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Baseball Should Be Fun! · JustIN Time

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Welcome back to another edition of Justin Time podcast.
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I'm your host, Justin, and with me is Will How?
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About how you doing? How you doing homie?
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Doing a lot better. So I was.
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Man, I was pissed on Saturday. Oh, we're.
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Going to get into what is it we got?
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We going to get, oh man, we going to get into it.
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Man, but they started off last week.
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They played great. Yes, yes.
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I mean, they won on Tuesday, but I'm not going too much into
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that. They won on Tuesday.
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That's the take away. They didn't play great, but they
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didn't play terrible. The offense showed up just
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enough to get a victory. That's all we needed.
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That's fine. The offense took advantage of
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Oklahoma on Thursday night. Thursday night, Oklahoma had
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three errors in one inning. We scored four.
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You know, you take advantage of those things.
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See what happens when you take advantage of stuff that errors
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that go wrong? Instead of you making an error
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and the other team takes advantage of it.
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Works out a little better for you.
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It's a different feeling. But, you know, on Saturday, I
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mean, on Friday night, we didn't play a bad game.
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We didn't play a clean game. And that cost us at the end, but
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we didn't play a bad game. I really think what cost us in
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that game was when Cooper Morrow went down, we didn't have a
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reliever ready to go. We had to bring a guy in, you
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know, and against the number 18 in the country, you've got to be
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mentally prepared. And when you're not prepared to
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go in, at a certain point, you're just not prepared.
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But the offense was dead. It's disappointing, man.
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I just, you know, The thing is, you know, you go into the series
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and you know what the issues are.
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You know, just The thing is, you know the talents there because
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it'll be one thing to have, it'll be frustrating enough to
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not have a team with talent OR just not have a good coaching
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staff. I mean, because there's only so
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much you can do with that. But just when you have the guys
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just on paper, like especially with the way they started the
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season, the way they just crapped the bed again this last
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couple games outside of last night, of course, but just
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overall is this man is they left so much on the field.
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Yeah, and I mean, so you move in the Saturday, we start off good,
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you know, But I said at some point during that game, having
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to come back with runners on the corners or in no outs or runners
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on 1st and 2nd with no outs was going to come back to bite you.
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It didn't happen in the first couple of innings.
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We were able. Schmidt was able to get hisself
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out, then Didgery was able to get himself out.
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Jay Johnson for the first time, made me question him.
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Usually because he got the shirt on the MJ we trust.
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Yeah, where I questioned him was I wanted to know why leave
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Guidry in for the ace. You should have put in your
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fresh arm. He was struggling towards the
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end and we were able to get out without giving a run up.
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But why are we putting in a red shirt sophomore who hasn't had
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much college experience due to injury his freshman year?
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He's he's basically a freshman coming in in the SEC.
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Why are we put Sharon in with no outs and runners on 1st and
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second against the top of their lineup?
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Or let me check. Actually, I think he might have
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let Guidry load the bases before we made the swap.
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Yeah, let's see. That's stats.
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I don't want stats on what? The books.
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Let's see. He pulled him in the A so first
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one walked, then a single up the middle, advanced in the third
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single in a walk. So the bases were loaded when we
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swap Sharon in for Guidry, you know, then he comes in on one
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and two in pits of the guy and they scored, you know, So your
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decision to leave Guidry in and not put Sharon in to start with
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ultimately ended up costing us that game, you know?
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Yeah, just yeah, that that really, I was perplexed by that
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as well because that was one of the big stories over the last
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over the weekend because you you see yourself losing it a little
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bit. And I'm just like, you know, if
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you stack up in a bullpen, you know, just you got to get a
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fresh arm out there in that situation.
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Even with Guidry's success this year up, like especially during
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the start of it, you know, I just, I would have wanted a
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fresher arm in there given the struggles, yeah.
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He was obviously struggling, you know.
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So as of filming last week, our team ERA was 5.24524 ERAI wrote
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this down on Monday before last night's game.
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But it's still, it's still good. Our ERA on Monday, they brought
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it down almost a full point as a team, 4.44 Yeah.
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Then after last night, team, ER, it as it stands now is 469, you
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know, And after last night, the batting average, team batting
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average dropped a little bit. It was 277, but they raised it
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back up to 283 last night. Yeah, we had like I listened to
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Musso yesterday like so before the yesterday's game, we had our
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bad average of the team that dropped almost 100 full points
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like since from from after the first eight games up until going
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into yesterday, it dropped like a full almost 100 points as bad.
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Yeah, it was up in like 368. It's like 360.
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Yeah, it was like in the high 3. Yeah.
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Yeah, I don't know if we got the 370, but it was like high 360
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though. Yeah, it was high 360 and it
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dropped down. But the biggest one for me of
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the weekend was Cason. Evan entered that game with I
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think it was a 569 ERA or something like that, and he was
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able to bring it down to 48. Yes, big time.
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Yeah. But you know, the biggest thing
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for me over the weekend is and what's going to come up in the
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next couple weeks, who is going to be the guy on this pitching
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staff to step up until that Sunday start?
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You know, because with offensive struggles the way they've been,
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you know, it's a lot to ask for Evans and Schmidt to come
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through when we're struggling like that.
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Yeah, but. I totally agree.
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You know, and then you've got, I mean, you've got your choices.
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Yeah. And I think he's kind of leaning
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towards going with Newt on Sunday, Jaden Newt, just because
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Newt has was a weeks 1 midweek starter for a while and he
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didn't pitch at all last night. Good catch.
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Yeah, so I think that's where he's leaning.
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You know, Cowan wouldn't be a bad guy, wouldn't be a bad one
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to start, but he's so clutch coming out bullpen lately.
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Yeah, that's, that's the, that's the the conundrum they have like
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because my ideal scenario to replace Cooper Moore because
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you're going to bump every case is going to be on Friday,
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Schmidt's going to Saturday. I'm ideal it would be Cowen.
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That's just me. I would like to see Cowen in
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that spot. But like you said is the bullpen
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aspect because you don't have the the most dependable bullpen
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at this moment even with the arm talents.
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But just because of this sensitive situation, I would
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like to see Cowen at least as of right now, yeah.
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I mean, or I wouldn't let's see, I'm not going to lie, love to
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see I'm going to go ahead and use that new app to pull it up.
