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Weekend 10 Recap: Raise Up, North Carolina | Ep. 029 · College Baseball Now

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  Speaker 1: There are a lot of happy tar Heel fans across
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  the country, and we know several of those true UNC believers,
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  and Josh can't wait to hear what we've got to say.
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  Plus the SEC continues to bash one another into smithereens,
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  and the big twelve Merry Go Round is still rolling
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  right along. We've also got some mid major chat and
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  all kinds of discussion that we had on today's episode
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  of College Baseball.
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  Speaker 2: Now, yeah, there ain't no problems, no problems, don't want p.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, let me sit chat. Then what was gone for.
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  Speaker 1: Mane hit the be ut be grab a couple wins
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  with a beds just't.
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  Speaker 2: Even known the kid I had to do with Pat
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  genis we can never be average and they want to
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  problem with the boy they don't know, no status? How
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  don't need so coach time run a week?
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  Speaker 4: God, I want to test that s the.
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  Speaker 2: Standing run the game best to leave whom shiginning ducks.
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  Speaker 4: Counting them up wins.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I love them.
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  Speaker 4: When they count me out accounting of the least shame.
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  Speaker 5: Why believe the game?
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  Speaker 4: Believe? I want to stand.
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  Speaker 5: That standy.
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  Speaker 3: Don't want to stand.
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  Speaker 1: Live in in living color. College Baseball and now comes
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  to you on your favorite podcast listening device, on the
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  YouTube machine, wherever you are listening. We're glad you're here
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  with us. You're friends. Starting with me and your friends,
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  your host, your boy Drew Wheeler, director of amateur Scouting
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  at Prospects Live, joined by my friends and yours. Starting
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  with the gentleman in the top right corner. He is
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  despite what that guy at the beginning of the show said,
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  he is excited for his uh North Carolina tar Heels
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  a big victory. We're gonna get to later.
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  Speaker 4: It's mister Josh calling Josh. How are you, sir?
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  Speaker 5: I'm good.
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  Speaker 6: Got to watch the thunder dominate the first playoff game today.
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  Played some golf this morning. Was striking the ball really well. Weather,
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  it was solid. It's a pretty good day. I'm doing
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  pretty good.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Okay, what's your favorite club to hit with?
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  Speaker 5: Ooh?
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  Speaker 6: I was sitting my nine iron really well today. Short
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  game was rough. I cast myself a couple of strokes,
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  which typically I put really well, but I was just
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  like playing everything really short today.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: I went birdie parr back to back holes today, which
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  doesn't happen for me. So that that got the confidence
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  flowing a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta love to see it. Man, I'm proud of you.
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  Keep up the good play. It's been a good sports day,
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  a good sports weekend for you, Josh.
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  Speaker 4: So all around.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, looking forward seeing how that energy continues into this episode.
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  Speaker 4: Uh. In the bottom right corner it is JB. Sebastiano. JB.
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  The glasses are back, buddy, how was your day?
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  Speaker 8: He knows it was still a good day, but not
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  as good as the past two days. But you know,
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  we got to bring the glasses back. They've been good
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  luck recently, so we're sticking with them.
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  Speaker 4: Sticking with them for sure. Okay, very good, JB. What's
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  the best thing you've eaten today?
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  Speaker 8: Ooh uh, I guess this morning. I went to Carolina
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  Coffee Shop. I got an eggs benedict, So that was
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  pretty good this morning.
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  Speaker 4: So glad to hear it the most important meal of
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  the day, JB. Glad to hear the fueling from the jump.
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  Speaker 1: And finally, in the bottom left corner it is coach
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  Jake Barjorie. Coach, we have heard that the Knights are
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  back on they stuff. We hear the streak has started fresh.
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  Speaker 4: What's the word from Arcadia.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, we had a good weekend this past Friday Saturday.
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  We took three in a conference series. We got one
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  more coming up this last weekend. We'll be last weekend
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  of the regular season before conference tournament and we're playing
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  for home field advantage in the first round. Whoever wins
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  the series that we gets to play at home the
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  next week. So a lot a lot going on in
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  Arcadia world. This this is this weekend.
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  Speaker 4: What's the outlook on this series?
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  Speaker 1: I mean that you you gave us a lot of
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  a lot of factoids there. We gotta be we gotta
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  know what's coming for us for us A hard team.
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  Speaker 7: Well, we're gonna win. So that's that's the only thing
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  you need to look for.
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  Speaker 4: Hard facts listening to it. I hope y'all are listening
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  at home. Who's the team, Drake.
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  Speaker 7: Miser Coordia. That's kind of our arrivals.
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  Speaker 1: Misser Coordia. What a stupid name. This weekend, we're coming
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  for you, dog. Somebody's gonna click that and they're gonna
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  like ruel themselves. This pat nobody anyway. All right, let's
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  get to it, guys. Lots of stuff going on in
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  the college baseball world and officially two and a half
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  of you and Jake, I'm counting you. Your basketball fandom
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  is going to bleed over into this two and a
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  half of you, very excited North Carolina officially now at
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  the top of the acc just like you drew it.
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  Speaker 4: Up, JB.
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  Speaker 8: Right, Yeah, I mean that's exactly how we drew up
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  this week in a nice run, roll, dominant Friday night,
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  you know, even a close game today on Sunday, exactly
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  how we had it dialed in.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely so, JB. I do want to stick with you. Obviously,
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  you got to see a lot of this. We've seen
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  some good footage. We know that you've been at the
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  Bosh checking out how things have been going. What do
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  you think the overall story of the weekend was, as
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  it pertains.
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  Speaker 8: To you and C of course, Yeah, I think honestly,
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  it was taking advantage of a lot of Georgia Tech's
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  pitching miscues. That was the worst I've seen that pitching
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  staff look by far, I think this entire year. It
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  was very strange. McKee was not sharp at all, got
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  hit around. The one thing that was very noticeable about
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  Georgia Tech is when they got put down, they were
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  out of the fight. They were not a good body
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  language team. You put them down, they weren't in the
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  fight anymore. They kind of just quit, and you know,
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  they didn't really have a lot of energy in them,
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  especially like the first game. They didn't have any energy
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  pretty much once we put him down early in the
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  first inning for a long time. And then in the
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  seventh inning, I think it was seventh or eighth inning,
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  they loaded the bases, had a chance, and then they
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  had a two out flyout and that was it. And
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  it kind of from there they just rolled over and quit.
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  Second game was the same way. As soon as they
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  got beat down and burst. He had zero control. I
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  know he's had issues with it, but he hit the
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  backstop three times in the first inning, allowing a run
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  to score on a wild pitch. So it was something
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  that nobody they could have accounted for there, Burris and Lackey.
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  The first two games were combined one for sixteen. Also,
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  I don't think a lot of people predicted that to
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  be the case.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, just the GT.
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  Speaker 8: Offense until today, they really struggled. Even today, it was
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  kind of a struggle for them to cash in on
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  their opportunities, you know, which was it was very surprising
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  to me. So yeah, I came away from the weekend
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  very impressed with how we played in North Carolina played.
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  It was stepping up to the petition I think from
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  Georgia Tech. It was kind of concerning to see them,
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  you know, face with the challenge. They really just kind
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  of rolled over and quit.
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  Speaker 1: I'd say, definitely, I, Josh, want to go to you
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  here because we've talked so extensively about Georgia Tech. But
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  I'm gonna flip the script here for you and let
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  you talk about North Carolina.
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  Speaker 4: Man. I am curious, Josh.
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  Speaker 1: Let's let's have you award a peak pitching performance for
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  you and see and a peak hitting performance for North
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  Carolina across the weekend.
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  Speaker 4: Who are your award winners, sir.
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  Speaker 5: That's a great question. Weekend as a whole, I'll say
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  Schaffner is probably the hitter.
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  Speaker 6: I would say he was six for ten on the weekend,
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  walked five times, had a double. It wasn't necessarily in
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  the biggest spots, but he did what he could when
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  he got the opportunity.
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  Speaker 5: So that was really nice to see.
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  Speaker 6: Olson owen Hole had a great day on Saturday, but
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  on the weekend.
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  Speaker 5: As a whole. It was probably Shaffner pitching.
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  Speaker 6: Let me think, Let me think, I would say it's
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  between two guys, one being a starter, one being a reliever.
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  Du Caro looked really really good in Game one. I
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  think went five innings, only allowed one run, struck out
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  four guys.
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  Speaker 5: That was what you need to see from him.
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  Speaker 6: His his control looked a little bit better than it
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  had been in the past. In my opinion, I think
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  he handled he handled the game really well, like just
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  the moment and having to go up against those elite
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  batters back to back to back. He was really in
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  control of the game, which is what you want to
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  see out of your ace. Obviously, I'll give a minor
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  shout out to Jackson Rose out of relief, the freshman.
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  He looked really really good when he went out there
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  two and two thirds, didn't allow a run, only one hit,
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  two strikeouts.
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  Speaker 5: Slider looked really good. Has been on the it was
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  on the entire day.
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  Speaker 6: That Yeah, I mean that that's comforting to see out
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  of your young guys and guys that aren't you know,
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  Cayden Glaulberg, guys that aren't Walker McDuffie, Matthew matteis like
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  those relievers that you know we're going to be in
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  the highest leverage spot. Seeing other guys that can go
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  to the distance a little bit really good to see.
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  I think DeCaro is probably the big one though, because
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  that's your a's and that's how you started the series.
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  And it was like he made his mark known. It
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  wasn't necessarily like punching out guys when he was getting
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  weak contact and whatnot, and did what he needed to do.
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  Speaker 1: I like that you circle back to Tacara because that
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  was who I was hoping you would speak about, I think,
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  and you even used the exact phrase I was going
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  to use, Josh in responding or pitching the second question
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  to you. We needed to see this out of him,
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  and I think that it's it's difficult to say that
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  we needed to see it.
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  Speaker 4: I wanted to see it out of to Caro.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to see the command come around a little
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  bit for him UH and and I think I was
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  impressed with that for sure, at least.
