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Drafting Our 2026 Omaha 8 & Golden Spikes Winners | Ep. 009 · College Baseball Now

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  Speaker 1: We're only a few days away from the season beginning,
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  but we're looking to the summer. We're looking to Omaha, baby,
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  because it's us though. We can't have it easy. We
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  have to draft our Omaha while we're at it. Let's
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  also pick a national champion and Golden Spikes win or two.
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  It's all gonna happen today on college baseball now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there ain't no problems, no problems. Don't want you. Yeah,
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  let me sit yet they know what was going for
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  a minute. I hit to be out beat, grab a
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  couple of wins with a D I D. They even
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  known the kid.
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  Speaker 1: I had to do a B I G.
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  Speaker 3: I can never beat average, and.
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  Speaker 2: They want to problem with the boy.
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  Speaker 1: They don't know no status county.
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  Speaker 2: So coach Ton run a week guy, I want to
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  test that tim with standings.
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  Speaker 4: Troll run the game best, believe them shining ducks, counting
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  them my wins.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I love it when they count me y out,
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  counting up the least sudden shame. Why I'm men believe
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  I run the game.
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  Speaker 2: No longer.
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  Speaker 1: To let.
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  Speaker 2: Leaves that magic speed them on, knock them out.
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  Speaker 1: They really don't want to.
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  Speaker 2: Stand in.
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  Speaker 1: College baseball now and When I say now, I sadly
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  don't mean right now, I mean very soon. We're only
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  days away from the season beginning, and I can't think
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  of any four people more excited for the n C
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  Double A twenty twenty six season than the four hosts
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  joining you today, starting of course, with me, your friend,
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  your host, your boy, Drew Wheeler, director of amateur scouting
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  at Prospects Live. So glad to be here with you,
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  Glad to be here with three of the smartest gentlemen
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  I know, three of the brightest members of our team
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  that Prospects Live. And we are going to be talking
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  about the teams who will make it to Omaha. I
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  know what you're thinking, Drew, you wild man, You absolute
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  mad lad. We just heard you say season hasn't even
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  started yet. What do you smoke it? Well, kiddo, I'm
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  clean since college my freshman year, Thank you very much.
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  No gummies, no nothing for this guy. We are talking projections, predictions,
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  maybe a smidge of insanity, but alas with everything we
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  do at college baseball, now we got to make a
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  game out of it. And while we're on the topic,
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  I know what you might be thinking. Before this episode
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  even gets started. Didn't I see another one of these
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  major podcasts getting into the same thing. Yeah, but this
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  has been on our schedule since December. I'm not gonna
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  hear it. Great minds, think alike, tell it, Borrows, Genius Steels.
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  You pick whatever you want to say and apply it
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  to this all as well. Let's meet the crew who's
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  going to be drafting. They're Omaha eight tonight, starting with
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  the gentleman underneath me here on the camera, it's mister
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  j B. Sebastiano JB. I have a question for you, sir,
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  what is in your opinion, the single best Omaha performance
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  one player you have seen, let's call it, in the
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  last ten years.
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  Speaker 4: Oh wow, I mean the no hitter last year's got
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  to be probably one of the craziest things I've seen
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  I personally get to witness. I mean, I guess it's
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  more of a playoff run honeycut, being here, working in
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  it and being on the field for all of it,
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  Like that was one of the most nuclear playoff performances
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  I've seen. And in Omaha that walked off to Homers.
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  He played great. So probably those are the two I
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  can think off the top of my head.
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  Speaker 1: They're great, pretty good ones, pretty good ones. We're gonna
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  go to the bottom right corner. Unfamiliar territory. You guys
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  have shuffled. I guess it's all depending on who jumps
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  in the call first. But Jake, normally you're on the
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  bottom left, you're on the bottom right today. Jake, what's
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  your favorite Omaha performance you've seen in the last ten years?
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  Speaker 5: Sir, Well, I've watched a lot of Tennessee baseball in
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  the last my life. And you know, a couple of
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  years ago they won the national championship. Just that entire team,
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  you know, the offense went crazy and that last game,
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  Christian Moore, the the Dylan drivelings, that Dean Curly's they
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  were all going crazy in that last game of the
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  twenty twenty four World Series. So I'll just tell I'll
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  just take the balls. I'll take I'll take the easy one,
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  taking the.
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  Speaker 1: Balls, taking the easy way out. I'm not allowed to
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  say anything on that front, but.
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  Speaker 4: If you know, you know, yeah, not even going to
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  like jump over it too, like being there in person
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  and washing Kavaris tears single hand lead just did abolish
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  the baseball. The dugout was Yeah, that was that was
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  something so I'll hop on that a little bit. That
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  was that's impressive.
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  Speaker 1: Always welcome JB to talk about Tennessee baseball. I'm glad
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  to hear you do it. Speaking of notable Tennessee baseball fans,
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  it's our friends, Josh Kentlin, Josh Bine.
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  Speaker 2: This is news to me. I don't know where this
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  came from. I go to one Tennessee football game and
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  all of a sudden, a wall fan.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're glad.
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  Speaker 2: There you go.
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  Speaker 1: We're glad that he's even got I'm so proud of you, Josh.
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  Speaker 2: Josh.
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  Speaker 3: One week in Nashville, you'll learn that's all right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm glad you're loving the state for sure. That's
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  That's the key number one thing. Favorite Omaha performance from
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  you last ten year, Sir.
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  Speaker 2: I was JV quite literally took the two that came
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  to mind immediately. Gauge would and then Vantunny got the
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  year before Funny how that works. Advance was that whole postseason,
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  if we're being honest, But I would say, besides that,
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  they're the ones that stick out are two different guys
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  from the same game that LSU Wake Forests in my
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  final in twenty twenty three. It was Paul Skins went
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  out there and just lit them up and had like
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  something double digit strikeouts, I don't know how many. And
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  then Tommy White with the walk off in the same
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  game like that. When I think Omaha like big, that's
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  the main one that comes to mind for me.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. You literally took on. I was thinking
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  Skiens in twenty thirty, so well said, lots of good performers.
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  Who's gonna join them? Though, that's what we're talking about today.
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  We're not getting into specific players, but we are talking
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  Omaha teams. And since this was his brain child, I
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  am gonna throw it right back to my buddy Josh. Josh,
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  explain the goal of what we're doing today. Lead the lead,
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  the listeners and the viewers right into what we're doing here.
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  Speaker 2: Man, every idea is just mine at the point. This
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  is the second row, Bro, You're good at that. I'm
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  gonna give you the credit. Yeah, it's a lot simpler
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  this time. We're uh just drafting the teams that the
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  eight teams that we think are gonna make it to Omaha.
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  No duplicates obviously, and at the end of this will
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  take Golden Spikes winners. But it's just the winners. We're
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  not just gonna do anything, not like a draft. We're
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  just picking who we want and then national champion at
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  the end we're gonna take just doesn't have to be
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  from who we drafted, just who you think. It's gonna
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  be a dark course for that as well as the
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  Golden Spikes. Uh yeah, I think the draft's pretty simple.
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  I guess by the end, at the end of the season,
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  we can come back and just see who has the most.
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  But let's be honest, like, there's gonna be probably two
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  that don't even get mentioned, because that's just how this
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  spore works.
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  Speaker 3: So if you get like two of them, right, that's
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  a win in my eyes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's twenty five percent right there. That's
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  an incredible thing. For months in advance. And I'll tell you, guys,
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  if you happen to predict the the Murray States, the
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  Oral Roberts of the World, I'll count that for three.
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  I'll go ahead and put it on the books right now,
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  episode nine in February, I'll count that for three when
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  I'm running up the percentages. If you happen to call it,
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  I believe we're all required to take at least one
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  mid major.
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  Speaker 3: Is that right, Joshua, I mean I'm fine with doing that.
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  Speaker 2: Is that fine with me? I don't know if we
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  decigne on that for sure, but like like I said,
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  I will be taking one regardless, So y'all can do
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  what you want.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we can't be made to look foolish. I think
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  we should all choose a mid he your boys.
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  Speaker 2: One of them will probably make it. Besides what happened,
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  I guess it was two years ago with the agency
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  thing like someone's gonna make it, so we've got to
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  call our shot.
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  Speaker 1: I think we should all right. Well, then, Josh, I
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  believe nothing left to do but to reveal the draft
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  order and throw us right into it, sir, So I'll
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  let you do that.
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  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, So our draft order is gonna be uh
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  drew or as he puts it, as he puts himself
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  in the doc as j Rue because he's the only
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  one without a JA.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: We got Jake myself and then JB and then we'll
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  snake it back around.
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  Speaker 1: Perfect. We are in America. We do snak drafts.
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  Speaker 4: Here, always pick and last. When it comes to Josh,
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  always picking the last.
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  Speaker 1: I want to say, you haven't mentioned yet, how you
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  were screwed over in this draft order, even though you
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  set the draft order. That's funny either one about selfish year.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I said i'd picked last because you know whatever,
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  I did pick lass. But you know, kudos to our
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  friend Josh here for for guessing, guessing pretty well on
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  the amount offers I had. I'll get than that. You know,
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  Jake didn't have much faith in me, But it's okay.
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  Speaker 2: There's prices, right rules like I did for our last
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  draft war. Then I would have been drafting last because
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  I went over. But no complaints here.
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  Speaker 4: Hey there, Yeah, I'm a fair man, you know. I'm
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  like you. You know, we're the closest to the number.
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  You get it, you know, not this over under thing,
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  you know whatever you got there. But hey, God for
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  better man doesn't want to be taking last in the draft.
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  Speaker 2: That's all I'll say.
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  Speaker 3: I just got stuck with the task of the draft
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  to where I got forbid.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there you go. I'm glad that I'm picking first.
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  I think we I think we said it a minute ago.
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  Which is interesting, JB. Because I think Jake, you and
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  Josh both said I want to pick him the top three.
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  Interesting because I feel like we all three. I think
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  all four of us know the three teams that we're
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  kind of talking about there, which makes JB getting to
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  pick two back to back at four all the more interesting,
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  would you agree, Jake?
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  Speaker 5: I do agree. Yeah, we talked about it before we
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  got on here. I think, like you said, I think
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  there is like a big three that we're all and
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  everyone else listening is probably expecting to go in the
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  first three. Uh yeah, I'm I'm excited to see JB
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  take North. I mean to see who he's gonna take.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Jake, you're ruining all the suff And
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  when Jake says big three, he's not talking about U. C.
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  L A and another two teams in the Big ten.
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  He's talking about a big three teams atop this list.
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  That was my attempt at a joke on the Big Ten.
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  I'm gonna get past it, and I'm gonna go ahead
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  and take a number one. Who doesn't love a dynasty,
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  Give me the Tigers from LSU. I gotta say, guys,
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  if there's one team that I want to hang a
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  hat on and look at this graphic in a couple
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  of months and say I had them, it's LSU. So
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  It starts, obviously with the fact that this is moving
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  into dynasty level territory. Josh, you talked about that during
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  our Christmas Wishes episode. But the talent is there to
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  back it up. When we talk about guys, uh, you
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  know a case in Evans on the Mound you talk
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  about a rotation or excuse me, a lineup that's filled with
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  guys like Kurry Yel Steven Milom. All this is. This
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  is a lineup, a pitching staff that's loaded top to bottom,
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  not just with draft eligible talent. This is a team
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  that's gonna be producing that for a lot of years.
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  They're all gonna come together. I think they're the one
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  one kind of with a bullet. I'm curious see where
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  you guys go from here though, l s u at
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  number one, and that's gonna take us to Jake at
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  the second pick.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, with the with the second pick, Drew, that was
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  a great pick at one. There there's no I don't
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  think there's any arguments from anybody there. But uh, I'm
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  going with a team that I have talked about multiple
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  times on the show already. I'm gonna go with UCLA
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  at too. Could have went to Texas, but I'm I'm
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  gonna pick u C l a At too. They're they're
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  my personal, you know, number one team. They were turning
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  you know, I've said it on here a bunch, they
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  were turning a whole line up pretty much that made
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  it to Omaha last year, and they even added uh
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  will Gas Barno from Texas to it. If you want
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  to nitpick anything about the team, I would say the
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  starting pitching could have some questions. But I mean, if
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  you look at the names that they have, there's there's
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  legit like six names that could start for him. I mean,
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  Michael Barnett's probably gonna lead it. Uh, there's Logan Redaman,
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  Angel Servantes, the freshman coming in Landon Stunt while in
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  moss Ian May. They all started some games last year
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  that could uh, you know, make the rotation once again.
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  I think they just have as good a chance of
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  anybody to uh to build on that from last year
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  and make it to Omaha again.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks so too. Certainly, certainly the pitching is the question mark,
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  but man, they've got some dudes and they've got some
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  They got some sticks in that lineup as well. Jake
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  Good pick Josh to you with number three I'm curious,
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  are you gonna round out the trifector? Are you going
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  weird here?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? No, it's it's pretty obvious. I'm taking Texas here.
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  I mean, this is my one one. We've all said ironically,
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  I think all three of us have picked that we
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  got the team that is like our number one team,
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  So that worked out pretty well. I have them ranked
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  first my preseason rankings. I just I just think that
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  pitching staff is so deep in experienced that it's gonna
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  be able to take them all the way this year.
