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3 Guys Before The Game - Spring Smorgasboard (Episode 546) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, everyone, Come on in for just a little
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bit. It's time for three Guys before the game. We didn't realize it.
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We don't see each other before we come down in the studio. But
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it's a blue day. Not blue in the sense of sadness, but blue
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in the sense that everyone wore a blue shirt. I don't even know if
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that's our team color. Do we have any team colors? No? This
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is I mean mine is Yours is like North Carolina and Brad's is like two
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lane or something, and he went to went too lane Lane, gave it
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to Lane one. Mine is uh, Kansas State or It's kind of a
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mix of things. And that's what this addition is this episode. It's a
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smorgasb Board. This is the Spring Smorgasboard edition of the Three Guys Before the
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a weekend, What a weekend for the baseballers. They got a little something
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something going on over there. Rolling, They got a little something something going
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on over there. So what they are is their Friday night thieves. That's
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what they are. I mean, they have now just completed their second consecutive
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Big twelve sweep, and two weeks ago went into Kansas, laughed at Dorothy,
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pushed Toto aside, punched the tin man right in the face, kicked
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the lion right in the seat of his pants. Scarecrow. He ran like
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hell, he ran, So they rallied. If you remember against Kansas on
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Friday night, JJ weatherhol had a big one and they win that game Friday.
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Then they complete the sweep over Kansas that brings us to this weekend.
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And on Friday night, mother nature can we say, was not cooperative with
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the folks that tried to attend the game. And it was just one of
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those games where it was raw and wet and windy and blessed the hearts of
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every single person that stayed for the entirety of that game, and they rallied
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again to win, and you get the win on Friday Saturday. It was
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one of those days that you stopped, if you took two steps back and
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just analyzed everything inside that stadium on Saturday, it was the fruition of a
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dream. Now, I'm kno going to to get all field to dreams on
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you in Iowa Cornfields. However, you had that moment when you looked around
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on Saturday. The weather's perfect, A little breezy out there to the left,
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little breezy, but you're sitting on that site and you think back to
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the days of Hawley Field where Texas when they first came wouldn't get off the
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bus. They just like go take their bat like no dugout. It was
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just it was not good. And then you walk around there's four thousand plus
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people in there, the weather's perfect, it's a difficult place to play.
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And West Virginia again just gets fantastic picture, fantastic pitching again, another complete
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game, second game in a row that he gets the start and goes one
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hundred and twenty three pitches on the nose one twenty three against Kansas, won
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twenty three complete game victory, and West Virginia again rallies. That's Derek d
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C. D C had Clark and Jay. You got everything you wanted.
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JJ Weatherholt comes to the plate absolutely destroyed a baseball, made a baseball unusable
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hit, a four hundred and five feet went off of like thinking left like
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off of his bat, like six hundred and ninety two miles an hour,
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or maybe off a mile or two. Are you getting a phone call?
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We're interrupting you? Oh you think I should tell you that? Yeah?
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Probably not, Colin rep Yeah, anyway, he's coming to Charleston next week.
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Yeah he is. Yeah, who was it, Coach Beeline? Wow,
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you just like I ghosted Coach Beline. I mean bigger things, hoppy,
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I'm talking with you, I'm talking with the people. But he's going
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to be in Charleston next week for the Mountaineer Scholarship dinner. Really yeah,
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and uh he's looking forward to that. So yeah, Coach bee Line will
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be anyway. So it was just pristine. It was perfect West Virginia Rallies.
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It was a fantastic day for two and come behind victories two for two.
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Then yesterday, yesterday, I didn't make it over. I was mowing
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the lawn, but I had the game on my headphones and it didn't look
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promising at the start, right right, did not look promising? Yeah,
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they just if it wasn't wasn't good early and it was one of those days.
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It's Sunday baseball man in college, like you might use a few pictures.
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And West Virginia ended up using eight. They used up eight, but
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again it was movie like. West Virginia Rallies tie the game up in the
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ninth, they send it to extra innings, can't get head runners on board.
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In the tenth, couldn't get them across, goes to the eleventh.
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West Virginia got unbelievable, unbelievable relief pitching and gatain Van camping. Yeah,
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three and three and two thirds scoreless in relief. Hoppy shut down eight in
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a row at one point. Incredible. So he did his deal and then
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the bats came up and it was storybook right. Tumbley comes up to the
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bat, gets it and absolutely dusts one, jet streamed one out of the
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ballpark. He jet streamed one and the Mountaineers World champion Mountaineers complete a sweep.
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And now that's seven in a row in the league, right because they
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had won the last game against Oki State. If I'm not mistaken, seven
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in a row in the league, they're in first place. Hello to your
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swan song, Randy Mazy. So far, so good. Now obviously still
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a ton to go. But you get these ones in your pocket as quickly
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as you can and you can never take them up. That puts them right
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on the verge up. They should get some votes this week to being ranked.
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That's a top twenty five win over UCF. Three come from behind victories
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down four runs two different times in the game yesterday, hop including after the
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top of the first But if you were watching that game, could you could
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tell, okay, you're down by four here, just hang tight. That
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win was a blowing hard to left. So that's one of those games.
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Yes, Sunday, you may not have your full staff. Although West virgin
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he was in great shape because the Clark's complete game. But you're gonna get
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win gusting like that, you're gonna have to mix some guys in. The
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batting was unbelievable. Chumley was great, came back to hit that walk off
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after getting hit in the head. He got dude, that was scary.
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Yeah, that was bounces right back next to that bat goes huh, he
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got it. I mean when when you looked at it, it almost looked
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like if he didn't have that protector on in front of her right, that's
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exactly I mean, that would have drilled him in the face. Still got
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a little news I think on him, and he left the game at that
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point for concussion check and was able to re enter. He was because which
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was good because you're basically on the players. Randy was using that whole roster
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there to get in here. Here's the other shout out to Kyle West continues
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to just mash about the story. That is kid from Charleston, Hoppy came
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University of Charleston and just is absolutely crushing the ball. What is that five
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in his last seven games eight home runs overall, he hit some seeds.
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All those dudes. That's a that's a team you can love. One of
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the best sports movies of all time is Bull Durham. It is and stright
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up there with Gone with the Winner, Crash Well sports movies. I said,
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oh and crash Davis says a player on a streak has to respect the
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streak, and then it goes on to talk about some other things. Whatever
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you're doing, So whatever, whatever underwear they're wearing and not changing, whatever
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pregame meal they're having, whatever. Brad, you, as a baseball player
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probably had some idiosyncrasies. Probably if there's one group you don't have to talk
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to you about idiosyncrasies and superstition, it's the baseball guys. So whatever you're
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doing, because they're on a heater, they're on a heater. And not
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just not just winning games like seven in a row and now tied for first
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place with Oklahoma, but the way they are doing it is you guys talked
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about coming from behind, down four, come back, down four, come
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back, game winning home run by Chumley, you know, a walk off.
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I mean that that kind of stuff is just you're on a roll and
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the advantage of that is not only are you in first place having this run
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right now, but what Brad, you believe confidence? You believe down four?
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Okay, So that confidence builder that's going on. Yeah, and to
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a season that that started out kind of shaky. Of course they had injuries
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in twenty Yeah, twenty games you don't have. You don't have. But
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now they got guys, and now they're now they're on a roll. Man,
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you get, you get Hussy back, you get Weatherhole back, get
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save back up. Makes a makes a little bit of a difference to your
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lineup from where it was early. Friend of the podcast, JJ, Weatherhole,
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you got a little piss man. Well he got hit that second time.
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Ninety four miles I get it. He should hit by pitches in the
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series. Yeah, ninety four miles per hour. Right in a back.