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  Speaker 4: In terms of UH.
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  Speaker 1: In terms of to Caro specifically, I wanted to I
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  wanted to see him exercise that.
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  Speaker 8: For a fun fact too on this since we're on it,
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  it was his birthday for that start. So that was
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  a happy birthday. Happy birthday. Yeah, happy birthday, Buddy, yep,
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  happy birthday to him. And on that note too, I
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  think you did shout out Rose and he had did
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  a great job today. McDuffie also did a great job
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  in his two hours too. He had three innings, one
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  runner lound on Saturday specs himself, yeah, and one run
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  or one inning to close it out on Friday night
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  and he dominated that performance. So yeah, I think McDuffie
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  two the bullpen was a big winner of the weekend.
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  Speaker 4: I'd say for us, shout out to the UNC bullpen
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  for sure. Definitely got it done. I mean we can
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  say that about.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of facets of the Tar Heel team though,
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  got it done the old Diamond heels. Jake, I want
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  to flip the script for you, man, because obviously the
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  other part of this equation is Georgia Tech. I don't
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  think that they're gonna lose a ton of ground in
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  my mind. I think, honestly, the most concerning thing JB
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  touched on it. They looked lat when I needed to
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  see more fire. I think had I seen some fire,
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  I might have thought, yeah, maybe it's just a bad weekend.
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  I'm curious, Jake first thought, what was your take on
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  Georgia Tech and how do you feel about.
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  Speaker 4: Them going.
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  Speaker 7: So going forward? I don't I mean, I don't think
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  this changes too much of my opinion. I mean, it's baseball.
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  Teams can't just like be hot and be perfect all
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  the time like and have Like you know, we've praised
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  the offense and how much we've talked about them to
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  this point in the year, like they were kind of
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  bound to have a down weekend, And I mean, you
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  can't argue them having a down weekend against the Pigeon
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  staff that you and c has that we've already talked
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  about a lot. So I mean, my opinion about them
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  as a whole doesn't really change too much. But like
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  what stood out to me was just that, like you know,
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  like JB talked about like and like I already said,
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  the offense just came out. You know, they were just
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  they were just flat, Like you know, when when you
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  when teams trying to make a plan for this Georgia
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  Tech lineup, there's usually not like a you know, don't
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  let blank beat us because everybody in it is dangerous.
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  Like they all have good numbers. They all have crazy
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  good talent, but like you know, Burris only had three
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  hits on the series, Lackie only had one, Cursey had one.
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  You know, Ryan Zuckerman a ton of strikeouts this weekend,
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  Like there was they only hit one homer on the weekend.
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  Like it was just it was just something that we
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  hadn't seen up until this point. I think, you know,
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  I think Ken Schmidt had a solid weekend, but like
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  you can't just rely on just one guy to be
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  able to you know, carry a whole weekend like that.
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  And then another thing is like you know that these
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  past few weeks, like this Georgia Tech pitching staff has
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  been really good, especially at the rotation. We've talked about
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  how we had questions coming into the year, but they've
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  kind of picked it up these last few weeks. And
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  like not a single starter for him was able to
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  reach the three inning mark this weekend, which is I
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  mean that is a concern going forward. I mean at
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  the UNC is obviously you know, super good team, but
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  like you want your starters to be able to go
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  at least three innings, right, you know that led to them,
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  you know, having to go to their bullpend sooner than
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  they hoped in there. You know, their arms just kind
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  of got thin pretty quick there. But you know, for
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  this weekend, you know, this proved that, you know, North Carolina,
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  they belong at the top of the a SEC and
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  belong to what I'd assume is ever gonna be everybody's
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  number two team in the country when you look around
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  the rankings this week.
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  Speaker 1: I would imagine, so, Buddy, I think that's a fair
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  assumption for all Right, moving forward, guys to the SEC.
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  We will jump for a couple of stops. Here we go,
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  all Josh, who was the author, I've already forgotten that
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  Lewis Stevenson that he strikes again, Doctor Florida and mister
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  Gator added again Josh, and I'm gonna let you walk
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  us through this one because I believe the old War
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  Eagle was flying over the weekend.
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  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, it was flying games. Well, I don't know,
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  I don't know which way to hit this. I could
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  talk offense, I could talk pitching. I think, uh, I'm
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  just going to stream of consciousness here. I'll just go
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  like one of bide the head storylines once again in
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  the thes were the headliner for Auburn on offense, which is,
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  like I've said many times, so unexpected from before the season.
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  I mean, like there were one of the headliners could
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  have actually been looking at Goryo got hurt. I don't
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  know how long he's gonna be out. Freylich actually had
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  to be taken out of the game because he got
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  it was a fast ball on the ribs in Game two,
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  I think it was. But he came back and eh, yesterday,
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  so he should be all right. The mccrane brothers were awesome.
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  They were the story young game in games two and three. Friday,
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  Branda hit a game tying single and then Mason homer
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  in the fourth and the sixth. On Saturday, Brandon hit
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  a two rb I double in the ninth, Mason hit
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  a two run home run in the ninth in that
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  same inning, and they just like piled it on just
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  to really pour on him that ninth and like solidifially,
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  they just looked awesome, and they stepped up in ways
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  and improved their games in ways that like we did
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  not expect to happen.
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  Speaker 5: But obviously no complaints.
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  Speaker 6: There were some guys that, like admittedly bub Terrell didn't
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  have a great weekend except for the home run he
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  hit yesterday and big spot. He actually like he kept
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  getting moved down to the lineup because he's been slumping
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  bad recently. But everyone else has been picking up, and
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  that's what matters when when someone like that like Freyley
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  gets hurt, Rembered hadn't looked phenomenal, Bob definitely hadn't looked great.
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  Speaker 5: But the bottom of that lineup is really stepping it up.
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  Speaker 6: And that's what I've been hammering at home that I
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  was concerned about for a while, and it's actually coming
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  around finally.
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  Speaker 5: Pitching wise, Alex Petrovic is nails. That's a dude that
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  did not lose his composure.
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  Speaker 6: In Game three, he allowed three runs in the first
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  inning and then did not allow a single one and
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  the other six innings that he pitched only three hits
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  on the entire day. I mean, that's that's been such
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  a he's been such a reliable number three guy when
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  one and two have been as reliable that gets in
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  the SEC this year already, although Andreas Alvarez had his
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  first rough like not great outing in Game one, like
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  the first time we've actually seen him look a little
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  human this year, and obviously we dropped that one, but
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  it's nice see the back of the rotation.
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  Speaker 5: Pick it up. Also quick about Jackson Sanders, because that was.
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  Speaker 6: The number two starter for the beginning of the year
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  and then once Andreas had to be inevitably moved to
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  the week in rotation.
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  Speaker 5: After how good he looked, they had a conversation with.
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  Speaker 6: Jackson Sanders, you know, Butch and coach Tieffer talked to
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  him and said, we're gonna get you to move to
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  the bullpen. And he has looked so good out of
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  the bullpen, and the other day he looked great to
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  four and a third, didn't allower run on one hit,
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  six strikeouts, And he keeps doing that in these big
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  spots too, whether he piggybacks off of Marciano or Petrovick
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  or whatever it may be.
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  Speaker 5: He's looked really good in these spots.
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  Speaker 6: So it seems like the pitching is really starting to
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  come together as already. And this team is so wishy
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  washy and they're playing the wishy washy his team in
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  America this past weekend. So it's kind of hard to like,
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  you know, see if it really means much, but it
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  was nice to see regardless.
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  Speaker 1: Jab, I'm gonna go to you because Josh with a
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  really good lead in there as usual. What does this mean?
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  I guess if this is the this is this is
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  the Moody playing the outright, you know, two faced. In
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  terms of teams, Auburn, we don't know what we're gonna
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  get from one game to the next. Florida could be
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  a little league team one day and beating the Dodgers
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  the next.
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  Speaker 4: It's you don't know what you're gonna get from this team.
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  But JBB, my first question to you is what does
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  this mean in terms of Auburn stock in your mind?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, it's definitely very nice to see if you're an
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  Auburn fan, Auburn coming especially after dropping to the Friday
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  night game and then coming back and winning the next two.
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  That's something that this weekend was something that we saw
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  a lot, actually, and that's kind of been a common
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  thing around college baseball. I'd say a lot of teams
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  drop in Friday night games and then winning the next.
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  Speaker 3: Two after the fact. I think it's kind of interesting
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  for Auburn.
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  Speaker 8: I think it's just great to see the offense kind
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  of showing up, showing that fight, that that want to
• 17:46
  fight back after you know, a couple of tough weekends
• 17:48
  they've had here and there and being so inconsistent, a
• 17:50
  lot of people talking down on them versus Florida team
• 17:52
  that kind of has been more so on the up.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: I'd say a lot of people would say.
• 17:56
  Speaker 8: Despite you know, the midweek loss and that type of
• 17:59
  stuff that people go about best, that doesn't really matter.
• 18:01
  But I'd say the Florida team was turning up going
• 18:04
  into this weekend and Auburn was kind of at a
• 18:06
  place where it was kind of shaky. We needed to
• 18:08
  see what was going to happen, and for them now,
• 18:09
  I think it really is a big up arrow for them,
• 18:13
  so too.
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: I think so too, Jake.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: Want to talk about Florida a little bit with you, man,
• 18:18
  I think that Florida, even despite their inconsistency, that's one
• 18:24
  of our favorite words to describe them, among many many others.
• 18:29
  There were some bright spots here, Blake Sear, if I'm
• 18:32
  not mistaken, was it three or four home runs on
• 18:34
  the weekend? For four home runs on the weekend for Sear,
• 18:38
  looked incredible. Some really really solid pitching performances out of
• 18:42
  Florida too, Jake, including but not limited to your boy
• 18:46
  Russell Sandefer, who really kind of got back on the
• 18:48
  horse after a tough, tough outing last week. I mean
• 18:51
  four and two thirds really just kind of pitched himself out,
• 18:54
  I think eighty nine pitches at the end of the game.
