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3 Guys Before The Game - WVU Baseball Player Brodie Kresser Visits (Episode 717) · 3 Guys Before The Game

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  Speaker 1: Showtime in the Big City. Hi, everybody, it's time for
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  Speaker 1: three Guys before the game, and we've got four. Our
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  Speaker 1: summer series continues, and we're delighted to be joined by
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  Speaker 1: WVU baseball standout Brody Kresser, as West Virginia gets ready
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  Speaker 1: for the NCAA Baseball tournament here in Morgantown. Let's get
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  Speaker 1: go all right, an historic time in the history of
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  Speaker 1: wvu's baseball program. We record on a Tuesday morning. Yesterday afternoon,
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  Speaker 1: West Virginia got the word that it is not only
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  Speaker 1: going to the NCAA tournament that was a foregone conclusion,
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  Speaker 1: but that WVU will be hosting the event this weekend
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  Speaker 1: starting on Friday in Morgantown, and West Virginia will be
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  Speaker 1: entertaining three other squads as West Virginia looks to go
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  Speaker 1: to a Super Regional for a third consecutive year, a
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  Speaker 1: fifth consecutive thirty win season for West Virginia, and they
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  Speaker 1: will open up action against Binghamton coming up on Friday
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  Speaker 1: at five. I'm quite familiar with the with the.
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  Speaker 2: I know, bing Fighting Bings.
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  Speaker 1: I know. No, they're not the fighting bings. Sunny. They're
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  Speaker 1: Sunny at Binghamton State University of New York at Binghamton
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  Speaker 1: used to be in the Sunny system. Thanks for coming on, man, Yeah, absolutely, things.
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  Speaker 1: We appreciate you. Yeah, I mean, this is busy.
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  Speaker 3: Time, busy time, busy time. In fact, we'll have got
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  Speaker 3: to get in and get out because there's things to
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  Speaker 3: do today for you get.
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  Speaker 1: Ready to play early early morning? Guy? Is this is this?
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  Speaker 1: Is this like blowing you out? Or is this like
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  Speaker 1: normal day for you?
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  Speaker 4: No, it's this isn't normal for me for baseball side.
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  Speaker 4: Since school is out. This is a little new practicing
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  Speaker 4: at nine o'clock, nine forty five. Usually it's about noon
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  Speaker 4: to one o'clock ish, but with school and stuff and breakfast.
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  Speaker 4: But it's nice to get the day going and you know,
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  Speaker 4: get that sleep schedule changed.
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  Speaker 1: You count your sleep normally? Are you a guy that
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  Speaker 1: I didn't get seven or I didn't get eight or not?
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  Speaker 1: Do you know how much you sleep? Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: We have an ordering that tracks our sleep and that
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  Speaker 4: our strength coach can see and we we have we
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  Speaker 4: have to fill out on an app our sleep score,
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  Speaker 4: how we feel, our body feels. Just kind of evaluate
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  Speaker 4: every single morning to see how we feel, and it
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  Speaker 4: shows us how much we're awake and stuff. And my
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  Speaker 4: ordering tends to tell me that I sleep pretty bad
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  Speaker 4: and that I'm awake a lot even really yeah, like
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  Speaker 4: my sleep would just go yeah, up and down like this,
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  Speaker 4: but I swear it's I don't sleep that bad.
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  Speaker 1: Well, so you're not getting deep.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so I'll get like little to like under thirty
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  Speaker 4: minutes probably of deep sleep. Yeah, that's what it says.
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  Speaker 1: It's weird. Yeah, that ring. I got a guy, I know,
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  Speaker 1: where's that ring? And when stress levels get high, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: his thing just like kind of just peaks. Now you're
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  Speaker 1: not wearing the ring when you're playing, but like leading
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  Speaker 1: up to games, what's your stress doing.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm it's definitely kind of all over the place.
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  Speaker 4: I have a lot of I've always been like that.
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  Speaker 4: I know we were I was actually talking to our
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  Speaker 4: money Guzan in the dugout and one of the practices,
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  Speaker 4: and he said, the only series he's been nervous in
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  Speaker 4: this year has been Kansas at Kansas really, and I
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  Speaker 4: was like, you don't get nervous every single game. I like,
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  Speaker 4: that's just me. It's been since football basketball in high school.
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  Speaker 4: I just I get those like pregame jitters, and I
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  Speaker 4: feel like just kind of tells me that, like it
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  Speaker 4: just that I care a lot. I guess like those
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  Speaker 4: emotions are flowing and I wish I didn't get those
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  Speaker 4: because it makes me feel a little, you know, off,
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  Speaker 4: makes you feel a little sick and sometimes but all
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  Speaker 4: it takes is that you know that first running across
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  Speaker 4: the field, the mountaineer shooting in the gun or something
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  Speaker 4: of that that kind of gets you going. It's like, okay,
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  Speaker 4: I'm here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Some say it's actually a good thing because it
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  Speaker 1: puts your body on alert that it's time to go.
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  Speaker 1: Like if you're just kind of sleeping through it, it's
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  Speaker 1: like your body won't be ready to respond.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. So RMANI was, I was like, you're just not
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  Speaker 4: nervous ever, but he does. He's he said last year,
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  Speaker 4: you know, not playing every single day, that when he
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  Speaker 4: would get that opportunity, obviously he was a little nervous
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  Speaker 4: and and stuff like that. But yeah, it's kind of
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  Speaker 4: cool to hear from all the other guys. But yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it's it's kind of new, but you know, it's nice
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  Speaker 4: to get the day.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it may be I'm just guessing here, it might
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  Speaker 1: be something from where you're from, because the dude next
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  Speaker 1: to you is from Iowa too. He's nervous as a
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  Speaker 1: long tail cotton, a long tail cat in a room
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  Speaker 1: full of rocking chairs. When you agree, hoppy, nervous, nelly over,
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it's an Iowa thing. Maybe nervous, Maybe guys from
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  Speaker 1: Iowa are nervous.
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  Speaker 3: It's prepared, ready to go. Gotta get prepared already.
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  Speaker 4: One thing in common, thank you.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think it's nervous as much as just he
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  Speaker 5: just gets tight, focused, focused, right.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Now we're getting focus. Now we're getting better, ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: I think sports psychology is the greatest last bastion that
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  Speaker 1: hasn't been properly developed in sport. Yet you into it,
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  Speaker 1: you do much.
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  Speaker 4: I would be interested.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, see, I think it's still there. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: this thing where guys can go into it and just yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I just think there's especially
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  Speaker 1: baseball at least you talk about.
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  Speaker 3: Sport, because you have so much time to think. Right,
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  Speaker 3: you're standing out in the field by yourself, just thinking, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: waiting for the next place.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, put yourself in so many situations scenarios, and obviously
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  Speaker 4: you look at the bright side at all of it.
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  Speaker 4: It's tough sport and definitely challenging and challenges your mental
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  Speaker 4: for sure, and incredibly hard.
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  Speaker 1: When you think about, like a successful player is less
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  Speaker 1: successful than he is successful. Does that make sense?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's sport of failure.
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  Speaker 1: It's a sport of failure and so as a result
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  Speaker 1: of that, that's what makes that sport just like And
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  Speaker 1: then we'll get into this here, and I'm sure Hoppy's
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  Speaker 1: got some questions about at the plate your mindset count changes.
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  Speaker 1: Now what do you I mean, so much goes on
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  Speaker 1: and such a such a short span of time. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's pretty wild.
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  Speaker 3: Let's let's dive in real quick on the immediate then
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  Speaker 3: we'll kind of work backwards to your career. But what's
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  Speaker 3: it like this week here? You get the announcement that
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  Speaker 3: you're hosting on Sunday, get the field yesterday? Can you
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  Speaker 3: can you feel the buzz that's coming and what it's
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  Speaker 3: going to be like on Friday?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, honestly you can feel the buzz even though like
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  Speaker 4: we're at our apartment and everybody's gone obviously because a
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  Speaker 4: lot of the students are gone and stuff. But you
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  Speaker 4: just like you know that the state of West Virginia
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  Speaker 4: is going to show out. You like, you feel like
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  Speaker 4: they kind of just show out out of nowhere. Like
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  Speaker 4: the support is crazy. But what an honor to you know,
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  Speaker 4: to be that that team that host the sixteen seed.
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  Speaker 4: It's it's incredible. Obviously the goals Omaha and the goals
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  Speaker 4: of regional and stuff. But to just to be able
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  Speaker 4: to play at home is is pretty incredible and we're excited.
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  Speaker 4: Where nothing's really changing this week for practice. We're going
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  Speaker 4: to keep it the same. We're going to train the same. Obviously,
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  Speaker 4: the coaches are going to do their scouting. We're gonna
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  Speaker 4: worry about game one and then take care of the
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  Speaker 4: rest hopefully.
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  Speaker 1: Did you hear how much the hill seats are tell
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  Speaker 1: them on the secondary market?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that came from Saves. I heard a standing room
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  Speaker 3: only tickets going for three ninety as really this morning
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  Speaker 3: on the secondary market.
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  Speaker 4: That is crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Standing room only standing you're going to have a full house.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And then up on top of the hill there by
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  Speaker 3: the hosal is going to be passed as well.
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  Speaker 4: Until this year, I haven't seen that many people be
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  Speaker 4: dedicated to sit on that hill. But I've actually went
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  Speaker 4: up there. I had surgery this offseason, but my parents
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  Speaker 4: flew back and they were gonna drive me back, but
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  Speaker 4: we sat up there and check it out for a
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  Speaker 4: little Black Bears game. And it's a pretty cool view.
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  Speaker 4: It's good view, right, It's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's wild. That's wild. All right, now the hard
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  Speaker 1: questions start. What do you got it?
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  Speaker 5: I just I just am fascinated by the some of
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  Speaker 5: the more intimate information. So you talk about being a
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  Speaker 5: little bit nervous, and then you get up to the plate,
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  Speaker 5: and then what do you like, what is your process
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  Speaker 5: when you get to the plate, and what are you
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  Speaker 5: looking for?
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  Speaker 2: Take it through some pitches?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, honestly, yeah, you kind of get those jitters before
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  Speaker 4: you get up to the plate. But overall, when I
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  Speaker 4: step in that box, I kind of you get this
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  Speaker 4: like hatred, fear, like fear for the picture. So you know,
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  Speaker 4: you're trying to try to take him down like that's
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  Speaker 4: you're not trying to be friends with him and stuff
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  Speaker 4: like that. And I'm not a mean guy at all
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  Speaker 4: by any chance, but that's just kind of like the
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  Speaker 4: mindset to kind of get yourself like more settled in.
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  Speaker 4: But my biggest thing is just, you know, trusting the
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  Speaker 4: scouting reports that the that the coaches have letting me
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  Speaker 4: know the pitches he has, the velocity averages he has
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  Speaker 4: sometimes if he's a heavy like fastball guy, looking at
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  Speaker 4: the counts, the percentages that he's gonna throw a heater
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  Speaker 4: in a count or if he's a you know, like
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  Speaker 4: a lot of these starters for these big twelve teams,
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  Speaker 4: they're solid, you know, they got they got a bright future.
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  Speaker 4: So some of them might be throwing ninety five but
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  Speaker 4: throwing only twenty percent fastballs because they have a good
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  Speaker 4: you know, slider or cutter and that they might be
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  Speaker 4: throwing more. So, just kind of evaluating that and then
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  Speaker 4: also looking at for me as a right hander, you know,
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  Speaker 4: facing the right handed pitcher, a little bit different for
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  Speaker 4: the lefties, you know, mixed in a change up or
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  Speaker 4: something as well, but kind of evaluating there at bats
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  Speaker 4: what they're doing with their accounts and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 4: But when I get in there, I just I just
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  Speaker 4: want to be you know, timed up with their best
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  Speaker 4: fastball and be on time with that and then adjust
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  Speaker 4: to So.
