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Jax Classic:LSU Tigers in Action · JustIN Time

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Welcome back to another edition of the Just in Time podcast.
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I'm your host, Justin, and as always, we've got Will.
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So about my guy. What's up?
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I'm good brother, just really great weekend.
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A baseball man, just like non conference competition, you
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know, really test the guys. They really they really
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impressed us for the most part. They really would had a dominant
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showing. But we'll get to the we'll get
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to yesterday and the second though.
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But I just want to enjoy the the winds where we.
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Can the Jacks Classic live like Lube Foundation tournament
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champs your LSU Tigers? Yes man, we we had some.
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I love them there. It was nice.
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It was nice. No complaints there.
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Yeah, man, that was a beautiful ballpark.
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Really easy place to get to get in and out of.
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Hotel was nice. Just an over.
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The atmosphere was really good. They had the PBR over there too,
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which was good. They had a lot of stuff going
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on. You know the games were good
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that some of the early games though, they had just restarted
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the field. So during some of the early
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games, every time they had to play on the infield, it felt
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like they were going out there and patting the sod down
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impassioned holes. But you know, our guys got
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started on Wednesday last week and made quick work quick work
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of. The current.
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Nicholas State So we've got Zach Cowan with a win and reckon with
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the save. We scored five in the first, one
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in the second, two in the sixth, one in the 7th and then three in
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the eighth off of a bomb by John Pearson.
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Yeah, that's indeed yeah. Yeah, I mean, pitching look good
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that day for the midweek, you know, innings wise, let's see
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how many pitchers we used. We used 4 pitchers, but 123455
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pitchers. I'm sorry, you know, strikes to
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walks not that bad, you know, and.
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We talked about trying to get efficient.
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You know, that's the one thing I want to see.
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That's what we were talked about last week.
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Can they cut it down some with the with the pitch counts?
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Yeah, I tell you what we are missing in my opinion, infield
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and left field. Yes.
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You know, these teams are getting double s.
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Those teams are getting double s and triples off of balls hitting
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the left field corner that he would have beat at by the time
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they get to first base and had the ball in infield.
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When they get halfway to second, they would think about it and
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they would go back, you know. But guys like Brown Curiel
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stepped it up this game. Brown Caraway hit a Grand Slam
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right after I had said last episode that it was a borderline
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call for me on, I think, offense.
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Yeah, between. Him and Dardar, and as soon as I
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sit down in that stadium, the first thing he does is hit a
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Grand Slam. Like he took it.
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He took it personal. Like Dardo took it personal with
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me too. So like, he's, yeah, we'll get
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to that. We'll get to that in a second.
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Yeah. So, you know, we get that 12 to
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one victory on Wednesday and they fly out to go to
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Jacksonville. All right, I'm saying that
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because all of this is going to play in later.
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Yes. So then we go to Jacksonville
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and I'm going to go through this because I think this is the
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game. Yeah, OK.
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This is going to go through this inning by inning.
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All right, so first we go material single through the
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right side. Brown flied out.
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This park played huge. OK, it played huge.
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So when I get to this, just keep that in mind when I say some of
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these home runs over the next three games because I think we
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only had a couple. So we've got Brown flied out,
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Pearson struck out swinging, then York single to left center
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and Curial advance to 3rd, Milan single to right, scoring Curio.
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That ended that inning. We were up 1, nothing.
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So then Cason Evans comes in and we go ground out, a pop out in
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the ground out looking good. We go top of the second, Aaron
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BD single to the right side to right field.
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Dart Art popped up and then Simpson hit to a double play.
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Indiana gets up in the bottom of the second strike out a ground
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out and then a line out to Cason Evans.
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We nothing to it. All right, LSU comes up to bat.
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We score one off of we get a single to the catcher from
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Caraway. Ariel gets on on a fielder's
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choice and they throw Caraway out at 2nd a drop foul ball.
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Then Brown walked Curiel advances the second Brown
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advances the second Curiel on A and Curiel goes to 3rd on a
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bulk, which honestly, I still don't to right now have any
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explanation on that bulk. I was there.
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I looked right at it. I didn't see it.
