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Bright Future... · JustIN Time

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Welcome back to the Justin Time podcast you with your host
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Justin and Will, how's it going? Hello brother, how you doing?
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Good you I'm doing fantastic. I'm even football fantastic for
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what you showed me yesterday. This is a this is a ground
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breaking moment for the brand. So I want you to you.
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You tell the stories like like nobody can.
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So I'm going to let you show. You what?
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The great news is. We have gotten an e-mail from a
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company out of that is located in Denham Springs right outside
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of BR called Go Glove Works. That's GAUX Glove UORX.
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They restore gloves. You have a softball or baseball
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glove, catches mid, anything. They restore it, make it look
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like new. Yeah.
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So like, you know, like just when you were showing that to me
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yesterday, you know, this morning, I looked it up.
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You do this. I really just impressed by like
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the work that they do just on a routine basis.
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Obviously they're really just seeing like a lot of I just saw
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one like like just gloves really small on the hand like they
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restored it. They relay stretched it out, at
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least on the pictures. They really as a more of a clean
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fit on the hand after they're finished with it.
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That looks. Really.
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I saw one of the tik toks where they it was a 2000 infield glove
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and it was just destroyed the netting and they had pictures
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and they just made it look like brand new.
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Just fixed it, got him back, got the kid back on the field and
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it's all that matters. You know they, you know, like
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their brand is, you know they say restore, replace and
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reinvent like they replace, replacing.
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Our expertise is off the charts. You know, they have the custom
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modifications near premium quality and they're built for
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performance. Obviously, you know, it's not to
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me, I don't see the I don't think it's like cliche either.
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You know, a lot of people like to take like build for
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excellence and build for this, build for that.
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I mean, we could see it right here.
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I mean, just you, you see the work right there.
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You don't have to even see the words to it.
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You know, just like I like, I feel like, you know, it's a
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really good brand, you know, from what I've seen thus far.
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So I feel like there's a small promising.
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Yeah, they're a small business and they just love supporting
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the baseball and softball community.
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Absolutely. Yeah, you know they do.
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God's name that messaged me was Wesley.
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He's the owner. And they do, you know, glovery
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lacing, deep cleaning, conditioning break, insurance
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restorations and custom lace collars.
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Everybody sees LSU out there with those fancy Marucci gloves.
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That's all we laced and everything they do that.
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You can find them on Facebook at Go Gloveworks and you can find
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them on TikTok and Instagram at Go Gloveworks 44.
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That's GAUX Glove UO RX44. That's right.
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On TikTok. And we'll be sure to like, just
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to like put it in the, in the description in the comments,
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just all the, the, the socials, just like for you guys to give
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you a better example of what, what they have to offer.
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You know, obviously, because you know, we, you know, we are, you
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know, my brother Justin, you know, he has an excellent
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upcoming brand. So we want to make sure we
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support the other brands are upcoming too.
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They actually don't just like, you know, have businesses just
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to say, oh, I got a business, but just like actions going to
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build something more for just the entire community.
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It's something that you guys going to actually need,
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especially, you know, we're very heavy in the southeastern part
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of the country with baseball, so and softball.
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So obviously, you know, you know, many parents out there,
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they have children that really deep into the sport that you can
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really pour into this brand and get like a nice return from it.
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And the equipment is important. Look, we're just describing it
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to you. It really, we really is not
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doing it justice. So go check them out on
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Facebook, Instagram and TikTok and see for yourselves.
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Speaking of baseball, though, we got some big news from
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yesterday. That's indeed right, yes.
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Yes, Tommy White, Tommy Tanks getting caught up to the
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Athletics, with his first possible game being against
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former teammate Dylan Cruz. On Friday.
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That's cinema, brother. You know that's cinema, brother.
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I'm sorry. Yeah, that's cinema.
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I want to see my. Yeah.
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I mean, I've met Tommy White's dad in Jacksonville this year.
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Yeah. And he, what he was sounding was
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it was bound to happen. It wasn't if it was when.