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  Speaker 5: You're looking and Brad and I've talked about that, So
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  Speaker 5: you go in looking for the fastball, yeah, the best
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  Speaker 5: chance it. And then how often, let's say, in a
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  Speaker 5: long count along and bad, how often are do you
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  Speaker 5: know what the pitch is? Or how often are you
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  Speaker 5: coughed with the pitches? And how often are you surprised
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  Speaker 5: by the pitch?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, sometimes you know it feels like you need to
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  Speaker 4: see one and hopefully it's it's a good pitch and
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  Speaker 4: it's a good take, but it's also nice at the
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  Speaker 4: same time, and you see an off speed and you
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  Speaker 4: see it well, but it kind of throws you off
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  Speaker 4: a little bit for a strike and it's like, Okay,
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  Speaker 4: throw that one again and I'm I'm gonna do some
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  Speaker 4: damage to it. But yeah, No, the being on time
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  Speaker 4: with the heater is kind of like our biggest philosophy,
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  Speaker 4: especially in two strikes, not getting beat away, just because
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  Speaker 4: a lot of times that's where the picture is most
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  Speaker 4: comfortable to paint that pitch for, you know, a chase
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  Speaker 4: or a dotted pitch for strike three. But yeah, I
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  Speaker 4: would just say my biggest thing was kind of like
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  Speaker 4: taking the picture's best basketball and trying to drive it
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  Speaker 4: through the second basement's head. Therefore, if I'm on time
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  Speaker 4: with that, then I can adjust to the off speed
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  Speaker 4: and and maybe pull for a double in the gap
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  Speaker 4: or something. I'm really like. Obviously, I don't have too
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  Speaker 4: many homers. I think I have like two this year.
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  Speaker 4: I had more in junior college. I'm not sure where
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  Speaker 4: that juice went, but yeah, I like to just you know,
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  Speaker 4: I like to I like to run the bases and
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  Speaker 4: try to think gap to gap and you know, cause
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  Speaker 4: hectic on the on the basis.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's I think it's fascinating.
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  Speaker 5: And so there's this mental game that's going on between
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  Speaker 5: you and that picture, right, Like it could be like
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  Speaker 5: bring that bring that heat in again.
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  Speaker 4: Right, and you see some obviously, like I was saying,
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  Speaker 4: how the pictures there's there's so talented and stuff, and
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  Speaker 4: some of them bring that cockiness to you and like
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  Speaker 4: to talk to you too, so kind of yeah, it
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  Speaker 4: kind of gives you that that fuel and you know,
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  Speaker 4: like it's like it's game on.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, give us an exec let's go back. Speaking of
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  Speaker 1: that sixth inning, Yeah, sixth thinning against Arizona State right
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  Speaker 1: Friday night. Yeah, that was fun.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's definitely fun. It's something it's something you enjoy.
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  Speaker 4: I know, Sarah gu not exactly sure what he said,
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  Speaker 4: probably something I can't say, but you know, getting one
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  Speaker 4: of the best players out I mean in the country,
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  Speaker 4: it's I'm sure emotions for him, you know, not pitching
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  Speaker 4: a whole lot, but been good for us lately. Left ended,
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  Speaker 4: so I'm sure you know, tensions were high. And he
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  Speaker 4: said something because he got him out in a in
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  Speaker 4: a big game, and he got their crowd fired up,
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  Speaker 4: and maybe is why they had a little momentum. And
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  Speaker 4: I mean they were when straight just came in, they
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  Speaker 4: were just chanting, you know, ball four, ball five, and
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  Speaker 4: all the way up to like ball ten. So you know,
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  Speaker 4: maybe it didn't work out, but usually it's like, Okay,
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  Speaker 4: we're gonna bring the juice for our team, get the credit,
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  Speaker 4: get our fans fired up, and stuff like that. But
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  Speaker 4: it's stuff you like to see and stuff he hopefully
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  Speaker 4: doesn't come back to bite you in the butt.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the biggest thing was the fact that you guys
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  Speaker 1: come back at the bottom of that end, you goes, oh, really,
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  Speaker 1: I guess what our bats hit too.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's been like that all season. It's awesome
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  Speaker 4: and we'll go down two three, it doesn't matter. Like
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  Speaker 4: our offense is gonna respond. And we were talking in
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  Speaker 4: the media after that game and how we were talking
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  Speaker 4: about a offensive close. So that's like, that's like big
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  Speaker 4: for us when we know our pitchers are great and
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  Speaker 4: people are gonna hit homers, people are gonna score runs.
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  Speaker 4: But if we can go out there in the eighth
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  Speaker 4: or ninth inning and the offense can close it out,
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  Speaker 4: then our pitchers are definitely gonna close it out for us.
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  Speaker 3: That was very much that sixth inning. So they got
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  Speaker 3: a little juice and momentum, as he's saying, in their time,
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  Speaker 3: that was a very much Oh is that right?
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  Speaker 1: Oh? Is that right?
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  Speaker 3: We gave mel Is that right?
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  Speaker 1: Think about what you did, dude, Think about what you
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  Speaker 1: guys did. You guys went to the State of Arizona
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  Speaker 1: this year. Yeah, right, You played three against Arizona State
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  Speaker 1: regular you win two out of three there, then you
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  Speaker 1: beat Arizona in the game that was non conference game.
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  Speaker 1: Then you win the two games to get to the
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  Speaker 1: championship game. I mean, you guys owned Arizona, and I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if you put into perspective, but like Arizona
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  Speaker 1: State is a brand name in college baseball. You went
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  Speaker 1: into their state, onto their field and said thanks for
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  Speaker 1: having us. Yeah, we'll take care of That's that's big.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just letting you know this, dude, Like fifteen years ago,
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  Speaker 1: that was un unthinkable thing for West Virginia baseball to
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  Speaker 1: go to like you would get you would be like,
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  Speaker 1: oh gosh, we got to go to Arizona State. What
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  Speaker 1: is going to be ten runs? Yeah, don't you don't
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  Speaker 1: even want to think about that. And now you go
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  Speaker 1: in there, it's it's just a wow.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's awesome. I think it kind of starts with
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  Speaker 4: Mazee turning that whole program around. I mean, I love
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  Speaker 4: that guy. He's I'm so beyond blessed to have a
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  Speaker 4: year with him, even though it's I can still remember
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  Speaker 4: to this day him calling an emergency Zoom meeting when
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  Speaker 4: I was committed to let us know that he was retiring,
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  Speaker 4: and I was like, dang, but yeah, to be able
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  Speaker 4: to have that one year, and you know, he talks
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  Speaker 4: about the one point eight here doing it for the state.
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  Speaker 4: And I've never been a part of something where the
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  Speaker 4: whole state of West Virginia is just behind you, like
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  Speaker 4: they're gonna get on you if you're losing, they're gonna
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  Speaker 4: love you if you're winning. Stuff like that. It's it's
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  Speaker 4: true passion. And you know, back home, it's it's fighting
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  Speaker 4: for Iowa, Iowa State, Drake Eye, all that stuff. So
• 14:40
  Speaker 4: it's like, what are you gonna walk into? You know,
• 14:42
  Speaker 4: Like I thought the Iowa i Was state rivalry was big,
• 14:45
  Speaker 4: but Yeah, nothing compares to that pitt In West Virginia
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: rivalry for sure. But no, Yeah, the program is I
• 14:52
  Speaker 4: mean it's only going up, you see, it's slowly going
• 14:54
  Speaker 4: up now in a very like it's already high now
• 14:56
  Speaker 4: that we're setting that that that standard and stuff. So
• 15:00
  Speaker 4: it's cool and be able to host, like I said,
• 15:02
  Speaker 4: is just a true blessing for sure.
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: Let's talk. Let's talk a little. Let's go back a
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: little bit. So he's pride of Jessup, Iowa to des
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: Moin Area Community College, and then here walk us through
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: that evolution of why why dos Moinery Community College to start?
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: And then how did West Virginia come into the picture?
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so I was very small in high school, kaw small,
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: like one hundred and fifty seven pounds fifty It's it's
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: pretty crazy, and I can proudly I'm still trying to
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: get to that one ninety five, but I'm close to
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: that one eighty eight, one eighty nine, which is if
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: you were my strength coaches would be pretty happy with
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: that with that jump. But no, it was so I
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: played travel ball, which probably is the reason why I
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: got recruited because of such a small town that I
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: went to and competition pretty low. Fifty two kids in
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: my class, me and my twin sister. It was just
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: us too, and then fifty kids. It's it's very small.
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: And I not mean kids on my team can say
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: they graduated with with that many and I mean they're
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: talking five hundred and six hundred almost to one thousand people.
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: So yeah, and we played summer ball high school. Our
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: high school ball was in summer. He also throws everybody
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: off because that's when you know they're playing summer ball
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: and potentially getting recruited and stuff like that. But so yeah,
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: that all that kind of took a toll on it.
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: But no, I loved it. The small community. You know,
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: everybody knows everybody, a lot of family connections, all that
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: type of stuff. But it was awesome. The coaches were great.
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: I had, you know, former Division one athletes coaching for
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: high school and stuff like that. So so that was nice,
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: but definitely under recruited.
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: I actually your first visit was where Ward excuse me, yeah,
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: that Division seven nine division. I was excited, he was excited.
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: I was. I didn't know what to think. Brought my
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: parents along. Yeah, it was it was a great time.
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: It's definitely something for your first visit to you know happen.
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: It was different. I was I was also want to
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: visit with like five other people, so not all the
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: attention was to you. But you know, I had no idea.
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: I just wanted to go see the facility and you know,
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: see the baseball field and stuff.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: Colors too, that orange and black and yeah, speaking of
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: they had a good year this year, yea.
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: So shout out to the Powerhouse.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: For those that don't know, that's Brad's alma mater, Wartburg.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: Four, your four year starter All conference player.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: If you go there, there's a statue of them somewhere.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: Know where it is, all.
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: Right, So we visited warp Berk then we then yeah,
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: what else?
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: So that was sophomore year something kind of one of
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: those things that kind of saw potential to go there.
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: Obviously with my goal and dreams to make that Division one,
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: I was like, you know, I'm gonna wait and try
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: to see what I can get. But come junior year
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: and of junior year, had some jucos in the area
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: reach out, had some Upper Iowa reach out only Division
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: two in Iowa. I did visit there too as well,
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: and then one of my best friends was letting you
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: know that he got offered by des Moin Area Community
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: College at one of our travel ball practice in North
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: Liberty Cedar Rapids area, and I was like, telling me
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: about all these facilities they're making the coaches. The team
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: wasn't great also on the come up, and I was like, dang,
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: like I'm gonna I'm gonna shoot them an email like
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: why not? So going home, you know, use my brain
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: a lot to think of how to reach out to
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: a coach, and I did it. Can't remember what I said,
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: but I shouted out Red Stallman, who was at Missippi
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: State who we were just talking about. He thought he
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: was gonna come to the Morgantown Regional and now they're hosting.
