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Absolute Cinema | Ep. 015 · College Baseball Now

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  Speaker 1: Sunday Night finale for the Age, just capping off another
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  wild and wonderful weekend for college baseball. Could it be
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  that we have at your number one team? What about
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  the Dogs that push those bruins to the limit? What
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  about Vanderbilt? What about Arizona. We've got the answers to
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  all of these pressing questions and more on this episode
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  of college baseball.
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  Speaker 2: Now, yeah, there ain't no problems.
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  Speaker 1: There ain't no problems. Don't want me, Yeah, let me
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  turn to the chat.
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  Speaker 2: They know what was going For a minute, I hit.
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  Speaker 1: The Pocht beat, did grab a couple wins with a bead?
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  Theyn't even known the kid. I had to do a
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  p I g ns. We can never be average and
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  they want to problem with the boy. They don't know
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  no status hown need so coach son run a week God,
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  I want to test that to them, the standing to
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  control runs a game? Best be leave him signing dogs
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  counting now my wins. Yeah, he loves it when they
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  count me out, counting out the least. Believe I running
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  the game.
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  Speaker 2: You clean up Magic, believe.
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  Speaker 1: I want to stand.
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  Speaker 2: Believe.
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  Speaker 3: I want.
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  Speaker 1: La Magic to leave. I want to stand him, knock out,
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  really don't want to stand it. Back to the grind
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  and at the top of the order, we are at
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  another weekend's culmination for college baseball in twenty twenty six,
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  and we're glad to be here with you on college
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  baseball now, starting with me, your friends, your post, your
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  boy Drew Wheeler. Glad to be here with you as always,
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  joined by my friends and yours. You gonna start with
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  the gentleman who is to my right on the screen.
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  You know him, you love him. It's mister Josh Catlet. Josh,
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  what's up, buddy?
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  Speaker 2: Nothing much, uh, A lot of weekend with a lot
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  of baseball going on to that last as you mentioned
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  that UCLA Mississippi State game was cinema. It was just
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  it was the perfect way to end the weekend. It
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  was everything you could have wanted in a game. So
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  looking forward to getting into talking about that both those teams.
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, so, Josh, I know that you and I have
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  a similar tendency to use the word cinema in both
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  a sarcastic way but then in also a legitimate way.
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  I think they were on the same page. That was
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  a legitimately cinematic baseball.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll get into more of it later, but I mean,
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  you know the you know the mean I think maybe
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  the meme where it's like the guy sitting in the
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  chair and he's like absolute cinema, like with his hands
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  like this or whatever. Yeah, that's just what comes to
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  mind every time. So it's it's worked its way into
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  my vocabulary at no issues.
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  Speaker 1: So, Josh, I just this evening did have a date
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  day with my wife, went to see Scream seven. There
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  are seven of those movies, now seven there are seven screens.
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  We got a lot of people go masks. Uh, Josh,
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  I'm curious, do you have a favorite?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Do you have a favorite scary movie franchise?
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  Speaker 2: But chance, I've never been much of a scary movie guy. Honestly, Yeah,
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  I'm I'm blanking honestly, you have.
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  Speaker 1: A favorite movie franchise with seven entries at least?
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't think, although it's it's slim pick ends.
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  Speaker 1: Like, have you seen movies?
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  Speaker 2: I have seen a few movies in my life. Okay,
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  I am your favorite, asked quite literally anybody that I know.
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  I am not the movie guy, Like, I have a
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  list of things that I should see but haven't yet,
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  and I cannot tell you how many. I have a
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  running joke with people when it comes to shows or movies.
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  If you're starting a sentence with have you seen like,
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  the answer is no, I problem.
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  Speaker 1: I have a similar joke with my brother. He refers
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  to things from the Marvel universe, and I always tell
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  him unless it happened before the second Guardians of the Galaxy,
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  which is a crazy statement to make, I haven't seen that. Like,
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  I'm so behind on everything.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I've watched the Guardians of the Galaxy series
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  like those, and then I've watched all of the first
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  phase of the The Avengers with like the Marvel movies.
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  I went and watch Endgame just because, which is not
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  how you should do it. But like, no, I don't
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  think so it was good. I didn't understand any of
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  the little comments that they made, but else around me
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  enjoying it.
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  Speaker 1: So like when they clap, you clap, yeah pretty much.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, it's a social thing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's scary. Well, good to know that I have
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  a friend who has not seen the movie either, Josh.
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  I'm always glad to have you on myself, Buddy uh
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  In the bottom left on the evening, mister J B. Sebastiano, JB.
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  How are you, sir?
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  Speaker 3: Doing great?
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  Speaker 1: How about you?
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  Speaker 2: Drew?
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  Speaker 1: Thanks?
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  Speaker 3: Man?
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  Speaker 1: I am okay. I had some bunch of Crunch.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, like crunch, but in like great cande.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've never had them. I've never had them, but
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  liked it. Uh wanted raising that, which is a controversial
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  candy I've learned, but I settled on a bunch of Crunch,
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  which I think was a great, great ending.
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  Speaker 2: JB.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have a favorite horror movie franchise? If not
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  a favorite franchise with at least seven entries.
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  Speaker 3: I can't the same as Josh, I'm not really a
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  horror movie person. Like I guess Ghostbusters is probably the
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  spookiest thing I've ever watched, and that spooky, so, you know,
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  knowing with that seven movie entries, I mean, my girlfriend
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  just got me to watch like the start of Star
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  Wars and like Harry Potter because it's like you know, culture,
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  She's like, you gotta watch it at some point. So yeah,
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  I can't say I've watched too much of it.
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, what are you are you enjoying Star Wars or
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  Harry Potter particularly.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we we watched them at the beginning. I
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  think I'm through the first three of each in a
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  sense and solid. I'm not a big sci fi person,
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  I guess, so you know, I'm just kind of is
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  what it is. But yeah, I'm more of a I
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  like top gun, like top gun. That's that's my speed
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  right there or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, adrenaline, Yeah, yeah, all right, I feel it. I
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  feel it. And in the bottom right corn, Well, you
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  are not Jake Barjorie pod No, definitely not coach Jake.
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  But joining us in his stead today is Brandon Payne. Brandon,
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  it's an awesome honor for us to have you here
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  on college baseball. Now, what's up?
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  Speaker 4: Thank you guys, I appreciate Let me fill in for Jake.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you'll have to. You'll have to fill the
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  role of coach today. So that is a that's okay,
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  heavy shoes to fill uh old Jake's share, but we
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  know you'll do a great job. And Brandon, I'm curious
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  a favorite scary movie franchise or perhaps one with at
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  least seven.
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  Speaker 4: Entries also not a horror guy, not a horror guy.
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  But I guess my favorite franchise would be James Bond franchise.
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  Speaker 1: There's way more than seven of those, So there are
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  a few more than seven.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And man, I guess I could be like I
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  told my wife, I'll start watching Fast and Furious when
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  we get to Fast and Furious ten. And we've gotten there,
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  so maybe when Scream gets to Scream ten, I'll watch
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  them all again.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, I'll say this, it's doubly ironic that
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  I'm trying to grill you guys about horror movies because, notoriously,
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  among my friends and family, not the horror guy Drew
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  hates it. I hate it. I don't like being scared.
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  I really like the dramas. I like sweet movies and
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  like action and sci fi. I like all that, but
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  scary not for me. I get dragged to these a lot.
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  Now that's said. Scream.
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  Speaker 2: I do like.
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  Speaker 1: Scream is very tongue in cheek, like it feels like
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  they're kind of jabbing at you with like nah, And
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  I don't know the kind of humor there.
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  Speaker 3: I do like it.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of smart ass humor. But either way, not
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  here to talk about Scream, not here to talk about
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  how we don't like movies. Not here to talk about
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  how Brandon is not Jake. Ironically, we're here to talk
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  about what's on the ten college baseball and we better
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  get to it now. Guys, crazy weekend. We were just
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  talking about it a minute ago, and I think we'll
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  jump right into it. At the top of the leader
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  board has got to be talking about the Energy Bank Classic,
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  and specifically the two teams that it came down to tonight.
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  As we're recording this is, of course Sunday, March first,
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  UCLA and Mississippi State. Brandon looking at this, these two
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  teams coming into this Mississippi State, who obviously a ton
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  of turnover, getting coach O'Connor to come in a lot
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  of their transfers, a big name class of freshmen. I
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  think we expected a lot out of them, But to
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  go toe to toe with our I think a consensus
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  top three is a bottom bar for UCLA to see
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  them go toe to toe with that team. What did
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  that do for your impression of Mississippi State.
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  Speaker 4: Well, with Mississippi State being an SEC program, you expect
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  them to play tough games all the time, right, Like,
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  Like when I think of college baseball, you think of SEC.
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  It's kind of you think of college football at SEC,
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  right Sure, But UCLA coming into this had already swept TCU.
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  You know, they're underfeed except for that San Diego State game.
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  But it is what it is, right, It's gonna happen
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  in a season, you know, definitely. But they got tested
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  this week and they passed the test.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 4: They knocked off Tennessee, Texas A and M and then
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  as we're recording Mississippi State in ten innings.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, I don't.
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  Speaker 4: I think it says more about like the quality of
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  baseball that was played in that tournament more than the
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  teams themselves.
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  Speaker 1: So that's interesting. We kind of talked about that on
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  the last episode about how when we look at, you know,
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  kind of the Energy Classic in these three different sets
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  of teams that we're gonna play at Global Life, this
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  was the the Krim Dela Crim kind of all rising
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  together here. And I'm with you on that. JB gonna
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  go to you because southern California, that just feels like
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  a JB thing to talk about. So I'll ask you, pal,
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  has there been a in your mind? In your mind,
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  has there been a tougher opponent for UCLA thus far
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  the Mississippi State on the season.
