tennessee like that you could take positively away
32:11
from someone that Like, I know, I just sprung this
32:14
on you, but hopefully you have someone in mind, like, well,
32:17
one guys like a shining light for this tame.
32:20
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, it's crazy that you asked that. I was
32:23
not at all prepared for this answer. I do have
32:29
an answer, obviously, I think I think one guy that
32:33
is not the answer. I'm gonna give it a permanent sense.
32:35
But it's so refreshing to see Henry Ford come in
32:38
and do exactly what I said Henry Ford was going
32:41
to come in and do for this team, and that's
32:43
just be a rock just with well, don't nobody on
32:47
this team got me? Henry Ford got That's all. That's
32:49
all I'll say about that. Can I get an amen?
32:52
In the chat? Thank you? But the guy that I
32:55
want to shout out comes from the midst of purgatory.
32:59
I think I was in the third circle of hell
33:01
at this point on Saturday night. But somewhere after Landon
33:05
Matt came in and gave up four earned runs. We
33:08
got six shutout innings from cam appins Zeller, who I
33:14
I think this is just a nice kind of flashing
33:17
kneon sign. Next year will be better. Give Islander more time.
33:22
This is gonna be fine. Drew, stop stop pulling out
33:25
your hair. You don't have much left but six innings,
33:29
four hits, four punch outs, no walks, no earned runs.
33:33
And what I like the best about it, guys ary
33:36
Bishop sixty eight pitches for six innings. I'll take that
33:40
out of the freshman all day long. And in a
33:43
pivotal I mean, we can't say it's anything but that
33:46
at this point, a pivotal series for these two teams,
33:49
a huge rivalry. I was just so impressed with the kid.
33:52
Everything looked snappy, he was he was playing to the defense.
33:56
Uh yeah, seven balls flew out, six ground bouts, play
34:01
under the defense. Stuff looked good. I was so impressed
34:03
with Appenzeller. It made me just as thrilled as I was.
34:08
When would that have been? I think end of day
34:09
one last summer, when I realized he was gonna make campus,
34:12
I was just like, what a world? But anyway, No,
34:16
Appenzeller is the answer to that.
34:18
Speaker 5: Question, Druse, Yeah, I got something for you here. I'll
34:21
throw in one thing too, and I'll thrown one thing
34:23
and then I have a question for you. Actually, so
34:25
the thing, I think it's very similar to a situation
34:29
that we would have seen play out with Chase Burns
34:31
when Chase Burns transferred out of Tennessee saying I need
34:35
a starting spot or guaranteed to me or I'm leaving,
34:38
and then he left. I think it's kind of what
34:41
we would have seen happen with him. But I digress
34:43
off of that now, since you brought up Elander, this
34:46
made me think of this question off of watching some
34:48
Major League baseball this weekend.
34:50
Speaker 3: What is the.
34:52
Speaker 5: Right now one through ten Drew, what is your panicometer
34:55
on Tony Vayzella with one being like concerned at all?
35:01
Speaker 1: Ten?
35:01
Speaker 5: Okay, this is over after mid season, it's done.
35:08
Speaker 1: Wow, great question. I'm gonna put it at four.
35:13
Speaker 5: Okay.
35:14
Speaker 1: You can't abandon ship on an experiment of this magnitude
35:19
this early, but there is cause for we need to
35:23
tighten the bolts. Here. Somewhere, somewhere, there's water linking into
35:27
this ship. And I don't know what it is, but
35:30
a lot of the Tennessee baseball groups and like chats
35:33
and stuff I'm in is saying get him back, like
35:36
fire him immediately and get him back to Tennessee. And
35:38
I'm like, I'm like, first of all, there's a like
35:42
negative eight percent chance that ever happens. Never in ten
35:46
million years will that happened. But no, I think that
35:50
it's I put it in a for JB. I don't
35:53
think that Posey and the front office at San Francisco
35:56
is gonna make this kind of a splashy investment only
35:59
to row it away. I mean after the overdig weekend.
36:03
That's I'll pitch that same question to you guys, though,
36:07
is that I mean, do you differentiate from me too
36:08
too much?