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Let's see let's see. I think plugs a lefty and I
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wouldn't mind putting him in if I'm being 100% yeah, he's a
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lefty. You know 2 and O they 568, you
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know ERA, but that's not terrible.
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It's giving you a different look.
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You've got 2 hard throwing righties at this point.
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You're going to go on to Sunday with in go Johnny host staff
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anyway. You might as well put him in for
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the 1st 2 innings, 2 or 3 innings.
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Let him get you what he can. You know right because there's
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no telling they can say he Cooper Moore is coming back in
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two to three weeks. But they kept saying that with
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Guidry last year and in 23 they said it with Edwards and Chase
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sure is that they were coming back.
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You know, they were coming back. They never got healthy enough to
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come back. Yes.
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So there's no telling if he will be back.
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So you need somebody to develop an arrow, you know?
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And they said it was about about a month is what I heard.
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But like I said, I don't you just got to get nonetheless.
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You got to get somebody to step in ASAP that you rely on.
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That's a massive loss, man. Gosh, that's a massive loss.
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Yeah, but, you know, on Thursday night, I was sitting there at
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that game. OK, There was the box wasn't
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packed as usual, like as it usually is because it was a
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Thursday night game at 7:00 PM. Yeah.
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You could hear the guys from the bench cheering for their
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teammates. They will lose.
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They were having fun. You know, Thursday, I mean
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Friday and Saturday there was no fun showing they didn't have
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this team doesn't have an attitude.
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They don't have that strong personality that other teams in
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the past have have. They don't hate to lose more
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than they love to win. And it's showing because we have
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a bunch of guys who I think the only two position players on
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that 2014, I mean, you can throw Stanfield in because Auburn,
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what didn't get good until after he left and came to LSU last
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year. So you got Stanfield, Brown and
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Milam. The rest of them on that team
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have no idea what it's like to struggle.
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They just thought, probably thought they were going to come
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to LSU and LSU was going to be this Omaha team.
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They were going to win. You know, they don't know what
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it's like to struggle because you've got guys like Pearson and
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Aaron Beatty and Curiel. They were on that great team
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from last year as freshmen. So they don't know what it's
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like to struggle. Those guys that was there
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before. I'm in Milan, who keeps playing
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outstanding. He can stand to get a little
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better at the plate. But yeah, you know, Stanfield
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who? Shout out to him home run the
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other day, first one of his season.
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Yeah. Aaron BD, he's struggling.
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But for the no, Aaron BD, I can't say Aaron BD, Jake Brown.
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I mean, Jake Brown's killing it at the plate, Yeah.
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Or was he cooled off a little bit?
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Yeah, this, this was like his, you know, the worst week.
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I mean by me that's I mean 2 errors 2.
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Throwing errors, yeah, but they don't hate to lose and they're
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not having fun. And baseball?
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Baseball should be fun. I'm on camera.
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There you go, KFC, the camera waiting on you.
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You to stop, not the shirt. You know, there you go, Winning
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is fun. Yes.
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And baseball should be fun. Yes, there you go.
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You can get that T-shirt from blank canvas.
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Tees, don't forget people blank canvas Tees you.
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Can also get this one and J we trust from blank canvas Tees.
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But you know, they're not having fun out there.
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That's the problem with a bunch of Major League teams is they
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don't have fun. That's why some of them are so
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hard to watch. They're just not having fun.
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But especially at this level and it's college level, you should
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be having fun. You should be going out there
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and having fun. You're not going to, some of you
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aren't going to see these guys again after this year.
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Yeah, that's. Right.
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You know, you'll never play with these guys again in this team in
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this time. So you got to go out there and
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have fun with your friends and play baseball and that's all it
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should be about. You're not having fun any shows.
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The one game I watched this week where you had fun and you were
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cutting up, you beat the number 18 in the country, 7 to 1.
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You know, but it's evident to me that some of these guys, they
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don't hate to lose more than they love to win.
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And that's a problem. The inning is fun, but if you
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don't hate to lose, then, and it's not just hating to lose,
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you got to hate to lose more than you love to win.
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That's exactly right. And The thing is, when you have
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that attitude, that should be reflected in your performance.
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Like you said, it should reflect in the morale.
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Because like when I see all these inconsistencies on the
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team that doesn't show like I don't, I can't get a, a idea of
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that. You love to, you hate to lose
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more than you love to win. You know what I mean?
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It's just so it's so mass inconsistent right now on the
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field, just like still the same fueling issues, inconsistent
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pitching, you know, subpar offense all all around.
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And we don't get to the pluses in a second.
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But just the man is just like, gosh, like this, Like I said,
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it's still the season, still really young.
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So I mean, I'm not I'm not I'm not pressing a panic button.
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But I know we had said previously, I said, if they
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still look like this this coming weekend, like we, we we said
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give it three SEC weekends. If they still look at some part
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then I can. Yeah, I mean, here, look at it
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this way, OK? They were talking about it last
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night. The league is so close together
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as far as talent goes. Mississippi State Auburn
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Kentucky Texas Oklahoma Georgia In Arkansas Arkansas 12345 5677
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teams are tied for first place at four and 21234 is tied for
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second at 3:00 and 3:00 and then 123 are tied for 3rd at 2:00 and
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4:00 and then the bottom 2 are one and 5 S.
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The bottom two teams in the SEC are only three games out of
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first place in the bottom 123, the bottom almost, you know, the
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next ones. LSU at 2:00 and 4:00 is still
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only two games at the top out of first place.
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There's still time to get it together.
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With the way this league is busted out, sure you know that
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you can get in it and you've got one of the top teams this
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weekend coming to your place. That's right.
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To your house. You can't let them beat you at
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your house. You cannot give up another
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series, man. You gave up two series so far in
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conference. And you've got 2 road series
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back-to-back at 2. Tough places to play coming up.
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Tell me about it. So you need to get it together
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now and play your best ball. You know, you need to come now.
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You need to get it together. You need to play, I mean, like
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we said, batting average. You need to get that.
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This weekend needs to be the weekend that your offense comes
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out of the slump. You're at 283 right now.
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You need to get that batting average back to either in the
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two 90s or at 300. The ERA is at 469.
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You dropped it down almost a full point from last week.
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You didn't walk too many people. You know, you gave up a bunch of
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hits. But some of those shift hits,
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they beat the Oklahoma just beat the shift.