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  Speaker 3: No, I don't think they've played anybody as tough as
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  Mississippi State, I think, I mean maybe if you want
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  to go down the pitching route, you know, having to
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  face tig in tunes on the first night is a
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  really tough matchup, and you know, obviously they handle that
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  very well as well. Yeah, I mean, I think they
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  showed everybody that they can handle elite pitching with without
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  a problem, honestly. So it's kind of a funny thing
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  to look at this team is you know, as Josh said,
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  the midweeks people critique them for losing to San Diego State,
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  and it's something that happens a lot, and midweks don't
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  really matter, but you know, they show that obviously the
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  midweeks don't matter. I mean, that team is just a
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  juggernaut right now, and especially with Rock and Gasprino can't stop.
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  Speaker 1: It is crazy, isn't it. And you know, the I
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  guess one of the things that sticks with me the
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  most about that game is that when you consider that
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  Rock tied it up and then you get to Mississippi State,
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  and not only in the one the one instance that
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  a ground rule double is what you don't want to see,
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  and that's what comes up from Mississippi State. Again. I
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  hate to say it, but Cinema, truly cinema whoever scripted
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  that Sandy Cofax the Lord they were on their a
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  game with this one. Josh gonna go to you. I
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  think this is a complicated question. So I have two
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  for you, if that's okay. The first one is. The
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  first one is I think we're gonna me and you
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  are gonna be in the same boat. I think JD's
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  in the same boat. Brandon, I'm assuming you're gonna feel
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  the same way as well. Certainly, no Jake is gonna
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  feel this way. I know Jake feels this way for sure.
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  I think my impression Josh of Mississippi State following this
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  is somehow better regardless of the outcome.
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  Speaker 2: Do you agree, I would say so. I mean it's
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  the weekend as a whole kind of encapsulated. I mean,
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  they beat Arizona State eight four, handle them pretty well,
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  bet Virginia to take by seven. Those are solid teams
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  where obviously pretty high in Arizona State. I think having
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  a lead and as late into that game as they did,
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  and for being honest, kind of like giving up the
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  home run like that to Rock is like if you're
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  gonna give it up to anybody that makes sense. Also,
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  don't want to be this guy. But like I have,
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  I have not checked social media to know if State
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  fans are saying this, but I can just go ahead
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  and assume if you're watching that game, you know when
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  bases were loaded to the bottom of the ninth and
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  I forget I'm blamed on who was a bad but
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  it was called strike three when it should have been
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  ball four they showed on the broadcast, and it was
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  actually a ball, and it was a ball that would
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  have decided the game. So if we're gonna like I
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  hate to go to that path immediately, that was it. Yes,
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  I hate Yeah, you're right, I hate to go down
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  that path immediately. But let's don't look at but it
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  further proves the point of like if we think Missisippi
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  State actually is that good, Like they technically probably should
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  have won that game, and like the two instances right, yeah,
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  the ground world double. I mean, like come on, if
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  that ball, like when that ball left the bat, in
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  my mind, I'm like, wow, they walked it off, came over. Yeah, yeah,
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  it's like are you kidding me? Like that's how that ends.
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  So part of you feels bad for Stay because they
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  played so well and it just ended like that.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's interesting too, and that beautiful transition. Josh, well
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  done becks in the man. Uh you think about this
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  Mississippi State offense specifically, because I think that I, at
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  least in my mind, I've kind of poop pooed the
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  pitching a little bit, and they they have pitched well
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  this season to be to be, they're they're clunky, there's clunkiness,
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  but they are effective. They get it done. But the bats,
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  I think that it was super interesting that U c
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  LA knowing that you've got Easton Hawk on the mound,
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  who was you know, i'd say close to dominant, if
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  not dominant last year in the ninth inning, right. I mean,
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  I'm sure you guys might agree with that walking Bryce Chance,
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  who we know has a notorious clutch geam this year
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  for Mississippi State. Just you set yourself up for that
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  one on one with Teal and then it's like you said, Josh,
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  that pitch it just right on the black, right off
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  the black there. It's just I don't know, again, it's
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  cinematic almost how it just happened to go exactly how
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  it needed to to be as dramatic.
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  Speaker 2: As it was, right, Yeah, I mean there's not only
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  I mean you mentioned this, Like I think a lot
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  of people before the season started were talking about Howssissippi
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  State's offense is gonna be the thing that carries them.
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  I was on here saying I think the pitching is
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  actually their best strength and kind of both sides. Well,
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  most of the offense showed this weekend, but there were
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  some bright spots like Ryan McPherson looked phenomenal on right day.
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  He went seven innings, only allowing one run on four heads, Like,
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  he looked really good. Some of the bull Like there
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  were some bullpend guys, you know, like sold in certain spots,
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  but that happens, I mean the offense. The offense as well.
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  It was like not even just the big names like
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  Ace Rees looked good eight and Tiel looked good. Sure,
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  but like on the weekend, Ryder Woodson went seven to
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  thirteen with three doubles, Reed Star two home runs. Today
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  he went five for eight on the weekend as a whole, Like,
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  it's guys like that that has stepped up and really
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  are like they're gonna be the thing that puts them
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  over the edge if they continue to step up like that.
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  And so, like I think, on all fronts, we kind
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  of saw it from Misissippi State. I was skeptical. I
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  know y'all were kind of skeptical for a little bit
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  compared to like most people. But they showed me everything
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  I needed to see this past weekend. And I'm all
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  in on them being the cream of the crop and
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  the SEC and the whole country, all of it.
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  Speaker 1: I think so too, gentlemen, before we wrap up on this,
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  this this competition UCLA and Mississippi State, because I know
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  State has been insanely impressive. I think that's probably the
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  best way to put it is because again, Josh, you
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  again really eloquently said it, we all sort of had
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  our doubts about the Bulldogs. Even though you bring in
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  all this talent, you bring in the big name, high
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  dollar coach, you have these freshmen who somehow aren't drafted.
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  Every It's like a perfect storm and startful in a sense,
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  and yet some some thing felt a miss. If I could,
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  if I could be so bold, JB, what do you
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  think is the number one takeaway you have that you
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  can kind of tick the box on your head to saying, well,
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  I didn't know Mississippi State had this, but I feel
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  much better about it after seeing this weekend.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's kind of like how you talked about it,
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  the pitching and just how well it worked. I think
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  over all on the weekend, I think them being able
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  to step up in the big spots and make good
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  pitches and big moments for them, I think was the
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  biggest thing. And the rotation kind of showing more stability
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  than maybe we projected going into the year. You know,
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  they had a lot of fun pieces for the rotation
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  and a lot of quality talent, but you know, you
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  never know how it's gonna work out in an SEC
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  play or kind of going into it. It's really tough.
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  Everybody's got top end talent in the rotation in the SEC.
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  So I think that showing from them on that scale
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  really helps them in a sense, and I think it's
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  going to be something to really look forward to. I
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  think in the near future here I think so too.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we talked about, you know, Josh Against going
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  to go brought up how McPherson on Friday morning had
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  the absolute duel of all duels, going with Cole carlm
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  uh for what four innings it got to the fit
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  with Carlo that's right, yeah, grant that, and I mean
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  legitimately though, it was like, Okay, I'm gonna sit down
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  the side, Well all right, big valse, I'm sitting down
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  the side that just these two guys were going to
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  blow for blowing toe to toe, and I again, this
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  is this is all. I'll wear this one on on
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  the chest. I didn't think McPherson had it in. I
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  didn't see him as being at that talent level. But
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  I'm delighted to be wrong. So I'm glad to hear
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  JB that you kind of felt the same way. Knowing
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  that this Mississippi State team is for real. I think
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  it's it's good that we're all kind of coming to
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  this realization together. I know the country has been big
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  on them, and like you said, Josh, we've almost been
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  the low outlet on them. Brandon. That'll bring us back
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  to you to kind of wrap this up. I know
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  that we don't we don't ask you guys to do
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  your top twenty five and top thirties. We just goin
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  to take that as you know, us here as the
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  host of the show, but I'm curious if you were
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  going to put together a top twenty five to be
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  submitted for ranks or just for your own for your
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  own purposes, Brandon, even though they lost to U C.
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  L A and the finals of this Amergy Bank Classic
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  this weekend, what's the lowest you would reasonably have Mississippi State?
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  Speaker 4: Can you guys remind me what they were coming into
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  this game?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? I think Missisipi State had lost one game?
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  Speaker 4: Had they know what rank that you had?
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: The number? Their number four at like D one, which
• 18:33
  is the main one used. I don't know what we
• 18:35
  had them personally, as it was like ten for being honest,
• 18:37
  but nationally they Yeah we had Missippi States, Yeah, nine, nine,
• 18:45
  We had them at nine. Most most places had them
• 18:47
  in the top five.
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: I mean I would probably keep them at four if
• 18:51
  I were you guys and I was ranking them. I mean,
• 18:54
  the beat Arizona State is a good team, you know,
• 18:57
  so that is, and you're losing to the No. One
• 19:00
  team in the country. You can't really buy one run
• 19:02
  in extras when you probably should have won the game, right,
• 19:04
  So I don't think you should get analyts for that,
• 19:07
  you know.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought that up, though, Brandon, just because
• 19:10
  I think it's interesting. And the final question I'm going
• 19:13
  to ask about these two teams, Josh will go to
• 19:16
  you and then we'll we'll tag off. Let we'll talk
• 19:18
  about another couple of teams for a minute. Josh, I
• 19:21
  think that we penalized TCU. TCU lost to UCLA in
• 19:26
  their series, right, just just because I think there may
• 19:30
  be people at home that don't understand the discrepancy between
• 19:33
  TCU got a significant drop. I don't think State's gonna
• 19:36
  have that big of a drop. Would you explain why, Josh?
• 19:39
  And I think it's simple in my brain, but just
• 19:41
  explain it.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: Nonetheless, there's a couple of things in my head. So,
• 19:44
  first of all, are you referring to TCU after losing
• 19:46
  to U C l A or after the Arlington performance?