• 18:57
  But then on Friday, we also saw Liam Peerson and
• 19:00
  Luke McNeely really double up in a strong performance all
• 19:03
  things considered, only one ernie for Peterson, another for McNeely,
• 19:07
  but those are two professionals. I thought they both looked
• 19:11
  solid all things considered on Friday.
• 19:14
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I agree, And I'm glad you brought up their
• 19:16
  pitching because that was kind of the one thing I
• 19:18
  was really excited to talk about this. The Florida team
• 19:21
  seems like it's you know, it's it's it's starting to
• 19:23
  get to the point where you know, this is this
• 19:25
  is what we thought they were gonna be. We kind
• 19:27
  of projected them at the beginning of the year to
• 19:29
  be a pitching heavy team and we were kind of
• 19:31
  questioning whether the offense could follow it. But you know,
• 19:34
  for for you know, they're they're game one. Aiden King,
• 19:38
  he's just he's just gonna be good. He was outstanding
• 19:40
  for Florida again, and you'd say it like that may
• 19:43
  sound like I'm not excited about it, but it's just
• 19:45
  it's becoming routine at this point, Like it makes it's
• 19:49
  three three addings in a row for King with at
• 19:51
  least six innings and two runs allowed or less, like
• 19:55
  that's what he's gonna give you when he goes out
• 19:56
  there at this point. And then you know, we we've
• 19:59
  talked about the the inconsistency again of Liam Peterson, but
• 20:04
  this weekend, you know, we got good Lim Peterson. It
• 20:06
  just wasn't enough to win them that game as the
• 20:09
  offense didn't really back them up too much. And then,
• 20:11
  like you mentioned, Russell Sanderford was also good. I'm happy
• 20:14
  to see him, you know, bounce back from last weekend start.
• 20:17
  But you know, their starters as a whole this weekend
• 20:20
  they went, you know, fifteen and two thirds, fifteen strikeouts,
• 20:23
  only allowed two earned runs, had some unearned ones in there.
• 20:26
  I think the defense cost him a couple, but the
• 20:29
  starting pitching was really good for Florida. And you know,
• 20:31
  if you have three guys that you can trust to
• 20:33
  run out there, you know, even though they did drop
• 20:35
  the series, that is definitely something they could take away
• 20:37
  on the positive end after this.
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: One last thing I kind of want to mention.
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: I think, like Jake talking about the starting pitching is
• 20:44
  still looking good, kind of Florida's bullpen was a little
• 20:48
  bit shaky, like Josh right now or specifically, he looked
• 20:51
  really good at the beginning of this year for a while.
• 20:53
  He's a freshman for them, with big stuff they're trying
• 20:55
  to throw into big spots. But he's had like I
• 20:58
  guess this is three weekends in a row that he's
• 21:00
  had like some rough outing looked really bad, and one
• 21:02
  outing against Ole Miss Georgia didn't.
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: Have his stuff really well.
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: He pretty much single handedly blue Game three against US yesterday.
• 21:10
  So I mean, like that's their bullpen as a hole
• 21:12
  has been shaky at times recently, but like him specifically,
• 21:15
  it just kind of caught my eye that this has
• 21:17
  been a recurring thing for about three weekends in a row.
• 21:20
  I don't know how concerned I am overall, because ultimately
• 21:23
  he is a freshman, and like you know, when you're
• 21:26
  a big stuff freshman trying to have you know, trying
• 21:29
  to step into big spots for a team like this
• 21:31
  and sec play, yeah, you're gonna get hit around a
• 21:33
  little bit. So I think I'm fine, like long term
• 21:36
  with them. It's just like I worry about their bullpen
• 21:38
  if they're trying to utilize guys like that in these
• 21:40
  big spots and it just keeps falling through in these
• 21:42
  big game threes or whatever for them. Although granted they
• 21:45
  still want against Georgia, but I think it's just something
• 21:48
  to note.
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I definitely is.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: It's something that we've got to keep in mind amidst
• 21:54
  kind of a very busy weekend of things to be right, Joshua, Right,
• 21:58
  good call. Well, to go back to you, I need
• 22:01
  to quote you though, first, sir, yesterday five twenty five
• 22:06
  pm in the group chat, guys, look at the Georgia
• 22:10
  Arkansas box score when you get a chance. What should
• 22:15
  my eyes see at this point? But hey, football hasn't
• 22:18
  started yet. What's happening here?
• 22:20
  Speaker 7: Oh?
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Only a casual twenty six to fourteen Saturday, a game
• 22:23
  between these two SEC squads. A believable football score, if
• 22:28
  you'll take my word for it, Jake. And yet I'm
• 22:31
  curious what your opinion is on this weekend as Georgia
• 22:34
  picks up a two to one series victory over Arkansas.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: It's the major story for.
• 22:38
  Speaker 7: You, Jake, I mean this was just, you know, it
• 22:43
  just it came down to the to the Sunday game
• 22:46
  like it like the like the first two games, you know,
• 22:48
  before I get into that game three, you know, it
• 22:50
  was kind of a pair of pigeon DULs, right, it
• 22:53
  was vulchco versus Eats on Friday or I think it
• 22:55
  was Thursday, and then fig U and Aoki versus Gibbler
• 23:00
  on on Friday. You know, Kane Aoki was awesome out
• 23:03
  of the bullpen. He went one hundred and three pitches
• 23:05
  I think in five innings. But he's just proven to
• 23:08
  be such a valuable asset. I think that they've kind of,
• 23:11
  you know, that that is the best role for him whenever. Guys,
• 23:14
  you know, if they get a short start out of
• 23:16
  one of these kind of volleyball starters at at points,
• 23:20
  you know they can trust Aoki to come in and
• 23:22
  get him out of it and give him link out
• 23:23
  of the bullpen in that way. And I think saving
• 23:25
  him as as a reliever was a really smart move
• 23:29
  by Georgia. But for you know, for that for that
• 23:32
  game three, I mean there was you know, thirty five hits,
• 23:37
  fourteen extra base hits, eleven home runs, I mean, there's
• 23:40
  just throw the pitching out the window for this game
• 23:43
  and we're just going to hit today. You know you
• 23:45
  and you know for Arkansas, you typically think that fourteen
• 23:47
  hits and four guys having multiple hits, you know that,
• 23:50
  you think that would be enough to get you a win.
• 23:53
  But like it, I mean, it obviously just wasn't. Like
• 23:55
  Michael O'Shaughnessy, Ryan Winn, Brendan Hudson all had two homers
• 23:58
  and Daniel Jackson had three of them. Like Daniel Jackson
• 24:03
  on the year, he's hitting. His slash line is three
• 24:06
  eighty eight, four to seventy nine on base eight twenty
• 24:09
  five slugging. That's a thirteen hundred ops. He's got twenty
• 24:14
  homers fifty nine are like he's doing everything at the
• 24:17
  plate right now. Nobody, nobody can slow him down, nobody
• 24:20
  can stop him. Kobe Branch also had three hits at
• 24:23
  Chikawa had four hits. Like just an insane game to watch.
• 24:28
  And I mean if you're looking, if you're looking for
• 24:29
  runs and you're looking like like you said something about
• 24:31
  a early football season, I mean, this can get you in.
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: The mood for it, for sure, sure can. It's funny
• 24:37
  that you talk about Jackson because.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: He has literally, I think, flipped everybody's collective consciousness on
• 24:44
  what he could be and what he can be moving
• 24:46
  forward this season. I will give you if you're listening
• 24:50
  at home, I'll give you a teaser to the top
• 24:52
  two hundred and CBA players for the twenty twenty six
• 24:55
  MLB Draft. Daniel Jackson is going to debut on our
• 24:58
  list inside the top five fifty players, and I think
• 25:01
  that that's entirely justified considering what he has looked like
• 25:06
  this season so far. He's one of three players that's
• 25:08
  going to debut in the top fifty.
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: JC. I'm glad that you brought him up for sure, Josh,
• 25:13
  I'm gonna go to you really quickly.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: What's your one major takeaway from this series that you
• 25:17
  want you want to point out to the listeners.
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: Oh?
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: Well, while I'm thinking about that, I do want to
• 25:23
  mention I think it's just really funny. In the offseason,
• 25:27
  we weren't even fully sure if Daniel Jackson or Jack
• 25:30
  Arkhamohane was gonna be the starter for Georgia behind the plate,
• 25:33
  and now Daniel Jackson's like pretty much a consensus Day
• 25:36
  one draft pick. So funny how that works over the
• 25:38
  course of like two months. Big takeaway, you know what,
• 25:45
  I gotta pro Arkansas takeaway actually, because this has happened,
• 25:49
  I know, two weeks in a row, maybe three, and
• 25:51
  I'm just not getting it perfectly right. Ever, since moving
• 25:54
  Gackle to the bullpen for them, I absolutely love what
• 25:57
  they do trying to try out the one hundred deep
• 26:00
  gave Gackle Ethan mcelvein stack. In terms of pitching, I
• 26:03
  think that's gonna win you a lot of baseball games
• 26:05
  when you're able to do that, because I think, in
• 26:08
  my opinion and pretty consensus, probably Gackle and macklelvein are
• 26:13
  their two best relievers, and Deets is very clearly their
• 26:16
  most talented arm. Maybe Gackle, but that's another conversation. I
• 26:20
  think if you're gonna try out those three guys, that's
• 26:22
  a surefire away to win games against. You know, they
• 26:25
  held that offense to three runs on Thursday night, An
• 26:27
  offense that we just saw can put up twenty six
• 26:29
  against that same pitching staff depending on who you trot
• 26:32
  out there. So I think it's an odd takeaway considering
• 26:35
  they lost the series. I just kind of want to
• 26:36
  point that out because on the contrary for Georgia, I'll
• 26:39
  give you a negative Georgia thing too. They're still trying
• 26:42
  to figure out their Game three starter. They really can't
• 26:45
  get anything solidified there. They tried Grant Edwards out this
• 26:49
  week and that didn't work at all, and I think
• 26:52
  Ishaka was out of that spot now he's mostly sticking
• 26:54
  with the bat, it seems, so they still have to
• 26:57
  figure out, you know, before they make a deep run,
• 26:59
  who's can be their third starter, because I mean, if
• 27:01
  you're still having those issues where you don't have a
• 27:03
  definitive third starter, you're gonna run issues in the postseason.