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Yeah, for sure. So, and I get the need where you
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you need to play this, you need to play that, but at some point
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you just got to ditch the shift, let them play straight up and
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let them play their position and field their position.
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You know, the only reason we have a couple, the double plays
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we have defensively is because of Milan.
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Now, I don't know if we'll saw, but I added a category for week
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in and week out. We need to get our fielding
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percentage up. We got to play clean baseball.
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You can't be having throwing errors, you know, let's see,
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where's Steven Milam out on this list?
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Should be at the top. Yeah, there we go.
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Milam is more double plays than two, so I can't count that.
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But you know, you got to, you got to up the double plays.
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We got to get it going. You got to play Milam at short,
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either Caraway or Pearson at third.
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You got to leave him at 3rd and let him play straight up because
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where those guys hit that and beat that shift was where a
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third baseman should be. And I get that you want a short
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hand on the other side, that bag when you move my own from short
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to 2nd during those shifts. But at some point you can't
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beat. You got to trust your field is
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to make that position. And that's the thing though.
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So just like you have to put in order to trust a fielder, you
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got to have people you can trust.
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Exactly. So I mean, you know, yeah, I
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think we're still figuring out our best knowing to put out
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there. I think the outfield is locked
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down. I think shortstop is locked
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down. Yes, I.
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Did like the move on Saturday, put sauna at first?
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Yeah, yeah, I did. And I'm not going to lie, yes,
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we need York to pick his, to pick it up and start hitting and
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get his confidence back up. I think we need turn over at
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first base more than we need York.
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I'm with you there. Like he's just lie on his feet.
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I just like more the more steady a lot.
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I like his. I like his upward trend right
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now and I think. If we're not going to, we're not
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going to use him behind the plate.
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I think we need to put York at DH and have him at first base.
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And as far as catching goes, I think we need to give Eddie
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Yaman a try. I mean, Serna looked great last
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night, but we've got too many pass balls.
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Getting across. One cost us a run this weekend.
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I think two of them cost us a run.
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They it was both air and BDI. Think level 1 kick out to the
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side when he should have blocked you straight up.
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That can't happen. You know, we need to get it
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together, play clean ball and play pitch and catch.
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You know, that's what it all boils down to.
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You got to play clean ball. You got to play clean.
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Let's see how many errors we've got now.
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We had fielding 32 total errors, so we jumped up from last week's
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25 to 3032. We jumped up in errors.
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We need to clean it up. You got to play clean ball.
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There's no reason you should be making this many errors.
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Jake Brown hit your cut off, man.
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You've made two throwing errors this last past weekend that cost
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us runs because you threw it into the dugout and they
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automatically advanced. You know, we've got to play
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clean baseball. That's the only way we're going
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to end. You can't win in this league and
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play sloppy ball. You've got to play straight up
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clean baseball. Offense has to pick it up.
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You know we can't. I think Jay Johnson said one of
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his goals was to team goal was to have three consecutive just
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put the ball in play, clutch at bats with runners in position.
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Yeah, like basically string together like three to four hits
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like string 3. To four hits in making three
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different times we only strung together.
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We only did that once when you've got runners in scoring
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position, like we had the bases loaded and didn't get anything.
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Yeah, but. Let me let me see if this I put
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a note on that just still be up here.
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But yeah, I was like, you want to.
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I was like when I saw that I'm like, I don't like that is not
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good. I shouldn't You guys did not
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take advantage of that. I'm like, man, it's like, what
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else do you? What else do you need?
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Yeah, you've got it. Yeah, said it was the time to
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take the lead and we blew it. That's why I put yeah, I knew I
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put a new cast. You got to, let's see, I wrote
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some notes on I think Friday, Thursday night's game.
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I don't think I wrote notes anything.
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No, I didn't end up writing notes.
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I just wrote down the beginning, guys.
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But you know, especially when you've got pitches who go out
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there and they're giving it their all.
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And the new award I got, I wouldn't even call it an award
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because if you're proud to get this, there's something wrong
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with you that we're giving out. Is OVP least valuable
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performance or least valuable player?
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This week's least valuable performance in this something
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from 2 weeks. His game would have been tied
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TaylorMade double play ball hit straight to 2nd baseman at the
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time Jack Ruckert, who I believe we had just taken care of way
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out of the game. Yep, she ended up like Daniel
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man. Which, you know what?
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I won't just put it on Jack. I'll put.
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We've got another one who deserves to.
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We've got another one who deserves to be there.
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And so let's just start from the beginning, the half inning
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before that, in the bottom of the seventh, Jeh Johnson pulls
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Trent Caraway in pinch hits for Tanner Reeves.
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Why? I don't know.
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Tanner Reeves is like allergic to getting hits.
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He couldn't hit water if he fell out of a boat.
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He couldn't hit a ball off AT At this point, he just looks really
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bad at the plate. Why are we pinch hitting for
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him? If you're going to pinch hit,
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put Jack Rucker in, which by the way, Jack Rucker got to least
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value performance of the week. And I put a note here.
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If you get on this least valuable performance list, you
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lose. That's negative points for the
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powerhouse PO. I don't think Tanner Reeves or
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Rucker are on this pole, but they at least have -1 right now.
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They got to make a comeback. But Tanner Reeves, just Jean
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Johnson consistently puts him into these positions in these
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big games. And I don't think, I don't know
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if it's because he is his veteran, but he just looks
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really bad at the plate. Like he swings at air, you know.
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But I got sidetracked. Here's 2 tailor made double play
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balls hit straight to Jack rocket.
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He didn't even have to move. They didn't look to be that
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difficult of balls to field boots.
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Not only that, he couldn't even finish the play to get to out in
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the game on Saturday. That cannot happen.
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And was he was supposed to be the defense replacement?
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You were. You are the defense.
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You are the short handed defensive guy there.
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That's why they put you there in two weeks in a row.
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You boot 2 tailor made ground balls and here's the kicker
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Sharon. He must hate Sharon and Sharon
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must hate him because at both times he, that's who was on
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Devin. Sharon was on the mound looking
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to get out of an inning. Tailor made ground ball took
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your second baseman Jack Rucker and he boots it both times.
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Don't know what the problem is, but that cannot happen.
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We've got to get it together. Start turning these double play
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balls because if you can't do the basics and at this point
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you're in college, that's you. You're in college.
