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Weekend 11 Preview: Concerns in Georgia | Ep. 030 · College Baseball Now

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  Speaker 1: I forgot if you're writing an introduction for the show,
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  but I promise it's gonna be good. Georgia and Alabama
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  both lost in the midweek, and the pick'um series should
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  be a lot of fun. Since you're here, don't leave.
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  You should come and join us for today's episode of
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  College Baseball Now. Yeah, there ain't no problems.
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  Speaker 2: There ain't no problems.
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  Speaker 3: That don't want problem with me?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, let me talk to the chat. They know what
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  was going for a minute, I hit the bot, beat,
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  grab a couple of wins with a be id. This'
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  even known the kid.
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  Speaker 1: I had to do a b I G. I can
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  never be Taverridge and they.
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  Speaker 2: Want to problem with the boy.
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  Speaker 1: They don't know no statics.
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  Speaker 2: I don't need so coach son run a week.
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  Speaker 1: God, I want to test.
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  Speaker 2: That title with standing to control run the game. Best
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  believe of signing dogs counted no my wins. Yeah, I
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  love it when they count me out counting on the lease.
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  Sudden shame. Why win at dogs? Best believe I run
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  the game? You know I'm men truly.
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  Speaker 1: Happy. Thirty episodes to College Baseball Now, Prospects Lives podcasts
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  covering college baseball. It's players. It's games, its results, and
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  everything to do with the best game in the United
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  States of America at least in its college system, whole
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  US and with you, you're hosting team your friends started
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  with me, your host, your boy, Drew Wheeler, director of
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  Amager Scouting at Prospects Lives. So glad to be here
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  with you, and glad to be here with my friends tonight.
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  Starting with the man in the middle. You have migrated
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  again to the middle of my friend. It is Joshua,
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  josh A big week for you in a lot of
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  respects Uh, school going nuts for your boy. The wear
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  is on your face. You look a little tired. But
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  it's also a big sports week for you. Man. You've
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  got playoff basketball going. Your Dolphins have got I think
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  you said seven million picks in the first three rounds
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  of the draft, So big sports week for you as well, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, First of all, I think I look fine. I
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  don't know what you're talking about. How are you? Yeah,
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  big sports week for me. I'm doing a little multitasking
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  until halftime, that's all right. Uh yeah, big college baseball
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  week too. Actually, you know what, not really kind of
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  a week slate for being honest, but.
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  Speaker 4: This gay, he's already distracted you. He's watching the game.
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  Speaker 3: Everything. I was gonna say, still, it's okay.
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna say it was a week intro. Josh
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  is distracted. Distract this one up now. Well, if you've
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  enjoyed this anyway, glad that you're here with this. Josh,
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  thank you for making time. And I know it is
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  a very busy week for you. We appreciate you be
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  able to stalk. And on the far right is JB Sebastiano. JB.
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  How's it going, buddy?
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  Speaker 4: I'm doing great. How are you true doing great?
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  Speaker 1: Man? Doing real good? JB. I'm excited because I know
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  that you and well Josh as well. You guys have
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  both got graduations coming up. So I'm curious, JB, what's
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  your week looked like this week?
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  Speaker 4: This week, for the rest of the week is just
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  finishing up classes. L docs on Monday, so you know,
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  we're finishing up classes, little projects. Gave my presentation today,
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  we got that done. We got another one I gotta
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  have turned in tomorrow, so that'll be that'll be interesting.
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  But outside of that then it's just a couple of
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  finals and we're good to go.
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  Speaker 1: How do you think the presentation will figure went well.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it went pretty well. We had an unnamed
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  basketball player in our group who so so? But you know,
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  outside of that, we do both.
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  Speaker 1: See well if you have any thoughts as to who
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  the unnamed basketball player for you and C was that
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  did so so in the presentation dropping in the comments below,
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  we don't have time to talk about all that. We
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  can't solve the mystery right now. I'm gonna put my
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  spy glass down. I'm gonna get my notebook hoping for clues.
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  Put that all away, because we got baseball to talk about.
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  Getting into the midweek boys, a big battle in the
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  Peach State, two teams near the top of our rankings
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  faced off. Georgia Tech took a seven inning win, fourteen
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  to four over the Bulldogs of Georgia. Josh, I want
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  to start with you here, Georgia Tech putting up fourteen
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  runs after I mean, let's just call a spade of
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  space a disappointing weekend in Chapel Hill. What do you
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  think that that's that's a statement from the Yellowjackets.
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  Speaker 3: Right, Oh, for sure. I mean it was a top
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  five matchup most places you looked at it. Rivalry and
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  the Braves Ballpark. I mean it's a huge There were
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  a lot of big name people there, like the Governor
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  of Georgia, Kirby Smart, Brian sni Kerr, like a bunch
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  of big names in the park for a college baseball game.
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  Goodness see. I think first of all, off rep, it's
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  a shame this wasn't televised, like how we are running
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  games like this. Top five matchups, huge rivalries, and it's
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  not televised. You can't get video to it. The only
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  video I can find is from people taking side angles
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  and posting them on Twitter. It's ridiculous, but nonetheless huge
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  win for Georgia Tech. The Stars came out on offense
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  like usual, did what they didn't do this did what
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  they've been doing all season but didn't do this past week,
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  and drew Burris for four to three RBI on a walk.
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  Jenathan Bankola looked really good. Called Carson Curse, who's been
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  his draft stock has been rising tremendously a week by week.
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  He had a single that was one hundred and ten
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  ev off the bat. Also, just in general, twenty one
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  batted balls with an EVY of one hundred miles per
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  hour or more in this game. That is ridiculous, metal
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  bat or not. That just goes to show you two
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  of the best offenses in the country squaring off. What happens. Yeah,
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  I mean, like huge win for Georgia Tech, even though
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  it is just a midweek It moved them up to
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  number two in the RPI. Georgia on the other side,
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  moved him down number moved them down one spot in
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  number twenty one. Not looking great. I know they're number
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  one in the SEC, and you know that speaks for itself,
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  but you're trying to get really good seeding in the postseason,
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  trying to be a national seed. Twenty one RPI this
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  late in the year is not great. So I don't
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  know if y'all are gonna talk about Georgia, y'all can
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  take that, But Georgia Tech great. No notes, Georgia might
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  not be might not be as good as shape as
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  people might think.
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  Speaker 1: JB. That's a great transition, Josh, Yeah, you're so good.
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  Not only is he watching basketball, not only is he
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  busy and sleepy, it's showing on his face. He's already
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  got the booze rolling to night as well. Josh. He's
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  a pros pro though with the killer transition, JB. He
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  got it. Let's talk Georgia because, like Josh said, maybe
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  this Georgia team has a little bit more mirage to
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  him than I think we might have thought.
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  Speaker 4: Hmm, yeah, No, I'll start off with the pitching. I mean,
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  in this game, it was quite atrocious. I'll start with
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  one of the worst performances of the night, Kenny Ishikawa,
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  who we talked about, how he got booted out of
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  the rotation. He only got two outs, gave up five
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  earned runs, walked to as well in that outing, didn't
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  strike anybody out. We'll go to Jordan Stevens from there.
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  He went one inning in relief, gave up one hit,
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  and he gave up three earned runs with a walk
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  and one strikeout, So not a great night from him.
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  Their starter, Paul Farley went two innings, gave up six hits,
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  four runs, also not great. And Luke will will track
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  us gave up two outs and or got two outs,
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  gave up two earned runs as well. And then I
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  know we've talked a lot about these two guys and
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  had a lot of debates for our two hundred that
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  were coming out with Daniel Jackson for four on the
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  night with three strikeouts. Trey Phelps oh for four with
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  a strikeout as well. Two of the bigger names than
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  that George offense just really not showing up and honestly
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  not being able to do their part in this game.
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  I know Josh hit on most of the guys on
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  GT hit on Avigkila, but he also had three RBIs
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  in this game. Zuckerman had a huge two run homer.
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  I know we talked a little bit about his struggles
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  striking out seven times last weekend, but in true Zuckerman fashion,
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  he's back in the tank at a big league ballpark.
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  So yeah, I was hoping.
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  Speaker 1: I was hoping you touch on your boys, Zuckerman.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that was the storylines from this game. But yeah,
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  I think honestly, for Georgia, like Josh hit on, you know,
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  it's not a great look. We've seen Georgia look awful
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  and almost every midweek this year, going as far back
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  as we can remember, we were joking about them not
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  showing up to the midweek game. So I think maybe
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  that has something to do with this. You know, it
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  was a bigger stage you would have hoped for better,
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  But maybe it's the pitching. This weekend will be huge
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  for them. I know we'll get into that soon, but
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  you know, for Georgia, definitely this weekend I'd say now
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  is on a higher pedestal, but must win for them
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  right now.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. I don't know how it could be any less
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  than that. And I'm glad you know what you said.
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  We have all year talked about how Georgia are very
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  much big game players. In a sense. It's like you said,
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  they almost forget that. Hey, we should keep some semblance
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  of energy for the midweeks. Maybe we ought to win
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  one or two of us now. Bulldog Ball is not
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  concerned with your Wednesday Tuesday Wednesday games. On the other hand, though,
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  like we said, guys, the Jackets needed to come in
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  and they did it. Let's really quick play game time,
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  because I want to talk about two players specifically, Josh.
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  You brought it up Georgia, the concerning concerning thing with
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  RPI for sure, because this is the time when you
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  need to be building that case, not taking bricks away
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  from your tower. If one, Josh is no concern whatsoever
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  and ten is absolute utter terror, where are you at
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  on the concertometer for Georgia right now? Uh?
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  Speaker 3: Concern in terms of what, like.
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  Speaker 1: I think, just their stock as the season rolls on,
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  the words, uh, you know, we're looking towards seating, towards
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  we're looking towards you know that kind of thing.
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  Speaker 3: If we're going into seating, we're oute with this, I'd
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  say it's like.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 5: Uh six, just because like I think, I think Jake
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  and I had them as a nine this past week
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  and I've seen them mostly higher, and to be honest,
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  like it was it felt weird to put them at nine,
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  but like we had a lot of debate between.
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  Speaker 3: The team seated five through nine, and you could have
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  put them anywhere in there, but it just made the
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  most sense because you keep coming back to how low
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  the RPI is because you know, they talked they took
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  home losses to Wright State and Knnessaus State and that
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  that's hurting the RPI. The strength schedule wasn't very good. Uh,
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  they perform really well a SEC play, Don't get me wrong.
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  I obviously don't know the RPI formula, but it's not
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  being very favorable towards Georgia this year. So you'll see
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  like typically the committee just goes down by RPI when
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  doing seating or roughly like pretty close to it, So
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  this year will kind of be a test of how
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  much they'll do that because Georgia is a huge historical
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  outlier to be honest, like a team that could win
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  the SEC regular season and not be top fifteen in
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  RPI just doesn't happen. So I'd say like six because
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  those numbers speak for themselves, but I still have faith
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  in them as a team.
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  Speaker 1: JB. Same question, where does Georgia of Paul and the
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  concern tometer looking at seating considering the RPI gaps are.
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  Speaker 4: Starting to emerge, I'm probably similar with Josh. I'm gonna
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  go with a five because it's concerning about the RPI,
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  but they have time to try to make it up
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  a little bit and gain a little bit of ground
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  here with an SEC schedule. And also I think there
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  is a little bit of SEC bias usually when we
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  see these seatings come about, So I'd say them like
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  in the middle, I met a five, Like it's concerning
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  to see the RPI this slow, but they got a
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  chance in time to make it up, and also kind
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  of the SEC bias usually will help them out a
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  little bit, So yeah, they'll be okay.