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I didn't see it, but we got to run so that's all that matters
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in New York, flight out to center field in score Curiel
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from 3rd and then Milan reached on a fielder's choice and
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Pearson was out at 2nd. So here we go the bottom of the
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third. This is where Casey Evans gets
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in a little bit trouble. Frost single to the pitcher and
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I think this is what threw him off because it hit right here on
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his not on his throne side, but he'd hit right here on his glove
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side. I thought he made another
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fantastic play, but then Decker grounded out to short and here
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we go with the reviews. They start reviewing they he's
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out on the thing. Then we got to walk a mound
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visit. Another walk and we put Williams
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in advanced the third. Fraud, Sorry.
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We got an advanced 2nd and advanced the third.
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Another mountain visit. Then we've got a single through
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the left side of the infield to score a run.
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Then another run scored on an interference.
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Not a not the interference call. This was a call, apparently when
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Aaron Beatty probably should have let that ball go foul.
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Like I said, we had a lot of mental mistakes in this game and
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a lot of mental. Just a few chinks in the armor
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here and there, you know? Yeah, and it started here.
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But this one was called. I think they said it was a
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throwing error, but I think it was called on our end.
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And then I think another run scored on when he threw that
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ball, it went underneath the got caught underneath the fence
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behind home plate. I think that was was the
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official calling. That's what I was told.
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So rough inning there. We get strikeouts strikeout to
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in the inning. Then nothing for LSU in the top
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of the fourth, nothing for Notre Dame in the bottom of the
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fourth. Then LSU strikes back and gets 2
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on a mile and single. And I think a couple, yeah, a
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couple of walks to blow the bases and we get two runs in
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that inning. They don't get anything in the
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bottom of the fifth, scoreless 6th inning, we don't get
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anything, but they get 2 cross in the bottom of the seventh on
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a throwing error. Bunch of mental mistakes here,
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you know. Yeah, as you RIP and you round
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them off. Man, this look.
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Yeah, y'all are going to see me doing this weird thing with my
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hand. It's because this camera is
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zoomed in on my face and I don't can't figure out it won't go
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back to where we need it to be, but whatever.
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So 7th we don't get anything off of mile and lead off double in a
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walk and then we just we strike out looking and fly out in the
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ground out. But this ground out by door door
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in this inning. I've never seen a team who's the
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base path as much as they did. Not the base path, I should say
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Debase as much as Indiana did in the first two days of this
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tournament. They get one that perfectly is a
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line shot and a double anywhere else.
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Hits off a first base and bounces to the second baseman
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coming at it to get out at first.
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Then in game their Game 2 the next day, they hit one up the
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middle of the second was a tailor made double play ball
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bounces off a second and shoots in the right field, you know.
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But they scored two off of singles and well placed plays.
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Here we go, the top of the eighth inning.
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York crushed it. I mean, I don't know if you saw
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any of it or saw the home run or anything.
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Yeah, Oh yeah, He got all of it. He got all.
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Of it and he hit it over and that thing was a straight up and
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I think the home run rule is it had to go above the yellow line.
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They said it went above the yellow line and I don't like the
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brick. On the right side they had the
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brick and stuff, yeah. Yeah, I looked at that video and
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still cannot figure out where that ball went.
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I still. Can't figure that out, He.
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Massive started us off for what would be a nine run inning for
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us because that was a three run home run, but our double S to
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right field and BD advanced to third mile and scored.
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Reeves singled to second base through a beautiful bunt.
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Not enough to get him on our list, but that was a beautiful
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bunt, you know? Then Brown grounds out to 1st,
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grounds out to the pitcher, but it still was enough to score us
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a run. Then Bronze singled to center
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and Curiel scored. Notre Dame did get 2 back in the
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bottom of the eighth, but that was Curiel line in the top of
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the knife. Curiel sack, flawed to right to
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score and BD to make it. I think the final was 14.
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This. Yeah.
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Yeah. So yeah, we, yeah, in Indiana,
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Indiana only had eight hits on the get.
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They scored seven runs or eight hits, which is impressive.
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But we had eighteen hits. And like you said, going back to
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what you were saying about the, it was we had three errors in
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the game. So it was a little sloppy.
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But I mean, just the ten runs in the bottom 2 innings, the last
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two innings of the 14 runs, I mean, that's that's about the
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clutches of the offensive performance you can get.
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Yeah, and I think I told my uncle this game LS us tendency
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to have to come back against these teams in the bottom of the
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the later innings of this games and put off big innings was
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going to come back to bite them one day.
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Yes. Oh yeah, I knew.
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But I've never seen so much sloppy play.
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We left 15 runners on base and had three errors.
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You know, by the way, for this game, Guidry got the win and
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nobody got a save. So, you know, let's.