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: You're right, go ahead, I'm you're correct.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: No, I'm asking which one, or like which are you
• 19:55
  referring to?
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Well, I met UCLA specifically, but you bring up a good,
• 19:59
  you can bring up a good.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: So I would say, in my mind, there's a couple
• 20:03
  things to this. First of all, I think in baseball,
• 20:05
  more than other sports, you see people at least early
• 20:07
  in the year, try not to be super reactionary to
• 20:10
  these things because like it's baseball, weird things happen, the
• 20:14
  ball bounces weird ways. Exhibit a how the State game
• 20:17
  ended with the ground world double and the midstrike and whatever.
• 20:20
  So I think you see people try not to be
• 20:22
  overreactionary when there's close results. Also on the weekend as
• 20:25
  a whole, Mississippi State looked dominant the first two days
• 20:28
  against good teams. They looked really, really good through the
• 20:32
  first eight eight and a half innings of this game today,
• 20:35
  So it's kind of hard to penalize them for how
• 20:37
  they looked when, for being honest, they probably should have
• 20:39
  won this game against UCLA. TCU just went on the road, granted,
• 20:43
  going on the road against the number one team in
• 20:44
  the country, and they just got killed. Like they just
• 20:47
  the floor was wiped with them the entire weekend. So
• 20:49
  I mean, like, if you have to punish them in
• 20:51
  some way, I know it's tough to be, like going
• 20:54
  to play the best team in the country all the
• 20:56
  way out in California, it's tough, but there's levels of this.
• 21:00
  It's a weekend as a whole, and if we're gonna
• 21:02
  look at I guess, well, not twenty seven. I guess
• 21:04
  the twenty eight innings of baseball that Missippi State played
• 21:06
  this weekend. They looked really, really really good in about
• 21:09
  like twenty six twenty seven of them. So it's kind
• 21:12
  of hard to dock them. I mean, I think all
• 21:14
  of us actually rose them, so I mean goes to
• 21:17
  show you even more.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: That's that's the exact like you couldn't have said it better.
• 21:21
  Is the whole point I was hoping to have you
• 21:23
  make there is for twenty well, i'll even call it
• 21:27
  twenty five, right, like, let's dock it even further than you.
• 21:29
  For twenty five of twenty eight innings of baseball they
• 21:31
  played this this weekend looked like they looked incredible. That
• 21:35
  looked like an incredible team. I think that the difference
• 21:39
  is what you do against that top competition. That's that's
• 21:43
  the point I was hoping to make there. Okay, awesome,
• 21:45
  thank you, John. All right, let's move on, JB. We're
• 21:48
  gonna talk to you about this one because we we
• 21:50
  picked on these two teams last episode. We're gonna talk
• 21:54
  about Florida and Miami Curious JV Because if I remember rightly,
• 22:01
  and I'm gonna let you tell me. We talked a
• 22:03
  lot about how Miami's offense was just this juggered not
• 22:06
  We talked about the ops on all these guys. We
• 22:09
  talked about the power on all these guys. Where where
• 22:13
  was that JB. I didn't happen to see much.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So, I mean, I guess I'll get it started
• 22:19
  on you know, the one guy that I think a
• 22:21
  lot of us know my personal opinion on that gets.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: He got a lot of glazing is the.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: Nicest way to put it on that broadcast from a
• 22:28
  lot of what they were talking about, and he really
• 22:31
  didn't do him justice at the plate to make him
• 22:33
  look very good on the broadcast. As our friend of
• 22:36
  the pod, Daniel Kove, he had a pretty brutal lot
• 22:40
  at the plate against Liam Peterson, to say lightly on
• 22:43
  Friday night, as you know, in the middle of him
• 22:46
  getting called a first round prospect or whatever they were
• 22:49
  saying up there, Liam Pierson put them away pretty quickly
• 22:51
  with three straight breaking balls with the bases juice. So
• 22:55
  I think, you know, you kind of see what the
• 22:57
  Miami team is. They're big on slug but against elite
• 23:00
  level pitching, I think that they're probably gonna punch out
• 23:02
  a lot too. At the same time, it's going to
• 23:04
  be an issue for them. The middle of the order
• 23:06
  we talked about. Sosa has been a bright spot for them.
• 23:10
  He's really stepped up in a lot of spots for them,
• 23:12
  and I think he's done well, and so is Derek Williams.
• 23:15
  But it's Miami team. It's a lot of swagger and
• 23:18
  a lot of you know, big stuff going on around them,
• 23:20
  which is great, and they're gonna do well in acc
• 23:23
  play most likely. But I just think Florida was the
• 23:26
  perfect combination of enough offense and elite level arms to
• 23:31
  run the buzz on Miami. I think that's what their
• 23:33
  issue is going to be. Is the pitching at Miami
• 23:35
  is going to be stock ish. I'd say, you know,
• 23:38
  it's slightly above average. It's not anything that's going to
• 23:41
  be crazy for them. Compared to a Florida team who's
• 23:44
  trotting out possible first rounders and elite arms like a
• 23:47
  freshman throwing one hundred and one in.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: The ninth inning.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: Miami they don't have anything like that.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: There's nothing like that for them.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: And you know, I will say the back call that
• 23:57
  gave Florida. The lead was a little interesting, I'll say
• 24:01
  that much. It by the rule, it's a back but
• 24:03
  when the play goes through like that and then you
• 24:05
  decide to really come down on that one is a
• 24:08
  very interesting stance by that umpire. So, you know, I
• 24:12
  think Miami, it's it's kind of what we expect. I
• 24:14
  think it's more of a coming back down to earth
• 24:16
  for them rather than anything else. In my opinion, after
• 24:19
  playing a really good Florida team.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: I like, I like that phreezing maybe not maybe not
• 24:26
  like a whipping in a sense, but let's bring you
• 24:28
  back down to earth in a sense. Let's recalibrate. I
• 24:32
  recalibrate bringing them back down to earth. Josh, when we
• 24:36
  talk about these two teams, Florida and Miami, you know,
• 24:38
  we talked about the fact that Florida had the arms,
• 24:42
  Miami had the bats, and yet Florida they won two
• 24:46
  games here, so that says a lot about their bats.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Too, I'd say so. I mean, their best guys stepped
• 24:55
  up consistently more than Miami's best guys stepped up, which
• 24:59
  before we were like on the preview pot we mentioned
• 25:01
  how Florida has a clear advantage on the pitching side
• 25:05
  of things, but offensively, if anyone, it's Miami, but it's
• 25:08
  probably pretty close. It didn't seem like it this weekend.
• 25:11
  Like Brendan Lawson went three for three with a home
• 25:14
  run on Friday. You know, Cash Strayer had a good
• 25:16
  day on Saturday, two for three with a double. Guys
• 25:19
  on Miami, like JB mentioned, like even like Daniel Kuve
• 25:23
  oh for seven with three strikeouts between the two games,
• 25:27
  Alex Sosa kind of well. JB mentioned, like he's been
• 25:29
  doing better this year, not this weekend, one for eight,
• 25:31
  three strikeouts. Jake Ogden went one for nine. It's like,
• 25:34
  guys that just you're used to having production and have
• 25:37
  the entire year nothing so Florida's bats as a whole.
• 25:40
  I mean like it's not notoriously the best pitching staff
• 25:44
  in Miami compared to other teams you're gonna see, but
• 25:46
  I mean, like I feel like it's a Power Conference team.
• 25:48
  It's a top twenty five team clearly, So you can't
• 25:51
  just like put to the side. You have to acknowledge
• 25:53
  what happened it admit like really really like really good
• 25:57
  offense that is probably gonna translate later in the year.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: You imagine, yeah, I would agree with that sentiment. Surely
• 26:04
  you you have to think that, Yeah, I'm with you, Josh.
• 26:07
  I agree with that. The one thing too, like not
• 26:09
  to jump on it too and to piggyback off of Josh.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: I guess the name that I should mention is Ethan
• 26:13
  Sirwak had one of the bigger moments in the second
• 26:16
  game where loss and came up, they decided to intentionally
• 26:19
  walk him. He had four k's on the day and
• 26:22
  then pumps a three run homer out of there to
• 26:24
  give them a nice lead. So I think that's another
• 26:26
  guy too that he had a really nice weekend as well.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: That's very good too. That's just not his game, but
• 26:32
  they like to strike out four times, three run bomb.
• 26:34
  That's on brand.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Yep, on brand for Sirwick for sure. But like JB said,
• 26:40
  and Josh, you're right, it is his brand. And I
• 26:42
  mean if that's his if that's his mo, then I
• 26:44
  mean he found a way to deliver on it and
• 26:46
  it benefited his team, so hard to argue with it.
• 26:50
  Brandon Josh brought us in really well about Brendan Lawson
• 26:55
  obviously Florida. I think he leads that leads that team
• 26:58
  in a sense that, like, you know, we talk a
• 27:00
  lot of on the show about Alabama going the way
• 27:03
  that Justin Lebron goes in a sense, I think Florida
• 27:06
  is not necessarily on that same trip. Florida's got a
• 27:09
  really talented team, but loss is the sort of player
• 27:12
  that I think, uh, rising tide lifts all boats, if
• 27:16
  that makes sense, And I think that Lawson could be
• 27:18
  considered that rising tide. Uh. In terms of the twenty
• 27:21
  twenty seven class, is there anybody that you like more
• 27:23
  than Brendan Lawson, I'll stop.
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: Your head, not that I know of. Honestly, I was
• 27:32
  gonna like kind of hark on Miami for them go
• 27:35
  ahead there on Twitter and then just you know, not
• 27:39
  showing up in the games, you know, but a could
• 27:42
  be a little biased towards how I feel about Miami.