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  Speaker 1: I think as the as it comes to seating, you know,
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  for the tournament. Sometimes it just means more. Anyway, let's
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  talk Let's talk about Georgia Tech. Let's branch off that
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  talking about Von Lackey. Before we started recording, guys, JB,
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  you pitched a question to Jay asking him about the
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  difference between Lackey and Arkansas catcher writer Helfrick. Interesting because
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  I know that we're a college baseball specific podcast, but
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  we're gonna talk a lot about the draft obviously as
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  it rolls around, as we get closer, we're gonna have
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  a lot of draft talk. And these are guys who
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  I don't think anybody in our circle on our team
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  at Prospects Live was out on necessarily. But I also
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  think it's incredibly fair to say our stock for them
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  has risen almost equally, to the point that they're now
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  towards the top of our list. JB. I want to
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  start with you, because you really laid out the statistical
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  case for the gap between them being thinner than I
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  think a lot of people may think.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, kind of talked about it, and I guess I'll
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  go back over it a little bit. For Helfrick this
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  year and one hundred and ninety three plate appearances of
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  going over some small data sample here, seventeen percent k rate,
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  twenty point seven percent walk rate and a six't eighty
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  one expected slug and he's hitting the ball on the
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  ground forty percent of the time. Lackey, in comparison, has
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  gone up to the plate one hundred and eighty three times.
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  He's got a thirteen point seven percent k rate, eighteen
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  percent walk rate and expected slug a six to fifty
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  seven and a forty five point five percent ground ball rate.
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  So I think each of them kind of gives and
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  takes in different categories there. I think, you know, especially
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  from an offensive standpoint, they're very tight. They're very very
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  close in the margin there. We talked about how von
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  Lackey's probably a little bit more athletic. I think that's
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  what kind of pushed him ahead a little bit defensively
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  behind the plate. I know a lot of people love Lackey.
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  For me and the showing that I saw last weekend,
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  there's things that you could like, but he also wasn't
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  as good as was advertised, I'd say in my opinion,
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  So I think the athleticism helps with the pop time.
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  I think Helfrid may have a stronger arm is another
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  thing there. So I think it's kind of a toss
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  up for me right now. I think they're very close,
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  a lot closer in a lot of people I think
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  are giving them credit for. But I know in the
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  draft circles Lackey will almost certainly go first. But I
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  think the margin for talent is very tight there.
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  Speaker 1: Josh, you've had an opportunity to see Lackey in person
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  this year as well. You've seen Helford too, haven't you.
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  Speaker 3: No, I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm sorry I thought you had. Either way, you've
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  seen Lackey though, for sure. I'm curious looking at the
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  two of them. I know you prefer Lackey. Can you
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  explain why? And maybe what was it in your look
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  that you saw that you didn't appreciate about him? And
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  maybe in your mind now seeing or I guess hearing
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  those things that JB was bringing up, what's the gap
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  between them? Like to you?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'd say that the big advantage for von Lackey
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  is his athleticism. I mean, this is a projection based
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  thing mostly, and his body and his ability as a
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  dynamic athlete does help his case. Even as a catcher,
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  where it doesn't matter necessarily as much as other positions,
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  it still matters, and von Lackey is just such an
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  outlier as an athlete at that position. If you are
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  gonna split hairs, that's probably where you do it. I
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  think defensively, hell Frick's a little bit of a better framer,
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  but I'm not sure how much that's gonna matter in
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  this and future draft cycles with the whole ABS system
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  entering MLB. Where that goes, we won't know. I think, yeah,
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  the arm is pretty similar, but like I give a
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  very very slight defensive advantage to Lackey, but it's like
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  neck and neck. Offensively, there were concerns about Helfrick the
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  past couple of years with swinging miss stuff. His bat
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  de ball got way better this year, as you just mentioned.
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  The walk grates too have been drastically improved. My big
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  questions with him were, you know, is he just gonna
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  be one of these big bopper profiles where he's got
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  like a lot of jews, but the bat de ball
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  isn't great and he seemed to have really gotten better
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  at that and a lot like a lot of different
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  nitpiggy specific areas with the bat de ball, I still
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  think Lacky's a little bit better in that area, but
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  it's like you said, it's close, like it's neck and
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  neck at the plate is just slightly different profiles. I
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  think Lackie's a little more balanced, you know, a little
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  quicker too. That helps. I still have Lackey higher than Helfrick,
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  but they are my top two catchers on the board,
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  unless I'm forgetting somebody. I think they are. Lackey has
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  crip crept into my top three, top four like most people.
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  Helfrick a solidified top twenty guy. But like I said
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  before coming on the pod, I think the gap between
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  Lackey and Helfrick is the same right now for me
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  as it was before the season. The difference is they're
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  just like fifteen spots up on my board from where
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  they were. It's just like the relatively the same gap.
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  Speaker 1: Understood. Very good, Very good. I wanted to give you
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  guys a little bit of taste of that just because
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  it was such an interesting discussion that we had before
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  coming on the year. Wanted to bring a little bit
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  of it to you guys at home as well. Josh,
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  let's stick with you here, because another interesting midweek outcome
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  coming from your home state of Alabama. A lot of
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  talented teams in your state this year, Buddy, two of
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  them went at it, Alabama and UAB, and just like
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  we all drew it up in the preseason, UAB took
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  this one eleven to two. What the Blazers though, man
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  not a bad team this season. We've been talking about
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  how they are a quality squad for several weeks now.
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  Speaker 3: They could They could very well win the American and
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  even if they don't, I think they could get an
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  at large spot. At this point, the resume is really
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  shaping up, and yesterday helped the big time because that's
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  a I actually don't know if baseball does the quad
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  one A thing like basketball does. I know the quad
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  system obviously, but like basketball, the quad one A they
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  like make it even more specific, if they were to
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  yesterday would have been a quad one A win for
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  them and the dominant fashion just across the board. I mean,
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  they got out to an early leagues of seventh spot.
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  Like I got home from dinner at six fifteen, six twenty,
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  I turned on the TV and UAB is up seven
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  zeroom Like I missed half the runs scored in the
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  game in the for fifteen minutes that I wasn't able
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  to watch. It was ridiculous. I mean, just unexpected stuff
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  from Luke Smeiers that you don't usually see. He hasn't
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  been the best, don't get me wrong. He hasn't had
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  a lot of run either, but it's just out of
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  the gate, like that's not really what you see from
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  UAB either. The offense isn't their selling point. Like John
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  Paul Heads been really good, Alex Dapuli looked really good yesterday, uh,
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  and kind of this whole season. But besides John Paul Head,
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  there's those stars there. I don't like to have any
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  big takeaways from midweeks, like I said, typically, but I
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  think this one was just interesting, just mostly because like
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  BAMA seems to be a solidified or nearly solidified host
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  at this point, UAB is an unexpected at large that
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  probably will happen. They They probably will win the American
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  which is the six or seventh ish best conference in
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  the country, which goes for something. Yeah, little little in
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  state matchup. BAMA beat them the first time. UAB got
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  him back. Also, just like small shout out UAB Pitcher
• 18:53
  Books House. Entering last night, he had a season e
• 18:57
  ra of thirty three seventy five and he threw three
• 19:01
  shutout innings with two shikeouts, no walks. So that's quite
• 19:06
  turn yet to turn your season around like that. So
• 19:08
  just QUI quick little mention to him, shout.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Out brooks uh JB. Let's let's kind of touch on
• 19:14
  a little bit of what Josh said, because yeah, looking
• 19:16
  at looking at this game, a ton of errors and
• 19:19
  three of them came in that first inning. Whatever UAB
• 19:22
  jumped out to that seven elite, Josh will say he
• 19:24
  missed half the scoring man only missed fifteen minutes of
• 19:26
  the ballgame, JB. Tons of airs and he also called
• 19:30
  so JB, obviously I want you to talk about the
• 19:32
  errors kind of how Alabama I think they can claim
• 19:35
  a little bit shoot themselves in the foot. I don't
• 19:37
  think you can necessarily say eleven to two you can
• 19:40
  make up five airs worth of runs there, but maybe
• 19:42
  certainly closer. Second thing JB. Luke Smyers, as Josh talked about,
• 19:47
  definitely was kind of uncharacteristic in his performance just today.
• 19:51
  Alabama also burned seven guys out of their bullpen yesterday
• 19:56
  heading into a pretty critical weekend series. So first thoughts
• 20:00
  JB of course on the errors how that looks for
• 20:03
  Alabama going forward. The second thing about the pitching staff
• 20:05
  headed into a weekend where they're gonna need arms fresh.
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah, first is the air part. I mean Alabama traditionally,
• 20:13
  I wouldn't say I necessarily grouped them into how would
• 20:17
  I put this like a quality fundamental team necessarily? I
• 20:21
  feel like they're not one of the teams when you
• 20:23
  think about teams being coached to the fundamentals to the tea,
• 20:26
  They're not one that comes to my mind like the
• 20:27
  Vanderbilt usually. But that being said, is absurd the amount
• 20:33
  of areas we had. We had two from Brady Neal Rightfield.
• 20:35
  He was the only one that picked up two on
• 20:37
  the day. Bryce Fowler had one, Jason Torres had one,
• 20:40
  and Luke Smeers also had one. Not a great day
• 20:44
  from them and definitely doesn't help Luke Smeer's case with
• 20:47
  the houting he had on the mound as well. We
• 20:50
  only got one out five and run six total. Brutal
• 20:53
  day from him. The other parts of it going into
• 20:57
  what you're talking about with the weekend series, definitely brutal
• 21:01
  for the first few guys that came out of the
• 21:03
  pen with the pitch counts, I think for the guys
• 21:05
  that were around twenty or under, I think you can
• 21:07
  justify it for a lot of these guys as it
• 21:09
  was like a bullpen for them. It's an in game,
• 21:11
  live bullpen, and it's more high stress obviously on the arm.
• 21:14
  But you know a lot of these teams, these guys
• 21:16
  would throw bullpens in the midweek anyways, or they do
• 21:18
  it tomorrow, or for them it would have been today.
• 21:20
  Wednesday would have been the day they would have bullpen
• 21:22
  day if they didn't throw in this game. So I
• 21:25
  think it's okay. I think they're fine in that point
• 21:27
  that there's really truly I think three arms that are
• 21:30
  completely burned right there and went well above I think
• 21:35
  they had if I go back and look at it here,
• 21:37
  forty six pitches on blackwood probably burns him for a
• 21:41
  little bit here, and Sarnat thirty six also is not
• 21:44
  great and Smyers had twenty six. So those are the
• 21:48
  three that probably have the most impact on it. But
• 21:50
  I think that they're honestly going to be okay going
• 21:52
  into the weekend, but just not a great look going
• 21:54
  into the weekend with such bad performance.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: As I'd say, Yeah, certainly not it too. I'd hate
• 22:01
  to see if the team that they're playing this weekend
• 22:04
  happened to have gotten a big win in the midway. Anyway,
• 22:09
  I do want to talk other other thing on Albama
• 22:12
  really quickly, justin Lebron. I know we've been down on Lebron,
• 22:15
  the three of us as as a group. I think
• 22:19
  at the site we certainly get kind of booed by
• 22:21
  some guys that see the upside to his profile, and
• 22:24
  there's certainly there're certainly upsie. I don't think any of
• 22:25
  us are denying that Lebron did stretch a hitting streak
• 22:28
  to eleven games here did see that stat and on
• 22:31
  base Street to twenty plus games, if I'm not mistaken,
• 22:34
  So very impressive out of Lebron. He's certainly getting his
• 22:38
  bat to the ball and getting on base, which, as
• 22:42
  we've said all year, Alabama will go as far as
• 22:44
  he takes them in many regards. So that's nice to
• 22:47
  see for sure. Talk about some upsets really quickly, JB.