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: So happy for him coming out of des Moin Area
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: Community College as well. But yeah, so I reach out
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: to them and I'm going out, I think for lunch
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: that next day and I get an email back and he's,
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: you know, all good things, like wow, I can't believe
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: we haven't seen you, Like send me some of this stuff,
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: you know, like film like a PBR event, pret Baseball report,
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: you know, makes videos and stuff like that for us,
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: like little highlight reel. So yeah, he reached out and
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: I was like talking about setting up a visit. I
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: visited and I committed right on the spot because I
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: just I loved everything about it. Nick Mitchler is one
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: of my favorite coaches. He's the head coach there now,
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: and uh yeah, I give so much credit to him
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: for what he's he's done for me. I used to
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: be so scared of him and everything else, but now
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: he's literally like a best friend. A man can reach
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: out to him any single time. He's always showing me
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: support and stuff. But yeah, it was crazy. And his
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: brother actually coached at Alderson BROADUS. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: always a connection and that shut down if I'm correct.
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: And now he is coaching with his brother at at DMAC,
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: which is pretty cool. So and to see their success
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: after the year I left, they made it to the
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: World Series, you know, running the conference and it's such
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: a tough conference. You got Kirkwood, you know, I will
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: Western all those guys are just a powerhouse to send
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: guys to the Division one level. But yeah, so I
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: quickly he uh made my decision to go there, and
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: I was excited to go. I knew a couple other
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: guys from travel ball, so you know, the guys that
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: were there is it's such a great group. I probably
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: my most my most relationships like with my with my
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: buddies there. It's probably my bestest friends I'll have for
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: the rest of my life. So that's something I'll never cherish.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: But I still talk to when we have a group chat.
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: You know, they're always the rooting for us in the season.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: Some of the guys don't play anymore, and then some
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: of the guys are there are other Division one school
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: so it's just cool to see.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: But uh yeah, and so real quick. So that's a
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: pretty historic program there. So the coach previous years is
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: coach Fitzgerald. That's the Kansas head coach, right and then
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: before him, the previous coach had won like nine hundred games.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: So that's a historic junior college program there that Brody
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: was at.
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was actually nice to catch up with Fitzgerald
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: last year in the Big Twelve tournaments. I knew he
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: coached there, obviously I wasn't there, but it's definitely something
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: I wanted to, you know, stop him and kind of
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: talk and we talked about that other coach who actually
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: actually recently passed away about a year ago. I just
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: kind of talked about the memories. He was always walking around,
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: you know, our field and stuff, just giving us crab
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: to catch the damn all like like like that. Just
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: a great guy. But yeah, fits is. He's a good dude,
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: and and I don't know, the success he's having is great,
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: but yeah.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: So I so then how did West Virginia enter the
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: picture or what? Who else was around you as you
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: were getting ready to come out of theay?
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: It was crazy. So I had a pretty solid freshman year.
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't say it was the best by any mean,
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: just with my standards, you know, trying to be the
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: best I can be, but it was a it was
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: a pretty solid freshman year. And I went and played
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: the north Woods for the Waterloo Bucks back home, played
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: two seasons with them, which is a lot of people
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: like idolize me for playing for the Waterloo Bucks because
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: the area, you know, Iowa kid, you got kids from
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: every single college, a lot of kids from California and stuff.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: So being the the Iowa kid playing whatever and a
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: lot of the a lot of the fans think it's
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: like professional baseball.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: It's not.
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: But yeah, so I moved back my sophomore year and
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: that I feel like the second my parents left when
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: they helped move me in about two hours away. Not bad.
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: I I woke up and my phone was just kind
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: of blowing up with with Division I schools, and I
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: was like, what did I do? Like, you know, like
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: the last season was a couple months ago and it
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: was crazy. I just had I had a phone call
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: with Michigan State. I went to class, got a text
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: from TCU, no West Virginia have to start. But yeah,
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: I had a bunch of Kansas State Campbell they were
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: all texting me, and then a lot of mid majors.
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: I can't even remember, but yeah, living on the phone
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: trying to plan phone calls. But we had a We
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: do showcases for junior college, two of them in the fall,
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: so that the pitchers will you know, get one inning
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: and try to a lot of them will try to
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: throw the hardest they can in front of the scouts
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: and stuff. I mean, there's just thousands of scouts and
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: golf carts. Like it's you want to talk about stressful,
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: It's it's pretty intimidating to see, you know, Tony Vattello
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: sitting right there like watch its like stuff like that.
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: It's it's crazy. But we played two games, two nine
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: inning games, and I actually played very well and and
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: I got back on the bus and the coaches or
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: the scouts can't talk to you after the game, so
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: like a couple of the guys that I would talk
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: to are just give me a little wave the way, yeah,
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: a little drive by, and uh. I got back on
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: the bus and I think the first person to text
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: me was was Sabans and jagar Garcia and I was
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: like West Virginia, Like, okay, that's that's pretty cool. Know
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: nothing about them?
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Why was it cool then? If you knew nothing about them?
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: What what? What was in your hand?
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: Because one of my coaches was letting me know like oh,
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: Country Roads, and I was like, that's such a legendary song.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: Nobody doesn't know that song. And I was like, okay,
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: that's it's kind of cool. And then I think some
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: of the guys said is that in Virginia And I
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: was like no, like not many people know, like the
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: little things like that. But I was on the phone
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: with them for a while. I had a couple other
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: phone calls. That seven hour bus ride was was pretty quick,
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: being on the phone a lot, you know, and stuff
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: like that, and just one of my couple of my
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: other buddies. And I enjoyed those phone calls as well.
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: But yeah, I think Sabans called me once or twice
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: a week each week leading up until our visit, and
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: not any other school did that maybe once here and there,
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: let me, you know, checking in and stuff, but the
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: compassion and everything that Savings brought, and you know, letting
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: me know about the program, the upcoming, the new facility
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: that was being planned to be built that is done,
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: which is incredible. You don't see that anywhere. So yeah,
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: and then I took my visit and they spoiled me.
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: They paid for just me, and they ended up adding
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: my parents' plane tickets onto my scholarship so they both
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: could come, which is pretty cool. Yeah, I enjoyed it.
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: Got here super late, woke up super early, just the
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: you couldn't even tell that I was tired or whatever.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: But yeah, I went to the football game against towsand
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: oh yeah, I had no idea where Towson was, but
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: we went to that football game and then we spent
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: the day at Mazie's house and they built or they
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: cooked us a steak dinner, and I mean just spoiled
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: like nothing I'm used to, especially being at junior college level.
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: And I'm like, this is this is incredible, like almost, yeah,
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: it's almost Heaven's right, right, And yeah, so I spent
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: that he ended up putting on the Iowa game, Iowa
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: football game. Family is a big Iowa football fan, and
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: it was it was just crazy. I just kind of
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: knew it was, like you said, Heaven like it was
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: it was home, far away from home, went back kind of.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: My parents didn't really put any pressure on me.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: They wanted me to.
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: Figure out where where I thought was best. And it's
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: stressful talking to all these schools, like which school is
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: gonna be the best fit? Am I gonna make a mistake?
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: All those little things that go through your head. And
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: obviously it's you're gonna want to go to school that
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: you think you're gonna play, And it was it was
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: a perfect situation for me with Tevin Tucker being the
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: four or five year starter and they wanted kind of,
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: you know, that junior, older upperclassmen to to take a
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: big role in the infield, and I was like, I
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: think I for sure can do that, and I just
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: thought this was the best spot. And you know, I
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: called him up and I said, let's do this. You know,
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: I and I I had other visits planned, and I
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: think I had a visit. Funny story, actually I had
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: a visit to Ohio State the day after that I committed.
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: I said I can't wait, and they were not very happy.
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: And so I told the coach and at Ohio State whatever,
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: and he's he was very disappointed that I didn't take
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: the visit or whatever, because and then he didn't tell
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: the person I was going to pick me up for
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: the flight. So then that person was upset, and I
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: was just like, you know what, it's not very nice.
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: It is their problem. Yeah, they're problem. We don't we
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: don't feel sorry for these other.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: Programs struggles here. Sorry, Sorry you had to a wasted
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: trip to the airport. Sorry they're bribing me with.
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: You know, a night night game at Ohio State, which
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: you know, sounded pretty nice. But I was like, I'm
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: not gonna go there just for the experience a football game.
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: Like it's a waste of time, truly, because all these games,
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: all these visits that I ended up taking, I'm missing
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: games at junior college, because that's what we would do.
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: We'd play Iowa, we'd play other juco's, we'd play Division two's,
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: like anything that we could do to get exposure from scouts.
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: I mean, we'd have some Division I schools pulling up
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: to our practice just to watch us practice, so like
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: to see that side and know that's what our coaches
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: are doing. Like Jacob Garcia, he'll be gone for a
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: full day, or we'll travel on a Thursday, and he'll
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: travel from Wednesday to Thursday, but then fly into our
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: game Friday because he's got to go to who knows
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: where for a tournament and stuff. So just to see
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: that work is kind of crazy because I know I've
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: been there and I know like all that type of stuff.
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: But they're going and get the best players in the country,
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: so it's not.
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: You know, maybe maybe you'll run into Ohio State in
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: the NCAA.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Oh wait, they're not.
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: Oh we got their best player.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly right point. Brody Crusher's appearance here on three
• 27:43
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• 27:46
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• 27:58
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• 28:02
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• 28:21
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• 28:24
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• 28:27
  Speaker 1: Will you pick up? Guy?
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: No? I drive a Chevy Malibill.
• 28:30
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• 28:32
  Speaker 4: It does me pretty well.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, away. I saw Gavin the other day. Gavin, he
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• 28:38
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• 28:49
  Speaker 1: bucks that deal you mentioned your family's Ayowa football fans,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: so they just enjoy handoffs, yeah, actually being the handoffs money.
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: It's a funny story, and I know that the event.
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: Actually they will watch this, you know when I tell him.
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: But I my girlfriend's dad coaches at Iowa State, so
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: it kind of really yeah he did. He now coaches
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: that he got the offering coach at you and I.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: Yes, So my Northern I went to Cedar Falls, ye not.
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: My friend played there as well for five years and
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: then her brother played there as well for three years
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: and places for the Milwaukee Bucks now, which is pretty
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: cool a j Green, pretty cool little story.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: Back that up. He started to say that again, you
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: just came up. He's got a lot right there. So
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: your girlfriend played at Northern I was softball.
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: No basketball, hoopers, yeah, hoopers. And then her dad he's
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: been around all kind of all the colleges, you know,
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: working his way up.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: He got offered you know that, you know her Dady Green?
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: Was it what I was was with Iowa State?
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: Right?
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yep, so just got named Northern Iowa. Ben Jacobson
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: just took the job out to Utah State, replaced Jared
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: Calhoun West Virginia always that's your girlfriend's dad.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: So pretty so running back to DMC, one of my
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: buddies dating this girl found out about you know, the
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: whole friend group's kind of somewhat. She had no idea
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: who I was, but I spotted her out. So eventually
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: started that. Actually started talking to her. Yeah, recruiter, right, yeah,
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: I learned it here.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah and uh sorry a showcase.
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I start her showcase. Yeah, start, So started talking
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: to her whatever. She was busy. In her fifth year,
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: she tore a CEO and her nine hundred ninety ninth
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: point oh yeah, but she had surgery and they let
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: her score her a thousand.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: So then she was like, Okay, you know this kind
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: of screwed up my year. I'm gonna come back for
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: one more year.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I.
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: Mean the family is is just awesome there. It's full
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: of just talent and success. It's it's pretty pretty cool
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: to seeing her. Mom's like a you know, has her
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: own business in the Cedar Valley, Kyle practor she literally
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: does everything. It's she's so smart, she's so hard working.