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  Speaker 3: And that's just the beginning of it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they've got one of the best, if not
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  the best coaching staff in the country with Schloss, Max Wiener,
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  Troy Delewitzki, so on, so forth. They brought in elite
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  transfers the likes of Carsontende and Aiden Robbins to pair
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  up with some already established powers and their lineup like
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  Andrian Rodriguez, Casey Borba. I mean, it's it's just such
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  a great week in rotation, pair with a ridiculously deep bullpen,
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  and I think it's gonna be so tough for a
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  lower seeded team to pick them off twice in a
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  weekend down the stretch in the postseason.
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  Speaker 1: I sadly agree with you. I'll never Yeah, that's that's
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  a tough road. Ho two wins over Texas in a
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  single tournament. Yeah, and that's that's tough stuff, tough stoping
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  Josh goold pick JB. We alluded to it. That's kind
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  of a consensus three year off the board, but now
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  you get the kind of privilege of taking two teams
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  back to back. So it's gonna be North Carolina and who.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, I think everybody knew what was gonna happen,
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  so I am gonna take my tar heels first. First up,
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  I think the weekend rotation coming back is great for us.
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  I think to Cairo and Lynch, they really spearhead that
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  rotation and it's gonna be great for us. Uh, fold
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  your bow as too. I think he's gonna come back
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  and be stronger than ever from what he's shown in
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  the fall. Early and really freshman that we got. Oh gosh,
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  I don't know why I'm blanked Clayton Glober Glober, It's
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  gonna be great for us. And then on top of that,
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  the transfer Ron and Owen Hole, Schaffner, Cooper, Nicholson, Eric
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  Paulson and Maker Winslow behind the plate obviously adds to
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  with Gavin coming back as well. I think that this
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  is gonna be a really good group that we got going,
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  and I think it's a group that could get Omaha
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  for sure once again. And I'll snake it around to
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  the second round and I'll take Florida State as my
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  second pick here. I'm gonna say two ACC schools. I
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  think Florida State really has a lot of the makings
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  of an Omaha program. The add in Putnam from Davidson
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  the second basement graduate transfer hit three forty nine last
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  year with nineteen homers. They had gave Frasier from Arkansas
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  and Brandon Dowd friend of the pod from UNC or
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  USC to the outfield. Carnes, Miles, Bailey, cal Fisher come
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  back for them in the lineup, and then Trey Beard,
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  West Mendez and Bryson Moore from UVA. We'll go into
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  the rotation. It's a really strong squad. The pitching is there.
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  I kind of think you UNC NFSU mimic each other
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  and a lot of pitching there, a lot of offensive
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  ads in the portal, and I think they both are
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  two really good teams that can make it Omaha this year.
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  Speaker 1: I like it. I really was hoping I Mike could
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  catch a falling Florida state with pick number nine. Maybe,
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  but I should have known. Should have known, JB. When
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  you get into the draft, you really really just killed me.
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  So Josh, it's up to you not to dig the
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  knife further with pick number six.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I don't know why I had any sort
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  of false home that Carolina might get back around to
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  me like I had them. I had them like number
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  four on my board for this and I thought maybe not.
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  But I don't know why I got my hopes up.
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  Acc Truther. Yeah, I was gonna make a comment about
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  the Florest state thing too. You just can't stay away.
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  But that's okay because we were just talking before the
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  podcast started about a certain conference that I'm higher on
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  than you, and I'm gonna take the favorite from that
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  conference right now, and I'll take TCU. This squad has
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  been getting a lot of hype, and for a good reason.
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  I don't want to just like play the name game
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  here by listening dudes off, but it might just happen.
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  I mean, they've got a ton of young talent that's
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  already good enough to make a big impact this year.
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  Noah Franco Lucas, Franco Strasneyder, Nolan Traeger, all underclassmen. And
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  I mean that's just the lineup. Like the bitching staff
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  has guys like Mason Brassfield, Trevor Balmer, Julie Fernsler, all
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  guys ready to step in and make a big impact
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  this year. Oh and I didn't even mention Chase Brunson
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  and Tommy Lafour some people's picks to be the Big
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  twelve player and pitcher of the year. So I expect
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  them to make a or take a big stride from
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  last year and probably become the clear premiere Big twelve team,
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  like we all seem to agree on.
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  Speaker 1: I think. So I don't feel bad play in the
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  name game. I think that's kind of part of it.
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  I mean there are two yeah, I mean there are
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  teams who've come back, like we said out of nowhere.
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  I mean, we weren't talking about the Jonathan Hogarts and
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  the Don Deckers from Murray State last year. I remember,
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  we know who they are now, but I mean we
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  certainly knew who guys that were. You know, you get it.
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  Jake to you round two, pick three, number seven. Overall,
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  Where you going, Pale?
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  Speaker 5: I thought Josh might get get my team here, But
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  I'm going I'm going to the SEC and I'm gonna
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  go with the Georgia Bulldogs with my next pick. It's
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  gonna be as it's kind of a brand new look
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  Georgia team. This year, they got a ton of transfers,
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  probably the best transfer class the country. There's like six
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  legit starters and like none of them, none of them
• 18:05
  were on the team last year. Uh, you know, they
• 18:07
  got the Stanford guys with the mascot Joey Voltchko. They
• 18:11
  bring in kid Naoki from USC, one of the best
• 18:14
  strike throwers in the country. Uh, dealing Big You from
• 18:17
  Michigan broke out in a big way. Last year. I
• 18:21
  saw a couple of mid major guys with Lane Pearson
• 18:23
  from West Georgia Grant Edwards from New Orleans. But in
• 18:28
  the in the lineup, it's also full of transfers to
• 18:31
  we got Ryan Black and Kobe Branch are the two
• 18:33
  guys that are the big ones coming back. But they
• 18:36
  got they got transferred from all over the country. I
• 18:38
  could spend ten minutes just naming names and where they
• 18:40
  came from. But uh, it's it's an experienced team and
• 18:43
  it's uh, it's gonna be a new look team for Georgia.
• 18:45
  But I think they got, you know, all the tools
• 18:47
  to do it.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, dude, when you talk about the name game,
• 18:52
  Georgia is the one where I think you kind of
• 18:53
  have to. Like you said, it's a new look squad
• 18:56
  with guys from all over converging on Athens to try
• 19:00
  and make good on I think a season that kind
• 19:03
  of ended in a whole lot of disappointment last year. Right,
• 19:06
  I don't think any of us would disagree with that
• 19:08
  solid pick uh two back to back for Drew. Wow,
• 19:13
  y'all are really gonna let y'all are really gonna make
• 19:15
  me do it? You're really gonna make me?
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: Is there a certain Orange team that's gonna go off
• 19:19
  the board right here?
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: I think, look, here, here's the thing I need to
• 19:24
  I need to diversify off of the SEC. God forbid,
• 19:27
  I make this the SEC Talking Hour. But I need
• 19:30
  to diversify eventually, not right now, Eventually I will. I'm
• 19:35
  gonna pick a team in the SEC who I think
• 19:37
  is uh maybe getting a little bit overshadowed and I
• 19:40
  don't understand why I don't understand why my number two
• 19:45
  pick is gonna be Arkansas. How dare I but think
• 19:50
  about it, guys, the pitching is so stacked. We've got
• 19:53
  Gave Gackle coming back. You guys, y'all love Gab Gackle.
• 19:56
  I love Gabe Gackle. He's incredibly talented. Ethan mckilveain in
• 19:59
  this staff one hundred beats who half of our staff
• 20:02
  just flips out for Uh, You've got Carson Wiggins and
• 20:05
  then on the offensive side, you've got Ryder Helfrick, arguably
• 20:08
  the best catcher in college baseball up there for sure. Uh.
• 20:12
  Rounding up with guys like Cam Kochal uh t J Pompeii,
• 20:16
  who might as well be the one of the mascots
• 20:18
  in the podcast. We love this guy, Mike, and you
• 20:21
  tons of talent on this Arkansas team. I really like
• 20:24
  what they're cooking in Fayetteville. H bacon because Hoggs, you
• 20:30
  get it.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Lots of bacon, lots of bacon. Can we get a
• 20:33
  graphic on the socials somewhere for a mount rushmore of
• 20:36
  like mascots of the pod, I think I think the.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, keep going, Macon Winslow and is obvious what I'm forgetting.
• 20:48
  I'm trying to think, guys, have we left out of
• 20:50
  mascot a podcast.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: We talked about rock. There's a lot of rock, but
• 20:55
  it's kind of.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: There's jac don't be in slash.
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: Bell maybe pretty good because we do kind of talk.
• 21:09
  I'm gonna put Bell on there, all right?
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: That Yeah, Josh, I'm gonna task you with making that
• 21:15
  that graphic sounds outstanding. I need to say it.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna consult my good friend Chatt if.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: All right, third round pick number nine overall Tennessee. Okay,
• 21:28
  all right, you knew it was common, but I mean,
• 21:31
  I do, I do genuinely think considering the track record,
• 21:35
  considering the fact that faced with the loss of college baseball,
• 21:40
  arguably they're most the most electric coach in the nation,
• 21:43
  replacing him with the recruiting genius of Josh Lander, the
• 21:47
  stability is there. The pitching, I think is better and
• 21:51
  more deceptive than we're giving them credit for. We guys,
• 21:56
  I'll say it, we have not talked nearly enough about
• 21:58
  Land and Mac on this show. Show changes today. Uh,
• 22:03
  there's some bats here, guys. When we get into the season,
• 22:07
  I don't know that you're gonna get me to shut
• 22:09
  up about Abernathy, But I'm gonna move off in here.
• 22:13
  If Tennessee makes it to Omaha, it's certainly not gonna
• 22:15
  be for the lack of me not talking about it,
• 22:17
  and it's certainly not gonna be on my board. So
• 22:20
  uh you know, nan Atta Boobo, stick your huns and
• 22:23
  do it.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Jake.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: That brings us to you at number ten, Buddy, I'm
• 22:27
  sorry to snake them from him, Sorry to sneak our balls,
• 22:29
  But where are you gonna go here? To compound with U?
• 22:31
  C l A and Georgia?
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: You you did? You did steal the falls away from me.
• 22:36
  I was gonna go there, shout out the couple of
• 22:38
  Northeast starting pitchers there with Landon Mac from Rutgers, and
• 22:42
  I got tiaging Kons from Gettysburg, Pa. Shout out to that.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: My pick is.
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: Going to be, uh, Georgia Tech. I'm gonna go to
• 22:52
  a SEC. I'm gonna take Georgia Tech obviously headline with
• 22:56
  Drew Burris. He's gonna be a favorite for a lot
• 22:59
  of people's golden spikes after after Rock. But the I
• 23:05
  think the lineup top to bottom is just gonna hit
• 23:07
  Von Lanky's one of my favorite draft guys in the
• 23:11
  in the country this year. He's one of the best,
• 23:13
  you know, defensive catchers. He can also swing it, uh
• 23:16
  Kent Schmidt, Alex Fernandez. They bring in Ryan Zuckerman from
• 23:20
  Western Kentucky. Jereedy Vinkila, I know, one of my favorite
• 23:23
  draft guys, gonna play shortstop for him there again, similar
• 23:28
  like I said about UCLA, there are some questions on
• 23:30
  the mound. I'd say, you know, they do have a
• 23:33
  solid one two there with Tate McKee and Justin Shaddock
• 23:36
  from Rutgers. It could go to Mason Patel for the
• 23:40
  Sunday Spike, could be Cadence by v. Either way, I
• 23:42
  think they're gonna They're gonna figure it out and they're
• 23:45
  gonna get over that hump and have a good shot
• 23:46
  at making to Omaha.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: This show, I like that shot a lot. Buddy, Georgia
• 23:52
  TACK is a team. I think that the ACC is
• 23:55
  so loaded, guys, we talk about it obviously a lot
• 23:58
  on this show. We have the kind of I think,
• 24:00
  kind of rivalry. We play up with ACC and SEC,
• 24:03
  but man only Georgia Tech good good team. Curious what
• 24:07
  that season looks like Josh to you with the eleventh pick,
• 24:11
  what are you thinking?
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: I think you are gonna sense a theme here with
• 24:14
  some teams I start to pick, and this is very
• 24:17
  well going to be the first one that's well, actually
• 24:20
  one am I saying this could be the third one
• 24:23
  on this trend of team. So here we go. I'm
• 24:25
  gonna take Florida. I mean, if I'm gonna make it,
• 24:29
  if you can't figure it out by now, pitching staffs
• 24:31
  is my theme that I think is gonna be really
• 24:33
  prominent in this draft. And if I'm gonna make that
• 24:35
  my theme, then Florida is an obvious pick to me.
• 24:38
  I mean, you could make an argument that Peterson, King
• 24:42
  and Sandafer McNeely is the best rotation in America. So
• 24:46
  you're already putting yourself in a great spot at starting
• 24:48
  games like that. Then you've got guys like Jackson Barbari,
• 24:52
  Christian Rodriguez, et cetera coming out of the pen. That's
• 24:56
  pretty comforting to be able to rely on. I mean,
• 24:59
  you've got an infield that could really hit, highlighted by
• 25:02
  Brendan Lawson at the hot corner, and you've got a
• 25:04
  great defensive outfield that can plug and play. So I
• 25:08
  know I'm on record on here talking about how the
• 25:10
  lack of righty's could hurt I think on the floor
• 25:13
  of pitching staff could hurt them down the stretch. But
• 25:15
  I'll backtrack on that just a little bit and hope
• 25:17
  that all the talent overcomes it.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: There's a good chance that could. I'm glad you brought
• 25:22
  up the point about mentioning the lack of right handers.