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Move on, team win, I'm good. Yeah, we're going to go on to
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the next game. They look pretty good in this
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one. We had one error which look,
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Dardar made a fantastic play on that ball for this era, had more
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than enough time to set his feet.
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I don't know if it was like the sod in the infield or what was
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going on, but he threw that ball away.
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So we had 12 hit nine runs on twelve hits in one air.
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We left nine on base. Cooper more with a fantastic was
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fantastic. Yeah, you know.
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Once again. Once again, he was just
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fantastic. Lights out.
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Got to give it to him, you know he was, he had 6 strikeouts and
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he walked one and gave up three in five and 2/3 innings pitched.
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But you know, we go through we didn't have nobody had anything
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in the 1st. We go to the second Simpson
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double down the line and Caraway double down the line.
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They just swapped places and we got some runs.
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Oh, and Dardar doubled to start his first hit back.
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So we had three double s and got two runs, so that's good.
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Notre Dame didn't do anything in the top of the inning.
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Bottom of the third. Dardar again single to right
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field, Milan was hit by a pitch, Brown singled, York singled.
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Aaron BD infield fly, Dardar single to right field, Serna
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single to right field scoring runs and then Simpson walk to
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bring in with the bases loaded to bring in a third run.
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So we got 3 in that inning, nothing for Notre Dame in the
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top of the inning. Aaron BD puts a bomb to dead
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center. It was 410 feet to the.
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Wall and he put it. Above on the batter's eye.
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That was a shot. Oh my goodness.
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It got a It got out of there in a hurry.
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What? Why are we?
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Yeah, and that was a two run shot.
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So we scored. We scored three in that inning
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or No, No, no, no, we scored two in that inning.
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I'm going to sort of keep going. Call this back.
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We go to the 5th inning, Notre Dame finally gets on the board
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with a single. Then LSU doesn't do anything.
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In the bottom of the inning Notre Dame gets on it two more
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on the board with A2 run shot to left center.
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But then here come the Tigers right back.
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Get 2 more. York's mile and scored on a York
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advanced to 2nd. Brown advanced to third mile and
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scored on a wild pitch. Serno walked in, advanced
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everyone so they know the bases loaded.
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Walked that, scored 2. Notre Dame gets one back on a
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walk with the bases loaded for in the third inning and then we
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get 2 strikeouts and a strikeout in the line out.
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Nothing for us in the bottom of the seventh.
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Then we go to the top of the inning and we strike out the
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side. Brown singles up the middle,
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Brown singles to center field. We didn't do anything in the
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bottom of the the 8th and in the top of the ninth we got three
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up, 3 down. You know, that was a good game.
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That was a complete team win. Just a complete team win.
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It was a good win. You know, look, we did all the
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small things, right? We didn't make too many bad
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mistakes. No mental mistakes, no errors.
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Mentally we just did what we had to do when we got the W, you
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know, that was a nice solid win. We didn't do too much.
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The ballpark played big. A lot of these fly outs were
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home runs everywhere else, you know.
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Then here we go. We got the for everybody
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wondering where Will went, we had some technical difficulties.
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He cut out. I'm just going to keep going and
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then I'll get his opinion on everything after he rejoins.
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So here we go. This game we've got the Sunday
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game, the 10 run rule game. We've got William Schmidt, our
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winner and Wicker was a loss. We go this was 10 run rule.
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We got 10 hits, played a playing game.
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We just left eight on base. Start going through this one.
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Nothing for anybody in the top of the first or the bottom of
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the first. Same in the second inning. 3rd
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inning we get a single and we score 1.
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Then Dardar flyed out and we got a sack to score Brown.
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Simpson advanced to 2nd and Aaron BD advanced to 3rd on a
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balk in Mile and scored on a balk.
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Nothing for Notre Dame, nothing for UCF.
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I'm sorry. In the bottom of the inning, top
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of the fourth, we don't do anything.
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Bottom of the fourth, nothing happens.
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Aaron BD another home run to left field, 32 RBI shot.
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Dardar walked, Simpson walked. WE Braun grounded out to third
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base on a sack bot to advance the runners and then Caraway
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flyed out to left center and scored.
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Dardar on a sack fly and Curio singled up the middle to score
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Simpson. Nothing in the bottom of the
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fifth, nothing in the 6th and here we go.
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LSU is batting in the top of the 7th.