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We should do that with you hopes. I mean because a lot of times
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you want to get the feel like you wanted to go out there, you
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know, try to catch a punt or something like that. How about a
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ninety four mile an hour right in your back. I would rather try to
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catch a punk than take a ninety four mile an hour fastball, especially there.
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They got a lot of patting there, you know what, anywhere,
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not a whole I don't want to take a ninety four mile on hour fastball.
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Yeah, you know what, Well, that was going to migrate into
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something else, but that that. You know, all these major league pittures
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now are getting injured because everybody's thrown a hundred miles an hour all the time
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and they have to pitch in nine seconds. That's the complaint that I don't
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center you buying into that. I don't think it's a pitch. I'll buy
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into it. No. I think guys are throwing more pitches at a younger
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age. I think they're throwing more, more curveballs at a younger age,
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more stress on the arm, and I think that the the arm's not meant
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to throw one hundred and one hundred and two. That used to be unusual
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if a guy was touching ninety eight ninety nine hopies. Right now it's it's
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regular. Guys are and it's happening earlier in games too. That's one thing
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to study. I was just reading about those those high velocity pitches are starting
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earlier in a game where guys aren't as greased up with it. So no,
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probably not. Also and everybody they're pushing them for And I don't know
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this much about it. I just read about it because I was interested in.
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They're pushing for more spin on the ball. You know, all these
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things are trying to do and you just you're not physiologically, you're not built
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to do that. And what there was a major league team I read about
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the other day. All five starters throw it over one hundred miles an hour.
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Yeah, are the starters. It used to just be the guy in
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a bullpen that were one starter. Than a guy in a bullpen would come
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in and throw and throw against three guys one hundred miles an hour to get
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a starter, and Nolan Ryan would could get up there. JR. Richard
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Good, j Richard Red. You didn't get a lot of them. Well,
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when Chapman came in, it was a big deal because he threw it
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a one hundred mile an hour plus. Right now, now everybody throws everybody
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yeah, I didn't mean to digress. No, I mean biomechanically. Let's
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face the reality of it is, this throwing a baseball at one hundred plus
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miles per hour. This wasn't made to do that. You're you're you're on
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a limited pitch count as a pitcher. You just know it. And just
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you're talking about I wouldn't stand I wouldn't stand in there. I mean,
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I'm not sorry. You wouldn't see it coming. You're right, I wouldn't
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see it. You wouldn't see it. Wouldn't matter, I wouldn't see it.
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I might not be in the dugout. So everyone left. Everyone left
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the stadium yesterday over three thousand and nine hand They left happy, including the
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dogs. It was bark in the park and there was a lot of cane
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out there, and so even the dogs went home happy. And uh,
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that's a good day. That's a good day. So tomorrow we record Monday,
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the fifteenth of April. Tomorrow they got the pit Panthers here and they'll
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try to keep try to keep their winning ways going. That's always a good
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one too. And this weekend impressive. This weekend, it gets real real.
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I go to Lubbock play them in Texas techers and that's a good atmosphere
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as well. Yeah. Absolutely, I'm not saying I'm just gonna say you
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want to play and play them when you're hot. Well yeah, okay,
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I'm with you. So that's what we have there. Congratulations of those dudes,
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and it's baseball has that streak mentality more than a lot of other sports.
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Yes, right, yes, next up Mountaineer basketball. Everyone was getting
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a little concerned, Hey, what's going on, what's up with the staff,
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what's going on with all players? I got kids. So the overall
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thing was assistant coaches. Nothing as we record, has been officially announced,
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but the pieces are coming together. And you know, from what I understand,
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coaches in this weekend shopping around for homes, you know, hopey home,
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little home research, things like that. So it's all it's all coming
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together. And I mean, are you going to drop some names? You're
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just be gon say o, all no, people are in town shopping.
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I mean no, It's it's pretty much a foregone, foregone conclusion that West
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Virginia is ready to or they're going to announce here, I would imagine shortly.
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Nelson Hernandez as the general manager of the Mountaineer basketball club, and he's
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got a pretty interesting background and comes after just one season at Oklahoma State,
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So he would be the guy that would be overseen, you know, player
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personnel, portal recruiting in the sense that, okay, what do we need?
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What do we got? How I don't know if you'd say that,
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okay, he would be aware of it, he'd be away. He may
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not a cap, so you don't have to say cap, but oversee the
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salary structure. I mean there's a cap in that you'll have so much money
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that's a natural cap. No, I understand. I understand, and also
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looks at those centers are in a luxury tax when you go over an arbitrary
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number that's put in place. So it's talk to a guy this weekend in
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the basketball world that had talked to someone who had attended Rick Patino's press conference
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down at the Arkansas last week, and he said they got five million for
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their nil and one of the thoughts was pay ten, dudes, five You
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don't mean you mean cal Perry? Cal Perry, what did I say?
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I'm sorry, he said, Rick Patino. Oh geezuh wrong guy, same
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vowl. At the end of the dame at the end name five hund for
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ten dudes. He was going to try. They were thinking about going five
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hund for ten dudes and make them play together. Yeah, I mean the
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rates continue to go up. Some have said that that fund may climb to
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as much as seven million. So ray continues to go up. Yeah wow.
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Yeah. Speaking of press conferences, I got to give Kentucky a lot
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of credit. Now, want to say that Mark Poe press conference. It
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was nice. That's a couple of things. Hoppy. They sold it in
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sell oxen, we're selling tickets. Arena was full capacity, so what is
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that twenty twenty two to twenty three, A lot of people there. Prey
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damn four. I mean you can poopy that if you want. Go watch
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the video. That's pretty damn full. And that's about as loud as you're
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gonna hear a press conference. So he played on their ninety six championship team,
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and when they won the ninety six championship, at the celebration, they
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rolled their charter bus right into Roupp Arena and they all came up and they
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did their celebration. They recreated that pulled the bus in, had the ninety
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six team get off to cheers Pope's last off holding up the championship trophy.
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It was it was tremendous. That's about as good of a press conference entrance
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as you'll ever see. I give them a ton of credit. It was
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loudish, as you like to say. Won the president. Yeah, they
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won the press conference big time. He he was. I thought he was
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outstanding. So a lot of really good He was outstanding. Yeah, said
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a lot of really good things. That's a great hire. That's like,
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that is a great hire. I was impressed by those dudes when they came
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in with the byus. You hear anything on Byuh No, but I'm not.
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Han't been looking. Yeah, that'll be interesting just to watch. Just
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follow Samiel on Twitter. Oh you're not going after that one. You're not
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going to try to lock up with him on that one. I'm done.
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I'm done with all of that. Excuse me over it. Really, they
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have had a couple guys under the portal though, as you would imagine,
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why I take a couple of dudes you can shoot that ball. Yeah,
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they were good, they were good. Okay, uh Senator, looks as
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though we almost may have an Illinois assistant joining the fold. Yeah, there's
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reports out there from the Illinois side of things. Chester Frasier, one of
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the assistants there at Illinois maybe on the move and may be headed to West
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Virginian potentially a report out this morning as we record this on Monday, that
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may be bringing a kid from Illinois with him transfer portal. How about that.
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Yeah, it's usually helpful, So we'll see. Yeah, we'll see
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how that goes. As we said last week, part of the Dowry that's
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the old school Dowry hobby. Yeah, you bring a little something. Well
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else you're bringing with you? Yeah, what do you bring? Well?
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The reason we mentioned that last week we just needed to everybody needed to just
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calm down. There's a lot of angst in Mountaineerland that nothing was happening,
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no assistance, no players, nothing was going on. Nothing was happening.