• 25:26
  I was gonna bring it up, but I do think
• 25:27
  it's interesting that you can at least acknowledge that while
• 25:30
  it's something that you can call out, the talent really
• 25:33
  shines there. Man.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess I'm gonna say lefties correct myself. Isn't
• 25:38
  that like? Yeah, we both just did it. Yeah, lack
• 25:39
  of lefties in that line up. But yeah, I'm gonna
• 25:42
  We're gonna hope for the best.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: We're gonna hope for them all we can ever do.
• 25:46
  That's all we can ever do. JB. Going to you
• 25:49
  back to back again. I saw I saw what you
• 25:52
  did there with the ACC double dep. I kind of
• 25:54
  mirrored it with an SEC double dep. I'm curious what
• 25:57
  you're gonna do now with the twelve thirteen elbow.
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so, uh, first up for me, I'm gonna go
• 26:03
  with Mississippi State. I think Mississippi State they're a really
• 26:07
  really interesting group that they got this year, bringing over
• 26:10
  a lot of guys from Virginia. You add in Ace
• 26:13
  Reese on top of that. I just think Jack Bauer too,
• 26:15
  It's gonna be fun to watch a guy throre one
• 26:16
  hundred miles an hour in the SEC as a freshman.
• 26:19
  I just think that team is loaded. I think they're
• 26:21
  gonna do really good with valentiunas as well, coming from Uva.
• 26:24
  That's a big part of it, and then Til and
• 26:26
  a few other guys that they brought, and I just
• 26:28
  think Missippi State's gonna be one of the more talented
• 26:30
  squads in the SEC. And I think it's gonna be
• 26:32
  a tough place to play, especially in Stark Vegas as
• 26:35
  they call it. So I think that'll be a fun
• 26:38
  team to watch. And my second team that I'm going
• 26:42
  to take, I think I'm gonna go and take someone
• 26:45
  a little bit out there. I'm gonna go with NC
• 26:52
  State wolf Pack, which kind of goes against a lot
• 26:54
  of things that a lot of people are gonna think
• 26:55
  but NC State's a team that's kind of been a
• 26:58
  quiet sleeper. I really like the group that they got.
• 27:02
  They've kind of revamped that at Sherman Johnson from a
• 27:04
  Juco Ryan Maroon coming back is great. Jacob Dudines look great.
• 27:09
  They added in a few other pieces in the portal.
• 27:11
  I just think that this team has kind of the
• 27:12
  makings of a classic NC State team that can make
• 27:15
  a nice little run. So I'm gonna go with NC
• 27:16
  State and Mississippi State here.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: I love it. That's so bold and good call on
• 27:24
  the dark horse. There's some dudes running with the Wolfpack.
• 27:28
  That's gonna be a tough team, especially knowing their proximity
• 27:32
  to Tennessee. I think that could be a regional or
• 27:35
  super regional trap for one or both teams. Don't care
• 27:38
  for that. Don't care for that at all. Josh, that's
• 27:42
  gonna go to you for the fourth round. This is
• 27:44
  gonna make up half of your eight. What are you thinking?
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: I was really hoping Misissippi State would get back around
• 27:49
  me what they did up. So I'm going to go
• 27:51
  to a very similar team, maybe the most or you
• 27:55
  don't know what I'm trying to say. When I get there,
• 27:58
  I'm gonna take a pic that's not very flashy on
• 28:00
  the board on a graphic from what people think, but
• 28:03
  I personally I think it's a great pick. I'm gonna
• 28:04
  take the Virginia Cavaliers. I think I'm gonna I haven't
• 28:09
  actually gotten to go on record on here and talk
• 28:12
  about how I feel about this, so I'm just going
• 28:14
  a little tangent for a little bit, if you don't mind, please,
• 28:17
  I just want to say, for everyone out there saying
• 28:19
  this UVA team won't be that great because all their
• 28:22
  players are in Starkville, you do realize that last year's
• 28:25
  Virginia team didn't make a regional right, and using that
• 28:28
  same logic, last year's Duke team is right here in
• 28:31
  Charlottesville in twenty twenty six, and they had a better
• 28:34
  season in twenty twenty five than UVA did. So that
• 28:36
  logic just doesn't really make a lot of sense to me.
• 28:39
  I mean, if Chris Paular could do what he did
• 28:43
  in a program like Duke, do you really not think
• 28:45
  he can do the same or better at Virginia.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: It just doesn't make any sense to me, Like this
• 28:52
  team is gonna hit AJ Garssia and Eric Becker are
• 28:54
  about as good of a one to two punch will
• 28:56
  find anywhere. I'll take a chance on that star power
• 28:59
  leading this team to a run.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: I like that pick a lot. I really wanted Virginia
• 29:04
  my fourth pick. It's gonna it's gonna cause me to
• 29:07
  shuffle a little bit, Josh, I don't like that. It's
• 29:09
  gonna dock your paid by about one hundred dollars.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: So I don't know if I can handle that.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: I'll talk about we'll talk about it after the show. Jake.
• 29:18
  That's gonna throw it to you. Curious where you're going
• 29:21
  here in the fourth round.
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: Jake, Yeah, I'm right there. I'm right there with you.
• 29:25
  Dreamt three of my next of my past four that
• 29:28
  I had on my board was Florida, Mississippi State, in
• 29:31
  Virginia and they all just win. So I'm having to
• 29:34
  kind of kind of move on the fly here. I
• 29:38
  think I'm gonna take so I had U c l
• 29:41
  A with my first pick. They were Omaha team last year.
• 29:44
  I'm gonna also pick another Omaha team from last year
• 29:48
  and go Oregon State. Similar line of thinking with Josh.
• 29:53
  I think the key to winning the postseason in this
• 29:55
  league is to have starting pitching specifically, and it's get
• 30:00
  I think it's tough to find a team out there
• 30:03
  better with three better starting pitchers in a row with
• 30:05
  Oregon State with Dax Whitney, Ethan clin Schmid, Eric Segura.
• 30:09
  It I mean, they're gonna be a tough team every weekend,
• 30:11
  and when you get them in the postseason, like you
• 30:15
  have to beat them, you have to beat one of
• 30:16
  those guys. And I don't I mean, when you're gonna
• 30:18
  get lucky, you're gonna I don't. I don't know's They're
• 30:21
  gonna be hard to be is what I'm trying to say. Uh,
• 30:23
  I think they are also gonna hit. I think pitching
• 30:26
  is gonna be the strength. But they bring in are
• 30:29
  that they return Jacob Craig, a j Singer. They they're
• 30:33
  probably gonna get some good play out of some freshmen
• 30:35
  with with Ethan Porter, Mason Pike on the infield, Josh
• 30:39
  Proctor could get some chances there. Also one of my
• 30:44
  favorite guys they brought in, Nihon Hayes from Grambling State.
• 30:48
  He was He put up some crazy numbers for them
• 30:51
  last year. It's just a really well rounded team. Lit
• 30:53
  by the starting pitching and uh, I think you're gonna
• 30:56
  have to, you know, put up four runs again. It's
• 31:00
  gonna be tough to do on this pitching staff. So
• 31:03
  that's gonna be my pick.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: You did, you did steal one of my ideal elbows here,
• 31:10
  So Jake, that is gonna dock your pay as well.
• 31:12
  We'll talk about it after the show. I really hate
• 31:15
  saying this to you guys, especially on the air, but
• 31:17
  this is just unacceptable. On the wheels of that I
• 31:22
  was gonna, I was getting ready to talk about the
• 31:23
  pitching staff and how I wanted to kind of steal
• 31:26
  from Josh and his pitching heavy approach get Oregon State.
• 31:29
  But I'll do this a similar thought, and I'll go
• 31:31
  ahead and knock off my mid major Why not just
• 31:34
  get the best pitcher in college baseball? Give me Coastal
• 31:37
  Carolina and cam Fluki. I mean again, I'm not trying
• 31:41
  to play the name game, guys, I'm really not. But
• 31:44
  when you think about a team that succeeded in Omaha,
• 31:48
  why not Coastal? I mean, especially over the last ten years.
• 31:51
  This is a mid major program that has performed like
• 31:55
  a blue blood and I think they're Honestly, if they're
• 31:57
  not one already, they're on the doorstep of being one.
• 32:00
  I'm so thrilled to get them in the fourth round.
• 32:04
  M And that does complicate things smidge bit. Okay, no, no,
• 32:10
  not full steam ahead, send it fifth round. We're going Louisville.
• 32:15
  We're gonna go Louisville. I think that this is a solid,
• 32:19
  solid offense that's returning guys with experience. I love the
• 32:23
  combo of Lucas Warren zion Rs. That's a dynamite, dynamite
• 32:28
  offensive outfield. They can really play. I'll also shout out
• 32:33
  mind and Jake's gotta take Davis as well. I think
• 32:36
  I don't know how you guys feel about it. I
• 32:37
  think you guys are maybe a little bit down on Davis. JB.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: Josh him not me.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm sorry, JB. You're down on take Davis.
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: But yeah, okay, okay, yeah, you know. I mean, he's
• 32:49
  got room, he's got the potential. As a freshman, he
• 32:52
  played great last year. You can't deny that. So from
• 32:54
  a draft point, I'm different. But as a college baseball player,
• 32:57
  he's a great player to have in your lineup. Anybody's
• 32:59
  gonna want to take Davis in the middle order.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: So absolutely, and I'm glad that I've got him on
• 33:04
  my number five team. Louisville. Guys, that kind of like
• 33:06
  my five this is now. I would have liked it
• 33:09
  better if my two of Virginia and Oregon State would
• 33:12
  have been there. But we live and learn. We live
• 33:15
  and learn. Let's see how much Jake's gonna live and
• 33:17
  learn if he's gonna proach any more of my picks
• 33:19
  right here with his fifth pick, number eighteen overall.
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: I don't I don't think I'm going to poach any
• 33:24
  of your picks here, but you did get me nervous
• 33:27
  about you taking a mid major already, so I'm gonna
• 33:29
  get mine out of the way as well. I am
• 33:32
  going to go with my second favorite men major. You
• 33:36
  got Coastal, I'm gonna go Southern Miss. I just think
• 33:39
  it's a it's a I think I might have just
• 33:42
  stole Josh's next pick too. But they're just they're they're
• 33:48
  just a super well ended team. If not for you know,
• 33:50
  Coastal doing what they did last year. I mean, Southern
• 33:53
  Miss had twenty four conference wins last year. They had
• 33:55
  forty seven overall wins last year. And they're returning guys
• 34:01
  like Kobe Allen, who's gonna make the jump to the
• 34:03
  to the rotation this year. Graydon Harris is gonna join
• 34:06
  him at Sunday Spot. There's a lot of names it
• 34:09
  could be. I'm not gonna name them all, but they
• 34:11
  have a lot of talent on the pitch and staff.
• 34:13
  They're also gonna hit Tucker Stockman coming back, one of
• 34:15
  the best big major catchers in the country, Matthew Russo
• 34:19
  coming back, they bring in Uh, they bring in Well,
• 34:24
  Joey Urban coming back, Ben Hickton coming back. Because of
• 34:26
  other names I wanted to mention, it's it's just a
• 34:29
  really talented team top to bottom. And I'm really happy
• 34:32
  that I stole Josh his next pick.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: I wanted them so bad, so bad.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: Josh, do you want to add anything then? Since you
• 34:40
  wanted them so bad so bad?
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: I had one thing, actually something that I'm surprised you
• 34:45
  might have said this. I didn't hear you. But one
• 34:47
  guy that I'm high on that I think is gonna
• 34:49
  pan out for them this year and help him a lot.
• 34:51
  Thomas Crabtree coming from Tennessee, and guy that you are
• 34:54
  very familiar with. He's got solid stuff. I think he's
• 34:57
  gonna pan out and help that pitching staff a lot.
• 34:59
  I think the lineup is undeniable. They did it last year.
• 35:03
  I think they can do it again. I'm also high
• 35:05
  on Colby Allen. I mean, like, it does hurt to
• 35:09
  lose JB. Middleton and Matt Adams a lot, but I
• 35:12
  think that guys that cross Simpley coming back, Thomas Crabtree.
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: I think it's gonna step up.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: I'm also very high on this team that was before,
• 35:21
  like even above Coastal, that was my number one mid
• 35:23
  major team that I wanted.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: So that really hurts. That's okay, we move on. We
• 35:27
  move on.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: You can feel free to doc Jake's pay if you'd like.
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: If I have the power to do that, I might
• 35:33
  just take this for myself.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: Is that cool?
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: That's that's taken It maybe a step too far.
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: You get you got my Florida pick earlier and Virginia.
• 35:43
  So I'll just.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: Say this, it's made a lot of conference previews recentthing.
• 35:47
  I'd be doing great for myself if that was the case.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: That that's actually that's actually super true. Before you get
• 35:52
  to your pick, Josh, one other note that I think
• 35:53
  we need to talk about real quick, guys. Is I
• 35:55
  know the first couple of episodes we really hyped up
• 35:57
  Colby Allen and we've not talked a lot about him lately.
• 36:00
  We need to rectify that as well. Just going forward,
• 36:03
  let's keep.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: That they got a big series week one and our
• 36:08
  next episode's previewing week one, so I think that's a
• 36:10
  perfect time to do it.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: I think you're right, Josh. I think you're right. It's
• 36:14
  gonna be a good Ah. We can't get into that.