• 27:45
  But well, Brandon, it's funny, I mean, I guess, I
• 27:47
  guess in sense, is it Dax Whippy for yeah, yeah, Whitney, Yeah,
• 27:53
  Oklahoma State or state, Yeah, yeah, I'm more of a
• 27:58
  pitching guy than a hitting guy. Say, he'd probably I
• 28:00
  would take over him though.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: That's just that's okay, But that's quality for sure, and
• 28:04
  I know that JB is never going to dog you
• 28:06
  for wanting to take a quick dunk on Miami. If
• 28:09
  you get the breakaway and you can dunk on an Acca,
• 28:11
  it's not you would see. It generally goes over well
• 28:14
  with this audience.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: So.
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: Great on Twitter, and they honestly didn't look great on
• 28:19
  the field, so.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: You know, maybe that was part of this is we
• 28:22
  didn't want to suley up the good uniforms. We're not
• 28:25
  We're not hustling here. I don't know, guys, you said
• 28:27
  it though, JB. I think he brought it up. How
• 28:30
  how QBA it was the three straight baking breaking balls
• 28:33
  at bat the look on his face. I don't know
• 28:37
  whether I felt worse for him or worse for the team,
• 28:40
  because I could see it in his eyes. He was
• 28:42
  just like, but I can't say it because this is
• 28:45
  we try to be relatively family friendly on this podcast.
• 28:47
  But there were some swears going through that brain. I
• 28:49
  guarantee you yeah.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: He I mean you watched his at bats and you
• 28:53
  could see a little bit of him getting real frustrated
• 28:56
  up there after his first few, because I mean, I
• 28:58
  forget the first about how you punched out. I think
• 29:00
  it might have been on a breaking ball too. He
• 29:02
  chased something out of the zone and the second at
• 29:04
  bat it was just three straight sliders, was just nowhere
• 29:09
  near the zone and he went for all three of
• 29:11
  them and it was just straight back to the dugouts.
• 29:13
  So yeah, I don't know. I I also don't understand.
• 29:17
  I guess I should say this too, like this isn't
• 29:20
  a harp on it, But I don't understand them sitting
• 29:23
  up there in the booth and just calling this sure
• 29:26
  fire first round or all this stuff. And it's like, guys, like,
• 29:29
  just do a little research before we even hit the button.
• 29:31
  They're like this quick MLB pipeline search would help you
• 29:34
  out before we get on this track of sure fire
• 29:37
  first round or something like.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: This.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: This QB customer up there, sure fire first round, I
• 29:45
  don't know if.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: You rightly, We'll see how that goes.
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like he's a good player, but that's a
• 29:52
  little strong it'd be going on there, and and you know.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: Let's give him, let's give him a little bit of
• 29:58
  his due, right, just a little bit talent. There's surely
• 30:01
  talent here, but there's park to be done. I think
• 30:04
  to say, sure first rounder he's a guy. Yeah, one guy. Yes,
• 30:11
  he's a day one guy.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: I like that a lot better word, Josh, there you
• 30:15
  go tell me.
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: Also called the Light one of the best fields in
• 30:18
  college baseball, and as someone who played there with you
• 30:22
  in any one of the best to college baseball.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, thank you, JB.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Do you have something you need to tell us.
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: Just when we took a trip down there. All you
• 30:32
  gotta say is the Light is not a top ten
• 30:34
  ballpark in the country, like they also said.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: I don't know about that one. That's all.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: That's a little lofty there.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: If you're listening to this by chance, and you did
• 30:44
  color commentary for the Miami Baseball series this weekend, just
• 30:47
  know JB hates your that's all. That's all. I'm kidding Jamie.
• 30:52
  All right, Josh, We're gonna come back to you, because buddy,
• 30:55
  I think it's time we have a conversation. It's gonna
• 30:58
  be a difficult one. Should we talk about Vanderbilt?
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: I think so at. I know, I didn't really want
• 31:07
  to jump the gun after the first weekend in Arlington
• 31:09
  when they didn't look great. I wanted to give them
• 31:11
  the benefit of the doubt a little bit. They beat
• 31:14
  up on bad competition. This weekend was just rough though,
• 31:18
  like they never they never really were competitive in a
• 31:22
  ton of like they in the sixth ending of the
• 31:25
  Irvine and the Arizona game. It just kind of got
• 31:27
  away from him, like Alex Kranzler kind of blew it
• 31:30
  a little bit. In the Arizona game. Irvine they put
• 31:32
  I think Irvine put up like a four spot maybe
• 31:34
  in the sixth something like that. The organ game seemed
• 31:37
  over for a while, like Vandy never held a lead.
• 31:40
  It was just that offense that we're used to seeing
• 31:42
  produced like really well just didn't really have even a
• 31:47
  decent weekend. But it wasn't like like some of these
• 31:50
  other teams. It's because all their stars will just have
• 31:52
  super down weekends. That wasn't the case here. Like the
• 31:55
  only star of THEIRS that had like a particularly bad weekend,
• 31:59
  I would say, rfer Weight went one for nine with
• 32:01
  five strikeouts on the weekend. Everyone else is just kind
• 32:04
  of like average to a little below average. But there's
• 32:07
  no glaring holes there. It's just like as a whole,
• 32:09
  they couldn't put together solid at bat, solid innings and
• 32:12
  stream together even put up like a two spot in
• 32:14
  an inning very often, Like well, matter of fact, they
• 32:17
  didn't put up two runs in two of the games
• 32:19
  as a whole. So I mean, I don't know. I
• 32:23
  don't want to jump the gun on things. I mean,
• 32:24
  they're gonna get tested at LSU in a couple of
• 32:26
  weeks from now, and I guess we'll really really find
• 32:29
  out then. But it's hard to jump the gun right now.
• 32:32
  But just from they've played two weekends of really solid
• 32:35
  competition and I think I'm gonna combine one in five
• 32:39
  in those games. So it just kind of makes you think.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: It, It really does. I think that, like you said,
• 32:47
  you can't blame this on the guys at the top either. No,
• 32:52
  it's this is certainly not and I hate to hate
• 32:56
  to keep going to Justine Lebron, but it's not like
• 32:58
  that where like we said, you know that Alabama goes
• 33:01
  the way that he goes, it's not like that. Will
• 33:06
  we ever? Will will we ever? Because boy, that that
• 33:09
  ninth thenning it delivered. You were right to say if
• 33:12
  y'all didn't see it, go watch this. And man Wiels
• 33:15
  made his ad revenue body on that.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: For sure.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: I'll watch that video twice today. JB gonna go to
• 33:21
  you man Vanderbilt. I'm with Josh entirely on this point.
• 33:26
  It feels almost sacrilegious is the wrong word. It feels
• 33:32
  almost criminal to say, like Vanderbilt's kind of trash at this.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: Point in the season.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: But they've looked so incomplete, inconsistent, bad. What's the word here, JB?
• 33:46
  And then elaborate.
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: I mean, I think the thing that's really stuck out
• 33:52
  to me with them is how bad they've been fundamentally.
• 33:54
  I'd say so far this year. For some reason, the
• 33:56
  fundamentals have been very lacking for Vanderbilt. A lot of
• 33:59
  errors in the first weekend, and then you know this
• 34:02
  past weekend again you kind of see the defensive play
• 34:05
  kind of being shaky. On top of that, you throw
• 34:08
  in there, you know they're without Colin Barci right now,
• 34:10
  who is like one of the biggest storylines of that
• 34:12
  first weekend of baseball with the three homers.
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: So that doesn't help your offense.
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: That we talked about how little power they had in
• 34:19
  this weekend, they really didn't show any power again, So
• 34:22
  we went from they answered the power question to they
• 34:25
  don't have any power again. So it's what offense are
• 34:27
  we going to get and then it kind of comes
• 34:31
  back down to, you know, the pitching just not being
• 34:33
  as crisp as we're used to seeing. With Bandy, the
• 34:35
  pitching usually is the driving force, and it's usually been
• 34:38
  a very good staff for them. I think it's something
• 34:42
  that where, you know, right now, none of the guys
• 34:44
  on staff have looked very crisp. They haven't had a
• 34:46
  lot of clean outings. It's been kind of so so
• 34:49
  up and down. So I think it's kind of a
• 34:52
  mixed bag with Vanderbilt of a team that's not what
• 34:54
  we're accustomed to seeing from a pitching and defense side.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: I'd say it's JB. That's right, is the fundamentals. And
• 35:01
  it's bizarre because I know that Josh JB. We've talked
• 35:04
  about it a lot with Jake, and I feel like
• 35:07
  consistently we talked about Vanderbilt. We talked about how the
• 35:11
  overarching theme was we need to see the power out
• 35:13
  of them this year. We're not sure what's gonna come from.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: Is it.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: Could it be that they were like, hey, we're going
• 35:19
  all it on power this year. All of the normal
• 35:21
  corbinisms are kind of out the door here because the
• 35:23
  fundamentals are suspect. The pitching is suspect, but boy, we
• 35:28
  could really yack the ball, you know what I'm saying.
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, how weird is that?
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: I think it's strange for Corbyn. It's a very strange
• 35:36
  build to a team because Corbyn usually I mean, you
• 35:39
  watched them and it's a very put together Vanderbilt team,
• 35:41
  even when they're not great, like last year, they weren't
• 35:43
  the most exciting team, but they did the little things well.
• 35:46
  Talked about that and that's why they were the number
• 35:49
  one seed last season going into regional play. And this
• 35:51
  year it's been the complete opposite. It's been They've showed
• 35:54
  a lot of big flash and everybody's talked about Barsier,
• 35:57
  Johnston and you know whoever it is that's hint Homers
• 36:00
  at the time, and it kind of just turns into
• 36:03
  a mess on defense, losing them games kind of. It
• 36:06
  has been a thing.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: So I don't know, Josh, I'm gonna come back to
• 36:10
  you really quickly. If you could add let's let's say
• 36:14
  you have Genie in the bottle kind of power. You
• 36:16
  can add one skill to Vanderbilt right now, what would
• 36:19
  be the one that would help them the most?