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: But yeah, they live in Cedar Falls. He got offered
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: to be the assistant coach like assistant coach, associate head
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: coach role at Iowa State, and you know, I would
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: say it's top ten program. So yeah, I I've we've
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: kind of switched a little bit for that basketball and
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: enjoyed some Iowa State hoops. I went to Vegas with
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: them this this offseason to enjoy a little tournament that
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: they had there, which is which is super cool. But yeah,
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: to kind of circle back, she played there for five years.
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: He played there, he had offers from Duke in Virginia
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: to leave when he was an assistant coach at you
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: and I before he went to Iowa State. And when
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: he left then he got offered that job at Iowa State.
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: And then Ben Jacobson, like you said, left and and
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: he he instantly, you know, reached out and was like
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: like this, this is kind of like a full circle.
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: Hand on the other bench many times, especially when they
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: came in here in West Virginia beat him a couple
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: years ago.
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, very first thing he told me, he said,
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: you better not show up there and West Virginia stuff,
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: you know, and just messing around and stuff. But yeah, great,
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: great family, It's it's awesome, and I'm excited to see
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: he's got such a brand new team. I'm pretty sure
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: a lot of the guys you know, left or were
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: already set to hit the portal and stuff like that.
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: But yeah, it's it's exciting. And we got to go
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: to a couple NBA games for the Milwaukee Bucks, you know,
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: casually walking by, honest and all that stuff.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: So he's small, isn't he.
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's very small as kids are three years old,
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: up to my shoulders already.
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: So your girlfriend, of course playing in the UNI down there, Hoppy,
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: that'll be the UNI.
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they've made some some new adjustments there and they're
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: working on some stuff. So it's it's pretty cool.
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: So you you're going to practice here in a little bit.
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: Let's say that you get up to you get up
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: in the box and Maxiell is going to bring his
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: best stuff.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: Who wins that battle?
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: So my first couple of years, Max can always say
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: he's he hated throwing to me because I would always
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: barrow him up. But I can give him the baseball
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: baseball term. Sorry, I can give him credit. He is
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: a lot different and way better picture now he is.
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: He's incredible. I mean, he just well, you don't very
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: often see a six seven donkey throwing from here, especially
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: for a lefty when it looks like it's coming at you,
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: and then for a arriety it looks like it's also
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: coming into you. So it's it's difficult as all speed's
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: really really good. Now he throws that, Like I said,
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: good pictures who have that ninety five mine hour sinker? Uh,
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: we'll maybe throw it once when they already got you
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: down on the count and stuff. So I just remember
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: his first time throwing live a bes to us. He
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: carved all of us and we were like, this is
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: the piece we were missing last year. Like you know,
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: like who wins the battle today? I'm gonna go and
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: say myself, obviously I gotta. I'm gonna that confidence is
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: gonna stay true, stay true. But if it's not against
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: me or anybody else, Maxiel wins that battle.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: Got it? Okay?
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: Is there a moment that you had an epiphany of
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: sorts that you said I can play at the Division
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: one power four level. Did you step into a Was
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: it a play in the field, Was it a play
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: inside the box where he went like I got this.
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I would say for the fielding portion, not necessarily
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: it comes natural with me. But that's something I've I've
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: taken pride in, you know, being smooth, having good hands,
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: as you know some of the people would say. But
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: definitely the junior college level, facing all these Division IE commits.
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: I think it was when we played Iowa Western or
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: so they got Oregon, Oklahoma State, all these commits, and
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: you know, I went there and I'm pretty sure what
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: like four for four, hit a homer off Louisville dude
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: throwing like ninety five Oklahoma State dude doubling the gap.
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: So like started with my freshman year, I'm like, yeah,
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: I can do this, like and I'm gonna keep doing
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: this and show all these guys and you know, the
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: scouts are all there and stuff, and I feel like
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: that was kind of like a little moment where I
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: was like, yeah, I belong here too, you know, uncommitted
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: and these guys are committed. Probably have in my head
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: I was like, you know, getting paid, well, like I'm
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: gonna I'm gonna do this as well.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: Actually, your dad played junior college baseball, so was he
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: with you right from the start. Did he push the
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: game to you as a little dude, or did you
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: or did you go like, I'd like to do this, dad.
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was. He pushed it right away. So he
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: played at Iowa Central, and that was a no go
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: for me to go there. That's just like a rival.
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: It's just like a joke that we'd always talk about.
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: But I did talk to him for a little bit. Uh, yeah,
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: he went there. He was a catcher. My little sister's
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: a catcher who's also going to d Max. So shout
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: out to her, who got second in the World Series
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: just yesterday. Yeah, pretty cool. She's super excited. She just
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: graduated high school, so I'm excited to follow her. Her
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: passion for the game is unbelievable. Her work ethic is unbelievable.
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: She hits the homers, for sure, she hits a lot
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: of homers. So I'm very excited to see her. The
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: coach's older coach, super passionate, super successful, made the World Series,
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: I think twenty years in a row. Something. Just you
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: don't even hear about the jugo level. They send girls
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: to Alabama, Yeah, you know, like just just a really good,
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: you know, junior college to go to for softball. But yeah,
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: it's it's crazy. He uh he started playing slow pitch
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: softball because he didn't he could pass the junior college.
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: I've where we met my mom and and so on.
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: So he would travel and compete all over the world.
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: I remember Topeka, Kansas, just like these little areas that
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: he would play. You know those rules where you can
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: only hit so many home runs and all that type
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: of stuff. But yeah, he was dragging me around that
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: field and I remember playing catch with the older guys
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: or the guys that I was like, oh my gosh,
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: he's so good. So, you know, just having a game
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: of catch on the field before their game with a
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: with a baseball or something. So it started at a
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: very young age, and you know, I skipped that t
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: ball stage went straight into coach pitch. So I feel
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: like I kind of knew, or not necessarily me at
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: that age kind of new, but he kind of knew,
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: and he definitely pushed me. Like you know, you have
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: all those stories where it's like, oh, I got zero
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: for three, you don't want to have that car ride home,
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: you know, stuff like that, But then you also have
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: those car rides where you go three for three, and
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: it's like it's it's the little things that you know,
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: he's teaching me and stuff and always pressing me to,
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: you know, go put more work in outside. He built
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: a batting cage outside for myself with my grandpa's well,
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: and it's like giving you the resources to get better.
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: So it's it was definitely you know, you had your
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: ups and downs, but now, I mean that's kind of
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: like my idol. He's he's pushed me to where he
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: wanted to be in his college career, and that's what
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: I'm doing. So I'm kind of living out his dream.
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: So his support is crazy. He's you know, he's always
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: he wants to know what's going on while I'm doing
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: it because he wanted to be at that level, you know,
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: like all the stuff, money involved everything, you know, being
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: able to do this stuff with you guys, like all
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: that type of stuff is just is like a dream
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: come true. But he's definitely pushed me and I just
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: and he they don't get to come to a lot
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: of games and stuff, so it kind of sucks. But
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: you know, the Kansas game, little drive, and he got
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: a dog, got a sister, you know, graduating, she's starting
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: up softball games here soon. So it's very hard for
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: my parents to come and they can't come to the
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: regional either and then if we win this regional, which
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: we will, we're going to UCLA, so even farther. So
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: you know, with work and stuff like that, it's tough,
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: but I'm glad they get to catch a couple of games.
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: And you know, they're always watching. My dad's the one
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: that's that's huge, right, Yeah, he's watching through the screen,
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: you know, just fired up and uh, you know, yelling
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: at the screen and stuff like that. So my sister's
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: always sending me videos and stuff. But yeah, the support
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: is crazy. Same thing with my mom. I mean, they're
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: all putting so much time and especially the money that
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: you know, you never think of. So yeah, it's always cool.
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: And you know, when you just want to get back
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: one day, we'll.
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: Just go get to Omaha. It's not that far away.
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah no, And that's literally what they said. They're like, yeah,
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: we're coming to Omaha, which is two and a half
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: hours and man, that's I've never been to Omaha. I've
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: never been to college. I've been Omaha and I've never
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: been to College World Series because I've always wanted one thing,
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: and that's to make it as a player before Ah
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: and it's last two years it's it's been pretty yeah,
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: so can't do it three times?
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: Can't do it three times? How to do it three times?
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: So?
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah, hopefully we get there. It'll be be awesome.
• 38:46
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• 39:35
  Speaker 3: Let's talk about these position switches. This is remarkable what
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: you guys are doing and you're a poster child for
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: this guys that can play multiple positions. So you're a shortstop,
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: you're a second baseman. Now all of a sudden, you're
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: a first baseman. Yeah, that's a little bit different. Here,
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: let's walk through that, because you're obviously not the only
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: guy that's moved around different positions. How's that been.
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's crazy. And to know that I've played shortstop
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: my entire life is it's I never knew. Set me
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: up for such a such a bright future to explore
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: other positions, and I'm all for it. Like, don't get
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: me wrong, if I pick a spot, I'm gonna pick
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: short stop obviously, but if I can play around the
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: field and see different angles, and I'm pretty sure I
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: started two games at Stetson before weather Hold got tourres
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: hamstring in center field. It was like the week before
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: and Saving's like calling me up. He's like, you gotta,
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: I got, I gotta get you some early work in
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: the outfield because at the time I was hitting well
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: and so were all the other infielders. So it was like,
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: I'm not gonna put weather Hold out there. I'm not
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: gonna put Elis Garcia out there. I'm gonna like, you're
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: the choice to go out there. And I played some
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: in the summer ball because for some reason in summer ball,
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: everybody wants to play shortstop. So I can't play that
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: game every single time, so I would put me in
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: the outfield. It's just a different vibe out there, Like
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: you don't got a prep step every single time, you
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: don't got to be so tense. You just you know,
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: you're walking around hit the ball. So I truly see
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: it as a different, like any same thing with second Mason,
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: I'm like, okay, this throw is a little bit shorter
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: and stuff. But no, it's it's been crazy having that
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: offseason surgery which I am just clear, like basically getting
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: fully to one hundred percent with my arm, you know,
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: last year being just the worst thing ever with dealing
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: with six injections with into my arm and just anything
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: to take the pain away and get through the season
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: because I wasn't gonna you know, step down and do
• 41:15
  Speaker 4: any of that. But yeah, just being able to come
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: in and talk to the coaches at the start, you know,
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: just talking about the arm wasn't great at the start,
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: still had some pain, didn't have all my strength, so
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: to play second, play first give my arm arrest. It's
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: been incredible, Like I never thought I would play first base.
• 41:33
  Speaker 4: It's been crazy, but I I enjoy it, you know,
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: having picking balls and stuff like that. It's it's awesome.
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: The glove, I put the glove on it. I'm like,
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: how do I miss a ball?
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: Like the angle is different for someone it's been on
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: the left side of the infield your whole life. When
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: you switch. I know that doesn't sound like a big
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: thing to a lot of people. When you switch and
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: you're watching the game from a totally different view, that
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: takes some adjustment.
• 41:54
  Speaker 4: It is. It's very different. It's just like you're flipping
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: like an angle. It's it's crazy. But I've been taking
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: some shortstop before the game to you know, help my
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: arm out, and I always talk with Matt Einik and
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: it's just like it's it's good to be back sometimes,
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: but no, it's it's crazy. And having Armani Guzman, who's
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: as fast as he is and you don't think he
• 42:11
  Speaker 4: would play there. But when you have so much talent
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: on the baseball field, you got to put you know,
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: you got to put the right the fit there and Armani.