36:11
Speaker 3: Uh? I think I agree with you on a lot
36:14
of things besides one little thing. Please, I wouldn't completely
36:18
rule out say if it, like, if things did all
36:21
go terribly, I don't think it's a zero percent chance
36:26
Tony V could come back. I'll just throw that out there.
36:28
I'm not saying it's likely, but I think it could.
36:31
Maybe you you.
36:34
Speaker 1: Would, you would hear me screaming from your from your
36:38
from your room.
36:39
Speaker 3: Josh, I'm sorry for getting your hopes up. I'm just
36:43
saying I refuse to allow it.
36:46
Speaker 1: I refuse to allow it. I'll say, you guys, remember
36:49
we were podcasting whenever the news broke.
36:52
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think for me, I see, I feel like
36:57
I'm in the opposite end in spectrum from you guys
36:59
a little bit. I'd say I'm at a six from
37:01
the reason that the way that he handled some of
37:05
the things that went on off the field was very,
37:09
very strange, Like he did not understand that you're an
37:12
MLB manager and it's not your coaching college kids at Tennessee.
37:15
It's not like our locker room looks like this and that,
37:18
you know, kind of throwing stuff under the bus by
37:20
the lockerrooms you're coaching MLB team Tony, Like this isn't
37:23
like talking about twenty year old kids that you got
37:25
in there. Is like, hey, our locker room culture needs
37:27
to get better, like you got grown men back there.
37:31
That was the one thing for me. I was like,
37:32
you can lose the locker room real fast with how
37:34
it's sinking. And if you just don't get it together quickly,
37:37
you gotta. I think it's how he handles himself. I
37:39
think it's the biggest key to this for the rest
37:42
of the way.
37:43
Speaker 1: I think so too. That's a great and that's a
37:44
great point. And I've been wrong many many times on
37:48
this show, many times. This will not be the last time.
37:51
But it's gonna be interesting. That's one of the storylines
37:54
I think I'm most interested in following a MLB. Obviously,
37:58
there's it hits close to home. Let's let's rock it
38:01
through a couple more of these really quickly. Guys, JB
38:04
gonna stick with you. Boston College, Virginia quite a bit
38:07
to unpacked there. Why don't you hit us with the
38:09
major major talking points for this weekend's series BC and UVA.
38:15
Speaker 5: Yeah, basically, it's what in the world happened to UVa's
38:18
offense for the first two games, so it's completely no
38:22
showed putting up three runs between two games. And also
38:26
just what bird ball can do to somebody up nine
38:29
to nothing and they're still bunting. So that was electric.
38:33
I mean, you'd love to see it, but I mean
38:35
they THEO was not taking off the gas so maybe
38:38
some respect on bird ball now. I mean they've gone
38:40
off to it the great start to their season, and
38:44
you know they kind of they deserve some respect for
38:46
what they've been able to do eight and Foreign Conference
38:48
twenty nine overall. But yeah, I just think it's more
38:51
of a question of what UVA are we really seeing?
38:54
Is this like, is this what really is gonna come
38:58
out how we kind of suspected or the team that
39:01
beat U n C early in the season.
39:02
Speaker 3: So that's all.
39:03
Speaker 1: We'll see a lot of jeque and hide teams right
39:06
now across the country. And I think that's kind of
39:09
what is making it's so difficult for us to rank,
39:12
is who are we going to see this week? Are
39:14
we seeing? You know, as I've said in the daily shoot,
39:17
we seeing Doctor Arizona or mister Wildcats today? We'll find
39:21
out every day, Josh gonna go to you here. Texas.
39:26
They continue to be Texas dominating this weekend. What's the
39:31
major takeaways from from the Longhorns.