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Curio double the center field and scored Braun and Simpson,
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then Brown singled through the right field to score score
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Harding and then nothing happened in the bottom of the
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7th and LSU won that game 11 to nothing.
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That's why I like to see every day.
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Run rule. So before we go any further and
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hit tomorrow, yes, last night's game here were the all
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tournament Tigers in the infield.
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You've got Zach York, Steven Milam and Seth Dardar outfield.
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You had Jake Brown DH because Kate and Beatty struggle behind
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the plate all weekend long. But he did he was fantastic at
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the plate, Kate, Aaron Beatty and the MVP of the tournament
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was William Schmidt. Schmidt did a fantastic job.
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He needed that win and he needed a game like that.
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He needed an umpire and crew like that to help him out.
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You know, a bigger strike zone really helped him out and that's
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what we got. You know, they played four games
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up to this point and they got on the plane on Wednesday and flew
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to Jacksonville. Then they played those three
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games and on Sunday they got back on the plane and they went
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back to came back to Baton Rouge, had one day rest day,
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probably had to go to class, had a little practice and BP worked
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out. So I'm going to give them the
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benefit of the doubt with this one, you know, and we are going
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to talk about the disaster that was last night, which started
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off good. You know, we lost that game and
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the loss went to pass and Magnusius Miller got the win
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promisingly. We only had one error.
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We left nine on base. Let's just get into it.
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The first inning, curious singles to left field and then
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York homered to right field put us up two to nothing, and I was
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feeling pretty good at this point.
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But then here's where the trouble starts.
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Hit by pitch walk scores a run. A hit by a pitch scores a run,
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and then a single scores 2. Then they change pitches to when
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in the bottom of the second, they change pitches.
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LSU gets nothing. Scoreless inning.
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Scoreless inning. We get a single to right field
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to advance to 3rd. Magnes does that and scores
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three runs in this inning and they score another run off of
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throwing error by Jake Brown. They score again.
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They score again. They scratch 3 in this inning.
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Nothing for us in the fourth. In the 5th, Magnes goes down.
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Then we get 2 in the bottom of the fifth to bring us closer.
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The six we get one on a Pearson scores on a fly out by Curiel
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SAC fly 7th. We don't get anything, they
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don't get anything. We don't get anything.
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Then the 8th, Pearson brings us within one with a solo shot to
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left field and then nothing for us and we get one hit in the
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bottom of the ninth. And we followed McNeese 7, six
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to seven, seven to six, you know, not our best showing, but
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we had tournament MVPS. You know, I brought all of that
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up about the mental notes. I mean, the mental mistakes, you
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know, in the fatigue. And I've said all of that about
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them playing those games and coming back to those games,
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being on travel days. They were tired, they were
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tired. You know, they had a little few
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mental mistakes that they need to clear up pitching wise.
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We got to eliminate the walks, we got to throw strikes.
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You know, we need to play clean defense.
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We need to throw strikes, eliminate the walks, the bad
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pitches, the hit by pitches. I don't think we've ever hit
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that many people in a row or use that many pitchers.
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You know, I've got I don't have Will here with us, but I'm going
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to go into the powerhouse poles and hold on guys, I'm trying to
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work through this technical difficulty.
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Just give me one second and bear with me.
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All right, I was saying I don't have Will at the moment.
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He's not in. So what I'm going to do is just
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give us, I'm going to give his powerhouse pose for Week 2.
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I don't know his like I don't have his reasoning, but I'm
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going to just give you his powerhouse pose.
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Then I'm going to give you mine and give you the reason why.
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So for offense, for Will, he's got Caraway, Curiel and Dardar.
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I think that's one Caraway first, Curiel second, Dardar
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3rd. At defense, he's got Aaron BD,
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one Mile and two Evans 3. And then pitching, he's got
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Schmidt, Sharon and Evans. Then for mine, and I will give
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you my reasons why. Offense, I've got Kate, Aaron
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BD. He's really good at the plate.
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He needs to make up and do some figure out some stuff like
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holding on to the ball, maybe not frame every pitch instead of
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stabbing at it. Let the pitch come to him.
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Hey, you back? Yeah.
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Yes Sir, like I said like that's the shit I'm there on it's own.
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So I'm not I'm not sure why it let me open it and then nice so
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that the update. Yeah, was it the update?
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Yeah, apparently. I mean, but they let me open it
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the first time when you sent it to me.
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So I was like, I'm not sure it should.
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That stuff should already be updated.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sorry about that.