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And you know, it's when you know.
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But this is going to be a special draft episode.
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Yeah, just like, and it's a perfect way to like in before
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like and I want to say real quick about Tommy Tanks and just
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he's the we put in the the the dock.
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So, you know, if he's he will be the 99th player, he's a 99th
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player in the history of the LSU baseball program to be caught up
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to the big show. So when we talked about, you
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know, it got me wondering about how our history as far as like
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draftees and, you know, guys getting caught up to the show.
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You know, according to Baseball Almanac, we are fifth all time
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in the guys who've been called up to the to the pros only
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behind, you know, and this is like right before like Tommy
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right now it says 98 for us. This is before, you know, Tommy
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White's announcement. So we're only behind USC, Texas,
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Arizona State and Stanford. Those are like, you know, best
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college baseball royalty also. But obviously just a quick a
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great shout out to this young man really just realized his
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dream. And then look, I really feel
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like just out of let's let's go through this, OK, We've got
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yeah, sure. Derek Curiel being taken in the
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first round, 5th to Pirates. Yep.
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Jake Brown going in the second round, the 65th overall pick to
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the Mariners. Devin Sharon, which I wasn't
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expecting. Fourth round, 128th pick overall
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to the Phillies. By by the way, he was the
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powerhouse pull reliever of the year.
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So shout out to him. He really did a he was very
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steady for us this year. And a.
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Very year that was a lot of struggling, but just he was a he
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was a steady force. Yeah, then we've got Grant
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Fontenot, right-handed pitcher, Royals.
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He helped us out a lot this year.
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We probably would have lost a few more games without starting
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pitching injuries. Yeah.
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We got Santiago Garcia went in the 12th around 200, I mean
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372nd pick to the Jays. Blue Jays Connor Binge,
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right-handed pitcher, 13th round, 385th pick overall to the
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Marlins. Gavin Guidry it's 16th round,
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480th pick to the Mets in Zach Cowan, 19th round, 573rd pick.
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Cleveland Guardians. And the reason I said their
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overall pick number is because that it doesn't matter.
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All of these pictures that I just named 121234 fives out of
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all of them, I think all of them will be in, you know, up there.
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Yeah. One that really kind of got me
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is Chris Stanfield went undrafted.
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Yeah, I think, yeah, it's, I'm nothing like that of of course,
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you know, obviously we're both biased, but it is what it is.
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But just like, but I knew like I'm not completely shocked
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because I, I didn't, I didn't hear a lot of people too high on
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them as a prospect. We started the same thing about
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Milan, but at least Milan had the unbelievable no defensive
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contribution. And obviously it was a big
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debate whether he was going to be drafted or not or go high
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enough. So I know we've already hashed
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that out. Yeah, honestly, I think if he
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doesn't go get hurt this year, I think that plays a big role in
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it. But yeah, like what, Jay?
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Did you see what Jay Johnson said about Curiel?
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So like what was Yeah, like rehash that for me.
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He. Said that, you know, he was
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talking to DC, he's talking to Derek at all a couple weeks
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before the draft and cure. I was like, coach, if I go 11th,
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I'm going to come back to LSU and he's Jay Johnson pretty much
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said, look, I told him, look, this is where you're going to
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go. This is what they're going to
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give you. And you were going to sign and
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you were going to go. There you go.
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You know, you know, it's funny. I always, you know, one thing I
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love about a lot of college, like high end college coaches is
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that they're very realistic as more as possible, just like
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they, you know, a lot of people have this ideas like, oh, you
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just push these guys to the post or I say, listen, it's not just
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about push these guys away. You want you want to encourage
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them to go when their stock is high.
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Exactly. So it's like you're brother, you
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in the top ten of the MLB draft, top five.
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I'm sorry, Like you get Liz. I don't care how much you love
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LSU, Bleeper and Gold like he has to go, he has to leave.
