Latest / College Baseball Now / We're Sorry, Michigan: Weekend 1 Breakdown | Ep. 011

Transcript

We're Sorry, Michigan: Weekend 1 Breakdown | Ep. 011 · College Baseball Now

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Well, it's official. College baseball is on crack back is
• 0:04
  what the teleprompter was supposed to say. There either way,
• 0:07
  opening again was one for the ages. Literally, let's break
• 0:11
  it down on today's episode of College Baseball.
• 0:14
  Speaker 2: Now, Yeah, there ain't no problems. No problems.
• 0:24
  Speaker 3: I don't want problem you.
• 0:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, let me talk to the check then what was
• 0:31
  going for? Then they hit a bet beat when didn't
• 0:33
  grab a couple wins with a D I D if
• 0:35
  it's even.
• 0:35
  Speaker 4: Know the kid.
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: I had to do a B I g BS. I
• 0:37
  can never be average, and they want to problem with
• 0:39
  the boy. They don't want no statics counted. So coach
• 0:42
  Ton run a week guy, I want to test that
• 0:43
  to them, with standing to control run the game. Best
• 0:46
  believe them shinning.
• 0:48
  Speaker 2: Dogs, counting them my wins. Yeah, I love him when
• 0:50
  they count me out, counting up the least shutting shame
• 0:54
  why being at dogs?
• 0:55
  Speaker 1: Best believe I.
• 0:56
  Speaker 2: Run the game? You know, wanta be contruly magic to
• 1:01
  mettandnock out.
• 1:25
  Speaker 1: College Baseball Now returns to the airwaves fresh off of
• 1:29
  weekend one of the twenty twenty six n cua A
• 1:32
  College Baseball season, and boys, I don't think I'm being
• 1:36
  hyperbolic and saying eventful weekend, historic weekend, insane weekend. Uh curious,
• 1:45
  Uh JB. We're gonna go to you first here, mister
• 1:48
  j B. Sebastiano Prospects Live analyst, JB. The most historic
• 1:52
  thing you witnessed this weekend was what.
• 1:56
  Speaker 4: Historic? The most historic thing's gotta be the Baylor three
• 2:00
  grand slams by one player. Craziest thing of the weekend.
• 2:05
  We'll talk about more, but the air at second base
• 2:08
  in the Indiana USC game has got that might be
• 2:11
  the most historic play, eyewitness, because I've never seen that.
• 2:14
  Speaker 1: Indeed, the record set in the mid seventies. Pooh pooh, pishblosh,
• 2:20
  givebe that you would see Indiana era at second base.
• 2:23
  Jake Bardray joins us. Jake, Hello, sir, glad to see you.
• 2:27
  Cheese Head is with us here tonight, Jake, in your opinion,
• 2:31
  maybe the craziest, the most unhinged thing you saw this weekend?
• 2:35
  Opening weekend?
• 2:36
  Speaker 5: What was so?
• 2:40
  Speaker 6: I'm sure we're gonna we're gonna get into both of these,
• 2:43
  but I think it's just the performance of the state
• 2:45
  of Michigan this weekend, like it just was really unexpected.
• 2:50
  I'd say we were probably sleeping on both of those teams.
• 2:53
  And I'm not going to get in too much about it,
• 2:55
  but just this, Michigan and Michigan State put on a show,
• 2:58
  both of them this weekend.
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: I need somebody to make the meme of Michael Jordan's
• 3:03
  sitting in the chair but just photoshop the State of
• 3:06
  Michigan over his face and just you know. And I
• 3:09
  took that personally, and that's directed at the last episode
• 3:12
  of College Baseball Now, and honestly I get it. And
• 3:15
  on behalf of the show, we apologize to the State
• 3:18
  of Michigan. We're sorry. And with this, of course, Josh Catlid, Hello,
• 3:22
  Josh in your opinions are either the most historic, insane,
• 3:27
  unforgettable thing that you saw from weekend one.
• 3:29
  Speaker 5: I mean, if we're already talking about apologies, the rest
• 3:32
  of the country needs to make an apology to a
• 3:34
  certain team and a certain offense, the Virginia Cavaliers putting
• 3:38
  up fifty six runs in one day. I don't know
• 3:40
  what the numbers are on that historically, but that's probably
• 3:43
  pretty historic. The correct answer JP already mentioned it and
• 3:48
  we are going to talk about it probably is whatever
• 3:50
  happened in the ninth ending of Game three of that
• 3:52
  Carolina Indiana series. I've talked to so many people about that.
• 3:55
  I've never seen anything like that in my life. So
• 3:59
  like that, by the way, by the definition of the
• 4:01
  word historic, that probably is the most historic thing.
• 4:05
  Speaker 1: Chances are you could define what did I say, historic, unforgettable,
• 4:09
  and insane. You could hit all three of those with
• 4:11
  that one moment of absolutely yeah, that's that's one of
• 4:15
  those things that just defines the weekend in many senses.
• 4:18
  All Right, speaking of defining the weekend, if you didn't
• 4:21
  your last episode of the show, we did our first
• 4:24
  edition of the Weekend Pick them and Josh you we're
• 4:26
  gonna break down how we did across the eight selections
• 4:30
  that you made in that first weekend pick them, go ahead, sir.
• 4:33
  Speaker 5: So all of us did pretty terribly uh really unpredictable weekend. Granted,
• 4:40
  but Drew and I both went three and five. I
• 4:43
  think JB went two and six and Jake went one
• 4:45
  and seven. I can't clap myself for that.
• 4:48
  Speaker 3: I'm like, I can't. I said this earlier.
• 4:51
  Speaker 5: I can't be mad on abrassa pick because they went
• 4:53
  three and oh with a run differential of like twenty one,
• 4:56
  but Kansas State just happened to put across like something
• 5:00
  or I think it was like forty five runs on
• 5:02
  the weekend or something, and like it's hard to beat that.
• 5:05
  Speaker 3: There were some some other weird ones you just really
• 5:07
  can't compensate for. But a win's a win.
• 5:10
  Speaker 5: If I'm if I'm tied going into first, and if
• 5:12
  I'm tied of for first going under the rest of
• 5:13
  the year, that's a win for me.
• 5:16
  Speaker 1: That's fair. JB. Looking at your looking at your slate here,
• 5:20
  you had Vanderbilt's, UCSB, Oregon State, Nebraska, You and c
• 5:25
  E CU Louisville Notre Dame. Which do you regret the most.
• 5:31
  Speaker 4: Ooh out of the grouping? I'm probably gonna say I
• 5:37
  regret going with Vanderbilt. Probably. I think I gave good
• 5:43
  points on why I shouldn't have gone with Vanderbilt and
• 5:46
  made sense why you picked them looking at the Big
• 5:48
  twelve schools. But then the aftermath, you know, I still
• 5:50
  wouldn't have won, But I think t SU or Arkansas
• 5:53
  would have been better picks. Should have stuck with a
• 5:55
  gut with Arkansas. But yeah, definitely Vandy.
• 5:59
  Speaker 1: Do you want to give yourself a pat on the back,
• 6:01
  maybe like a zero point five percent credit, just pad
• 6:05
  on the back really quick for a pick that it
• 6:06
  might not have panned out in the traditional sense, but
• 6:08
  you like the you like the logic.
• 6:11
  Speaker 4: I still stand by my UC Santa Barbara boys. And
• 6:13
  you know, Flora came out the first game and I
• 6:15
  thought the pitching they'd have enough to get through the
• 6:17
  rest of it. But didn't go very well. As we
• 6:21
  all know that they got close in the game tonight.
• 6:24
  Me and Josh were texting away at the end, all
• 6:26
  of us were. But you know, it didn't work out
• 6:28
  in my favor.
• 6:30
  Speaker 1: It's a tight game for sure, Jakes, same question to you, buddy,
• 6:33
  what's the one you regret the most? And which one
• 6:35
  if you had to give yourself a pat on the
• 6:37
  back pick like I you know, good process, bad results,
• 6:41
  what would that be as well?
• 6:43
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, for those that listened last week, I
• 6:46
  did pick Penn State in the Desert Invitational as my
• 6:50
  favorite team. Look I do in the end, I do
• 6:53
  regret picking them because obviously it was a bad showing
• 6:55
  from the from the Nitney Lions. They're like, I don't
• 6:58
  think anyone would have thought that air Force would have
• 7:00
  eating them fifteen to three to open up the weekend,
• 7:02
  and it just kind of kind of put a sour
• 7:04
  taste in my mouth for him going forward. But I
• 7:08
  guess I do regret picking them, but I don't really
• 7:11
  regret picking Arkansas in the Shriners. Like I think there's
• 7:15
  an argument to be made really about any of those
• 7:16
  teams that could have been the favorite, but you know,
• 7:20
  the Arkansas team, you know, I think I don't regret
• 7:23
  picking them at all. The pitching in the lineup just
• 7:26
  really shaped up with the matchups for me there, and
• 7:28
  it just didn't work out the way I'd hoped. They
• 7:31
  didn't look bad, but they just didn't get the most wins.
• 7:34
  Speaker 1: I like that, Josh, did you give yourself a pat
• 7:36
  on the back anywhere? I'd like to hear one from you.
• 7:38
  Speaker 3: Sir, pat on the back?
• 7:40
  Speaker 5: I mean, like the three wins, I guess, I mean,
• 7:43
  like I was just looking at it, and I don't
• 7:45
  want to be that guy. But like, I don't really
• 7:48
  regret any of the picks that I made, per se,
• 7:50
  because I mean, like, for being honest, the farthest one
• 7:53
  off is probably Louisville, but like, who would have seen
• 7:55
  that coming? So I don't think Arkansas they went to
• 7:59
  in one Oregon state, they would have won it if
• 8:02
  Michigan didn't win the night probably.