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Catholic High has been one of the top ranked high schools in
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the state of Louisiana and is constantly on national polls for
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base high school baseball. That's where you come from, so
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you can feel the ground ball and turn a double play.
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There's no moment too big for you.
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You played in big moments before.
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Let's field the ball and get it out.
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You don't see Milan making that kind of mistakes.
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I mean, in his defense, comparing anyone to Milan is.
24:43
Basically. Comparing him to a Major League
24:45
Baseball player right now. But you know, let's get it
24:48
together. But, you know, let's take a
24:50
small break. And this is still talking about
24:52
LSU baseball. But he like Maneri getting fired
24:55
in the middle of the series. Man, oh man, they they said,
25:01
they said it'd been really bad, man, just I haven't looked into
25:04
games so far, but they said it got really ugly.
25:08
I would, I'm not going to lie, I was surprised that he did it
25:12
during the seasons, especially this early.
25:14
I thought he was going to. I thought he was going to get
25:15
Cam by the at at seasons end, by the yeah, I didn't.
25:19
Think it was going to be this early.
25:22
Normally baseball teams, unless you got a guy like that Alabama
25:26
coach a couple years ago that was betting against his team,
25:28
you know, normally they don't fire baseball coaches in the
25:32
middle of the season unless it's traumatic.
25:36
I think they wanted to fire him after his first year because I
25:40
heard he lost the locker room and stuff in the first year, but
25:45
that didn't happen. But let me ask you a question
25:49
and I'm going to ask this and hopefully I can get this cut as
25:53
a clip. When you think of college
25:55
baseball over the last 30 years, who do you think of When you
26:01
think college baseball? Unless you think LSU, you think
26:05
Texas, You know who have you never thought of other than two
26:12
years? In that I'll give you 1 better
26:15
almost 40 years go back to the 1990.
26:19
You go back to 40 years. You think of LSU, Mississippi
26:22
State, Texas. But I see videos on TikTok and
26:26
stuff of South Carolina podcasters and sports writers
26:30
and everything saying South Carolina used to be the name in
26:35
college baseball. No, you were never the name.
26:37
You were the name for two years because you won the national
26:41
championship back-to-back then. You fell off completely and you
26:45
never got back on. You would.
26:46
Nobody ever thinks to South Carolina for anything other than
26:49
women's college basketball. Reality.
26:51
What other sport can you think of that you would think college
26:55
football? Who's your names in college
26:56
football at the top of your head?
26:58
College football. We got Ohio State, Michigan.
27:01
Bam, another day. That's the name of you.
27:03
My Tigers. Our Tigers.
27:05
Yeah. So name a few.
27:07
Just name a few. All right, college basketball.
27:11
Duke, North Carolina. Kansas.
27:13
Kentucky. Let's name a few.
27:17
Exactly UConn. Guess who's?
27:20
Never on that list. And typically don't see South
27:24
Carolina. You can't.
27:25
You can't claim you're not even the best team in your state to
27:29
claim that you are an elite baseball team.
27:32
I had to think of Clemson before I think of you for all of those
27:36
sports. But I'll give it to you.
27:38
Those two years of what? Was it 20/10/2011?
27:43
10:00 and 11:00 I'll give it to you yet.
27:45
You were an elite baseball team. You won an you won a national
27:48
championship 2 years in a row. But I can't say that I think
27:52
about you. When I look at the big picture
27:54
and think over the past 3 or 4 decades, college baseball elite
27:58
programs, I think LSU, Texas, Mississippi State.
28:03
I don't think South Carolina, so no.
28:05
But when I saw that they lost to Arkansas 22 to 6 or 22 to 4,
28:10
whatever it was on Friday night, on Saturday, before I left the
28:15
house to go to the game, I was talking to my mom and I said
28:19
pulmonary is going to be back in Baton Rouge soon.
28:22
By Sunday, I forgot those five dogs.
28:23
That's so funny, dog. Then.
28:26
Gosh. I was, I just got to the game.
28:29
I checked my phone, I'm on Facebook and it says pulmonary
28:31
gone pulmonary in South Carolina mutually part.
28:35
I think I texted you and I was cutting up.
28:43
Gosh, but you know, but like, but just real like before we get
28:45
back into it, just you asked me the question, you know, about
28:48
college baseball once about a time college baseball was really
28:51
dominated in the West Coast. You got the legendary run of,
28:54
you know, Roger doing the USC Trojans.
28:57
You have obviously a Fullerton. You had a Arizona State in the
29:01
60s and 70s. You had later on, you got Oregon
29:04
State in there. You got Stanford, of course,
29:08
they're like, you know, as we, you and I got older, obviously
29:11
the southeastern region of the country, Texas was always
29:14
steady. Miami's always steady.
29:15
Of course we were always steady. But just you start to get the
29:18
CDs and T really run, it's rain. And then The thing is, like I
29:21
said, we were, we were in high school.
29:23
That's when South Carolina won their championships, like Rayton
29:27
did an incredible judge. They're 2 two.
29:30
Yeah, they don't correct. Look, see, you know that's two
29:33
before y'all correct? Yeah.
29:37
No, but it's they did an incredible job.
29:39
I mean, but just. But like you said, even still,
29:42
like they've just been lapped by Vandy.
29:44
They've been lapped by you see everybody?
29:48
Yeah, go ahead. Speaking of Speaking of Vandy, I
29:51
laughed so hard during that series.
29:53
It was on the Take It this was Kyle Peterson and the ESPNI
29:57
think the SEC Network crew wasn't the normal Vandy crew
30:01
that was there. Yeah.
30:03
They were talking about Vandy's national championships and I
30:06
think they said they said 2014 and 2017 was when Vandy won the
30:10
championships. They pan out right behind the
30:14
plate and Vandy has their national championships written
30:17
there and it says 20/14/2019. It's like you can't, you can't
30:31
read the camera and look anywhere at that stadium in C
30:36
that they wanted in 19 in 14, not 17.
30:42
That's 17 Florida won in 17 this.
30:45
Week Florida beat us for it in 17.
30:48
And our expense, unfortunately, you're right, yes, but just for
30:51
fact checking, I hate. Giving Florida credit credit
30:56
what credit's due of? Course Mandy would have had. 1 I
31:01
believe in 2021. But.
31:04
You played dirty. They played dirty with the COVID
31:08
rules. They played dirty and that's how
31:12
they made it to the championship to begin with.
