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The Roch Show | Ep. 013 · College Baseball Now

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Speaker 1: College baseball is well and truly back. We've got big
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name players showing out in the spotlight. We've got weekend
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series upsets. We've got cycles and complete games and tons
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to discuss. What you've got is college baseball now.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, there ain't no problems. An't no problems, don't want problem.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, let me tun to the chat.
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Speaker 3: They know what was going for a minute.
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Speaker 1: Hit the b B when the grab a couple of
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wins with a D this even know the kid I
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had to do a big news. I can never be average,
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and they.
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Speaker 3: Want to problem with the boy.
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Speaker 1: They don't want no statics County, so coach Ton run
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a week guy, I want to test that Tim the
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standards to control run the game. Best believe of shigning Ducks,
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counting them my wins. Yeah, I love it when they
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count me out, counting up the least sudden shame. Why
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ben at Ducks. Best believe I run the game? You
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know one be contruly.
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Speaker 3: Magic to.
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Starting with me, Brew Wheeler, director of inter scouting at
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Prospects Live. Joining me today are by friends and yours.
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Starting with the gentleman who is to my right on
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the screen. It's gonna be mister j B. Sebastiano, JB.
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Speaker 4: How you doing diding good? How about you Shore?
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Speaker 1: I'm good, man, JB. I'm curious. Let's say that all
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of the fast food chains in the world were to
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vanish other than one, which would you save? And why?
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Speaker 4: Well, you know, I guess I'll start a hot take.
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I guess here. But being from where I'm from, I
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think you can guess where I'm gonna go with this one.
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And it is so yeah, I haven't had it in
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a long time. Can't wait to have it soon though.
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Speaker 1: But uh yeah, let's see, we're you're looking at a
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couple of weeks, I believe, is that not right?
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Speaker 4: A couple of weeks and I'll be back in the
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home state for spring break.
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Speaker 2: Good.
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Speaker 1: Well, you'll have to have an in and out burger
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for us, that is, that is for sure? Uh Jake
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Barjorie the coach. He's in the bottom right corner on
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today's episode. Jake, how are you, sir?
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Speaker 2: I'm doing great, man.
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Speaker 1: It's good to see you. Pal. You have to matchine
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black and black. You're looking good, slim, trim, ready to
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get to it. Uh, the opposite of swimming, trim myself. Otherwise,
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fast food? So which fast food chain would you save?
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Speaker 2: Jake?
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Speaker 5: I think I would save Chick fil A. I feel
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like that's a lot of people's favorites. It's, in my opinion,
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it's the best chicken sandwich. That's been an argument before.
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But I'm gonna go. I'm gonna I'm gonna go.
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Speaker 2: Chick fil A.
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Speaker 1: I think that's a solid It's a solid, safe pick
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the Lord's Chicken. I can't argue with it. I don't
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want to argue with God. So there you go. Uh.
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And of course, in the bottom left hand corner, it
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is mister Josh Catlet. Josh, you're looking chipper. How are you, sir?
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Speaker 3: I'm great. We got we got some colder weather again
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here for a few days before it gets hot again.
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I'm trying. I'm trying to embrace it a little bit.
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I like the colder weather better. I'm trying to embrace
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it before it does away for like seven months.
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Speaker 1: Facts. Yes, I'm with you there. I prefer I prefer
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colder weather. As I've always said, Josh, it's socially acceptable
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for me to put more clothes on, socially unacceptable for
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me to take close off.
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Speaker 3: Exactly, exactly. See, we're on the same wave link. That's
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what I tell everybody, but no one wants to hear
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me out. I just don't want to be sweating everywhere
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I go. It's that simple.
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Speaker 1: No me too, I get it. Uh so get us
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sweating with your opinions on fast food, which is the
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one you would save?
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Speaker 3: See in my mind, if like, if I could only
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have one fast food chain ever, I would want some diversity.
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I was between Culver's and Waterburger in my head. But
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because jab said in and Out, I've got I'll say
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Waterburger because they're the polar opposites of each other. And
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you always hear that debate, so I'll take the other
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side of it. I thought in Andet was all right
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when I went to California. But it's just Wa Burger.
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There's something different about it. I don't know, of course, Josh.
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It's gonna take the opposite of me already started. It's
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it's only right.
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Speaker 1: I let me just Okay, we'll get one word responses
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because I could talk about I mean, I could talk
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about food all day long, but I won't. Just one
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word response from you guys, shake shack thoughts.
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Speaker 2: JB.
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Speaker 4: Sally jab.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm a fan, Josh.
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Speaker 3: I I like it, not as much as Culver's. It's
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a very similar burger to Culvers, but like it's it's good.
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Speaker 1: Okay, cool, cool, cool cool. I like Jake che I
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think I've had it like three times, which there's there's
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none in Tennessee, so it's it's always been in my
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travels that I've had it, but I've always have.
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Speaker 3: It in like airports, so I guess it's the same
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kind of concept.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, twice in Texas, once in Atlanta. But always good.
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Can't complain always good either way. Uh off of fast
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food towards college baseball, from one thing that fills our
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appetite to another. Guys, there was a lot of stuff
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going on this weekend, several things that we have got
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to talk about. We've kind of broken it up. Josh.
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You did a great job with the formatting again this week,
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because we have got several stories to talk about, and
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we're going to take our time with four of them
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and kind of go from there chatting about what's happened
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around the game this weekend. Start the top or as
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it is for us, with our number two team, if
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I'm not mistaken, Is that right, Josh? Number two is
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UCLA and they tangled this weekend in Los Angeles with TCU. Guys,
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that's a battle of two of our top ten teams.
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UCLA came out on top. I'd say handily, that sounds
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like probably the nicest way I could say it, handily. JB.
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Will start with you, obviously, it's a California team. We'll
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let you get the California love going before the rest
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of us jump on board with you. You seela everything
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that we thought they'd be. What is the main driving
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force behind them establishing themselves on the national showcase this weekend?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think well, the pitching took a bit of
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a step forward this week, which obviously is a plus
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for them. It's kind of something that we alluded to
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last week being a question, but the biggest thing was
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just rock Shlaste and wild Gasprino going nuclear I mean
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each of them having three homers on the weekend pretty
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much almost driving the offense by themselves and without the help.