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: This is a great question. I mean, what's really I mean,
• 36:31
  y'all touched on it. What's really ironic is this past
• 36:33
  weekend it seemed like power, which is what we were
• 36:37
  concerned with coming end of the year, but haven't been
• 36:40
  at the beginning. I mean, like throughout the entire rest
• 36:42
  of the season so far. I would it's not necessarily
• 36:48
  a skill man. This is like, this sounds like a
• 36:50
  compound answer, but it's truth, just like consistency, because we've
• 36:53
  seen such different things from them. It's just like, yes,
• 36:56
  obviously baseball's a volatile sport, and that's how sports are
• 36:59
  and in role most of the time, but just in
• 37:03
  particular with them, it's like not even a game to well,
• 37:05
  in Arlington it was game to game, but it's not
• 37:07
  even like a game to game basis thing for them
• 37:09
  all the time. It's weekend to weekend. Like they're seeing
• 37:11
  completely different teams, and I just I never know what
• 37:15
  to expect from them. They could take two out of
• 37:16
  three from LSU and I'd be like, well, I've seen
• 37:19
  flashes of this like it, yeah, it would shock me, sure,
• 37:22
  but like I've seen flashes of this. I just want
• 37:25
  to see some kind of like cohesiveness that on a
• 37:29
  game to game basis from them. I don't know.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: I get that. No, Josh, that's that's perfect way. You
• 37:36
  want to see cohesion, you want to see consistency, and
• 37:39
  that's what we're not seeing. And I think that is
• 37:41
  kind of the basis of this conversation. And I love
• 37:43
  that point. Brandon gonna come to you here a lot
• 37:46
  of and joshually led into it well a moment ago.
• 37:48
  A lot of the guys who you expect to be there,
• 37:52
  it's not that they didn't perform, it's just maybe not
• 37:55
  in the ways that would have benefited Vanderbilt most. So
• 37:57
  I'm curious, who is it that you wanted to see
• 37:59
  maybe a little bit more of out of this weekend.
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: Brandon Holcomb probably six home runs that I did hit
• 38:06
  one this weekend for seven.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: I did notice this.
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: He's on his third different position in three years, So
• 38:12
  I don't know if that has something to do with it.
• 38:15
  You never know what the guy's mental status is on that.
• 38:20
  But yeah, outside of that, you've got Brodie Johnson at
• 38:22
  five home runs and then you don't have anyone to
• 38:24
  tell Johnston Good and Barksey at three each. So I
• 38:28
  don't know if home runs a really a skill, like
• 38:29
  Josh was saying, like, you know, like I don't know.
• 38:32
  You hit the ball right, that's a skill, But I
• 38:34
  don't know if a home run is exactly a skill.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: But made a career out of home home run still, but.
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: I'll have to be his designated bag chip open for
• 38:45
  the rest of his life. Apparently can't do that anymore.
• 38:50
  Home runs coming bunches. So I mean, you just never
• 38:53
  know when someone might break out.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's been the case with Barksley specifically.
• 38:57
  I mean, you have a three home run game and
• 38:59
  then all of a sudden, you know, kind of fall
• 39:01
  off the face of the earth for the next couple
• 39:02
  of weeks. I have an odd question for you, Brandon,
• 39:05
  unrelated to college baseball, but since you brought it up,
• 39:08
  what will be the lowest yearly salary you would accept
• 39:11
  from Gehan Carlo Stamp to open ship backs for him
• 39:14
  in just a given year, just when he needs chips opened.
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: God, it'd probably take like twenty dollars an hour, so
• 39:19
  maybe like fifty grand a year to open bag of
• 39:21
  chips for her. You know, I'm sure he can afford it,
• 39:23
  you know, jump if for a guy Brandon's your guy.
• 39:28
  Maybe a change his name back to Mike, he'd be
• 39:30
  able to open the back of chips up.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: I don't know at all. I don't know about all that.
• 39:34
  I've seen plenty of Mike's open chips, but I've never
• 39:37
  seen a signal of a John Carlow period.
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: So I was also going to mention real quick about schedule. Basically,
• 39:44
  their entire month of March is at home, so that
• 39:48
  might help them out a bit. I mean, they do
• 39:49
  have to go to the city state. They have LSU
• 39:52
  and Tennessee at home, so who knows. Oh, maybe a
• 39:56
  good rivalry game against Tennessee will fire him up. Who knows.
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: I thought they had to go to Well issue. That
• 40:00
  certainly helps in that case.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: If I meant that, Beingian Hawkins is gonna be a
• 40:04
  whole lot of a different story for sure than the box.
• 40:07
  But I I don't know. I think I think the
• 40:11
  overarching thing here with Vanderbilt not to continue plowing on
• 40:14
  this this field. I just I gotta see one way
• 40:17
  or another. I want to see who this team is.
• 40:19
  If this is just the anti Corbett and we're just
• 40:22
  power merchants, now, sweet, that's awesome. I'm a Tennessee fan,
• 40:24
  I can get behind the Power Merchant team. I just.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: What are also just one other thing I forgot to
• 40:31
  mention that I probably should just to harp on this point.
• 40:34
  Not only was it what happened in their games, it's
• 40:39
  more who was against Not only was it Yeah, it
• 40:41
  was solid competition, but Arizona had won one game coming
• 40:45
  into this weekend and they got handled. Vandy got handled
• 40:49
  by them. Irvine. We've had questions about Irvine's offense the
• 40:52
  entire year, and they put up nine on Bandy. It's
• 40:54
  just things like that too. It's not even like the
• 40:57
  results are the results. You can look at the scores
• 40:58
  and say one thing, but if you really like actually
• 41:00
  dig deep into who the teams are they played and
• 41:03
  what the specific results are like really makes you raise eyebrows.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: JB that we did mention Irvin, so that triggers you
• 41:10
  to have one sentence if you want to talk about
• 41:12
  really quick, That's.
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: All I gotta say is how Josh talked about how
• 41:16
  bad this offense is last time, and then immediately they
• 41:18
  start score and runs. So I mean, I hope Josh
• 41:20
  keeps speaking ill of the years here.
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: We all agreed on that why am I the one
• 41:26
  that's getting targeted.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: To be fair? I think that was a universal thing, JB.
• 41:30
  So fire one by way as well. That's fair.
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: Drew gets half a point on that. Josh still gets
• 41:35
  a full point on that one.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: Thanks JB.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: Meeting there you go.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: L on my side, So don't worry.
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: We got recovered.
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: We know, we know, we know.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: All right, shout out LG. You get here's your here's
• 41:51
  your episode daily, shout out the best friend of the five.
• 41:57
  I hope you're doing well, sir, join the episode. All right,
• 42:00
  we got to make it through a couple more topics
• 42:02
  before we wrap up. We still got to talk about
• 42:04
  midweeks because guys, a couple of really interesting midweek games.
• 42:07
  But we've got a couple more things to roll through
• 42:09
  really quickly. I want to talk and I'm going off
• 42:12
  of I'm going off the schedule here because I really
• 42:13
  want to hear you guys. Opinions on the Clemson South
• 42:16
  Carolina series Man Classic Classic Rivalry Baseball where South Carolina
• 42:23
  just ran back and socked Clemson in the face. An
• 42:26
  interesting series, JB. What was the take in the Carolinas?
• 42:30
  Has the ground been rumbling all weekend or.
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: What, Yeah, it was pretty crazy.
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: I mean I remember watching the first game when I
• 42:37
  forget who the lefty is that closed out the game.
• 42:39
  But he's sticking his tongue out and screaming and pumping
• 42:41
  up the crowd, and I think it's Valiant Valentine. I
• 42:44
  think it's who it was on the mountain. But he went,
• 42:47
  I don't know, maybe I'm wrong, Josh ging me to
• 42:49
  look like I'm wrong.
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: I'm thinking myself too. I can visualize the guy.
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know the guy's face. I'm forgetting the name.
• 42:56
  But he went Biserco. And then the next day Clemson
• 42:59
  comes back in wins in Columbia at the Firefly Stadium
• 43:03
  and their announcer starts talking a whole bunch of trash
• 43:06
  right back, which was awesome.
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: He's like, no Shenanigans, no Antics.
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: Needed just a clean old fashion win out of the
• 43:13
  Clemson Tigers, you know. And I was like, hey, go
• 43:15
  get them, you know, I love that. And then they
• 43:17
  finished it off today at home clums and so I
• 43:21
  think the biggest storyline is, you know what happens to Minaria.
• 43:23
  I mean they were already calling first head after the
• 43:25
  last Queens, and then you lose the series to Clemson,
• 43:28
  and it's like one of what has been now called
• 43:31
  one of the worst college baseball hires in the past
• 43:34
  decade is on real, real thin ice right now. So
• 43:39
  I'm really curious see what the future of the Gamecock
• 43:41
  program is going to be after that.
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: Josh one of the worst hires of the last ten years,
• 43:48
  Paul Mery saving So.
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: It just sounds no. I mean, if do you remember,
• 43:56
  I guess it was the episode we had about like
• 43:59
  the Christmas wishes, and like I remember, I talked. I
• 44:02
  talked about like how South Carolina fans feel about Paulmonarity
• 44:05
  and how like if things go bad really quickly, it's
• 44:09
  gonna get really it's gonna get way worse fast, and
• 44:11
  boy has it already. But I mean there was like
• 44:15
  I don't know if they if they can take that
• 44:16
  little bit of energy from Friday and just try and
• 44:18
  like milk it into later in the year, because I
• 44:21
  mean JB mentioned it, like all the antics going on.