31:14
But I'll tell you like Leiter and Kumar rock, but it don't
31:16
just run. Yeah, and they lost the old piss
31:20
in that World Series. And I'm not saying that NC State
31:23
would have won it all, but I think they got scared of NC
31:26
State because NC State was playing hot.
31:28
And that was when that COVID rules came out and all that.
31:31
They couldn't feel the team. But you know, back to the topic
31:34
at hand, I was really impressed with our pitching this week.
31:37
Me too, definitely. I was not as impressed last
31:40
night when Ricken got booted in the got to boot in the you know,
31:45
But I'm really impressed with how our pitcher stepped up.
31:47
It's like they listened to me last week.
31:49
No, they did without question. They they were on the fire.
31:53
It's like Kason Evans turned on our podcast and said, ask that
31:57
guy. I'm not going to show him what I
32:01
could do. You did.
32:06
Congratulations, you made it to #1 on my powerhouse pitching
32:13
post was Kason Evans. You drop your ERA a full point.
32:18
You know, I'm amazed. I'm amazed.
32:23
No, like I was like, he was really, really good. 7 and 2/3.
32:30
I think he had 15 KS. Let me pull it up.
32:33
Where is he at? I got yeah 7 and 2/3. 7 2/3
32:38
Three hits, one run, one walk in 15 KS.
32:44
Yes, listen, he struck out. He had 15 KS against 28 batters.
32:48
He struck out half his batters, Yeah, so.
32:52
Like, you're amazing. You did amazing.
32:54
OK, Then my number two guy was Fatna talking about a kid with
33:04
control issues lately. Came in, cleaned it up, got us
33:09
where we needed to be. And then Zach Cowan has just
33:12
been, since Bandy has looked really, really good, and that's
33:18
why he's on this list. Sounds good.
33:22
Yeah, I'll let you do yours. Yeah, so as far as you know from
33:26
my pitching for week 6, obviously the no brainer answer
33:30
was case in Evans. You like we talked about 15 KS,
33:33
only three hits allowed and a walk allowed is 7 2/3.
33:36
You know, 15 KS on 28 against 28 batters face when you strike
33:41
out, when you strike out half your batters, your opponents
33:43
batters, you know, that's an incredible feat.
33:45
And like, it's just but I just hate and we're going to get to
33:49
this, of course, but I just hate that.
33:51
He had a yet another elite pitcher performance go to waste
33:55
in the series loss. It's the twice in the last three
33:57
weeks, but we're going to definitely get to that.
33:59
I'm not going to get too far ahead of myself.
34:01
But so that case never was dominant.
34:04
This is only one. It's only once in the last.
34:07
They did lose the series to SAC State.
34:10
Never mind, you're right. Just just like the the fact that
34:13
it's lost, like it's wasted by a series loss.
34:16
But we, you know, we're going, we're going to get on to that.
34:19
So second place, you know, I got, I put William Schmidt in
34:22
2nd and I'll say this because, you know, still like very steady
34:27
performance on paper. I just pulled it up.
34:30
Yeah. So just four hits.
34:31
He did that. He had four innings pitch, you
34:34
know, six hits, but he had 7 strikeouts only.
34:39
They like most of his batters faced really just trying to
34:42
steady the ship with the pitching really.
34:44
The starters had a really good outing.
34:46
Obviously it was their most dominant showing on paper
34:49
outside of Evans, but they really kept the Fort down for
34:53
the for the team and they're like.
34:55
And you know, yeah, go ahead. These starting pitchers, with
34:58
the exceptions of Evans this week, errors.
35:01
Yeah, yes. They killed more.
35:08
They killed Schmidt. Yes.
35:11
Actually, Ayers did not kill Schmidt because Schmidt went in.
35:14
It was we had a 3-1 lead when Schmidt came out the game.
35:18
It was brings me to my third guy was a Grant fond of for the for
35:22
the third spot because really bailed out just with the Central
35:25
like you just said, just came in clutching that 6th inning.
35:29
You know, just, you know, when more got injured, the pitcher
35:32
did their job. Like just overall, the starting
35:35
guys really, really just did their job just keeping Oklahoma
35:40
off the scoreboard as long as they could.
35:42
Offense let them down completely.
35:44
The defense let them kind of completely.
35:47
But those are my pigeons. Yeah, so like, I'll, I'll go
35:51
into offense. Mine is Omar, son and junior #1
35:55
he's just been on fire. Gosh, let me tell you.
35:59
You know, I like that bat. You got to find a way to keep
36:02
that bat in the line up, you know, and you need to keep him
36:05
on the field. Yes, any way you can.
36:09
Yeah, so speaks for himself then.
36:13
I've got Pearson as my number two guy just really clutch it
36:17
backs, you know then because you know, and shout out to Stanfield
36:22
for getting his first home owner of the year.
36:24
But outside of that, he hit into a game ending double play.
36:28
He hit into so many double plays.
36:30
I gave this to the third spot to Eddie Yaman.
36:35
He didn't really get he didn't hit.
36:38
He found a way to get on base and contribute offensively and
36:42
we needed that over the weekend and we're going to need that in
36:46
teachers to come. That's why he's on the list.
36:49
I will say this though, while I got for pitching honorable
36:53
mention, I will give it to Gavin Guidry.
36:57
Only reason that you didn't make my list this week is because
37:01
your coach left you in too long and you look bad in that 8th
37:04
inning. Yeah, I only, yeah, I'm with
37:08
you. I'm always on what you can do in
37:09
there. Yeah, but you know, back to
37:12
offense and I'll let you, I'll pass it over to you.
37:15
So yeah, like I'm with you on the offense as far for #1 Omar
37:18
son of junior do was electric all week this whole stretch.
37:22
Just like the guy has A8 game hit streak.
37:25
That's the highest on on the team so far, 88 straight games
37:28
with a hit. The guy has been he's been
37:30
clutched, he's been dominant this whole stretch.
37:33
Look. He hit one to Mexico last night.
37:35
Yes, that's. Right.
37:39
Literally, literally. Look, I called them.
37:42
Yeah, look, I told my I was on the phone with my dad when I was
37:46
watching the game and I said he said how CERN are doing.
37:49
Then I said he hit one in Mexico and he said, damn, he hit a home
37:53
run that far, is it? No, he literally hit it to
37:55
Mexico. That's the name of the left
37:57
fielder. Hey, man, he ain't going to say
38:00
it's fake, but it's real. Yeah.