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Nothing'll be He'll be all right. Saw coach all right, saw coach DeVries
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at the ball game on Saturday. They had three well, they had four
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recruits in including his son. So Tucker's already signed, so you had three
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others in addition, so they had three new guys. Potentially. Now it's
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just gonna be coming in every time you look at a list of top transfers,
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Tucker Devrez is either one or two. Yeah, good starting point,
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right, good starting point there. So that'll that'll develop more as this week
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goes on, you'll start to see more and more pieces come together. Went
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over to the footballers. Watched a little bit earlier today and this is the
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second to last week. They're gonna go Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Next
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week Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday. Spring game is a week from this coming
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Saturday. All seems to be going well in the Western Front. Had a
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couple of visitors. I had a young man by the name of Zach Frasier
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and Doug Nester. They are watching practice and it was funny. There were
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some drills going on and then they call everybody up and they were getting ready
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to go a little eleven on eleven and Nestor looks a Fraser goes, come
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on, let's go down here. They're getting ready to play real football.
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It was Lineman. They don't they don't like it. They don't like the
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drills, not big drill, not big drill. Guys like special teams bore
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them. They just they're just like, come on, let's go, let's
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go do a little bit of this, So that's going on. That's going
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on. You know, we talk about one of the guys, and maybe
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we talked about this in the previous show, but I know that Metro News
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did a feature on him. But it's going to be good to have Trey
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Lathan back. You know, Brad remember the year he was having freshman All
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American type here before he got hurt in that I think TCU game. I
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mean he was and he had a he had a bad break. So I
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hope he's going to be back in full force. But I mean that he's
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back, he's out there practicing full force. He's a full note right now.
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That's that's a guy who was immediately making I mean, that's the guy
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that stood out immediately. He was making an impact early. Now he's back.
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That's yeah. And we've said this a couple of times. We'll dive
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more into it. I'm excited to watch this linebacker position. You get him
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back. He's, as you said, was outstanding. Josiah Trotters, the
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guy you talked a lot about last year. Coaches are raving about him this
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spring. Ben Cotters and Huts played all seasons, stepped into a starting role
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and you don't even really talk about him. We haven't said his name much
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this spring. Kayden Biser got significant snaps. Reid Karko comes in as a
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four star out of high school transfer from Ohio State. You've got some depth
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for the first time at that linebacker position in a long time, with some
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potentially a couple of really high end guys. And while you you really would
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not have wanted guys to get injured, but the fact that they were and
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the cutter came in and played as much as he did. Really, he
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comes in as a guy who knows, yes, absolutely right, Yeah,
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that position is gonna be fun. You know, he's having a good spring.
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Pac Man Fox, you would expect that. Yeah, with me from
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pac Man. Pac Man Fox is playing playing really well, doing really he
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made a couple of catches last year that were just freaks, like freak catches.
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Yeah, and one he got hurt on. Oh all right, he
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went up. Yeah, that's those. He had a couple over the middle
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like that where he elevated. He's got that receiver group's gonna gonna pop forth
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too. He's got intestinal for it and in fact, actually punt return yardage.
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I mean, I mean we're not, we're relatively we concept is that
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what you're saying that far separated from don't put anyone back and that being the
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right decision. If you remember when Dana did that in the game, that
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was actually the right decision, as bad as it had been. Yeah,
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pac Man, Fox has stabilized that. Yeah, got a little new got
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in a little new help in special teams. He got Chris Herring form Mountaineer
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Linebackers special teams. He is a consultant on special teams, so a new
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pair of eyes. He had been with Paul christ It was a Wisconsin for
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a number of years. So it's good to see him back in the right
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colors, golden blue, the right golden player, the right golden blue.
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Because he was up there with Paul when Paul was up the road at pitt
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for a little while. So everyone has to have, you know, some
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form of cleansing, and obviously Chris clean things up there, and so he's
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back. This defense overall has a chance mm hmm. Right if you get
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some because think about that, what we just said, stabilize the middle of
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the field hobby, and then if you get some of these pass rushers that
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pan out a TJ. Jackson and a Tay French, two new guys add
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into Sean Martin, who's had a really good spring. So you've got a
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chance to get a pass rush and a second line of defense, and then
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you mix in some of these incoming defensive backs. I think they've upgraded talent
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there significantly. This could be a fun unit to watch. And we're not
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guilty of spring fever? Are we spring fever? Where you just get you
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know, because we're not over the top predicting a Big twelve title here,
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we're just saying, I mean, listen, the pieces look better, the
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paces. Look what I just said about linebackers. Go ahead and pick that
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apart if you can, you can't. Trotter's looked great. You saw Latham
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was really good, and you've got an experience in Ben Cutter. The other
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two you'll see how they react. Right, Those linemen t J. Jackson,
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Ti French have looked really good. They've got to translate up a level
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from Gardner Webb and from Troy, but they've shown flashes. Sean Martin you've
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already seen make plays. It's just a matter of it. Can he elevate
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his game up and make more and more consistently, and those defensive actually getting
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the two guys from Northwestern in particular that have already played high level defense at
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a big time school. Eighten Garns is a question, right, they've loved
24:15
him so far, the Ducane corner that transferred in and how what I'd say
24:18
about him is, you've seen this cornerback position at West Virginia Underneil Tait,
24:23
guys from a lower level and elevate up into turn into stars. Right.
24:29
Alonzo Adye was one, Charles Woods was one. Have you heard of a
24:32
guy named Beanie Bishop that came immediately from Minnesota but before that had elevated himself
24:37
up. So that's a blueprint that has worked. So she'd be excited about
24:40
Eighten Garnes as well. Yeah, a couple of things to your point and
24:45
your question, are you caught in spring fever? Because spring fever when August
24:49
comes in, you get caught in August fever. And do you sit here
24:52
and you rave about these guys and you rave about well this is going to
24:56
be da da da da. Here's what I think is a fair statement to
25:02
make. Because someone asked me that this weekend. They said, well,
25:06
here's what I think we've reached the point. We've returned to the point in
25:11
our football program that now, week in and week out, we will be
25:18
extremely competitive to play at a very high level. Prior to this year,
25:25
I think we were on a rebuild, rebuild, rebuild to try to get
25:30
the balance back that this program had. Now we're there, we can be
25:36
competitive. We had to smoke and mirror a lot of things over the last
25:38
several years at various positions, trying to make up for weaknesses. At least
25:44
you've now filled the cupboard up and now you got a chance. Now,
25:48
how does that translate. The ball's weird, the ball shape weird, a
25:52
tip, a fumble, a pick, a missfield goal, those are the
25:57
things going to ultimately out determine games. But you will not get outclassed or
26:03
run off, which potentially could have happened in the last several years on a
26:10
somewhat frequent basis. I think that's well said. I would add to that.
26:15
Previously, previously, last year, the margin was so narrower that it
26:21
was very hard, if not impossible, to overcome a mistake or a couple
26:25
of mistakes. And when you're a good team or a better team, you
26:27
can make you don't want to, but you can make a couple of mistakes.
26:30
But Brad, you're good enough to offset that correct Okay, yeah,
26:37
which I think is clear. You saw that from the offense last year.
26:40
But here's the other thing, Hup, that I think keeps you out of
26:42
the spring fever category for this particular year is a lot of these guys were
26:48
referring to you've seen perform. I mean, I don't have to sell hope
26:53
with quarterback Garrett Green, do I right? How about the running back room?