• 27:06
  I saw it with Auburn last year. I mean it
• 27:08
  was Sam Dunton and Cam Tilly where I solidified one
• 27:11
  to two and then you're just kind of hoping for
• 27:14
  the best on Game three no matter what, and it
• 27:15
  ends up catching up to you in the long run.
• 27:17
  But yeah, just just just a little note. I think
• 27:20
  it'll be interesting to see how they move forward with that.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Definitely, Yes, those three pictures in a row you Deets
• 27:27
  Gackle Maclvein. It's it's literally like can you survive the
• 27:31
  trained Ninja Assassin?
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: Can you survive or all the way full of spinning
• 27:35
  saw blades.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Yes, but can you survive the flamethrower pointed directly at
• 27:39
  your face?
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: We'll find out.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: So that's essentially JB. Same question to you man, what's
• 27:44
  the major takeaway from this series? Uh, Georgia taking on Arkansas.
• 27:50
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I think it's kind of similar to seeing you know,
• 27:53
  Georgia got put down in game one and then they
• 27:55
  come back and you know, take the next two games.
• 27:56
  It's just kind of the common theme which we talked
• 27:59
  about a little bit. I think it's great to see
• 28:01
  George's offense really back up the pitching even when it faltered.
• 28:04
  I think the pitching this weekend kind of let us
• 28:07
  down in essence of some of what we thought. Gackle
• 28:10
  got roughed up a little bit in his second outing.
• 28:13
  You know, the starts from both sides were not great.
• 28:17
  I think it was just kind of a weekend of
• 28:18
  pure offense and chaos.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: And it's good to.
• 28:20
  Speaker 8: See for Georgia that, you know, you can win a
• 28:22
  slugfest like that, because there's a very high likelihood that
• 28:25
  could come up in a regional for them.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: So it's good to see that right now.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm glad you brought it up. There was an
• 28:30
  odd kind of duplicity to both Gabe Gackle and Matt Scott.
• 28:34
  Saturday just really kind of getting toasted in middle relief.
• 28:37
  That's a role that I think Scott a little you
• 28:40
  know more would have been kind of a possibility for
• 28:42
  a relief role versus Gackle. I think that was kind
• 28:45
  of out of my consideration range. But either way, interesting
• 28:50
  that you point that out. It was just all offense
• 28:52
  all the time. That's what the channel was firmly set
• 28:55
  to jab. I do want to stick with you, as
• 28:58
  Josh wrote in the format us officially fraudulent and I'm curious,
• 29:02
  can you walk us through what happened in a humongous
• 29:06
  big tenap Yeah.
• 29:08
  Speaker 8: Well, Mason Edwards was pretty much his advertised again seven innings.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: He did give up nine hits.
• 29:13
  Speaker 8: Two earned runs, but he had twelve strikeouts, you know,
• 29:16
  a masterpiece from him. And then the wheels just completely
• 29:19
  fell off for the Trojans. Gavin Lorenzen only got two outs,
• 29:23
  three earned runs. Troy Adams and Sacks Mattson came in
• 29:28
  right after him, one inning and one out from each
• 29:30
  of them. Both gave up a run and a lot
• 29:33
  of defensive miscues. There, a lot of bad baseball, just errors,
• 29:39
  misplayed bunts, everything you could imagine to just crumble this
• 29:43
  lead away that they had. I think it was seven
• 29:45
  to two, I believe at one point, and it just
• 29:47
  completely fell off the wheels for them to lose eight
• 29:49
  seven next day. Grant Govell, who's been great for them,
• 29:53
  only three innings, seven earned runs, now what you like
• 29:56
  to see from the Trojan staff there, and they just
• 29:59
  really couldn't put anything together in a run roll game.
• 30:01
  Carson Yassa was great though, seven innings won earned run
• 30:04
  from him technically a CG even though it's just shortened CG,
• 30:08
  but he did get that week. In the Sunday game,
• 30:11
  it just was another bloodbath. Andrew Johnson only went three innings,
• 30:15
  six earned runs from him. Chase Harrel came out of
• 30:18
  the USC bullpen and got one out and gave up
• 30:20
  four runs and sacks Mattson once again two outs, two
• 30:24
  earned runs. So this poor USC bullpen just got beat
• 30:27
  down this weekend, honestly. And you know, Nebraska, they broke
• 30:31
  a home attendance record this weekend as well for a
• 30:34
  series at home, which we didn't mention that in our
• 30:37
  preview that Nebraska's hungry for some playoff baseball, and they
• 30:41
  sure made a statement to try to get it right
• 30:43
  there at that series sweep. So I think the biggest
• 30:46
  takeaway for me at least was just Nebraska is legit
• 30:49
  and USC is pretty much nothing without the starting pitching. Honestly,
• 30:54
  if they don't get the starting pitching, even when they
• 30:56
  did from edwards, they still just couldn't even find ways
• 30:58
  to win the Paul game.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: Well said Buddy, and I'd got to say, officially on
• 31:04
  the air, thanks for the final shove towards the side
• 31:07
  of Nebraska as it comes to pick them.
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: The check is in the mail you, jb Thank you. Josh.
• 31:13
  Want to go to you. Because we've talked so much
• 31:15
  about this pitching staff.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: I feel like I feel like I've kind of been,
• 31:20
  I guess, the pessimist for the Trojans on the show.
• 31:26
  Even still officially, fraudle feels a little harsh, although I
• 31:30
  agree with the sentiment, where are you at on USC
• 31:34
  right now? What is this team obviously flawed? What does
• 31:38
  it look like to you at this point the season.
• 31:40
  Speaker 6: I'm going to answer this in the form of a
• 31:42
  question to the rest of you, you might actually know
• 31:44
  the answer to it. Jake probably has a good reference point.
• 31:48
  I know we look at bracketology stuff. You have a
• 31:50
  reference point kind of where resumes look for a lot
• 31:52
  of people at this point. So I'll just ask y'all,
• 31:54
  it is April nineteenth. How many quad one wins do
• 31:57
  you think USC has right now?
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: One?
• 32:02
  Speaker 5: Three?
• 32:03
  Speaker 6: Yeah, so whatever your answer is, go lower because it's zero. No,
• 32:07
  they have not been a single good team this year.
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: It is a nine. We were yeah, exactly. I know.
• 32:13
  Speaker 6: We had the whole all the talks about how they
• 32:15
  went undefeated for so long, like that has to count
• 32:17
  for something. They cannot travel and win baseball games, like
• 32:21
  the Northwestern Series was kind of weird, but we planned
• 32:24
  it on the weather for that because it was snowy
• 32:26
  or whatever. They just they leave the West Coast and
• 32:29
  they fall apart completely and they just can't play against
• 32:32
  higher level competition or even like I don't even mean
• 32:35
  like the UCLA's of the world on which you know,
• 32:38
  they kind of competed, but like Oregon State, they got
• 32:40
  dog walked in that midweek game, they got mercy ruled
• 32:44
  twice this weekend by Nebraska. It's just they haven't done
• 32:47
  anything of note, and I guess they have. I think
• 32:51
  they have another opportunity against ut UCSB coming up sooner
• 32:55
  in a mid week to get a Quad one.
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: They have Purdue next weekend.
• 32:58
  Speaker 6: Which all of a sudden, that's probably one opportunity, I think,
• 33:01
  or at least near it.
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: So I don't know.
• 33:04
  Speaker 6: I just I think they lost any chances they had
• 33:06
  to host this past weekend, especially by getting swept. I mean,
• 33:11
  taking just one probably still would have put them out
• 33:13
  of the picture. But if you stack up resumes and
• 33:15
  RPIs and everything, I don't see how USC has any
• 33:19
  kind of argument whatsoever. I mean, I wish someone probably
• 33:23
  out there has his number. It would take me forever
• 33:25
  to figure it out. But I wonder how many teams
• 33:27
  in the country have just one Quad one win by
• 33:29
  this point, at least one, Like how many low major
• 33:32
  teams have at least one like it. I can't fathom
• 33:35
  the fact that a team that I'm still gonna have
• 33:38
  ranked at like what do I have them at twenty one?
• 33:40
  A team that I'm still gonna have ranked doesn't have
• 33:43
  a single Quad one win. They just don't lose to
• 33:44
  bad team. They just beat up on bad teams and
• 33:47
  can't beat higher level competition. It's kind of frustrating to watch.
• 33:50
  But I don't have many more opportunities they have. They'll
• 33:52
  have to figure it out.
• 33:53
  Speaker 8: To answer that question that you had, Josh, Purdue is
• 33:57
  in the fifties and they're playing them at home, so
• 33:59
  that's not a quad one opportunity.
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: I thought they were in the thirties. Who was a
• 34:03
  someone else?
• 34:04
  Speaker 6: Oh, not even related at all, but I think it
• 34:07
  was Uad. They jumped into the thirties this past week
• 34:09
  and it made my eyes pop, like, well, that's a
• 34:11
  quad and went at home for teams.
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: But I did for made a jump. I guess it
• 34:14
  wasn't that high.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Jake, want to go to you here next to
• 34:19
  talk about to talk about Nebraska just a little bit.
• 34:23
  Obviously we're focusing on the fact that USC have fallen off.
• 34:28
  I do have a we'll play game time after this, Jake,
• 34:32
  What did Nebraska do right this weekend other than bring
• 34:35
  a ton of their fans.
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: Who need something to do in the Midwest.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: They just packed them into the ballpark all weekend and said,
• 34:42
  now you cheer and I mean you ride that wave.
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: What did Nebraska do right other.