• 22:49
  I want to start with you get your thoughts on
• 22:52
  Maine putting up six runs on Boston College six four
• 22:56
  victory for Maine overall, bird ball unfortunately.
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, no one thing on the Lebron thing, not to
• 23:04
  go too deep on, but to hit on it as well.
• 23:06
  I was looking at it before when we were talking
• 23:08
  about it. He's at two seventy two on the season
• 23:10
  right now, and despite this long hitting streak that we're
• 23:13
  talking about, it's impressive. Of course, a lot of these
• 23:16
  were one for fours or one for five games, and
• 23:18
  he also had a very very very long extra base
• 23:22
  hit drought in there. That was a two week or
• 23:26
  when I was looking at two or three week stretch
• 23:28
  he did not have an extra base hit and then
• 23:30
  he finally had a homer and two doubles. I think
• 23:32
  in that it was fairly recently, like three or four
• 23:35
  five games ago in a series he had that a
• 23:37
  UAB the game before is when he hit the homer,
• 23:40
  and whoever they played the weekend series before, I think
• 23:42
  it was Texas he had two doubles. But yeah, for Lebron,
• 23:46
  I mean it's impressive, but at the same time, the
• 23:49
  numbers still aren't there necessarily to seventy two on the
• 23:52
  year forgot. I know batting org doesn't matter, but still
• 23:54
  for a lot of people it's still a little concerning
• 23:55
  and especially in the SEC how he's looked. It's not
• 23:58
  inspiring yet for me. So I don't know. I think
• 24:01
  there's questions.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: I just want to say this JV. This is not
• 24:04
  pushed back so much as just food for thought. From
• 24:06
  my perspective, if batting average didn't matter, then why are
• 24:08
  we talking about it? Yeah?
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: I agree.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: I think I think that it's It's probably not the
• 24:13
  most indicative thing of hitting talent, but I think that
• 24:16
  it does matter. And you made You made a fabulous point, dude,
• 24:19
  that I did leave out there. Look at me being
• 24:22
  the national media blowing up Justin Lebron not leaving I'm
• 24:24
  leaving some very important details out. Huge extra base hit drop.
• 24:28
  You're absolutely right. I think that this is just there
• 24:32
  are obvious, vivid concerns with Justin Lebron. If people will
• 24:37
  take time to look a little deeper at the profile,
• 24:41
  still impressive streaks, maybe they'll end this weekend.
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah we will. We will definitely see on that. But
• 24:50
  back to your point, main, it's a great win for them,
• 24:54
  definitely going on the road to Boston College, a team
• 24:56
  who's kind of become a darling this year for a
• 24:58
  lot of people. They've recently entered the top twenty five's
• 25:01
  for a lot of people for the past couple of
• 25:03
  weeks now, So they're definitely a team that's on the up.
• 25:06
  And that's definitely a huge win for a team like
• 25:08
  Maine this week. And not to jump over, but I
• 25:11
  saw there's another acc went on the schedule, the beloved
• 25:14
  pitt Panthers going twenty three to one on West Virginia
• 25:18
  on the road something. If any of us had a
• 25:20
  big in here, yeah, I don't know how any of
• 25:23
  us had that coming, but it was there.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: Boy, I'd hate to be a guy that's propped up
• 25:28
  West Virginia all here. Couldn't be me.
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: It's okay, Drew, we know you're the big twelve Truthers,
• 25:33
  so somebody's gotta do.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: You spend your time propping up the entire conference. You're
• 25:36
  you're bound to have to work. That's so true.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: That's so true. Accurate for sure, Uh, JB. I do
• 25:44
  want to stick with you. And then we'll flip to
• 25:45
  Josh for the last three. You would say, Wilmington man
• 25:49
  putting up two getting a big win over Coastal on
• 25:52
  two to one.
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a great win for them. It's another weekend.
• 25:57
  You know, Coastal's kind of played really well, and we
• 25:59
  haven't talked about them in a while. Yeah, but the
• 26:01
  Coastal offense has been something that's still very up and down,
• 26:04
  a very streaky offense, and the pitching did great. The
• 26:07
  offense just really didn't show up. They actually hit a homer,
• 26:10
  I believe in the first I think it was Zane
• 26:12
  Taylor hit a homer in this game in the first inning. Yeah,
• 26:16
  they had one, and he hit a homer and put
• 26:19
  them ahead early, and then they just couldn't get anything
• 26:21
  going from there. Uncw's they're a very good mid major
• 26:24
  out here, I'd say. You know, obviously they have some
• 26:27
  games where they played US earlier and they didn't play well.
• 26:29
  But we went to UNCW last year, had a really
• 26:31
  tight game with them. I think we won by a
• 26:33
  run or two on a late triple by Vanderbrick last year.
• 26:36
  But the UNCW is a real quality program, and it's
• 26:39
  a tough place to play because the ball doesn't carry
• 26:41
  the way you think they're either. So it's definitely a
• 26:44
  very very tough place to play, and I think it's
• 26:46
  an impressible win for them.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Love that love the insight on the park there in
• 26:50
  Wilington as well. Thank you for that, buddy, Josh We buddy,
• 26:54
  I feel like me and you can't talk unless we're
• 26:56
  talking about Florida. So in this game, Jacksonville took a
• 27:02
  seven to five win over Florida. You with the Robert
• 27:05
  Lewis Stevenson's reference, because Doctor Florida and mister Gators they're
• 27:09
  here for their reference. Baby, they gotta get their stuff in.
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's not even Doctor Florida and mister Gator
• 27:15
  or whatever it's whatever it is, it's not even that
• 27:17
  in the midweeks anymore. I just don't know if they're
• 27:19
  gonna win a midweek game like ever again, unless they're
• 27:22
  playing Florida State like they love to be true, but
• 27:26
  like I mean, they've lost to Jacksonville twice. They've lost
• 27:29
  the Bethoon, there was another, there was another really bad
• 27:32
  one I can't think of. But regardless, like, they just
• 27:34
  lose all these random midweek games and it's not hurting
• 27:39
  their RPI enough that I'm not sure it really matters.
• 27:43
  But I mean, hey, Blake Steers stayed hot, like that's yeah,
• 27:47
  a cool thing for them, I guess. I mean, like
• 27:48
  it's a little mini tidbit you can take away from
• 27:51
  this positively, sure, that's about it. Like, I don't. He
• 27:56
  has I think nine home runs on the year, and
• 27:59
  five of come with the the past five six days,
• 28:03
  So I mean he's getting red hot at the right time.
• 28:05
  Someone else is trying to help out, you know, Brendan
• 28:07
  Lawson and Kyle Jones and co. Yeah, at this point,
• 28:12
  like I don't, I'm not tired of having Florida conversations
• 28:16
  because they're gonna happen all year, but like it's the
• 28:19
  same thing every single week.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: We're gonna have to come up with different ways to
• 28:23
  say it moving forward. Correct me, here was High high
• 28:26
  Point was a weekend series, so that wouldn't be another
• 28:28
  one of their Okay, I was about to say, I
• 28:30
  remember they lost at least one to High Point. I
• 28:33
  guess yes, it was. Thank you, Josh uh Indiana State,
• 28:41
  Indiana State, Welcome to the podcast Reference Crew six to
• 28:46
  five win over Purdue and Josh some bubble implications there,
• 28:49
  you say.
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that this is worth talking about just
• 28:53
  from like a bubble perspective. Like I mentioned, Jake and
• 28:57
  I a couple of days ago, did our bracketology thing
• 28:59
  we had. Purdue is one of the last four teams
• 29:01
  in as do. A lot of people, a lot of
• 29:02
  people have them firmly on that bubble, and that's not
• 29:05
  a team that you expected to be talking about in
• 29:07
  that area. But it just goes to show you that
• 29:10
  every game matters. Because their performances in Frisco earlier this
• 29:13
  year against you know, Southern miss Arizona, I mean, Oregon
• 29:16
  State and whatnot like super impactful because it's carrying that resume.
• 29:20
  But a home loss to Indiana State, who granted might
• 29:23
  win the Missouri Valley, that's that's up in the air too.
• 29:25
  It's a solid team, but home lost like that is
• 29:28
  not gonna cut it. It dropped their RPI seven spots to
• 29:32
  sixty two. Not good, not gonna cut it. You typically
• 29:36
  don't get in as at large at the very very
• 29:38
  least if you're like fifty five ish, but typically top
• 29:41
  fifty and in is like the cutoff with a few exceptions.
• 29:44
  I don't think produced resume is good enough to have
• 29:46
  them be one of the exceptions. So they just gotta
• 29:49
  continue the rest of Big Ten play and I don't know,
• 29:52
  come through and not lose the game. They're not supposed to.
• 29:54
  They have a big series at USC this weekend, so
• 29:57
  if they can take just one from that certainly gonna help.
• 30:00
  A series win would be absolutely huge. But I mean,
• 30:03
  if we're talking about teams that can't afford to lose
• 30:05
  right now, USC is way up there too.
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: This is since you mentioned USC. I just looked at
• 30:10
  this because I was looking at RPI, and if I'm right,
• 30:13
  they didn't have a quad one win prior to this
• 30:15
  week right, they now get a quad one win because
• 30:19
  Santa Barbara got boosted up to twenty five in RPI,
• 30:22
  so they are one in eight now they got their
• 30:24
  first because Santa Barbara is the twenty fifth team, which
• 30:27
  twenty five is the cutoff for home wins for quad one.
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's gonna guess however, we can boost the USC.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Let's just do it. We'll just make things up as
• 30:35
  we go.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: Now that's gonna fluctuate around. I know that, like USC,
• 30:39
  I think they are only opportunities left for to like
• 30:41
  gain quad one wins would be the series at Oregon
• 30:45
  that they have. I don't think anybody else in the
• 30:47
  RPI is even relatively close, So they need Santa Barbara
• 30:50
  to stay within that range and then take like two
• 30:53
  at Oregon. I still don't think they're in the picture
• 30:55
  to host anymore. I think they firmly put themselves out
• 30:57
  of that. But I don't know how we started to
• 31:00
  my USC, but there we are.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: Well I'm glad we did because I've got a game
• 31:03
  time for you if you guys are interested. Uh oh,
• 31:06
  all right, I'm gonna set the I'm gonna set the
• 31:08
  bar at zero point five wins? How many wins does
• 31:11
  Purdue take in a weekend series over USC this weekend?
• 31:14
  The bar is at zero point five wins?
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: Josh over, I think they I think they take one.
• 31:19
  They're not a great team, but they're good enough team
• 31:21
  to take one. I think I don't know which.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: I don't like. USC is an awesome team. I would
• 31:25
  be convinced I might take Purdue if we.
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: Were a sweep. Shock me, no, but I don't think
• 31:31
  it will happen.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: JB Are you with Josh? You would take the over
• 31:35
  on zero point five wins?
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah? I don't hate them taking a game from USC,
• 31:39
  especially like even if it's a Sunday like after you
• 31:42
  face Edwards and Govell, Like Edwards, you probably chalk it
• 31:45
  up as an l for them, and after that they
• 31:46
  got a chance on Saturday and Sunday, but especially after
• 31:49
  you get through Govell, It's like Sunday they got a
• 31:51
  chance to take one and go home.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: So I think so too. So just spoilers for the
• 31:55
  future of the episode. We're not picking that game, but
• 31:59
  you know that we at least have some interesting discussion
• 32:01
  if we were going to josh one more really quickly, man,
• 32:04
  before we do get to pick up. Sam Houston State
• 32:06
  put up seven in a win over Baylor, who scored five.
• 32:08
  So more bubble implications, more anti Big twelve propaganda.
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Baylor's send it fifty now in the RPI. After that,
• 32:17
  they were in our first four out this past week,
• 32:20
  same thing as Purdue. Just a home loss. You can't take.