39:34
Speaker 3: I mean, it's the same as it has been the
39:37
entire year. That rotation, that pitching staff is awesome. Well,
39:40
actually the Luke Harrison and Dylan Valentis didn't look phenomenal
39:45
this weekend compared to their standards. But you know who did,
39:48
Ruger Riojas like typical seven innings, pitch no and runs
39:53
allowed eight strikeouts. I think the most comforting thing I
39:57
saw from them this weekend for their perspective, as the
40:00
biggest question mark has been their bullpen, and not necessarily
40:03
just the top of it, but like the depth of
40:06
it as a whole. The bullpen really came through this
40:08
weekend against a lineup that had been sputtering a little
40:12
bit but like still pretty solid SEC lineup. Sam Cozarn't
40:15
had a performance three innings pitch of perfect baseball nowhere,
40:19
runs no hits or I guess hitless. I guess see
40:22
a lot of walk but Brett Crosslin had two and
40:25
a third innings nowhere and runs, four strikeouts. Those are
40:28
guys we haven't been fully seeing from that from this year,
40:31
so it's good to see those guys got to go
40:32
out there and do that at least and like a
40:34
really big spot too. Granted it wasn't home, but it
40:36
was still top ten team rivalry series.
40:39
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's fair to say. I would say, guys, the
40:44
Magnolia State not adverse to the huge rivalry showdown this weekend.
40:49
Mississippi State, Josh, as you wrote, and I'm just gonna
40:51
read your format verbatim continues to own ole miss annually.
40:57
That is a broom being broken out swazy field, guys,
41:01
Mississippi State. It's been bta all week against everybody in
41:07
the Magnolia State for the Bulldogs. Really quick, Josh, What's
41:11
who do you think was the Bulldog icon of the weekend?
41:16
What a mouthful of nonsense? I just said, who stood up?
41:21
Speaker 3: Can I give you two answers?
41:23
Speaker 1: Yeah? Why not?
41:24
Speaker 3: Friday and Saturday guy Charlie Foster four and two thirds,
41:27
one earned run, allowed two hits. That was a Friday
41:31
spot for him, trying to pick up where Ryan McPherson
41:34
left off, and he passed the test with flying colors,
41:37
the biggest one being Thomas Valentious with five innings pitched
41:42
on Saturday. Didn't allow a single run, only three hits
41:44
on nine strikeouts. If that rotation is going to perform
41:47
like that, there's really not many offenses that can stop it.
41:50
And granted, like this, look, there's something I want to
41:52
throw out here, and I just I'm gonna pull y'all
41:55
kind of like just asking Tristan Bessett has been phenomenal
41:59
this year for Omens, right, I don't I don't know.
42:01
If you'll saw his like stat line on the whole weekend,
42:04
I'll tell you he had twelve bat bats.
42:06
Speaker 1: It was poor.
42:07
Speaker 3: Give me like a blank for twelve and with how
42:10
many strikeouts? What do you think is the worst realistic
42:13
outcome it could have been.
42:15
Speaker 1: I don't know the number of strikeouts, but I think
42:17
two for twelve and I'm gonna guess nine strikeouts. He
42:20
it was not great if I remember correct, I'm.
42:23
Speaker 3: Gonna go one for twelve with seven Yeah, try zero
42:27
for twelve with eight strikeouts. Yeah, yeah, exactly. That's I
42:33
want to say that it was. It was ridiculous. I
42:35
mean guys like that Kylin Ruder was one for eleven
42:39
with eight strikeouts. Like, if those are your bats that
42:42
you're sending out their game to game and they're doing that,
42:44
I don't care how good the pitching staff is kind
42:46
of concerning because Bassetta was like the big bright like
42:49
in my eyes, him and you and Mark were the
42:51
big stars on the offensive side of things for Old
42:53
Miss this week, and they just put up a du
42:55
They let that a goose egg the entire weekend.
42:59
Speaker 1: They did, And I mean it's it's difficult not to
43:02
kind of point to that as being, hey, this is
43:04
what happened. You can you can blame this loss on
43:07
your horses that didn't show up to run JB really
43:11
really quick. We're gonna go with these kind of quick
43:13
Georgia Tech. Josh's note says, Georgia Tech fully asserts themselves
43:20
as the team to beat in the ACC JB. First
43:23
of all, do you agree with that statement? Second of all,
43:25
what's the major takeaway for the Yellow Jackets?
43:28
Speaker 5: You know, I'll I'll take a hand up accountability statement here.
43:33
I'll say that, you know, I was wrong about the
43:36
Yellow Jackets. If you have a tough stretch coming up,
43:40
I will say that. But they I was wrong about
43:43
the Yellow Jackets. I'll say that. Funny enough, they very
43:47
much so remind me if you look down the stretch
43:49
and kind of who they played and how they played
43:50
it of a North Carolina tar Heels of last year.