• 34:46
  Speaker 7: Than well, you are right about that. The crowd was
• 34:50
  the crowd was awesome. But to answer your question, what
• 34:53
  they did right, you know, they they they hit they
• 34:56
  hit three sixty seven uh for their bat and averages
• 35:00
  team this weekend they scored thirty six runs on a
• 35:03
  pitching staff that we were talking just a couple of
• 35:04
  weeks ago as being you know, one of the one
• 35:07
  of the best in the country. But they were all
• 35:10
  you know, they were also doing it on the mountain.
• 35:11
  JB talked about the performance that Carson Yassa had seven innings,
• 35:15
  one earned, ended up being complete game there. But you know,
• 35:18
  in game three, Gavin Gavin blahovit's you know, he got
• 35:21
  a little roughed up, but Ty Horn had his back
• 35:23
  after he got up. He got bumped out of the
• 35:25
  rotation I think last weekend, but he got he came back,
• 35:28
  gave him a lot of link out of the bullpen,
• 35:30
  five innings, one runs out of the pen, and then
• 35:33
  on offense, you know, Cayse Sanderson, Dylan Kerry mac moyer.
• 35:36
  Those guys stay hot. But you know, it isn't just
• 35:38
  a case of like a few guys being hot and
• 35:41
  that's it. Like the rest of the lineup is also
• 35:43
  going to and it just helps when your top guys
• 35:46
  performing kind of set the table for the guys near
• 35:49
  the bottom. And you know, I'm assuming that your game
• 35:52
  time is gonna be something related to how we feel
• 35:55
  about these top Big ten teamsters. Uh this uh this
• 36:00
  weekend kind of I think it may be cleared a
• 36:03
  little bit of that. The it's not it's not all
• 36:04
  the way there yet, but some of it.
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: That's not the game time I had in mind.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: But no, let's do two game times in a row,
• 36:10
  because I'm very intrigued with what you're going for, Jake. Jake,
• 36:14
  go ahead, Yeah, twist twist my r like I don't
• 36:16
  love a game time, Jake, go ahead, follow through with
• 36:19
  your question.
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: What's your answer?
• 36:21
  Speaker 7: Oh, I was thinking it was going to be how
• 36:23
  do we how do we feel about you know, besides
• 36:25
  U C l A. We had the Nebraska Oregon USC
• 36:27
  and how we kind of feel about those teams. I
• 36:30
  think it's for me, I think it's in that order
• 36:32
  right now. Uh, Nebraska, then in Oregon then USC. I
• 36:36
  think I think Nebraska is the clear number two though JB.
• 36:41
  Speaker 8: Yeah, it's probably the same sentiment for me. I Oregon
• 36:45
  and USC are like nearly a coin toss at this point.
• 36:48
  I mean, both of them have the same issues week
• 36:51
  in and week out that we discuss. But yeah, I
• 36:55
  think right now, especially after watch that bad weekend from USC,
• 36:57
  it's a Oorgon ahead of them just slightly.
• 37:00
  Speaker 6: Josh, I'll take you behind the curtain a little bit.
• 37:03
  I actually was gonna do that exact same thing, but
• 37:06
  I was texting my boy Peyton at Just Baseball. I
• 37:09
  was texting him earlier about my rankings within each other
• 37:11
  our rankings, and I had I had it the exact
• 37:15
  same way you just lostened at Nebraska Orgon USC, and
• 37:18
  then realized like he called me out for it, like
• 37:21
  Orgon did beat Nebraska in a series. So I feel
• 37:25
  like by default I kind of have to like slip
• 37:27
  it a little bit. So I'll say, now Orgon Nebraska USC.
• 37:30
  I just think that feels right. But in terms of
• 37:34
  how I feel about the team as a whole in
• 37:35
  Nebraska is probably my number one.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: Understand Shout out Peyton, by the way, dog, shout out
• 37:41
  your dog.
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: Uh okay, let's go to another game time really quickly.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: So Josh, I'm piggybacking off of what you just said,
• 37:48
  off of what Jake and JB have kind of collaborated
• 37:50
  that kind of ranking of the big ten teams. Josh,
• 37:53
  you said a minute ago, you know, we gave him
• 37:56
  so much credit for being undefeated for so long, no quade,
• 38:00
  and so falling apart mid season. All right on the
• 38:04
  insane O meter. One being no, you're not insane. Ten
• 38:09
  being this man is crazy, someone take away his driver's license.
• 38:14
  Where do you fall on if Drew said, I'm not
• 38:17
  ranking USC in the top twenty five this week insane
• 38:21
  oh meter?
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: Jake?
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: One to ten.
• 38:25
  Speaker 7: Insane. I don't repeat that. I was a little bit.
• 38:29
  I'm okay repeat it again.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: One would be, No, Drew, you're not insane at all,
• 38:34
  USC is it's valid to say they're not a top
• 38:36
  twenty five team.
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: Ten would be this man's insane. Take his driver's.
• 38:39
  Speaker 7: License for them to not be a top twenty five team.
• 38:44
  I mean, I don't think I don't think you're too
• 38:49
  you know, I don't think you're too crazy to say that.
• 38:51
  I mean, I don't know put a number on it.
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: Three, okay, JB.
• 38:59
  Speaker 8: I mean honestly, right now, you could argue that it's
• 39:04
  a one, because do you think you could find twenty
• 39:06
  five teams in the country that would beat USC. I
• 39:09
  know I could probably, Yeah, I mean, I'm confident you
• 39:12
  can find twenty five teams that you're like, yeah, you
• 39:13
  put them in a series, they could beat USC. So yeah,
• 39:16
  I don't think it's a crazy statement at all. It
• 39:18
  just depends on how you view rankings. I guess in
• 39:21
  that sense, Josh.
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: Three is the number I had in mind too.
• 39:26
  Speaker 6: I personally will be ranking them, but like, I totally
• 39:29
  get it.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: If someone doesn't, All right, well we'll see what happens
• 39:34
  in our rankings this week.
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: All right, guys, let's.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: Move through a couple more pretty quick. Texas officially back
• 39:42
  on track. They have refound the space between the mustard
• 39:45
  and the mayonnaise on the road, and they get a
• 39:48
  huge series win, top fifteen victory. Josh, I'm gonna let
• 39:52
  you give me. We'll say, we'll give you a minute
• 39:56
  to give me your main takeaway from that series.
• 40:01
  Speaker 6: Main takeaway Texas rotation is as advertised, or the pitching
• 40:06
  staff is as advertised, and we knew that there's a
• 40:09
  little bit of it. Being Bama's top guys didn't really
• 40:12
  come through. Justin Lebron with three for eleven on the weekend,
• 40:15
  struck out four times, didn't have a single extra base hit,
• 40:18
  although he stole a few bases. Rice Falor two for
• 40:20
  eleven six strikeouts. But the top of the rotation for
• 40:25
  Texas looked really good and they switched things up a
• 40:27
  little bit, which apparently is gonna become permanent. Schloss said
• 40:30
  before the weekend that the reason Dylan Valantis was their
• 40:33
  Friday guy instead of Sunday is because since that Sunday
• 40:36
  game last week against Texas A and M got canceled,
• 40:39
  he didn't want Valantis sitting fifteen games or fifteen days
• 40:42
  before pitching again.
• 40:44
  Speaker 5: But he's come out ever since the Friday game.
• 40:46
  Speaker 6: I'm put on record that that's gonna be what they
• 40:48
  go with permanently moving forward. It's gonna be Valantis, Rio
• 40:51
  Haas and Dan Harrison, which to be on it since
• 40:54
  before the season started. We all kind of figured that
• 40:56
  would happen at some point, but wrote rio Ja has
• 40:58
  looked so good this year, and this Sunday of Atlantis
• 41:00
  thing was working so well that we thought they might
• 41:03
  as well just stick with it. So you know that
• 41:04
  last game getting rained out might have been a blessing
• 41:07
  in disguise for Texas long term because they might have
• 41:09
  gotten the rotation fully figured out. But yeah, he went
• 41:12
  six innings, only allowed two runs and those both came
• 41:14
  in the sixth inning, punched out twelve guys.
• 41:17
  Speaker 5: He looked really good.
• 41:18
  Speaker 6: I think, Yeah, that's probably my big takeaway as you're
• 41:21
  going to see a little bit different of a rotation
• 41:23
  from Texas coming up at least the order, but it's
• 41:27
  still no questions, it's probably how it should be and
• 41:29
  in terms of cheered you know, talent, whatever you want
• 41:31
  to call it, kind of how we figured it would
• 41:33
  be from the beginning of the year.
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: Jake major takeaway there for the Texas and Alabama series. Man,
• 41:40
  I'll give you better minute to riff on what you
• 41:41
  think stands out most to you.
• 41:45
  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, I think Josh went a little over a minute,
• 41:46
  but that's okay.
• 41:48
  Speaker 5: I do that.
• 41:52
  Speaker 7: No, but I'll just say, you know, Texas, this Texas team,
• 41:56
  you know they're back. I mean, but I mean they
• 41:58
  never left obviously, but they got right back on track. Also,
• 42:02
  welcome back rugeriohas you know he had he had a
• 42:04
  double digit strackout adding of his own. Luke Harrison was awesome.
• 42:07
  He struck out ten in his start today. Bullpen was great.
• 42:12
  They only allowed five runs this weekend as a team,
• 42:15
  so job well done for them. And then on offense,
• 42:18
  you know Aiden Robbins, Carson Teny, Adrian Rodriguez, Anthony Pack
• 42:21
  like they're they're all really good this weekend. They're all
• 42:24
  forces to be reckon with. And then for for Alabama,
• 42:28
  like you know, it's never easy going to Austin for
• 42:30
  a series, but this Bama offense was was almost sound
• 42:33
  asleep the whole time. They only had they only had
• 42:37
  seven hits in the first two games. And then but thankfully,
• 42:40
  you know, Miles up Church, Aston Crowther had their best
• 42:43
  stuff going today to keep this one from being a
• 42:45
  sweet But they're gonna be more. They're gonna need a
• 42:46
  little bit more going forward, especially offensively.