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I mean, Levu and Roman Martin had their moments this weekend,
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but they didn't really do anything insane to be a
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driving factor. So Gasparino and Charlawski, honestly just they drove
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the ship for UCLA. It was kind of the two
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man show. So I think it was really star power
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honestly for UCLA this weekend. They kind of showed out
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over TCU, who's kind of down a few men.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, we over the course of this year,
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and I feel like I always have to say this,
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barring some sort of unforeseen tragedy or you know, turn
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of events that we're not expecting, we're going to talk
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about Rock Chilowski all year, essentially leading it from here
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to the season to our draft coverage. We're gonna talk
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about a Ton Gasparino, JB. Since you brought him up.
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That's a kid who I watched play last year as
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freshman with Texas and instantly enamored with. He has got
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such very loud tools, but you know, there was just
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something missing with him, and thus far in the season,
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it looks like he's really turned it on.
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Speaker 4: What you say, Yeah, I think he's really kind of
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refined his approach to be a lot better at the
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chase rates and you know, the contact praise everybody's kind
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of concerned with, which they're not great necessarily yet, but
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you know, it's been refined enough to make him look
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a lot better, especially being in I feel like a
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better position in the UCLA lineup than where he was
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with Texas. I feel like there's a lot less pressure
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on him, and I think it's just been a very
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favorable start for him.
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Speaker 1: I think so too, Jake. We're gonna go to you man.
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I want you to get your opportunities to talk about UCLA.
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If you want to touch on Rock, by all means,
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please do. But the question I had for you, man,
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is the question I had for you, Jake, is what
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does this do in your mind to TCU. How badly
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is their stock damaged from losing the series again as
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convincingly as they lost, but to a quality opponent. What
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does that do to you their stock in your mind?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I think you to a point, you
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have to take into account that they didn't have Tommy Lapour.
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I mean I'm not going to say that he would
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have just won won that first game for him by hisself,
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but I mean, I think that is something that you
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have to consider.
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Speaker 2: Losing your ace and.
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Speaker 5: Having to kind of reach shuffle everything on the pitching
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staff kind of kind of on the flyes is something
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to consider. And like you said, going into to u
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c l A, who you know, we obviously think very
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highly of, like pretty much everyone else does. H It's
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that's a tough question on how on how to you know,
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think about how it affects their stock. I mean, we're
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dropping them in our rankings, as I'm sure everyone's going to.
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But I mean, I don't think this is like the
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end of TCU. I think they're still gonna gonna be
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a good team. I think they're still gonna win a
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lot of games this year. But uh, it is concerning
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the fact that you know, they were kind of dominated
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this weekend in all three games.
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Speaker 1: I didn't want to use the D word, but I'm
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glad somebody used that word. So Jake, uh, do you
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have anybody from UCLA that you want to touch on,
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anybody that's really showing bright to you?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 5: I mean you JB talked about Rock and Gasparino. I
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think Dean west Stroman Martin both have pretty solid weekends
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at the plate this weekend. I'll also talk about the
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pictures a littletle bit. Logan Rediman had a really nice
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start in Game one, five innings, ten strikeouts, one run.
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Game two, Barnett also made a pretty good start, but
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the story and that one was wild and Moss out
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of the bullpen four innings, ten strikeouts, no runs. I mean,
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the pitching really stepped up for him, and against an
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obviously super solid TCU offense.
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Speaker 1: Definitely, you know, early in the season. But Jake, we've
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been podcasting together for going on six months now, you
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and I and the rest of us guys, we have
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been But if I was to make a Jake Guys team,
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two of the pitchers will be Rediman and Michael Barnett.
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And so I was throwing the softball up to you,
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just ready for you to crank it, and sure enough
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you did. I appreciate you touching on those guys for sure, Josh,
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We're gonna come to you now.
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Speaker 2: Man.
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Speaker 1: The other two guys have left him sitting pretty on
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a platter for you. So I'm going to pitch this
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question to you first, Sir Rock Schawowski. I believe Josh
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that he's ascended past insane to a level that I'll
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call super insanity. Thoughts on that, I don't.
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Speaker 3: Think that's crazy. I think, honestly, there's people like if
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I get on Twitter, there are people that aren't even
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college baseball people, just like MLB people, White Sox fans
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in particular. You know there's a reason for that. They'll
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hop on Twitter and one of the first things they say,
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like I'll see them quote tweeting and commenting, like every
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time I get on this app, this dude is doing
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something else, like he's going yard again. I get it's
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gotten to the point where it's so out of hand,
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but we expect this. It's not even like he's doing
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it against some bad non conference competition. This isn't a
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really really good pitching staff and a top ten team
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in the country before this week or before next week.
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I guess, so, I mean, like, I don't, I don't
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know it's out of hand. Super insane is a great
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way of putting it. We're gonna be talking about him
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for it at the at least the next five months
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on here, and then beyond that for years.
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Speaker 1: Without a doubt. It's it's curious you know that you
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referenced TCU their stock last week. You know, they were
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a top ten team in Oris, and as Jake alluded to,
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you know, without lapour, that's a blow and they were
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beaten very handily. I mean, Jake said it, So now
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I guess I'm free to say they were dominated. I mean,
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that's not being rude, it's being truthful, and I hate it.
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I mean, as you know, I took TCU in our pickup.
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I thought that they had a chance here, and I
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guess the question of getting at Josh is kind of
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similar to the one I asked Jake in your ranking specifically,
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what was kind of the thought between where do I
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put TCU and how did that work out for you?
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Speaker 3: So I, personally I think I have them higher than
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the rest of y'all. Honestly, I dropped them from six
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to eleven in my personal ones because I want to
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I might switch that up actually before I make a
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public I might go lower, because I mean, it's a
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tough spot to be in because you're going on the
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road to who I now have as the number one
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team in the country, because I know we have them
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as number two, but after this weekend, I think it's
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hard to deny what UCLA has done that they are
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clearly the best team in the country as of now.
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I think it's really hard for a team to go
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out there there and you know, like take the series.
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But I mean, like, not only did TCU not even
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take one game, like they got pretty much dominated most
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every game, So you gotta dock them a little bit
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for that. But at a certain point you got to
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realize what they're going up against. I think the writing
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was on the wall in my opinion, when Logan Rediment
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out pitched Mason Brassfield the way he did on Friday,
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because like, in my opinion, going into that matchup, I
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think Brassfield has a slight edge on Rediment and then
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redimentd just wiped the floor from that performance in that
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particular day. So I mean, it's just kind of how
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the trajectory of the whole series went. You gotta feel
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for Juli Fernsler, because I mean, I don't know how
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you get signed up for your first ever college outing
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is on the road against the number one team in
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the country, Like you just gotta like, it didn't go
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great for him. You just got to feel for the guy.