• 44:24
  I could go on about this series from like a
• 44:27
  fear passion standpoint about what's going on. I mean, not
• 44:31
  only was like whoever the guy was, I'm blanking the
• 44:34
  picture At the end of the first game, he was
• 44:36
  like doing like a little shimmy, like a little shake
• 44:38
  before he would pick it. Really the two innings like
• 44:41
  he was so confident. And then Eric Backets fired back
• 44:44
  on Saturday in the post game saying, we don't celebrate
• 44:46
  our one win like its super Bowl. I mean, just
• 44:49
  I was watching the Saturday game and it's like, not
• 44:51
  only was on the field so great, they were like
• 44:54
  some camera angles showing from like I have this vivid
• 44:56
  memory of one time or South Carolina tag somebody out
• 44:59
  at home and then was an angle like kind of
• 45:01
  like it was from third base, like a third base
• 45:03
  camera showing behind home plate. South Carolina fans behind home
• 45:06
  plate were reacting like like European soccer team fans which
• 45:10
  going nuts. It's like the of a Saturday game in
• 45:14
  Mark or February, I guess at that point, like I
• 45:17
  don't know that Clempton had the band and cheerleaders in
• 45:20
  the stands today, Like I'm telling you, these two fan
• 45:23
  bases for baseball specifically go so nuts, but I mean
• 45:26
  it's it's worth it every single time, so hopefully, I
• 45:29
  don't know, South Carolina wants that kind of energy back
• 45:31
  all the time. In min area is not getting that
• 45:33
  for them at all. At least they won the one
• 45:35
  home game.
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: I guess, yeah, for South Yeah, for South Carolina's sake.
• 45:43
  I really hope you're right, Josh. I hope that that
• 45:45
  little bit of just the words I want to say
• 45:48
  here are not appropriate for the podcast. So I'll just
• 45:50
  say that little bit umph in their in their guts.
• 45:53
  They can just stretch that and extend it through this
• 45:56
  rest of the season for sure. UH will jump around
• 45:59
  a little bit quick. Guys, Oregon, by Hook and by
• 46:04
  Crook have won the Live Like Lou Classic. Josh, we
• 46:08
  thought it was gonna be. I thought it might be, Uh, Arizona,
• 46:11
  I thought it might be. We thought it was. This
• 46:15
  kind of went off the rails when you were trying
• 46:17
  to put a stamp on this, right.
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah. No, I mean it's the first time since we've
• 46:21
  been doing the Pick Them that there's been any kind
• 46:23
  of tiebreaker had to be used and they would go
• 46:26
  to a second one too, Like, not only were they
• 46:28
  both too and one, but they had a run differentual
• 46:30
  plus five, but Oregon beat Arizona, so technically they won
• 46:34
  the tournament. I don't know. I mean, they look they
• 46:36
  look solid. I mean they looked how we thought the
• 46:38
  entire weekend or how we thought they might since there
• 46:41
  were talks on some people put them in the top
• 46:43
  ten at different places, like we just haven't seen anything
• 46:46
  from Oregon against good competition yet. But besides against Irvine,
• 46:49
  they looked pretty solid this weekend. So I don't know.
• 46:52
  It was weird trying to figure out, Like dude, like
• 46:54
  I told y'all, like in the docket, it's like, all right,
• 46:56
  we're gonna talk about Irvine because they did the best
• 46:58
  this weekend, and it's like, oh, never mind it Arizona.
• 47:00
  And then it's like, oh, this one useless run forward
• 47:03
  to the end of the Arizona Irvine game is the
• 47:05
  one that gave it wor won this thing.
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: It was so stupid, That's that's the one that mattered.
• 47:11
  I guess JB kind of a similar question to you
• 47:14
  talking about Oregon, Man, I what do we make here
• 47:20
  of this team? I think that we all kind of
• 47:22
  had enough to like nudge back, like yeah, but really
• 47:25
  who if they played?
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: But now some folks, yeah, I think for Oregon, I
• 47:30
  think the biggest thing I guess that's a takeaway from
• 47:33
  this is they've looked like a very good offensive team
• 47:37
  through three games against three solid pitching staffs. I'd say, so,
• 47:42
  you know, the offense has been really something that's proven
• 47:44
  now instead of just being its kind of lackluster competition
• 47:47
  like we kind of talked about. The pitching also stepped
• 47:50
  up enough, i'd say, on the weekend to show that
• 47:52
  they're a team that's going to compete in the Big Ten.
• 47:54
  You know, they're probably still one of the biggest threats
• 47:58
  to use LA in that conference, probably if not the biggest.
• 48:01
  So yeah, I think honestly it's it's kind of what
• 48:05
  we expected in a good transition for them getting into
• 48:07
  Big Ten play here soon for them to come off
• 48:09
  a high note.
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: I think so too. Uh. I don't want to Dealey
• 48:13
  Dowly too long on that, because we got another kind
• 48:15
  of tournament event to talk about, uh, the Frisco Classic,
• 48:18
  and Brandon We're gonna start with you, because talking about Frisco,
• 48:21
  you have to start with UH. With Dax Whitney, right,
• 48:26
  I think that obviously you look at this guy who
• 48:29
  has jab give me, give me a word for Dax Whitney, like,
• 48:35
  just describe him in one word. I'm running out of him.
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: Outlier Josh do.
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: You have a word.
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: I was just gonna say, like outstanding, So two words.
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: I was gonna say, except I was gonna say exceptional,
• 48:46
  So I mean outlier, exceptional, outstanding, Brandon, what's the take
• 48:51
  on Whitney?
• 48:52
  Speaker 4: I mean, for what he's doing as a sophomore is
• 48:55
  pretty impressive. I mean, holding up for the independence is awesome.
• 49:01
  But like I mentioned earlier, I love pictures. I'm a
• 49:04
  big picture guy. I mean, does he go top of
• 49:09
  the draft next year? Who knows? I mean he could,
• 49:12
  you know the way he's pitching now?
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: Why not? Right?
• 49:13
  Speaker 4: He stills another year of eligibility left, but it'd be
• 49:18
  great to see him in like the SEC. Maybe what
• 49:20
  he does against those teams. But I mean what he's
• 49:23
  doing so far is great. And I don't know, he's
• 49:26
  a freak. I'd love to go see him live, honestly.
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: You want to. You have a better opportunity than me
• 49:32
  I do. Yeah, so go down to SD and watch him.
• 49:35
  Speaker 4: I guess there you go.
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: I think, guys, we actually talked about maybe maybe on
• 49:40
  the air, could have been off the air, about if
• 49:42
  Whitney were in this class where you'd take him? And
• 49:44
  I mean I can think of one name I like
• 49:47
  better than him.
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: I think two is the max. Yeah, I mean I
• 49:53
  think Fluke and Flora are the two that could go
• 49:55
  above him. But at that point that's really all that's it.
• 49:58
  But also ironically, I just just came to mind as
• 50:00
  I'm saying it out loud, none of those three guys
• 50:03
  are in Power Conference teams, which is just kind of
• 50:05
  funny to me.
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: That is true interesting for sure, because like Brandon said,
• 50:10
  I'm curious, you know, if you have that little bit
• 50:12
  extra of the end season Gauntlet, what it would look like.
• 50:16
  But I mean chances are pretty good, maybe not quite
• 50:20
  as good. But I mean we saw just last season
• 50:22
  a guy who I would define as having outlier stuff
• 50:25
  because hashtag Homer Liam Doyle has absolutely outlier stuff. And
• 50:30
  I mean in the SEC he definitely got touched more
• 50:33
  than he did beating up on the you know Whoever's
• 50:38
  of the world, you know, leading off in you know,
• 50:40
  in midweeks. But at the same time, I don't know,
• 50:44
  it's just interesting the thought the other team we need
• 50:46
  to talk about talking about the Friscal Classic. Of course, Alabama.
• 50:49
  They came away with the victory in that event. Josh
• 50:52
  you said in a minute ago, we were going to
• 50:54
  talk about the insanity that was that game. Even Clain
• 50:59
  Schmidt look at a little bit a little bit unlike himself.
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: Huh yeah. I mean, well, speaking of guys looking not
• 51:06
  like himself, I mean Justin Lebron at the end of
• 51:09
  that game certainly didn't. I mean, on the weekend as
• 51:12
  a whole, he looked We we've said certain things about
• 51:16
  Lebron on this podcast we won't get back into, but
• 51:18
  he looked good. On the weekend as a whole, he was,
• 51:20
  as usual dama's best offensive guy. He went six for
• 51:23
  thirteen this weekend, had a couple of home run seven rbi.
• 51:27
  But on the ninth ending of that game against Oregon
• 51:29
  State yesterday, defense is supposed to be, if not his
• 51:33
  best trade, one of his best traits, and he booted
• 51:36
  just a ground ball. That's the booted is the best
• 51:39
  word to describe it. He just booted a routine ground ball.
• 51:42
  And then later on in the ending it ended up
• 51:44
  like yes, he did end up getting the forced out
• 51:46
  at second to end the game, but he just he
• 51:49
  bobbled and booted another routine ground ball. But he found
• 51:51
  out he got back to it in time because of
• 51:54
  how hard the ball was hit, but it was just
• 51:56
  super weird. No one else on the Obama offense really
• 51:59
  had like a finale. I'm in a weekend, even though
• 52:01
  the offense looked really good, but a per usual like
• 52:04
  Lebron was the guy to carry the weight of that team.
• 52:08
  But I don't know, there were a couple of things
• 52:10
  this weekend that's kind of made me, I don't know,
• 52:12
  raise my eyebrows and look at me like is this this?
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: Like who are you?
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: And what have you done with Justin Lebron? You know?
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: I so, JB. I love that point, Josh, to go
• 52:22
  to you, JB. I booted the ball is a great
• 52:26
  turn of phrase there. But to have that happen twice
• 52:29
  at the same inning, and of course Lebron came away
• 52:32
  with the glove flip right to the right to the
• 52:35
  back couldn't have been again a cinematic play that should
• 52:37
  have come out of the UCLA Mississippi State game the
• 52:40
  way it was just a perfectly cinematic glove flip of
• 52:43
  a play. First question, JB, did you ever have a
• 52:46
  play like that in the nfield? And second question? Uh?
• 52:49
  What second question? Is Lebron defensively? Should we have more question?
• 52:55
  Marks than we do.