26:56
Does that seem pretty solid? How about the receiver room. You saw
27:00
him produce at a freshman level, the expectation that they move forward, that's
27:03
a reasonable expectation. And even offensive line that to me, I don't know
27:07
that there's a ton of question marks on this team. Offensive line is because
27:11
you can't lose one of the greatest in school history at a primary position and
27:15
just go Okay, everything's good. You're going to leave the country and power
27:18
five rushing cards again. I think that to me is the question. But
27:22
again, you're plugging in with guys that you've all seen perform, so you're
27:25
not asking them to come from nowhere into the lineup you're just asking to stay
27:29
consistent over more snaps that you're going to get. So that's what I think
27:32
the difference is. For the first time under Neil, there is so many
27:34
different guys that you've actually seen perform at a high level that translated into wins
27:40
that are now coming back and you're just looking for some improvement from them.
27:44
You've got stabilization. Yeah, we had some we had some de stable times,
27:49
unstable times, and now you've finally got a point of that. You're
27:52
stabilized again. That doesn't guarantee you anything when it comes to wins and losses,
27:57
but it puts you in a good position to win. Yeah, it
28:00
improves your chances significantly, that would be my answer. Yeah, what do
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you think? What do you think? Well, we all know football,
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man, We've seen enough seasons. We know comes down to injuries. Who
28:11
gets hurt, when they get hurt at what position, comes down to mistakes
28:14
and turnovers and things like that. That's what determines it. But at least
28:18
you've got the opportunity your injuries and their injuries. Sure, that's the other
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30:33
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30:37
I just try to buy some of the concessions. Stand. He said,
30:40
don't take cash. That's a lot of place. Times are changing, man,
30:47
right center, times are changing. Try to write your check. That's
30:53
what it is. I mean, that's coming to the Coliseum. I think
30:56
next year for football. Yeah, cash News. Yeah. At one point
31:00
during the baseball game, I was standing there on concourse third baseline. We
31:03
needed one guard. We needed one guard, and we could have had a
31:07
starting offensive line. What do you mean, Well, we had Nick Malone,
31:14
we had Wyatt Milem We had Brandon Yates, noted baseball player. Yeah,
31:18
he knew what was going on. We had Brandon Yates, and we
31:21
had Johnny Williams. He could have played a tackle. All you needed was
31:23
one guard and you would have been see you you could be the tight end
31:29
who doesn't fit into that category. Yeah, so those guys were out there.
31:32
Beanie was at the game. You mentioned Beanie. Beanie was Beanie was
31:34
at the ball game. I mean it was star studded crew were out that's
31:38
strong people watching that thing. Man? Is that ballpark changed everything? Ballpark
31:44
plus Randy Maze changed everything, didn't It's a classic. If you build it,
31:48
they will come, and they have when you think about it. Yep,
31:51
really really good. I said this during the game Saturday. Are you
31:55
quoting yourself? Yeah? If you took the attendance from Saturday's game, it
31:59
would probably be double the entire season's attendance cumulatively at holly Field. Senator,
32:10
Well you I mean you couldn't go to holly I mean Hollyfield was my goodness.
32:15
You had a lot, I mean midweek game at holly Field. You
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it's the cool thing, cool thing to do. You guys ready to
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last I did give her give her credit mask. That's it's pretty hard to
33:49
do. That's that's big. I mean, you keep wondering, Brad,
33:52
is it going to get bigger? Well, it keeps getting bigger. That's
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the NBA Draft Monday Night does not record. Mm hmm. Text, Tony.
34:02
Have you had a chance to see the new uniforms that will be unveiled
34:06
during the spring game? Also, are there any stadium upgrades fans should look
34:10
forward to in the fall? No, I have not seen the new uniforms.
34:19
What are the changes? Do you know? In regard to what the
34:22
uniforms are changed? Yeah, this year we're wearing red and green. Really
34:27
unconfirmed. It's really it's special. It's a good look. Is it just
34:30
it has to be like nuanced changes? Yeah, don't. I don't follow
34:32
it, right. There's some people out there that, I mean, are
34:36
the uniforms is a big deal? I understand for some Yeah, I understand
34:39
that. I don't disprespect them. I'm just saying I don't. I don't
34:42
personally follow it me. Brad's a big uniform gun. Have you heard anything,
34:45
Senator? But I do, like, can't wait, can't wait to
34:49
see him. I was over there with the equipment guys today at practice.
34:52
They had two pieces on that I had not seen before. You know,
34:55
Austin, Senator, Sure, Austin. Austin's a who's a man in charge
35:01
of equipment over there, along with Danny Nealen and Nolan. Nolan's a great
35:05
kid from Fairmount works down there, great kids, young man that works down
35:08
there in the conditioning room. And they both had pieces on that I had
35:12
not seen before. One had a flying WV and then mountaintops underneath it.
35:19
I thought that was kind of neat. And then Austin had a really like
35:22
a puckered material, a gray puckerd that was kind of like little puckers on
35:28
a pullover like a waffle print, a waffle print with a pullover on.
35:31
And he had the state with like a star and then Morgantown there. I
35:37
thought that was kind of neat. I like that so kind kind of interesting.
35:42
Those guys come up with all this stuff, I said, who who's
35:44
designing that stuff? You have Versace Gucci? I mean who's doing this dead?
35:49
Well, I mean he's still got the company going, probably done,
35:52
Ad Tellen, maybe working on for Sanci. I knew Versace was dead.
35:59
Poor buddy. He took it the hard way. Man. He freaking assassinate
36:01
it, you know. Elton John wrote that song empty Garden of Barb Versace.
36:07
Oh did he take a listen to it? Texter Tony. Neil Brown
36:14
sometimes talks about you miss with a recruit. I think he missed with Brad.
36:22
No catch, no completion, no punt catch, no uniform. Come
36:27
on, man, So Neil offered Brad. Now this text thinks that Brad
36:34
he missed my offering Brad. He thinks Brad didn't fulfill his scholarship. I
36:38
wore the uniform. Fake news on that text. I wear the uniform.
36:44
He says. I appreciate the coverage on the phone. You see that all
36:46
the time. Hope these guys are gonna go pro. They just say I'm
36:49
not over workout separately, I'm not gonna work out here. I'm not gonna
36:51
work And again I had counsel CJ. Donaldson said, defer to the second
36:54
half, don't run. He says, I appreciate the coverage on the fantasy
36:58
camp. But I'm hoping that's spread on stats could give us a little more
37:00
data. Interested in knowing the average kickoff distance, average hangtime on punts average
37:07
forty times among the participants. Thank you Kevin and Charles. Did they want
37:10
to run fast in the forty did you remember bred? I just probably have
37:15
to attend the fantasy camp there to find that out. See. And it
37:17
was a major recruiting success by Neil Brown because he recruited Brad. Brad went,
37:24
and we've talked about it and talked about it. Neil wouldn't do anything
37:30
like that. Neil wouldn't I assumed. I think Neil just probably wanted Brad
37:34
around because he's such a warm, cuddly figure. I think I think Coach
37:37
Brown's pretty savvy. Had a fun time Earl and Elkins. Do you'll get
37:43
meals? Do you get meals? Oh? There was food, okay,
37:46
but it was just it was a one day, right, it's not.
37:49
It was like a day and a half. You don't stay at towers or
37:51
anything? Did not okay, say at towers? Okay, you didn't have
37:55
a roommate, did you as a home game? Good? Good? Nineteen
38:00
go to the hotel. You didn't walk over from the facilities building the towers
38:06
to get your food. Not Earl and Elkins rights probably not his real name
38:13
of curfew following TC following you on the platform formerly known as Twitter, What
38:20
is now x Y or Z anyway, looks like you had an explosive weekend
38:23
in your kitchen. I saw the omelet and the pizza. Anything else and
38:30
when can I come over and eat? I love the show, Earl Elkins.