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I think, I don't know. It sums up the weekend
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pretty well for them, definitely.
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Speaker 1: Man, I'm with you. There. Uh one other thing, guys,
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while we're on the top of UCLA, I've been kicking
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this around. So I want you guys in the comments,
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you listeners in the comments, blowd tell me just to
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think about this because because his name is Rock and
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there was you guys may not know this. There was
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a famous professional wrestler. He's now an actor, Dwayne Johnson.
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He was called the Rock. I think the Rock because
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he had many good nicknames, we should attribute some of
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those to Rock Scholowski. So obviously you had the Great One,
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the Brahma Bull, the People's Champion. I think there's several
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good ones there. So I'm gonna brainstorm that you guys
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be on that. Maybe by the mid week episode we'll
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have a new nickname for Rockcholowski, at least for us
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that might spread around. Comment down below if there's any
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that sound good to you. Josh, we are gonna stick
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with you though in moving along because on the on
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the format here it says Josh needs to apologize to
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his university. So I'm just gonna let you have the
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floor here, sir.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: So, as weird as it sounds, I've been the one
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that's been the most anti Auburn the entire offseason in
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terms of going into the year how I thought they
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would perform. I am here to make a formal official
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apology because boy was I wrong apparently. And even last
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week it didn't look great. In the midweek it didn't
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look great, but this weekend impressed me. It's I was
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harping on about how the pitching staff concerned me all season,
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and I think they might have things figured out a
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little bit. Jack. The Sanders got lit up yesterday against
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Florida State early on, but beyond that, the rest of
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the bullpen was fine. Today was fine. They've really got
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things figured out on Friday with the way that they
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got that piggyback Drew Whalen coming in after Jake Marciano.
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Marciano looked great again. He went six innings, no no
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runs allowed, eight strikeouts. Whalen came in for two innings.
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Then Garrett Brewer, who's the closer if Hetzler's out, the closer,
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came in for an ending and shut the door. That's
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a solidified Friday thing. It seems like they have going
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on and they're gonna do for the near future. Yeah,
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I don't know. It's the offense has put the pieces
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together too, and it's great to see it because it's
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not even just like the guys at the top, like
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Bob Terrell, Chase frelech Eric Guavara. They've looked really good too,
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but it's like the unsung heroes this weekend, like Brandon mccrane,
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the guy who's stepping in for Chris Remember, while he's
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gone at second base, went seven to twelve this weekend
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with a double Ana triple ethan Bingaman freshman, he played
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some first base. He's played like DH's moved around a
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little bit. He went five to eight this weekend with
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two home runs today against Louisville, got walked a couple
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of times. It's guys like that that need to continue
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to step up. And that was the big issue last
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week when the big names at the top of the
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Auburn lineup were performing a little bit, but no one
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else could step in. This weekend, people stepped in, and
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now you see the potential this offense has. Against a
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couple of right teams, they beat and what happened against
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Kansas State. Kansas State has been such a proven offense
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and shut him down only allowed one run. So this
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is my apology. If they lose a series at home
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the Nebraska next week, then I can run it right
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back and be on the other side of this again.
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But like, I don't think that'll happen. I don't know
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if anyone else does, so I might just I got
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him in my top ten again finally, which is where
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most people already had them. But I here we are.
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I came around eventually, Josh bum curious.
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Speaker 1: Let's say, hypothetically disaster strikes and things go bad with
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Nebraska coming in? Is that gonna be an an unapology
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followed the next week by a reapology? So is this
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just gonna have to become a recurring segment? Is what
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I'm getting at.
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Speaker 3: See, it's weird because like I'm rooting for them, and
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so I don't want to have to come on here.
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And like if Auburn were too in some world lose
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to Nebraska next week in the series, I could be like, ooh,
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I might have been right all along, but I'm not
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happy about this. So I got myself in a really
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weird spot. I'm not used to this.
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Speaker 1: Okay, okay, well that's fair, that's fair. I know you
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love being correct, but I know that you're a very
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truthful person at your heart, so I respect what you're doing.
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Speaker 3: I think those are both very accurate statements.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, absolutely, I've got to know you a
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little bit. Kimasabi, i'd say so, Jake not an Auburn
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fan historically, I'm curious what was your take on Auburn
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this weekend because to kind of put my step next
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to what Josh said, markedly and markedly improved, almost looked
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like a totally different team.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean they just finally looked like just a
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complete team this weekend. I think is just a good
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way to put it. You know, we apologize to the
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Michigan's last weekend, and you know, Auburn definitely deserves an
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apology from us this weekend. But you know, Josh had
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all the hot points on the weekend, Like Marciano was
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really good in Game one, Sanders bat a little bit
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and in his start, but I guess really good Florida
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State team, but the bullpen backed.
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Speaker 2: Him up good. There.
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Speaker 5: Another good start from Alex Petrovich in Game three, but
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like they you know, they they hit nearly three hundred
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as a team against three really strong pitching staffs. Josh
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talked about all the big hitters in the lineup. It
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was just this is just by far the best Auburn's looked,
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and they've you know, more than earned an apology from us.
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Speaker 1: I think, so I appreciate that. I'm sure Auburn fans
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do as well. Well. We can ask an Auburn fan, Josh,
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do you appreciate it?
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Speaker 3: Do I appreciate myself?
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Speaker 1: Like I guess, do you appreciate us? Never mind, Josh, Jake, Jake,
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I'm gonna go back to you here and ask with
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Auburn and putting your ranks together, seeing that they kind
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of were a little slummy and then also this weekend
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very impressive. I mean, what does that do for you
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when you're considering how to rank them?
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Speaker 2: You know when I was, I'm considering how to rank them.
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Speaker 5: I also have them in my you know, personal top
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ten with with Josh, but I think not overreacting to
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like super early season stuff is important.
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Speaker 2: You know, It's easy the way you know.
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Speaker 5: We've we've talked about Auburn and all the question marks
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going into the season, and they kind of showed early
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on in the year, so that more than you know,
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that kind of swayed us to drop them a little
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bit last week. But I mean, I think just seeing
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this weekend and the and the potential kind of fulfilling
19:38
itself this weekend and seeing what kind of team they
19:40
are when they're at their best, is is more than
19:43
enough reason to bring them back up to where they were.