• 36:15
  It's gonna be an awesome season. We've got some good
• 36:17
  stuff for next episode. Josh. Your pick at number five,
• 36:20
  your fifth pick, number nineteen? Overall, what are you thinking?
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that one hurts me for sure. I'm at the
• 36:25
  point where I'm realizing, on the graphic sect to the
• 36:30
  average college baseball fan that my team might not look
• 36:34
  the best compared to the rest of y'alls. But I
• 36:35
  love my team like I love I love my guy
• 36:37
  so far, and I'm gonna add another one that I
• 36:40
  like along that path. I'm gonna take the Arizona Wildcats.
• 36:46
  Besides last year, recent history shows that you're gonna have
• 36:49
  about three teams from the prior years. Omaha field return
• 36:52
  the next year, and then my personal Omaha eight. Apart
• 36:56
  from this draft, I've got UCLA Arkansas and these Arizona
• 37:00
  Wildcats doing just that. The lineup had the tendency of
• 37:04
  disappoint from time to time last year, but the pitching
• 37:06
  might be so good that it doesn't even matter. I mean,
• 37:09
  Owen Kramkowski and Smith Bailey are an elite one to
• 37:12
  two punch, and Tony Pluto very well could be the
• 37:16
  best closer in America. It's as simple as that. I
• 37:19
  like Luke Flatta Flada. I think it's Flatta as a
• 37:22
  Sunday guy if he's the one to step into that
• 37:24
  role too. He's only in the upper ages with his fastball,
• 37:27
  but he's more of a stripe throwing, pitchability guy that
• 37:31
  can honestly be used as more of an opener if necessary.
• 37:33
  I mean all that to say they did it last year,
• 37:36
  they can do it again, led by what's expected to
• 37:39
  be some lights out stuff on the mound.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: I like that pick a lot I was. I really
• 37:44
  would have liked Arizona would have been like ideal eighth round,
• 37:47
  kind of like cap off the draft pick. I like
• 37:49
  that Josh Reese, I know it's reach. But no, but
• 37:52
  I love that pick and I think that you highlighted
• 37:54
  all of their best attributes. And another thing is coming
• 37:58
  from the West coast. We haven't even considered that there's
• 38:01
  gonna be some guys that make it out of supers
• 38:03
  on the West too. Yeah, that's just that's just a
• 38:06
  very very.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: Forward Arizona went to a certain place last year to
• 38:11
  come out of a super regional. I just can't I forget.
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: True, they don't forget your parents have season tickets there,
• 38:20
  your grandparents. You might want to watch what you're saying.
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: Oh no, don't worry.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: I love playing both sides of this because I'm a
• 38:25
  Carolina fan, I root for them.
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: But if I can take jabs at you two like
• 38:29
  I can, I'm.
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: A well rounded person when I come to I got
• 38:31
  plenty of experience on that front. Keep you coming, we
• 38:34
  got it.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: Since we're talking about your parents and grandparents feed season
• 38:37
  ticket holders, we got to shout out the number one
• 38:39
  fan of the show, Grandpa Catlin.
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: As well.
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: He gave JB follow on Twitter the other day, So.
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, follow the day.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: I love that the man, the myth, the legend. Speaking
• 38:51
  of JB, mister Catlet's favorite host, JB. You're up for
• 38:54
  two in a row. What do you think?
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I'm lacked in a little bit in a
• 38:59
  certain const of you guys love, so I'm gonna go
• 39:01
  ahead and take one off the board there. I'm gonna
• 39:04
  go with the opposite of Josh's strategy. The bats lead
• 39:07
  the way here with Texas A and M. I'm gonna
• 39:09
  take the Aggie's. The bats really are just incredible on
• 39:14
  this team. When you go up and down the lineup,
• 39:16
  Bender up, Grohovac's coming back, Acopian from Maryland, Surrell, Terrence
• 39:21
  Keel and Bar Harrison coming in as well. Behind the plate,
• 39:25
  I mean, I think this team's just got a lot
• 39:26
  there to like. On the mound, it's kind of iffy,
• 39:29
  but Weston Moss and getting Shane Sadal back is gonna
• 39:31
  be really good for them. Dardin from Clemson. He has
• 39:35
  some struggles last year, but he could help them in
• 39:36
  a lefty role, and kind of a couple other transfers
• 39:39
  Ballinger and Vargas as well, or two guys that could
• 39:42
  hopefully help the bullpen. I really think the Texas A
• 39:44
  and M is one of those teams that they could
• 39:47
  break out you know, Early's kind of on the hot seat.
• 39:49
  I think he's got to push this team in and
• 39:51
  that's gonna be something that's a big deal for them.
• 39:52
  So I'll take them first, and to counter Jake's pick,
• 39:56
  we talked about a certain matchup and this is going
• 40:00
  to be in our Omaha. I will be taking my
• 40:02
  mid major of UC Santa Barbara Jackson Flora. I love
• 40:06
  West Coast Baseball snow secret to these guys used to
• 40:09
  live there, Big West Jackson Flora. I think he's a stud.
• 40:12
  They got Cole Tribba as well, and they return a
• 40:14
  ton of production from the lineup. Also had a few
• 40:17
  transfers that are great for them. I just think UCSB's
• 40:19
  got the pitching depths to really get there, and the
• 40:21
  offense was so much experience I think can help them
• 40:23
  do enough to get there this year.
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: I like that pick. That's a good one, okay, and
• 40:30
  then back to back with A and M two loaded squads.
• 40:34
  I think that again. I like the West Coast selection there.
• 40:37
  I need to try to work that into my plans
• 40:40
  a little more. Good pick. JB probably out of dock
• 40:43
  your pay too, since I've done the other three doct
• 40:47
  Josh do you for the sixth round? Whatever?
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: We think? I was between Arizona and A and M
• 40:52
  for my last pick, and I thought I had a
• 40:54
  better I really thought A and M was gonna come
• 40:56
  back around.
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: Unfortunately I was mistaken.
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: But that's what.
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: Is in a war, buddy, Apparently, I don't know.
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: It's okay. They don't have the pitching. It doesn't fit
• 41:07
  my agenda. We're fine, that's I'm just kidding. Actually what
• 41:10
  am I saying? Oh man, I'm in a spot.
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: I'll take Vandy. I mean, I'll go back to the sect.
• 41:18
  I'll take Fandy.
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: I mean, how poetic would it be if this team
• 41:23
  was the one to make it to Omaha after getting
• 41:25
  the number one overall seed last year and not even
• 41:28
  making it out of their own regional. I mean, most
• 41:32
  of the contributors from last year's team are going to
• 41:35
  be the primary contributors on this year's team too, so
• 41:37
  that's not out of the picture. Based on what we
• 41:39
  saw most of last year. Connor Fennell and Austin and
• 41:42
  I are going to be leading the rotation after being
• 41:44
  major contributors last year, and we're probably going to see
• 41:48
  either Luke Guth or Georgia transferred Nate Taylor stuff up
• 41:51
  into a new role as that Sunday Night guy England.
• 41:55
  Bryan should be back closing some games for them this
• 41:57
  year too, so that would be huge struggle last year,
• 42:02
  and people are kind of worried about the physicality of
• 42:05
  the lineup this year. But we've seen what guys like
• 42:07
  Brodie Johnson and Branden Hulcomb can do. So it's just
• 42:10
  a matter of whether or not the other returners can
• 42:12
  step up, and if the transfer Bats can maintain their
• 42:15
  same level of production with a step up in competition.
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: I like the odds there. I mean, looking at Vanderbilt,
• 42:22
  you know that this is a team with a pedigree
• 42:25
  of success. You know, certainly a blue blood. No appearances
• 42:30
  in the last four years, Maybe it's time for them
• 42:32
  to break the streak. I like that pick Jake sixth
• 42:36
  round number twenty three overall, who's going to be your
• 42:38
  sixth selection?
• 42:42
  Speaker 5: Yeah? Two notes before I make my pick, I think
• 42:44
  we're all completely shocked that JB is going with the
• 42:46
  opposite of Josh's strategy. I think I think, I don't
• 42:49
  think anyone in here would have guessed that was going
• 42:51
  to happen. I'm kidding one of the more predictable things
• 42:55
  that could have happened. Also, I did Drew. I thought
• 43:00
  I was gonna be I thought I was gonna be
• 43:02
  able to get Arizona beyond the fifth round. Josh completely
• 43:06
  sniped me there. I thought I was perfectly safe. But
• 43:09
  if I would have passed some Southern miss then you would.
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: Have good or a bad thing. Then I took them
• 43:14
  this early later, but.
• 43:16
  Speaker 5: Like we were all think we were all planning on
• 43:18
  taking them with like our next pics. I think I'd
• 43:20
  say you didn't reach it all. With my next pick,
• 43:25
  I'm gonna go uh to the A C. C. And
• 43:28
  I'm gonna get Clemson. They they have, they have, they have,
• 43:34
  they have a clear rotation. That's something I'm looking at
• 43:36
  with picking, with picking my teams. Aidan Kennock is obviously
• 43:39
  going to be the leader of that group with Drew
• 43:41
  Titsworth Tailing Bell joining him. Also, like Joe Allen and
• 43:47
  Jacob McGovern, I think they could, you know, they could
• 43:49
  potentially get some starts. They're projected to be in the bullpen. Also,
• 43:53
  Tennessee transferred Michael Charman to get some some good quality
• 43:55
  endings for him there on the hitter on the hitting SID.
• 44:01
  I like returners Luke Gaffney Jaron Purify. I like both
• 44:04
  of those two guys. They bring in a couple of
• 44:06
  good transfers, uh, Tyler Liechtenberger from app State and ty
• 44:11
  Dalley from Mercer. He's gonna really hit. But you know,
• 44:16
  Clemson's another team. They hosted a regional last year and
• 44:19
  UH didn't come out of it. I think I believe
• 44:21
  it was West Virginia that came out on that one.
• 44:26
  Either way, I think Clemson's got a got a good
• 44:28
  I got a group, good group coming in this year,
• 44:30
  and I think they got a good chance.
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: Oh I do. I do like that as well. You
• 44:36
  scared me when you said you were going acc.
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: I think you're about to think the team that I
• 44:40
  want next, and I'm not. I'm not very fond of it. Yes,
• 44:44
  you like you.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: I'm doing your meme you like. By the way, I
• 44:48
  don't know if you.
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: Can that's my favorite. I didn't know that's what you
• 44:50
  were doing. I'm very proud of you. That's my favorite
• 44:52
  thing I have.
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: I've also, this is such a shameful thing to say
• 44:56
  on the pot, I have snaked that meme and I've
• 44:58
  used it in text with my wife, in my best
• 45:01
  friends group chat to my boss. I have used that
• 45:04
  meme everywhere and not a soul. I just love it.
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: I do it in person all the time at nauseum,
• 45:09
  and that's okay.
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: And me and one of my friends do it all
• 45:12
  the time in person and it's just translated over to
• 45:14
  the phone. That's great.
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: I love it. It's a good one. Okay. Well, why
• 45:19
  don't you Well, no, I don't want to take I'm
• 45:21
  taking this. I'm going Wake for us. I'm sorry, I'm sorry,
• 45:26
  I'm sorry. Okay, you think about Wake and the name
• 45:30
  that comes to mind first for me is gonna be
• 45:31
  Blake morning Star obviously, the right hander who is just tremendous.
• 45:34
  I'm such a big fan of his. JB wrote an
• 45:38
  absolutely stellar bit of information about him earlier in the
• 45:42
  season that I read. There's some great stuff from him. Uh,
• 45:45
  we've talked about morning Star a couple of times on
• 45:47
  the pot if I'm not mistaken JB.
• 45:48
  Speaker 4: If not, Yeah, we have we talked about him a bit.
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: We have talked about him a good bit. I like
• 45:54
  the swing and miss stuff there. The four seamer obviously
• 45:58
  is above average. They the change up has generated a
• 46:01
  lot of chase, But I want to talk about a
• 46:03
  guy who really impressed me last postseason. It's Dalton Wins
• 46:06
  that I'm excited to see going forward this year. I
• 46:10
  know that there's a lot of chase. I don't think.
• 46:13
  I don't think I'm saying anything. You guys don't know.
• 46:15
  Here a lot of chase with Wentz. But I mean,
• 46:18
  if you're chasing, it's because you want to hit the ball,
• 46:21
  and Wentz can really put the charge into the ball.
• 46:25
  It makes sense. I don't think he's I'm not sure
• 46:31
  about third base with Wins. Is that fair? So what
• 46:37
  is he long term first base corner out? I don't know.
• 46:42
  I'm focusing on the bat, and I think that when
• 46:45
  you have offensive and pitching leaders like these two guys
• 46:49
  that are not only you know, their draft candidates, but
• 46:51
  then you've got a historically efficient pitching development program, I
• 46:58
  think that we could see steps four forward from younger guys.
• 47:03
  His name is escaping me. Somebody helped me.
• 47:06
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna go ahead and let me throw out a
• 47:08
  couple of names here before.
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: What's the what's the kid's name I'm thinking of j Yeah,
• 47:14
  thank you, Chrysalvans. I really think this could be the
• 47:17
  year that he kind of emerges as the oh that's
• 47:23
  why he was so highly regarded as a press. I
• 47:25
  think this is the year for Lavannas. Thank you, sorry,
• 47:28
  please go ahead.