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Yeah, so I went ahead and that's fine.
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I went ahead. I didn't know if you were going
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to be back, so I just finished off the game Recaps.
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Yeah, gave the all tournament Tigers.
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I gave your powerhouse polls. So I'll let you go ahead and
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real quick and give your reasoning.
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All right, so like like, so I'll just go from my offense.
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You know, often you could just basically take your pick of the
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letter. You know, there was a dominant
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offense showing, you know, they've continued their trend on
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offense rather to do some. I know what I saw when you you
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know, I know before it went live, I know you had the the big
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three, R&B, New York and Brown. You know, it's tough to argue
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that. You know, it's like all the long
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shots, the moon balls, as you say.
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But I went a little different. You know, I went Carrie Caraway,
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Curielle and Dardar, you know, just I think Dardar narrowly
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missed for me last week. But like these three guys was
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very steady at the plate. You know, just the RB is better
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day, especially Curio had a better offensive showing this
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week. Well, this last week, these last
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several days. But like I said, offence was
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just so dominant. You could really just pick your
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pick your poison with the guys. You know, defensively, you know,
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there was more activity outside of the mound.
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So I went with Aaron Beatty, Milam and Evans.
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You know, like, you know, we both had both had the pitchers,
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you know, they had a lot of activity with the pop flies.
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So I just Marlin was still very steady.
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Aaron BD had a lot of throw outs.
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So just I like what I saw on the defensive side, you know,
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pitching, you know, I went with Schmidt, Sheeran and Evans.
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You know, Schmidt was this dominant, you know, the last the
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other day. So it was an easy choice for
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number 1. I went with Sheeran because I
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looked at, you know, even with his appearance and he had, he
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had a very solid showing in Jacksonville and last night with
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against McNeese, even though the team lost, he had them in
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position to come back and win. He kept McNeese off the
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scoreboard. He's really clutched down the
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stretch. That's what really gave me the
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ads with Sharon Evans again, just a really solid out and
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Cooper more, you know, narrowly missed.
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I think I feel like Evans was better, a little bit better on
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paper is with the statistics relative because they have the
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same amount of any production even.
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You know, I definitely was more on that on that note as well.
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But I think Sharon was really played clutch this week.
24:48
Yeah. So like I said, I went with for
24:53
offense. Like I said, I can't knock Aaron
24:56
Beatty. I gave him it number one, just
24:59
the production wise he was good. So number two and three could be
25:06
almost interchangeable. I gave it to York because he had
25:09
some clutch hits over the weekend and he started off
25:13
scoring off last night with A2 run shot.
25:17
But that shot I gave him the two spot because that shot in that
25:21
tournament at that ballpark. Just that dude.
25:27
He. Stopped, he stopped at 2nd and
25:29
he was taking throwing his hands up to call time out to target
25:34
and the umpire was sitting there like this dude, it's a home run,
25:37
just go I. Love it so.
25:43
I gave it to him, Brown. Brown, you know, was solid up
25:48
until last night. I wrote my powerhouse pose
25:51
before the McNeese game. He was solid up until last
25:54
night. But here's where we've got a big
25:57
difference when my our poles. Let's see if I can get him back
26:03
before I talk about this. But we were hugely different
26:08
with the defense. My guys for defense are Milam
26:13
Evans and Sensen. I'll go my own because my own
26:17
just, he makes everything look so easy.
26:18
Plays that should you would think are just watching him or
26:22
just easy ground balls and you know, you got easiness.
26:25
He makes him look like that. He just makes him look like
26:27
that. They're not that easy.
26:28
They're difficult plays. You know, as much as my own
26:33
makes it look like any of us fans can go out there and get
26:36
out there and feel those ground balls, They're not like that.
26:39
I can be. I got Simpson because he came in
26:42
the left field and he just made two amazing throws.
26:47
One of them should have been an outer.
26:49
Serna could have held onto it at home plate and he takes somebody
26:53
a second, you know, then I'll give it to Evans just because
26:56
it's very rare you see a picture that's an athlete and can get
27:01
down and play his field, his position.
27:04
And he did it once and almost had it twice.
27:08
But what I was saying before you cut out there, me and you were
27:11
too. Like you have Aaron Beauty
27:13
second. Aaron Beauty is not even in my
27:15
top 10 for defensive players this week.
27:18
The mental mistakes he made. Yeah, I think just like he
27:22
can't. Hold on to the ball behind the
27:23
plate because he's stabbing at it.