19:45
Speaker 1: I think so well, said buddy, Uh, JB. If Jake
19:49
not historically an Auburn fan, you not historically a Josh
19:52
Caton fan.
19:52
Speaker 6: So I would lead into I would lead into asking, uh,
19:56
in your opinion, JB.
19:58
Speaker 1: This Auburn team who I think at the oddset of
20:01
the year all of us would have agreed Rembert is
20:03
going to be the key that ignites this whole deal
20:05
for them. Offensively, they're without him, and yet now the
20:09
offense has kind of turned on the engine without him.
20:12
What does that mean for his return whenever that could
20:15
be JB.
20:17
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I honestly think that it's it's honestly
20:20
just like a blessing to have him back at that point.
20:21
It's an added piece to this offense that really struggled,
20:24
and now you get a big production piece back, and
20:27
also you have more guys that you now know that
20:29
you can plug in. As Josh alluded to, his villain's
20:32
gone seven for twelve, So I mean, you can't really
20:34
complain about that. The two things that I guess i'd
20:37
point out about this team, I guess I am highest
20:39
set of all of us. I had him at seven
20:41
and my personal when we were going through I was
20:44
really impressed with the pitching, which I know has been
20:45
a really big point for us. But the thing I'll
20:48
hit on is the pitching that they faced and did
20:50
really well against Bryce Moore if Florida State. He looked
20:53
really good previously they got to him, and why Danie
20:56
Lowich really looked good for Louisville in the first weekend
20:59
we talked about how we thought he was possibly somebody
21:01
could get moved up in the rotation and now got
21:03
absolutely hammered by Auburn today. So that's something that I guess,
21:07
you know, they deserve kudos on and not to like
21:10
get off the topic, I guess too. But the thing
21:13
that really, like I guess, disappointed me from the weekend,
21:15
I guess talking about the event as a whole was
21:17
Louisville for me, like taking them and knowing sure I
21:20
was wrong. We talked about the pitching staff need to
21:22
get tested, and this game especially was pointed out to
21:25
us as Hey, you know, Dania Lewis against an Auburn team.
21:28
He looked really good. It's a good test, good follow
21:30
up for him, and he really underperforms. So I think
21:33
that's kind of the thing this weekend. Also from this
21:35
event was Louisville pitching really showing how poor that they were.
21:38
Speaker 1: Again, well, said Buddy, I think it's uh, that certainly is.
21:43
You know, I think as well, it's as worth mentioning
21:47
as the Auburn acceleration was. Is that Louisville. I think
21:52
pitching kind of craped the bed. Again, that's a good
21:54
way to look at it, dude, for sure. Either way,
21:57
well that's maybe as good of a transition as we
22:00
can get. Crap the bed. Uh to talk about Tennessee?
22:05
All right, well, Jake, we'll start with you. Uh. Tennessee,
22:11
two days in a row, the offense looked h maybe
22:15
like they were blindfolded at the plate. Maybe we're just
22:18
gonna maybe we're just straining with our eyes closed so
22:21
that we can just hit by here, hit eared, smell vibes.
22:27
That's what I'm telling myself. What are you telling yourself?
22:30
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think you're I think I think you're saying
22:33
it right, Drew. I mean, it was just a hard
22:34
watch for Tennessee fans this weekend, man, Like they were
22:38
just were just begging for offense and it just never
22:40
showed up. Like they got good starts from teaking Coons
22:43
and lending Mac again coons five innings, four k's, three walks,
22:47
one run Mac more of the same Mac had six
22:50
went six and two thirds with eleven strikeouts, only two
22:52
runs allowed, and they only scored five runs combined to
22:55
back them up.
22:56
Speaker 2: Like Brandon Arbinson.
22:58
Speaker 5: Came in in Game two, finished game with a couple
23:00
of scoreless innings, and the only offense in Game two
23:04
was the Henry Ford solo homer in the first inning.
23:06
Like they only had four players get multiple hits in
23:10
any game, any single game this weekend. Like Kent State
23:13
deserves all the love and recognition, but the offensive inconsistencies
23:18
are pretty worrisome for the balls.
23:20
Speaker 1: I would say absolutely. A couple things all point out
23:24
to that note specifically is Evan Blanco today did not
23:29
do bad. It's just you know, he kind of got
23:32
touched up on. But his periods of pitching well were
23:34
he pitched very well. The second thing, yes, I know
23:38
we led this off with Tennessee's offense looked like trash
23:42
and they did. But like you said, Jake, we can't
23:45
take anything away from Kent State. If I left this
23:49
weekend feeling anything, it's that that is a complete baseball team.
23:53
I know, I love the word you used a minute
23:55
to go to describe Auburn, but I think that it's
23:58
applicable on a different scale for Kent State. Without a doubt,
24:01
this is a team who looked incredibly comfortable in a
24:04
raucous environment. This is a team who played defense with
24:08
the best of them, look totally in control of themselves,
24:12
and in the situation, made it happen when they needed
24:15
to make it happen. With the exception of Friday night,
24:18
I mean, and guys, we all were talking about him
24:20
in the group chat as it was happening. I mean,
24:21
with the exception of the Tyler Mayatt pitch hit home
24:24
run in the bottom of the night, Kids State looked
24:28
like they had their you know, hand on the wheel
24:29
at all times. It was never really out of reach
24:33
for them at any point. To me, it felt like, Josh,
24:35
we'll go to you here with Tennessee. We've obviously talked
24:41
about the offense. What do you think was the biggest
24:43
concern therein because obviously Jake said it, Henry Ford looks
24:47
like he is credible, Steady has answered at least some
24:51
of my questions that I had for him in the offseason.
24:53
But what do you think was the biggest like that
24:55
needs to improve?
24:57
Speaker 3: Well, I think the stat that Jake said is really
25:01
glaring that only four times did someone have multiple hits
25:04
in a game over the whole weekend. That's egregious, to
25:07
say the least. I think Henry Ford was kind of
25:10
like a silver lion, like a like a like a
25:14
bright light. What am I trying to say? A really
25:16
high point in the lineup this entire weekend. That's it.
25:19
Like the consistent guys that are typically like the producers
25:23
for them, didn't put out it all this weekend. Blaine Brown,
25:25
who had a really good weekend last weekend, he went
25:28
over ten this weekend, he reached base once. That's it.