43:53
Funny enough, just seeing how they played these series very
43:57
similar in games they've won lost kind of a similar layout.
44:00
But you know, I digress from that. They looked very good.
44:05
They smoked n c State. They showed that they were
44:09
clearly the better team and the firepower is for real
44:13
with them. Even if they don't pitch it well, they'll
44:16
still find a way to win. And they did pitch
44:18
it well this weekend, so kind of all around, you know,
44:21
it's kind of there. I think it's if the pitching
44:23
holds up for them, there they are indeed the team
44:25
to be.
44:25
Speaker 1: I think, well said, well said, uh j BE, gonna
44:29
stick with you for another one that We're gonna go
44:31
to Josh for two more really quickly, uh JB. Looking
44:34
out west to your homeland. Oregon today picked up a
44:38
really nice non conference win series win over UC Santa Barbara.
44:42
Not mistaken that was a sweep today, No, I think,
44:48
thank you, sir. Today's game shutout style, if I'm not mistaken,
44:52
to to zero. What's the major takeaway JB? With Oregon
44:57
a team who I think all of us today have
44:59
said we needed to see something from them because I'm
45:03
still lacking belief in the Ducks.
45:07
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, two shutouts from the Ducks. Actually, Friday was
45:10
also a shutout four nothing and two nothing. If I'm
45:13
not mistaken, the two wins Kyle Scalari six innings, no runs,
45:18
two walks, nine punch outs today and then will Sanford
45:22
five innings, two hits, no runs, five walks, four strikeouts
45:25
on Friday. Both of those guys really showed up did
45:30
well for their team. The bullpen as well, showed out
45:33
three innings from the pen today, only one hit allowed.
45:37
They had four innings from the pen and only two
45:39
hits allowed on Friday in those two shutout games. So
45:42
I think for Oregon it's been the pitching picking up
45:45
the offense, even though they haven't looked great. You know,
45:48
six total runs in the two wins. They lost eight
45:51
to two in their game on Saturday, so a total
45:55
of eight runs on the weekend. That's kind of concerning
45:57
for me. But the pitching staff has looked really good
45:59
for Organs, they continue in Big Ten play, it's great
46:02
for them.
46:03
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think.
46:04
Speaker 3: So.
46:05
Speaker 1: I'm still not I'm still not off Santa Barbara either.
46:08
I watched this team and I think that there's there's
46:11
some clunkiness to it. I think that's probably the kindnest
46:14
way to say it. There's some clunkiness to Santa Barbara,
46:16
but it's a scrappy team that I just enjoyed watching
46:18
JB am I in say.
46:21
Speaker 5: No, I think that the pitching is really impressive with
46:24
Santa Barbara, Like when you watch it, the pitching has
46:25
always been good. I think it's the offense if they
46:28
find a way to put it together. You know, it's
46:30
kind of been how it is. They've looked good at
46:31
times and they've looked really bad at times, you know,
46:34
so they really rely on the young guys like Goldstein,
46:37
Rowan Kelly. Those are two guys that have been really
46:39
big factors for them this year. They need them to
46:41
step up, and you know they kind of need some
46:42
other guys to step in there too. But yeah, it's
46:46
not crazy to be on them or cool.
46:49
Speaker 1: Cool cool Josh, gonna go to you for two to
46:54
eaven it out with you and JB and my beloved.
46:58
I love the Big Twelve. One of our matchups that
47:01
I was most looking forward to this weekend is going
47:02
to be West Virginia Arizona State. I do recall in
47:07
Pickham by JB. I do recall in Pickham being being
47:13
under the impression that this would be a tighter series
47:17
then you guys might have expected to welcome back JB.
47:20
Speaker 5: I don't know what just happened and just completely My
47:23
screen just went black and I was like, what has
47:24
happened in then?
47:25
Speaker 1: Well, the audience, I think we lost about forty percent
47:28
of the audience, But hopefully they all come back to
47:30
the video and see that.
47:31
Speaker 3: My grandparents for sure.
47:33
Speaker 1: Yeah about say the catlet's that they lost. They were
47:36
already ready to turn it off with this. But anyway, Josh,
47:41
West Virginia, Arizona State. I enjoyed this series a time.