38:03
No, but I got a second. I got John Pearson really like,
38:06
you know, I've seen him like he this is like the best I've seen
38:09
him personally at the bat. I normally see him like strike
38:12
out a good bit, but just he's really got very productive this
38:16
stretch. And like I know what you just
38:18
said about Chris Stanford. I gave Chris a narrow edge only
38:21
because you know, just like him coming off the injury is still
38:25
contributing. Like he's contributing.
38:27
That's a lot to ask for him, even though he's a he's a
38:30
veteran player, plays really well in conference.
38:34
Wade is struggling offensely as a unit, the team overall, just I
38:38
just like how he's really stepped in.
38:40
You know, it's a big time guy. Like you said earlier, he got
38:43
his first home run of the season.
38:44
Obviously injuries has compromised his performance, but
38:47
just the fact that he's still able to be productive, like you
38:51
said that grounding out to double play is definitely not
38:54
ideal. But on the offense struggling
38:56
the way they did like for the guys to get the couple hits that
38:59
he had, a few hits this this stretch, I gave him the narrow
39:02
edge. Yeah, I will say this, I like
39:05
him as a lead off. Yeah, you get him on lead off
39:11
the game and like last night against Tech, it puts a little
39:16
pressure on pitchers because he's got the speed.
39:19
Yes. He can jump around out there.
39:21
He puts a bunch of pressure on a defense offense and a catch
39:24
offense and a catcher, a pitcher and a catcher and a defense.
39:28
When you got that kind of speed getting on to start a game off
39:31
and then you got a guy like Jake Brown behind him who can slap it
39:35
anywhere. I will say this, we need to, I
39:37
feel like we need to spread out our lineup and I feel Jay has
39:40
done that because you got Milam. It's been a consistent bat,
39:46
hasn't been a graded bat, but it's been a consistent bat and
39:49
he's farther towards the bottom now.
39:52
It's a little more spread out. It's not as hot top heavy as the
39:55
line up as you. See.
39:55
Yeah, Yeah, I'm with you. Yeah.
39:58
Then defense, man, you can't take mile on my that top spot.
40:02
You might as well put he might as well put him in sharpie at
40:05
this point. Yeah, he's glued to that top
40:08
spot. He's not coming off that top
40:11
spot as he is. I wouldn't be surprised if he's
40:14
the number one at the end of the season.
40:17
He's on pace right now. If he's, he's off.
40:19
If you end the season right now, he's he's #1.
40:23
I mean, we're halfway through the season.
40:24
I don't think either one of us had anybody else at #1 the whole
40:28
season. Curiel look really, really good,
40:31
and I'm going to preference this now, OK?
40:35
Serna is my #3 guy. Not as a catcher, as first
40:40
baseman. Yeah, because he was.
40:42
Terrible behind the plate this weekend.
40:45
Yeah, like, you know, it's funny.
40:47
I'll see. So.
40:48
Because we gave a. Priest and I even have it on
40:52
here as first base. First base.
40:56
He's amazing. I really think when he's not
40:59
catching, you put him at first base and you DH York because
41:05
York seems to be coming around with the bat.
41:08
Leave York in the line up, but put you more athletic first
41:11
baseman at first base. You know, Speaking of York, let
41:14
me see if I can find that tweet from Don EADS.
41:17
All right, here we go. York, in his words, had his
41:21
worst game of the season on Friday night.
41:25
Got a text from Jay Johnson at 1:00 in the morning just telling
41:29
him, you know, that he loves him and his teammates loves him and
41:36
he'll, he'll do great things. He just needs to get out of
41:40
system. I think they put him with a
41:42
mental coach to kind of teach him to forget about the bad at
41:46
bats and focus on the good at bats.
41:49
You know, that's why Jay Johnson is probably the best coach in
41:53
college baseball. Yeah, I wouldn't look, I
41:56
wouldn't call it probably, you know, we got the best man, but.
41:59
I mean, we feel like we got the best look.
42:02
We're struggling now, but it's moves like moving Sana to first
42:09
base, texting a guy at 1:00 AM, you know, think like, I think
42:12
two years ago we lost to Florida.
42:14
And during the season you get a guy like Jay Johnson, he said he
42:18
stared up at the moon until 3:00 AM or something like that
42:22
because he couldn't get it. He they couldn't win.
42:24
They couldn't do anything right. It really made him think you get
42:29
a guy like that where it matters, you know, not to
42:32
mention in the his second season, I think they put a for
42:35
sale sign up at his house early on in the season and he used
42:41
that as motivation to win a national championship that year.
42:45
Look a turn into that. Yeah, I can't wait till it all
42:51
comes out for sale. Yeah, but you know, I got Serna,
42:57
first baseman Serna. 1st. Baseman 3rd defensive powerhouse
43:03
poll to this week and I'll let you go on.
43:06
So like you said, we already talked about Stephen Basically
43:10
defense at this point is just a race for 2nd place honestly,
43:13
because Stephen modeling ain't going nowhere.
43:15
You know what? What kid?
43:16
Like how many double plays? It's like what?
43:18
It goes without saying, you know, I'm not going to, I'm not
43:21
going to even waste your time, brother.
43:22
It's just like it's like Stephen Myles number with the clear 1.
43:25
Derek Carrillo's my second place guy, you know, really very loose
43:29
and athletic in the outfield is really tracking on the those
43:33
fast moving balls and just really getting to dive in plays
43:37
Once again for #3 like you make a compelling case for your third
43:41
guys. Just narrow edge to Chris
43:43
Stanfield once again, because I love there's a play that stood
43:47
out to me this week. Yeah, it was, it was he was
43:49
going back to Gram, but just he had a big fly out in the top of
43:52
the second to not allow the runner on 3rd to stay on 3rd.
43:56
Now this is big to me because you're still in a, in a, in a
43:59
stretch where you're struggling offensively even in the gram.
44:02
Again, they had a stroke just like, yeah, like a lot of these
44:05
a lot of times, you know, it's tough.
44:07
It's tough to really rank the guys at times because you know
44:10
you want to wait. You won't look at the
44:11
production, but you also like to weigh the context with the
44:14
struggling offense. I'm like, he made a big time
44:18
play to get the to keep the run from scoring.
44:21
And just like I said, no one want to play.