25:31
Like guy who's been around many Maren. He went one
25:34
for eleven this weekend, five strikeouts. It's just performances like
25:37
that that's stack on top of each other, and it
25:40
really just leads to, as we saw, just an overall
25:42
egregious offensive performance. It's just like something you're not used
25:45
to saying. Like I even before today they put up
25:49
five runs, most of them coming in one run because
25:51
you know, Kent State had that like throwing air whatever
25:53
that was where they were like where he's like just
25:56
a mental air that allowed two more runs to come across.
25:59
So it makes it look not as bad as it
26:01
even was. To be honest, I don't I don't know.
26:04
I don't really want to have these big, like overarching,
26:08
you know, hyperbolic takes after the second week because you know,
26:11
like upsets happened, weird theories happened, but like it, it
26:15
was so consistently rough this weekend and there is such
26:19
turnover that's happened there, and there's been so many question
26:22
marks around that program this whole off season that it's
26:24
kind of hard not to overreact. I guess I don't
26:26
know about y'all, but like me, if it's hard not
26:29
to feel that way, at least immediately.
26:32
Speaker 1: I could never I could never bash you or even
26:35
discredit that opinion, because I get it. It's a natural
26:37
thing to say. That's a lot of flipping and turning
26:41
and adjusting, and now we're seeing kind of the wheels
26:44
fall off early in a sense, I get where you
26:47
would say that, and I don't think that that's incorrect. Jake,
26:51
I'll pitch to you real quick and JB I swear
26:53
I'm gonna talk to you in a minute. Jake, one
26:56
guy I was really pleased with. Again, consider during the
27:00
bad weekend, Jay Abernathy, I thought defensively looked very solid
27:04
in center field. He today had two hits, if I'm
27:06
not mistaken, And at some point I think he looked
27:10
incredibly comfortable, did kind of have a little bit of
27:13
a you know, he wasn't perfect, but there's there's positives there.
27:18
Maybe again, I'm just scraping the bottom of the barrel
27:20
for positives, Jake, what do you think.
27:22
Speaker 5: I wouldn't say you're scraping at the bottom of the barrel,
27:24
But I mean I think like like he's gonna I
27:27
think he's gonna be in the lineup. It's gonna be
27:29
nice to to see him hit. But I think, like
27:33
Josh mentioned, is just like just the stars, the stars didn't.
27:36
Speaker 2: Perform for Tennessee.
27:37
Speaker 5: I think that's just kind of kind of what it
27:39
comes down to outside of like like like we talked
27:41
about outside of henry Ford, like no one really hit,
27:44
and like this is a team that's gonna need to hit,
27:47
especially if you get good starting pitching like they've been
27:50
getting without a doubt.
27:51
Speaker 1: And that's a perfect, perfect transition for what I was
27:54
wanting to talk to you about, JB. Is that Tennessee's bullpen.
27:57
We've talked about the hitting not showing up, but the
27:58
bullpen has been spotty might be the kindest way I
28:02
could describe it. Bad Another one that comes to mind,
28:06
and this is not anything new. The Tennessee bullpen has
28:09
been shaky for us, excuse me, for years and JB,
28:12
I guess my question to you is with regards to
28:14
Kent State, are they real or are they just mac reel?
28:19
What I guess if you had to elaborate on one
28:22
hundred percent of one hundred percent, what percent of it
28:24
is Tennessee pointed like trash? And what percent of it
28:27
is Kent State's pretty good?
28:30
Speaker 3: Yeah.
28:30
Speaker 4: I mean, I guess the one point I was gonna
28:32
make that I'll hit on, which leads into this, is
28:33
that Tennessee only had six extra base hits from a
28:37
team that we thought would have a lot of extra
28:40
base hits on this season, from a whole weekend. Six
28:42
extra base hits. I think that's something that we really
28:45
didn't expect. So I think i'd probably go eighty percent
28:51
of it is Tennessee really underperforming what they are in
28:54
twenty percent is how good Kent State is. And that's
28:56
not a knock at them. I think kN State's a
28:58
good program, and they take advantage of mistakes, which is
29:00
what good teams do. If you make mistakes, you don't
29:02
play well. Good teams take advantage, and they did, so
29:04
they deserve the credit for that. But I don't think
29:07
it's them beating the best version of a Tennessee team necessarily.
29:11
So that's my take on it. Like if this game
29:13
happened in a regional I assume it'd be a lot
29:15
different when we're in you know, May June and playing
29:19
a game. But right now, I think, you know, Tennessee's
29:22
kind of just it's the early season woes and you
29:24
flip over to a new coach and all that stuff
29:26
going on too. I think it's just a lot different.
29:28
So I think it's kind of them needing to figure
29:30
out where they are as a team and get the
29:32
extra base hits in there.
29:33
Speaker 3: For what it's worth. Eighty twenty is the exact percentage
29:36
I had them my head when Drew asked that question,
29:38
So I think it checks out.
29:40
Speaker 4: Wow, all right, Josh Rare.
29:46
Speaker 1: And of course what you're agreeing on is Tennessee's downfall, Jake.
29:49
We have to fight back against this tieranny. Jake, I
29:51
do have one more question for you before we wrap
29:53
up the bow on Tennessee. Here, let's go to the
29:56
confidence O Meeter, Jake, we just lost a weekend series
30:01
Kent State. If ten is I have utmost confidence, and
30:06
zero is I have no confidence? Where are you right
30:08
now with Tennessee.
30:12
Speaker 5: I'm still confident in Tennessee. I mean they have the players.
30:16
I mean I guess if I have to put a
30:17
number on it, I'm probably still at like an eight
30:19
or nine confidence. I mean, it was a bad weekend.
30:22
We're gonna learn a lot next weekend. They go to
30:26
the Globe Life Series next weekend with a lot of
30:28
great teams that we're gonna talk about quite a bit.
30:31
But I mean, I'm not losing any confidence on a
30:34
bad weekend. Like you guys talked about new coach. You know,
30:36
the it happens, I guess, but I'm I'm still I still.
30:41
Speaker 2: Believe in the I still believe in Tennessee.
30:44
Speaker 1: I'm with you, pal. I had the number in my
30:46
head at eight point five, and so for you to
30:48
say eight or nine, I'm glad we're on the same page.