47:45
Got to watch the game yesterday, I got to watch
47:46
the game today up until we started recording, of course
47:50
electric baseball from two of the Big twelve's best teams.
47:54
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the biggest thing from this weekend was
47:57
probably West Virginia's offense is really asserting itself is one
48:01
of the best in at least in that conference. I
48:03
mean yea, West Virginia as a whole was asserting themselves
48:07
as the best team in that conference. Probably, And we've
48:09
been at Arizona State pod for a while. TCU is
48:12
the preseason favorite, but like West Virginia UCF, you can
48:16
argue with the top two teams, who I also think
48:18
play each other next week, which is awesome. But I
48:21
think on the preview pod. The main thing that I
48:23
said that West Virginia needed to do to win this
48:27
series was someone besides those top three guys in the
48:29
lineup step up. Someone did that in their wins, and
48:32
that was Sewn Smith. Sean Smith grand slam today that
48:36
ended up being the deciding factor. They won by four.
48:39
He went, I think three for five yesterday maybe, And
48:43
it just someone like that stepping up besides Gavin Kelly,
48:46
who also looked really good. Just for the record, but
48:48
I mean someone besides Matt and Ike and Paul Schoenfield
48:52
stepping up and actually being like insistent from game to
48:55
game offensive guy for them is really what this team needed.
48:59
And the pitching phenomenal for neither team definitely not really
49:03
they didn't look great, but they didn't need to. This weekend,
49:05
it was is kind of across the board, a little
49:07
bit better than some of our own parts, because you know,
49:10
some guys were a little iffy from game to game,
49:11
but there were some guys that stepped up game at
49:14
least today and yesterday. That's really what they needed, and
49:16
they'd like I'm impressed. Like I was really hesitant on
49:19
West Virginia for a while this year. I don't think
49:22
I am anymore. I think I'm really impressed with what
49:24
they can do. They can host, they can mess around
49:26
and actually host the regional.
49:27
Speaker 1: I think, right here, give me some.
49:31
Speaker 3: Uh, there you go, thank you. I think the cameras
49:34
flipped from what it actually ends up showing, so I
49:36
hope it does.
49:37
Speaker 1: Know you did you did right?
49:38
Speaker 3: Awesome.
49:40
Speaker 1: Another couple of notes on this series really quickly, Land
49:43
and Horeston, we talked about it in our group chat. Yeah,
49:46
I would say safe n CUA A top four players
49:51
for twenty twenty seven. Josh, I think you said top three.
49:54
I'm not mad at that. I would even I mean,
49:59
I think the right. I'd say it's Dax and then
50:01
Land and Harrison.
50:02
Speaker 3: I told you earlier. I think he's a clear or
50:06
not clear. Sorry, I think for me personally he's number
50:09
three for me right now next year's class. But I
50:12
think there's like it's it's definitely Brendan Lawson, Dax Whitney
50:16
won too. I think Landon, Harrison, a Rod Chris Lavonas,
50:21
Chase Frayleik come to mind, maybe a Nate Savoe like
50:24
those guys are in that group. But I would personally
50:26
put Harrison at three. He's been just ridiculous this year.
50:29
To hold those numbers that he has this late into
50:31
the year going into April is crazy.
50:34
Speaker 1: It is. It's otherworldly, all right, And we're gonna go
50:37
to game time really quickly because I know we got
50:39
to talk about another thing that we got to get
50:41
into the midweeks and we're actually doing okay on time,
50:43
so we'll have time three game time here. I'm gonna
50:46
go to you guys for two statements. I'm gonna say
50:49
the statement, and I want you to rank from the
50:52
on the crazy meter is what we're saying. One being no,
50:55
this is a perfectly logical statement. Ten being you need
50:59
to have your head check in twenty minutes kind of thing.
51:04
First statement, maxiell Or West Virginia is the best unherralded
51:11
left hander of the college class this year's draft, best
51:16
underrepresented unherralded lefty of the college class in this draft
51:21
one to ten, Joshua.