• 32:23
  It was really never even their chance to win that
• 32:26
  game either, like it. Sam Houston State was up since
• 32:28
  like the middle, like fifth ish inning. I think sam
• 32:31
  Houston State was up the rest of the way and
• 32:32
  Baylor kept trying to cut back. Didn't work. Travis Standers,
• 32:37
  their best player was three for five and no one
• 32:38
  else really picked up any of the load for him
• 32:40
  besides him. So just stuff you can't afford to have.
• 32:43
  I really I think they have who they have this weekend.
• 32:46
  It's Arizona State. I think they're at Arizona State. That's
• 32:49
  gonna be a rough one to take anything. So I
• 32:51
  don't I don't know if the projections are gonna look
• 32:54
  good this upcoming week, but I mean they could pull
• 32:56
  it out the rest of the year. Having easier Big Twelve,
• 33:00
  it was compared to a lot of the teams who
• 33:01
  have tough roads to end up.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: We were talking about that in the last episode. I
• 33:04
  think Baylor does have a little bit of an easier path,
• 33:07
  but this weekend is going to be a humongous hurdle.
• 33:10
  Right that might turn into a stumbling fall, but hurdles
• 33:15
  do that to you sometimes. All Right, on, one thing
• 33:18
  we have not referenced, conspicuous by his absence in this
• 33:22
  pod is none other than coach Jake Barjorie. No specific reason.
• 33:27
  I'm bringing this up, Josh, as I asked you to
• 33:29
  walk u through what happened in last week's pick them,
• 33:31
  tell us what the overalls are looking like, and what
• 33:33
  was the story of our picks last week.
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's definitely not because Jake went one in seven
• 33:37
  in the pick on that he pegged that early on
• 33:39
  in the weekend. He texted us like Saturday morning and
• 33:42
  was like, I'm looking one instead and dead in the face.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: O god, sure did.
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: Drew went five and three last weekend. JB and I
• 33:48
  both went four and four, So Drew now has a
• 33:51
  one game lead on me again back in first place.
• 33:55
  I have a two game lead on JB, who's creeping
• 33:57
  up a little bit. Actually not really from last week.
• 33:59
  We're the same from last week. And then Jake is
• 34:02
  three games back from JB and seven games back or sorry,
• 34:05
  six games back from Drew. Overall, Uh, still anybody's ballgame.
• 34:10
  We got four weeks. I don't know how we're gonna
• 34:12
  do this going into the postseason, or if it's gonna
• 34:14
  end of the regular season. We haven't talked about that yet,
• 34:16
  but regardless, regardless, we got four weeks left, which is
• 34:20
  plenty of time for any of the four of us
• 34:22
  to pull this thing out.
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: Now this is before we even talk about it, but
• 34:26
  I would love a good old fashioned bracket pick them.
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: Oh. I think that would be bracket the Regional Series,
• 34:35
  the Regional Series preview pod and turn that into a
• 34:38
  little something something yeah, yeah.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's gonna cook. I may have to may have
• 34:44
  to reserve a little bit of extra time from you
• 34:45
  boys for that one.
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: That might be a good that's a two hour pod.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah uh. Speaking of pods, we have not mentioned
• 34:53
  our guests recently. We haven't had more guests come on
• 34:55
  a pick. We're due for one. Guess currently six and
• 34:59
  ten stepping up guests, Step it up and improve yourself, Josh.
• 35:06
  Like you said earlier, not the most explosive weekend in
• 35:10
  terms of our slate. I like several of these games, though,
• 35:13
  are we going to be really tapped in to see
• 35:15
  what happens as we get to the games? Let's go
• 35:18
  ahead and talk about it. I know, Josh, you have
• 35:20
  got Jake's selections on hand, so you'll be reading for yourself.
• 35:24
  And Jake did he provide rationale as well?
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: He did?
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: What a legend coach is an icon for that very purpose, Josh,
• 35:31
  I'll let you walk us through it. Georgia and Old
• 35:33
  Miss two of the SEC's stronger teams. I look at
• 35:39
  Old Miss as being more driven by their pitching. George
• 35:42
  is certainly by their offense. As we know when you
• 35:45
  have mega pitching versus mega offense, it's tended to go
• 35:49
  a certain way this year.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: It has, and that series in Chapel Hill this past
• 35:54
  weekend kind of skewed the perception on it a little
• 35:57
  bit because that was the first time, to mind, Marie
• 36:00
  that you can look at an elite pitching staff going
• 36:04
  up against an elite offense and the pitching staff actually won.
• 36:08
  Home Field might have played a bit into that, but hey,
• 36:11
  who has home field on this one? The pitching staff,
• 36:13
  so it could be a little bit of the same thing.
• 36:15
  I think that definitely is the main storyline here. A
• 36:20
  little more specific thing I'm kind of looking at. As
• 36:22
  good as Georgia is and as good as Vultko and
• 36:25
  Vig you have Ben, they still haven't figured out their
• 36:27
  Sunday starter spot, and it's late into the season to
• 36:29
  not have figured that out. They've tried Grant Edwards there,
• 36:31
  They've tried Kenney Ishikawa there, and nothing really needs to
• 36:34
  be fully working. I have no idea who's gonna start
• 36:38
  at Sunday on Sunday this week. It's probably gonna be
• 36:40
  a TVA when it's announced, and they probably will figure
• 36:42
  it out on the fly.
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: Alter one thing out there. I wouldn't hate seeing kay Naoki.
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: I think the next guy up you took the words
• 36:52
  out of my mouth. I think that's who I probably recommend.
• 36:54
  I mean, he's got a two six eight e RA
• 36:56
  on the year as a whole, striking out thirty two
• 36:58
  percent of guys. I think that's a good resume on
• 37:01
  the year, even out of a relief spot, to just
• 37:03
  slide in there and see how it worked. I'm pretty
• 37:05
  sure he was a starter for USC last year.
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: He's a Friday guy.
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So I mean, like, I think he has the
• 37:13
  experience there that is good enough that look, when you
• 37:16
  can't figure out anything, I think there's enough of a
• 37:19
  track record there, even though it isn't at Georgia and
• 37:21
  in the SEC, there's enough of a crack record there
• 37:24
  that you can at least cry it out without a doubt.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: JB. Any major overarching thoughts before we make picks on
• 37:30
  this one.
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: Nope, Josh and themal I thought threw my one in there.
• 37:35
  My Ioki dart got plucked in and that was.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: It and it was a popular dark JB. I think
• 37:39
  you got you got a rousing support from the from
• 37:42
  the crew. So yeah, all right, JB, we'll let you
• 37:44
  kick it off the Georgia old miss who takes it.
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: Like Josh said, we had a skew last weekend. And also,
• 37:52
  I don't want anybody to sleep on this ole miss offense.
• 37:54
  They scored nineteen runs against Murray State the other day.
• 37:57
  So I'm rocking with old misses weekend. I'm gonna keep
• 38:01
  it going there.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: Harsh Boddie Toddy says JDB Swayze is gonna love that. Josh,
• 38:08
  let's hear from you first, sir, What do you think
• 38:09
  him in this one?
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was the only one to take ole miss
• 38:13
  against Tennessee last week and it worked out for me.
• 38:16
  Little role reversal not happening this week. I'm thinking Georgia,
• 38:19
  I'm sticking with the bats. I mean, the pitching has
• 38:22
  been the backbone of almost recently. They've won three straight
• 38:25
  series and the pitching has been what's carried them there.
• 38:27
  But this offense is good enough to overcome it. I think.
• 38:29
  I don't think this pitching staff is invincible, and I
• 38:31
  think the Georgia hitting is good enough to you know,
• 38:34
  take over in any situation. Jake, on the other hand,
• 38:38
  he uh, he says, George has been on the road
• 38:41
  for four games in a row now, and this series
• 38:43
  would make seven. Almost is coming back home and they're
• 38:45
  seven and two in their last three series. He thought
• 38:48
  he would probably be alone here, but he's gonna take
• 38:50
  his chances with Ole miss comes to find out he's
• 38:53
  not alone, but nonetheless the ReBs.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: Wow. Okay, well, I'm in an interesting spot here. I
• 39:00
  was gonna take an old miss gamble, but now I
• 39:02
  can't let you be the only one picking Georgia, Josh.
• 39:04
  I've got to watch my I've got to watch my game.
• 39:08
  I gotta play the game, and I do. I do
• 39:10
  play the game. I think I think Georgia is gonna
• 39:14
  be one of the toughest offenses. Is that Old Missus
• 39:16
  faced this year. I think that's kind of a stupid statement,
• 39:18
  but it's it maintains that even at home, Sweeze's not
• 39:24
  cavernous by any mean. Okay, I'm gonna go Georgia. I
• 39:26
  think that's the smartest pick to make to hold Josh off.
• 39:29
  I think it could also be a point in my favor.
• 39:31
  This is a really close one. I'll stick with the
• 39:33
  bats Brinkley. I like Old Missus pitching. I feel like
• 39:38
  I've been a hunter Elliott Truther despite his struggles. I
• 39:40
  feel like we've all kind of come very much around
• 39:43
  on Cade Townsend over the course of the season. Taylor
• 39:46
  rave Is is looking very solid as well. But man,
• 39:49
  old missus pitching staff ain't North Carolina's pitching staff. I
• 39:53
  just don't. I don't buy it. I'm gonna go Georgia
• 39:56
  all right now. Finally, let's talk about Big Twelve. It's
• 39:59
  been thirty Let's talk more Kansas and Kansas State. Guys.
• 40:03
  We've talked a lot about Kansas lately. They have been emergent.
• 40:07
  Their offense really spreads the love. There's not a true
• 40:10
  blue superstar on the squad because they seem to lift
• 40:13
  one another, and that rising Todd has lifted all the
• 40:16
  ships in the Jayhawks offense of late JB. They're coming
• 40:20
  up against Kansas State. Who if you would have asked
• 40:22
  me after two weeks of Big Twelve play, I'd have said,
• 40:24
  it's Kansas State for Omaha baby, all the way Wildcats.
• 40:28
  Now my stance has cooled a little bit, but yet,
• 40:32
  this is gonna be a really big in state matchup
• 40:34
  between two of the Big twelve's better offenses. What are
• 40:36
  you think in is the main storyline leading in JB.
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think the main storyline has to be the Jayhawks,
• 40:43
  like can they continue this ascension up? I mean, if
• 40:45
  they lose this series this weekend, it definitely hurts the
• 40:47
  resume a little bit here, especially in the rankings and
• 40:50
  where they've gotten to against an unranked Kansas team in
• 40:53
  Kansas State or Kansas State. KNA State has not been
• 40:55
  a bad team, but they're just not the quality of
• 40:58
  opponents that they've been dominating recently Kansas, So it's gonna
• 41:03
  be interesting to see this weekend. I think this is
• 41:07
  gonna be definitely an interesting polling to see how we
• 41:10
  all pick them. But yeah, I'm curious to see you
• 41:14
  I don't know.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: All right, Josh, We're gonna start with Jake. I'm curious
• 41:18
  what he's got to say. Then we'll hear your pick.
• 41:20
  We'll go to JB before I round us off.
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: Jake says he's expecting a lot of runs in this one.
• 41:26
  He wished, he wishes he could have found a way
• 41:29
  to take Kansas State, but Kansas has been too dominant
• 41:31
  in conference play to pick against them, So he's taking
• 41:34
  the Jayhawks, all.
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: Right, One, Josh, what are you thinking? Here, buddy.
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: This is a tough one for me because I mean,
• 41:43
  these two teams are in very different spots or sorry,
• 41:45
  they have the same kind of goal, but for different reasons.