• 47:29
  Speaker 4: JB No no no. I just to throw a couple of
• 47:31
  names in here that I know about as our acc
• 47:33
  truth and everything, this team being in our conference, I'll
• 47:36
  go ahead and throw out a couple of names. Cam
• 47:38
  Bagwell from UNCW was a really prized transfer guy that
• 47:41
  they ended up winning the bidding for. He pitched at
• 47:44
  USA this summer or too in the trials. That's when
• 47:47
  it's going to be really exciting to watch Lavana's The
• 47:49
  other day they posted something about him hitting one hundred
• 47:51
  at the top of his zone with twenty IVB and
• 47:54
  only three inches of horizontal brink. I will say horizontal
• 47:58
  this time so we don't get into a fuss on
• 47:59
  the pop. J D Stein as well, top freshman that
• 48:03
  they got. That's one that's going to be really good
• 48:05
  for them offensively. And also Boston Torres from VMI is
• 48:09
  another one that really stood out in the portal. So
• 48:11
  a couple of names too, not to rain on the
• 48:13
  pray or steal the show, but a couple of guys
• 48:15
  I've heard a lot about. And morning Star, by the way,
• 48:17
  I heard tidbit of information is up to nine total pitches. Now,
• 48:21
  nine pitches. Kind of crazy that that's even possible. The
• 48:27
  other day, so he's up.
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: To his great chart. Last year it was like one
• 48:30
  of my is such a fun thing to look at, honestly,
• 48:33
  and if he has nine different pitch shapes.
• 48:35
  Speaker 4: It's a nightmare. Now I don't know how it even
• 48:38
  works to get to nine, but we're there.
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: So that's what my morning Stars stock is. So also,
• 48:43
  I was gonna make a point to mention the cam
• 48:45
  bagwell the un c W transfer, because I mean that
• 48:48
  if you're walking about young guys, to go with Lavanas,
• 48:50
  I think he's another I think Bagles a sophomore this year.
• 48:54
  Speaker 4: Yes he is.
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean like that, that guy's a strike doer.
• 48:57
  That guy can throw a strike like nobody's business. And
• 49:00
  I think he's got good stuff. I think, yeah, there's.
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: A reason that was going to be like you just
• 49:04
  saw my reaction, that.
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: Was going to be my next So it's okay, it happens.
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: Sorry, And then seventh, seventh round, I'll go a little
• 49:13
  quicker since we kind of we danced with Wake for
• 49:16
  a minute. And that's fine. That's a good team that
• 49:18
  we we talked about a decent bit, uh dark Horse sec.
• 49:21
  I'll say Kentucky, I think I get it TM Josh Catlet.
• 49:27
  I'll steal all of his memes. I see the vision
• 49:29
  with Kentucky. It is led through solid coaching from coach MINZIONI.
• 49:34
  I think that's the number one staple to this Kentucky
• 49:37
  team is that everybody plays up under his coaching. It's
• 49:40
  almost it's almost like what I think we saw from
• 49:44
  coach Corbyn at Vanderbilt years ago, where you see a
• 49:47
  coach that's establishing a culture that makes solid recruits into
• 49:52
  incredible college baseball players. And I think that we can
• 49:55
  see that development come along. And then, of course, at
• 49:57
  the top of the at the top of the heap
• 49:58
  is our boy, Tyler Bell. We just said earlier. He's
• 50:01
  one of the mascots of the show, and for good reason.
• 50:03
  I think he's getting unjustly overshadowed in this class of
• 50:06
  very talented middle infielders. But I have spent enough time
• 50:09
  talking uh Jake to you in the seventh round, what
• 50:13
  are you thinking after after your boy Drew took Wake
• 50:16
  in Kentucky back to back.
• 50:19
  Speaker 5: I was when I made my Clemson pick the pick
• 50:21
  before you took Wake. That was that was the one
• 50:23
  that I was debating there between those two. But I
• 50:27
  will be quick with my next pick. I'm going to
• 50:29
  join Josh and jb out West and at the same
• 50:32
  time claim probably the monopoly on the Big ten. I'm
• 50:36
  gonna go with the Oregon Ducks with my next pick. Oregon, Uh,
• 50:42
  they were original hosts last year. I ended up not
• 50:44
  coming out of that. They ended up losing to the
• 50:46
  Omaha bound Arizona Wildcats. But Oregon they return, They they
• 50:54
  they have, they have the starting pitching. I think they
• 50:56
  can compete. If there's a team in that conference, they
• 50:58
  can compete with U C.
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: L A.
• 51:00
  Speaker 5: I think it's going to be them. Will Sandford returning back,
• 51:04
  I think he's probably gonna be the Friday guy. Form
• 51:06
  him and Colin Clark's gonna man the first two spots
• 51:09
  in that rotation. They have a couple of transfers in
• 51:12
  Calcalari from San Diego and Miles Gostela. I think I'm
• 51:16
  saying that right from Gonzaga. They're probably going to compete
• 51:20
  for that final spot. I bet it feels like Scalari
• 51:23
  is probably gonna come out on top there. But in
• 51:26
  the lineup, Berkeley maybe, I think he was my big
• 51:31
  ten on conference catcher in my preview for that conference.
• 51:35
  Really good hitter, really good catcher. He's just a fun
• 51:37
  player to watch. They also brought in Gave Miranda from
• 51:41
  Northern Kentucky, and Uh, he's he's just he's just a
• 51:45
  pure pure hitter there. Dominic Hellman coming back, he was
• 51:48
  he was a d H first base. He'll probably have
• 51:50
  the same role for him. Uh. Middle infield Maddix Maloney
• 51:54
  Ryan Cooney probably one of the best duos in the
• 51:57
  country at middle endfield.
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: Oregon.
• 52:01
  Speaker 5: They got all the tools. I think they're gonna I
• 52:02
  think they're gonna pitch and hit, and if there's a
• 52:05
  team that can compete with UCLA in the conference, it's
• 52:07
  gonna be them.
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: M You do have a monopoly going there. That's it's unfortunate.
• 52:13
  But I like what you're doing there, Jake, Uh, Josh,
• 52:17
  that's gonna bring us to you man, seventh round? Where
• 52:20
  are we going?
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: I'm really stuck And I thought basical only the way
• 52:24
  he was talking Jake was about to make my decision
• 52:26
  really easy, but then he didn't. Okay, you know what,
• 52:32
  I'm gonna take the team that I thought he was
• 52:34
  gonna take. I was like, Arizona State, I think this
• 52:36
  could be like a predictable pick for me, but I'm
• 52:39
  gonna take them off the board. I'm finally starting to
• 52:42
  see Arizona State get some love nationally, and I absolutely
• 52:46
  love to see it. If they end up making it
• 52:47
  all the way to Omaha, it's gonna be because that
• 52:50
  rotation hit their ceiling and meshed like that staff hopes for.
• 52:54
  I mean, I've been very vocal about how much I
• 52:56
  love Cole Carlane, and I think Easton Barrett has some
• 52:59
  real potential too if he slides into that rotation. There's
• 53:02
  also a ton of talent and experience in that transfer
• 53:05
  class they brought in offensively to go with returning guys
• 53:08
  like Landon Harriston and new Contrattas who have been stables there,
• 53:14
  so I can definitely see them working their way through
• 53:16
  a West Coast regional or something and piecing together some
• 53:19
  big wins down the stretch to get back to Omaha
• 53:21
  for the first time in what feels like forever.
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, kind of does. That's a that's again a blue
• 53:30
  blood program, tons of success through their history. And man,
• 53:35
  I liked Arizona State in the eighth round as well.
• 53:38
  That's really a kick in the shorts, Josh Good, I
• 53:41
  have to replan, JB. We're gonna go to you your
• 53:44
  final two, so I actually surround out your eight. Curious
• 53:47
  what you're thinking.
• 53:47
  Speaker 4: Here, Yeah, well I saw a lot of my teams
• 53:50
  go off the board. Just Kentucky Wake, Arizona State, Oregon.
• 53:54
  As soon as I thought about him, like that was great,
• 53:56
  you know, just picked off one by one as soon
• 53:58
  as I was I was looking at him. So, you know,
• 54:00
  we love that. But typical part of the pod. I'm
• 54:03
  gonna go back to the SEC shockingly and I'm gonna
• 54:07
  take ole Miss, a team that we haven't seen in
• 54:09
  the College World Series for a long time. Here, I
• 54:12
  think Ole Miss. You know, if the pieces come together,
• 54:14
  they got a chance to be good again, just like
• 54:16
  last year. I know we aren't necessarily high on them,
• 54:18
  but if the pieces come together, they really got some
• 54:21
  special there. Judd Ude Mark led the offense last year
• 54:24
  a twenty two homers. Austin Falley had twenty one homers
• 54:26
  as well, they get from Illinois State Daniel Pascuala, who
• 54:30
  had twenty homers as well, they get Tristan Bisetta from Clemson,
• 54:33
  and then in the rotation Hunter Elliott coming back and
• 54:37
  Kate Townsend hopefully takes a step forward along with a
• 54:40
  few transfers that maybe one of them slide into that
• 54:42
  Sunday roll and make a good push. So Ole Miss
• 54:45
  will be an interesting one. And the next pick after
• 54:48
  that is this is where this gets really tough for me.
• 54:57
  I guess I'll go ahead. There's two teams on between,
• 55:00
  one that I've always liked and one I don't like,
• 55:02
  so I guess i'll knock him out here. I'm gonna
• 55:04
  take a second mid major team, which is just improbable,
• 55:07
  but I'm gonna take the dart throw at one of
• 55:09
  the two is gonna make it, And I'll take the
• 55:11
  other Big West team you see Irvine. I think Irvine
• 55:14
  is just a squad that's really gritty. They can really
• 55:17
  do a lot of things well, and Orloff has done
• 55:20
  a great job there, so I think they're gonna do
• 55:22
  a really good job. And I think there'll be a nice,
• 55:23
  gritty small ball team that has a chance to get
• 55:25
  out of a West Coast rechil.
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: I like Irvine and that is a bold choice, and
• 55:32
  another another pick out West that's really limiting. I don't
• 55:35
  know that I'm gonna be able to get another one.
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: JB.
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: I think you've ruined me there. I think you've ruined me. Josh.
• 55:42
  We are gonna go to you final pick number eight
• 55:45
  of your eight.
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: What do you think in Pale Yeah, I hinted at
• 55:49
  this Beforehandy Also, I'm gonna do it now. I'm gonna
• 55:51
  take my mid major, a team that not a lot
• 55:54
  of people are talking about pre season compared the usual,
• 55:57
  But I'll do it here. I'll take Dallas Bad this
• 56:00
  I believe. I'm pretty sure I'm gonna end up putting
• 56:04
  them in my personal Almaha eighth too, because I really
• 56:07
  think this is the year they finally do it. And
• 56:10
  despite how much I'm relying on pitching stabs in this draft.
• 56:13
  Speaker 3: I think this team hits their way there.
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: They've got returners like Chadan Krause and Keaton Grady who
• 56:18
  are going to be experienced stables in the lineup, paired
• 56:21
  with transfers like Dylan and Cupp and mac Rose from
• 56:24
  the SEC who should slot right into starting spots now. Now,
• 56:29
  the amount of transfers without experience against high level opponents
• 56:33
  who will get thrown into high leverage spots kind of
• 56:36
  scares me. But I know I'm getting some returning reliability
• 56:40
  and Ryan boor Berg and Jerry Jenkins at the top
• 56:43
  of the rotation. So I feel like they're not being
• 56:46
  talked about a lot this year. But they've got a
• 56:49
  series against UTSA early on, in a few mid midweek,
• 56:52
  big midweeks throughout the year like usual, where I think
• 56:56
  they'll prove themselves and face so much need to diversity
• 56:59
  before going on a posting run.
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: Definitely, And like you said, to be a team that
• 57:04
  makes such noise in the postseason, it's been really quiet
• 57:08
  everybody kind of around the country. It seems like it's
• 57:10
  quiet about Dallas Baptist. Josh, you're putting your stamp on
• 57:13
  them one of your draft in Omaha. Ei.
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: Do you say the word noise for a reason, because
• 57:18
  the trend's going on right outside right now, and I
• 57:20
  don't know if you can hear it or not. I
• 57:21
  don't know if that was intentional.
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: Maybe it was happy accident, but I'm gonna say no
• 57:26
  I'll say it was a happy accident.
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: Fair enough. That's a win for me.
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: Actually, if you can't hear it, oh oh, I can
• 57:31
  hear it. I think everybody can hear I'm kidding.
• 57:35
  Speaker 5: I'm kidding.
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: I'm messing around, Josh. I'm sorry. Hype draining for Dallas
• 57:40
  Baptist is what it's going to be this time. It's there.
• 57:43
  You go, uh, Jake, to you for your eighth pick
• 57:47
  the thirty first team we have mentioned. I'm curious, what
• 57:50
  are you thinking? And are you going to steal my
• 57:52
  thunder my last pick. You're not gonna steal them, are you?
• 57:56
  You know?
• 57:56
  Speaker 5: I really I don't. I don't think I'm going to.