38:32
I saw your tweet. Yeah that was the omelet. The omelet was
38:37
really good. Like people's to stop by your house. You go, it's
38:39
old school. Let me fix you something you hungry. I did it twice
38:43
this weekend. I did it twice this weekend. Yeah, I did it
38:45
with that. I did it with that. So those peppers, people want
38:50
to know about those. So I did the pizza when I came home after
38:52
the baseball game, and it was late, so I only ate. I
38:55
made two of those, but I only ate half a one not like.
39:00
And then yesterday someone else came over and I had that done, had a
39:04
roasted chicken done. I had to had lemon, had lemon and onions in
39:07
there, roasted that in a cast iron skillet in the oven one hundred and
39:12
to three seventy five or one hour and twenty came out just succulent. Why
39:15
didn't you fold the omelet over a little bit more? Because why'd you go
39:20
open face omelet? Because I tried to and the peppers are too heavy.
39:22
It was going to lead to a tear. I said, fine, leaving
39:25
it as is. No one seemed to complain. It looked good, it
39:30
looked delicious. Yeah, hey, guys, p one listern. But I
39:35
have not texted in a while. I want to share a little story.
39:37
I'm in Tampa for the winter. Recently decided to try a local barbecue place
39:42
that was voted Florida's best by Southern Living. Oh it's called Big John's Alabama
39:46
Barbecue. I know Tony would love it. Great meats and sides. As
39:51
I look around the place, I noticed several framed jersey but the first to
39:53
catch one my eye was none other than West Virginia's own k Jay Harris.
39:58
How about that. There's always a West Virginia connection, right. I didn't
40:01
get to talk to an owner or family member about why they had it,
40:04
but being a Tampa guy, I'm guessing you may have eaten there got me
40:07
thinking that he'd be a good guest for the summer series. Maybe you could
40:10
ask him about the connection for me, and if you come to Tampa in
40:15
the winter spring months, I'd be happy to take you for barbecue. Signed
40:17
by Mark from Tampa via Buchannan. Yeah, kJ. How many yards did
40:22
he have against East Carolina? Three thousand, three hundred? He had three
40:27
hundred. If you had three some, yeah, three some yeah. I'll
40:30
never forget that game season opener. If I'm not mistaken for some reason,
40:36
I want to say yes, but I'm not sure. Uh. Texter MJ
40:42
writes she's an Augusta Masters. I've worked that tournament for twenty plus years.
40:46
I'm out on the course. I'm always on the lookout for a West Virginia
40:51
logo to tire from the patrons. When I observe, I give a quiet
40:54
shout out let's go Mountaineers, which is always reciprocated. This year, I've
40:59
also been quiet Lea's singing Sweet Carolina while the passer buys, enduring the adoring
41:04
the flying WV and at a one hundred percent clip. So far it has
41:07
been responded with a laugh by eight blank pit My God, wv fans are
41:13
the greatest. That's good at MJ. West Virginia opened against East Carolina two
41:16
thousand and four, one fifty six to something. kJ Harris said three thirty
41:22
seven. Yeah, so I was the opener three thirty seven. Steven Tennessee
41:30
writes, here's my story about wvu's sports and what it means to our culture.
41:35
In the fall of nineteen eighty four, I was fourteen years old and
41:38
my grandfather asked to come by to my house to watch the Penn State game.
41:43
He was a coal mine boss usually worked Saturday, so this was a
41:45
rare treat. After the seventeen to fourteen victory, the first over the Nitney
41:50
Lions since my father was three years old, my Poppas said, well,
41:53
now I can die in peace. I laughed at the time because I didn't
41:58
know he was serious. Unbeknownst to us, earlier that month he had received
42:02
a double diagnosis of stage three lung cancer compounded by black lung disease. The
42:08
following spring, at the ripe age of sixty four, he passed away.
42:13
Since that time, victories over PSU have been few and far between. But
42:17
this fall I will have the blessing of watching the Mountaineers take on the old
42:22
Goblin's team with my recently born first grandson. I'll just say this, it's
42:27
not just the SEC teams who can accurately say it just means more Steven Tennessee,
42:34
Wow, good one, Steve Yeah, awesome man, Hoppy last episode
42:40
at the end, perhaps for those that turned it off before, we had
42:45
a situation involving you eggs in a microwave oven. Yes, sir, it
42:51
kind of took off on the internet, social media a stuff. So I've
42:58
got a couple of responses now a text to that situation. If you remember
43:05
I said I was an idiot. Well, in addition, I use the
43:10
term Dnpegg did not play egg and this texter says nothing else needs said Mike
43:17
drop moment Tony can walk away from his radio and broadcasting career. Happy man.
43:22
My mother in law about died from a microwaved egg boil gone bad,
43:27
door flew open, knocked her down some by the big guy in mullins Y.
43:32
See, you were in peril's way. I was lucky, hey fellas
43:37
Mike from the Conley CPA group, one of my clients now has a coffee
43:43
stained k one thanks to me hearing DNP egg mid sip all timer. Oh,
43:52
by the way, today's the day, isn't it. Yes, for
43:54
all our CPA's out there, hits the fifteenth, So after midnight tonight they
44:02
can go back to putting their feet up on their desk and just chilling out,
44:07
except for all the people who file for an extension. Remember, an
44:10
extension is not an extension to pay. That is correct. It's just an
44:15
extension to file, that is correct. Texter. On episode five four five,
44:20
you made fun of our beloved Hopy for trying to make hard boiled eggs
44:22
in the microwave. You can make hard boiled eggs in a microwave, you
44:27
can, but you have to use technology. Here's a new item for episode
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eight hundred dot com right there, Hoppy Craig not Craig from Craigsville wu's class
44:37
of seventy two. So apparently they got this device where you put the egg
44:38
in there and it makes them hard boiled and you can use it. I
44:43
would stop the explosion from happening. I don't know. I would just say
44:45
I kind of have PTSD. Yeah, I'm not sure. I want to
44:47
give it a second stuff. Thanks Craig, not your real name, I
44:51
realized, but stay away. Well, listening to the episode, try that
44:53
again, see if it still blow it up on it. Maybe that was
44:58
just one time freak accident. I'm gonna put those in there again. While
45:05
listening to the episode most recent, I got to wondering about something from basketball
45:09
season. Brad has said the national champions are usually top twenty five in offense
45:15
and defense. Is there anything like that that pertains the football? Good question.
45:20
No, not that I've seen. Maybe you could effort on that.
45:23
I'll say, thank you. Guess who's moving p one Jason in Tulsa,
45:34
wouldn't I remember? He used to be in Dallas, then he moved to
45:37
Tulsa. He's moving out of Tulsa, moving out of Tulsa. Here we
45:40
go. Hey, guys, I want to let you know I'm entering the
45:43
portal again. Next time I text, I will be p one Jason in
45:47
Phoenix. Wo good thing. It's somehow still Big Twelve territory. That got
45:52
me thinking. I realized that the Big Twelve is the only conference with effectively
45:55
all four time zones of the continuous to contiguous United States. Arizona does not
46:02
do daylight savings, so half the year they're Pacific. The other half they're
46:07
Mountain. You thought they struggled with the time zones for game times before.
46:10
What the hell are they going to do now? They'll have to hire my
46:14
old WVU calculus professor Adam Goodie Coons to get it right. Good guy on
46:20
the Pete Patula Mension. I was in the same class as his old as
46:22
brother Joseph at Carmichael's Area High School, home of the Mighty Mikes. Joe
46:28
made the mistake of going to Penn State. I could walk to his house
46:30
from mine and used to deliver the Green County Observer Reporter to his neighbor,
46:34
mister Holmes, a house I helped build with my uncle. What a small
46:37
world. I love the show I'll see at those games in Arizona. But
46:42
wait a minute, Tucson, I think is only mountain time joking. There's
46:52
a lot of confusion coming on time zones. I think I think it is
46:57
sure Texter Professor Vinnie. I'm working out at my school gym, Saint Xavier
47:07
University that's in Illinois, and in walks a gentleman sporting a WUVU shirt.