• 41:48
  Kansas is trying to look to take the Big Twelve
• 41:50
  regular season and get a hosting spot. Kansas State's just
• 41:53
  looking to make it in the Big Dance. They're RPI
• 41:55
  is fifty one right now. They probably need to go
• 41:57
  like five and seven in conference play to get in,
• 42:00
  and it's a really really tough schedule to end it
• 42:02
  out as bad as up as it gets. So you
• 42:04
  would love to take two here, especially being at home.
• 42:08
  I think I lean Kansas. I think I'm gonna go
• 42:10
  with Kansas just because they are so hot. They've won
• 42:12
  fourteen the last fifteen. The offense has been on fire recently,
• 42:16
  and like Kansas State, starting pitching has been such an
• 42:20
  issue all year that I think Kansas is gonna be
• 42:22
  able to take advantage. Kansas State is a sneaky like
• 42:26
  Minor Florida candidate for the Big Twelve, like Doctor Kansas State,
• 42:29
  mister Wildcat. They're super hot and cold, like I like
• 42:34
  my chances on the team that's red hot staying red
• 42:36
  hot against the team whose weakness is on paired up
• 42:41
  with their offense, which is their offense.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: JB two for Kansas. The Jayhawks are rocking this far.
• 42:49
  Are you gonna make it three?
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: I'm taking swings this week and we're taking Kansas State.
• 42:55
  I'm in it back behind James Guyett is coming off
• 42:58
  a great performance last week, six inning, it's only won
• 43:00
  earned run against. I know it's a bad Arizona offense,
• 43:02
  and Lincoln Sheffield went eight innings, won earned with ten strikeouts.
• 43:06
  I know it's Arizona, but he's on the road. I
• 43:09
  think they have a chance to stay hot here. They
• 43:11
  had a nice win at Grand Canyon as well. They're
• 43:13
  coming back from the West Coast to their home ballpark.
• 43:16
  Maybe they pack it out, maybe they get lucky. I'm
• 43:18
  gonna take case safe.
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: Let's ride JB Asu all right, Wildcats. I'd need him
• 43:25
  to do it. I've got to stick with my heart
• 43:27
  here and uh if I lose, at least I'll go
• 43:30
  down with my buddy. JAMPI socking, Josh, Let's talk about Auburn.
• 43:35
  It's been far too long. A podcast has nearly eclipsed
• 43:39
  without us talking about Auburn. What the hell's happening.
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: I mean, we play in big series every single weekend,
• 43:44
  so it just happens to pay out this way. True,
• 43:47
  bad almost doing it, But at the same time, like
• 43:49
  Auburn plays top fifteen teams the rest of the way out,
• 43:52
  like it's gonna be a big series every weekend.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: I have so many opinions on this team. The offense,
• 43:59
  finally is SEMs to be putting it together. At least
• 44:01
  they have eight They're scoring eight point eight runs a
• 44:04
  game over their last eight, which is improvement. It's not
• 44:07
  like you know, Eye popping with his improvement for sure. Obviously,
• 44:10
  the big thing with this team the elite rotation. Andreas Alvarez,
• 44:14
  Jake Marciano, Alex Petrovic. They lead the country and walks
• 44:17
  per nine. They do not like guys on base, which
• 44:19
  is the Butch Thompson m O. That's the main thing.
• 44:22
  He's been hammering home, says the very first team meeting
• 44:24
  in August. He's been saying, we're gonna throw strikes this year.
• 44:26
  I'm tired of watching walks, and sure enough they've done it,
• 44:29
  and they've done it at the best level of the
• 44:31
  entire country. Jake Marciano also leaves the country and whip
• 44:35
  for what it's worth of who is it? Someone's not qualified,
• 44:39
  but they have like a point five to three whip.
• 44:41
  I forget who it was. That's all this earlier. Actually, regardless,
• 44:44
  Marciano has been electric and moving him to Saturday is
• 44:47
  even better of an advantage for this team to have
• 44:49
  and just to be able to have that leeway and
• 44:51
  you know, be able to fluctuate guys around like that.
• 44:54
  It's huge offense guys besides Frelei, Guivara and Bristol Carter
• 44:58
  needs to step up a little more. But I mean, like,
• 45:02
  with as inconsistent as this pitching staff for Oklahoma's been,
• 45:05
  this might be a good weekend to do it. Cam
• 45:07
  Johnson hasn't fully reeled in the control stuff yet, Legima
• 45:10
  Curious is doing a little better with it. I think
• 45:13
  this is a good I think this is a good
• 45:15
  pitching staff to go up against the conference player to
• 45:17
  get right with. We have A and M very shortly
• 45:19
  in the future that starting pitching staff is the same
• 45:21
  kind of thing. But this weekend in particular, I think
• 45:24
  is probably a good spot to have one of your
• 45:26
  better offensive weekends.
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: I think so. All right, then, Josh, I feel like
• 45:31
  it's pretty foregone. But what are you going with your buddy?
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I'm telling I'm taking Yeah for the
• 45:36
  reasons I just said.
• 45:38
  Speaker 4: You can't pick against Auburn, but he can pick against
• 45:41
  u n C. Let me think easy.
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: I hurt, all right, you should be happy. My family
• 45:47
  wasn't happy with me. But I heard it from my grandfather,
• 45:50
  from my dad, I heard it from everybody. You were
• 45:53
  talking to him about it.
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: I heard we'll see his loyalties line when we get
• 45:58
  to the next set of games, because we'll see if
• 46:00
  he can pick against his other favorite team.
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: I don't I don't wanna.
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: What did Jake? What did Jake say for this one?
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: Josh? Jake says, the way Auburn came together or sorry,
• 46:09
  the way Auburn came back to beat Florida on the
• 46:12
  road after losing the first game was really impressive, and
• 46:14
  he doesn't want to pick against that team coming home
• 46:17
  after that, so he's taking Auburn.
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: I'll go ahead and spoil it. I think we may
• 46:20
  be in for a sweet pair of this. JB wants
• 46:22
  to get swingy. I'm gonna take Auburn as well. I'm
• 46:25
  gonna ahead, jump the gun. I think this is Auburn stoories.
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Auburn. I can't take too many swings this week.
• 46:31
  We gotta we gotta play a little safe here. So
• 46:33
  good for.
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: You, all right, Josh, I'm gonna let you take the
• 46:38
  lead on this one again because your other favorite team,
• 46:40
  not you and ce go home. You know the drum
• 46:42
  by now it's Southern Miss. They're gonna be traveling to
• 46:45
  face South Alabama. Josh, you gotta you gotta hit your
• 46:49
  deal there. Uh but yeah, I was gonna say you
• 46:51
  have hit the jay in so uh, let's hear about it.
• 46:54
  What's the what's the scope on this one?
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: You know the series is on here because it's very
• 46:58
  impactful for the thumbelt standings. But also it's just I
• 47:03
  thought it would be fun for me. It's not. I
• 47:05
  don't like choosing against one of these teams. The Southern
• 47:10
  Miss goes as the pitching goes. Kobe Allen's like great
• 47:13
  sin swiping to the bullpen. Besides one outing he had
• 47:15
  against like olda Minion, I think it was, it's been
• 47:17
  a great move for him. Grayton Harris and Camden Sunstrum
• 47:20
  have really come together in their Star wars roles. I
• 47:24
  think that's been about as much of a selling point
• 47:27
  for this team as anything. The offense goes without saying.
• 47:30
  South Alabama transfer Kyle Morrison has been easily their best
• 47:33
  player this year. Joey Urban Davis Gillespie as well. For
• 47:38
  South the offense gets stagnant at times, definitely, but the
• 47:42
  one two three in their lineup certainly picks it up.
• 47:45
  Blake Gwern, Stuart Puckett and Duncan Matthews have been pretty
• 47:49
  rock solid this whole year. The rest of the lineup
• 47:52
  not so much. They're kind of if either kind of
• 47:55
  hit or miss. But I mean, nonetheless, this team has
• 47:58
  won for the last five series. The only series they
• 48:00
  didn't win was at Coastal, in which they were up
• 48:03
  one run in the ninth on the road at Coastal,
• 48:05
  winning that series, but they made some questionable coaching decisions,
• 48:09
  to say the least, in that situation that blew it
• 48:11
  for him a little bit. That's not a bad one
• 48:13
  to lose though, in the sumbout, that's the toughest series
• 48:15
  you can have. There've been nothing but consistent. Do you
• 48:20
  want me to go ahead and pick or like.
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: Why don't you? Why don't we ease into it. Let
• 48:23
  Jake pick first, and.
• 48:24
  Speaker 4: Then I should just keep I'll even take some steam
• 48:29
  off of Josh. I'll jump you, Josh. I'll pick a
• 48:32
  little bit more steam.
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: Let's go. Let's go, Jake, JB. Josh, I'll actually pick
• 48:41
  before you too, Josh.
• 48:42
  Speaker 4: Okay, all right, Josh getlustered.
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: Uh Jack says, this being and mobile makes it very interesting.
• 48:50
  Shout out mobtown. I was very Jake was very impressed
• 48:54
  by them beating Texas State on the road last week.
• 48:57
  They seem to have found something they like with their rotation.
• 49:00
  Wouldn't put any real money on it, but he'll take Southern.
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: Mess Okay, all right, JB, that's gonna go to you.
• 49:09
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna be taking South Alabama. I'm gonna go with him,
• 49:12
  and I will I'm taking the swing against it. And
• 49:15
  my reasoning is, if you go back through Southern Missus
• 49:18
  Roads series, they have not played.
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: Well on the road at all this year.
• 49:22
  Speaker 4: Louisiana losing two out of three. They drop a game
• 49:25
  to Old Dominion on the road as well, and then
• 49:28
  they lost the series at Arkansas State before that. They've
• 49:31
  just really struggled on the road this year. I'm gonna
• 49:35
  go against them. I'm gonna take South Alabama then I
• 49:37
  think they're hot.
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: Are you reading my notes?
• 49:40
  Speaker 4: I have not reading the notes, but I wrote the road.
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: Story tall oft, ma'am, I agree. Let's go South Alabama.
• 49:47
  Let's let's make it happen. Captainsh that puts you in
• 49:51
  a particularly interesting situation.
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: I feel, well, yeah it does, because I I actually
• 49:59
  don't know that that makes this thing very interesting if
• 50:04
  I'm just playing the game. I feel like this is
• 50:06
  such a layup spot for me to take Southern Miss
• 50:08
  and just get it. It seems like could be a
• 50:10
  free point. But forget it. I can't go against my guys.
• 50:14
  I'm go with South Alabama.
• 50:16
  Speaker 4: Who's this guys?
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: What is he talking about his guys from there? Like
• 50:20
  that's like that my hometown college, like I grew up going.
• 50:23
  Speaker 4: But you love Southern Miss, man, I like the team
• 50:29
  this year.
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: Souths has a special place in my heart. I don't know,
• 50:32
  I live five minutes from the campus. I mean also
• 50:35
  kind of like y'all said that Southern Mistress like plays
• 50:37
  with their food a little bit in these series becauseides
• 50:39
  the Texas state one coast, wal kind of do that
• 50:43
  with South.
• 50:44
  Speaker 4: So that right there, I mean, I love that.
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: So, yeah, they might mess around a little bit on
• 50:49
  the road this week, and they're not making a frum
• 50:52
  belt that you can feel confidently saying that they could
• 50:55
  take advantage of it. But South has been one of
• 50:57
  them this year, So I'll take the Jags.
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: Gonna be really interesting series.
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: And I'm sorry, Mobtown is so Mobtown let's go. I'm
• 51:07
  not gonna throw that up.
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: I don't know what that means. JBA. I'm gonna go
• 51:10
  to you here because we're about to talk Texas A
• 51:12
  and M and one of our favorite teams to talk
• 51:14
  about old mister Gators Florida. What's your take on this one, JB?