27:25
You know, his best plays in our best pitches were when he let
27:32
balls come to him and he just took it.
27:35
You know, go ahead. He led the ball travel come to
27:39
him and he just took it and you know, we've got that.
27:43
But he needs to improve drag dramatically, exponentially on
27:48
defense for me to even consider him for this list going down the
27:51
line. I know I gave it to him last
27:53
week but I noticed some stuff this weekend sitting so close I
28:00
not a fan of. I respect.
28:03
That that's the beautiful thing about this.
28:05
That's the beautiful thing about this pole, though.
28:07
I can see that. And then you can have him on top
28:11
of your list. You know, we can see things
28:14
different ways. Yeah, that's the thing what I'm
28:16
doing about because like I know like you have a deep, you have a
28:19
deep baseball knowledge. So I'm just like, you know, I
28:22
think what gave, you know, last week.
28:24
Well, when you look on paper statistically like catchers get
28:27
a lot of put outs, but I don't like to look at that because I
28:30
mean, because they record the put out on the 3rd strike.
28:32
I think that's more of a pitcher step.
28:34
But like I think what made the difference for me with him was
28:37
just this week was just the fact that he had some throw throw
28:41
outs. I was like because the the
28:43
infield and the Alfred were more active this week than as opposed
28:47
to the Week 1. So that's why I gave him some
28:50
recognition there. No Milam and Evans like, you
28:54
know, this. It was, you know, Milam was
28:55
still steady, of course, and he was just like he had.
28:58
Did you see that? I forgot who they play.
29:00
It was just like, it was like a bare hand left, left hand throw
29:03
to first. It was it was it was sick.
29:06
Yeah. I was like, man, he was doing so
29:08
dumb. Like I was saying before you
29:10
came back in, Miles, my number one guy this week for the
29:14
powerhouse Pole because he made plays look so easy that fans out
29:22
there were probably like, I can do that.
29:27
And it's because he's so smooth with the ball.
29:29
Yes, absolutely, man. So.
29:31
So technically he's so. Smooth with it, Yeah, he's
29:34
fundamentally sound. He just, he's so smooth with it.
29:37
He just is. 1 solid motion going up, picking it up and making the
29:42
transfer, going to my pitching. You know, it's hard to pass up a
29:47
guy at number one who was the tournament MVP, so I went with
29:50
Schmidt. Then to me, Cooper Moore might
29:54
end up being our Friday night guy by the time all is said and
29:57
done. I like that.
29:58
I would like that, yeah. So I've got him.
30:00
I got him. And then Evans had a really good
30:03
showing this week. He looked like he came back.
30:07
Barring a few unfortunate plays and stuff, that might have been
30:12
the sod being new, you know, I'll give it to him.
30:17
So that's my top 3 is very and it ended up being the Sunday guy
30:21
was the top guy, the Saturday guy was the middle guy, and the
30:24
Friday night guy was the last guy.
30:27
Starters man for me. But they looked really good.
30:33
Honorable mention for 4th place. I got Gavin Guidry again.
30:36
He just came out and, you know, did his thing.
30:40
He looked really good on all his appearances.
30:43
But like I was saying before you, when you were cut out, I
30:46
just kept going and the all tournament Tigers for this week
30:50
were in the infield. Zach York, Steven Milam and
30:55
Dardar outfield was Jake Brown at DH because like I said, in my
31:03
opinion, he just wasn't very technically sound behind the
31:05
plate. He got it DH because he was he's
31:10
that's the thing. You can't take him out your
31:12
lineup because he put so much production in the lineup, right?
31:16
So DH you got KD, Aaron, BD and then like I said, tournament MVP
31:21
William Schmidt, I think he had a 7 strikeout game.
31:25
Yep, that's it. That's right.
31:27
You know, but kind of got my after last night.
31:30
I've set my tone setting Tiger of the Week and it's tone
31:33
setting Tigers of the week for this week.
31:35
There you go. The whole pitching staff.
31:39
Yeah, I'm with you. Thanks.
31:41
I agree man. I don't think we've been that
31:43
manganese game. We had so many walk, we gave up
31:45
so many runs by walking, hit by a pitch.
31:48
It was. It was not pretty short.
31:50
No, you've got two days off and today and tomorrow y'all need to
31:54
get your rest done, get prepared mentally and come back.
31:57
You've got a four-game stretch from Friday, Saturday, Sunday
32:00
and Monday. Show what you can do.