47:13
A rare sight at SXU. I strike up a conversation. It turns out
47:17
he's the head baseball coach at the school. His wife, she's from Fairmont.
47:23
Huge WVU fan, and he used to coach at Salem, and you
47:28
guessed at Salem, West Virginia. Always a West Virginia connection, of course,
47:34
Texter Jim the poet laureate chiming in on always a West Virginia connection.
47:38
Even down under. I'm watching Australian football when this banner appears. Look at
47:45
that in the stands at Australian rules football. Oh well, oh boy horn
47:49
to sign Wayne in Clarksburg, writes from the always a West Virginia Connection file.
47:57
John Caliperry's only returning at Arkansas is Lawson Blake. His father was born
48:04
in Huntington, parents were from Milton, still has relatives in state. My
48:08
wife included. Lawson got in the game for one and a half seconds when
48:14
they beat Gonzaga a couple of years ago. His dad texted to say that
48:17
Lawson and Jalen Williams combined to shutdown Drew. Timmy, what a great opportunity
48:22
that young man has to be a team leader for a senior season. Arizona
48:29
is in Mountain Time and most of the state does not observe daylight savings time.
48:34
However, the Navajo Nation in the northeastern part of the state does observe
48:37
daylight saving time. It follows Mountain daylight time from March through November, and
48:43
daylight savings time is in effect when daylight saving time is in effect. So
48:47
the advantage there is when Arizona comes here, they won't know what time it
48:51
is. Yeah, they'll be so shout out, they'll have no idea.
48:53
They might not know what day it is. Yeah, you're on that one.
48:59
Philip from Philip writes checking in Soaked in Charleston. Wanted to share a
49:04
funny story. While I was at a meeting for work, my team won
49:08
Starbucks gift cards for doing a great job. I didn't realize I worked for
49:14
Hoppy when I realized the gift card was only five dollars. Maybe I can
49:19
get a water counting down the days to August thirty first. Can't wait to
49:23
see the world Champaigne Mountaineers live in the stadium. Hop You've got a heck
49:28
of a rap about being the scrooge of of gift cards and things like that,
49:35
And you know what what it's totally merited. Yeah, probably. I
49:38
mean I would say a little bit frugal. Yeah, don't get me start.
49:43
By the way, when I gave that ten dollars a gift certificate,
49:45
no, I was five. No, it was ten five. It wasn't
49:50
five. Yeah back in the day. Well you got one. Yeah,
49:54
yeah, did you use it? It's upstairs. Haven't used it? Well
50:00
you should have used it. Because of inflation, you can't get anything back.
50:04
Then you could have gotten lunch. Probably it's on you. It was
50:07
ten. You are you are a hold of Dave passion of passion. Oh,
50:15
he'll tell the truth, and I don't think you want to hear the
50:17
truth. Yeah, anyway, I'm sorry, Brad. I was trying to
50:22
do something nice for somebody who's gone above and beyond, and trying to acknowledge
50:28
the work they had done at that time, thirty years ago. A ten
50:31
dollars gift certificate to the local eatery probably was good enough for lunch. Your
50:37
tombstone should read here lies Hoppy kerchieval the human salary cap. That's that's what
50:44
it should be. Listening to Hoppy talk about Garret Green's completion percentage on his
50:50
glorious return to three guys This week got me thinking, how rare is it
50:53
for a quarterback to finish that low in the league and completion percentage but only
50:59
throw four interceptions the entire year. I love the show, Brent and Beckley.
51:04
That's a good point. It also shows you to have that low completion
51:09
percentage of Actually I was shocked. I guess we knew it at the time,
51:12
Brad, But but going back, I thought, wow, only fifty
51:15
two to fifty three percent. But it shows you also what he did with
51:17
his legs which made up for the lower completion and the big say you remember
51:22
a lot of his yeah, hit, we're downfield, but you're going to
51:25
lead to a lower percentage. P too. Paul from Philly says, worth
51:30
the wait, this is exquisite. Thank you, he got it. He
51:36
got his three guys before the game. Bourbon barrel. Those things are really
51:39
neat. I mean that's a that's a legitimate size bourbon barrel. I hope
51:43
you can see the scale on that, and it smells really neat. You
51:46
can smell it. Burn Man, that's a bourbon barrel. And uh that's
51:52
available to episode eight hundred. Dot Com Texter says, look what I found
51:57
in the door stairs refrigerator. Yh me, Bob and Williamsburg. That's a
52:02
nice discovery. He found himself. One of those had it in the side
52:06
door on his fridge in the uh in the going down the steps there,
52:09
those are even more valuable. Now, how about this here? This came
52:15
out this week. I guess untapped, you know the app that ranks craft
52:19
beers around the world, and that's user rated right us there and you can
52:25
rate it user rated. This came from untapped. And if you look at
52:29
that thing closer, so it's the state of West Virginia. They ranked every
52:32
beer in the state of West Virginia and under the category of pilsner other Look
52:38
what we have here the winner, the winner kercheval So congratulations Hoppy Kerchi of
52:47
Al. Congratulations Chestnut brew Works for brewing that beer. That elusive beer won
52:57
a champ, won, a world's champion, World champions w a world's champ,
53:00
world championship. Hop how about that Mike drop beer drop boom, No
53:04
surprise, no surprise, gentlemen. This is what I've done, gentlemen.
53:12
This is Fitty from Fairmont. Now I live in upstate New York. Like
53:15
the Chicago Bears of Beer World title. I've been offering a lot lately and
53:22
it's paid off. First, this past week, my efforting shirt from episode
53:25
eight hundred landed on my doorsteps. This is some high quality threads there.
53:31
Secondly, tell Charles to be on the lookout for the flying WV and the
53:36
crowd. As April twentieth concert in Albany, I scored two incredibly hard to
53:39
get tickets to support our boys. So Charles Wesley Godwin this weekend began his
53:45
tour with Luke Bryant Stadium Tour stadium stadium. Yes, so that's what I'm
53:51
going to say, first time ever in a stadium. They did Minnesota this
53:57
weekend. We got to get him when his tour over. We got to
54:00
get him in and tell some tour stories. I'll tell you what if you're
54:02
look up at look at his tour coming up here. He he's on the
54:07
road, He goes, he goes, now he goes. I mean,
54:13
basically, here's a deal, dude, You and he have absolutely nothing in
54:17
common. Why would you say that? Because he goes to work for long
54:22
periods of time and he does not like, he doesn't go like he's not
54:27
going to come up, Brad. I mean, you're right right, he's
54:29
not going to tell Luke Bryan here. Hey, look, I'm gonna take
54:30
the next couple of weeks off. Maybe around may not be around. By
54:34
the way, move your computer in farther. You're making me crazy with it.
54:37
I don't like that. I agree that's can you move your computer that's
54:43
going to fall over ahead, don't jack around. Don't jack around because you're
54:46
not gonna have the reflexes to get it. So just just move your computer
54:51
over, Johnny like a kindergartener over there stepping on it anyway. So,
54:55
No, he works hoppy, he comes to work all the time. I
54:58
don't know if we'll be able to get I'm in your defense, he's not
55:01
of your age, thank you. I mean he's got years to work.
55:07
You've put a lot of your work in. I am not don't take that
55:09
from him. I'm not I'm going forward. I'm not gonna honor that anymore.