• 51:19
  And who are you gonna lean for? Pickure?
• 51:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah, So I'll start off with saying before the year,
• 51:23
  I know we had a nice conversation about A and
• 51:26
  M and Michael Early and the whole controversy and how
• 51:29
  he's on the hot seat, and I know all of
• 51:31
  us said I I, me and a few of us.
• 51:33
  I forget who also jumped in on this, but we
• 51:35
  all said it. I think these guys are gonna back
• 51:38
  up Michael Early this year. They wanted him, they want
• 51:41
  him to stay. They're gonna play for this man, and
• 51:44
  they've played to the tune of a thirty one and
• 51:46
  seven record this year and into the top ten in
• 51:48
  the country, into the top five now. So this is
• 51:51
  a team that's been legit and for me, I'll spoil
• 51:54
  it now before I even talk about Florida. I'm taking
• 51:56
  A and M all the way. I think these boys
• 51:58
  are backing him, and they're taken early all the way.
• 52:01
  I think this year I had them going to Omaha
• 52:04
  and that we talked about that a little bit. I
• 52:06
  think A and M this is what they're doing this year.
• 52:08
  But on the other hand, Florida is a super talented team.
• 52:11
  I feel like I've liked them a lot this year,
• 52:13
  more than some of the rest of us. Necessarily. I know,
• 52:16
  we kind of joke about the doctor Florida missing whatever,
• 52:20
  Gator and all that stuff that we talk about. I
• 52:22
  don't understand the reference. That's maybe I'm missing it. But
• 52:29
  besides the point on that, I think the town is
• 52:32
  there for that team, and I think they're great, especially
• 52:34
  on the mound between King and Peterson, they're fantastic. They
• 52:37
  got a lot of other depth pieces there, and the
• 52:39
  offense has shown signs of life. Brendan Lawson's kind of
• 52:42
  cooled off a bit since the beginning of the year.
• 52:43
  He has some injury issues and stuff, so I know
• 52:45
  that probably has to do with it. Blake Sear has
• 52:47
  stepped up, who I talked about a little bit. I
• 52:49
  love Blake's here from the time Miami. But for me,
• 52:52
  I just think this A and M team is going
• 52:54
  to keep rolling. I think they got a bigger thing
• 52:56
  behind them than anybody else in the country this year.
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: To play for JB, I I will tell you there's
• 53:02
  a very famous novel called Doctor Jackyl and Mister Hyde,
• 53:06
  which deals with personalities. The reference this references to that
• 53:11
  it is a literary reference. I will do my best
• 53:14
  to send you that might be a good graduation gift
• 53:16
  for you as a copy of Doctor Dragon.
• 53:18
  Speaker 4: Mister Now I know what this is. I know what
• 53:21
  this is now that you say that, like it completely
• 53:24
  is okay. But before that, I was just saying here,
• 53:26
  like is this a movie or something that I just
• 53:29
  completely missed, Like I don't know, but that's okay.
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: So despite despite our differences on that, JB, I am
• 53:35
  gonna jump gun again and say I'm with you. Simpatico completely.
• 53:39
  I think this is A and MS to lose. This
• 53:41
  is a team that I I feel like guys and
• 53:42
  you you guys probably remember it. The shift and drew
• 53:45
  from A and M being overrated to appropriately rted. So
• 53:49
  now I'm almost at the point where I'm calling them underrated.
• 53:51
  I think if I'm not mistaken in our rankings this week,
• 53:53
  I had an M third I I love this offense.
• 53:57
  I think that the pitching is but the offense is
• 54:02
  so so, so so promulan and I don't use that
• 54:07
  word often, but I'll throw it in there. This is
• 54:09
  a very promulent offense. Give me A and M. Josh,
• 54:11
  you had your hand up like a proper student. What
• 54:13
  do you got to saying?
• 54:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna say, if we're talking grad gifts,
• 54:16
  I take cash. Oh so you can just shoot that
• 54:20
  my direction when you get the wow.
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: Do you hear this?
• 54:22
  Speaker 4: Do you hear this?
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: True? I do?
• 54:24
  Speaker 4: He is the Southern hospitality that he's straight up just
• 54:27
  telling you to pay him cash. And you can hear
• 54:29
  everybody was talking West Coast trash like that. I'd be
• 54:32
  doing this, but the.
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: Side that you're doing. I said, if we're talking graduation gifts.
• 54:36
  Speaking of if my grandparents are listening to this, I
• 54:39
  also take cash for them too.
• 54:41
  Speaker 4: I heard yours are canceled, Josh for me. Yeah this week,
• 54:44
  So you ain't getting nothing from Papa. Grandparents.
• 54:47
  Speaker 3: It's gone. I don't I don't believe that one. But Papa,
• 54:50
  don't take away my money. Please?
• 54:52
  Speaker 4: They return. I heard the return, I saw the receipt.
• 54:55
  They were on the way back to the store with it.
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: Oh my god.
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 55:01
  Speaker 3: Anyways, from a from a baseball standpoint right baseball podcast
• 55:04
  after all, and you mentioned it with A and M.
• 55:08
  They've won fourteenth their last sixteen. Uh, they're a potential
• 55:12
  top five maybe better offense in America. They've scored ten
• 55:16
  point four runs a game in that stretch of sixteen games.
• 55:18
  Pretty impressive stuff. That said, Jake and I have the
• 55:23
  exact same pick for the exact same reason. It's there's
• 55:27
  no in depth x's and o's analysis about this. Florida
• 55:30
  has alternated series wins and losses dating all the way
• 55:33
  back to February twenty seventh. That is in insane. I
• 55:39
  will be taking Florida because they lost a series last
• 55:41
  weekend and they will be winning a series this weekend.
• 55:44
  Jake's exact reasoning for it was, and I quote, they
• 55:47
  lost last weekend, so that means they will win this one.
• 55:52
  So we are in lockstep for the same reason.
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you guys are You guys are right on the
• 55:56
  money with each other. Okay, I love.
• 55:58
  Speaker 4: It the two of us against each other. Now we're
• 56:02
  just pairing up, but two of us are using each
• 56:03
  other's notes against each other. So I mean, this is
• 56:06
  where we are.
• 56:07
  Speaker 3: JB and I have a similar well maybe not as
• 56:10
  much as we'll see how the rest of this episode goes.
• 56:12
  I'd like I said, I noticed last week, of the
• 56:15
  eight picks on the board, there were two sweeps and
• 56:18
  those other six that weren't sweep. JB and I were
• 56:20
  completely flipped on all of them, and yet we still
• 56:22
  finished four and four. We split those games that we
• 56:24
  were different on because you know, of course that's how
• 56:26
  it works.
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: Can't wait to see how that works out for us
• 56:29
  this week, guys, because it seems like, yeah, well, JB,
• 56:32
  I'm gonna go to you here talking again about the
• 56:34
  Big twelve as God intended, West Virginia're gonna be traveling
• 56:38
  to Ohio taking on Cincinnati. Two more of my favorite
• 56:42
  teams in the conference. I'm curious, what are you thinking
• 56:44
  is going to be the major story between two of
• 56:47
  the Big twelve heavyweights clashing.
• 56:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so Cincinnati this year. We've had a lot of
• 56:55
  talk about them last week, I know in our last
• 56:57
  pod we had some talk about them with Big two
• 57:00
  tournament stuff. I talked about them being a dark horse
• 57:02
  favorite for me to win the tournament West Virginia. They're
• 57:06
  coming off of a brutal game which we afore mentioned earlier,
• 57:11
  not the best one in the world for them, especially
• 57:14
  about to go on the road. So they are actually
• 57:17
  fifteen and five on the road this year, which is
• 57:19
  very impressive, but they're gonna run into the bus off
• 57:22
  Cincinnati also being fifteen and five at home. So that's
• 57:26
  kind of a you want to flip your coin if
• 57:28
  we're going by all these metrics that we've talked about
• 57:30
  here recently, I really don't know. This is really flip
• 57:35
  of the coin for me, true the Big twelve expert,
• 57:36
  I'm curious to hear what you got on this, But
• 57:38
  for me, I think it's a very it's a tight
• 57:40
  knit series.
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: It is gonna be really tight. I don't mean to
• 57:44
  jump you, Josh and I'm not gonna pick yet. I'll
• 57:46
  let you guys pick, But I think that the home
• 57:48
  advantage is gonna be really compelling for me personally. I
• 57:53
  think earlier in the season, not a slam dunk Cincinnati.
• 57:56
  At this point, though, it's a little less m dunk,
• 58:01
  a little more hesitant. I think some pitching injuries. I
• 58:05
  have not seen what Max Yale's status is, but I
• 58:08
  know he was pulled after two innings on this past Saturday.
• 58:11
  Not ideal for West Virginia at all. I mean, he's
• 58:14
  far from their only guy. I think he's their most talented.
• 58:16
  But I mean, between Dawson, Montesa and Cole, I think
• 58:21
  solid solid pitching there on the road. Though we've seen
• 58:26
  Quinn Coat's heating up. Jack Nattilli just came off of
• 58:31
  a gigantic I mean throng of dongs, as we say
• 58:36
  on the sheet the old Homer game. I don't know, guys,
• 58:40
  it's gonna be tough. I think I know what I'm leaning.
• 58:42
  But let's let's go to Jake first. We'll pick on
• 58:44
  Jake since he's not here. Josh, you got something?
• 58:47
  Speaker 3: Uh yes, Jake says heat Oh Hello, that's loud. I
• 58:54
  love that I thought, Okay, what.
• 58:56
  Speaker 4: An episode right now? I mean, this is just awesome.
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: Were thirty of these things? Thanks for tuning in.
• 59:03
  Speaker 3: Jake says he thinks that Cincinnati is going to be
• 59:05
  desperate as they're in play for a regional bid. As
• 59:07
  long as they take care of business the rest of
• 59:09
  the way, they beat U c F, which is something
• 59:11
  West Virginia couldn't do. So he is gonna take Cincinnati.
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: All right, Jake. Jakie, Jakie. Hope he doesn't make a
• 59:20
  big Josh is popular? What are you trying to tell?
• 59:27
  Speaker 3: I mean, my computers on the do not disturbed thing.
• 59:29
  I don't know what's going on here. I'm just gonna
• 59:32
  I don't know.
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: Do you need to handle something?
• 59:35
  Speaker 3: No, I don't. It's not important.
• 59:37
  Speaker 4: In the slider group chats blowing up.
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: How about you make a pick, Josh, let's go to that.
• 59:42
  Speaker 3: I'll make a pick and then I'll figure this out.
• 59:46
  Speaker 4: It's not Josh gonna take a drink downstairs right now
• 59:48
  because he forgot the rum. There it is, there's the
• 59:52
  white cup. The rum's there.
• 59:53
  Speaker 3: Don't worry, as I'd love to pick Cincinnati. Vishal Ball
• 59:57
  is fun. I got so much fun power on offense.
• 1:00:00
  Quentin coachs twenty three home runs tied. I think he's
• 1:00:04
  third in the country because Lennon Harriston just tied up
• 1:00:07
  and take data for the league with twenty four. I
• 1:00:11
  don't know. They have one of the conference's worst pitching
• 1:00:14
  staffs if we're being honest. Nate Taylor, Rogan Knight and
• 1:00:16
  Connor Blue is one of the weaker starting rotations. Nate
• 1:00:19
  cat is pretty good, but the solid Yeah, the bat
• 1:00:22
  two have been kind of rough this year. I'll think,
• 1:00:25
  what's Virginia just because I think they're the better team,
• 1:00:27
  like overwhelmingly. I don't know. It's on the road, so
• 1:00:31
  it's gonna be tough in this conference. Things have been
• 1:00:33
  super weird in this conference, as we've talked about. But
• 1:00:35
  guys like Gavin Kelly, might Matt Einick, I trust them
• 1:00:39
  in these spots. As you said, Max Yale has been
• 1:00:42
  really good for them, Like on a Saturday spot. I
• 1:00:44
  think he and Chanton Cole are way better than the
• 1:00:47
  Saturday and Sunday guys for Cincinnati. So get Cincinnat's bullpen
• 1:00:52
  that they performed pretty well. Maybe they could turn things
• 1:00:54
  around for him. But I trust what's Virginia in the spot?