32:02
Be sound, throw strikes, slow it down if you need to.
32:07
Or thing that helped Cason Evans, in my opinion, is he
32:10
speed his he speed it up from the time he got the ball, got
32:14
the pitch call and he he was in the wind up and throwing.
32:21
And that speed up to me is what really helped him.
32:23
It's little things like that, fundamental stuff.
32:25
Just go back to your basics, you know, worry about your technique
32:30
and how you throw. You know, it's play pitch and
32:34
catch and let your defense do what they do.
32:38
Not every game they're going to have three errors, you know?
32:41
Yeah, I just I completely agree with.
32:44
You about the time setting tigers.
32:46
Yeah, I I can't disagree and like I just can't disagree with
32:50
you at all. Just like I said, I was, I was
32:52
thinking about earlier, but I was like, you know what?
32:54
Just, and I'm glad you confirmed that because like, I know I
32:57
started off the last two weeks basically with the pitchers, but
33:01
that's just been a comparison to the offense.
33:04
That's just been the the miles been the weak spot.
33:06
But just just to think about this, like last night, we used
33:09
10 different pictures last night, so 10 different pictures
33:12
last night. Now, granted, like it's still
33:14
early season 9 conference play, so you still want to, I know Jay
33:18
is trying to experiment, which I get that makes sense, but it
33:21
just the showing was just not good, man.
33:24
It was, it was just not good enough. 10 pictures.
33:27
That's that's pretty steep and just to and that's putting them
33:30
nicely. But just you know, when you it
33:34
just like isn't got to clean it up on the mound.
33:36
The star has been pretty deep, pretty steady for the most part,
33:39
But just you know, to try to see like particularly the bullpen.
33:42
I just want to see what the bullpen like can they take that
33:46
next step? You know, but I don't need you
33:47
to go deep into the game, especially on the bullpen.
33:50
But can you clean, like you said, clean up the pitches like
33:53
you get more efficient and cut the counts down And that's this
33:57
what I want to see from them the next few days, yeah.
33:59
Let's see, we had six walks and at least three hit by pitches.
34:04
We need to clean that up. You know, clean that up and
34:08
we'll be fine. Just trust you.
34:10
Go back to your basics, go back to your fundamentals.
34:12
You'll be fine. You know you'll do good, but
34:16
just come back and get into it. Just go back to the basics.
34:19
Just go back to playing pitch and catch and everything will
34:22
work out. You know 1 midweek game ain't
34:24
going to kill you. Look, UCLA lost last night, I
34:28
think. And like 4 top team lost.
34:30
Yeah, it was UCLA. Yeah, the Arkansas lost, it was
34:35
four. It was.
34:36
Four, I think they didn't lose. Yeah.
34:39
Georgia Tech, Arkansas, LSU, Arkansas, UCLA, Georgia Tech all
34:45
lost last night. So one loss isn't going to kill
34:47
you, you know, But you need to go.
34:51
In the long run, one loss isn't going to kill you.
34:52
It's the first loss of the season.
34:54
Yeah. You know, you just, that's why I
34:57
was saying like, you know, these late game comebacks, relying
35:01
solely on the bats to get you over was going to come back and
35:05
bite us. And that's exactly.
35:07
What happened last night? And what I always say is this, I
35:10
know you need points. I know, I know you need runs to
35:13
score, you need scoring. But games always starts on the
35:16
mound. It always starts on the mound,
35:20
like you got to get the mound in order to keep it that way.
35:23
That's I always say that it's a defensive sport by structure.
35:27
Have that foundation in place. Exactly.
35:30
Yeah. And you know, you're going to
35:32
make mistakes. Stuff like that's going to
35:33
happen, you know, But it's how you come back and bounce back is
35:38
what matters. And I think they'll be fine.
35:41
But I've just got one more shout out for this weekend from this
35:45
weekend because I completely forgot about it, but Chris
35:49
Stanfield was named the Live Like Lou Foundation Fan Choice
35:53
Community Impact Player of the tournament.
35:55
Shout out man. You know so shout out to him.
36:00
Would love to have him back. Hope he gets healthy real.
36:02
Fast. Yes, for sure.
36:04
But before we go, you have any closing thoughts?
36:08
I just want the only thing I understand is brother in all
36:11
series. I thank you for being the leader
36:13
of this show. You the set the tone, you the
36:15
ultimate tone setting Tiger. You teach me about the sport.