• 8:05
  Speaker 3: ECU.
• 8:06
  Speaker 5: We swept the board on that Zavier just having to
• 8:08
  pick them off. Nebraska went three and oh, like I
• 8:10
  don't know, it happens like I didn't. I didn't go
• 8:13
  like off the board crazy with any picks anyway. But
• 8:16
  I mean none of us picked the Shriners the Shiners
• 8:19
  Classic in Arlington correctly, So I mean, like we can,
• 8:23
  we can across the board say that it was a
• 8:24
  good process there, but like, who who would have thought
• 8:26
  Oklahoma would win three games by seven plus runs?
• 8:30
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 8:31
  Speaker 1: And that kind of is an interesting topic that really
• 8:33
  will lead us into a discussion I imagine will have
• 8:37
  midweek with our top twenty five once we get that finalized.
• 8:41
  The fresh one, I know Josh heres is going to
• 8:42
  release tomorrow, but yes, really quickly for you guys at home.
• 8:46
  The one I most regret. I do regret the I
• 8:50
  do regret that we had three sweeps. I wish that
• 8:52
  I would have had the foresight to take either Xavier
• 8:54
  or Michigan State, but I just didn't. So I'll pooh
• 8:59
  pooh myself in that regard, but I will give myself
• 9:02
  credit for Stanford. Stanford looked really good and also was
• 9:04
  very proud of the Kansas State pick. I think that's
• 9:06
  a talented team and has a lot of as a outside.
• 9:09
  But we'll talk about them in a moment as well. Guys,
• 9:11
  let's get into the meat of it. Lots of stuff
• 9:14
  going on pen Zee weekend, as we alluded to, historic insane,
• 9:18
  unforgettable admity regards. Josh, we are going to start with
• 9:22
  you here. When you look and think about what stands
• 9:25
  out the most, what the biggest storyline is at the
• 9:27
  top of the full page one on the college Baseball newspaper.
• 9:32
  What are you suggesting here, huh?
• 9:35
  Speaker 3: Number one? I mean I kind of want to.
• 9:39
  Speaker 5: Part of me wants to just talk about the Santa
• 9:40
  Barbaras other my series because it was so good and
• 9:42
  lived up to the hype fully. But I think Michigan
• 9:48
  State being Louisville in a series has to be the
• 9:50
  lead here. I mean, like, it's I think the clearly
• 9:52
  most shocking thing that happened the entire weekend for sure.
• 9:56
  I mean, Louisville looked pretty solid today, it ended up
• 9:58
  pulling one out, but just their offense went stagnant over
• 10:02
  the first couple of games. I mean, they were missing
• 10:04
  Zion Rows because of an ankle injury, which is unprecedented,
• 10:08
  but I mean, one guy isn't going to make up
• 10:10
  for a thirteen to four loss that they had on Saturday.
• 10:12
  Speaker 3: I mean, Michigan.
• 10:14
  Speaker 5: State's offense looked good as a whole, but it wasn't
• 10:17
  anything like super overwhelming day guys, like it was the
• 10:20
  Randy Seymour series. Probably like we've talked about, he had
• 10:22
  to go ahead home run in the top of the
• 10:24
  eighth on Friday to really like, until that point, I
• 10:27
  didn't really think Michigan State had a shot. In my head,
• 10:29
  I'm like, there's no way they can actually pull that off,
• 10:32
  And then they ended up doing it next day followed
• 10:35
  three even more. Seymour on the weekend went five to
• 10:37
  thirteen with two bombs and six rbi. Adam Brosky he
• 10:42
  went four for ten with a home run, a double,
• 10:44
  didn't strike out once. It was just really good overall,
• 10:48
  like team effort hitting from them. Besides besides today or
• 10:52
  this morning, I guess it was, but I don't even
• 10:55
  know if that's the main storyline. I think it's just
• 10:57
  how stagnant Louisvill's offense went like to the first two games.
• 11:01
  Alex Alicia was over nine, Lucas Moore was only three
• 11:05
  for ten with three strikeouts and not a single extra
• 11:08
  base hit. Jimmy Nugent went one for seven with three strikeouts.
• 11:11
  It's just none of their guys really stepped up in
• 11:15
  any way you needed them to. And Saturday it was
• 11:17
  just over fast. So I don't know, I think like
• 11:21
  they're like Ben Slinker did really well for Louisville. We
• 11:23
  can't bury that lead. Bayream Hot did really well. It's
• 11:27
  just like who would have seen this coming? Like it
• 11:29
  just it kept unfolding, and I just couldn't believe what
• 11:31
  I was watching the entire time. It's very, very clearly
• 11:34
  the biggest upset of the weekend as a whole.
• 11:36
  Speaker 3: To me.
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: Got a shout out our boy Mitch Statschnik an MSU
• 11:43
  grad calling us out on Friday in the chat on
• 11:47
  Discord the staff chat. Well deserved. We certainly deserved it. Jake,
• 11:51
  I'm gonna go to you. You were saying earlier kind
• 11:54
  of in agreeance with Josh that if you had to
• 11:56
  put a highlight on one name for this MSU square,
• 12:00
  it would be Yeah, it was, I mean, it was
• 12:05
  Randy Seymour.
• 12:07
  Speaker 6: He was kind of the he was kind of the
• 12:09
  force that drove that Michigan State lineup, and it really
• 12:12
  kind of shocked me that, you know, Ryan McKay was
• 12:14
  kind of the big name in that lineup coming into
• 12:16
  the weekend, and he was you know, pretty quiet, you know,
• 12:18
  going into it. But it just kind of felt like,
• 12:21
  especially like Josh talked about, in that Saturday game, they
• 12:25
  you know, Michigan State got up big early and like
• 12:28
  Louisville just didn't really have an answer for it. But
• 12:30
  you know, Sunday they kind of got there, found their
• 12:32
  footing a little bit. On offense. Uh, Danilovich pitched a
• 12:37
  really good game Sunday for Louisville. I think he went
• 12:40
  six innings, like nine strikeouts or something. They had some
• 12:42
  guys with multiple hits. They found their way to drive
• 12:45
  in run. So I don't I don't. I don't know
• 12:47
  that this is like a long term thing for Louisville necessarily,
• 12:51
  but they definitely, you know, surprisingly enough, looked pretty you know,
• 12:55
  overmatched in the first two games. The offenses really didn't
• 12:57
  do much.
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: Certain not JB will go to you. You know, the
• 13:02
  guys have both touched on how this can't this can't
• 13:07
  be the new status quo for Louisville. We know that
• 13:10
  we're gonna get Zion Rose back eventually, but I mean,
• 13:12
  it's it's kind of murky right now. All we know
• 13:16
  is that it is an angle injury. Curious, what do
• 13:18
  you think the timeline with what we know, with what
• 13:21
  we know about Zion Rose, what can we be looking
• 13:23
  at for a time one JB? And what do you
• 13:25
  think somewhere between what we saw day one and what
• 13:29
  we saw on Saturday or excuse me, Sunday, where's the
• 13:32
  real Louisville.
• 13:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I think it's something that's gonna be
• 13:36
  around probably a couple of weeks here, like a week
• 13:40
  or two probably, you know, somewhere in there. He'll probably
• 13:42
  come back here, especially with what's going on, it's kind
• 13:45
  of a day to day thing, and they'll they'll take
• 13:47
  it by a year. But two things that I think
• 13:49
  kind of stood out to me. I think you got
• 13:52
  to give some credit to Aiden Donovan for Michigan State.
• 13:54
  I mean, he had a great start on Friday for them.
• 13:57
  He went five innings only allowed one run on three hits,
• 14:00
  three strikeouts. Carter Monk also put up a solid start
• 14:03
  for them four innings to earn. But the thing that's
• 14:06
  kind of crazy is when you look at the relief staff,
• 14:08
  nobody really performed very well all year rays above five
• 14:11
  after the fact, especially guys went multiple innings, they really struggled,
• 14:15
  and Louisville wasn't really able to capitalize at all on
• 14:18
  that fact in a great fashion necessarily until today. I
• 14:22
  think this Louisville team, like, the biggest thing that was concerning,
• 14:24
  honestly is the guys that came back as returners, like Alis, say,
• 14:28
  take Davis, you know, both of those guys really struggled.
• 14:31
  Jimmy Nugent really struggle for them. Who's the new catcher?
• 14:35
  And then kade Elam, I guess would be one bright
• 14:37
  spot for them the freshmen. He came in and he
• 14:39
  put up some good numbers along with Slanker, who we
• 14:42
  already hit on. But I think this Louisville team is
• 14:44
  kind of going to be a mix in between until
• 14:46
  they get Zion Rose back. I think Slanker's really the
• 14:48
  cog to the ship with offense right now. He's really
• 14:52
  driving the boat, So I don't know, it'll be interesting
• 14:54
  to see. I think they're going to be an offense
• 14:56
  that's going to struggle until they have Zion Rose back.
• 14:59
  I think he plugged that hole that they're really missing
• 15:02
  because take Davis, he's got some swing and miss in
• 15:04
  the game, so it kind of hurts them having to
• 15:06
  rely on him so much right now outside a slinker,
• 15:09
  So be interesting to see when he comes back.
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: Really, the interesting thing with Rose that we need to
• 15:15
  touch on as well is that his draft stock is
• 15:17
  being affected, even if it's inadvertently. I think that teams
• 15:21
  we're aware of what Zion Rose brings to the table,
• 15:24
  especially long term fans of the game. We know who
• 15:26
  Zion Ros is, we know what he brings to the
• 15:29
  dance for Louisville, but yet not seeing it will absence
• 15:33
  make part grow fonder for some of these teams, for
• 15:35
  some of these scouts looking at guys who theymib be
• 15:37
  draft this summer, or is Rose gonna maybe have a
• 15:40
  bit of a slide because of this. It's just something
• 15:42
  that we'll have to watch obviously, and once his prognosis
• 15:44
  is a little more clear, may have some more answers
• 15:47
  as far as that goes Jake, Look, get at you, man.