• 42:19
  Speaker 4: He's done great. Me and him have worked together, working
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: with Jed Jerko before practices and stuff like that, just
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: to you know, kind of get that confidence to play there.
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: And it's you know, as Sabe said to me, he's like,
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: just catch the ball. That's it. Just catch the ball.
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: And I'm like, well, there's a little bit more to that.
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: You know, you got to learn the bunt plays, how
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: to hold a runner on, like all that stuff that
• 42:38
  Speaker 4: I've never done and stuff. But it's it's been incredible.
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: And and now obviously with Gavin Kelly being our our
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: main catcher and being postseason stuff and not having to
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: put in your second best catcher who's also an incredible catcher,
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: with Matthew Gravlin, and you don't very much see an
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: arm like that in college baseball. His arm is incredible,
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: Like I've never seen it. It's like a missile coming out.
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: It's crazy. But also when you have that, you put
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: that in the outfield as well to throw runners out.
• 43:06
  Speaker 4: So where we have it now is it's perfect. And
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: I don't know if it will change or not, but
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: I think Armani will play first base and I'll play
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: second and unless obviously Kelly needs a break. But he's
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: as you know, Kelly was on here, He's the Golden
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: Spikes Award. He's his future is so bright. And like
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: I said, when you're talking about the mental game, like
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: guys like that, it's like, is there a mental with that?
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: I mean, you're having a crazy year, having an incredible year,
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: a lot of success. But he stays humble. He you know,
• 43:33
  Speaker 4: he doesn't let all that poison. And when you're good
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: like that, man, the social media get like it's all
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: about you and all that stuff. But he's incredible. He's
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: a bright future. Definitely a spark in our line.
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: What's your future?
• 43:46
  Speaker 4: I hope to play baseball as long as I can,
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: but if not, you know, my girlfriend, she's been into
• 43:52
  Speaker 4: real estate and stuff, so that's kind of something I've
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: been involved in and talking to and talking with some
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: donors that we have and stuff, because you never know
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: how long you're gonna play baseball and stuff. And I'm
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: a fifth year. I'm getting a little bit older, but
• 44:03
  Speaker 4: I certainly am going to play baseball as long as
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: as long as the game lets me.
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: So no coaching.
• 44:08
  Speaker 4: I That's what everybody asked me, and I I don't
• 44:11
  Speaker 4: I don't have an answer for that. I have no idea.
• 44:13
  Speaker 4: I do think I will eventually. I want to stay
• 44:15
  Speaker 4: around the game, so I want to give back, which
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: I do in the summertimes with you know, running camps
• 44:20
  Speaker 4: and stuff like that. So I truly don't know. And
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: I think when we went, Omaha, there we go, we
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: will uh, we'll sit on that. I'm kind of just
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: you know, enjoying the enjoying the time here and hopefully
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: to uh, you know, get an opportunity in the draft
• 44:34
  Speaker 4: or sign with somebody. That'd be my dream come true.
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: Just jump back for a second. What'd you take from
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: JJ weatherhol Oh my gosh.
• 44:41
  Speaker 4: I love answering this question. A lot of people ask me, like,
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: you played with him. I'm like, sure, it did, played
• 44:45
  Speaker 4: up the middle with him. It's it's pretty cool. He
• 44:47
  Speaker 4: he taught me a lot the second I stepped on campus.
• 44:52
  Speaker 4: He grew. He grew my faith very very much. I
• 44:55
  Speaker 4: wasn't into the Bible or the Word at all back home,
• 44:58
  Speaker 4: and you know, there wasn't anything at DMAC or anything,
• 45:00
  Speaker 4: but having FCA having Bible studies with him, I think
• 45:03
  Speaker 4: that was kind of like the first thing that kind
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: of stood out to me, just to it makes you
• 45:07
  Speaker 4: look at the game at a different perspective, Like just
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: like little things like that, but being able to work
• 45:11
  Speaker 4: with him and hit with him and just be around him. Uh,
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: he brought the energy. It's just the game comes a
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: little bit different to him, like not many things seem difficult.
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: Why.
• 45:23
  Speaker 4: I don't know. I I think he just he just
• 45:27
  Speaker 4: gets it. Like he he knows his swing to a t.
• 45:31
  Speaker 4: So like when everybody else is kind of working and
• 45:34
  Speaker 4: it just looks like they're working so hard to fix
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: an adjustment, He's doing one little thing and then overall
• 45:39
  Speaker 4: he just gets in the box and keeps it simple.
• 45:41
  Speaker 4: Just he just keeps it simple. And he's I don't
• 45:44
  Speaker 4: even know. It's it's the bright. The future is so
• 45:46
  Speaker 4: bright and you're already seeing it. It's it's incredible. Like
• 45:49
  Speaker 4: once he got nine nine home runs so far. So yeah,
• 45:52
  Speaker 4: and I I we have a streak on Snapchat. I
• 45:54
  Speaker 4: don't know if you guys know what that is, but
• 45:56
  Speaker 4: we talk. We know, we talk. We talk on a
• 45:59
  Speaker 4: daily basis.
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: Old you don't think we know snapchat? What is that
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: internet thing? Yeah? We we we know Snapchat.
• 46:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's crazy, but I'm talking to him on
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: a daily basis. He's congratulating me, I'm congratulating him. But
• 46:10
  Speaker 4: gets to a point where you you don't you want
• 46:12
  Speaker 4: to stop congratulating him because he's doing so good exactly,
• 46:15
  Speaker 4: and it's just like, well, you play tomorrow, you go
• 46:17
  Speaker 4: for four. He play tomorrow again. Like it's it's crazy.
• 46:20
  Speaker 4: And I talked about going out to a game this summer.
• 46:23
  Speaker 4: Saint Louis not being too far playing Chicago, who I've
• 46:25
  Speaker 4: grown up rooting for my entire life to be kind
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: of like a little full circle moment there. But I've
• 46:30
  Speaker 4: paid more attention to the Cardinals this year. And yeah,
• 46:33
  Speaker 4: it's it's honestly, just keeps me speechless. I just say,
• 46:36
  Speaker 4: he's he's one of the best guys I've played with,
• 46:38
  Speaker 4: one of the best players I've seen. And you just
• 46:41
  Speaker 4: can't teach how he hits. It's it's crazy, but to
• 46:43
  Speaker 4: pick his brain and you know, in the cages and
• 46:46
  Speaker 4: and stuff like that, go go hit at night with
• 46:48
  Speaker 4: when practice is over and and stuff like that. Kind
• 46:51
  Speaker 4: of just settled down a little bit and talk to
• 46:52
  Speaker 4: him and and he's always there for you. He's he's
• 46:54
  Speaker 4: that guy you get to talk to and and it
• 46:56
  Speaker 4: all worked out for him, and seeing him get drafted
• 46:58
  Speaker 4: and watching the draft and stuff like that. I think
• 47:00
  Speaker 4: it just it pushes everybody here. You use that, you
• 47:04
  Speaker 4: use Gavin Kelly as a reference, being one to one
• 47:06
  Speaker 4: in that in that twenty twenty seven class. So it
• 47:09
  Speaker 4: just it definitely motivates you a lot to you know,
• 47:12
  Speaker 4: get where he's at. Maybe everybody's path is different and
• 47:15
  Speaker 4: stuff like that, but it definitely helps out with the team.
• 47:18
  Speaker 4: It's talked about a lot in the recruiting process, has
• 47:20
  Speaker 4: talked about still now in our team room and stuff
• 47:23
  Speaker 4: like that. It's it's just you know, you can do it.
• 47:26
  Speaker 4: You just gotta just gotta put your head down and
• 47:29
  Speaker 4: focus on the right thing.
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: When you talk to your baseball buddies, and they were
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: to ask you, if they were to ask you about
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: Steve Sabans, what makes him unique and different? Because he
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: certainly is unique and different. Yeah, what's his thing? Man?
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: He just he understands the game. It's it's crazy how
• 47:45
  Speaker 4: much he's been around the game is also crazy. But
• 47:48
  Speaker 4: like he said, being an assistant for ten years and
• 47:50
  Speaker 4: he just gets it. He can talk in front of
• 47:53
  Speaker 4: thousands of people, he can talk on a radio. He can,
• 47:56
  Speaker 4: like he just he just knows how to do it.
• 47:58
  Speaker 4: He knows how to he knows how to recruit. I
• 48:01
  Speaker 4: like I said, he's one of the best recruiters, Like,
• 48:04
  Speaker 4: you know, calling twice a week. You don't see that
• 48:06
  Speaker 4: very often. That's how you compete against other schools, you know,
• 48:09
  Speaker 4: offering certain things with nil nowadays, opportunities here to you know,
• 48:14
  Speaker 4: work with certain companies and just like little things like that,
• 48:18
  Speaker 4: and yeah, it's it's crazy. He knows, like the scouting
• 48:22
  Speaker 4: report and stuff. How much time they put into that
• 48:25
  Speaker 4: is just like it's mind blowing how much. It's like, yeah,
• 48:28
  Speaker 4: I listened. I think I can't remember who asked him.
• 48:30
  Speaker 4: He's like, you listen to music. He's like, oh, I
• 48:32
  Speaker 4: only listen to music in the car. And then he's like, no,
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: I listened to music for two and a half hours
• 48:36
  Speaker 4: when I'm scouting as well, the scout It's just it's crazy.
• 48:39
  Speaker 4: We have our scout and report meetings before we hit
• 48:41
  Speaker 4: the bus on away roads are on away trips, and
• 48:45
  Speaker 4: the time and effort and the things he knows about
• 48:47
  Speaker 4: all these pictures and stuff. It's crazy. And obviously it
• 48:49
  Speaker 4: helps out when he coaches third base, so you know
• 48:52
  Speaker 4: we're finding tips to steal on shoulder drop. Maybe the
• 48:55
  Speaker 4: picture is constantly you shoulder drop pitch, right, shoulder drop pitch,
• 48:59
  Speaker 4: just like little things like that, time to the plate,
• 49:01
  Speaker 4: all those little things, and that's why you win. And
• 49:03
  Speaker 4: that's why people hate playing West Virginia because they're so annoying.
• 49:06
  Speaker 4: And they they scratch a run, they're gonna they're gonna
• 49:10
  Speaker 4: squeeze or they're gonna score two runs and you're gonna
• 49:12
  Speaker 4: think you're getting one out and that trail runner is
• 49:14
  Speaker 4: right behind him scoring just like this. Little things like that,
• 49:16
  Speaker 4: and I think it's so fun to run.
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: Run, Yeah, it runs a run, right, What a great
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: style to play, hi though, when you're there's no there's
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: no stoplight. It's ultra aggressive and you're going and if
• 49:25
  Speaker 3: you get thrown out, you get thrown out. We're running again. There,
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: We've gotta be liberating in a blast, right.
• 49:29
  Speaker 4: It's crazy. And especially hitting behind OURMANI Guzman is the
• 49:31
  Speaker 4: best thing ever because if he gets on base, I
• 49:33
  Speaker 4: either know I'm gonna get no pitches in the zone
• 49:36
  Speaker 4: or I'm gonna get pitches in the zone. So he's
• 49:38
  Speaker 4: calling a hit and run and I'm like, okay, yeah,
• 49:40
  Speaker 4: like I got a swing and you're gonna get a strike,
• 49:42
  Speaker 4: You're gonna get you know, like stuff like that. And
• 49:44
  Speaker 4: it works out when he's going first to third and
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: or he's stealing and and I'm fake bunt, like just
• 49:48
  Speaker 4: like anything to get I mean, I could just stand
• 49:50
  Speaker 4: there and money Guzman would get to a second. But
• 49:52
  Speaker 4: just to help out a little bit.