36:19
This is my first I love I've been watching baseball for you.
36:21
This is the first time I've really been charting it
36:23
day-to-day just to really get a better understanding and feel
36:27
for it. And it's it's been it's been
36:28
it's been fun. It's been a great interesting
36:30
ride so far. You know, just trying to get a
36:33
better understanding, see what you see and just bounce off each
36:38
other. So it's been.
36:38
Fun. So far it has been fun.
36:41
I've been tweeting every game. I didn't tweet last night's game
36:44
because I was a little tired from track back home and having
36:48
to go to work the next day, so I didn't go to the game yesterday
36:50
either. But rumor has it we're going to
36:56
Vegas next year for the little tournament.
37:00
So save in, put your vacation in now, because I'm dragging you to
37:04
Vegas with me. We ain't, we ain't going to no,
37:08
no casino, no club, you know, I don't do that stuff.
37:11
We'll go to the games, but we're going to eat.
37:12
Nah. With the crew we're going to go
37:14
with, you might have to, you know, make a few exceptions.
37:19
There's no exception, no exception to that brother.
37:21
Look, I love you look they they can keep that clean on right
37:24
there. I.
37:25
Said you had to drink or nothing, but you just.
37:28
Oh yeah. You have to go with look, you
37:30
have to say that. I'll say it for you.
37:32
They play, they play, you know, God bless you.
37:35
Yeah, but rumor has it we're going to, we're going to, we're
37:39
going to Vegas next year. We'll see how that actually
37:42
goes. I would love to see how they
37:44
play out there, though, because the ball is not going to fly
37:47
like it does over here. Yeah, you know, but that's next
37:52
season. We got to we got to worry about
37:54
going to Omaha this year and making that and the main mistake
37:58
game is not going to kill you. I think if it does anything, it
38:01
gives you an early wake up call. It gives you an early wake up
38:05
call and tells you, look, we need to work on XY and Z to be
38:09
better, you know? Yeah.
38:13
And it was the first loss of the season.
38:14
It wasn't a terrible loss. You know, it's not one that
38:17
you're going to look at like next year and say, oh, they had
38:19
10 run, ruled by McNeese Snow. We lost by one run and was
38:24
really a throwing error away from that.
38:26
Jake Brown should have kept in his back pocket from keeping
38:29
that thing at and probably they might still be playing if Jake
38:33
Brown keeps that ball in his pocket.
38:34
Who knows? But you know, that'll do it from
38:36
us. It was a great week of play and
38:38
we look forward. We'll have probably five more
38:41
games to talk about next week because they played Monday.
38:45
Let's check the schedule real quick, Bear.
38:47
With me here Friday, we got Dartmouth, Saturday Northeastern
38:52
and Dartmouth again on Sunday and then Monday Northeastern.
38:55
OK, so we only have four games because when the Here We Go
38:59
March on the fourth, they go to ull on Wednesday.
39:02
So we'll have four games to cover next week.
39:06
But you know, this is the most games they've played through
39:10
Week 2. I think we'll play.
39:11
They played nine games and it hasn't even really been three
39:15
weeks yet. Yeah, you know.
39:17
Yeah, there's, well, heavy workload, but I mean, I like it
39:20
for just getting that feel. Yeah, it's a nice little
39:24
workload. I like how it's going.
39:28
I think they'll this loss is only to make them stronger in my
39:31
opinion. Yeah, yeah.
39:33
I'm not super. I'm not worried.
39:34
Yeah, but those tickets for that ULLLSU game next week at ULL the
39:41
cheapest tickets are $200 for UL for ULL at one point my uncle
39:47
said it was $500. Goodness, that is fucked.
39:51
Up yeah for ULL was $200. It's their World Series though,
39:55
so. Fair enough.
39:58
That is crazy. But that'll do it from us here.
40:03
As always, I enjoyed having you on Will.
40:05
Likewise brother, thanks for having me.
40:07
Everybody have a great day, great night, a great morning.
40:10
Whatever you have, just make it a great one and remember to
40:13
like, follow, share, subscribe, do all the things you know,
40:17
let's build this up. Something nice.
40:19
Tik Tok's been doing really well.
40:21
YouTube has grown a little bit. I've been posting daily.
40:26
I skipped yesterday because I ran out of stuff.
40:28
Good quality content to post. It was just a bunch of repeating
40:34
so, but we're growing. We hope to grow it more.
40:37
That'll do it from us. Have a good you.
40:40
Too.