• 15:50
  We've talked about probably the biggest storyline of the weekend.
• 15:53
  But I'm curious, man, what stands out to you over
• 15:55
  the whole weekend when Jake looks at this newspaper and says,
• 15:59
  oh wow, what a story. Let's talk.
• 16:03
  Speaker 6: I will, like I talked about at the very beginning
• 16:06
  of the show, here, I'll go just just east of
• 16:09
  Michigan State, I'll talk about talk about Michigan Wolverine. You know,
• 16:12
  they went three and oero in the in the College
• 16:14
  Baseball Series there they played you know, they played Oregon State, Stanford, Arizona.
• 16:19
  That's two that's two Omaha teams from last year and
• 16:22
  they beat them both.
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 16:23
  Speaker 6: You know, they're probably the team with the you know,
• 16:25
  at least from our end, probably the lowest expectations coming
• 16:29
  into the opening weekend. And you know they, I mean,
• 16:32
  they just proved us wrong. They proved everyone wrong. You know,
• 16:34
  the on offense, like the production didn't really just come
• 16:38
  from one guy. You know, Brendan Stressler k Leidahoff both
• 16:41
  had both had good weekends, but like the offense as
• 16:44
  a whole, really you know, just performed well as as
• 16:48
  as a as a whole group there. But uh, the
• 16:53
  pitching was really good against two teams like I said
• 16:56
  that went to Omaha last year. They get another game
• 16:58
  tomorrow or Monday, Nina against Oregon State, and for a
• 17:04
  game with probably low expectations heading into it before the weekend,
• 17:08
  you know, I'd to mention a lot of people are
• 17:09
  gonna have their eyes on it.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: I know I'm gonna be tuned in, and like you said,
• 17:14
  the expectations have flipped radically. I remember whenever we were
• 17:17
  preparing to talk about this series, this event, the college
• 17:21
  Baseball Series, we had acknowledged Michigan and Oregon State is
• 17:25
  not part of our part of this event. You know,
• 17:28
  we're not gonna count it for our pick them, and
• 17:30
  I think we were all like, well, we know the
• 17:32
  results anyway. Funny how things change, indn't the Jake It's
• 17:36
  a little insane, Josh, let's touch on some more of
• 17:39
  this Michigan squad, who, like we said, shocking everybody, certainly us.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it is funny how I mean you
• 17:46
  just kind of touched on it. That game tomorrow.
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: Technically, depending on how much Oregon State wins by like
• 17:51
  it could swing the technical result of this thing, but
• 17:54
  the whole scheduling of everything is super weird because I'm
• 17:56
  pretty sure Stanford plays like Nebraska tomorrow or I don't know,
• 18:00
  it's like considered their midweek or some weird funky scheduling.
• 18:04
  It's all confusing.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: Who knows.
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: I mean, the main thing that I want to hit
• 18:07
  on that Jake didn't hit on was on I guess
• 18:12
  it was yesterday, Yeah, yesterday against Stanford. There's been all
• 18:16
  this talk about take Carry being possible Big Ten pitcher
• 18:19
  of the Year and whatnot. That the ace and that staff,
• 18:21
  Kate Montgomery had a day. He went out there and
• 18:24
  threw six and a third, not allowing any earned runs,
• 18:27
  with five strikeouts and only allowing one walk. He was
• 18:30
  nails out there. I think if that team, if this
• 18:34
  team is actually going to progress in the same way
• 18:36
  and not do kind of like something we haven't talked
• 18:38
  about yet. Last year they did this exact same thing
• 18:42
  in Puerto Rico, if you'll remember correctly, they went down
• 18:44
  there and beat the preseason number two team in the country, Virginia,
• 18:47
  and everyone was on the Michigan train, and then they
• 18:49
  just kind of tank. So if they're not going to
• 18:51
  follow that same path for the second year in a
• 18:53
  row and they're actually going to progress, and I'm like,
• 18:55
  a legit top twenty five to thirty team. Then I
• 18:58
  think the pitching needs to keep up with the hitting
• 19:00
  because no one really like stood out stood out besides
• 19:04
  besides like Leyhof and Streussler kind of like Jake mentioned,
• 19:07
  I think Carrie needs to do it.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: We know Carry can do, and Kay Montgomery needs to
• 19:12
  be able to keep up.
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: Not this exact same performance because you know that's not reasonable,
• 19:16
  but these same kind of performances like yeah, yeah, I
• 19:19
  know it's true. I think the same kind of performances
• 19:22
  need to continue to string along if they want to
• 19:24
  be anywhere near this kind of performed for the rest
• 19:26
  of the year.
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: That's funny, true, And then just piggyback off of that too,
• 19:29
  like it the other guy too that like we forgot
• 19:31
  to mention in there too. Kurt Barr went seven innings
• 19:34
  with the pun shouts and one right before that. So
• 19:37
  I mean, I think, honestly it's a whole staff. That's
• 19:40
  a good point that you made, Josh talk about take
• 19:42
  Carry like I was about to mention the same exact
• 19:44
  thing and talk about the other two guys, like, take
• 19:46
  Carry's the guy we hyped up saying, hey, you know
• 19:48
  he could be Dax Whitney. And then the other two
• 19:50
  guys came out and shoved even better than we could imagine.
• 19:54
  So I think that's kind of the story of the weekend,
• 19:57
  is the other two guys Montgomery and bar are really
• 19:59
  showing up Michigan.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: That's a sign of a good staff too, in my opinion.
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: I mean, if you have that one guy that like
• 20:04
  has an iffy performance, but you know what he can do,
• 20:07
  but the other two guys take that and they like
• 20:10
  they jumped to that level of the first guy that
• 20:11
  what you expect him to be at. That's a sign
• 20:13
  of a good staff because one guy can fall and
• 20:15
  the other two can pick him up on other days
• 20:17
  at the weekend, and you've got a series win based
• 20:19
  on that.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Yes, love that, And just to kind of clarify the laughter,
• 20:25
  I think it's funny that even even though we're kind
• 20:27
  of backtracking a little bit, like listen, the State of Michigan,
• 20:31
  we apologize. I love that you kind of surmised all
• 20:34
  of our thoughts of being like, what I mean, is
• 20:37
  it really real? It's just it's it's really it hit
• 20:39
  me in a good spoint.
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: I think last year has that like that thought is
• 20:43
  still in my mind because we've done this. We did
• 20:45
  this exact song and dance days ago and it just
• 20:49
  got us nowhere. I think it's different this time. But
• 20:51
  I mean that's just wishful thinking.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: I guess what's that definition of insanity?
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: Josh doing the same thing over and over again expecting
• 20:59
  different results.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Well, said JB. We're looking at some storylines here and
• 21:03
  I'm curious, man, what is it up and down this
• 21:07
  list of things we could talk about theoretically that most
• 21:10
  attracted you over the weekend.
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess I'll bite the bullet because we almost
• 21:15
  talked about it a second ago. I'll go to the
• 21:17
  UCSB Southern Myths series. Biggest thing that stood out to
• 21:21
  me Kade Goldstein. We all talked about this. Yeah, that's
• 21:25
  a freshman that can hit right there. I mean, that
• 21:27
  kid showed up and he knew what he was doing.
• 21:29
  He's a true freshman and he looked like a senior
• 21:31
  out there, so I mean he looked like a Polish
• 21:33
  veteran and in the two hole for uc Santa Barbara too,
• 21:36
  which is really impressive as a true freshman. Made one
• 21:39
  defensive blunder on the weekend throwing the ball away giving
• 21:41
  up a run on Saturday that kind of came back
• 21:44
  to haunt them and started the rally there. But overall
• 21:47
  with the bat, I mean, he had a great weekend
• 21:49
  with the game tying homer and then the blunder in
• 21:51
  the ninth inning was He's also a part of it,
• 21:54
  So I think that was something great to see. Southern Mysts, though,
• 21:58
  they really proved that they're they're a legit squad this year.
• 22:01
  Facing Santa Barbara, they prove that they're going to be
• 22:03
  a legit contender in the Sun Belt per usual. And
• 22:06
  I think also on top of that they should they
• 22:07
  get bounced back after facing probably one of the best
• 22:10
  arms in the country, probably if not the best mid
• 22:12
  major arm him or Fluky. They really did a great
• 22:16
  job come back after Flora's outing.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: I think so too, JB. You referenced in texts earlier
• 22:23
  that if this might have taken place in Santa Barbara,
• 22:29
  could the result have been flipped? And I'm gonna ask you,
• 22:31
  and this is a really quick question you can answer
• 22:33
  with one word if you'd like, do you really think
• 22:36
  that it would have changed the outcome.
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: I think in an extent, yes, and I'll give the
• 22:43
  reasoning behind it. I think, sure, you know, Southern miss
• 22:46
  it's a tough environment there, but I don't think that
• 22:48
  really rattled Santa Barbara. I think the thing that's kind
• 22:51
  of different is just traveling across the country like that,
• 22:53
  and especially going to Southern miss where it was a
• 22:56
  lot different weather than you'd have in Santa Barbara. This
• 22:58
  time of year, it's kind of a very different atmosphere,
• 23:01
  a lot of different stuff going on. So I think
• 23:03
  the travel plays more into it than anything. Like you
• 23:05
  saw a very talented Stanford team that won games at
• 23:07
  the beginning of the year really tail off from that
• 23:10
  travel longevity. And you know, a Santa Barbara put up
• 23:13
  a great fight. They look fresh the whole weekend. But
• 23:15
  you can't deny that traveling into a three hour different
• 23:18
  time zone is going to really hurt you a little bit.