30:51
If JB and Josh are going to be the hell,
30:52
we might as well be as well. All Right, Fine,
30:55
all of our biggest storylines of the week, we just
30:58
talked about it. Jake good good segue there, because we
31:00
talked about an event for next weekend. In an event
31:02
this weekend, a lot of teams gathered up and one
31:05
of them stood at the top of the heat Oregon
31:08
State sit Down. Not you. It is Southern Miss. And
31:11
that is perfect for us because we have really plugged
31:14
the Golden Eagles a lot, and of course driving that
31:17
train has been you, mister Catlett, your your favorite team
31:21
in the country, Southern Miss. I'm curious if you want
31:23
to lead the discussion on what it was from them
31:26
that really made this weekend such a rousing success.
31:29
Speaker 3: See this weekend, maybe even more confident in them than
31:33
I already was, not just because of the results, but
31:36
because going into this it was the offense that was
31:39
really the driving force behind that team. But the pitching
31:42
looked really good this weekend too. Today, in particular, it
31:45
was they tried the they tried the why am I
31:49
blinking English? Sorry? They tried him out there as a
31:53
starter again and it didn't work out very well. For
31:56
the second week in a row, Thomas Crabchy performed better,
32:00
and then I thought he or better than he did
32:02
last week, the way I thought he would coming into
32:03
the season. He went two innings, no runs allowed, five strikeouts,
32:07
cross sively. A guy who was around last year came
32:09
in three innings, three strikeouts, no runs. It was a
32:13
really good like bullpen performance, a really good piggyback performance
32:16
off of that, and it just kind of exemplifies what
32:20
this bullpen can be when you put your best guys
32:22
out there in the right spots and they do what
32:23
they can do. The offense, there's no questions. I don't think,
32:28
at least long term, there's no big questions like guys
32:31
like Joey Urvin, Davis Gillespie, Kyle Morrison, they all had
32:34
good weekends, like they're all gonna produce. You just know it.
32:37
Dre Barrett just has a ridiculous clutch gene at this point,
32:40
it seems, so I'm not really worried. I didn't even
32:42
mentioned Matthew Russo like or Tucker's Dockman Like. There's guys
32:46
that you know we're gonna be there in that offense,
32:48
and they've shown it against really good teams, really early
32:51
Oregon State. We can have questions about, we can have
32:53
that conversation, but I think Southern Miss, not just saying
32:55
this because I've been high on them forever, I think
32:58
they are clearly the story back to see a jump
33:00
and a lot of people's ranking from them this week
33:02
because they I'm not gonna spoil anything I might want
33:05
to talk about, but they could be premiere mid major
33:08
team this year, could be along those lines. I don't know, JB.
33:13
Speaker 1: I have two questions for you on that same point,
33:15
talking about this event and with Southern Miss. My first
33:18
question to you is, JB, what's the timeline on Southern
33:22
Miss surpassing you and c on Josh's favorite teams.
33:26
Speaker 4: I think it's already happened, honestly. I mean I think
33:29
I think the boat has already left the station or
33:32
the trains station. I mean, it's it's over. The Southern
33:36
Miss is up there. He's probably got a full gear.
33:38
Speaker 1: You know, he's got Allen jersey. He's the jersey.
33:44
Speaker 4: I mean, he probably got it all asked for it
33:45
for Christmas this year. I mean he's ready to go.
33:47
Speaker 3: He turned. My family watches this. We can't be saying this,
33:51
and al I'm.
33:51
Speaker 1: Gonna get this.
33:54
Speaker 3: I'm we can't go that far.
33:57
Speaker 1: All right, serious question for you. Now, we alluded to
34:01
it a minute ago though, But Oregon State, that offense
34:04
is something you know, you can have an excellent pitching staff.
34:08
And I don't think any of us would disagree with
34:10
that adjective with that group of players, excellent pitching staff.
34:14
But man, what's going on? What's going on around? What's
34:18
the deal here?
34:19
Speaker 4: Yeah? I'll start with this fun fact for you guys.
34:22
Oregon State had three extra base hits the entire weekend
34:26
as we slammed Tennessee for only having six three. Now,
34:29
Southern Miss matched that in their one game against Oregon State,
34:33
they had three by themselves and won the game against them.
34:37
So the offenses looked awful. I mean, Dax Whitney, who
34:42
we will talk about later on, had the game of
34:45
his life, and this team was struggling to scrape together
34:48
a run or two to win him the game. I
34:50
mean it was it looked pathetic, honestly, is the best
34:53
way to put it. Might be too harsh and blunt,
34:55
but they look pathetic at the plate, and Oregon State
34:59
the offense look like a glorified, very very mid major program.
35:03
Like it looked like a very very glorified mid major offense,
35:08
and it was very concerning. I think, you know, Kleinschmidt,
35:12
you didn't have his best stuff, but you still put
35:13
up ten strikeouts over five and a third when he
35:15
went against Southern miss giving up four, and that offense
35:18
couldn't do anything to help him out at all. I
35:20
think it's just really concerning seeing how bad the offense is,
35:24
and it's something that you need to keep an eye on.
35:26
I guess because Oregon State hasn't traditionally been necessarily an
35:30
offensive powerhouse all the time, you know, recently they have been.
35:34
They had some good offensive pieces a year ago. But
35:36
this is a really, really concerning offensive team this year.
35:38
Speaker 1: I'd say historically speaking, Oregon State's produced I mean major
35:42
leaguers within the last ten years. I mean we could
35:45
name you know, ten of them at least in that range.
35:48
Either way, You're right, this is just concerning. And again
35:52
it's an early season, but it is what it is. Jake,
35:55
I need you to pull up your mid major rankings,
35:58
your most recent edition of that, because a question for
36:00
you pertaining to that. But as you're doing that, my
36:03
question is these two Jibbroni's catlan Sebastiano just bashed Tennessee
36:09
for having six extra vaseed hets in a weekend. This
36:12
Oregon State team had three. Jake, am I right a
36:14
feeling a little myfed here because we have not talked
36:16
about this Oregon State offense. I need at least another
36:18
thirty minutes of discussion. Am I justified in miss Jake?
36:24
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess so I can talk about it
36:26
a little bit more if you want to me.
36:28
Speaker 1: I thought so. I thought so. My question for you,
36:31
Jake is we're going to just pitch this to the
36:32
other guys because I know you have a regularly updated
36:35
mid majors list, and JP just said something that really
36:38
sparked something in my brain. He said, this offense looks
36:41
like a glorified mid major offense. So we're going to
36:45
go to game time really quickly for the three of you. Jake,
36:48
give me your number eight mid major team as of
36:51
right now.