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: More interesting? I like that pick JBB. What are you
• 1:01:01
  thinking here?
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 4: Pal? I think I'm gonna be shockingly rocking with Josh
• 1:01:07
  right here. I think I'm gonna go West Virginia. They've
• 1:01:08
  played well on the road and I think they do
• 1:01:10
  have some talent advantages here, so I think I'm going
• 1:01:13
  to rock with him as well. And then before we
• 1:01:16
  move on to that, are are you familiar with with Jack? Josh?
• 1:01:20
  Are you friends with Jack? Jack Daniels? Is that that's
• 1:01:24
  in the tonight.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 3: I didn't know where you were going with this.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: I got a little bit of history with John.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 3: The very slightest part in my head thought you were
• 1:01:32
  going with like Jackson Smith Cincinnati's Second Basement, which it
• 1:01:35
  was not even like that's a that's a problem for me,
• 1:01:38
  the fact that I thought that way, that's totally. That's totally.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 4: You see, Jack Daniels, it's hitting Drew. I'm telling you,
• 1:01:48
  I total this.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 3: Months ago, my grandparents were talking to me about the
• 1:01:51
  show called land Man, and the first thing that my
• 1:01:53
  head went to was Brett Lanman Abilene Christian's Ace and
• 1:01:57
  that's like, how I need, I need, I need to
• 1:02:00
  go to I.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: Might have made the joke then, but my parents were
• 1:02:04
  telling me about land Man and how I need to
• 1:02:06
  watch it, and my response to them was that sounds
• 1:02:08
  like the worst superhero ever. I have the power of land.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, people swear by a lot of things.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 3: This is the I just I'm watching Breaking Bad. I
• 1:02:20
  just got introduced to Saul Goodman last night for the
• 1:02:22
  first time, so oh my gosh. But yeah, I know.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: Better late than that. I'm gonna go with you guys
• 1:02:30
  and take West Virginia. Let's round this back.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 3: The least baseball we've ever talked on a podcast.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: We're celebrating thirty episodes in a weird way. I'm gonna
• 1:02:39
  take West Virginia as well. Uh. I do think that, Josh,
• 1:02:42
  you kind of hit the point. I think West Virginia
• 1:02:45
  rounds off a lot stronger pitching wise. I think that
• 1:02:49
  West Virginia's offense top to bottom, I can trust more.
• 1:02:52
  And I think most sad of all, I came into
• 1:02:55
  this this season just praising Quentin Coates, but he's been
• 1:02:58
  so cold lately. It's been a little bit of an
• 1:03:01
  increase on the knob and maybe he's kind of operating
• 1:03:04
  like teams hot cold hot. I hope for Cincinnati sick
• 1:03:07
  he is, But as of right now, I trust West
• 1:03:09
  Virginia top to bottom so much more consistently than I mean,
• 1:03:12
  you talked about it a minute ago with Einik and Kelly,
• 1:03:15
  but mean guys like Paul Schoenfeld gets on base all
• 1:03:18
  the time and then does damage steels base is at
• 1:03:21
  an incredible clip to be what is I think a
• 1:03:23
  fifth year senior, real lanky sort ARMANI Guzmant does the
• 1:03:28
  same thing. It's just and obviously I'm a Max Shale truther.
• 1:03:31
  But let's round it up. We'll give Jake the shot
• 1:03:34
  at a at a big point. I think he he
• 1:03:36
  would appreciate that. Speaking of something for Jake, Jake's Jake's
• 1:03:42
  team Tennessee, the volunteers. Not that anybody else here has
• 1:03:45
  a huge vested interest in that team. But I'm curious, JB,
• 1:03:50
  if you'll walk us through Alabama and Tennessee. This is
• 1:03:53
  not the third Saturday in October. This is gonna be
• 1:03:56
  a weekend in April in Knoxville. Curious what are your
• 1:04:00
  thoughts as these two teams are gonna square off?
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, Alabama's coming off a two straight series losses,
• 1:04:07
  including a sweep at home by the hands of Arkansas.
• 1:04:10
  They did win on the road at Oklahoma right before that. Tennessee,
• 1:04:14
  on the other hand, they've kind of had some struggles
• 1:04:16
  at home, which is kind of weird. They lost a
• 1:04:19
  series against LSU, they lost the serious last weekend against
• 1:04:22
  Ole Miss kind of a mixed bag. They played better
• 1:04:26
  on the road, which is really surprising to see right now.
• 1:04:28
  They've had a lot of good moments on the road.
• 1:04:30
  So I think it's kind of a what do you
• 1:04:33
  believe in?
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 3: More?
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 4: Out of these two narratives here, like do you think
• 1:04:35
  Tennessee turns around at home? Do you think Alabama can
• 1:04:38
  win a series for the first time? And the three
• 1:04:41
  weekends they're going on their third weekend, So yeah, I
• 1:04:44
  think honestly, it kind what do you believe in? More?
• 1:04:46
  And coming off of a brutal loss to UAB too,
• 1:04:48
  I mean, it's kind of what do we believe in?
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 3: Here?
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Who really is Alabama? I know we criticized them
• 1:04:56
  a lot at the beginning of the season. They kind
• 1:04:57
  of turned it around, really impressed. This just upbreakings kind
• 1:05:01
  of nationally and now what really is this team? And Josh,
• 1:05:05
  you talked about it a little bit earlier when we
• 1:05:06
  were talking about the game with UAB, how Alabama is
• 1:05:09
  almost a shoe in to host at this point. I
• 1:05:13
  don't want to put I'm not gonna push back. I'm
• 1:05:15
  just gonna raise a little skepticism. I mean, are they
• 1:05:18
  at this point?
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 3: There's a reason I said almost, I mean they're certainly
• 1:05:22
  not definitely a shoe in, but like seems like it
• 1:05:25
  they've been ice cold lately. The Bats have been cold,
• 1:05:28
  and that's a big part of it. They've been They've
• 1:05:30
  been bad, bad lately, six of the last eight as
• 1:05:33
  a hole in the offense has been most of why.
• 1:05:37
  I don't know. I feel like, is this the hot
• 1:05:40
  cold hot team or did they just get off to
• 1:05:42
  a way better start than they actually are and they're
• 1:05:45
  bottoming out. I'm not really sure. It's kind of hard
• 1:05:48
  to tell. Yeah, I mean, are we we're making picks
• 1:05:52
  or what?
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: Go ahead?
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 3: Well, I'll make Jakes first. Actually know y'all, y'all come
• 1:05:58
  back to.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: Me, Okay, Jamie, Then why don't you lead off? Weird? Josh?
• 1:06:03
  But I got it.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 4: I think I know two of the four picks. Now
• 1:06:09
  I have to guess on one one of the other
• 1:06:14
  four that is not myself, And I can't get a
• 1:06:17
  read on what that man that I'm staring at right
• 1:06:20
  now is he gonna do. I don't know what you're
• 1:06:21
  gonna do, honestly.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: How about I pick first? Sure, you say, you say
• 1:06:28
  you know my pick.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 3: I don't know either. I just I just can't wrap
• 1:06:32
  my head.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: I listen. I think that this series is going to
• 1:06:36
  be pivotal thinking about Tennessee's path to the dance, not
• 1:06:43
  taking not taking last week's series. At least getting a
• 1:06:46
  game is good against the quality of ole Miss team.
• 1:06:49
  I think ole Miss is miles ahead of Alabama in
• 1:06:52
  my brain, you know, I mean, I think this is
• 1:06:57
  at least two wins for Tennessee. Give me the I mean,
• 1:07:01
  you go down with this ship all day long. That's
• 1:07:05
  what I'm doing, And that's ut because that's what they are,
• 1:07:09
  all right, JB, what are you thinking?
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 4: I want to I see, I want to rock with
• 1:07:16
  you so badly.
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: Has not inspired confidence that that.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 4: Would be full earn me a few times this year,
• 1:07:25
  and but also this Alabama team that has given me
• 1:07:28
  no confidence in wanting to swing the boat that way.
• 1:07:31
  So I mean you're really just tossing darts here.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: Really, this is a battle of which team that you
• 1:07:36
  have no conviction on? Do you have more conviction? In
• 1:07:40
  my brain?
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 4: It's a lot easier for me to root. It's crazy.
• 1:07:46
  I'm going to rock with the volunteers somehow. I Am
• 1:07:49
  going to go back at it again and g B
• 1:07:51
  O VFL to lose me another point because Josh is
• 1:07:55
  going to take Alabama.
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: Josh absolutely, I already know.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 4: We he won with ole Miss last week in the
• 1:08:02
  same fashion. But I'm gonna tee it up to him
• 1:08:04
  again and here we go.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: So at the end of the day, JB, the bonus
• 1:08:08
  that you get for financially for agreeing with me about
• 1:08:11
  Tennessee will be better than the points that.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 4: Josh I agree I'll take.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: All right, let's hear Jake first. Let's hear Jake's rationale.
• 1:08:16
  Is another beleaguered balls fan.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 3: Uh quote unquote no analysis needed here. You give me
• 1:08:24
  Tennessee versus Alabama matchup in baseball, football, basketball, soccer, golf, bowling, fishing,
• 1:08:29
  hot dog eating, Rocky top and I know Drew with me.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: Hell yeah, Jake is the best. Let's go coach, all right?
• 1:08:39
  Three for the balls. Josh, what's the logic behind Alabama here?
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 3: I'm not sure. I actually am trying to like this
• 1:08:47
  is this is tough, awesome against ole Miss last week.
• 1:08:52
  I think he's I think he's goin back and do
• 1:08:54
  a good star ule again. Offense seems to have gotten
• 1:08:56
  there at together and they need this one, Like you said,
• 1:08:58
  I mean, they have a rough schedule coming up. They
• 1:09:00
  need this one for posts and hopes.
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 6: I hear that, Yeah, wow, click that.
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 3: Surely that won't come back to buy us as we've
• 1:09:19
  picked a sweep against Data three times this year and
• 1:09:22
  we've lost all three.
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: This is the one.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 3: This is the one, I sure hope. So I'm rooting
• 1:09:27
  for you all and you know it.
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: Lord. This is Drew. Lord, this is Drew from school
• 1:09:32
  hooking up. Please all right, Finally, it's been too long
• 1:09:37
  one game. Let's talk big twelve one again. Guys. You
• 1:09:40
  see F and Utah, what a car, what a commenced
• 1:09:46
  a conference, JP, I'm gonna give you the pleasure of
• 1:09:49
  breaking this one down. You see, F's had a little
• 1:09:51
  bit of a stumbley stumble lately, and yet on the
• 1:09:53
  flip side of this Utah, the old Utes and a
• 1:09:57
  new Ballpark this year, have emerged behind the Mayor Dragon
• 1:10:00
  Jake Long, and are soaring to do some offensive things
• 1:10:04
  I really didn't see in their path. They've got some
• 1:10:06
  guys on that team. Man, the outfield looks really good,
• 1:10:09
  but I don't know that they can quite tangle with
• 1:10:12
  UCF and come out on skate. What do you think?