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: Well.
• 52:58
  Speaker 3: To answer the first question, no, nothing ever that cool.
• 53:01
  I mean I made one like diving play in my
• 53:04
  first college game and then tag the bag at third
• 53:07
  to get the guy out, which was, you know, kind
• 53:09
  of sick, but not not.
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: Like that play. It wasn't as clean.
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: But Lebron.
• 53:16
  Speaker 3: He's always shown that he's a good defender. I think overall,
• 53:19
  you know, when you watch the tape for a while,
• 53:22
  some guys have a momentary blip like that. Sometimes it's
• 53:24
  just something that you know, maybe gets into your head
• 53:28
  mentally and is an issue for a little bit and
• 53:29
  then has to be ironed out. So I don't know,
• 53:32
  I guess off a one game, one sample size where
• 53:34
  we can go with that. But I think if you
• 53:36
  take as a collective, I think he's still a plus
• 53:38
  defender long term, so I wouldn't put too much stock
• 53:42
  into it. But if it becomes an issue over the season,
• 53:45
  I'd say it becomes an issue. The biggest thing I'd
• 53:47
  say within fielders like throwing issues, but we haven't seen
• 53:50
  that from him, So.
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that would be kind of the all right,
• 53:54
  sound the alarms on just Lebron, because even realistically Josh
• 53:58
  You're right to call it out, but he made the
• 54:01
  play when it counted, the out was made. It was
• 54:03
  not pretty. Well, there was an element of beauty to it,
• 54:06
  but I think it was in the wow of it.
• 54:08
  But either way, good stuff, Josh. We're gonna keep it
• 54:12
  with you. We will keep it with SEC teams and
• 54:13
  as a matter of fact, we'll keep it with SEC
• 54:16
  teams in the state of Alabama because it has come
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  time for your annual chat about Auburn.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this week wasn't the pretty This weekend wasn't
• 54:27
  the prettiest thing in the world because he lost that
• 54:28
  Friday game at extra so it was a great game
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  against Nebraska anyways, But the past couple of days just
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  dominant from a team that or from a Nebraska team
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  that we think it's like, you know, solid, possible postseason team,
• 54:41
  possible at large team. It was just pure domination. It's
• 54:44
  from guys that you like. Okay, I mentioned on last
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  week's pot about how it's like unsung heroes that keeps
• 54:51
  coming up. The mccrane brothers for Auburn look awesome so far,
• 54:54
  and a lot of people within the program will tell
• 54:56
  you no one saw this coming. At least like in
• 54:59
  terms of last year, maybe like there were signs in
• 55:01
  the fall, but this weekend Mason mccrane on Saturday went
• 55:05
  four for five with the home run six RBI. His
• 55:08
  brother Brandon mccrane on the whole weekend four for nine,
• 55:11
  got walked four times. I mean, they just like they've
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  stepped up and like filled in all the holes that
• 55:16
  Chris Rembert came back this weekend didn't look great. He
• 55:19
  went two for nine with three strikeouts, but also like
• 55:23
  he's gonna work his way back. You can tell he
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  looked a little on like I don't know if uncomfortable
• 55:26
  as the word, but he wasn't as polished. He wasn't
• 55:28
  one hundred percent probably, but he's gonna work his way
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  back to that point. By SEC play he was. He
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  was just dhing on Friday, like wasn't even playing in
• 55:34
  the field, just kind of easing his way back in.
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  But as a whole, the team looked really good this weekend,
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  Like today and yesterday, we're super promising and got a
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  little cupcake next week or not cupcake. Sorry, there's worst
• 55:47
  teams that SEC teams are playing next week, but lower
• 55:50
  competition and Winthrop coming in and then you got missous.
• 55:54
  You're building your way into the SEC schedule, just kind
• 55:56
  of slowly ramped. Well, I don't know if we can
• 55:58
  call Mazoo ramping up from win throat. But that's a
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  whole different conversation.
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  Speaker 4: That's not I'm excited to see them out here.
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: You know, this is a point for winthrow to say
• 56:10
  that Window is a better team than Missouri is not
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  the craziest thing in the world. So that I don't know.
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  I don't even know.
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  Speaker 3: Miami anti Missoo.
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  Speaker 1: Man fan bases are coming after you, John, I.
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: Think everybody is like anti Missoo. Isn't just like a
• 56:26
  me or a youth thing. It's just like common Mount
• 56:29
  Saint Mary's like, what.
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: Are we talking about, Josh, you just got CU fans
• 56:35
  off of you.
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: This again. I'm trust me, I am watching ECU baseball.
• 56:40
  I'm I'm acknowledging these losses that are racking up. Trust me.
• 56:43
  I know you forget.
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: I know you don't. I know you don't. Elephants and
• 56:47
  Josh love it. Brandon will go to you for a
• 56:52
  quick point about this old miss Not what we expected
• 56:55
  of the revs against Houston.
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  Speaker 4: H Yeah, weird lose two of three, you lose the
• 57:05
  Baylor who as a young team, that's kind of weird.
• 57:10
  But then you beat Ohio State, who also got beat
• 57:12
  by uts A. Check out their Twitter account with the
• 57:16
  slick back hair bird logo.
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: Fabulous tweet us as Twitter has been on fire this week.
• 57:22
  I don't know if you yeah, yeah.
• 57:29
  Speaker 4: But then you lose the Coastal Carolina who just lost
• 57:31
  their two best pitchers for basically the season. That's a
• 57:35
  bad loss. But Dom Decker stood out this weekend for
• 57:39
  him he produced hit a second homer of the year.
• 57:44
  Pitching staff looked really good against Ohio State Townsend five innings,
• 57:48
  nine strikeouts and only a walk, so kind of a
• 57:51
  mixed bag for them. I'd say, not really sure what's
• 57:54
  takeaway from that?
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: Guys. Uh, Let's let's play a quick quick round of
• 57:59
  the worry ometer, shall we. Uh? Worry ometer one would
• 58:03
  be no worries, This is totally fine. Ten being alarm
• 58:07
  bells have been going off. This is a red alert. Uh,
• 58:10
  Hunter Elliott? Where are we at with Hunter Elliott on
• 58:12
  the worry ometer? Josh?
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  Speaker 2: I mean I kind of want to lean towards track
• 58:19
  record more than like as a whole, than what we've
• 58:21
  seen just this year. But I'll say, like like a six,
• 58:26
  it's been it's been really concerning this year. But I
• 58:28
  mean he had a sub three e r A last
• 58:30
  year and was really good the whole season. But it's
• 58:33
  been like two of his three outing so far just
• 58:35
  like huh, Like it's just it's like we don't view
• 58:39
  him as like a long term has a great, great
• 58:42
  future in the sport kind of thing. But there are
• 58:43
  some guys that are just really good as college arms
• 58:45
  and just produce really well on the college game. That's
• 58:48
  one of them. And he's shown up so far against
• 58:50
  Missouri State and uh, who's I guess it was a
• 58:53
  Baylor this week. I mean, like it just not anything
• 58:57
  really promising. I mean, maybe it'll turn around, but at
• 58:59
  like a six, it feels pretty safe.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, JB on the Worriometer. Where yet with Hunter Elliott?
• 59:05
  Speaker 3: I mean, I guess maybe I'm a lower just because
• 59:07
  you know, five innings one earned eleven k's this weekend. Like,
• 59:11
  I mean, it's a promising outing, so I'd probably say
• 59:13
  like it's three maybe. I mean, you know, I think
• 59:15
  he's bouncing back, so he'll be all right.
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: I think Brandon the Worriometer. It's one of our favorite tools.
• 59:21
  One being not worried at all, ten being ultimate levels
• 59:24
  of worry. Do you have any kind of set feelings
• 59:26
  on Hunter Elliott?
• 59:27
  Speaker 4: I think I'd just go with JB a three or
• 59:30
  four because he's only allowed nine hits this year. I mean,
• 59:33
  can't really be worried about that, you know.
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, so I was I was in the middle
• 59:38
  at five, So I'm gonna of course split the middle
• 59:40
  between all of you. I like it. That's fine. JB
• 59:43
  will go to you for the final bit of news
• 59:45
  from the storylines around the game. N C State they
• 59:47
  set a program record for runs in the series. Josh,
• 59:50
  that was a good note, JB. What's the word with
• 59:53
  NC State?
• 59:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, this offense is firing in all cylinders right now.
• 59:56
  I mean tie Head is broken out like a lot
• 59:59
  of us.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: We've heard a lot about.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 3: But now he's really showing it. Luke Nixon had a
• 1:00:04
  nice weekend as well. He had multiple multi hit games
• 1:00:08
  in this like most of the NC State team. Chris
• 1:00:10
  mceue one of Josh's phase. He had a nice weekend
• 1:00:13
  as well. We saw a little bit more Andrew Wiggins,
• 1:00:15
  who a lot of people have been worried about wanting
• 1:00:17
  to see him, so he got in the lineup, got
• 1:00:18
  a nice homer. Is kind of an overall group effort
• 1:00:22
  for them, and Sherman Johnson, one of their top Juco transfers,
• 1:00:24
  also had a nice weekend. So it's kind of a
• 1:00:27
  big effort from NC State and the team has looked
• 1:00:30
  fairly dominant. Dudents look pretty sharp too, who we've talked
• 1:00:33
  about a lot along with Ryan Maron, so, I mean
• 1:00:36
  the wolf Pack, we kind of talked about it, but
• 1:00:38
  I had him as a sleeper in the ACC. They're
• 1:00:40
  looking pretty good, so it'll be a nice series for
• 1:00:42
  them coming into ACC.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: Could it be that somehow we get a combined force
• 1:00:49
  of the Josh agenda and the JB agenda coming together
• 1:00:53
  as one.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: I don't think magic. I don't think JB is gonna
• 1:00:57
  be pushing any kind of positive NC State agenda long
• 1:01:00
  term less.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: He did for the moment.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: I mean, like, that's fine, Josh.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: Do you have something. Do you have some kind of
• 1:01:09
  North Carolina based team that you support? That's okay. I
• 1:01:16
  was gonna say, I've never heard you talk about a
• 1:01:18
  North Carolina Queens.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: North Carolina Southern Miss.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: Charlotte, got it all right, Josh, We'll stick with you
• 1:01:32
  and talk about your actual favorite team. Uh As you
• 1:01:35
  guys will know Tuesday, if this game was happening in
• 1:01:39
  the opposite city, your boy would be there. And now
• 1:01:42
  I have the I have the inverse game circled on
• 1:01:45
  my calendar later this season. But it is Mississippi State
• 1:01:50
  against Southern Miss. Josh, what's the number one facet of
• 1:01:54
  this game you're looking at?