36:53
Speaker 2: Uh, okay, as of right now. I didn't.
36:56
Speaker 5: I haven't updated it from the weekend yet, but last
36:58
weekend it was Creighton was my number eighteen.
37:02
Speaker 1: JB. Would you rather have Oregon States offense or Creighton's offense?
37:07
Speaker 4: Creighton?
37:07
Speaker 3: Right?
37:08
Speaker 4: Probably? Probably Creighton, honestly, I mean I haven't even looked
37:12
at their stuff, and I feel confident knowing the Oregon
37:14
State stat line that I choose Creton right now to
37:17
put them in the box.
37:19
Speaker 1: Let's okay, let's test a little further, Jake, give me
37:21
your number fifteen.
37:25
Speaker 2: Fifteen is FAU.
37:28
Speaker 1: Oh, that's easy, Jake, I was gonna give you that one.
37:30
Would you rather have FAU or Orgon State's.
37:32
Speaker 2: Offense right now?
37:36
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're out boys in here, all right. Let's test this, Jake,
37:41
your number, all right, looking at your one through five,
37:45
whichever offense you think is the worst Jake, what team
37:48
is that of your one through one.
37:52
Speaker 2: One through five, let's see.
37:55
Speaker 4: Give us the worst out of the thirty. Honestly, I mean, I.
38:02
Speaker 2: Don't know I went through five.
38:03
Speaker 5: I have like, yeah, I guess you can pick Irvine
38:06
or Dallas baddist as.
38:09
Speaker 1: Let's do DBU Josh DBU offense or Oregon States.
38:13
Speaker 3: This is this is the biggest set up question of
38:15
all the time. I mean, up this weekend. But their
38:19
offense wasn't the issue. So give me that offense easily.
38:22
Speaker 1: The point that I'm making here, guys, Jake, Okay, Jake,
38:24
just for arguments sake, what's the number thirty mid major two?
38:28
Speaker 2: My number thirty last week was Charlotte.
38:32
Speaker 3: All right, well, okay.
38:33
Speaker 1: I'm not familiar with Charlotte, but put up some numbers,
38:37
I'll be I would state they put up some runs.
38:40
Speaker 3: So I would take Oregon State's offense over Irvine if
38:43
we're gonna do that, Like, that's where I'll draw that long, Okay,
38:45
I would take them over Irvine.
38:47
Speaker 4: It's close, though, that's a that's bad. They lost to
38:50
cal Fort to to today and it's still in my
38:52
mind like scratching, like you know, there's a debate.
38:55
Speaker 3: But you know, take Oregon State yesterday. I mean.
39:00
Speaker 1: I think that that's the that right, there is the
39:02
point I'm trying to make here, guys is Oregon State.
39:05
And I don't mean to spoil the rankings before we
39:07
release them, but Oregon State's number twenty four, twenty five,
39:12
twenty four. I was about say, I know three of
39:14
us had them at twenty four on the nose, which
39:16
was bizarre. YEA, their number twenty four, How good is
39:20
that pitching staff to elevate them, including this just dead
39:25
cat dragging behind them offense. It's stellar that you guys
39:30
all took. Like you said, JB, that just sparked an
39:33
idea in my head, a random mid major. That's crazy, crazy,
39:37
crazy stuff. Josh, We're gonna stick with you and stick
39:39
with this series actually as well, Dax Whitney, maybe you
39:44
wrote maybe the performance of the year. And checking my calendar,
39:47
it's February twenty two. So let's hear about what Dax
39:50
Whitney did. Tell us all about it. If someone happened
39:53
to have just emerged from under Atchilawski.
39:55
Speaker 3: This weekend, that was a flawless transition because I viewed
39:59
it and say it I was a step in and
40:00
be like, well, how good is this pitching staff? I
40:02
know a certain guy that really showed up this weekend.
40:05
Dax Whitney stat line. I think I need you to
40:08
really really take this in when I say a certain
40:10
number on this list, hear me. Seven inns, no runs allowed,
40:15
two hits allowed, only one walk aloud, seventeen strikeouts. That's
40:21
so nuts. I like, that's it pops off the box
40:25
score and you have to refresh your page say like,
40:27
oh my lord, does that say one to seven right there?
40:29
And this stuff was so good too, Like he he's
40:32
gonna be such a highly touted prospect next year. He
40:34
was as a freshman coming into college. His fastball sat
40:37
in ninety seven ninety nine. The whole game he touched
40:39
one hundred. He uses fastball sixty five percent of the
40:42
time and got seventy nine percent whiff on it, seventy
40:46
nine that I can't put into words how nuts that is.
40:51
I mean, the pitch shapes are just stupid, Like he
40:53
had a ten mile an hour drop off on this
40:55
change up with a sixteen inch IVB difference between that
40:58
and the fastball, Like he threw sixty nine percent strikes overall,
41:01
I can go on it was a ridiculous performance. I
41:05
don't care who it's against. That's you don't see those
41:08
kind of performances against low major, mid major teams from
41:11
high major programs. It's it's so ridiculous. He was a
41:14
first team All American in most places, deservedly, so if
41:17
he's gonna do that pretty often.
41:21
Speaker 1: Interesting thing. You just sat there, Josh, Jake, I'll go
41:24
to you, Josh, that's interesting if he does that very often. Jake.
41:30
My question for you, let's let's let's just extrapolate eighty
41:33
percent of that start. So let's say Dax goes five
41:37
and two thirds or six innings and strikes out thirteen guys.
41:41
Let's just say six innings thirteen strikeouts. Jake, what are
41:44
the odds that we see another six and six? Okay,
41:49
better question? Six and a half is the number I'm
41:51
gonna set the bar at over under six innings thirteen
41:55
strikeouts for daks games starts the rest of the season,
41:58
bars at six and a half. What do you think as.
42:00
Speaker 2: Far as it's six and a half, I mean.
42:04
Speaker 5: Six and a half does I mean it feels a
42:05
little high, but I mean like he just he just
42:07
did it.
42:08
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't know how we can say that
42:09
he's not gonna do it. I don't.
42:10
Speaker 5: I haven't looked at their entire schedule. I don't know
42:12
it off the top of my head, but like, yeah,
42:14
I don't know. I think he could do it. I
42:17
mean it feels a little high, but I mean I
42:19
think he could do it.