• 58:01
  I'm between two SEC teams and I'm I think I've
• 58:04
  decided on which one I want. As as as a
• 58:08
  Tennessee fan, it really pains me to go to rolltide
• 58:11
  dot com and look up Alabama's schedule last year. I
• 58:16
  I I am gonna pick. I am gonna pick Alabama
• 58:18
  as my last team. Yeah. Not a popular pick within
• 58:23
  the group, not a popular pick for me either, But
• 58:25
  I am gonna I am gonna pick. I am gonna
• 58:27
  pick Alabama. Obviously, obviously it's just it's the Justin Lebron
• 58:32
  Show in Tuscaloosa. I know we as a draft team
• 58:37
  have mixed opinions on Justin Lebron as a prospect, but
• 58:41
  in the end, he's gonna hit. He's gonna put up
• 58:43
  crazy numbers, and the lineup is gonna go the way
• 58:46
  that Justin Lebron goes. Sneaky guy that I really like,
• 58:49
  not maybe not so sneaky. Bryce Faylor there was a
• 58:52
  chance I think he could have got drafted last year
• 58:54
  and he returns for Alabama, He's gonna contribute a lot.
• 58:57
  Also like Logan Devenport uh Northern Kentucky transfer. If you
• 59:01
  haven't looked up his numbers from last year, you should
• 59:03
  do that. But you know, coach Rob Vaughan, he's been
• 59:08
  he's been highly regarded as one of the top coaches
• 59:12
  and top talent developers in the country. And I think
• 59:15
  he's gonna get his shot to uh finally make it
• 59:18
  to Omaha. I think he's earned that right.
• 59:21
  Speaker 4: You know, Jake, you don't have to say as a
• 59:23
  group or splay. You can just point to me and
• 59:25
  Josh on the screen and say, right here driving the
• 59:27
  anti Lebron train. You know it's good to go.
• 59:30
  Speaker 5: You can, you can hit I'm not I'm I think
• 59:32
  I'm I think I'm hopping aboard with you guys too.
• 59:34
  But he's gonna he's gonna put up numbers. He's gonna go,
• 59:38
  He's gonna go crazy again.
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: How until just now we have a processed that weds
• 59:42
  a very anti Alabama pod based on our teams. I
• 59:45
  don't know how this is.
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's maybe it's just kind of something we've all
• 59:50
  inherently known, but we are. I mean, j B, what
• 59:54
  are your feelings on Alabama? And tread lightly.
• 59:57
  Speaker 4: I'm not a big fan of him. You know, if
• 59:59
  you know anything about our college basketball team in my
• 1:00:02
  we played them and you know it kind of didn't
• 1:00:05
  go so well. So you know, I'm not a fan
• 1:00:07
  of them or mister mustache man that they had playing
• 1:00:09
  out their shooting threes.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: So not.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: Fine, is reinstated, That's that's fine, That's fine. Uh, guys,
• 1:00:23
  I I can't believe Jake, and I know that I
• 1:00:26
  know that we talked earlier about group thought how we
• 1:00:28
  want to avoid it. I don't know that Jake's right though.
• 1:00:31
  There are questions about Lebron, but I think Jake is
• 1:00:33
  also right that this team is going to go the
• 1:00:35
  way that he goes. He's absolutely the straw that stirs
• 1:00:39
  the drink there for the time, and he can carry
• 1:00:42
  that team. I think we saw him do it with
• 1:00:46
  a team that's I mean, we can argue about it,
• 1:00:48
  we'll call equally talented as last year's team, but I
• 1:00:51
  mean Lebron made them a credible ish team, credible at times,
• 1:00:56
  not so in others. But I agree with what Jake
• 1:00:58
  is saying. As badly as Alabama as a team disgusts
• 1:01:02
  me just because of my inherent biases. And again here
• 1:01:06
  we go.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 4: You watch that super or the regular regional in Southern
• 1:01:09
  Myss last year, and you realize that that team one
• 1:01:11
  is just Lebron one as soon as is the bats
• 1:01:13
  went bad, they went real bad out there, and.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: That that's the exact that's the exact games that I
• 1:01:21
  had to mine. Is that regional showed you that when
• 1:01:24
  Lebron stumbles, what is this team going to lean on?
• 1:01:28
  And I don't know, Jake, I like the foul shout out,
• 1:01:32
  but I just don't he's good lord, Okay, that that
• 1:01:38
  took me for a loop. I need a second to recover.
• 1:01:41
  Did not at all. I didn't at all see that
• 1:01:44
  being the way you went there, Jake, That's that's crazy.
• 1:01:47
  I'll tell you what.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 5: I might have just made the most hated pick of
• 1:01:50
  any draft that we've done so far.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: But I'll tell you what. I'll tell you what. I'll
• 1:01:55
  I'll play. I'll play interesting. I'll play interesting. How bad? No, no, no, no no.
• 1:02:00
  I thought about that. I thought about that. I'm not
• 1:02:02
  gonna do that. I thought about that. But I'm not
• 1:02:06
  gonna do that either. But what if I but what
• 1:02:10
  if I stuck in the state? What if I got weird?
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 3: I like this?
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: What if?
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 2: What if?
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: What if? What if we chose a team at number
• 1:02:19
  eight that probably should have been in that large bid
• 1:02:22
  last year? I like this, What if we picked a
• 1:02:24
  team at eight that really didn't lose that much of
• 1:02:26
  the transfer portal? What if we picked Troy eight? Guys,
• 1:02:31
  what if that's the number eight pick for Drew? And
• 1:02:33
  I think it's gonna be uh an amazing article dropping.
• 1:02:37
  It's already dropped on the site by the time you're
• 1:02:39
  seeing this episode. But Jake obviously just like pitched to
• 1:02:42
  himself and crushed a five hundred foot homer with his uh,
• 1:02:45
  with the sun Belt preview that's coming out, but in
• 1:02:48
  it you're gonna see all kinds of outstanding coverage of teams,
• 1:02:52
  including Troy, and I think that Jake does a fabulous
• 1:02:56
  job of mentioning that this is a team who returning
• 1:03:00
  pitchers for days, lost a catcher in Brooks Brian who
• 1:03:04
  is incredibly talented, but they're gonna transfer a third basement
• 1:03:08
  to behind the dish. Jimmy Janicky, who's a guy that
• 1:03:10
  I know that all of us are fans of looking
• 1:03:12
  forward to next year. This is a dude and a half.
• 1:03:15
  I'm proud to get Troy here, deep shot dark horse.
• 1:03:19
  Never would have thought I'd have as many sun Belt
• 1:03:22
  teams as I had acc but you know, drafts do
• 1:03:26
  weird things. I'm hype for Troy. That's gonna be my
• 1:03:28
  pick really quickly. Let's run through our Omaha eight. I've
• 1:03:33
  got guys LSU Arkansas, Tennessee, Coastal Carolina, Louisville, Wake Forest, Kentucky,
• 1:03:41
  and Troy incredibly Southern, incredibly southern Omaha. They're not intentional
• 1:03:47
  to out the draft plays. Jake, run us through your
• 1:03:50
  Omaha eight.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 5: I'll probably just run us through my Omaha seven. May
• 1:03:56
  just leave that last team off. No UCLA, uh, Georgia,
• 1:04:01
  Georgia Tech, Oregon State, Southern Miss Clemson, Oregon and that
• 1:04:07
  other team.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: Hello, bam, well we'll say it for you.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 4: Georgia rivalry for Jake and and Elmaha didn't realize that
• 1:04:14
  we got the Georgia GT that's right, Yeah, all right, He's.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: Got Oregon and State back in there as well. This
• 1:04:20
  is just like a lot of ribbalies Jake's cooking. Josh,
• 1:04:26
  run us through your eight, buddy.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: If we're gonna have the rivalry train, I got Arizona
• 1:04:29
  and Arizona State. Yeah, there we go, uh and look
• 1:04:33
  at that at the very top, Texas and TCU too.
• 1:04:36
  Then we go Florida, Virginia, Vanderbilt and DBU. And I
• 1:04:40
  just have to say, I don't know if we're gonna
• 1:04:42
  go like mentioned honorable mentions of teams that didn't get taken.
• 1:04:45
  I truly cannot believe that Auburn did not get taken.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 3: There are going to be some unhappy people with me, and.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: That is okay, but I cannot believe they weren't completely undrafted.
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: I mean, Wolf, for for what it's worth, Auburn was
• 1:05:00
  my best remaining team by a pretty wide margin. I
• 1:05:04
  was trying to I was trying to leave them out
• 1:05:06
  there for you guys. Wow, maybe I should.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 5: You had the last pick, you had your chance.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: That's true. It literally is on me. Auburn fans directed
• 1:05:17
  to me. It's at here at Drew is okay, follow
• 1:05:20
  me and you can send me all the mean messages
• 1:05:22
  you want. Uh JB runs through your own high Yeah.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 4: So, I guess I stick with the rivalry theme. North Carolina,
• 1:05:29
  n C State, in Mine, Florida State, Mississippi State, Texas
• 1:05:32
  A and m U C SB Ole Miss and you
• 1:05:35
  see Irvine. I guess you know you see your Vine
• 1:05:38
  over Auburn might be a little controversial. But Josh, but
• 1:05:41
  he had some propaganda sued me away from the path
• 1:05:44
  before the Pods. I hit a hard.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: Left at it. I have my hesitations with this team,
• 1:05:49
  and I've made that very clear. That said, are they
• 1:05:52
  a top thirty two team in the country. Absolutely yes,
• 1:05:56
  I do. I think they're better than Ole, Miss, Obama
• 1:05:58
  and Irvine. Yeah so, I I don't know. This is rough.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 3: I never would have imagined this would happen.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 4: But I never know who they draw. You never know
• 1:06:05
  who they draw.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: That's true, Josh, you called it out. Let's let's go
• 1:06:09
  through some also, rams, Uh, if you want to give me,
• 1:06:12
  like your just three teams that you thought.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 3: And I'll include all. I'll say Auburn.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 2: The top ones on my board that didn't get taken
• 1:06:20
  were Auburn, Oklahoma State. That's why I was debating with
• 1:06:24
  others state between and as JB just insinuated, do you
• 1:06:29
  those are my top Those are my top three that
• 1:06:31
  did not go I don't know if there's anything super
• 1:06:33
  egregious beyond that.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: Jake, any names that were kind of just yeah, on
• 1:06:39
  the tip of your tongue kind of thing.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I had those three on my board too. Also
• 1:06:44
  had a mention of if we just went on a
• 1:06:46
  crazy run of SEC teams, I had Oklahoma on my
• 1:06:48
  board down there a little bit. Uh. ECU was kind
• 1:06:52
  of was going to be my safety mid major if
• 1:06:54
  you guys took all the ones that I wanted before that.
• 1:06:56
  But yeah, Josh had on the other ones that I
• 1:06:59
  had on my board.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: Very good JB. And he also rams that are interesting.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 4: I think it was quite literally the same team so
• 1:07:06
  that they ought to go first, so they take all
• 1:07:08
  my actually there.
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, me too. I you guys kind of know, I
• 1:07:12
  gotta have a soft spot for Stanford. I think Charlie
• 1:07:15
  Bates may kind of you know, supernova this year, and
• 1:07:18
  I think he can carry that team. There's there's some
• 1:07:20
  talent there, but man, ACC's just loaded. They're gonna have
• 1:07:23
  to step up in surprise in many regards in that
• 1:07:25
  way too. But I do have a soft spot for
• 1:07:27
  the Cardinal West Virginia. I thought maybe somehow, yeah, maybe
• 1:07:32
  maybe somewhere, but I like, I like what we had here. Okay,
• 1:07:36
  that is the draft of our Omaha eight. Josh, walk
• 1:07:39
  us through what we're doing here as we pick a
• 1:07:40
  couple more superles.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 3: Uh yeah, Do we want to do golden spikes now?
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: Or do we want to go champion? Just go off teams?
• 1:07:47
  You're cal Okay, all right, let's sack with the teams thing.
• 1:07:51
  Let's just go go around pick our national champions and
• 1:07:53
  then a dark horse. Okay?
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: Cool?
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 5: Uh?
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 4: Is it from our Omaha eight. That's that's only overall?
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: Okay? Uh, Okay, I'm gonna say, let's stick with the
• 1:08:06
  theme I brought up at the top of the show. Guys,
• 1:08:07
  I think that l s U has as good a
• 1:08:09
  shot as anybody to run this dynasty train forward. It's
• 1:08:15
  a boring pick, but it's a logical pick, and I'll
• 1:08:19
  stick with the logic in my brain for this one.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: The l s U.
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: Okay, Jake, what are you thinking?
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I'll go with my first pick. I
• 1:08:31
  said it whenever I made the pick. Ucla is my
• 1:08:33
  favorite team in the country right now. It's just it's
• 1:08:35
  just the it's just the experience thing for me. It's
• 1:08:37
  what I've hit on every time I've talked about them
• 1:08:40
  on the show. I just think the lineup has has
• 1:08:43
  the experience, they know how to win. I think they're
• 1:08:46
  just I think they're gonna I think that's gonna be
• 1:08:48
  my pick.
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: Well said, I can't argue with it, Josh National Champion.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 3: We've got a theme going here again.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 2: Apparently I'll take I'll take my first pick for the
• 1:08:59
  first time four years, but they I'll make it back
• 1:09:01
  to Omaha first time in seventeen years. I'll make it
• 1:09:04
  back to the National Championship Series, and for the first
• 1:09:06
  time in over two decades. Jim Slasneagle will take the
• 1:09:09
  Texas Longhorns back to where they belong on top of
• 1:09:12
  the college Baseball world hook them shoot.