55:15
I'm not going to honor those comments anymore with a rebuttal. You don't
55:19
need to. By the way, Charles is going to come through here.
55:22
I spent I spent a lot of years. No, no, I'm not
55:27
doing it. By the way, Charles is coming by here tomorrow morning.
55:32
He is, he is. Oh, I thought he's so busy. He
55:37
is literally is going to be home for a day and then going back.
55:39
Is he coming in here? Yeah, he's got to autograph two guitars for
55:43
us. Okay, we're going to auction off to raise money. I'd like
55:46
to talk to him if I have time. I think he's busy. If
55:51
I'm here tomorrow, oh yeah, I'm not gonna be here all right.
55:58
Last thing, this guy says, I may have figured out why Hoppy's only
56:00
around part of the time. I was at my financial advisor the other day
56:04
discussing once I hit retirement, what do I do? What do I want
56:07
to do? I mentioned the fact that I still may want to work a
56:07
little something. Over the next twenty minutes, she goes into all the Social
56:10
Security benefits impacted by working over the age of retirement, being careful not to
56:15
earn too much as it can reduce your benefits. She went into a few
56:17
examples of past clients having to quit jobs not show up for work during the
56:22
year due to bad planning around these limitations. I'm starting to wonder about all
56:24
how these assignments he said, he's always on, so maybe, yeah,
56:30
you're playing a game. No, I'm only kidding. Hoppy is one of
56:31
the hardest working reporters out there, except for that Pete guy. Yeah,
56:39
I'll tell you what. Famil must work all the time. Well, yeah
56:44
he does. Yeah, he does, but he's not when he's your age,
56:47
he's not going to be doing it. He will have his feet up
56:50
by the time he's your age. But I was here, man, it
56:52
was it was. It was Friday. I was on one of my many
56:57
vacations. It may in why many vacations on a Friday? Did you call
57:02
me? You called me about his potential story? Yeah? Did I start
57:07
to did I start to work? I didn't get this. Did I start
57:09
to work on it? Oh, we took care of it internally. We
57:14
got it without you. Thank you. Actually you did. I probably a
57:15
bad example on my partner. Yeah, dear three guys, assuming the Dean
57:20
isn't out sick on another vacation, preparing work on a Pulitzer Prize quality project
57:23
or taking his shift at the fire department. I've listened to every episode since
57:28
the start from my home here in Michigan, but I've never written in I
57:31
felt now was the time, as I wanted to give a huge shout out
57:35
to your guy Dave for once again coming through in the clutch as the guy
57:38
that greases the gears. I finally got around ordering my first set of three
57:44
Guys Gear and Game Day Grind. I love the shirts, but was anxious
57:46
when my caffeine fix didn't show one email to check in and Dave hashtag efforted
57:52
to solve the problem in no time. Save the day so that I can
57:54
enjoy the coffee this weekend. And we're the gear Well, going to see
58:00
your boy Charles Wesley Godwin and Grand Rapids tomorrow evening. There it is got
58:04
little French press out there, and look Dave sent him acart said thanks for
58:07
patience and that nice thanks elite customer service. You've heard this a million times
58:14
already, but I'll make it one million and one by saying that what you
58:17
guys do in bringing a small piece of West Virginia and WVU to those of
58:23
us out of state on a weekly basis is like a lifeline home. Keep
58:29
up the great work. I'll keep listening all the way to episode seven ninety
58:34
nine, as eight hundred is clearly unattainable, clearly Montani semper Leebrie signed by
58:40
Chris Casto from outside Kalamazoo by way of the Mothman's hometown and current landowner in
58:45
Tucker and Raleigh Counties, Randolph, Tucker and Randolph Randolph Counties. Yeah,
58:52
thank you, Chris. Well, you're right. Charles Wesley Godwin's going to
58:55
be busy here, you bear grabbing that haul way tomorrow morning. He's just
59:00
gonna come in with a sharpie goodness. So he's gonna be here for about
59:02
five minutes with that's sharpie. Detroit, Toronto, New York, got Bufflo
59:07
coming, Got Buffalo coming, California, twuson. I wonder what time it'll
59:13
be that show be when he makes that turn, when he makes that turn
59:15
out of the eastern partion he goes to California. He's out there a good
59:20
bit. That's you know. That's always say, okay, you're playing music,
59:25
you'll love to play music. We got to talk to him about that.
59:27
That's hard. That's a hard life. He works. He physically works
59:31
out hard. He runs a lot because you imagine the effort he puts forth
59:35
when he's on that stage. I mean, he goes hard hard hard.
59:39
I mean he'd like he doesn't. He ain't sitting out there on a stool.
59:43
Look at this shows May April seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, twenty four,
59:50
twenty five, twenty six, twenty eight, May three, May four,
59:52
May fives. I mean, oh yeah, that's what I said.
59:55
I looked it out. It's one of the all time great stories. It's
1:00:00
one of the all time great stories. You make sure you bring them by
1:00:01
tomorrow. I'm not gonna be here. Senor and I are on assignment tomorrow
1:00:06
morning. Excuse me. We're on assignment working for the Mountaineer golf team.
1:00:09
All right. We're the starters at the Mountaineer Invitational? Are you you are?
1:00:14
I'm just there to support. No, I think we've got a situation.
1:00:16
Think you're gonna have to do the tenth hole? Really, you're the
1:00:21
starter? Yes, you know that. That's you know what you're doing.
1:00:23
Absolutely zero idea. That's that's a thing. You got to know what you're
1:00:27
doing. If they give me a list with some names on it, I'll
1:00:30
be fine. Or you're gonna say the like I got an idea. M
1:00:35
h, please give an almost heaven. Welcome to Baylor Universities happy Kerchieval.
1:00:43
What do you think? Yeah, that's fine. I'm gonna ask Kovich too.
1:00:46
He'll help me owny Brad, I think, but that's a that's concerning.
1:00:52
What do you mean I'm doing something? Yeah, we need to Are
1:00:54
you doing a shotgun? Is you got to do? No shotguns? Today?
1:00:57
They literally get the Mountaineer, he blasts, he blest the rifle and
1:01:00
going to do the back nine. Yeah, he's of that. He can
1:01:04
either I was going to ask you about that. He was going to ask
1:01:06
you about I was going to ask you about that. You can either have
1:01:07
whole one or a whole time about that win. When we pull up to
1:01:09
the golf club, I always golf course. Hey, good to see it.
1:01:15
I always feel announce that'd be awesome. It'll be a great representative for
1:01:22
three guys. Tony is just like, uh, all tight, gonna be
1:01:25
tonight. Tonight's gonna be going over names tonight. Like now I'm done with
1:01:30
text out Lea's giving almost heaving. Watched the Masters for the weekend to the
1:01:37
starter. When I had on no, I had to start typically him Classic.
1:01:43
By the way, We'll have fun, Hey, three guys. I
1:01:46
finally had a chance to listen to the Jacque Hubbard interview. Wow, he
1:01:51
is a very impressive young man. One skill he had you don't see it
1:01:53
in a lot of speakers, especially at his age, is how he would
1:01:57
acknowledge support your questions. For example, a couple of questions he responded with,
1:02:00
that's a great question. It's a simple yet powerful presentation skill technique.
1:02:06
Kudos to Jaque and for the development opportunities that WV was providing. Yeah,
1:02:10
he's terrific. Texter. Got to see the world champion Mountaineers today. A
1:02:15
great day for baseball, getting the next generation ready. Look at this little
1:02:20
guys. That little guy was going to the ballgame. That was in the
1:02:22
morning. Ready. He didn't look like he was completely thrilled in the morning,
1:02:25
but in the afternoon he was having himself a big time, had his
1:02:30
glove on, he was ready. Anything coming over there was gonna get it.