• 23:21
  So that's the one part of it that I think
• 23:23
  is kind of interesting.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: There. Glad you brought that up. That was the point
• 23:26
  I was going to make as well as that, I
• 23:28
  don't know that it's the atmosphere, which it is. I
• 23:30
  mean Hattie's word. Great, incredible atmosphere for baseball. But the
• 23:34
  travel is going to catch you eventually, for sure, Josh,
• 23:38
  looking at this series first, first of all, I will
• 23:42
  pat you on the back, Josh, let me let me
• 23:44
  reach you. There you go, there, you go over there.
• 23:47
  Pat you on the back for that. You and I
• 23:49
  did pick Southern miss although I will say I was
• 23:52
  a little bit more on the fence, so I'm going
• 23:53
  to defer all credit to you there. The series lived
• 23:59
  up to the hype. Bro. I think that this was
• 24:01
  as we predicted. This was the game that I could
• 24:03
  not turn off today. I had the opportunity to put
• 24:06
  on multiview a couple times, but wanted my undivided attention
• 24:10
  on Hattiesburg. I'm curious, Josh, why do you think that is.
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: Well? I mean maybe too or like not even maybe
• 24:18
  definitely to the top five mid major teams in the
• 24:21
  country playing in a series on the opening weekend of
• 24:23
  the season in one of their home parks is must watch.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: Baseball in my opinion, I mean it credit to all
• 24:29
  of us.
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: Actually, we spent the whole sixty seconds on the last
• 24:32
  podcast talking about how the most anticipated game of the
• 24:34
  weekend will probably be Game three, the rubber match of
• 24:38
  this series, and boy did it live up to the hype.
• 24:40
  It was everything you could have imagined. I do want
• 24:43
  to point out, I think it's funny how JB comes
• 24:46
  on here and the first thing he talks about with
• 24:48
  the series is giving credit to a UC Santa Barbara
• 24:50
  guy even though they lost the series. Funny how that works.
• 24:53
  So I'll touch on the Southern miss guys that deserve credit.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: I think. I mean, the number one guy was Joey Urban.
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: He went five for eleven weekend, with a bomb that
• 25:01
  came in the eighth of yesterday's game and Saturday's game
• 25:05
  as the go ahead home run. He had two walks too.
• 25:09
  He was probably their leading offensive guy for the entire weekend.
• 25:12
  He was the glue that held it all together, which
• 25:15
  is typically not So that's a good sign of things
• 25:17
  to come, possibly for them, because like Russo had a
• 25:19
  good weekend, Kyle Morrison was solid, Tucker Stockman was like solid,
• 25:24
  but no one really like fully stood out across the
• 25:27
  board day to day like Joey Urban did.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: That was promising to see.
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: I mean, Dre Barrett had that massive go ahead home
• 25:32
  run in the eighth today too, to really what what
• 25:35
  you thought was going to be the final time you'd
• 25:38
  see someone miss up the bat and then lord knows
• 25:41
  what happened to tie along at shortstop. I don't know
• 25:43
  if it was like he was practicing his celebration or
• 25:46
  he got lost in the lights.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: I have no idea. That was about as weird as
• 25:49
  the Indiana Carolina thing.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: But I mean, like, yeah, earlier saying maybe the lights were.
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: Literally too That's why I said, like the lights were
• 25:58
  too bright, And then after I texted that and I'm like, wait,
• 26:00
  literally that might be what it was.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: I have no idea.
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: I think the other man that I don't know if
• 26:05
  like someone else is gonna head on but not so
• 26:08
  miss The starters were really that great about like they
• 26:11
  weren't bad per se, but like no one really stood
• 26:13
  out like today that like McCarty English had issues throwing
• 26:17
  strikes for a while today, but he got out of
• 26:19
  some jams. It was just it was the offense that
• 26:22
  came through on today and yesterday that really helped pull
• 26:25
  him through.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I liked what I saw out of them.
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: The offense shows life against It showed life against a
• 26:30
  really good pitching staff that we know.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: Is going to be reliable throughout the year.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: You gotta love too when in the text shot, if
• 26:36
  we're referencing it, when Josh said as soon as Crabtree
• 26:38
  gave up the homer to lead off inning when he
• 26:40
  came in, He's like, I spoke too highly a Crabtree
• 26:43
  and I immediately afterwards and I talk too. He hit
• 26:48
  five hundred as a freshman with the bomb. This no
• 26:50
  anybody on Southern miss who did that. So if we're
• 26:52
  talking top performer of the series offensively, i'd argue he is.
• 26:57
  It doesn't matter if you want to.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: I mean, like, technically, you're not wrong.
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: But it's just like we come on here and we're
• 27:03
  talking about like we've been talking about that series like
• 27:05
  three months, and the first thing is you're like, oh,
• 27:07
  Santa Barbara lost this one guy.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: I mean, like someone's gotta get propped to the winning game.
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: Put him in for Big West freshman in the year.
• 27:15
  That's what I'm going for right now. I'll stack it
• 27:17
  in right now, Stay.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Down, listen. I'll say this, JB. I didn't say it
• 27:22
  a minute ago, but it's it's ironic that you use
• 27:25
  the word polish to describe gold steak, because I would
• 27:27
  to other than that kind of kind of flaw there
• 27:31
  with the defense. But again for a freshman to come
• 27:35
  into Hattiesburg and play with as much poise, I like
• 27:38
  poise as maybe a good phrase for him as well
• 27:40
  for this weekend, good stuff.
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: Jake.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Obviously, buddy, you did. You sided with JB. You took
• 27:47
  Santa Barbara and I can't give you any I can't
• 27:49
  give you gupher that. Like we said, this was in
• 27:51
  my opinion, the series of the weekend pretty handily. H Jake,
• 27:56
  what do you look at and see when you talk
• 27:58
  about this this specifically?
• 28:02
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it was it was definitely the series
• 28:05
  of the weekend. I think it was just really impressive.
• 28:08
  I did obviously pick u Cee Centa Barbara, but just
• 28:10
  like when when Southern mis gets Jackson Flora's best on Friday,
• 28:15
  I mean he went six innings, you know, five strikeouts,
• 28:18
  no runs, whatever, Like he completely shut them down on
• 28:21
  Friday night, and just to see them bounce back was
• 28:24
  just was just really impressive to watch. I mean I
• 28:26
  have to, I have to give my props there, but
• 28:30
  just that Game three, it was just like it was
• 28:32
  just absolute cinema. We've talked about it this whole time.
• 28:35
  I mean, it was just so much back and forth.
• 28:36
  They tied early, you know, the UCSB goes up and
• 28:40
  so other mistakes the lead and they then they go
• 28:42
  back and forth a little bit more than it ends
• 28:44
  just in a walk off walk to end the game
• 28:46
  and the in the ninth inning, like what other way
• 28:48
  to end it. I mean, it was just a you know,
• 28:50
  it's a great start to the season. I mean, I
• 28:52
  don't know that. I can't guarantee we're gonna get a
• 28:55
  series all the rest of the year that was as
• 28:56
  more entertaining as this one, to be honest, I mean
• 28:58
  it was. It was a lot of fun.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: It. You know, it's such a this is just a
• 29:03
  sign of the pollution in my brain, Jake. But I
• 29:05
  go to pro wrestling a lot, and when booking pro
• 29:08
  wrestling after this series, you got to say, Man, when
• 29:12
  we run this back in six months, it's gonna be fire.
• 29:14
  But like, there's no guarantee, but man, wouldn't it be
• 29:17
  something to see these teams give it three months from now,
• 29:20
  after the guys have warmed up and gotten progressed in
• 29:23
  the season further that would be quite something. I think,
• 29:28
  just a run it back series and hell, let's run
• 29:29
  it back in Let's run it back in California.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: JV.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: I think I'm with you on that. Let's see it
• 29:33
  in the different venue and see what that does if
• 29:36
  the old Mississippi Boys can play in California.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: Love to see Jake.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, Jake, what do you think though, do
• 29:42
  you think that that's obviously you can't just book this.
• 29:45
  The schedules are made in advance, and I mean, we'd
• 29:47
  have to have some like insane luck to see this
• 29:50
  in the postseason. But that's kind of interesting to think about.
• 29:53
  Wonder what it looked like in three months.
• 29:56
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I know, I mean, I mean in three months,
• 29:58
  both teams are gonna have their pictures, figure it out,
• 30:00
  They're both they're both going to have their you know,
• 30:02
  their rotation and who they want their lineup figured out. Now,
• 30:04
  I mean, I'm with you. I think it'd be fun
• 30:06
  to see, you know, the the throughout the season, then
• 30:08
  figure out who their best, their best starters, their best
• 30:11
  lineup is, and let them just go toe to toe
• 30:13
  with their with their best guys.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: This is some crazy tracking, by the way, because Southern
• 30:18
  miss wins this series.
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: And the first thing we're doing is you're being like, oh,
• 30:21
  let's see them somewhere else's see what they can do.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Necessarily, listen, listen. I will give full credit to Southern Myss.
• 30:31
  That is a killer team who is well deserving of
• 30:33
  the spot. We're going to give them and our shared
• 30:35
  Top twenty five full credit. All I'm saying is is
• 30:40
  I think this was a hell of a series, and
• 30:42
  I just want to see more of it. That's the
• 30:44
  point I'm making is, Man, if I can watch, if
• 30:46
  I think, if we had at least one series like
• 30:49
  this every weekend, man, what a what a world? And
• 30:52
  maybe there will be like I'd like to hope there
• 30:54
  will be at least all right, let's hit through some
• 30:57
  more hit through some more storylines, guys, let's talk some
• 31:00
  more stuff that's happened across the game. Obviously we have
• 31:03
  alluded to it. It has made its way, to quote Jake,
• 31:07
  it has made its way into the meme Hall of Fame.