• 49:54
  Speaker 5: What it was I think Friday night, like back to
• 49:56
  Speaker 5: back bunch and a suicide squeeze out there.
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: That was just like it was old school man.
• 50:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that was good stuff. It's little things like that
• 50:02
  Speaker 4: that will win you a ball game. And not many
• 50:04
  Speaker 4: people like do that. They're just like, oh, you know,
• 50:07
  Speaker 4: we're just going to rush home runs, you know, stuff
• 50:09
  Speaker 4: like that. But truly it's more than that.
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: Let's talk about that Biomechanical Center for a second, because
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: you talked about that in the pitch for you that
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: it was coming.
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: It's here.
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, how awesome is that? It is a difference maker.
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: Nobody's got one of those.
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: How have you used it?
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: And what's that going to do for the program moving forward?
• 50:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's been incredible. We get twenty four to seven
• 50:26
  Speaker 4: access to it and people are you know, late at
• 50:29
  Speaker 4: night hitting, you know, perfecting their craft. But those two cages,
• 50:32
  Speaker 4: we use it so much. And obviously we have the field,
• 50:34
  Speaker 4: but if it's hot too hot, or if it's rainy,
• 50:36
  Speaker 4: or you know, anything like that, any circumstance with the
• 50:38
  Speaker 4: weather here in Morgantown, you go right in there and
• 50:40
  Speaker 4: you know, turn up the music and start working and
• 50:43
  Speaker 4: grinding in there. And the pictures are doing the same thing,
• 50:46
  Speaker 4: constantly throwing bullpens. I mean, you had Paul Skeins in
• 50:48
  Speaker 4: there working, you know, like stuff like that. It's people
• 50:51
  Speaker 4: are truly invested and want to know more. I mean,
• 50:53
  Speaker 4: the technology is crazy. The camera's in there, the TVs,
• 50:57
  Speaker 4: you know, the decoration, like everything is truly in there
• 51:01
  Speaker 4: that you need, and not many programs have it. It's
• 51:03
  Speaker 4: it's pretty cool. But to be able to use that
• 51:06
  Speaker 4: and maybe we got force plates underneath the batter's box
• 51:09
  Speaker 4: to and we can do assessments and tell how much,
• 51:11
  Speaker 4: you know, weight we're putting on each side, and it's
• 51:15
  Speaker 4: it's actually incredible, especially coming from a junior college who
• 51:17
  Speaker 4: obviously junior college do not have that, or high school
• 51:20
  Speaker 4: a small school have that. So it's pretty cool to
• 51:23
  Speaker 4: use that. And we have a new guy that came
• 51:26
  Speaker 4: in as well, the head coach at Queen's and you know,
• 51:28
  Speaker 4: Courtney working there being our bioprecition and they're so smart
• 51:32
  Speaker 4: and it's just crazy how much they know about that
• 51:34
  Speaker 4: technology and stuff that that comes with your body to
• 51:38
  Speaker 4: perform at a high level.
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: What what did you learn about yourself? So you're you're
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: starting to get you go in there and they're starting
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: to do an evail on you. Yea, what did you
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: learn that you did, weren't doing or needed to do
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: that helped you? Yeah?
• 51:51
  Speaker 4: I learned maybe tweak right away, Yeah, instantly right away.
• 51:53
  Speaker 4: It was just like my weight balance on my front
• 51:56
  Speaker 4: foot is a little bit more, you know, so knowing
• 51:58
  Speaker 4: that I need to hinge my back hip a little
• 52:01
  Speaker 4: bit more, you know, and not be so outfront. And
• 52:03
  Speaker 4: that's something I always you know, when I'm having success,
• 52:06
  Speaker 4: I'm not doing it And you don't realize you're doing
• 52:08
  Speaker 4: it until you get frustrated enough when you're you know,
• 52:11
  Speaker 4: you're struggling, it's like what am I doing wrong? But
• 52:14
  Speaker 4: to be able to do that and look at all
• 52:15
  Speaker 4: the side angles of all the cameras and stuff working
• 52:18
  Speaker 4: with my hand placement, you know, I always try to
• 52:20
  Speaker 4: keep it closer to my shoulders, sometimes getting too high.
• 52:23
  Speaker 4: So just seeing all that stuff where you don't feel
• 52:25
  Speaker 4: it in the box because you feel like you're in
• 52:26
  Speaker 4: a good spot. But when you go back and sit
• 52:28
  Speaker 4: down and look at that small stuff, it's that's honestly
• 52:32
  Speaker 4: the best way to do it. Or going back and
• 52:34
  Speaker 4: watching you're at bats and stuff like that, that's how
• 52:36
  Speaker 4: you learn and stuff. And weather Hole he has his
• 52:38
  Speaker 4: whole assessment in there and people are just constantly looking
• 52:42
  Speaker 4: at has like what is this?
• 52:44
  Speaker 3: So you can go in and pull his stuff up
• 52:46
  Speaker 3: and see what he does well and where it rates.
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: And yeah they did try and transfer.
• 52:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah they did one on James Wood when he came
• 52:51
  Speaker 4: and lipscumb when he came. And you can just go
• 52:53
  Speaker 4: in there and look it up and just like study
• 52:55
  Speaker 4: a swing as slower fast as you want. It's it's
• 52:57
  Speaker 4: actually incredible.
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: It's great.
• 52:58
  Speaker 3: Technology is amazing. Yeah, and it's the computers.
• 53:01
  Speaker 4: Right in front of the cage and go on in
• 53:03
  Speaker 4: and look up what you want and it's usually weather
• 53:05
  Speaker 4: Holds video is always up because somebody wants to see
• 53:08
  Speaker 4: like what's he doing?
• 53:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, right, How could you not want to come take
• 53:12
  Speaker 3: advantage of that? If you're in the transfer portal or
• 53:15
  Speaker 3: a junior college player or a high how could you
• 53:17
  Speaker 3: not want to be a part of that, That technology
• 53:19
  Speaker 3: your fingertips?
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: Who doesn't want to go to happen?
• 53:22
  Speaker 4: And I always tell myself when I see recruits, I'm like,
• 53:24
  Speaker 4: I wonder what they think about that that lab And
• 53:26
  Speaker 4: you know, we got other new guys in there, Micah
• 53:29
  Speaker 4: and he's running. I mean, teams are constantly coming in
• 53:32
  Speaker 4: at night time to use it to practice, and just
• 53:34
  Speaker 4: people are starting to use it and see what it
• 53:37
  Speaker 4: actually is about, and it's it's been incredible. We're on
• 53:39
  Speaker 4: the road and you know, tournaments are being played on
• 53:41
  Speaker 4: our field and they get to use that, and I'm
• 53:44
  Speaker 4: sure they're just mind blowing.
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: You mentioned Steve Saban's listening to music when he's gous.
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: What do you listen to?
• 53:50
  Speaker 4: I listened to a lot of just about everything.
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: On a game day.
• 53:53
  Speaker 4: I kind of listened to the rap, kind of get that,
• 53:56
  Speaker 4: you know, that groovy feeling, a little bit stay loose.
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: Particular artist did you like, No, not really like a big.
• 54:03
  Speaker 4: Just artist guy. I just kind of just a little
• 54:05
  Speaker 4: bit of everything. But on the side, like when I'm
• 54:07
  Speaker 4: kind of just like chilling stuff a big country guy.
• 54:09
  Speaker 4: Big I got into Charles well S, godwat shout out
• 54:15
  Speaker 4: to him and yeah, Morgan Waller, Luke Combs, Yeah, Luke Colmbs.
• 54:19
  Speaker 4: I was just telling my girlfriend I want to go
• 54:20
  Speaker 4: to a Luke Combs concert. Riley Green went to his
• 54:23
  Speaker 4: concert in Milwaukee. Uh, Luke Bryan was also there. I
• 54:26
  Speaker 4: don't really not anymore too much Luke Bryan. But yeah,
• 54:29
  Speaker 4: it's it's kind of just about everything just kind of
• 54:32
  Speaker 4: depends on how I'm feeling.
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: Honestly, you and you're gonna as him about Field of Dreams, Iowa, guy,
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: I wasn't you can go ahead? Field a Dreams guy.
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: You've been how many times you've been there?
• 54:42
  Speaker 4: I've been there one time actually, and it's like maybe
• 54:46
  Speaker 4: thirty minutes down the road. It's pretty, it's pretty. It's
• 54:48
  Speaker 4: pretty crazy.
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 54:50
  Speaker 4: Dyersville, Yep, Diyersvilleville. I'll always remember that's where I lost
• 54:54
  Speaker 4: my senior year to go to state in basketball. So yeah,
• 54:57
  Speaker 4: it's got.
• 54:57
  Speaker 3: Tyersville got you.
• 54:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Diar'sville got us, and and I think.
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: Probably a bad call in that game.
• 55:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely there's a couple of calls packed gym is loud.
• 55:04
  Speaker 4: I think I knocked my jaw out of place. Yeah,
• 55:08
  Speaker 4: yeah it was. It was packed for school like that.
• 55:11
  Speaker 5: So at bat, do you ever give the ump the
• 55:13
  Speaker 5: side eye or what's your relationship with umpires?
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 55:15
  Speaker 4: Unfortunately, there you do. Yeah, there's been times that more
• 55:19
  Speaker 4: side I not necessarily like a harsh comment or something,
• 55:23
  Speaker 4: but you know when you're when you're that locked in
• 55:25
  Speaker 4: and you're competing, and you feel like like I was
• 55:27
  Speaker 4: talking about this weekend, just like talking to my dad
• 55:30
  Speaker 4: and stuff, you know, just kind of recap h like
• 55:32
  Speaker 4: I like to like vent a little bit, like when
• 55:34
  Speaker 4: you have a tough game. But it's like I think
• 55:37
  Speaker 4: it was that basis loader where I flew out and
• 55:39
  Speaker 4: that that first basement made that behind them like whatever,
• 55:42
  Speaker 4: and I was just like, well it was two oh
• 55:43
  Speaker 4: and I thought he called a strike that was a sinking.
• 55:46
  Speaker 4: So where it crosses the plate, it was clearly a
• 55:48
  Speaker 4: ball which would have been a three to zero count.
• 55:50
  Speaker 4: It switches your bag. You go from three oh to
• 55:52
  Speaker 4: two to one, and and you know, and then you
• 55:55
  Speaker 4: don't get the result you want. Basis load. I think
• 55:57
  Speaker 4: we had basis load a couple of times and didn
• 55:58
  Speaker 4: take advantage of it. So just like little things like that,
• 56:00
  Speaker 4: But I'm I mainly ask where they have that pitch?
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: Oh, really, like what do you specifically?
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: What do you say?
• 56:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I asked him like top of the zone and
• 56:09
  Speaker 4: he said middle in and I was pretty rattled because
• 56:12
  Speaker 4: I knew it was middle. That means he's if it's
• 56:15
  Speaker 4: farther away, he's calling it a strike, which is just
• 56:18
  Speaker 4: just crazy to me. So but like if I know
• 56:21
  Speaker 4: it's painted and I let it like, I'm like, you
• 56:23
  Speaker 4: got that painted on the outside, He's like yeah, or
• 56:25
  Speaker 4: is like like just like he'll like like they'll let
• 56:27
  Speaker 4: you know if they have it there or if they
• 56:30
  Speaker 4: got it a ball off. Like the catcher will also
• 56:32
  Speaker 4: like if he thinks to strike, he'd be like ball
• 56:34
  Speaker 4: off or something. And then so you listen to that
• 56:36
  Speaker 4: stuff and that's how you kind of learn his zone
• 56:38
  Speaker 4: and everybody's umpire zone is it's different different.