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: Me in the flint would hate to see it. JB.
• 1:09:18
  What are you thinking, man, who's your national champion?
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah? So, I mean, I got a couple here, and
• 1:09:24
  I did pick them. Funny enough, I'm between both Florida
• 1:09:30
  State and Mississippi State. I guess I'll rock it down
• 1:09:33
  with Mississippi State and for the reason of I'll stick
• 1:09:37
  with what we got here a little bit. I think
• 1:09:39
  that you got a solid returning roster, guys that are
• 1:09:43
  gonna be hungry from Virginia. You got a coach that
• 1:09:45
  wants to get back to the mountain after falling down
• 1:09:47
  last year in kind of a sort of embarrassing run
• 1:09:50
  where they didn't make it for the first time in
• 1:09:51
  a long time into the playoffs. So I think that
• 1:09:54
  team could be really hungry. And I think the environment
• 1:09:56
  they're gonna play and you can play really well in
• 1:09:58
  Florida State as well. I think they're another one that
• 1:10:00
  has all the pieces to really make a push if
• 1:10:02
  they get there.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: Word, Josh, we talked about dark corses. What do you
• 1:10:09
  have in mind for that? Are we talking like?
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 2: So? I'll I mean kind of what I told y'all beforehand,
• 1:10:15
  and dark course is a subjective term, but in my eyes,
• 1:10:20
  when I was thinking about this, I went and looked
• 1:10:23
  at the Vegas odds that are out and teams that
• 1:10:25
  aren't in, like the top fifteen or twenty ish of those.
• 1:10:28
  I think it's like a real dark horse if you
• 1:10:30
  took one like it doesn't matter if you think it's
• 1:10:33
  more of a dark corse than other people.
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 3: But that's personally what I'm gonna do.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: Okay, So I didn't know if you wanted me to
• 1:10:39
  be like yo dogs, what if Missouri? I didn't know.
• 1:10:41
  If like that was okay, okay, all right by that standard,
• 1:10:47
  then I'm gonna go Virginia. I think that, dude, you
• 1:10:51
  and you said it earlier, Josh, I was just gonna, you know,
• 1:10:53
  chat taut you. I think that honestly. It's just if
• 1:10:58
  this was really as bad as you ass people were
• 1:11:00
  thinking if oh they lost their whole team, did they?
• 1:11:04
  Did they?
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 2: Like not?
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 5: Not?
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: Really like this is a team who added I just
• 1:11:11
  I think we're I think we maybe getting ahead of
• 1:11:12
  our skis a little bit on Virginia. And that's a
• 1:11:15
  team that I think would be a credible and fun
• 1:11:18
  College World Series champion to.
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 4: Watch arguably the best player too.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: They did keep arguably their best player.
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 2: I don't think it's like our definitively yeah here, Eric.
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: Beckerd he Stag. You're absolutely right, all right, Jake, you're
• 1:11:36
  dark horse national champion.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 5: So I haven't looked at the odds or anything, but
• 1:11:41
  I think just in general, there's like the top tier teams,
• 1:11:43
  and I think this team's kind of like the second
• 1:11:46
  tier of teams. And uh, I'll stay on my board.
• 1:11:49
  I'll go Georgia. I think, uh, like I listed off
• 1:11:53
  what we've talked. We've talked about a lot how the
• 1:11:55
  pitching is going to carry teams in the postseason, mostly
• 1:11:57
  more often than not. And when I talked about Georgia earlier,
• 1:12:01
  I listed like a ton of potential starting pitchers and like,
• 1:12:05
  if any you know, three of them can be consistently
• 1:12:09
  in the zone. They have the just the some of
• 1:12:10
  the most electric stuff in the country. I don't know how,
• 1:12:13
  I don't know how teams are gonna hit against them
• 1:12:15
  if they can locate their pitches. So I'll go Georgia, Jake.
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: I am gonna throw it to you to on behalf
• 1:12:22
  of me and you both just name it. There a
• 1:12:24
  second dark Horse team just on behalf of me and
• 1:12:26
  you both.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 5: Go ahead, go balls. I'll just say that, thank you.
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: There we go, Josh, do you your dark Horse National champion?
• 1:12:36
  I'm curious where you're going here. Man, there's a couple
• 1:12:39
  I could see you picking.
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's not like super super dark Horse, but
• 1:12:44
  just like if you're going best on what people think,
• 1:12:47
  I don't and no one sees this team is playing
• 1:12:49
  a championship. I don't think set you piggyback off my
• 1:12:51
  pick earlier. I'm gonna do the same to you. The
• 1:12:54
  Louisville Cardinals, I think, kind of like you said, this
• 1:12:58
  lineup is gonna hit. No doubts about that. They have
• 1:13:01
  talent all over the place. I think that the pitching
• 1:13:04
  is a bit of a concern. I mean, a guy
• 1:13:08
  that I expect to take a step up this year,
• 1:13:10
  as Peter Michael. I think if he steps into that rotation,
• 1:13:12
  he can be big. They're gonna need some reliable guys
• 1:13:14
  at the top. I think like it could end up
• 1:13:18
  put up with this. The death could end up working
• 1:13:20
  out in a way better way than people think.
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 3: I personally think it could.
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 2: That's a concern in a lot of places, the starting
• 1:13:26
  rotation is unanimously kind of a question mark. But if
• 1:13:30
  that does end up, you know, everyone lives up to
• 1:13:32
  the hype and like what they can do in their ceilings.
• 1:13:35
  Since this is a dark horse pick, I mean, you
• 1:13:38
  got you gotta take it. Hey, I see the vision.
• 1:13:40
  You know you gotta take a chance.
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: I see the vision. Indeed, we do, JB, what vision
• 1:13:46
  are you seeing over there? Who's your dark horse?
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 4: So I already kind of shouted about like Florida State's
• 1:13:51
  arguably in the mix for a lot of people, so
• 1:13:53
  that I'm not going there, but for me, it's gonna
• 1:13:55
  be Texas A and m I think behind Michael Early,
• 1:13:57
  I think it's a lot of guys that are gonna
• 1:13:59
  want to fight for their I that they wanted to
• 1:14:01
  become the manager there and then they really let him
• 1:14:03
  down last year, and now he's kind of sitting on
• 1:14:05
  the hot seat of you know, what do I do
• 1:14:08
  if I don't win? There's a possibly they try to
• 1:14:10
  get him out. So I think a lot of players
• 1:14:12
  that are going to fight for their guy. They really
• 1:14:13
  love Mike Hurley and try to push him over the
• 1:14:15
  top of omah. So I could see it.
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: Can I have a twenty second soapbox.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 3: By all means, of course, if a.
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: M seriously is going to try to cut early after
• 1:14:29
  that season with that, that's your guy. Horrible, true, truly
• 1:14:36
  abhorrent decision making at Texas A and M. If that's
• 1:14:39
  genuinely something they're considering, abhorrent decision making, Class F decision making, I.
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 4: Don't know if it's I guess I should preface that
• 1:14:48
  please it's true necessarily.
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: But but I've heard the same thing you have.
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 4: It's been Yeah, it's been a common topic of you know,
• 1:14:55
  if they play similarly or if they're an early exit
• 1:14:57
  this year, that early might be they move on because
• 1:15:01
  they don't think he's got what it takes and they
• 1:15:02
  want to they want to win.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 2: So scratch that. They talked about that last year, like
• 1:15:06
  during the season that with the conversation. I love this.
• 1:15:09
  I love this pick, like I actually I think, yeah,
• 1:15:12
  it's we're all at the risk of looking like idiots
• 1:15:17
  with this kind of anem thing, because as we've said before,
• 1:15:20
  we all tend to be like we tend to see
• 1:15:23
  the vision a little bit more than a lot of people.
• 1:15:25
  But I think this is a good pick. I think
• 1:15:28
  it would be a really poetic to a good storybook ending.
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely absolutely. Let's move on to the other superlet
• 1:15:37
  if you had him on, Josh, and we will choose
• 1:15:38
  a Golden Spikes winner real quick. Is anybody not picking
• 1:15:44
  Rocks last week?
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 4: No Rock here?
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: We're a rock pod, all right, so that'll be Rock
• 1:15:53
  will be on the graphic. Let's do a non Rock
• 1:15:57
  Golden Spikes winter though, Jay, you've been going last all night.
• 1:16:02
  We'll start with you them your non rock Golden Spike guy.
• 1:16:05
  What do you got?
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 4: I mean, I know it's gonna be pretty obvious, but
• 1:16:10
  I mean, the dude just hits Drew Burris. I mean,
• 1:16:12
  the guy he just rakes. Drew Burris is out there,
• 1:16:14
  and I think it's tough to beat Drew Braris. If
• 1:16:17
  there's somebody's gonna overtake Rock, I think he's the favorite.
• 1:16:19
  He's probably you know, Vegas odds were talking about he's
• 1:16:22
  probably second. So yeah, I think Drew Burris is kind
• 1:16:26
  of the obvious pick there.
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: I like it. Josh, where are you going? What are
• 1:16:29
  you thinking?
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 3: Am I allowed to be boring because that's where I
• 1:16:33
  was going to?
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: But are you buddy?
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 3: All right?
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 2: That's where I'm going to then, because I mean, all
• 1:16:38
  he's done is produce, produced, produce in college.
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 3: I mean he puts up gaudy numbers.
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 2: There's a reason why other places, when you're seeing people
• 1:16:45
  take their golden spikes picked, you mostly see Rock Powski
• 1:16:49
  and Drew Burris. There's a reason it's just those two
• 1:16:51
  guys mostly with a few exceptions. But there's a reason
• 1:16:55
  for that. The dude, all he does is hit, and
• 1:16:57
  he's going to be leading a team that has a
• 1:16:58
  ton of eyeballs on them this year.
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: So we'll say an an exceptionally talented player, well deserving
• 1:17:06
  of that honor. Jake, we've had to Drew Burris is
• 1:17:10
  in a row. I'm never gonna stop short of us
• 1:17:11
  praising a guy named Drew. But I'm curious what you're thinking.
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 5: Drew Burres probably would be my pick, But just for
• 1:17:18
  the sake of saying, another name that I really really
• 1:17:21
  like is uh Derek Currile. L s U another guy
• 1:17:25
  you said Drew burs just hits. Derek Currile just hits. Also,
• 1:17:31
  not not to the power numbers that Burris can really
• 1:17:33
  get to in game, but uh cars had some developing power,
• 1:17:38
  you know, the hit tools. Plus, he's he's gonna put
• 1:17:41
  up big numbers again. He went off as a freshman
• 1:17:43
  last year. He's gonna he's gonna do very well again
• 1:17:46
  for l s U.
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, Uh, I'll I'll go weird. I'll go weird.
• 1:17:56
  A lot of options. I mean, let's pick maybe Drew's
• 1:18:02
  favorite gual, Dylan Valantis, Like, what what if? What if
• 1:18:05
  he's just a what if he's just a supernal? What
• 1:18:07
  if he is just everything that he could be as
• 1:18:12
  a starter and the strikeout numbers are gaudy and the
• 1:18:15
  ratios are solid and the movement stays the same extended
• 1:18:19
  over longer outings. If we're gonna get weird, let's get weird.
• 1:18:24
  Give me Valantis and then uh dark horses? Uh Josh again,
• 1:18:29
  what what just since we're talking not rock, I don't
• 1:18:32
  And I just picked Dylan Valantis as a Golden Spikes wanner,
• 1:18:34
  I don't know how much darker horse we can get
• 1:18:36
  than that? Is that kind of the tear we're looking at?
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 3: You can I'm gonna go darker horse than that?
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: Less? Say less?
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 3: Should I just go ahead lead us off, buddy?
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 2: All right, I'll take that on into the mind of
• 1:18:49
  Josh a little bit. I'll take you to the thought
• 1:18:50
  process or this. So I was gonna go with the
• 1:18:53
  super predictable pick from me and I was just gonna
• 1:18:56
  take Logan Hughes because why not. But then in my mind,
• 1:18:59
  I'm like, Texas Tech is not gonna be good enough
• 1:19:02
  for them to in any world get a Golden Spikes
• 1:19:05
  winner from their team. But then I remembered, this is
• 1:19:08
  college baseball. This isn't college football or basketball. We've had
• 1:19:11
  weird winners of this thing. Just in the past fifteen years.
• 1:19:14
  We've had a winner from San Diego cal Mercer at
• 1:19:18
  Southern Nevada. Shout out, Bryce Harper, I mean, like it happens.
• 1:19:21
  So I'm gonna go to a guy on a mid
• 1:19:25
  major level, a guy that I think could put up
• 1:19:27
  tons of production. I'm gonna take Caden Boganpool from Missouri
• 1:19:30
  State because what if I mean, like hear me out,
• 1:19:35
  I think he is a prime candidate to have a
• 1:19:37
  ridiculous statistical year from the mid major range. The last
• 1:19:40
  two years he's bad at two ninety three with twenty
• 1:19:43
  home runs and two ninety six with thirteen home runs.
• 1:19:46
  Now I know what you're thinking, that's not really that crazy,
• 1:19:50
  and you're right, But if we're going true dark course here,
• 1:19:53
  then I'm gonna bank on the projection of him taking
• 1:19:56
  a leap like he's expected to. If he were to
• 1:19:59
  put together a and where it's like three forty with
• 1:20:03
  thirty tanks, then that's got to get him at least
• 1:20:05
  to be a finalist for this thing, because he's also
• 1:20:07
  a name that enough people know, like enough people who
• 1:20:10
  vote on these things. No, so I know that Mark
• 1:20:13
  I just said is probably the ceiling of what he
• 1:20:15
  can do. But you know, hey, let's have a little
• 1:20:18
  fun with this thing. Let's take a real long shot.