51:23
Speaker 3: I mean, I guess it starts to get subjective into
51:25
what you consider unhralded. I would say even at that,
51:33
that's not like I would give it like a three,
51:36
like two or three. That's not crazy at all. I
51:38
don't think. I think he's fully proven himself to be.
51:41
I mean, like he will start to hear his name
51:44
talk a little bit more highly as the ear goes on,
51:45
as if it hasn't already.
51:47
Speaker 1: Jbab on the crazy meter, what does that fall?
51:51
Speaker 5: Probably in the same boat like at three. I mean,
51:53
he's definitely shown that he can start. Now, you know,
51:56
he's proven himself, so i'd say that he's up there too,
51:59
you know.
52:00
Speaker 1: Yeah.
52:00
Speaker 5: Also what he said kind of how you define the term.
52:04
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, okay, okay, so let's let's be more specific.
52:07
I'll hit you with another hot take, same crazy meter.
52:14
I think Maxiell might be the best college left hander
52:16
in this class.
52:18
Speaker 3: Oh now, now now we're getting to like like nine
52:22
point Yeah, now we're getting up.
52:25
Speaker 1: There, JB. What's the rating?
52:30
Speaker 5: Just a point five? I'll be kinder, thanks, give it
52:34
a ten.
52:34
Speaker 1: That's not thanks, JB. I appreciate that you're not just
52:38
saying I'm ten on getting head checked into. But so
52:41
to be to be transparent, I'm between these two statements,
52:45
I'm starting to lean more towards I certainly think Maxiell
52:49
is a top five lefty in this class for me, Yeah,
52:52
every time I watch and pitch, I come away more impressed.
52:55
It's such, it's an electric delivery, it's a good fastball.
52:59
I love the slide piece is nice. I could go on,
53:03
but I come away more impressed with Maxshell every time
53:06
I watch.
53:06
Speaker 5: Him postseason play. The one thing I'll finish with is
53:10
postseason play matters a lot. So for all these guys
53:13
that we're talking about, as we've seen before, like most
53:16
recent example, well just the one example in my mind
53:18
is Will Bednar when he won on that run in
53:21
the playoffs. Kate Horton too is one like in the
53:23
College World Series. If you pitch well like that in
53:26
the playoffs, teams bump you upboards really quickly. So there's
53:30
a world war its tree. You know, if some of
53:31
those guys pitch bad like Edwards and some of them,
53:33
they could get knocked down too.
53:34
Speaker 3: So I just have to ask. I think, so you
53:37
said you have Maxhelle the top five like College loved
53:39
it right now, I think I pretty concerned. One too
53:42
is like Mason Edwards, Cole Carlon. I think the next
53:45
in my opinion, that next grouping is like West Mendoes,
53:47
Trey Beard one hundred beats that kind of group. Would
53:51
you have him over any of those? I'm just curious.
53:56
Speaker 1: I certainly have him in the same boat with them.
54:00
I'd have to h you may have got me there, Josh,
54:06
I'll say, I'll say I wasn't asking that, Like, no, no, no,
54:11
I know, I know you're being You're being innocent enough.
54:15
Uh yeah, yeah, there, he's right there with them. In
54:19
my mind, I think I'd take at least two of
54:22
the three over him, possibly probably sixty percent. I'd take
54:26
three of the three over him. Okay, my point, My
54:29
point stands either way. I think that this is a
54:31
guy I I have drastically shot up the rankings. Uh
54:36
in my mind, so big, big big fan, big big fan.
54:39
Speaking of things that have have shot into my mind,
54:44
things that have affected some draft stock, let's talk about
54:47
Miles Bailey really quick, Josh, Uh, give me give me
54:51
thirty seconds on this injury and what it does for
54:54
his stock.
54:56
Speaker 3: I don't think it affects his stock that much. Kind
54:58
of like we talked about a little bit beforehand, This
55:00
isn't like it's like a picture getting Tommy John or
55:04
anything like that, or like oblique stuff can get really
55:06
weird with all guys like this is just a broken ankle.