• 56:41
  Speaker 5: Any any catchers in the Big twelve talk any trash
• 56:43
  Speaker 5: while you're up there?
• 56:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Arizona States guy is uh is pretty hot head.
• 56:49
  Speaker 4: So we got into his head and what.
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: Do you got into his head?
• 56:52
  Speaker 4: What'd you give him just crossing home plate and some
• 56:55
  Speaker 4: guys letting him know that we're here. What kind of
• 56:56
  Speaker 4: what would you say, Uh yeah, get out of the way,
• 57:00
  Speaker 4: like just stuff you can't say. Yeah, but you know,
• 57:03
  Speaker 4: just just competing and he's he's one of those guys
• 57:06
  Speaker 4: like you know, saved just talking about a pitch calm
• 57:08
  Speaker 4: and he's just freaking out. He's like no, like you know,
• 57:10
  Speaker 4: get back, like just doing a little bit too much.
• 57:13
  Speaker 4: So when you take that lead, you let him know.
• 57:18
  Speaker 3: Funhippy game.
• 57:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah, odds that you run into. You know, it's just
• 57:21
  Speaker 4: competing and he probably run into him all off the
• 57:23
  Speaker 4: field and it's you know, just a general conversation. But
• 57:25
  Speaker 4: on the field, like I said, it's it's man versus man.
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, umpire, admit missing any when you've been at the plate,
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: Like my bad, I missed it.
• 57:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you get that a couple of times. And you
• 57:36
  Speaker 4: got to get props to the catcher. Like catchers, Kelly
• 57:38
  Speaker 4: gets to see how many strikes he steals. So if
• 57:41
  Speaker 4: it's a ball and he's getting it a strike, it's
• 57:43
  Speaker 4: a win for him. And that's what good catcher's doing.
• 57:45
  Speaker 4: And there's just about every big twelve catcher is a
• 57:48
  Speaker 4: pre elite catcher, so yeah, they usually see it at
• 57:51
  Speaker 4: the bottom of his zone where the umpire can't exactly
• 57:53
  Speaker 4: see it, but you can see the catcher bring it
• 57:55
  Speaker 4: up and stuff like that. So usually it's like it's
• 57:58
  Speaker 4: like that. But for against Arizona day, not that last game,
• 58:02
  Speaker 4: but the second game, I thought the umpire zone was
• 58:04
  Speaker 4: was great. I'm pretty sure I had like a ten
• 58:06
  Speaker 4: pitch at bat and he's calling those ball or two down,
• 58:09
  Speaker 4: and it's like when when umpire has a true zone
• 58:12
  Speaker 4: and you're seeing the ball truly well, it makes it
• 58:14
  Speaker 4: like I was seeing the ball so well because of
• 58:16
  Speaker 4: that that I knew my I knew that zone, and
• 58:19
  Speaker 4: I knew his pitches, and I like the pitch that
• 58:22
  Speaker 4: I got walked on was I think like a ball
• 58:24
  Speaker 4: and a half off, but that's really close for an
• 58:27
  Speaker 4: to ring you up. And the second he called that
• 58:29
  Speaker 4: a ball, I knew his his zone was true, and
• 58:32
  Speaker 4: I knew I was seeing I just I just knew
• 58:33
  Speaker 4: a lot of things were like a lot of good
• 58:35
  Speaker 4: things were gonna come that game, and and I had
• 58:37
  Speaker 4: a pretty solid game. So it's it definitely changes it.
• 58:40
  Speaker 4: I mean, you could go from like I said, two
• 58:41
  Speaker 4: oh to three to zero or two oh to two
• 58:44
  Speaker 4: to one, and it gets you an account that not
• 58:48
  Speaker 4: necessarily you want to be in, but you want to
• 58:49
  Speaker 4: You want to be in ahead in the account obviously.
• 58:51
  Speaker 4: So if it's if it's oh oh, and you think
• 58:53
  Speaker 4: you got a good take and he calls it a strike,
• 58:55
  Speaker 4: it's it just kind of changes the bat a little bit.
• 58:56
  Speaker 4: It changes your approach.
• 58:57
  Speaker 3: All Right, we'll get you out of here soon, but
• 58:58
  Speaker 3: you're entering your time here. You had a heck of
• 59:00
  Speaker 3: a regional last year. All regional team scored the game
• 59:02
  Speaker 3: running run against Kentucky. You've fired up, ready to go.
• 59:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm super excited. I can't wait to see what
• 59:07
  Speaker 4: this team does. The energy and stuff it's going to
• 59:09
  Speaker 4: be there. And like I said, in this past month,
• 59:12
  Speaker 4: I feel like has been postseason baseball, Like it's been
• 59:15
  Speaker 4: gritty game. So I think we're nothing but prepared. And
• 59:19
  Speaker 4: I think if we just bring the energy and you know,
• 59:21
  Speaker 4: worry about one game at a time, that the past
• 59:24
  Speaker 4: is going to sixty didn't take itself.
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: Time for you to go bye bye. We could sit
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: here and talk with you all for hours. I we
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: just we don't want to make Steve ups.
• 59:36
  Speaker 3: Can't be late to practice.
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: No, so obviously we congratulate you. We look forward. The
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: weather's going to be nice, man like, no rain, seventy early,
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: you know, late seventies, low seventies.
• 59:45
  Speaker 4: Perfect, perfect, Let me perfect.
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: Whether you guys get the five o'clock spot on Friday,
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: and the place will be, people will be on top
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: of people. It's awesome.
• 59:54
  Speaker 4: I can't wait.
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: It's what a journey man from a small high school
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: to the junior college route getting id to coming here.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 3: And this is like now hosting an NCAA home park.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's truly a blessing. It's never It's something
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 4: I'm never gonna never take for granted and be able
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 4: to look back in the years when I when I
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 4: come back and visit.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: Oh, we love to have you back.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: Once a mountaineer, always a mountaineer. So right too. All right, buddy,
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: thanks so much for being with us.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 4: I appreciate it. Thank you for having me, all right.
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• 1:00:45
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  Speaker 3: That was fun?
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• 1:02:06
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  Speaker 3: Just that one time. No, you don't need to hear
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  Speaker 1: About He was about three times what about you hop
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  Speaker 2: Brody was well coached by Brad. He was excellent.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 3: He was He could have talked to him for hours.
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  Speaker 2: That was fun.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 3: He's a great, great story. I just great story.
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  Speaker 5: To me, this is personally fulfilling because I love to
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  Speaker 2: What are you thinking? What are you seeing? It's two
• 1:02:36
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  Speaker 5: I mean that that to me makes the game Brad
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  Speaker 5: much more fascinating.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think you know it's one of those
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 3: when you when you hear those stories because we get
• 1:02:46
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• 1:02:50
  Speaker 3: dollars that are floating around, and there's still stories like this, Right,
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 3: small town dude graduating class of fifty two, and now
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 3: he gets all the way to the point where he's
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 3: gonna be playing in front of five thousand people in
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 3: your home park after five years of grinding through college.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 3: Like those are those are still fun, really neat stories
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 3: to hear it?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely life.
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  Speaker 1: Whoops? So what what got him to West Virginia? Steve
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  Speaker 1: a week.
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  Speaker 3: Is that a West Virginia story?
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a West that's your story.
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  Speaker 5: Work harder and you get a dude like that, and
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 5: then you get and you get somebody also to visit here.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 5: And he talked about the facilities. There's no facilities like
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 5: that in the country, you know, no.
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  Speaker 3: And that's that's really over the next couple of years
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 3: that that building is going to pay massive dividends. That's
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• 1:03:52
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  Speaker 5: See you want to come here and do you oh,
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  Speaker 5: by the way, Paul Schemes was here, do you want
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 5: to come here and improve your game to the point
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 5: where you might be able to play the next level?
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: And and they're doing it the right way. I mean
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 3: you're seeing it. Like he mentioned tournaments going on over there.
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  Speaker 3: You give those kids access now they've seen it right,
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  Speaker 3: other opposing teams that come in, because that's where that's
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 3: switched a little bit. Now, don't discount that opposing teams
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  Speaker 3: that come into this building and play. And I know
• 1:04:20
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• 1:04:21
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  Speaker 1: a w quartership on and he goes, you from West Virgina.
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  Speaker 1: I said, yeah, I said, He says, my wife's from Beckley.
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  Speaker 2: Of course she is.
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  Speaker 1: And I said, oh really, I said, I hit him
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  Speaker 1: with City of Champions Flying Eagles basketball. He offers this,
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  Speaker 1: he said, yeah, she dated the state's best player for
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  Speaker 1: two years there. And I said, Shae Fleener or Ryan Culacerto.
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• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: where it took place. Guy at the guy at the
• 1:08:03
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• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: who are you? He said, Shae Fleener's dad.
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  Speaker 3: So Shae Fleener's come up twice a week and I said, well,
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  Speaker 5: Great players that Tony. You completed the circle. Yeah, when
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• 1:09:15
  Speaker 4: What seventy people waiting outside to get Yeah, I.
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  Speaker 1: Got there before eleven. There was a long Hey Jake,
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  Speaker 1: can you show that picture? I'm out there. Yeah, we
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  Speaker 2: Took a while to get to it.
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  Speaker 1: Yesterday. Well, yeah, we were the last. We were the
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  Speaker 1: great crowd. It was fun.
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• 1:10:05
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  Speaker 1: Homeless was just fine. I got a Homeless go ahead.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: I was gonna say this, so right when the selection
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: started yesterday, I said to Brad, even though you know
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  Speaker 1: you're hosting, even though you know you're hosting, what happened
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: to the Mountaineer basketball team two years ago of getting
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: like you still when the selection show comes out, you
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: get a bad feeling, you get a pit in your stomach, pts.
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  Speaker 5: Even though you know that you're in, you just go like, uh,
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 5: I know, and it kept and you knew you were
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 5: going to be after Kansas.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: Things were going. We already knew we were going to
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: host a regional, but we got left.
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  Speaker 3: It is it is too low of a seed, big
• 1:10:58
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• 1:11:01
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• 1:11:07
  Speaker 5: So in Homeless, my wife and I are walking the
• 1:11:10
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• 1:11:12
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• 1:11:14
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  Speaker 2: Well homeless is doing.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's just people know him by people know
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  Speaker 1: him by homeless. God continue on, Texter, Bora, Bora, Hello,
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: it's been a while, three guys. I'm checking in from
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: French Polynesia, honeymooning with my wife. Tough scene over here.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: Fun fact, every time we hopped on one of these
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: boats to get around the islands, I've noticed what appears
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  Speaker 1: the side of these boats. Now I don't speak any French,
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  Speaker 1: but it sounded like one of the captains told me
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  Speaker 1: they're working on a direct boat service from Phoenix to
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  Speaker 1: Bora Bora courtesy of lou Wendel unconfirmed pending translation. I'm
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  Speaker 1: efforting and hopeful it'll be operational soon. Sad to miss
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  Speaker 1: the wheeling Pittsburgh stops on the coach's caravan this year.
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  Speaker 1: But glad you said alone, can you show those pictures
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  Speaker 1: that's Bora Bora and that's kind of clean, kind of clean.