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: I'd say the offense for both teams. Southern Miss that's
• 1:01:59
  the kid that's the selling for on their team. Mostly
• 1:02:01
  they look great against LA Tech this weekend. Mississippi State's
• 1:02:04
  offense look great in Arlington. Both teams typically run out
• 1:02:07
  like a or they seem to have run out like
• 1:02:09
  an opener type role in the midweeks. William Kirk usually
• 1:02:11
  gets the ball for State, but there's probably gonna be
• 1:02:13
  five six guys that go for them. Same thing for
• 1:02:15
  Southern Miss. I expect a lot of offense, and I
• 1:02:18
  mean there's a chance when we see rankings released tomorrow,
• 1:02:20
  Southern Miss might be a top ten team and they're
• 1:02:22
  gonna be pretty close Mississippi State. We know what's gonna
• 1:02:25
  be so you could get a top ten. Definitely a
• 1:02:27
  top fifteen, but maybe a top ten matchup in the
• 1:02:29
  midwek should be fun.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: I could say with near relative certainty that as far
• 1:02:34
  as the prospects live ranks are concerned, it will be
• 1:02:37
  a top fifteen matchup. It's not better anyway, Brand we
• 1:02:42
  have got another matchup of teams in the same state,
• 1:02:46
  because we're going closer to your neck of the woods,
• 1:02:49
  Oregon State and Oregon What I mean a loaded game
• 1:02:53
  if there ever was one. What's the number one aspect
• 1:02:56
  of this game you think is going to be the
• 1:02:57
  thing to watch in the midweek?
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 4: Man, I think it's got to be organ States pitching
• 1:03:02
  versus Orgon's offense. I guess my only complaint is that
• 1:03:04
  this is a midweek game and not a weekend game,
• 1:03:06
  because I'd rather see three versus one. But I think
• 1:03:10
  it's Orgon's offense versus Oregon State's pitching staff.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: So that's what I got curious, man, seeing how Maloney
• 1:03:18
  specifically can handle a pitcher of Dax or Cleinde schmitz
• 1:03:23
  Ilk would certainly do wonders for his draft stock in
• 1:03:26
  my eyes. So great point there, JB. We're looking at
• 1:03:30
  now you're neck of the Woods. Well, I guess it's
• 1:03:32
  Brandon's neck of the woods as well. It's California, JB.
• 1:03:34
  It's time for you to talk about California Baseball. Irvine
• 1:03:37
  a team you'd love to talk about, and USC, a
• 1:03:40
  team that I think we have criminally not discussed enough
• 1:03:43
  on this pod yet this year.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you know, it's kind of a mix
• 1:03:48
  of two teams coming off a really hot starts or
• 1:03:50
  hot weekends. I guess I should say going for battle
• 1:03:53
  in a midweek you see, I after coming out of
• 1:03:55
  the Live Like Lou tournament with the best offensive showing
• 1:03:58
  we've seen for them this year, and then USC kind
• 1:04:00
  of coming off of a four game sweep of cal
• 1:04:03
  Poly is something that we all were really impressed by,
• 1:04:06
  including Mason Edwards. But of course those guys aren't gonna
• 1:04:08
  throw you see. I guess the big talking point would
• 1:04:12
  be Finnegan Walls probably gonna go for them. He went
• 1:04:14
  five innings with no runs in his last midweek start,
• 1:04:17
  so that would be a fun one to watch against
• 1:04:19
  the USC offense that's been hot. And then USC it
• 1:04:21
  will probably be Chase Harrell. He only went three in
• 1:04:24
  the third last time and allowed three. Kind of a
• 1:04:26
  more committee thing like Josh is talking about for USC,
• 1:04:29
  but fun game to watch, honestly, I think so.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: Another game that is going to be an interesting one
• 1:04:35
  that I'll just really quickly touch on. I think we're
• 1:04:38
  gonna see a matchup of teams who's pitching. I'm far
• 1:04:41
  more interested than that. I suspected I would be. On
• 1:04:44
  the outset of this year, Josh. Another one of your
• 1:04:47
  favorite teams, Dallas Baptist is gonna be taken on one
• 1:04:50
  of the sleeper cinderellas of the year. It's Oklahoma and guys,
• 1:04:54
  Oklahoma's pitching has been a shock. I think that's probably
• 1:04:59
  the nicest way we can say. But you're looking at
• 1:05:01
  the guys like Cord Ranger, Cam Johnson, l Jmer curious
• 1:05:05
  these dudes. They're weekend guys. Of course not we're not
• 1:05:07
  oveays seeing them during the midway for this game with TVU.
• 1:05:09
  But the pitching staff for Oklahoma has been a big surprise.
• 1:05:13
  Curious to see what they do against DVU, who I
• 1:05:15
  know has made quality pitchers for quite a while now.
• 1:05:18
  I think it's gonna be an interesting matchup in the midweek.
• 1:05:21
  I believe that one is Tuesday State. Yeah, Tuesday, very good.
• 1:05:25
  I'll have to be sure to tune in to that
• 1:05:27
  on Tuesday. Tune in on Tuesday, and we appreciate you
• 1:05:31
  tuning in to this episode of College Baseball Now. I
• 1:05:35
  do want to take a minute for you guys to
• 1:05:36
  shout out where you are on social media and what
• 1:05:39
  you're working on. Brandon, again, what a treat it was
• 1:05:42
  to have you join us to talk about baseball for
• 1:05:44
  the weekend. You have filled in admirably for coach Jake.
• 1:05:48
  Tell the people at home where they can find you
• 1:05:49
  on social media and what you're working on as well.
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 4: Yes, you can find I guess I still say Twitter,
• 1:05:55
  but if you want to say, it's at the Money
• 1:05:57
  eight three to one, which is also Instagram if you want,
• 1:06:00
  I want to follow me there. I've been working grinding
• 1:06:03
  the whack WCC conference out here out was trying to
• 1:06:06
  give it a little love for the nation. Excited to
• 1:06:10
  jump on the college sheet next week, and then I
• 1:06:12
  just signed up to do a high A games for
• 1:06:15
  Monday post for the minor league sheet for the season.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: So yeah, that's going to keep you busy. The daily
• 1:06:21
  sheet is a grind.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 4: Yes, I do want it.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: It is fun. I say that as a guy who
• 1:06:26
  was two days behind on his Big twelve obligations. It
• 1:06:31
  is an obligation, JB working the people found you on
• 1:06:34
  social media? What are you working on?
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's at JB underscores to Bostiano on I always
• 1:06:39
  say Twitter. So don't feel bad, Brandon, you know that's
• 1:06:41
  what it is for me. Probably just same old, same
• 1:06:46
  old for me, and probably some more little live look
• 1:06:48
  stuff hopefully coming out soon, and then I guess at
• 1:06:51
  this point it's going to turn to more of an
• 1:06:52
  overlook at the UNC team through three series of the year,
• 1:06:55
  just from being busy, but you know, a good little
• 1:06:58
  update on them and who they play.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: I guess absolutely no shame in you game, Pal, I
• 1:07:03
  love it. Josh. Where can the people find you? And
• 1:07:06
  what are you working on? Pal?
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: You can follow me on x at Josh Catlet three
• 1:07:11
  Samuel Samuel as usual all post my rankings will get
• 1:07:14
  our prospects live rankings out. I'll get those retweeted. Some
• 1:07:18
  little things here and there between, nothing crazy, mostly nothing
• 1:07:22
  for the site for the time being because I don't
• 1:07:25
  know dry daily sheet, so that's pretty much filled up,
• 1:07:27
  which is a good thing. I guess, but yeah, I
• 1:07:31
  same old Samuel for me pretty much.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, we got to get you back on the
• 1:07:35
  site here soon. I know the people love your insights
• 1:07:38
  between you and Brandon and the live looks have been great,
• 1:07:40
  So I appreciate you guys for sure, And if you
• 1:07:41
  haven't needed to go check those out on the site,
• 1:07:44
  please follow me on social media. That is the Twitter machine,
• 1:07:47
  that is blue Sky, that is Instagram at drew is Okay,
• 1:07:50
  we are going to be working on getting an updated
• 1:07:52
  college list which is predominant to you all listening to
• 1:07:55
  this at Prospects Live dot problem. Member should start as
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  low as seven dollars a month. That's how you're gonna
• 1:07:59
  get to see our next college list, which, if I'm
• 1:08:01
  not mistaken, we're going to go to two hundred strong,
• 1:08:04
  two hundred top two hundred Prospects NCAA for the twenty
• 1:08:08
  twenty sixth Draft this summer. It's going to be a great,
• 1:08:10
  great update, gonna have a lot of stuff on there,
• 1:08:13
  literally doubling the list, and of course college Baseball now
• 1:08:15
  coming to you all season long until next time that
• 1:08:19
  we speak to you on behalf of Josh JB. Brandon
• 1:08:23
  and our dear friend, coach Jake. We want to say
• 1:08:25
  hello to do you Jake. We've missed you and we'll
• 1:08:28
  see you all at home next time as well, so
• 1:08:31
  take care, bye bye. We're going to be nice to yourself,
• 1:08:34
  be nice to each other too. Later