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: Well, when we're talking dark horses, this is where you
• 1:20:22
  find the worst that you don't mind throwing four bucks on,
• 1:20:25
  five bucks on and just seeing if you can catch
• 1:20:27
  that million. Good for you, JB. I'm not saying you
• 1:20:31
  got to pick the Cad and Bogan polls of the world.
• 1:20:33
  I'm curious, where's the dark horse for the Golden Spikes winner.
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm definitely not going with Caden Gogan. Bull. My
• 1:20:40
  mind went somewhere completely different, and I am going very
• 1:20:43
  predictable because this type of player has won a lot.
• 1:20:47
  In my mind, I'm going with Tyler Bell from Kentucky.
• 1:20:50
  I don't think anybody has him anywhere near a guy
• 1:20:53
  that's this Golden Spike guy. So in my opinion, like
• 1:20:55
  dark Horse.
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 2: You know, you know, you never know.
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 4: I haven't heard his name, but stop Elloy won it
• 1:21:04
  last year. You know you're in the SEC. I think
• 1:21:06
  a lot of people see it in a similar light
• 1:21:09
  like that, and I could see where that happens. So
• 1:21:13
  that's where I'm going. I really just like Tyler Bell,
• 1:21:16
  big fan. No really, I won't be in Greensboro the
• 1:21:21
  first weekend of the season at all.
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 2: No, No, I.
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: Want to do that. Now, Jake, one of us has
• 1:21:26
  got to pick Henry Ford. Who's it going to be.
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 5: Oh, I'm not gonna let you make my pick for me,
• 1:21:32
  So you can have Henry Ford if you want. I'll
• 1:21:37
  go with the I'll go with somebody that's more similar
• 1:21:41
  to to Josh's pick, but not quite at the Missouri
• 1:21:44
  state level. I'll go Aidan Robbins Seaton Hall Transfers. He's
• 1:21:52
  early on in our In our early episodes, we were
• 1:21:54
  talking a lot about Aiden Robbins, so he could he
• 1:21:56
  could also be on that Mount Rushmore of college baseball. Now, members.
• 1:22:00
  But Robbins he hit four twenty two last year with
• 1:22:04
  a near twelve hundred ops at Seaton Hall. You know,
• 1:22:09
  say what you want there, it's you can say he's
• 1:22:10
  at Seaton Hall, he's not playing the best competition. He
• 1:22:13
  went to the Cape and hit over three hundred. Also,
• 1:22:17
  he also hit six home runs on the Cape with
• 1:22:20
  a wood bat in twenty six games, which was the
• 1:22:22
  same amount that he hit in the spring at Seaton
• 1:22:25
  Hall in fifty three games. So I think I would
• 1:22:28
  like to see the power play to that level in
• 1:22:31
  the SEC obviously, but Aiden Robbins, I believe in the
• 1:22:34
  hit tool. He also stole twenty bags last year. Good runner,
• 1:22:39
  good defender, good Hitter's that's that's the equation for a
• 1:22:44
  golden spike sleeper.
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 3: If you asked me, there's no way he stole your pick, right,
• 1:22:48
  drew in a dark way.
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: No, Robbins was a guy that I had circled here
• 1:22:53
  as like this is a solid, real dark pick. But
• 1:22:58
  but I'll I'll go dark, I'll go, I'll go I'll
• 1:23:01
  try to match the catlet level dark here and we'll
• 1:23:03
  just see what happens. So here's here's the predicament. Boys,
• 1:23:06
  I'm trying to struggle between a guy that I could
• 1:23:08
  see doing it really maybe or just a sicko mode.
• 1:23:13
  This dude, that's what we're gonna We're gonna We're gonna
• 1:23:17
  go sicko mode. What if this guy's power just shows
• 1:23:21
  up fully? What if the defense in center field is
• 1:23:24
  still immaculate. What if the transfer to the big stage
• 1:23:28
  finally pays off for the friend of the pod Braden Down.
• 1:23:32
  What if it's just an absolute super novaseason and the
• 1:23:35
  kid that can play defense has developing power, is an
• 1:23:39
  absolute gamer. What if he doesn't? What if he doesn't?
• 1:23:42
  And this is not this is not a pick. Justice
• 1:23:45
  Snake Josh has been the darkest dark Corse. But I
• 1:23:48
  think if we're gonna pick one, I might have just
• 1:23:50
  picked the uh I'm gonna have. I'm might have the
• 1:23:53
  thousand to one odds.
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 2: But what if I'd take the biggest pander pick of
• 1:23:57
  all time my entire life. Way, No, it's like Owen Hole.
• 1:24:03
  It's the same concept.
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 4: Whoa I was about to say was more.
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: I was about say, yeah, you were going so Braiden.
• 1:24:14
  Braiden is gonna be my official pick. But I will
• 1:24:16
  tell you Jack and Teely was another guy kind of
• 1:24:18
  had a I mean the defenses is there. I mean,
• 1:24:21
  I think a catcher has some certain chops that a
• 1:24:23
  Golden Spikes winner may you may get some plug. Trebuchard
• 1:24:27
  was a guy that we mentioned earlier as just kind
• 1:24:29
  of the in the same vein I guess as Bogan
• 1:24:32
  Pole or or Braden dowt in in the sense of
• 1:24:35
  just kind of the clay is there. What if it's
• 1:24:39
  just a super nova season for this guy? I don't know,
• 1:24:42
  and it's gonna and here's the thing, we know this, guys,
• 1:24:45
  it's gonna take a supernova season for it not to
• 1:24:47
  be the guy we all agreed on unanimously at the jump.
• 1:24:50
  It's gonna take you. Yeah, it's gonna take a supernova
• 1:24:55
  season or stumbling from Burros Orchilowski or both for that
• 1:25:01
  for anybody but one of those guys, in my opinion
• 1:25:03
  right now, to be that dude. No, I'll take Braden
• 1:25:07
  dowd did. That's a fun pick, and I do think
• 1:25:10
  that he could be a dynamite player again if the
• 1:25:12
  power keeps coming, see what happens. Shout out breath the
• 1:25:17
  friend of the pot. All Right, guys, let's talk about
• 1:25:21
  what we have been working on since we last talked
• 1:25:24
  and what the people can expect to see from you next.
• 1:25:26
  Josh lead us off.
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 2: Uh, yeah, I've been posting on Twitter my all conference teams.
• 1:25:33
  I posted my top twenty five today that I'm probably
• 1:25:37
  going to change my mind down before the season starts anyway,
• 1:25:39
  but that's okay. I will be posting all American teams
• 1:25:43
  starting pretty soon. Also did something fun. I came up
• 1:25:46
  with a bracketology, like a projected field of sixty four
• 1:25:49
  that I put together. I had a ton of fun
• 1:25:51
  doing that. I'm going to post that really close to
• 1:25:52
  the start of the year. And Yeah, I'm excited to
• 1:25:56
  get back on here the next time we record this podcast.
• 1:25:58
  We'll be talking about like actual baseball, like previewing actual
• 1:26:01
  baseball games. And it's just so nice after four months
• 1:26:04
  of doing the whole as Chris Burke likes to say,
• 1:26:08
  the fake season stuff like, it's just I'm so ready
• 1:26:11
  to talk about actual baseball and watch the actual games
• 1:26:14
  that are happening.
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 1: I'm with you, buddy. It's gonna be sublime to chat
• 1:26:20
  the results and to chat predictions and to get into
• 1:26:24
  it with you guys. It's gonna be a great time. Jake,
• 1:26:27
  You've been the engine driving the amateur train this offseason. Man,
• 1:26:32
  I'm curious. You're on the home stretch, but there's still
• 1:26:35
  work to be done for you. What are you working on?
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 5: I am on the home stretch, and hopefully this is
• 1:26:40
  the last podcast that I'll have to mention the conference previews.
• 1:26:45
  It's been such an awesome project and I can't wait
• 1:26:47
  for it to be overnup because I'm tired of working
• 1:26:49
  on it, but just to see the completed product at
• 1:26:53
  the end. It's been a lot of fun. I learned
• 1:26:55
  a lot from it, But like I said, hopefully it's
• 1:26:57
  the last time I have to talk about it. Also,
• 1:27:01
  like Josh, I've been posting on Twitter a lot. I've
• 1:27:04
  been posting some video from some showcases that I've been
• 1:27:08
  to and went to a cent Athlete. They did a
• 1:27:10
  big pro day, a lot of Northeast guys up. There
• 1:27:13
  also a Baseball Performance Center in New Jersey. Shout out
• 1:27:16
  them for having me out the other night, and I'm
• 1:27:19
  going to one more. I'm going to the the PBR
• 1:27:23
  Northeast Pro Case here in a couple of weeks. There's
• 1:27:26
  gonna be a lot of ton ton of draft talent
• 1:27:28
  from the prep guys there, and the plan is to
• 1:27:30
  have an article about it when it's all said and done,
• 1:27:33
  but uh, I have to get the previews out of
• 1:27:35
  the way first. But wait no, but no, that that
• 1:27:40
  that that's what That's what I'm That's what I'm planning
• 1:27:42
  for right now.
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be awesome. Definitely didn't say it earlier, but guys,
• 1:27:48
  we've got our tags, our social handles under our names
• 1:27:51
  here on your screen if you're watching, but it's at
• 1:27:53
  Josh called three at Jake Barge b A R g
• 1:27:57
  uh and then JB all at your readers as well
• 1:27:59
  here in the second as you tell us what you're
• 1:28:00
  working on.
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so mine's at JB underscores to Bostiano. I'm on Twitter,
• 1:28:05
  and for me, it's been a lot of scouting reports,
• 1:28:08
  getting ready for the prep stuff that we're about to
• 1:28:10
  post here soon. You know, James Clark truth through one
• 1:28:13
  on one right here, he's on the way up. A
• 1:28:16
  lot of us are seeing that great weekend but hopefully
• 1:28:20
  soon be working on some live looks. So I'm going
• 1:28:22
  to get in here as the season gets going. I
• 1:28:24
  know I'm gonna be attending a lot of these games,
• 1:28:26
  especially here, so looking forward to an Indiana UNC one,
• 1:28:30
  probably Kentucky UNCG as well. So get some good looks
• 1:28:33
  and video for that for us.
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 1: Is you gonna be dynamite? Can't wait? Do you do?
• 1:28:37
  You want to give a little bit of a teaser
• 1:28:40
  as to well, I'll let you give a range for
• 1:28:43
  where James Clark's gonna be on our PRINP list. Just tease.
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you know, I'll just say that he's probably
• 1:28:50
  gonna be in the top ten percent of the names
• 1:28:52
  that we list on there, so you know, say it
• 1:28:54
  to one hundred. That gives you a good range there
• 1:28:56
  where he's gonna be there. He's going to be. He's
• 1:29:00
  gonna be a great player. So I know we're hiding
• 1:29:03
  with you guys there and some California boys will be
• 1:29:05
  up there so excited about it.
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  Speaker 1: At least at least two at.
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  Speaker 4: Least you are in that top ten I can remember,
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  so yeah, I think it's.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no, no, you're right.
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  Speaker 4: There is a third Tally guy in there. Josh, you
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  love this guy I got there, don't worry, And he
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  threw at that same event that I was talking about.
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  Speaker 1: He's up to ninety six, So it's gonna be electric.
• 1:29:31
  We're gonna have such a good Prep one hundred. To
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  tease that, as Josh said just a minute ago, we're
• 1:29:38
  Josh is kind of leading the train getting us ready
• 1:29:39
  for the in season podcast. Jake has been just an
• 1:29:43
  absolute goliath. Like I said, he's the engine leading the team.
• 1:29:46
  This offseason. Jb has been absolutely murking the the prep
• 1:29:51
  reports and has really helped us to lead that discussion.
• 1:29:54
  The whole team has been going nuts and really given
• 1:29:56
  us a lot of great stuff to think about. This
• 1:29:58
  Prep one hundred. This is gonna be insane. But the
• 1:30:00
  college season is rolling right along. The College Daily Sheet
• 1:30:03
  is gonna be coming up incredibly soon. So guys, if
• 1:30:05
  you're interested in maybe seeing I wonder what those wild,
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  wild and crazy guys at Prospect Live thought about the
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  week of baseball, the weekend action, you got it. All
• 1:30:14
  you gotta do is seven dollars a month, and you
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  can get all of that information at prospectslive dot com.
• 1:30:19
  You can find me between our episodes at drum is Okay,
• 1:30:22
  I'm gonna be resharing and posting and talking about all
• 1:30:25
  of these guys incredible work and the work that we
• 1:30:27
  do through the season. I'm hiped, I'm ready, I'm excited. Guys,
• 1:30:31
  we're less than like less than like ten days out
• 1:30:34
  at this point from college baseball. The next time we talk,
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  you're gonna be hearing us, and hopefully a little bit
• 1:30:39
  more often as well. But until then, until next time,
• 1:30:43
  on behalf of josh On, behalf of Jake On, behalf
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  of JB, and on behalf of the entire amateur scouting
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  team draft team at Prospects Live. I want to thank
• 1:30:51
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  bye bye