44:23
But just like having him in the lineup, you just bolsters the
44:27
the outfield the way it was supposed to be, where it was
44:31
when the start of the season took place.
44:33
It's tough, man. But like I get like I once
44:35
again, I'm a ghost. Chris Stanfield around it up.
44:38
Yeah. And I will say I went between
44:41
Chris Anfield and Omar Sarna, but gay son of the edge for me
44:47
is Chris Stanfield did something he never does.
44:51
Yeah, and he misread a ball. Yeah.
44:54
That scored him a run, put a runner in scoring position and
44:56
scored a run and that was huge for me.
44:59
Yeah, of course. He never does that, has that
45:02
kind of mental mistakes. And that's what kept him off
45:04
this week's poll. For me, totally respected.
45:06
Totally respected. Yeah, then I'll let you go ahead
45:10
and give your home sitting tag something, Tiger.
45:13
Home sitting Tiger, look at like I said, man, I'm with you and
45:17
you said it already, the entire team's top to bottom, no
45:20
consistency anywhere. You got the guys, man, just like
45:24
said earlier, their start. It's one thing to not have the
45:27
ample talent, the ample coaching because there's only so much
45:31
that could be compensated for that.
45:32
But when you when you see the potential, the the potentials
45:34
already flashed, you know, that's why.
45:37
But potential it takes you so far when the bats are cold, the
45:40
pitch is high. When just like in the like the
45:43
Vandy series, you know, pitcher was not did not show up to
45:46
Nashville that weekend whatsoever.
45:50
But the offense came alive. SAC State series and the
45:53
Oklahoma series offense took took a vacation.
45:57
Yeah. So it's like, I don't know what
45:59
I'm going to see this like the first time ever as long as I've
46:01
been watching them, just like this is the first time I I on a
46:04
consistent basis. I just don't know what I'm going
46:06
to see on a good day basis. I'm just not.
46:10
I don't know it's check or hive. It's almost like we're back in
46:13
those old, those later manary years where you don't know which
46:18
team you're going to get. You're either going to get the
46:20
pitching team. Like I'll go back as far as
46:23
Aaron Nola at LSU where we had tremendous pitching, zero
46:30
offense. Aaron Nola, this was A at
46:34
Florida win a full game and Florida walked him off and he
46:40
lost the one line game. You know, I can't attest to that
46:44
offense or that defense, you know, at that point.
46:47
But pitching, you never know what you're going to get.
46:50
You're either going to get the very offensive LSU team, but
46:55
you're pitching LAX. And I'll say this, the eight
46:59
games to start the season, we had a complete team.
47:03
Yes, yes. OK let me rephrase that.
47:05
We had a complete ish team because we still were making
47:09
errors and stuff that kept teams in games that we should have put
47:13
them out with a high-powered offense and a great pitching.
47:17
Yeah, but I'm with you though, just yeah, I'm with you.
47:19
Because it's like you had a, you were still very you more, even
47:23
though you trailed a lot of those games, you were productive
47:26
enough and then like you pulled away.
47:28
Productive and you pulled away. Exactly so.
47:31
So my tone setting Tiger of the Week is the same as wheels.
47:35
It's the entire team. But well, his is for
47:39
inconsistencies. Mine is you lack a mindset.
47:43
You like a mindset and an identity.
47:45
You don't have either. There's nothing special about
47:48
your team energy. These LSU teams of the past,
47:50
they might not have had the big personality, but they had a
47:54
distinctive leadership to them. In this team lacks that
48:00
leadership. There's no guy that I can look
48:02
to on field that gets the big hit or does this and has that
48:11
attitude. You know, this team likes
48:14
attitude. They don't have it, and until
48:18
they figure that out, we're going to keep getting a lot of
48:21
the same results. That's right.
48:23
You know, it only takes one guy to come out and say this is, you
48:26
know, my, this is our team. This is our way we play.
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This is our attitude, this is how we're going to go for it.
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I think what would really help them is if they stopped, took a
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look at it, like I'll go back to the 23 team.
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When they played that SEC, after that SEC Championship, they got
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back to Baton Rouge. The first thing that Dylan Cruz,
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Paul Schemes, Gavin Duga and those guys did was Trey Morgan
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called a team meeting and told them, look, this is we need to
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do ABC better before we can win a national championship.
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And I don't think they lost the game after that until they lost
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to, or should I say got screwed out of a game with Wake Forest
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because I didn't forget. I still have the screenshots of
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that track, man, with an umpire. Screw Ty Floyd the entire game.
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But you know, they don't have that attitude.
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They don't have that team player if they I haven't heard any word
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of them call it a team meeting. And I feel like that should have
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happened after the SAC State series loss.
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You know, we need leadership. We need to be calling team
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meetings. We need to get in players only
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meetings. I should say too, not even play
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team meeting means coaches to players only meeting would solve
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a lot of issues, I feel like. But you know, we can talk about
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all of this. You know, we can do all of that,
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but what it boils down to is they need to get out there, they
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need to show up with attitude, they need to do what they need
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to do, and they need to play ball.
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Play your style of ball. You're not the 23 team, you're
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not the 25 team. You're the 20/20/16 and you're
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going to say something. No, I was going to say, I would
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say I'm so glad you said that because that's the problem
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specifically what I've seen from offense.
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It's like you have guys that are just elevating the ball so much.
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It's just like particularly Curiel and Zach York.
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I think, listen, brother, listen, listen.
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And I took and I saved all the time.
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Just I'm not so fixated on you get.
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I don't need 6 guys in 25 home runs.
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I don't need that, does it? Is it great to see a home run?
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I love seeing all, all home runs.
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But listen, that's not Derek Curiel's game.
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Your game is getting on base, getting contact on on the bat.
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Zach York, play discipline. Yeah, you had the ability to hit
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the home run, but your your strength is play discipline.
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Get on bass. Please get on bass.
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Zach York could hit as many to the Wall singles as he wants to
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as long as he's contributed and he gets on bass.
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That's that's my best. And like, you could see them
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both pressing because Carrier just plant was playing out of
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his style. Zach is just pressing like just
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listen, just get on bass. Make it easy for the pitching.
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Like you can't. You can't waste elite pitching.
51:27
Exactly. You know, you can make parallels
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to football team. As of the last couple years
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under Shithead, we had really good offensive play, terrible
51:39
defensive play, or we had really good defensive play.