1:02:32
That's awesome. Congratulations to you there. I hope you had fun.
1:02:36
I hope you wore sunscreen. Yes, Sonny was Texter. Hey, guys,
1:02:42
I've got a coach's question session today. Would you walk me through the
1:02:45
hiring process for a new coach? Is he contacted personally by the athletic director
1:02:52
or does everything go through an agent, including terms and pay, etc.
1:02:57
Did coach Devrees visit Morgantown before signing? Also, I noted the Marshall men's
1:03:01
coach only received three hundred and fifty thousand dollars per year on his contract.
1:03:07
That seems awfully low for a D one coach. Was that an error printed
1:03:10
in the release? Continuing with the coaching theme, I would like to ask
1:03:15
about coach Nicki and the women's soccer team. I haven't heard much lately.
1:03:20
Is she a victim of nil or just a run of bad luck? My
1:03:24
final question involves coach Huggins. Is he deemed toxic for the right fit has
1:03:30
not been found or is it a money issue? I realize you don't have
1:03:32
all the details, but you are close to the source. I had the
1:03:36
impression he's still wanting to coach. Perhaps that's an issue. Mike and Wheeling
1:03:39
a lot of questions. Okay, would you walk me through though. Is
1:03:43
he contacted personally by the ad or does everything go through an agent? Almost
1:03:47
everything goes through an agent when you're talking about a head coach of a major
1:03:52
sport, including the terms. It all goes through the intermediary, which would
1:03:55
be the agent. Did coach Devrees visit Morgantown before signing No? I noted
1:04:00
Marshall's coach only received three hundred and fifty thousand dollars per year. I think
1:04:04
that is correct, and basically it's what kind of school afford you know,
1:04:09
different levels, different income budgets and things like that. Is Nicky is alive
1:04:15
and well and fine. I think the league overall has gotten better. The
1:04:20
Big twelve has has been much improved, and they're going to be right in
1:04:25
there again swinging. But no, and is coach Huggins deemed toxic or the
1:04:31
right fit? I've got zero idea at this point. I mean, you
1:04:35
saw the job openings that opened this year. You saw the folks that filled
1:04:41
those openings. I really have no feel whatsoever on exactly you know what what
1:04:46
is going on in regard to that. Hello, gentlemen, Logan from Greenbrier
1:04:54
County. I hope all is going well, especially after Hopy had that experience
1:04:58
with those eggs. I've got a question request. My dad's birthday is Saturday,
1:05:02
turning the Big seven zero. I'm wondering if you guys could wish him
1:05:06
an early happy birthday. He's a lifelong mountaineer. Fam was a student manager
1:05:11
under Bobby Bowden in the seventies. Nice the picture above right there, that's
1:05:15
from us at the b WAYU game back in November. I appreciate all the
1:05:18
work you three guys do, Sincerely, Logan. He looks great for seventy
1:05:23
sure it is. Looks a hell of a lot better than you, Hoppy,
1:05:25
he does. So. Congratulations to Logan's dad. I hope you have
1:05:30
a wonderful birthday. Happy birthday, and now I hope you're working just as
1:05:33
hard now as you did when you were thirty years old. It seems as
1:05:39
though we may have It seems as though we may have touched the nerve you're
1:05:45
shaking your head about dog nothing nothing. I want to show you some pictures,
1:05:49
Hoppy, I can not show you. I'm probably a little sensitive to
1:05:55
it because I don't work as hard as I once did, so I'm probably
1:05:58
a little sensitive to the issue. So, but someone that's self actualized that
1:06:03
shouldn't bother them. That's also correct. So I'm not actually totally self actualized.
1:06:09
It's just an ongoing effort. You're self actualized when it's convenient. Yeah,
1:06:18
can I show you some pictures of what inside lou Wendel Marine. Please
1:06:24
take a look at a few of these photos. And these folks here,
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I mean, those are absolutely gorgeous with a capital G rotate if you would
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through their austin. I've been talking about supply. I've been talking about all
1:06:40
the stuff that they have, all the accessories that they have. And uh
1:06:45
so, if you go into lou Wendel and you take off, see what
1:06:47
I'm saying now. They got little tires for trailers, they got big tires
1:06:53
for trailer, got all kinds of tires. Fish finders, they got fish
1:06:56
finders. They got like every apparati. They got life vests, they got
1:07:01
a whole deal. They got an anchor holder, I got oil. Look
1:07:06
at those tubes, they got a nice selection of tubes. You're dragging them
1:07:11
people around on there in the back of that boat. Give them a time
1:07:14
of their life. Booies rope for you got any kind of rope that you
1:07:18
want. So all kidding aside, and there there we go. They're in
1:07:26
those were vacated when we talked with the folks there, but they have put
1:07:31
the pontoons into the slips. Here we go and so if you go to
1:07:35
lou Wendel Marine Sales website, that's lou Wendelmarine Sales dot com. They've got
1:07:41
a live camera. You can take a look at the weather and you can
1:07:44
see the boats in there. But here's the deal. When it comes to
1:07:47
pontoon boats, lou Wendel is the pre mire sales outlet in our state.
1:07:54
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1:07:58
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century than anything else right now. So lou Wendel Marine Sales is the place.
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Selection hasn't been better and won't be better because soon as people start taking
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you know, it takes six months. Six takes six months to build one
1:08:23
of those one of those vessels. I'm you're probably gonna be getting out on
1:08:29
yours pretty soon, right soon, Yeah, you have a Yeah, it'd
1:08:33
be nice out on cheat yeah, yeah, be good. You get a
1:08:39
big boat on, you got a bigger tube on the back. You get
1:08:42
those kids going back there. Yeah, yeah, we do that. You
1:08:45
good about it? Yeah, you're able to turn so the thing goes like
1:08:48
you do that. Yeah, that's kind of neat. You think you could
1:08:53
take me and Hopy out sometime. Sure, that'd be kind of neat one
1:08:57
to hop I'm not going. Why so mad? Why do you care what
1:09:03
he says? Why are you mad at me? I'm just bringing up with
1:09:05
the listeners or writing. I didn't bring anything I'll he says to you.
1:09:10
I didn't say it. The people wrote it. What do you care if
1:09:13
he thinks you show up for work or not? I might not be available.
1:09:18
Plus, I wasn't invited to your sandwich ordeal a week ago you were
1:09:23
deathly sick. Would have been nice to be invited. I would have invited
1:09:28
you if the previous two days you were right earlier. He's right on that
1:09:31
one. The previous two days when I talked to you wouldn't sound like this.
1:09:36
Haven't did you or did you not say I have not been this sick
1:09:42
in a long time? I did. I had that conversation with you three
1:09:45
days before the event. The hell, if I'm bringing you to my house
1:09:51
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1:09:58
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1:10:30
got Mark Kello, WV women's basketball coach. I'm gonna do a post season
1:10:40
Uh, what do you expel when you debrief? Where you going to debrief?
1:10:43
That's what we're doing. Heck of the year. We're debriefing, and
1:10:45
he's building that roster again, building that roster up. Sorry, you turned
1:10:51
your mic off? What's that? Show me off? That'll be fun to
1:10:54
talk to. Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. Plus, we got
1:10:56
a few other things coming up in the next few weeks. Should be pretty
1:10:59
good. Lurk, all right, We're out our producer Roustin Wright. If
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and I We're there, get hot, here we go. We're gonna try
1:11:21
to keep Hoppy on the program with us. Apparently we've got some relationships,
1:11:26
texting my agent see it.