• 31:09
  In the group chat, the blunder, now stop, You're gonna
• 31:16
  have to stop the blunder defensively. Game three Indiana and
• 31:21
  U N C JB. I am gonna pitch this to
• 31:24
  you as I will with a lot of unc stuff,
• 31:27
  walk us through this from a technical perspective, and then
• 31:30
  I'm gonna throw it to mister Catlett to give us
• 31:32
  the color commentary.
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, to be honest, when you watched Indiana play defense
• 31:37
  this weekend, you almost wanted to like gouge your eyes
• 31:40
  out as how bad they were defensively this weekend as
• 31:43
  a whole. I mean, we had a picture call a
• 31:44
  fly ball that was missed ten feet in front of
• 31:47
  home plate. We had multiple errors at shortstop of guys
• 31:50
  just boot and balls up the middle. It was it
• 31:53
  was brutal to wash. We had the second baseman who
• 31:55
  ends up making this air prior to that was probably
• 31:59
  fifteen feet from first base, could have underhanded the ball
• 32:01
  to him and decided to lollipop flip it with his
• 32:04
  wrist and it didn't even get there and hop before
• 32:07
  him and the first baseman mooted the ball, so we
• 32:09
  got a run around and then we scored because of it.
• 32:11
  Later on it was just constant plays like this over
• 32:13
  and over again, miss flyball and left because the lights,
• 32:16
  and then we hit peak status of the Meme Hall
• 32:19
  of Fame. Ninth inning Lee Sours is in there after
• 32:22
  pinch hitting for Cooper Nicholson, ropes the ground ball a
• 32:26
  second makes a fine play, comes up, pops up a
• 32:29
  couple of shuffles, which was first concerning sign there on
• 32:33
  a ball that's probably ten feet from first base, and
• 32:35
  then just straight up spiked.
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: It right into the ground.
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: I mean, it was like a little league out there.
• 32:40
  I'd never seen something like that in the college game
• 32:43
  in my life, and I thought when we went to
• 32:45
  Omaha and saw I think it was Harrison Didwick and
• 32:48
  leftfield for Virginia who just spiked the ball, I thought
• 32:51
  that was bad. This was where I mean, it was unbelievable.
• 32:54
  I did washing that and just seeing the immediate hands
• 32:57
  on the head after the throw.
• 32:59
  Speaker 6: What did I do, us do?
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: Everybody on Indiana just not knowing what happened was insanity.
• 33:06
  And then of course the outcome happens with the walk
• 33:08
  off homer by our boy making Winslow.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: How is it taking us this long to mention that
• 33:15
  that was great?
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: I mean it was. It was a great weekend for
• 33:17
  the heels, you know, in that aspect. I can assure
• 33:21
  you that everybody was shocked, in utter disbelief about what
• 33:24
  happened at second base, but rough weekend also Aidan Stewart
• 33:28
  had zero hits on the weekend as well, so you
• 33:30
  went over and lost in the game at second base
• 33:33
  on the last night. Though it's a bad weekend for Indiana.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Josh, It's not often that I say to an athlete,
• 33:42
  a college athlete, P five college athlete, I hope you
• 33:46
  have a good week at in class, and I mean it.
• 33:50
  I hope this. I hope he has a good week. Bro,
• 33:52
  I feel bad. And honestly, Josh, I was going to
• 33:54
  go to you for the color commentary, but JB kind
• 33:56
  of gave us the whole show there. Josh, what what's
• 34:01
  the reaction to seeing this take place? Because in the
• 34:05
  group chat full transparency, I was driving it exploded, and
• 34:10
  I think that that had to be the case for
• 34:13
  thousands of group chats across America.
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: I mean, in real time, I was watching it as
• 34:19
  it happened, and I physically jumped out of my seat
• 34:23
  and my jaw dropped because I didn't know what I
• 34:25
  just watched. Like a couple of my roommates were watching
• 34:27
  with me and had a similar reaction. Because I think
• 34:31
  the play in general is nuts. It's the context of
• 34:35
  it that's the biggest thing. Like this wasn't just like
• 34:37
  one out bottom of the fifth, this was the ninth
• 34:40
  inning and you had two out to pull off to
• 34:42
  just get one win, which doesn't sound like the best
• 34:46
  thing in the world. But let's if Indiana was honest
• 34:48
  with themselves before the weekend started, taking one win in
• 34:51
  Chapel Hill would have been enough for them, and they
• 34:53
  can live with themselves. They were a fifteen foot throw
• 34:57
  from doing that. I have watched the play fifth teen
• 35:00
  to twenty times. I swear I cannot process how it happened.
• 35:03
  I I what I'm about to say. I've texted to
• 35:06
  so many people, and I mean it. I don't know
• 35:08
  if I've seen a play like that above, like twelve
• 35:11
  year old baseball in my entire life. I can't process it.
• 35:15
  Like the yips are one, there's the yips, and then there's.
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: Dad that's twelve generous, Josh, twelve of you might.
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: Be exactly That's what I'm saying, Like I don't know,
• 35:22
  like keyball, Like I don't know what to say, Like
• 35:25
  it sounds super critical, but I really I've never seen
• 35:28
  anything like that in my life.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: Yes, uh, Jake, I've saved you for last year because
• 35:35
  I have a very specific question for you for this.
• 35:38
  Speaker 6: Uh.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: If you don't know, Jake is a college baseball coach
• 35:41
  at Okina and Jake, I I need you to I
• 35:45
  need you to through the magic of the internet. I
• 35:48
  need you to coach our boy here. I need you to, Like,
• 35:50
  let's say that this happened on the field, comes off
• 35:53
  the dugout head, hang in, what do you say to
• 35:56
  this kid right here? Because this is this is the
• 35:58
  first weekend of a six fifty sixty games season. He's
• 36:02
  got got You've got to snap into this. What do
• 36:05
  you say to this guy?
• 36:07
  Speaker 6: I mean, I mean in the moment, there's not there's
• 36:09
  probably not much he can really say to him at
• 36:10
  that point. I mean, he knows the impact of what
• 36:12
  just happens all Like, there's not much you can say
• 36:15
  to him in the moment, but like, you know, going forward, Yeah,
• 36:18
  I think he entered the season as they're starting second baseman, right.
• 36:22
  He was a big transfer from Delaware. I got to
• 36:24
  see him at Delaware. I know he can really hit.
• 36:26
  I don't I didn't get much of a feel of
• 36:27
  his defense there, but I didn't see anything like what
• 36:30
  we saw this past weekend from him, but like like
• 36:33
  he didn't just transfer. You have to just you have
• 36:35
  to just remind him that, you know, he didn't just
• 36:37
  transfer to Indiana for no reason. Right, He's there, He's
• 36:39
  there for a reason. He's starting for a reason. So
• 36:41
  they they they they they know he's a good player,
• 36:45
  and you just have to let him know that he's
• 36:47
  got that. They're gonna be relying on him again probably
• 36:49
  the very next weekend, and it's gonna be very soon
• 36:51
  that there he's going to be back out on the field.
• 36:53
  Like it was a tough time. He didn't hit like
• 36:55
  JB talked about, he made the crucial error there at
• 36:58
  the end, and he's getting you know, crushed on Twitter
• 37:00
  right now in our group chat, he's getting crushed. I mean,
• 37:02
  it's it's gonna be tough for him to not take
• 37:05
  take a lot of this to heart. But I mean,
• 37:06
  I think you just have to just kind of encourage him,
• 37:09
  letting let him know that he's there for a reason,
• 37:11
  and just you know, they're they're gonna be calling on
• 37:13
  him again soon, so he's got to be ready for it.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: Thank you, coach. I like that a lot. I'll say this.
• 37:20
  It could be worse. I mean, you know, I'll wear
• 37:24
  it on the chain. I screw up all the time,
• 37:26
  all the time. So don't let the fact that we
• 37:29
  are meme Hall of Faming. You don't let that affect you.
• 37:34
  You're playing college baseball, that's dope.
• 37:38
  Speaker 6: You were like.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: People have talked about you all weekend. That's super sick.
• 37:42
  All publicity is.
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: Could it be worse? I'm not sure it could be worse.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: Gosh, stop the horse, the horse his horses into iotas
• 37:53
  we have beaten it to death.
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry. I don't think it could be worse. We're
• 37:59
  just saying things at this point.
• 38:01
  Speaker 6: Just calls on me to give this inspirational thing.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: It sucks, ruined done.
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: I don't. I don't care. I really don't know how
• 38:15
  it worse, but that we can move on. I just
• 38:18
  have to say.
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: If I can give one comment that is not related
• 38:23
  to the blunder this weekend, to give some some good
• 38:25
  light in this world, onto some things for Indiana, I'll
• 38:30
  say Tony Nubik through a great game after dealing with
• 38:34
  injuries at Missou. He pitched great, the stuff looked really
• 38:36
  good as a graduate guy, so happy for him, Outside
• 38:39
  of that, Jake Hanley was the only guy on Indiana
• 38:42
  that really stood out in the box. Looked mature, poised
• 38:45
  in there, but that was kind of given going into
• 38:47
  the weekend. The results weren't there, but there was a
• 38:49
  lot of loud outs from Jake Canley and he was
• 38:51
  a tough out, so give him that. For UNC, Colin
• 38:55
  Heinech really broke out this weekend. The Georgia State transfer
• 38:58
  five hundred on the weekend and he had two extra
• 39:01
  base hits, triple in a double along with him. Jake
• 39:04
  Shafner also had two triples on the weekend, and Eric
• 39:07
  Paulson had a really nice second game where he hit
• 39:09
  the three run homer that was big. So that's kind
• 39:13
  of the standouts for UNC on the weekend, along with
• 39:16
  making him the walkoff homer. But nice weekend for the
• 39:19
  tar Heels. I'd say the stuff that really stood out
• 39:21
  was the outfield struggles in a sense. Offensively, Owen Hole
• 39:26
  had a tough weekend along with Tyler Howe freshman you
• 39:29
  got the start, and Cooper Nicholson third baseman. Those guys
• 39:33
  all kind of struggled, but I think it'll work out
• 39:35
  in the end. I think they'll come back.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: I think. So. I did hear a lot of good
• 39:41
  praise for Shaffner. Actually, internally people have reached out to
• 39:43
  me and said some good things about Shaffner. So glad
• 39:45
  to hear that you echoed that. JB. For sure, guys
• 39:49
  a couple other couple other teams players specifically good weekends.