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  Speaker 3: He said, it's got a loose try. He was translating
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  Speaker 1: Let me tell you all this, it is absolutely the
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  Speaker 1: peak of boating season right now. The selection is the
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  Speaker 1: best that it's going to be all year long. At
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  Speaker 1: lou Wendell Marine Cells located in Saint Albans, they've been
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  Speaker 1: doing it for forty plus years, the only Honda Marine
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  Speaker 1: lou Wendel Marine at sales dot com. This was a
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  Speaker 1: pretty touching story. My wife and I attended the Coach's
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  Speaker 1: Caravan in Pittsburgh. Informative and entertaining. West Virginia Athletics are
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  Speaker 1: in good hands with rend Baker, the administration, seventeen varsity
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  Speaker 1: coaching staff, sevenveral fundraising organizations. I'd like to share a
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  Speaker 1: story I shared with Ross Hodge. While watching the West
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  Speaker 1: Virginia UCF basketball game on Valentine's Night, I suddenly lost
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  Speaker 1: vision in my left eye. My wife took me to
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  Speaker 1: the local yard, checked for a stroke in blood clots,
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  Speaker 1: determined my retina detached. They sent us to a downtown
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  Speaker 1: trauma center. We had an optomologist retina specialist on duty
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  Speaker 1: at eleven o'clock on a Saturday night, admitted me at
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  Speaker 1: two am. Scheduled surgery the next morning to reattach. When
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  Speaker 1: I was finally alone in my room, depressed and scared,
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  Speaker 1: I checked the West Virginia score to find out they
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  Speaker 1: had one of their patent had come from behind victories.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go, I shouted. The nurses came running. I had
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  Speaker 1: to explain I was not in pain, but very happy.
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  Speaker 1: Coach Hodge listened intently, asked a few questions, including how
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing. I could not see it all for the
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  Speaker 1: first four to six six weeks, but by the grace
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  Speaker 1: of God, two dedicated hospital staffs and prayers from family
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  Speaker 1: and friends, my ice right now site is slowly recovering.
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  Speaker 1: I listened to a lot of West Virginia University podcast
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  Speaker 1: including three Guys, during recovery. I look forward to watching
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  Speaker 1: football games at Mountaineer Field and basketball games at Hope
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  Speaker 1: Coliseum this coming year. Some people say sports are overrated.
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  Speaker 1: Some say trivial WV sports helped me through some very
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  Speaker 1: extremely difficult times the last few months. Signed Tom from
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  Speaker 1: Mountaineer Central Pittsburgh Division there he is brad sure with Tom.
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  Speaker 1: We were at the City Winery there on the Strip District,
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  Speaker 1: in the Strip District during our coaches caravan.
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  Speaker 3: Great story, glad he's doing better. Yes, that's serious, that's awesome,
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  Speaker 3: Tom bag you're on the ment.
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  Speaker 5: By the way, Happy birthday, belated birthday to the football
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  Speaker 5: coach Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Rich, so he would be sixty four now let
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  Speaker 1: me check that sixty three or sixty four three guys,
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  Speaker 1: it's Matt from Pittsburgh. Thank you guys so much for
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: coming up to the coaches caravan. We definitely he missed Hoppy,
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  Speaker 1: but loved chatting with you all. Love the baseball of victory.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for having us. Keep up the great work. There's
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  Speaker 1: two picks coming up here, Brad with this fine fella,
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  Speaker 1: and then I think this is the director of athletics,
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  Speaker 1: Wren Baker there as well.
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  Speaker 3: Enjoyed talking to him. His dad was with him and
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  Speaker 3: enjoyed catching up with both those guys.
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  Speaker 1: Sixty three rich is now sixty three. Sixty three good
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  Speaker 1: our body, longtime front of the program. Joe mah sure.
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  Speaker 1: He serves as the baseball analyst on road radio games
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  Speaker 1: when Jake Wegghorse doesn't go, and so he broadcasts the
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  Speaker 1: games with Junior. And Joe's got his own baseball website
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  Speaker 1: rights for USA Today, so he knows facilities. He writes
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  Speaker 1: for USA Today, baseball ballparks his website. And he said, well,
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  Speaker 1: he did the Kansas series. And he said, when I
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  Speaker 1: was leaving the Kansas press box, I stopped into him
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  Speaker 1: warm them. This is the baseball people at the stadium.
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  Speaker 1: There in no uncertain terms that their facilities are simply
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  Speaker 1: inadequate to host a regional. I left them with these
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  Speaker 1: cheery final words, thanks for having us. Yeah, Joe doesn't
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  Speaker 1: pull punches. This is an interesting one. Hello TC, Uncle
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  Speaker 1: Hop Centator, Spread, Tommy Boy from Independence. Hope you're well.
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  Speaker 1: They'll always say you never knew who you'll see. While
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  Speaker 1: out playing golf, My financial planner, Buddy Ken and I
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  Speaker 1: were playing at Lakeview, we happened to meet Truck Bryant.
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  Speaker 1: He was a great guy.
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  Speaker 3: They did trucks everywhere he was.
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  Speaker 1: He was a great guy to talk with. Once a mountaineer,
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  Speaker 1: always a mountaineer, is always thanks for all the great entertainment.
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  Speaker 1: Now someone's telling me Truck's walking with a limp.
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  Speaker 3: Well, has knee situation.
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  Speaker 1: What's going on?
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  Speaker 3: I saw him at the women's regional and he was
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  Speaker 3: having a little knee situation.
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  Speaker 1: He's still trying to play.
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  Speaker 3: We're still trying to play, and you can't do that
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  Speaker 3: at his advance age. Now he's like fifty seven, fifty eight,
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  Speaker 3: sixty seven years old. Yeah, he's got it. He got
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  Speaker 3: to stop playing.
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  Speaker 1: So he was playing in an adult league here, hurt himself.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah you got Yeah, at some point you gotta let it.
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  Speaker 1: Go, Truck, it's overdue. These next pictures are wow, Dougie
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  Speaker 1: fresh from Truck. Yeah, but he walks like he's fifty seven.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of years, a lot of years on this.
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  Speaker 1: Oh well, all that fake all those fake head snaps
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  Speaker 1: that he did when he was going down the lane.
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  Speaker 1: I mean that probably caught his knee off.
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  Speaker 3: Pat to the move.
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  Speaker 2: It worked, did work. He was great at that. First
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  Speaker 2: one to do it, was he?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he was a great was.
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  Speaker 3: He wasn't the first one to do it. He was
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  Speaker 3: right up there. He got a lot of calls.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, shake Gilgus. Alexander picked it up from him. Dougie
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  Speaker 1: Fresher from Merle's inlet checking in rate my plate just
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  Speaker 1: a few deer. A few days ago. I had to
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  Speaker 1: had to share this while I was at Brobridge, Losana
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  Speaker 1: Crawfish Festival. Here we go, ready for these pictures. First
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: up are grilled oysters. Next up loaded lobster that was
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: loaded like that shrimp inside that thing, Shrimp and eggplant,
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  Speaker 1: palm a la renfredo, a little weak, excellent catfish with
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  Speaker 1: crawfish attu fe. And dessert was the begnets. That's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of good plates right there.
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  Speaker 2: It is by the way back to basketball, Uh looks good.
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  Speaker 3: Who is that deuce?
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  Speaker 2: Looking for a ring.
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  Speaker 1: Deuce in the finals. But that deuce in the finals. Well, oh,
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  Speaker 1: eleven in a row. We have the Vegas dates now
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  Speaker 1: confirmed for those going to the player's eero. So West
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  Speaker 1: Virginia is gonna play seventeen, eighteen and nineteen. You guys,
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  Speaker 1: we need to have a three guys get together out there.
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  Speaker 1: Someone rode in, Yeah, we might do something out there.
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  Speaker 2: I was looking, I like to go to that.
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  Speaker 1: You can come.
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  Speaker 2: Well I can't. I gotta have to travel alone. I
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  Speaker 2: can't travel with you guys.
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  Speaker 1: That's correct.
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  Speaker 2: I thought I was kind of a soft opening.
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  Speaker 1: That's probably right on that this. Uh, Jeff and Sandyville
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  Speaker 1: went and watched JJ weatherhol play and had some high
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: seats in the stadium. Up there, there's JJ. There is
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  Speaker 1: man in second a. Uh. Speaking of birthdays, Rich Rod's
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  Speaker 1: birthday was Sunday and Carter Zuliani front of the program.
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: Sure he's had his nineteenth birthday on Sunday. And Nick
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: Kerchival's birthday. Nick Kerchieval's birthday. Why is Nick older than
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  Speaker 1: you but looks younger?
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  Speaker 2: Just good jeans, good jeans.
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  Speaker 3: Happy belated to Carter, and of course thank you graduation.
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  Speaker 1: Nick's a good Nick's a good dude. I enjoy talking
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  Speaker 1: when he got he's probably right in the midst of
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  Speaker 1: the soybeans right now, right.
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  Speaker 5: He's just I think he's finished planting. They were waiting
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  Speaker 5: for rain, and they got a lot. They were waiting
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 5: for rain, waiting for rain. Then what happened Brandon? It
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 5: rained every day.
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  Speaker 3: I won't stop.
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  Speaker 4: I know.
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  Speaker 2: That's what the thing about a farmer. You can do
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  Speaker 2: everything right.
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  Speaker 5: It's like basket but everything right, and the shot doesn't
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  Speaker 5: go in everything right.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a football player the one guy doesn't.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, if if one guy doesn't do his job, mother nature,
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  Speaker 1: all right, yeah, that could screw the whole thing.
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  Speaker 2: Side about this baseball team.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna be there Friday.
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  Speaker 2: I can't get I don't think I can get in.
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  Speaker 3: Huh, Well, I talk to kind of it'll be hard
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  Speaker 3: to get in.
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  Speaker 5: Soft opening to guys yesterday of people of influence, like
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  Speaker 5: I don't think there's any tickets remaining, And usually the
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  Speaker 5: answer is, oh, I'll get you a ticket.
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  Speaker 1: The answer was no, there's not. Well are you going
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  Speaker 1: to get in? Well, there you go, President Benson. You
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  Speaker 1: have Hoppy out here begging again. Maybe you could get
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  Speaker 1: some hell bred you have. Are you getting in I'm
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  Speaker 1: not in at this point. No, I got the same
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  Speaker 1: answer you did.
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  Speaker 3: Gotta work on that. What are you gonna He's not in.
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  Speaker 3: He's got to gotta work our way in.
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  Speaker 1: I might try to sell like popcorn or something as
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  Speaker 1: a vendor.
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  Speaker 3: I might offer up. I'm being not sure.
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  Speaker 1: Brad said it four hundred dollars to stand on the
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: stand up what.
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  Speaker 3: I heard from Coach Sabans this morning.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be up on the hillside next to the mid
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  Speaker 2: Center up there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're a peak health guy.
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  Speaker 4: You can windows.
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  Speaker 3: Aye, just get us somebody's office up there in the window.
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  Speaker 3: A sweel overlook it. Food get brought in. Yes, Once
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  Speaker 3: you work on that all right steef thing, it helps out.
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  Speaker 2: Great interview.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be back again next week with another summer series episode.
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  Speaker 1: Stay well, keep your fingers crossed, check out the mountaineers,
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  Speaker 1: and hopefully things keep on rolling. Special thank you as
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  Speaker 1: well to our producer Jake for doing our other things.
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  Speaker 2: It's Chinatown, Jake.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, we're out, man. Be good to y'all.