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so I'll start off with our typical here. UCF
• 1:10:19
  is five and seven on the road, and this is
• 1:10:21
  going to be a brutal road trip for them, going
• 1:10:23
  basically cross country to Utah here, so that's pretty brutal. Utah,
• 1:10:27
  on the other hand, is thirteen and three at home
• 1:10:29
  this year, so they have been rolling hot too. They're
• 1:10:33
  on a four game winning streak. UCF, on the other hand,
• 1:10:38
  they have won one game coming off of that. They
• 1:10:44
  won one in a row, so we got that going
• 1:10:47
  for them after a kind of a brutal series loss
• 1:10:50
  to Cincinnati after taking the Friday night game at home.
• 1:10:54
  So yeah, this is tough and I don't know, Drew,
• 1:11:02
  I'd love to I'd love to hear the Big twelve
• 1:11:04
  expert on this too.
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 3: Here.
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna I want, I want to take Utah and
• 1:11:11
  I'm gonna I'm gonna jockey with this. I think I
• 1:11:13
  may let Josh and Jake pick first on this one,
• 1:11:15
  if that's okay with you, Josh, because I want to
• 1:11:18
  take Utah just because of the it's a brutal root trip.
• 1:11:22
  UCF is so cooled off right now. But I mean,
• 1:11:25
  last week we saw J D. Rogers, who was gonna
• 1:11:28
  be a d h for them in uh I think
• 1:11:30
  it was their Sunday game, come up with two home
• 1:11:33
  runs John Smith, who's been one of the night's most
• 1:11:36
  consistent performers this year, with a home run between them
• 1:11:39
  eight of their nine runs in that day. So, I mean,
• 1:11:41
  you see, if can put up the runs even whenever
• 1:11:43
  the team is kind of cool, I just they're their
• 1:11:46
  key performer this year is Williams. And I think Andrew
• 1:11:49
  Williams and I don't I don't think any of you
• 1:11:50
  would disagree with me on that he is. And I
• 1:11:54
  mean this as respectfully as possible, because I love this kid.
• 1:11:57
  I think he's gonna be a great, a great professional.
• 1:11:59
  I think he's more a complimentary player than a star.
• 1:12:03
  I think he accents your your your lead bats to
• 1:12:07
  make them play better by being kind of your the
• 1:12:10
  guy that's on base to score the run. The guy
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  who you know has a little bit of pop, has
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  a little bit speed. I don't know that he can
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  carry a team though in that way. I really all right, Hell,
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  I'll take you Tom. I'm gonna take you. Ta'm gonna
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  I've talked myself into it, I think, and this is
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  this is a swing. This is a swing. This this
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  is probably the one that I'm most unsure about. I'll
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  take you Tah though, I'll go ahead and jump it.
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  It is a trip, like you said, JB. Like it's
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  practically across the country. And Utah they have not been
• 1:12:40
  bad at home?
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  Speaker 3: Did you?
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  Speaker 1: Did we talk Utah at home? JB?
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  Speaker 4: Thirteen and three? Run it thirteen and three. UF is
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  five and seven on the road this year. So run
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  it and I'll go ahead and jump it. I was
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  gonna take the youth. I already talked myself into it.
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  So me and Drew this week and we're rocking together
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  up or we're going down together. Truthfully, I think we're
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  we may be in line on every pick right now.
• 1:13:05
  So we're going up and we're going down.
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  Speaker 1: We missed on Georgia Oldness. That's the only one it's okay. Sorry,
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  what if we what if like you win one, you
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  go one and seven? How horrible? Are all right? Josh,
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  let's hear what you got the well, round it off
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  with Jake.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, I'll talk a little, I'll talk a
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  little baseball here and we'll not baseball or kind of
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  I'm iffy on this one. Matt Souser has been hit
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  around a little bit and his two starts to return
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  or since he's returned from his injury, he had a
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  point six spot e r A on the year and
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  now it's up to a two three six.
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  Speaker 6: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: Still really good obviously, but I mean, like, yeah, obviously
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  affected him. You see saw seven of the last ten
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  Offen hit a major Lowell, Andrew Williams and John Smith
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  Jack Skinner have really been driving that team. But besides that,
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  everyone else is kind of hill a little dud recently. Utah.
• 1:14:04
  On the on the other hand, offense is not the concern.
• 1:14:08
  Their backs have looked awesome lately. They've had eleven runs
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  per game in their last thirteen. Some starts like Jake Long,
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  Cameron Cameron Gurney. I think it's how they pronounced his name.
• 1:14:20
  I don't know. Just some name keeps some shout outs
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  on here because Utah baseball doesn't get talked about nationally
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  like it should for them to be as close to contention. Yeah,
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  well a little this is baseball, but also not really.
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  Jake's guy Colter mcinally, did y'all see what happened to
• 1:14:35
  him again at Arizona State two weeks ago? Did you
• 1:14:37
  see what that get toss? I guess some words that
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  we won't say on the Family Friendly College Baseball Now
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  podcast to the ump. And on top of that, he's
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  been bad in Big Twelve play. He is an eight
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  four four era in Big twelve play. It's not as
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  good as it was for last year. As it was
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  last year for him, he was I think his first
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  team All Big Twelve certainly not happening again. I think
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  he was Jake's Big Twelve Pitcher of the Year pick.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we don't want to go back and look at
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  these big these any of that, and they weren't great.
• 1:15:08
  We can do ourselves a favor and not look at
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  any of the preseason picks. That benefits me tremendously. I
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  just thought it was a relevant point. On that note,
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  I will look at Jake says This is a good
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  chance for UCF to get back right.
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 3: There's some juice in the bat of the Newts though,
• 1:15:29
  And you'll know I'm a Coulter mcinally supporter, but I
• 1:15:32
  am gonna take UCF.
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: Here, bold choice. I love that.
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  Speaker 3: For Jake, I'm gonna do the same thing. I'm gonna
• 1:15:40
  take UCF. No. I like you said, Utah a great
• 1:15:44
  team at home. UCF cold lately, but I don't think
• 1:15:49
  they're a bad enough team to stay this cold, and
• 1:15:51
  I think they're the overall better baseball team. I think
• 1:15:53
  the offense will come back around. And I mentioned a
• 1:15:55
  similar point with Kansas State Kansas earlier. I think if
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  you're gonna face the pitching staff get right against you,
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  Tom might need the one to do it. I mean,
• 1:16:03
  it's across the board, just kind of they did not
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  across the board. I mean, like even I think all
• 1:16:09
  their starters have north with like six e rs or something,
• 1:16:12
  even though they don't have a definitive Sunday guy right now.
• 1:16:14
  So that's a whole other conversation. But yeah, I think
• 1:16:17
  this is a good get right spot for UCF. They
• 1:16:19
  need this if they want a chance at taking the
• 1:16:20
  Big twelve regular season.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: Interesting all right. A lot of splits here, a lot
• 1:16:27
  of a lot of tag ups as well. I'm realizing
• 1:16:30
  we had two sweeps and a lot of a lot
• 1:16:33
  of Josh and Jake against Drew and JB. Although the
• 1:16:38
  Georgia team up for me and you Josh against all
• 1:16:41
  This is going to be an interesting one for the
• 1:16:42
  standings perspective as well. A lot of interesting stuff, and
• 1:16:45
  I think to have been a week that we said
• 1:16:48
  from the jump was a little bit of a little
• 1:16:50
  bit of a slower one in terms of explosive matchups.
• 1:16:53
  Lots of interesting baseball to talk about either way, guys,
• 1:16:56
  do want to give you an opportunity to tell the
• 1:16:58
  folks at home where they can find you. Between our
• 1:16:59
  pot cast adventures and what you're working on, JB. We
• 1:17:03
  will start with you.
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah, for me, it's JB Underscores to Bostiona on Twitter,
• 1:17:09
  you know, wrapping up school right now. But there should
• 1:17:12
  be some little stuff coming out in here soon enough.
• 1:17:15
  I will be going to watch Coastal UNC play on Tuesday,
• 1:17:20
  so maybe a little something from that. We'll see what
• 1:17:24
  we got from that. Also should have a live looks
• 1:17:27
  article at some point from that. Georgia tech UNC thing
• 1:17:31
  coming very soon, So yeah, awesome.
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: Man, we'll get forward to it. Miss Catlet, where can
• 1:17:37
  the folks find you? What are you working on? And
• 1:17:40
  how's the Thunder game going?
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 3: You can find me on Twitter at Josh Catlet three.
• 1:17:45
  I promise I talked to baseball on there, unlike I
• 1:17:47
  have on here tonight. But you can find that out
• 1:17:50
  if you follow me. And if you follow me only
• 1:17:53
  Thunder up seventeen right now with eight minutes left'll you'd
• 1:17:57
  love to see it starter out to I. It looks
• 1:18:00
  like this SERI is probably gonna be a sweet but
• 1:18:03
  you know this is I'm twenty two years old and
• 1:18:07
  I can confidently say this current Thunder team is the
• 1:18:09
  best sports team I will ever pull for the rest
• 1:18:11
  of my life in terms of dominance. So I'm not
• 1:18:14
  taking any of these playoff series for granted, and I'm
• 1:18:16
  doing except you know, the fact that it like the
• 1:18:19
  finals completely line up with the College World Series and
• 1:18:22
  all that stuff is really unfortunate, but you know, it
• 1:18:24
  is what it is. Game one is on my birthday, though,
• 1:18:26
  so that could be cool or bad or really bad.
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: Well, we'll choose to look at it from the perspective
• 1:18:32
  it could be really good.
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 3: I hope.
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: Yes. If you want to follow me between our podcasting adventures,
• 1:18:38
  you can do so on the Twitter machine, on Instagram,
• 1:18:39
  on Blue Sky at Drew is okay. All over case
• 1:18:42
  there like it matters, it doesn't matter, all reflex the
• 1:18:46
  same thing anyway. At Prospects, a live membership starts a
• 1:18:49
  little seven dollars a month, and we're working on some
• 1:18:51
  really cool stuff. Earlier in the show, we talked about
• 1:18:52
  the top two hundred NCAA players for the twenty twenty
• 1:18:56
  six MLB draft that is coming together very rapidly as
• 1:18:59
  we speak, should be dropped within I'll put a loose
• 1:19:03
  time on it the next seven days on that needs
• 1:19:06
  to be very very soon. We also will have a
• 1:19:09
  mock draft coming very soon. I know we've teased that
• 1:19:11
  we will have our first combined list coming soon, very overdue.
• 1:19:15
  Very excited for that as well. Lots of great stuff.
• 1:19:17
  Of course, my live looks are also uh, they're being
• 1:19:20
  pushed back for other other projects right now that have
• 1:19:23
  to get out that need need me on them more urgently.
• 1:19:27
  But what a great episode, guys, thirty of these things.
• 1:19:31
  I hate that Jake wasn't with us for the big
• 1:19:33
  thirtieth anniversary episode, but yet thirty episode.
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 4: Kee baby, don't forget him. Mid major rankings are out there.
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: Just dropped and we had four teams drop off. Four
• 1:19:44
  teams come on? He said, who was it? He said,
• 1:19:46
  n I, You and IU fans are coming for his
• 1:19:48
  soul today. And to quote, to quote the great profit
• 1:19:52
  Josh Catlet, any publicity is good publicity. And that feels
• 1:19:56
  like a lovely place to end it. If you're not
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  That will be really, really wonderful. And in the comments below,
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• 1:20:18
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• 1:20:22
  Doctor Jekyll and mister Hyde. Let us know what that is.
• 1:20:25
  Or you can talk to us about baseball, since this is,
• 1:20:27
  after all a baseball podcast. Sure barely until next time. Yeah,
• 1:20:32
  sometimes we talk, we talk, others we just talk. But
• 1:20:36
  we're glad you're here listening to us. And until next time,
• 1:20:39
  for our friend Coach Jake for JB for Josh. I'm
• 1:20:42
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