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Yeah. And look, do I think if he came
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back, but I think he would have came back and he would have
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actually like played into his body.
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I think he might have been the number one pick overall, but #5.
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#5 out of, out of. #5 pick and he was injured at the beginning
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of the season, Really didn't get into it because he broke his leg
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or his foot. Grade point.
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That's right. That's pretty amazing.
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Yeah, I'm, I'm sorry. I just, I just listened to me.
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I'm all for the young men, these young men getting to if, if
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their stock is high enough and they're confident with that
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draft slot, you got to go because that's, that's like, I
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mean, you can talk about well, coming back, that's what the
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coach is for. That's what the recruiting
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process is for. You retool.
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That's that's what you paid to do.
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So you should be able to, especially in a program like
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this with the resources. Exactly.
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Now what's interesting to me is LSU made out like bandits from
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the MLB Draft. Yeah.
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All they got, they were they went to.
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Yeah. I mean, like that.
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That's been a big story, yeah. We retained a good bit and we
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got 123456789101112131415 of our elite high school recruits
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coming to campus. They have like sick.
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They we wonder the draft, you know, six of the top 100 signees
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heading to Baton Rouge. Yeah.
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You know, just they say nothing compared.
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They had a close to nothing compares to LSU.
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Are you saying just, you know, this.
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Yeah. It just goes to show like what
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Jay has really established, obviously you already have the
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long time legacy of the program, but just what he's able to like
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establish this retention dominance especially I know and
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we already said he's going to come with a vengeance.
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You know, after the season that they had, you know, you have
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more time to really retool because their season ended early
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into normal. But nonetheless, I think like,
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he's delivered, which is why he's the best coach in the sport
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right now. There's no there's no accident.
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So yeah, you can't. You can't get any better than
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that. Yeah, You can't get much better
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than that. And it's a testament to him.
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And I'm looking at this list and I find something is, could it be
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a, you know, prediction or something along those lines, a
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projection. But if you look at how they got
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the numbers, the players numbered on this list, Milam is
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sitting at #8. Then if anybody deserves it on
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this year's coming back team, this coming back and deserves it
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on this team, it's Stephen Milam.
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Deserves it #8. Yeah.
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Yeah, but you know, looking at this list, they put up Cape Cod
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All Stars, you know, and got some LSU guys listen to the All
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Stars for Cape Cod. I know Bino Waters and I forgot
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the other one. Pulling it up now.
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Dawson Park, Dino Waters and Dawson.
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Dawson Park name to the Cape Cod All Stars.
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You know Bino Waters of the Anglers?
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Who knows? And killers.
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Yeah, Cavaliers. Yeah, so we're getting, we're
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getting some good guys from that portal, you know, right.
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It's been a great week. And Speaking of that list that
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99, you know, players from the mages, it's going to be 101 O1
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very soon because I think yes, Kate Anderson and Anthony Isis.
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And that's that's the next ones they just wear like the Futures
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Game. So it's just, you know, I feel
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like they they've had like promising starts to their pro
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careers to this point, you know, just shout out to them as well.
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But yeah, like I was when I looked up this list, I was like,
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yeah, I was like, it's not shocking that they're at that
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high. You know, this 100 in that 100
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category. UFC has like the long standing
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history with like the High Peak players, but just but yeah, this
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program has done an incredible job.
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I know it's a deal let down this past year, but just they still
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the respect is still there for this program.
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You know, it looks like it's more of like a flash in a pan
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type outlier season. Yeah.
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And then you look, the respect these players have for the game
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is unmatched. Take a guy like Paul Schemes.
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They asked him how he felt about summer ball and he said, you
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know, you look at it and you got all these guys and they they
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don't teach them fundamentals and everything.
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They teach them how to do the big hit, get the big hit, hit
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the ball for and throw hard. But they don't teach them
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fundamentals. And he was just saying, like, go
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back to fun, teaching them fundamentals, teach them the
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game, you know? And and, you know, unfortunately
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that was interesting. Bring it up.