• 39:54
  So I'm going to read through a couple of them,
• 39:56
  and I think maybe we're going to talk about one each.
• 39:58
  How about that we'll each kind of hit on one
• 40:01
  and obviously, if you guys want to jump in on
• 40:03
  another person's things, feel free to do that kind of quickly.
• 40:06
  Let's get to it though. Oklahoma, obviously Arlington was kind
• 40:11
  of theirs and none of us really saw it coming.
• 40:14
  I think maybe if we'd have ranked the teams, I
• 40:17
  think we would have gotten into a little more of
• 40:19
  a discussion there. But I don't think any of us
• 40:20
  thought Oklahoma were going to go out and just suck,
• 40:23
  if I can be barely blunt about it. But at
• 40:26
  the same time, they'd have been on the bottom half surely,
• 40:29
  so certainly intriguing TCU. The hype is real. I think
• 40:33
  that that's pretty much as you know. We can leave
• 40:35
  it at that Virginia's offense, Josh, you alluded to it earlier,
• 40:39
  humongous outpouring of runs yesterday on Saturday, pitching question marks
• 40:46
  though maybe Kansas State's offense. We've alluded to it again
• 40:49
  in the Desert Case State went nuts. Tennessee, they shifted
• 40:56
  to ten. They're the only ten I see, and then
• 40:59
  Kit and Surrell I really leapt out. I think he
• 41:02
  kind of put a stamp next to his name this weekend.
• 41:04
  So JB will stick with you. Which of these ones
• 41:07
  do you want to talk about? Which was probably the
• 41:09
  one that you would highlight the most.
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll kind of go to the Shriners and hit
• 41:14
  on two points there. For Oklahoma, Cameron Johnson and l J.
• 41:18
  Mccurrus really looked legit on the mound for them. That's
• 41:21
  something for them to be really really excited about having
• 41:23
  those performances. Cord Rager two also had a great start
• 41:27
  for them. All three of their guys really looked good TCU.
• 41:30
  The guy that really stood out to me was Lucas Franco,
• 41:33
  the true freshman. He's got some legit juice. You saw
• 41:36
  it in the first game. He's got some legit juice.
• 41:38
  To look out for Noah Franco as well. Great job
• 41:41
  shutting it down against Arkansas. So I think it'll be
• 41:45
  really interesting to see how both those teams move forward.
• 41:47
  But both of those teams looked really, really good this weekend,
• 41:52
  I think.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: So, you know the meme from the scene from Happy Gilmore,
• 41:56
  We're Happy kind of turns and says somebody's closer that
• 42:00
  I was, honestly in my brain watching Cam Johnson pitch
• 42:03
  like he's just he's closer to the zone and look
• 42:05
  at what he did, like it's I don't know, interesting.
• 42:09
  I know when we were building out the top one
• 42:11
  hundred for NCAA prospects for the draft, subcomman year Johnson
• 42:14
  was a dude we kind of considered in that kind
• 42:17
  of ninety to one hundred range. Boy, we could have
• 42:20
  been some No stradamses had we plugged that in. But
• 42:23
  obviously we'll look at him later on, Josh, looking at
• 42:27
  some of these teams and players that have really emerged
• 42:30
  from weekend one, who do you like?
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: Before I hit on my main thing, you just mentioned something.
• 42:35
  Speaker 5: I kind of just want to like touch on the
• 42:36
  Cam Johnson thing from a I guess like from a
• 42:39
  this year perspective and a future perspective. I think one
• 42:42
  thing that's made him significantly better is ever since he's
• 42:46
  been in LSU, he's been hitting like ninety eight ninety nine.
• 42:49
  He took a little bit off that this weekend that
• 42:50
  we saw and he was sitting in like the ninety
• 42:52
  three to ninety six range, but he was throwing strikes
• 42:55
  way better and way more efficiently, and that was the
• 42:57
  key to reeling everything in for him. I think, quickly,
• 43:00
  the thing I'll hit on, I think that stands out
• 43:01
  the most to me. Besides Oklahoma. I know they were
• 43:05
  playing Wagner, but Virginia scored sixty nine runs in this
• 43:08
  entire series this weekend. That is nuts and nice, I know,
• 43:13
  And I think the biggest part about it is not
• 43:15
  even that it was one guy or two guys that
• 43:19
  really went above and beyond. It was dispersed throughout the
• 43:22
  entire lineup. Your guy Eric Beaker was probably the main
• 43:25
  star in this. He went seven for thirteen with six
• 43:28
  RBIs only two strikeouts, walked a couple of times. He
• 43:31
  was the key to that lineup. But like even aj Grossia,
• 43:35
  the biggest prospect well known as the best player on
• 43:38
  that team. He went I think two for eight this
• 43:40
  weekend with a couple like RBIs. Didn't strike out once,
• 43:44
  so that's notable. He did walk five times, which is
• 43:46
  super super good, but he wasn't exactly like the catalyst
• 43:49
  that kept him going the entire time, So it's just
• 43:53
  overall really impressive what they did. I think another name
• 43:56
  that should be mentioned. He won't be mentioned very often.
• 43:58
  Zach Johnson's a freshman that got there, played his first
• 44:01
  collegiate series and went five for nine with three RBIs
• 44:04
  and got walked four times this weekend. That's super impressive.
• 44:08
  So they'll be playing more competitive teams in the future
• 44:10
  for sure. But no matter who you're playing, at sixty
• 44:13
  nine runs in one weekend, especially considering fifty six of
• 44:17
  them were one day, is just so nuts.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: It is exceptional. I mean, I think that that's probably
• 44:25
  the best way to see it, and exceptional showing. If
• 44:28
  we're gonna shout out Virginia guys, I'd like to shout
• 44:30
  out my homie Griffin Enis three walks or runs from
• 44:35
  the Freshman Had a Boy, Had a Boy Jake. Looking
• 44:41
  at these teams who have kind of excelled over the weekend,
• 44:45
  who do you want to talk about what's the one
• 44:47
  catching your eye the most.
• 44:51
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think for me it's gonna be Kansas State.
• 44:55
  They you know, they looked absolutely dominant this weekend. To
• 44:58
  be honest, they went against they went against Iowa, who
• 45:01
  we talked about going into the weekend or at some
• 45:03
  point in some other episode we talked about how much
• 45:05
  pitching that they lost last year, so we didn't really
• 45:07
  know what much to expect from Iowa. But they beat them.
• 45:11
  They went against Yukon, which was actually their closest game
• 45:14
  of the weekend, and then they want against Penn State
• 45:16
  by like nineteen runs or something like that. But you know,
• 45:19
  say what you want about the pitching that they face,
• 45:21
  but when you're putting up, you know, the amount of
• 45:23
  runs that they're putting up, you have to you have
• 45:24
  to take notice of it. And you got guys like
• 45:27
  d Kennedy who had three homers on the weekend five
• 45:29
  thirty eight batan average. They had six other like starters
• 45:33
  in their lineup with an ops over one thousand. Like
• 45:35
  offense looks for real. They look like one of the
• 45:38
  best teams in the Big Twelve, which there was like
• 45:41
  six or seven teams or something undefeated teams out of
• 45:44
  the Big Twelve. But uh yeah, I think depending on
• 45:50
  how you dependent on how TCU does. There's like six
• 45:52
  or seven teams from this past weekend in the Big twelve.
• 45:55
  But I like, I like what I saw out of
• 45:58
  Kansas State. It's gonna be fun to see how they
• 46:00
  can keep it going.
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. Uh you know, talking about talking about d Kennedy
• 46:06
  a little bit because I feel like I've written about him,
• 46:08
  you know, twice obviously thus far, this weekend outstanding. I
• 46:13
  think that he's always gonna thus far, if I had
• 46:16
  to infer from the rest of the season, I think
• 46:18
  there's gonna be a bit of a swing issue. Like
• 46:21
  he swings a little. He's a little aggressive, maybe a
• 46:23
  free swinger, you could say. But I love I love
• 46:28
  the I love the tools he's got on display. He's
• 46:31
  a very fun player, and I think that that's gonna
• 46:33
  be a guy that I gravitate towards that that fun profile.
• 46:36
  Jacobs is a good one in that Big twelve landscape.
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: We'll call it that, We'll call.
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: It Tennessee obviously did really well. Guys. We didn't talk
• 46:46
  about him, but Blaine Brown unreal teaking Koons Jake, our
• 46:50
  boy looked really good. Landon Mac our boy looked really good.
• 46:53
  I was satisfied. Defensively, yeah, base running, But you know,
• 47:01
  we'll see what happens. We'll see how the offense done.
• 47:04
  Kate and Serrell had a weekend, Josh, do you want
• 47:06
  to give me ten words on Kate and Cyrel?
• 47:10
  Speaker 5: I got to read you a stat line for the weekend.
• 47:12
  He went nine for fifteen with three bombs, h ten
• 47:17
  RBIs and only struck out three times. So I think
• 47:19
  those numbers speak for themselves.