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: Or I think I think we're around in the money.
• 42:52
  Jack Jbi, same question, man, you got about a minute.
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: What are you thinking is the major takeaway from the
• 42:57
  Bama Texas series?
• 42:59
  Speaker 5: For me?
• 43:00
  Speaker 8: It said Sam Coozar is absolutely dominant. I mean he
• 43:03
  struck out eight of the twelve outs he had this weekend,
• 43:06
  a three inning save on Friday night, no hits, allowed,
• 43:10
  one walk, five K's and then just a straight up
• 43:13
  one inning save all three guys punched out nothing fancy
• 43:17
  on Saturday. I mean, it's crazy to see a guy
• 43:20
  like that just become absolutely dominant out of the Texas bullpen.
• 43:23
  And I think that's a weapon that nobody's really talking
• 43:25
  about for them too, to replace the guy that had,
• 43:27
  like Valantis last year in that pen, just a nice
• 43:30
  move him out of the way and put a new
• 43:32
  guy in there and Valantis in the rotation.
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: So I think that's the biggest takeaway for me.
• 43:36
  Speaker 4: The rich get richer, right JB.
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they do.
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: Absolutely.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: Let's move on, guys, because we've got a couple of
• 43:42
  open ended topics that I'm really excited to get to. Josh,
• 43:47
  you kind of formulated this one and the next one.
• 43:49
  I'm gonna let you lead this discussion here on the
• 43:52
  format folks at home, it just says, is the Big
• 43:55
  twelve even real? Let me tell you no, it's not. Josh,
• 43:59
  go ahead proceeds.
• 44:02
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 44:02
  Speaker 6: I mean to be honest, this weekend as a whole
• 44:04
  wasn't the craziest Big twelve weekend we have. But just
• 44:06
  if you look at it from top to bottom, or
• 44:08
  I guess from top to bottom of the top bunch.
• 44:11
  Speaker 5: It's just so clustered and you never know what to
• 44:13
  make of these teams.
• 44:14
  Speaker 6: I have no idea of the top four teams, meaning Kansas,
• 44:18
  West Virginia.
• 44:19
  Speaker 5: Arizona State, and UCF.
• 44:21
  Speaker 6: I have no idea who I think is the actual
• 44:23
  best team, nor who I think is going to finish
• 44:27
  the conference on top in terms of like conference record
• 44:30
  going into the tournament.
• 44:31
  Speaker 5: One I disappeared on my own screen. That confused their
• 44:37
  first act.
• 44:39
  Speaker 6: I think Kansas probably has the easiest road to finish
• 44:43
  out the season so like, and they have a two
• 44:45
  game lead on the conference. They finish with Kansas State
• 44:48
  on the road, which will be super fun. They have
• 44:51
  Arizona at home, West Virginia at home, and BYU on
• 44:54
  the road, which isn't the easiest thing in the world,
• 44:56
  but compared to the other schedules, it's really not that bad.
• 45:00
  Speaker 5: I don't know. They looked.
• 45:02
  Speaker 6: I mean, they got killed in game one against Oklahoma
• 45:04
  State this weekend, but they took the next two and
• 45:06
  it was fine. The weirdest result from this weekend was
• 45:09
  you see losing a series at Utah, which look out
• 45:12
  for Utah, by the way, because they're just they're they're
• 45:13
  kind of right there, and they're trying to push their
• 45:15
  way up into that upper echelon. So it should be
• 45:18
  fun to see what they do down the line. But like,
• 45:22
  I don't know, I think that Kansas is probably the
• 45:27
  team that's gonna come out on top of the Big twelve.
• 45:29
  I think talent wise, probably West Virginia. I think their
• 45:34
  RP I'll finished highest two, probably, although they and Kansas
• 45:37
  are the only two in the top thirty.
• 45:39
  Speaker 5: But I don't know. I have no idea, No one does,
• 45:42
  no one ever.
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: Will don't don't no, no, no, Josh, that's not true RPI. No, no, no,
• 45:49
  not true. Yeah, leader the Big twelve is.
• 45:56
  Speaker 6: The top four. But yeah, I forgot about that somehow.
• 45:58
  I didn't even mention Sincinnata.
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: You know respective boys in Cincinnati.
• 46:02
  Speaker 4: I know Drew, so JB.
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: I do want to get your take on this kind
• 46:06
  of the top of the Big twelve. What does it
• 46:08
  look like for you if you had to say, I
• 46:10
  like what Josh was kind of looking at it in
• 46:12
  terms of who do we think is going to finish
• 46:14
  this season atop the Big twelve?
• 46:15
  Speaker 8: Who?
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: But then at the same time, who's the most talented
• 46:18
  team in the Big Twelve. That's kind of a separate discussion.
• 46:22
  Speaker 6: Sorry, before you say that, can I mention I completely
• 46:24
  misspoke you cfius Cincinnati, not Utah. I don't know why,
• 46:29
  Like I don't know why I said that, But anyway, continue,
• 46:32
  I don't know where that came from.
• 46:34
  Speaker 4: You were thinking about Logan Hughes and how he and.
• 46:36
  Speaker 6: His well you c F and Utah play next week,
• 46:39
  So I think that kind of got in my mind,
• 46:40
  But I don't know.
• 46:41
  Speaker 5: Continue day dreaming, day dreamer over there happens?
• 46:49
  Speaker 4: Well, JB, what do you think? I guess if you
• 46:50
  wanted to talk about.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: Kind of do you concur with Josh that Kansas has
• 46:55
  probably got one of the easier paths to finishing the
• 46:58
  season a top the Big Twelve?
• 46:59
  Speaker 4: But do you make the most talented team in this.
• 47:01
  Speaker 8: Conference winning it from a regular season standpoint? Yes, winning
• 47:07
  a tournament no, I don't think that Kansas is the
• 47:11
  front runner to win their own tournament. Honestly, that's just
• 47:14
  my opinion on their talent level. I think, now this
• 47:19
  is probably gonna get some flat because I know you guys.
• 47:21
  Speaker 5: All love it.
• 47:21
  Speaker 8: But the team that I think is sneaky in this
• 47:23
  bunch is Cincinnati, Like I could really see Cincinnati going
• 47:26
  in there and having a really great week in a
• 47:30
  tournament style system like that for that reason. But right
• 47:34
  behind them, probably for me, is West Virginia. They always
• 47:37
  seem to find a way to get things done. So
• 47:39
  my two favorites probably to win the conference quote unquote
• 47:42
  win it through the tournament would be West Virginia and Cincinnati,
• 47:47
  But the regular season title I think will go to Kansas.
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: Like Josh was saying, for what.
• 47:50
  Speaker 6: It's worth, Cincinnati's schedule ends out like relatively soft too,
• 47:54
  so they can work that way into a top four seed.
• 47:56
  They host West Virginia this week, which is fun, but
• 47:59
  like having them at home is it's difficult, but having
• 48:02
  them at home helps. Then they go to Houston to
• 48:05
  Kansas State and host Texas Tech, and I think ending
• 48:08
  with a host against Texas Tech and like getting Houston
• 48:11
  on the road instead of like a tougher team on
• 48:12
  the road, I think it plays up pretty favorably that
• 48:15
  they could actually like you know, jump a team like
• 48:19
  like I don't know, Arizona State's Arizona State schedule isn't
• 48:22
  that bad, but like UCF, it's the year at Utah,
• 48:25
  Arizona State at Baylor, Kansas State, Like, that's.
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: Not fun through a state's end of season schedule because
• 48:32
  I'm you guys haven't talked about Arizona.
• 48:35
  Speaker 6: State yet, right They host Baylor next weekend, which is
• 48:38
  aderline postseason team. They go to UCF, tough, they host
• 48:44
  Oklahoma State, another borderline postseason team, and they go to Houston,
• 48:48
  which is actually not that bad. But going on the
• 48:51
  road is you know, always difficult.
• 48:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't mind that.
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: Like, I think it's honestly just as challenging as either
• 48:59
  Kansas or Cincinnati's season ending stretch. That that's tough at
• 49:06
  u c F is gonna be an interesting test for
• 49:09
  Arizona State, Jake. I do want to get your input
• 49:12
  here though, just looking at the looking at the kind
• 49:15
  of scope of the Big twelve right now, who in
• 49:17
  your mind is the top team of this pile?
• 49:22
  Speaker 7: You know that that that is a tough ques. I still,
• 49:26
  you know, I'm with them to also with the Kansas thing.
• 49:29
  They're gonna, they're gona they have the they have the
• 49:31
  best path to win the regular season. I think they're
• 49:34
  gonna get the the you know, they're gonna they're gonna
• 49:37
  get the regular season title and all that kind of stuff.
• 49:39
  But I mean, I still like, I still like Arizona State.
• 49:46
  Like their offense was just on full display this past weekend.
• 49:49
  You know, they played by U for what it's worth,
• 49:51
  but like they went on the road and won that series.
• 49:53
  Not not really an easy task to to win a
• 49:56
  road series in conference play no matter who you're playing against.
• 50:01
  I think I like them, But can I go, like
• 50:04
  to go a little bit, you know, off a little bit,
• 50:07
  you know, dress as the as the resident Big twelve
• 50:11
  guy here on our show. Can I have the Can
• 50:14
  I have your permission to re enter TCU into this conversation,
• 50:21
  like I was gradually allowing.
• 50:23
  Speaker 4: I think I'm so tapped out on TCU though.
• 50:26
  Speaker 7: Okay, I was the highest on them in the preseason.