55:10
It's like it's gonna take a while to recover from sure,
55:13
and it's like it won't be fun. But at the
55:15
same time, I don't think it affects the way I
55:17
feel about him as a player. I don't think it will,
55:19
at least because any of his biggest strengths as a
55:22
player I don't think are fully affected by having a
55:25
little bit of a rougher angle ankle at this point
55:27
of the year. Like you hate to see it for
55:30
for stake, you hate it for him. I mean, yesterday
55:32
I was I was driving to Atlanta for the Georgia
55:36
Tech Game, and I like my phone simultaneously from like
55:41
not texting while driving, I just happened to see it.
55:43
Don't worry, but I have to see three different group
55:46
chats I was in all have the same kind of
55:49
message that just said like Miles Bailey, gez Miles Bailey
55:52
while and in my mind, I'm like, one of two
55:54
things happened. Either he hit a five hundred and fifty
55:57
foot home run, which is not crazy for him, or
55:59
he just got a season ending injury, and unfortunately it
56:02
was the latter. So I think it took the country
56:05
by storm, and rightfully so, because that guy was heating up,
56:08
and it's a shame we're not gonna get to see
56:10
it the rest of the year.
56:11
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I couldn't said it better. It's a shame
56:13
we're not gonna get to see him because I think
56:15
he could have only improved his stock, and he was
56:17
starting to do that in my mind. So it's it's
56:19
a bummer for sure. Really quick, some really nice midweek
56:23
games coming up. I mean, after this kind of weekend,
56:25
I think I need a second. That just kind of
56:28
but still some games that are well worth watching. Alabama
56:32
and Jacksonville State is going to be an interesting Liberty,
56:34
NC State another one over on the coast. You would
56:38
see Wilbington, East Carolina. You know it told me at
56:43
the onset of the season that that would have been
56:44
one I'm a little hype for. Out of might have
56:46
looked at you funny, but it's gonna be a good one, Josh,
56:49
Auburn gonna take on Georgia Tech. I'll give you a minute.
56:54
What are we looking at here?
56:56
Speaker 3: I would love to see the same thing we saw
56:58
in the first matchup where Auburn beat Georgia Tech nine two.
57:02
These two teams seem to be teams going in opposite
57:04
directions right now, and I don't love it. Even though
57:07
I did openly feel better about Auburn after losing the
57:10
series to Texas last weekend, I don't feel the same
57:13
right now. And Georgia Tech typically plays Auburn really well
57:16
in their home stadium. Granted we did win last year.
57:19
I think it was like nine to eight. It was
57:20
a really fun game. But I think a big story
57:23
here besides what I just said about both teams going
57:26
opposite directions. I think Andreas Alvarez for Auburn and the
57:30
Midweek has been one of the more underrated things in
57:33
the entire country this year. There's been talks about, like
57:36
should he move for the weekend rotation for Alburn because
57:38
he's been electric. He is a point eighty five ERA
57:41
on the entire year, striking out thirty seven percent of batters,
57:44
and he's doing it against teams like Cincinnati and Georgia Tech.
57:47
Like it's it's not these ridiculous just pushovers. Every single week.
57:51
He's been lights out at times, so I'm curious to
57:53
see how he does for the second time this year,
57:56
assuming they throw him out there again for the second
57:58
time this year against that Georgie deck offense that he
58:01
I don't want to say shut down the hit on
58:03
around a little bit last time, but I think he
58:05
only allowed one run in like five ish innings last time.
58:08
So if you can sell for sure, Yeah, if you
58:11
can replicate that kind of performance, you would be thrilled
58:14
as an Auburn fan.
58:16
Speaker 1: So you're saying you would be thrilled.
58:17
Speaker 3: So yeah, so I like me personally, would be thrilled.
58:20
Speaker 1: Yes, good to know. Uh JB gonna go to you
58:23
for one. In your home state California, you see Santa
58:28
Barbara taking on USC. It's all about the pitching, baby
58:32
thing's gonna happen here.
58:34
Speaker 5: Yeah, it definitely is. I think it's gonna be you know,
58:36
which offense kind of strikes first and who gets ahead.