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: Jake. If you had to use one word to describe
• 47:24
  that stat line, what would it be?
• 47:28
  Speaker 6: I mean, I mean impressive, I guess is the word
• 47:31
  I can use. I mean it's just cool getting to
• 47:33
  see him come back and you know, play lose without
• 47:35
  having the crazy expectations in the preseason. I think it showed.
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, JB. If you had to give it a word,
• 47:41
  just that stat line in one word, what are you thinking?
• 47:44
  Speaker 4: Incredible? Yes, you're right, Josh.
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: One word for the stat line, what would it be?
• 47:54
  You have? Impressive and incredible this.
• 47:56
  Speaker 5: One I mean like outstanding, and they're all synonyms.
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say good, good, good. So on the foot
• 48:08
  side of these that we've just talked about, obviously some
• 48:12
  less than savory things. Auburn, Josh, I mean what happened?
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, I'll talk about that. They are three
• 48:24
  and oh, but it was like the last game is.
• 48:28
  Speaker 5: What we expected from this team. I mean, like this
• 48:31
  team ended up they won seventeen to two. I think
• 48:34
  it was on the last game of that doubleheader. But
• 48:37
  everyone around here is like, our baseball team was supposed
• 48:40
  to be the one good thing we got going for
• 48:42
  us right now. Why did we just win two games
• 48:44
  two to one against Youngstown State. It's kind of what's
• 48:48
  funny about it, is it when the exact opposite way
• 48:51
  that you thought it would. Like if you would have
• 48:52
  told me on Thursday, Auburn's gonna have two one run
• 48:55
  games this weekend, predict the final score, I would have said,
• 48:57
  like ten to nine, But they were two to one
• 49:00
  because the pitchers went out there and just shoved. It
• 49:02
  was a fun stat I saw somewhere. I think Lindsay
• 49:05
  Crosby is the first one that I saw put this
• 49:06
  out there. It was the most strikeouts in a series
• 49:11
  in Butch Thompson's ten year at Alburn so in eleven
• 49:13
  years here. It's the most collective strikeouts we've had as
• 49:15
  a team. Jake Barciana went five innings with twelve strikeouts,
• 49:21
  no walks, like sixty three percent with which is nuts.
• 49:24
  Like Jackson Sanders, Alex Petrovish looked really good, but it
• 49:28
  was just the offense was so inconsistent, like it was
• 49:31
  very My favorite part of the weekend is Eric Gavara
• 49:34
  and Bub Terrell specifically. It was the most like them
• 49:37
  weekends you could possibly imagine, because like Eric Gavara went
• 49:41
  six for thirteen with two doubles, but he had four strikeouts.
• 49:45
  Bob Terrell went five for thirteen, three rbi ands and
• 49:49
  big spots, but five strikeouts. And there was a lot
• 49:51
  of taste there. It was some poor like some poor abs.
• 49:54
  The approach wasn't great. It was just so fitting from
• 49:56
  those two guys, just so indicative. The biggest overarching thing
• 50:00
  for this weekend. The last thing I'll talk about, Chris
• 50:02
  Rembert is gonna be out for like a month, probably
• 50:04
  because he has I think a high ankle sprain is
• 50:07
  what they're diagnosing it as sliding into second base.
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: That's I don't know that.
• 50:12
  Speaker 5: That's a real gut punch, and there's we got a
• 50:15
  touch series coming up in Arlington, Braski coming to town
• 50:19
  a couple of weeks. You just got to hope he's
• 50:20
  back by that Texas series and that second to last
• 50:22
  weekend in March, because I mean that that's a real
• 50:24
  tough blow with the way the offense this worked this
• 50:26
  past weekend. The catalyst being gone that early in the
• 50:30
  season is just really a blow you don't want to
• 50:33
  have to deal with. But you know, but you'll find
• 50:35
  a way. I believe in them, Josh.
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: I know you study medicine in your spare time. Do
• 50:40
  you think that I could give my ankle to Chris Render.
• 50:44
  Speaker 5: I don't think he would say no. I don't know
• 50:46
  how that surgery would work, But I mean, like, I
• 50:48
  think it's it's worth a good old college try.
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: Indeed, I'll let you ask him that. Just if he's interesting,
• 50:55
  he can have it.
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: I'll text him, Okay, thank.
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: You, uh JB. Jake. Let's talk about these other two teams, ECU.
• 51:01
  You know we alluded to it earlier. Obviously it was
• 51:04
  a clean sweep for US set by Xavier though, and
• 51:08
  then Troy. As much hype as as we've given them
• 51:12
  in the preseason. Not a great opening weekend for them either. Jake,
• 51:17
  what do you think about these two teams? Rather, let's
• 51:20
  ask this who was more disappointing between ECU and Troy, Jake,
• 51:24
  and how quickly do you think that team turns it around.
• 51:29
  Speaker 6: I think the most disappointing of the two this weekend.
• 51:33
  I think it had to be Troy. Like they played
• 51:35
  against Mercer, it was a series that we kind of
• 51:38
  expected to be a little bit of a warm up
• 51:40
  for them going into the rest of the season, and
• 51:42
  they just, you know, they just didn't. They just didn't
• 51:44
  come out high, and that's something that none of us
• 51:46
  really really expected to happen. I think. I think it
• 51:49
  like the runs allowed was was pretty shocking, Like especially
• 51:52
  in the second game, they gave up seventeen runs to Mercer.
• 51:57
  It just kind of felt like, you know, where, the
• 51:59
  game just got out of hand and they started looking
• 52:01
  ahead to the next day, almost like the offense found
• 52:03
  its footing a little bit in the game three. But
• 52:06
  that's definitely something to watch. You know, they're gonna they
• 52:09
  get it. They get a midweek game, agains Mississippi State,
• 52:11
  and then next weekend against Campbell team that looked really
• 52:14
  good this past weekend, so, like you know, there's not
• 52:17
  there's not a lot of room to continue this.
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 52:20
  Speaker 6: I don't want to call it a slide because it
• 52:22
  was the first weekend of the series of the season,
• 52:24
  but like you know, they got some things to figure
• 52:26
  out and they're gonna have to do it pretty quick.
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: They need to do it just their trajectory. Eh, yeah,
• 52:32
  there you go. I like it.
• 52:34
  Speaker 4: JB.
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: Let's talk about ECU then, Uh upset by Xavier? Uh curious,
• 52:41
  what do you think that the adjustment needs to be
• 52:43
  for ECU.
• 52:45
  Speaker 4: I think the biggest thing that stood out was just
• 52:47
  the bullpen and the lack of it. I think that's
• 52:49
  the thing. I guess for me, it wasn't that surprising.
• 52:52
  Eacus really struggled in the pen in the recent years.
• 52:55
  I mean when we've always played them, it's been kind
• 52:57
  of a round robin type of deal. Who are can
• 53:00
  come in next? You know, you might just face one
• 53:02
  batter and you're out of the game and the next
• 53:03
  guy's in. So the pen's been really an issue. Ethan
• 53:07
  Norby on Friday really let them down three and two thirds.
• 53:10
  The two earned runs on the homer kind of hurt them,
• 53:13
  especially not give them length. Van Kempen and Weber did
• 53:17
  a decent job, but you know, they give him quality starts,
• 53:20
  which is what they needed. But the bullpen really let
• 53:23
  them down. I think Sean Jenkins, you know, you might
• 53:25
  see him back in that rotation soon enough, or he's
• 53:28
  gonna get more of an extended role I think for them.
• 53:31
  But the biggest thing that stands out was just how
• 53:34
  badly they got outslugged by Xavier. Xavier at six homers,
• 53:37
  ECU only had one. You know, it's kind of hard
• 53:40
  when a team's slugging like that, especially in a park
• 53:42
  that's really favorable to hit home runs at ECU, I
• 53:44
  think that's kind of tough for them. That's not their game.
• 53:46
  So when you play a team like Xavier who can slug,
• 53:49
  it's hard to win those games. So that's why I
• 53:51
  got on them. For me, it wasn't necessarily a huge
• 53:54
  shock thought they'd win the series, but the flaws that
• 53:56
  came out made sense.
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: They were really uh put on the national showcase innocence
• 54:03
  those falls is what I mean, JB. So it's interesting
• 54:05
  that you would you would call attention to that. That's
• 54:07
  a good point Anyhow, let's look, I had guys to
• 54:11
  the midweek several good games here, Josh, you've hoighbluted four games,
• 54:15
  and we're each gonna give let's give a sentence each.
• 54:18
  How about on on why this midweek game is one
• 54:22
  you should tune into if you were so inclined. And
• 54:26
  I'm gonna call on the guy I haven't called on
• 54:27
  first all show, I'm gonna call on Drew first.
• 54:30
  Speaker 6: Uh.
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: Talking about Troy traveling to start for Mississippi to take
• 54:34
  on Mississippi State, Jake just alluded to it. This is
• 54:39
  a big matchup for Troy because the trajectory for them
• 54:41
  is pointed downward right now. But this is a team that,
• 54:45
  as we have kind of as we've sort of marketed,
• 54:49
  they're always in it. Troy's kind of always in it,
• 54:51
  always around. I don't think that this is something that
• 54:53
  they are going to struggle with year long. Now that said,
• 55:00
  Mississippi State, look, I mean again sort of in that
• 55:05
  Auburn tier. Well what did I say? I have been
• 55:06
  to go there three and were off druf all right,
• 55:13
  Just curiosities abound. And so Tuesday evening and Startenville is
• 55:17
  gonna be one that I'm really curious to see what
• 55:19
  happens with As far as I know, and you guys
• 55:23
  back me up here, as far as I know, we
• 55:25
  did not see a certain freshman picture for Mississippi State
• 55:29
  this weekend either.
• 55:30
  Speaker 3: That is correct.