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In terrible offensive play. We never had it.
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God forbid we had terrible special teams when the other two
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actually showed a pulse and played together for once.
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Like you just you just can't. And that's the thing man, you,
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you just can't waste the production, especially with lead
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level production, you cannot waste.
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Exactly. You can't.
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You can't waste it, you know? But on a much happier note, you
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know, I think this team will come around.
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They'll finally figure it out. And I read a few things this
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week, specifically today about our basketball team, and it
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looks like Will Wade might actually to Baton Rouge might
52:23
actually be a possibility. Oh man, that's that is
52:25
something. Man, that's something.
52:28
Especially after April first, I think will Wade's buyout, if we
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have to buy him out to get him to come here, drops down by 2
52:37
million, certainly drops down a couple million.
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You know, I think that'll be something.
52:43
We still haven't fired McMahon yet.
52:45
So keep in mind that it's we'll wait a bust.
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So we might still have the same team leadership as we did this
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year. But you know, we get we'll wait.
52:58
Think about that coaches room, OK, You sitting at a table in
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that athletic department has a meeting.
53:04
They look at their coaches, they invite their coaches to dinner
53:07
and you get Jay Johnson, Kim Mulkey, Jay Clark, Lane Kiffin.
53:15
So what? And we'll Wade.
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Wow, what a listen. What a wonderful time at LSU
53:21
that would be. Yeah, You know, The thing is
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like I will say with I'm just curious to see how the will
53:26
thing will turn out because this is a very unique LSU in terms of
53:31
men's basketball. It's a it's a terrible we are we
53:33
are a terrible job. It's a terrible job.
53:36
But just this is a a unique circumstance because he's kosher
53:41
before and you'd have like to make leadership.
53:44
Most likely they're all going to be there at once.
53:46
They got two guys already president but so it's a unique
53:49
circumstance. But I'll see what happens.
53:51
Depends on what the AC state offer.
53:53
Is, I mean, he has he has unfinished business in Baton
53:56
Rouge because poor leadership. Look, I'm not saying that he
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didn't do those things and he shouldn't have been fired when
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we fired him. But that year when we had the
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best chance we've had in a decade or two to actually do
54:16
something in the NCAA Tournament, you wait till the
54:19
NCAA tournament to suspend him and blow our chances, you know,
54:26
and then you fire him. I mean, look, that just doesn't
54:29
look good. Didn't leave a good taste in our
54:32
mouths, didn't leave a good taste in his mouth.
54:34
And I think like you said, we've got to make mistake.
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Guys who hired him. Look, he comes back.
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I think we'll we'll be fine. I think he'll get this team
54:44
where it needs to be. I don't think we're going to
54:46
build a new arena, have two basketball teams.
54:50
I think we're going to want to have two basketball teams when
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we build this arena and not a one team in a rec league team,
55:00
you know? But we'll see how that plays
55:04
out. Hopefully by next episode we'll
55:05
have some good news, but that'll do it from us.
55:08
I don't have any closing remarks.
55:09
I think LSU play really good last night against Tech.
55:13
I think that's a good momentum builder for the rest of the
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week. Yes, for sure.
55:17
Going in, I think Kentucky is. According to the What corn LSU,
55:23
their number 21. They might be as high as 18,
55:25
though. Because I did, because there's
55:27
so many different polls. Cornell She was about 21st, but
55:32
it might be as high as 18. I think 19 is what diamond has a
55:39
mass and they go off of deep which you know.
55:42
Let me see if I can find them. Shout out to Diamond Baseball
55:49
Stats for coming out with a college baseball app.
55:56
Completely centered college baseball app.
56:00
You can do a bunch of things. We are not sponsored by them, by
56:04
the way. I just found this happening on
56:06
Twitter a couple weeks ago and found them and they have stuff
56:11
where you can make player cards. You can look at team stats like
56:16
I'll give you one right now for our match up on Friday, pitchers
56:22
wise and Tucky's probable starter is Ben Cleaver.
56:26
He's one and one 18 in the third innings pitch with a 245 ERA and
56:31
24 case versus Casein Evans with who's 2 and O or Adra 30 innings
56:39
pitched in 50 case and you can create a player card.
56:44
You can check in at the games. All the stats are on this one
56:47
page. One that I think is fun that
56:51
I've kind of played with is can do a fantasy team, RIP packs,
57:01
RIP packs, get players and build, put these players in
57:07
positions on the field and get a score and a ranking each week.
57:11
I think each game, actually, it's not each week, it's each
57:14
game. How does like a fantasy type of
57:18
deal, you know, but it puts everything in your hand and it
57:22
tracks. Every college team tells you the
57:24
radio, gives you a way to listen to them and gives you a way to
57:28
watch them if you want to watch them, gives you updates, a
57:32
really cool concept, a really good app.
57:34
I'd love to. I'd love to see where they go,
57:36
but shout out to those guys, they're really good.
57:39
I will try to put the link to their app in the description of
57:43
the video, but that'll do it for me.
57:45
What you got? You got any closing thoughts?
57:47
So like I said, just, you know, about, you know, I was pleased
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to see the performance yesterday, which was Zach
57:54
Yorker. Hopefully that's just a size of
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things to come. Big morale booster for him.
58:03
Yeah, just. So I'm just glad to see him get
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up and break out of that sloppy lease for the moment.
58:07
Yeah. I'm just like I say, I'm eager
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to see what they look like against Kentucky because, you
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know, they just need a they need a series win.
58:15
Yeah, we just got. I just got to see some
58:17
consistency and standing this. Yeah, big series win would help
58:21
us tremendously, especially since you were at home.
58:30
You know, you're at home and you go on a two week.
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Let's see, I got it pulled up after this week.
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You play home versus Kentucky, then you go to Tennessee for
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Easter weekend, then you go to OPS, then you come home, play
58:47
Texas A&M, and then you're back on the road at Mississippi State
58:50
to finish out April, you know, and then you come home and play
58:54
South Carolina, then you're back on the road at Athens and then
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finish the season out at home against Florida.
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So you need to get these home series wins in front of your
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home crowd on your home field, you know, so we'll see how they
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will and we'll report back each and every week and let you know
59:10
how they do. Yes, Sir.
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59:19
great night, a great week, whatever you have, just make it
59:22
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That's it from us later. Bye.