• 50:29
  Like they're sitting at ten and eight in Big Twelfth
• 50:33
  play right now. They're one game behind U c F
• 50:37
  and Arizona State are tired for third and they just
• 50:41
  they you know, they picked up a big week a
• 50:42
  big series victory over Baylor this weekend, you know, big
• 50:45
  big weekend for Brunson. Lance Davis and Zach James were
• 50:50
  good on the mound and to end there to end
• 50:52
  their season, they have Houston, Oklahoma State, and Utah and
• 50:56
  then they go to West Virginia, which is obviously gonna
• 50:58
  be tough, but like, I think there's a path there
• 51:01
  for them to get some wins. Now, I'm not ready to,
• 51:04
  like I'm not ready to put them over the other four,
• 51:06
  probably not Cincinnati either, but like you know, I'm paying
• 51:08
  a little bit closer attention as we get you know,
• 51:11
  deeper into the season, their schedule lightings up a little bit,
• 51:14
  uh and just you know, I think they have a
• 51:16
  good opportunity to spring together some wins here at the
• 51:18
  end of the year.
• 51:19
  Speaker 6: I will say that, Like the schedule is that schedules
• 51:22
  really favorable to end of the year for them, I will
• 51:24
  give you. But just something about the what watching what
• 51:28
  their offense did against Arizona last weekend and losing a
• 51:31
  series to Arizona, like this year's Arizona team just did
• 51:35
  something to me, like there's like a mental block at
• 51:37
  this point, Like I watched it. In my mind, I
• 51:39
  mentally just blocked them out of all Big twelve contingent,
• 51:42
  which probably isn't fair, but I did do it.
• 51:44
  Speaker 4: Josh. I was going to say a taste in my mouth.
• 51:46
  But it's the same exact concept.
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: I just and Jake, it's not fair, Josh. Josh is right,
• 51:51
  it's not fair to say. But I just something about
• 51:54
  this TCU team just feels like Anchovi's on my Sunday.
• 51:58
  It's something real, really weird, and I don't like it.
• 52:02
  I and again, this is gonna be blaspheming and Josh
• 52:06
  is gonna throw something at me. But I'm starting to
• 52:08
  feel the same way about Texas Tech.
• 52:10
  Speaker 5: I just know that's not ridiculous. I'm with you, as
• 52:13
  much as I hate to say that, I'm with you.
• 52:15
  Speaker 4: So I guess. I guess.
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: The major point to wrap up here is that if
• 52:19
  we're talking teams, who it's gonna be like, Wow, these
• 52:22
  guys won of the conference champions in the conference tournament
• 52:25
  Houston BYU Tech Arizona are kind of the only teams
• 52:31
  that I'll be like, WHOA like, couldn't see that coming. Like,
• 52:34
  there's a huge cluster of middling teams in the Big
• 52:37
  Twelve that I think could could do it. If they
• 52:40
  all get hot, it could happen. Like Oklahoma State's got
• 52:43
  a squad, they've got some offense, they're pitching has been suspect,
• 52:48
  especially you know, without a Hudson Barrett kind of leading
• 52:51
  and anchoring them in the middle of the weekend. But
• 52:53
  I think we could say that had a lot of teams,
• 52:55
  Cincinnati has not looked like Cincinnati.
• 52:57
  Speaker 8: Now.
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: They had a killer start to the year and they
• 53:00
  want a humongous series this weekend over UCF.
• 53:02
  Speaker 4: But I just think the Big twelve has.
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: Been particularly compelling in that regard that at any given
• 53:08
  week I think I've got two or three atop the conference.
• 53:11
  In my brain, it's Arizona State, West Virginia, Cincinnati. I
• 53:16
  would put them above the ucfs of the world, above
• 53:20
  the Kansas is and Kansas States of the world. Kansas,
• 53:23
  Kansas is close, though. I gotta give Kansas.
• 53:26
  Speaker 6: I'm about to say, I feel like, just by default,
• 53:28
  they have a two game lead on the conference.
• 53:29
  Speaker 5: You gotta give.
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: I gotta go Kansas more than that, I think looking
• 53:33
  at it in terms of just what team I trust
• 53:35
  the most though any given weekend. Of course, like you said,
• 53:39
  combining past results, though, Josh, Kansas gotta get some more credit.
• 53:42
  Old Drew's got a hush about Kansas and give up
• 53:44
  some red, all right, Josh walk us through this next
• 53:47
  one because we're talking about mid major conferences that have
• 53:51
  multiple bids towards the postseason, and we got a lot
• 53:54
  of conferences to run through, so I know, we gotta
• 53:56
  put the accelerator on for this.
• 53:58
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I don't know how you want to
• 54:00
  do this.
• 54:00
  Speaker 6: I kind of just thought about, like, there's three mid
• 54:02
  major conferences I think are.
• 54:06
  Speaker 5: Pretty much locks.
• 54:07
  Speaker 6: I don't want to say locks, but it feels like
• 54:09
  it to get multiple bids into the tournament in the postseason,
• 54:13
  and it's some really fun races at this point too.
• 54:15
  I mean, I think my favorites Conference USA. I mean
• 54:19
  there's three teams within the top thirty of the RPI,
• 54:22
  and the standings are like they could get fun down
• 54:26
  the stretch too. Jacksonville State sixteen and two in conference,
• 54:29
  Missouri State's fourteen and four. One game behind them is Liberty,
• 54:33
  who beat Dallas Baptist this weekend at a series, who
• 54:36
  is one game behind them, and those four teams all
• 54:39
  kind of I don't think. I don't think DBU is
• 54:41
  gonna get a get a at large bid because they
• 54:43
  have a sixty eight RPI, but like as it stands
• 54:46
  right now, Liberty is twenty three in the RPI, Missouri
• 54:49
  State sixteen, Jacksonville States thirty. I think I think that'll
• 54:53
  be a lot of fun coming down the stretch, and
• 54:55
  the sun Belt in American could be too, if y'all
• 54:57
  wanted to hit on that. I think like there's obviously
• 54:59
  a clear top level of the sun Boat, but the
• 55:02
  Americans up for grabs with anybody. If no one's gonna
• 55:05
  mention my South Alabama Jaggs before I get out of
• 55:07
  here and talk about the Someboat, I do want to
• 55:09
  mention them.
• 55:10
  Speaker 5: They are third in the conference on the sun Belt
• 55:12
  right now. That played.
• 55:13
  Speaker 6: They host Southern miss this next weekend. They can hop
• 55:15
  in a second. So go Jags.
• 55:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, get out at Jags, JB.
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: Looking at these mid major conferences, any teams that catch
• 55:23
  your eye, emits some pretty interesting, as Josh said, pretty
• 55:26
  interesting racist coming.
• 55:27
  Speaker 4: Down to it.
• 55:29
  Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, I think that the Belt, you know,
• 55:31
  it's the power to at the top.
• 55:34
  Speaker 3: Southern missing Coastal Carolina. We've all been interested.
• 55:36
  Speaker 8: I feel like we haven't talked about Coastal in a while,
• 55:38
  but they've consistently found a way to win without their
• 55:40
  top two arms, which we really doubted and they've kind
• 55:43
  of cruised along now and the offense is kind of
• 55:45
  picked up, so we're seeing their winning ways kind of
• 55:47
  come back.
• 55:48
  Speaker 3: I think that's great.
• 55:49
  Speaker 8: We talked about Southern missing their struggles recently, but they
• 55:52
  picked up a nice win this weekend, which is nice
• 55:55
  for them. Outside of that, you know, I love Liberty,
• 55:59
  That's just my thing, you know. I think Blenn Blair,
• 56:01
  he's been great.
• 56:02
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 56:02
  Speaker 8: I think it's a fun team to watch, Liberty. So
• 56:04
  that's the only one that I'll definitely keep an eye
• 56:06
  on that I've been a fan of. And then outside
• 56:10
  of that, I think one team that this is outside
• 56:13
  of that realm, but I think it's fun to mention.
• 56:15
  If we're going mid majors, Gonzaga is thirty fifth in
• 56:18
  RPI from the West Coast Conference. I think that's really
• 56:21
  something interesting to see out there. But that's that's kind
• 56:25
  of my takeaways from the mid majors.
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: Love it, love it, love it all Right, I'm going
• 56:30
  to pass the whisk and turn up the heat, Chef Jake,
• 56:33
  mid Major time cook Daddy, Let's see what.
• 56:35
  Speaker 4: You got to say.
• 56:38
  Speaker 7: I mean, out of these, I'll talk about I'll talk
• 56:40
  about the American I think the Sun Belt is uh,
• 56:43
  it is coastal and southern mess Like there's a sneaky
• 56:47
  like Troy is sneakily kind of like back in it
• 56:49
  a little bit, like you know, we kind of rolled
• 56:51
  them out. They had they had some struggles at the
• 56:53
  beginning of the year. They're back. They're back ten and
• 56:55
  eight and some Belt play. They still get to play
• 56:58
  Josh South Alabama Cougar's Uh, they get they have midweeks
• 57:02
  against Jack State, Georgia, Alabama U A B. Like if
• 57:06
  they can get like a couple of wins there, maybe
• 57:08
  like they could boost their RPI a little bit. I
• 57:10
  think predicted there around like forty seven, which is which
• 57:13
  is really really borderline at that point. But like you know,
• 57:16
  I don't think that's predicting them to get many wins
• 57:18
  there out of the games that I just mentioned, So
• 57:20
  like if they could pull off one or two of
• 57:21
  those that could that could give them a pretty solid boost. Uh.
• 57:24
  But you know, for the for the American you know,
• 57:26
  it's it's it's UA b uts A E C U
• 57:30
  and then South Florida, like they're all they're all right there.
• 57:34
  Weirdly enough, South Florida is kind of kind of the one.
• 57:37
  I mean, Utsa is probably who I like the most
• 57:39
  right now, but like South Florida's right there and there,
• 57:41
  and they're seven and eight. They have a losing record
• 57:44
  in conference place. I mean, they got a little bit
• 57:46
  of a little bit of work to do towards the
• 57:48
  end of the year. But the RPI, I think is
• 57:50
  is probably gonna it's probably gonna hold up for them nicely,
• 57:54
  as long as they don't just fall off a cliff
• 57:56
  at the end of the year. I like, I like
• 57:59
  UTSA UAB obviously, you know, they come off a huge
• 58:03
  series win at USF which was one that none of
• 58:06
  us predicted to happen, and then at the end of
• 58:10
  the year it's UAB at UTSA. So that's going to
• 58:12
  be a super fun series. And I'm sure if everything
• 58:15
  everything holds up the way that it looks right now,
• 58:18
  that's gonna be one that we're going to talk about
• 58:20
  quite a bit that week, I think so.