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You know, it's it's you see that a lot in sports in general, like
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people are so they are so like, you know, the football with the
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seven on stand, like all this flashy stuff.
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I mean, I understand like it has its place.
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But I mean, you know, you talk about like, you know, the
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quarterbacks when we grew up on watching, you know, just like
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the 20 tens deck in the NFL, just it just that was like the
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peak of the position with like from the pocket.
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Now, like I think athletically the quarterback position as its
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peak right now, but which is I don't think is a bad thing, but
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you know when, but it's the problem comes in where you have
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like when the athletic ability wears out, it goes away.
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And like you don't you don't have like the processing skills,
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the pocket skills to really extend your career.
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But I didn't only bring that up because of what you just said,
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just about, you know, people we've got so away from the
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fundamentals of the game. We got an away from
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fundamentals, but but then you should bring up the seven O 7.
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I think the seven O 7 is good if you use it for its intended
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purposes. Yeah.
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You're not going out there and, and most schools do.
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Most kids do. They use that seven O 7 to build
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a relationship between quarterback and receivers.
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Yeah, yeah, it has its place, yeah, for sure.
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Yep, but you know, I don't have anything left to say.
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Just go Tigers. I'm excited for next baseball
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season. Well, is that I just can't wait
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to see you like what this team looks like this.
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We got a lot of time left, of course, to dissect that.
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But I'm just, I'm just really eager to get back, you know?
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We should have a Jay thought that we would have a roster of
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39 scholarship players. I know you have put the the
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projector roster on the on the dock too, yeah.
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And looking at this, we've got 41.
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Yeah, I see. Yeah.
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And like you said in Bo and you said in Bo, just like that's
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like our, you know, high school guys.
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Yeah. Yeah, and looking.
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At it high school players this. Is going to be very interesting
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to see how our infield shakes up, you know?
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And it's going to listen. You know you have you have an
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unbelievable retainer Steven Mylan sort of like your short
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stop is anchored like that is just like a death taxes and
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Steven Mylan in field that that is just the most.
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And you know, it's going to be interesting.
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I didn't. I don't think I put it in here,
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but I just remembered it. It's going to be interesting
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with Rucker and William Patrick. Yes.
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They had to sit out the rest of the Cape Cod League Summer Ball
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league with hand injuries. They should be back for fall
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ball. But it'll be interesting to see
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how those other guys getting more and more reps and how they
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got to pick it back up and get back in the swing of things.
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That all plays out when you talk about starting rosters,
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especially for Jack Rucker because we've got Braun Milam
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and Kate Curland that are pretty much to me, going to cement the
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infield. You know, because you got a guy
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in Cape Carolyn who's coming from Florida.
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Exactly that premier experience. So that's that's a huge get and
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I was excited when they brought him in.
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Yeah, and then you got Dawson Park, who was a Cape Cod All
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Star, who was a shortstop, can easily be moved to 3rd, you
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know, so it'll be fun to see how the infield shapes up next year.
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Do we put in the returning players or do we transition into
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somewhere else? And you know, I'm not going to
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lie, there's an outfield spot that needs to be filled.
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And I think John Pearson can pull his, you know, channel his
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brother and. I'd be interested to see him
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there. Yeah, I know that because he
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was, you know, he had his like he was pretty steady down the
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stretch at third. I think I'll be interested to
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see if like if they decide to do that transition, because I know
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like you've lost you lost your essentially your outfield like
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that was steady, you know, when healthy, of course, obviously
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with Brown, you know, Stanfield and Curiel, but just but just
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like it that's that's going to be a big prop that I'm going to
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say problem, but it could be a big question mark and going into
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next year. Look, I love having that.
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That's the problem that I'm sure Jay Johnson loves to have and
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hates to have at the same time, you know?
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But that's why he's the. Coach, you get paid, but.
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I. Trust him though.
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He, I trust him. Yeah, but that'll do it from us.
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We'll see y'all next episodes. Yes, Sir.