58:39
And this is a back to back matchup. Actually they
58:41
will play this week and then next week they will
58:44
do it in Santa Barbara, So that'll be interesting. USC
58:48
is coming off of there. I believe it's their first
58:50
maybe second mid week loss. They lost to Oregon State
58:53
last week, so that'll be interesting. I think for Santa
58:58
Barbara's really what team are we going to see he
58:59
came out there. I mean they've honestly, they played really
59:01
well in some midweeks. They played really poorly in some
59:03
midweek Saint Mary's they split a pair, getting dominated in
59:06
one and dominating them in the other. So it's kind
59:09
of a very bipolar team. As we've said before. I
59:12
think it's kind of which offense shows up and how
59:15
do they show up in that game.
59:17
Speaker 1: It's funny, JB. Because you know, we talk about Santa
59:19
Barbara in the midweek, and I it wasn't that long
59:22
ago we were raving about the incredible series with Southern
59:26
miss and this is a team who did that and
59:28
stacked up against that Golden Eagle team incredibly well with
59:32
you and I think it's going to be an interesting
59:34
midweek for both teams, particularly because USC's midweek pitching I
59:39
think is maybe the shakiest part of that Pittrick's staff.
59:43
Either way, talking about some offenses, how about Arkansas and
59:49
Missouri State this midweek session. Arkansas needs to get it going.
59:53
Speaking of things in this game, they need to get
59:55
it going. Caten boganpol I think he has the second
59:57
lowest ops on this Missouri State team. Not how we
1:00:00
drew it up, but man, they're still slugging in Missouri.
1:00:05
It's gonna be interesting. I think that this is going
1:00:07
to be a perfect get right opportunity for Arkansas, leading
1:00:13
into some heavy stuff in their upcoming weekend. But gentlemen,
1:00:18
great episode, effishing man, We've been efficient. I love this episode.
1:00:22
Lots of good chat, lots of good games, lots of
1:00:24
good bollocks. If I may be so bold, JB. Tell
1:00:29
the fine folks at home where they can find you
1:00:31
between our episodes of college baseball now and also what
1:00:34
you're working on.
1:00:36
Speaker 5: Yeah, JB underscores to Bastiano on Twitter. You know, been
1:00:39
doing a little bit since I've been gone. We've watched
1:00:41
a little bit of baseball. Did get to watch a
1:00:43
few of bats at UCLA while they were out there,
1:00:46
so that was fun. Recently went to watch some NHSI
1:00:49
action with Tampa Jesuit Saint John Bosco. Most notable name
1:00:54
is James Clark, as you know. You know we love
1:00:55
James Clark around here. And Cayden Walker. I believe it's
1:00:59
always me and Josh this conversation earlier, Wector, but I
1:01:04
walked your Wector. We don't know, but one of the two.
1:01:07
Speaker 1: I think I think it's walk actor guys.
1:01:09
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean why not, Yeah, of course, but yeah,
1:01:12
some good baseball so hopefully some on that soon and
1:01:14
that'll do it.
1:01:15
Speaker 1: Yeah, great man, glad to have you back. Just on
1:01:19
behalf of josh and myself and coach and the audience.
1:01:21
We're glad to have you back. Uh, Joshua, tell the
1:01:25
folks at home where they can find you between our
1:01:27
episodes and what's your working on.
1:01:29
Speaker 3: You can follow me at josh Catleer three, same content
1:01:33
stuff like usual on Twitter. I should have a live
1:01:35
looks in the next week ish out. I don't know.
1:01:38
I have a really busy week with other stuff going
1:01:40
on too, but I'm gonna try and like get some Yeah,
1:01:42
I know you can relate through trust me. I'm gonna
1:01:45
get something out because I've seen too much Georgia Tech baseball.
1:01:48
I've seen too many high prospects. Texas and c State
1:01:51
did not put something out there, So I'll get something
1:01:54
cooked up out there. It's fun to watch. I saw
1:01:56
some really impressive things yesterday fun Ballpark by Way. I
1:02:01
can only involve, but it was fun.
1:02:04
Speaker 1: Yeah, right there in the heart of the city, in.
1:02:07
Speaker 3: The very heart of the city. I mean, like the
1:02:10
I think I took a picture. It's one of my
1:02:12
favorite pictures I've ever taken where it's like right behind
1:02:14
home plate and just the entire city skylines right behind it.
1:02:17
It's super cool.
1:02:19
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1:02:21
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below who you thought had the worst weekend. But until
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next time, For JB, for Josh, I'm Drew. We will
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