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: I think so, just while we're on the time of
• 58:25
  Conference USA, I just got to shout out my alma mater,
• 58:29
  the Middle Tennessee State Blue Raiders taking a three to
• 58:32
  zero series win over Delaware.
• 58:34
  Speaker 4: Don't you look at Delaware's conference record.
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: That's not important, all right, boys, let's move on talks
• 58:40
  to midweek's really really quick. I got a little bit
• 58:42
  to discuss here because Josh, I think you said it earlier.
• 58:45
  Kind of top heavy but super interesting slate of midweek games,
• 58:50
  mister catlet, I do want to start with you pick
• 58:52
  a game that you're most interested in seeing this midweek
• 58:55
  session and why.
• 58:57
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think my most interesting one is the rematch
• 59:01
  of one of the more fun games we've seen this
• 59:04
  year that happened a few weeks ago, Missouri State going
• 59:07
  to Arkansas. That fifteen to fourteen game that we saw
• 59:12
  g win was and I guess, like three ish weeks ago,
• 59:15
  super fun. And I mean Missouri State's red hot right now.
• 59:19
  They're coming off I mean, we just talked about them.
• 59:20
  They're sixteen in the RPI, coming off a series win
• 59:22
  against Western Kentucky.
• 59:24
  Speaker 5: I don't think they've lost a.
• 59:26
  Speaker 6: Series since that one DBU one they lost on the
• 59:28
  road there, but I mean they've they've racked up a
• 59:30
  ton of big series wins in Conference USA. Arkansas is
• 59:34
  in a weird spot, like always, I mean, that just
• 59:36
  tends to be how things work out for them. But
• 59:39
  if I mean Missouri State could pretty much lock themselves
• 59:42
  in or not lock themselves in. But I feel like
• 59:44
  they have a good chance to lock themselves in as
• 59:46
  a two seeds in the postseason and they can pick
• 59:48
  up another big Quad one win.
• 59:50
  Speaker 5: Here. Should be high flying, should be lots offense, should
• 59:53
  be fun.
• 59:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, JB.
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: Same question to you man, looking at the midweek, what
• 59:59
  game what's peak in your eyes the most? What's gonna
• 1:00:02
  be must watch TV at the Sebastiano Television.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 8: Yeah, for me, it's definitely Georgia Tech Georgia. After watching
• 1:00:08
  this Georgia Tech team this weekend, I think it's must
• 1:00:11
  watch TV from the fact that Georgia Tech trying to
• 1:00:14
  bounce back after a real tough weekend and Georgia coming
• 1:00:16
  off a real high from that offense on Sunday, I
• 1:00:20
  think it's really gonna be interesting to see what side
• 1:00:23
  of each team we see. You know, Georgia has really
• 1:00:25
  not shown up in the midweeks this year. We've joked
• 1:00:27
  about that for a long time. I think this game
• 1:00:29
  holds a little bit more weight to them, so they
• 1:00:31
  might kind of pull up.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 3: To the ballpark to play for once.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 8: Uh, But you know, GT and Georgia I think is
• 1:00:37
  the biggest one for me this weekend or this week.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: Don't worries, Jake gonna go to you man wrap us up.
• 1:00:44
  Which midweek are you most compelled to.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 4: See this week.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 7: I'll do I'll do another rematch. And this is kind
• 1:00:52
  of an in state or not kind of it. It
• 1:00:54
  is an in state rivalry with the Oregon Oregon State
• 1:00:57
  uh there there their game earlier in the year, it
• 1:00:59
  went ten to in favor of the Beavers. You know,
• 1:01:04
  both of them are coming off of kind of kind
• 1:01:06
  of weird weekends. Like you know, Oregon State has their
• 1:01:10
  has to make, their has their limitations to their schedule.
• 1:01:13
  They played Fullerton this weekend. They they did drop a
• 1:01:16
  game and then, as JB said earlier how teams typically
• 1:01:20
  do this year, they come back and won the next two.
• 1:01:22
  But losing a game to cal State Fullerton is probably
• 1:01:25
  not something that Oregon State had on their card this week.
• 1:01:28
  And then Oregon kind of similar similar boat they played.
• 1:01:31
  They went to Illinois and dropped a game there, drop
• 1:01:35
  a shootout sixteen to thirteen at Illinois, but they did
• 1:01:38
  come away with the series win. Both coming off some
• 1:01:40
  weird weekends, you know in state rivalry, you never know
• 1:01:44
  how these things are gonna play out, and it's gonna
• 1:01:46
  be It's gonna be fun to watch.
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: I think it will certainly some midweek stuff. I gonna
• 1:01:52
  bring a lot of heat. We've also got another rematch
• 1:01:54
  from midweek Nebraska Kansas running it back and UT San
• 1:01:58
  Antonio text us an m I think so. I think
• 1:02:03
  that'll be an interesting one for sure. Old Drew maybe
• 1:02:06
  tuning into that one. See what's going on in the
• 1:02:08
  old lone Star State, mister Bargerie, old coach. Tell the
• 1:02:11
  folks what you're working on and where they can find you.
• 1:02:13
  Between our episodes of college baseball.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 7: Now you can follow me on Twitter at at Jake
• 1:02:20
  Barge I'm gonna be working on the ranking, the mid
• 1:02:22
  major rankings again this week. It's gonna be another another
• 1:02:25
  tough one to figure out as always, but I always
• 1:02:28
  look forward to diving into those teams and how they're
• 1:02:30
  how they're doing weekend and week out. And then my
• 1:02:33
  love look that I talked about in the last episode,
• 1:02:36
  I'm nearly finished with it. At UCLA, Michigan and Rutgers.
• 1:02:40
  I got to see all three of them in these
• 1:02:42
  last few weeks. So I'll be on the lookout for
• 1:02:43
  that coming out on the site.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 4: Gonna be very interesting. Can't wait to see it.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: Jb where can people find you between our podcasting episodes
• 1:02:51
  and what are you working on?
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 4: Buddy?
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 8: Yeah, it's gonna be at JV Underscores of Boston and
• 1:02:55
  on Twitter. I got some more video that probably get
• 1:02:58
  uploaded at some point on two Twitter here. Also probably
• 1:03:02
  will be working on a little live look from this
• 1:03:04
  Georgia Tech UNC weekend. It felt felt right to do
• 1:03:07
  one for this weekend, So yeah, that'll probably be the
• 1:03:10
  what's coming out?
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: Very good mister Catlett, round us off working They find
• 1:03:15
  you on socials and what are you working on?
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 6: You can follow me on Twitter at Josh Catlet three
• 1:03:21
  and my rankings coming out Bracketology with Jake round two
• 1:03:25
  on Wednesday Ish will probably come out at the Prospects
• 1:03:28
  live account. I've been working effortlessly on trying to get
• 1:03:32
  my top one hundred college Prospects out recently. I feel
• 1:03:36
  really really good about the top like eighty ish right now,
• 1:03:39
  so that might come out in the next week or two,
• 1:03:40
  I really hope. So maybe just like a top one
• 1:03:42
  hundred overall, because there's like thirty ish prep guys that
• 1:03:46
  I feel like, really good about the placements of it.
• 1:03:48
  So I might try and work that in there with
• 1:03:50
  some college guys make a little top one hundred, so yeah,
• 1:03:53
  and look out for that.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna try and get that cranked out.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 6: I have a ton of stuff going on outside of
• 1:03:58
  you know, baseball, unfortunately, but I've been trying to. I've
• 1:04:01
  been trying to dial in on that and get everything
• 1:04:03
  like meticulously put out so I can actually put on
• 1:04:05
  the list that I feel good about for once.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 4: Like you don't know good about the others, but.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 6: Like the list that has pinned on my Twitter right
• 1:04:13
  now is my top fifty college prospect from two weeks ago,
• 1:04:16
  and I hate like fifteen of the place bets.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 5: But there's got good engagement, so I'm keeping it up there.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 4: I do.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: I hate my most recent list too. I just can't
• 1:04:25
  even bring myself to look at it anymore, Like.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, there's dudes, I've moved twenty thirty spots just
• 1:04:30
  from two weeks ago, Like I just you get new
• 1:04:33
  information and you have to adjust.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you get new information. You got to adjust.
• 1:04:38
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• 1:04:43
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• 1:04:44
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• 1:04:45
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• 1:04:49
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• 1:04:52
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• 1:04:53
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• 1:04:56
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• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: We've got a mock draft coming out here soon as well,
• 1:04:59
  all kinds of stuff the site, the College Daily, she
• 1:05:01
  is rolling right along obviously, where I'm getting all of
• 1:05:03
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• 1:05:06
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• 1:05:09
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• 1:05:13
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• 1:05:15
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• 1:05:25
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• 1:05:27
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• 1:05:29
  slack on net. We have got Dru's live looks from
• 1:05:32
  a weekend of Tennessee sweeping Mississippi State. Oh the sweet,
• 1:05:36
  sweet times to be a Tennessee fan.
• 1:05:40
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• 1:05:43
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• 1:05:45
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• 1:05:47
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• 1:05:50
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• 1:06:18
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• 1:06:21
  Speaker 4: Is it me?
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: JB Josh or Jake Jake? Do you have any glasses
• 1:06:24
  sit and shred their handy butchers?
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 4: I don't.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 7: Unfortunately, can you just.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: Like can you just like put your fingers up to
• 1:06:31
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• 1:06:34
  it's Jake. Anyway, until next time, want to say we
• 1:06:38
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• 1:06:38
  Speaker 4: Be nice to yourself, be nice to each other. For Josh,
• 1:06:41
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• 1:06:45
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