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: I am circling, highlighting and starring that game for Tuesday
• 55:36
  night watching if I can't make it to the park. So, Josh,
• 55:41
  I'm curious Tuesday night. You've got something going on, don't you.
• 55:45
  Speaker 5: I about to say, speaking of making end of the park,
• 55:47
  I will be at the Auburn Cincinnati game on Tuesday.
• 55:50
  I'll be covering it from Auburn's glorious press box that
• 55:54
  is so far down the right field line you can
• 55:56
  barely see the game.
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: But that's okay, yeah, I mean, like just it was
• 56:02
  like one point for each team.
• 56:04
  Speaker 5: Cincinnati, I'm interested to see how they do against SEC
• 56:08
  pitching after this weekend. They dropped one to Jacksonville State,
• 56:11
  but they ended up winning the series. Jack Untilly didn't
• 56:14
  look too great and he was one for seven, but
• 56:16
  he did he did get walked five times, so that's
• 56:18
  certainly something to notice. Quentin Coates was only like three
• 56:21
  for twelve. Those are their two big guys, in my opinion,
• 56:23
  just average ish series. How they do against guys like
• 56:28
  who I assume is going to be Andreas Alvarez or
• 56:30
  Christian Chatterton taking them ound for Auburn, two sophomores that
• 56:34
  got a lot of time last year in a starter's
• 56:36
  role for that Auburn team.
• 56:37
  Speaker 3: It's probably saw a lot of them in the postseason,
• 56:39
  especially Andreas.
• 56:40
  Speaker 5: That's who I assume was going to get the starter's
• 56:42
  job for the Tuesday spots from here on out, or.
• 56:45
  Speaker 3: At least for the near future.
• 56:46
  Speaker 5: I'm curious see how they do against the lineup that
• 56:48
  didn't perform super great this past weekend but has upside
• 56:51
  for sure. One more minor thing I hit on it earlier,
• 56:54
  how does Auburn look without Chris Rembert? Is Brandon mc
• 56:57
  is Brandon mccrane gonna be the one that steps up
• 56:59
  the second base roll at least like permanently for the
• 57:02
  next month. Like what's the infield configuration kind of gonna
• 57:05
  look like? Because Butcher must around with it a little
• 57:07
  bit this past weekend, kind of like we figured he would,
• 57:10
  But like, how does that continue to look? I'll be
• 57:11
  really interested to see how it goes. Should be a
• 57:13
  good matchup.
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: Looking forward to hearing your thoughts live from the park. Jake,
• 57:18
  we talked about it a minute ago. Rather, JD talked
• 57:21
  about it a minute goes. Xavier can really slug, and
• 57:24
  to see Xavier taking on Louisville in a series, all right,
• 57:28
  excuse me in a midweek game a little bit more
• 57:31
  compelling than I would have thought it would be a
• 57:33
  week ago.
• 57:33
  Speaker 6: Huh, yeah, it sure is. I mean, we obviously talked
• 57:37
  about both of those two series earlier in the show.
• 57:39
  We talked about, you know, Xavier at one at ECU
• 57:42
  when most of us didn't expect that to happen, and
• 57:44
  then we certainly didn't expect louis Well to lose the
• 57:47
  series to Michigan State the way that they did. It's
• 57:50
  just like you said, there's gonna be a lot more
• 57:51
  eyes on it probably now than what it was coming
• 57:55
  before this past weekend. And you know, I don't know
• 57:58
  what to expect really from either pitching staff, necessarily the
• 58:03
  Louisville staff we talked about there. They didn't you know,
• 58:06
  they're both being especially didn't look too hot. I don't
• 58:09
  know what kind of depth they have left after this
• 58:10
  past weekend. But you know, seeing the team. It could
• 58:13
  either be a you know, a stay hot weekend for
• 58:15
  Xavier or a get right series for Louisville. Would be
• 58:19
  fun to see what happens.
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: Love it, JB to Florida teams. Not a bad weekend
• 58:27
  from either Interesting midweek as UCF takes on the U.
• 58:33
  What are you thinking?
• 58:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think the biggest storyline is the offenses, both
• 58:37
  of them in double digits for all three games, UCF
• 58:40
  scoring sixteen, thirteen and fifteen runs, U Miami scoring thirteen,
• 58:44
  seventeen and twenty seven, respectively. Both really loud offenses. They're
• 58:49
  bad competition granted, but you know, I think it'll be
• 58:52
  interesting to see them both get tested, both offenses and
• 58:55
  see how the pitching holds up for each side.
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: Interesting, I think it will be. It's going to be
• 58:59
  a uh, it's gonna be a neat one one that
• 59:02
  the state of Florida can look at and be proud, because, man,
• 59:04
  what if they what's the odds that this is just
• 59:07
  like thirteen twelve.
• 59:10
  Speaker 4: If we don't know, we don't know.
• 59:13
  Speaker 5: I mean, I don't know how good CNA and le
• 59:15
  High's pitching goes from this past weekend, But I mean like,
• 59:17
  look like JB said, double digit runs at every single
• 59:20
  game has to go for something.
• 59:21
  Speaker 3: I don't care who you're buying.
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: No, I was about saying, Jake, Jake, if you okay Lehigh,
• 59:28
  who is that.
• 59:30
  Speaker 6: Les? Leo's winning every game? They actually have decent pictures.
• 59:34
  It's the it's the hitters. I think that you know,
• 59:36
  uh that you have to worry about with them, But
• 59:38
  Leo's winning that series and them Sienna, good to know.
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: Good god, Jake, while you've got the control, while you've
• 59:46
  got the coucheball of power. Uh, tell us where we
• 59:49
  can find you between episodes of College Baseball now and
• 59:51
  tell us what you work.
• 59:54
  Speaker 6: Uh yeah, you can follow me on Twitter at Jake
• 59:55
  Barge that threat to thro under my name on the screen.
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 6: Yeah, the things that I'm working on. It's just it's
• 1:00:02
  just staying locked in for the season right now. I
• 1:00:04
  mean where we got some uh you know, I think
• 1:00:06
  we're gonna be maybe updating our rankings a little bit.
• 1:00:08
  I've got my major rankings on Twitter. You can check
• 1:00:10
  those out. I'll be updating those every week. Went out
• 1:00:13
  to a top thirty instead of just top twenty five.
• 1:00:16
  There's too many teams to just keep it at twenty five,
• 1:00:18
  So check that out.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: If you haven't oppressive, good work from you, mister Catlett.
• 1:00:24
  What are you working on? Where can folks find you
• 1:00:26
  between our episodes?
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you can follow me on x at Josh Catlet three.
• 1:00:31
  I should have my personal update a top twenty five
• 1:00:34
  rankings out by the time this podcast comes out, probably. Yeah,
• 1:00:39
  that bracketology that I put out last week got tons
• 1:00:41
  of traction that I was not expecting.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 3: But I mean, like I'll think it popped off. I'm
• 1:00:46
  not complaining at all I got.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 5: I will say I found it very funny that the
• 1:00:51
  most mad fan base at me for that was ECU
• 1:00:54
  for me putting them down as a three seed and
• 1:00:56
  then they lost his avhit this weekend.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 3: I'm just throwing that out there anyway.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 5: Besides the point, by the time we by the time
• 1:01:03
  the next podcast comes out, I should have a live
• 1:01:05
  look article out on the Auburn Cincinnati series that I'll
• 1:01:07
  be writing for everything that I see there on that
• 1:01:10
  MIDWEK So yeah, check out the website for that as well.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: Good plug, love it, JB. Where can people find you
• 1:01:16
  between our episodes? What are you working on other than
• 1:01:19
  your paper about is baseball American.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, outside of you know, the class baseball history class
• 1:01:25
  we got at JB underscores to Ostiano for the Twitter.
• 1:01:29
  Just released my Prep two point zero which came out
• 1:01:31
  the other day. You know, Josh already not happy with
• 1:01:34
  me again, you know, shocker, he's already.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 3: It's better going at it better than usual.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 4: What's new? So you know that's there, But you know,
• 1:01:41
  hopefully going to do a live looks from the unc
• 1:01:42
  Indiana series kind of shouting about some of the things
• 1:01:45
  we saw there and yeah, probably some more of those
• 1:01:48
  soon enough to e see you this weekend we'll have them,
• 1:01:51
  so be a good live look there.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: Absolutely well, looking forward to that. Follow me on the
• 1:01:56
  Twitter machine, Instagram, Blue Sky at Drew is. Okay, what
• 1:02:00
  we've got coming up is we are going to be
• 1:02:02
  combining college and prep this month theoretically to present our
• 1:02:07
  first big board for the MLB Draft this summer. Obviously
• 1:02:12
  it's gone thing that has started this weekend. Guys, that's
• 1:02:14
  really big. The college Daily Sheet I have alluded to it.
• 1:02:18
  I'll be writing Big twelve throughout the week and then
• 1:02:21
  I'll be doing SEC midweeks, which is gonna be if
• 1:02:25
  I can be Frank, It's gonna be an island in
• 1:02:27
  the middle of the desert in a lot of ways
• 1:02:29
  for me, So it's gonna be a lot of fun
• 1:02:31
  looking forward to that. Can't wait to see the live
• 1:02:33
  look articles out of you guys. Proud of all of
• 1:02:36
  you and the stuff you're releasing on your Twitter. It's
• 1:02:39
  good stuff obviously. Also, our updated Top twenty five as
• 1:02:44
  a Crew Podcasting Crew is going to be out later
• 1:02:47
  this week as well, and we will be back later
• 1:02:50
  in the week to talk about Weekend two and to
• 1:02:52
  get to our Weekend Pick Them. But until then, for
• 1:02:55
  the boys, I'm Drew and we will see you next
• 1:02:58
  time on College Baseball
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 5: M