42:21
Speaker 1: And admittedly, I'm certainly not Vegas. I'm not the guy's
42:24
at handshake. That's I can't just come up with these
42:26
lines off the top of my head. But the guy
42:28
is an absolute freak show. And I think, Jake, that's
42:30
the point that I'm getting at here is that Again,
42:33
we talked about how Oregon State remained in our rankings.
42:36
After again, I love that that descriptive language I used,
42:39
a dead cat dragging behind them. I mean, how good
42:42
is DA's Whitney Powell.
42:45
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean Josh had all the all the high points.
42:48
I don't have too much to add on it, but
42:50
other than just like he did it, and he did
42:53
he put those numbers up in under one hundred pitches
42:57
is something that is impressive. And he also from the
43:00
final two outs in the fourth until the first out
43:02
in the seventh He's struck out every single batner that
43:05
came to the plate. He struck out none guys in
43:08
a row. Like he's just a special talent. There's I mean,
43:12
there's no question why he's being talked about. Is maybe
43:15
even the best player in next year's class.
43:17
Speaker 1: I think so, JB. Before we came on the air
43:21
to record, you and I were leading the propaganda train
43:24
on Jackson Flora and we I believe the kind of
43:27
recurring theme that you and I kept saying is he's
43:30
just different. He's just an elite player. Let's keep that
43:34
kind of benchmark in mind. Jackson Flora. What's the comparison
43:38
between Whitney and Flora in your mind? JB.
43:42
Speaker 4: I think it's a lot different, and I think there's
43:44
a lot of stuff there with kind of they move
43:48
a lot differently. I mean, kind of the differences that
43:51
you see there. Why Whitney's really a very short compact
43:54
our emotion, he's very athletic. Flora is more the extension
43:58
type of guy. But I think Dax's Whitney right now
44:03
would be a better prospect if you put them in
44:05
the same class in they're there, I think Dax s
44:08
Wwhinney would be the better prospect, no question in my
44:10
mind right now, just because of the dominance that you see.
44:14
I mean, there's nothing like that. Flora's done great as well.
44:17
Not to knock anything off him, He's a great prospect.
44:21
But even if you take Dax Whitney, Fluky and Flora
44:24
and throw Lee and Peterson there, whoever we want to
44:26
throw in, Dax Whitney would probably be the first one
44:28
off the board out of all of them. He probably
44:30
the first picture taking this year if they had the chance.
44:32
So that's just my opinion.
44:35
Speaker 1: I think I would agree with your opinion on that one, buddy,
44:37
for sure. Let's let's move on, JB to you on
44:41
this one. Interesting stuff happening in North Carolina. Uh, there's
44:47
an odd thing on some records here. I'm seeing a
44:51
number and a number and then there's a one. Explain
44:53
what happened here?
44:55
Speaker 4: Yeah, So, a very interesting weekend for the Tarkulls oh
45:00
U Greenville, which a lot of us expected would be
45:02
a tough game for them on the road in the jungle.
45:04
Everything going on nor be going. And it started off
45:08
very hyped up and looked like a great game and
45:10
quickly got out of hand as it was a run
45:12
role for North Carolina, a great performance by Jason DeCaro,
45:15
Norby kind of got knocked around, and then move into
45:18
the next day at Durnbull's Athletic Park and Van Kempen
45:22
honestly just kind of dominated the game. Besides one mistake
45:25
to Gavin Gallaher, it was really a dominant performance from him.
45:28
And then Sean Jenkins comes in and closed it out.
45:30
It was he was lights out for them, a very
45:33
electric arm. So kind of moved into a deciding rubber
45:36
match today and obviously Mother Nature decided to have it's
45:40
fun with our game that we had today. And you know,
45:42
Kolby Weber deserves his credit as well. He had a
45:45
very nice performance today for them. Kind Of an interesting
45:48
trend for ECU. I guess to note big on the
45:51
high release points this year, kind of the Y Savage effect.
45:54
I would say big on the high release points, heavy splitter,
45:59
you know, high ride fastball because of their release point
46:02
type of deal. But it just looked like offensively, we
46:07
didn't have a plan at the plate at times, I'd
46:09
say over the past two days. After a run roll
46:11
on the first day, it just looked like we didn't
46:13
have necessarily a plan. The release heights, the odd angles
46:17
looked like they really got to us. I'd say, just
46:20
not necessarily. They didn't look prepared to deal with what
46:23
came at them, I guess from this CCU team for UNC,
46:27
so I think it will be kind of just having
46:29
to get back on track and the pitching as well.
46:31
You know, we saw them be so dominant in the
46:32
first weekend against Indiana. Jason followed that up. But outside
46:36
of that folderbau As and Lynch both had their moments.
46:39
They looked good, they looked okay. You know, they weren't
46:41
bad starts, they just weren't as dominant as they were
46:43
the first weekend. So I think it's kind of something
46:45
to knock them back. And then obviously you move into
46:48
a series against Lamoy and that's kind of more of
46:49
a pushover almost, I want to say. I mean, it's
46:52
it's not to be that way against them, but when
46:54
you look at it on the board, that's how it's.
46:56
Speaker 2: Going to be.
46:56
Speaker 4: So yeah, I think it's just a very head scratching
47:00
from UNC. But it's kind of like how we talked
47:02
about Tennessee and a lot of the teams, a lot
47:03
of teams played down this weekend, so you know, it's
47:05
kind of interesting to see how they come back.
47:08
Speaker 1: JB. You had a lot of concerns that you put
47:10
it out there, justifiably, so obviously we know that you
47:13
get a great look at you and see every weekend,
47:16
so you're getting kind of first hand information for us
47:18
here and for everybody listening. Of all the concerns that
47:21
you pointed out, which is the one that is the
47:24
most pertinent that they've got to address before any series,
47:28
Lamoine or not.
47:32
Speaker 4: I guess there's kind of two for me that I
47:33
think are like the two main things. The offense, you
47:38
just want to see it jump back quickly. You don't
47:40
want to see them sputter out of control, I guess
47:42
would be my first take if it kind of sputters
47:45
out of control, and especially the back half of the offense.
47:47
The back half of the lineup is really what has struggled,
47:50
and ohen Hole was hitting in the three hole and
47:52
got dropped back to the sixth hole today. He's really
47:54
really struggled to start the season. So seeing him turn
47:57
around and kind of the rest of that bottom part
47:59
of the order would really help this offense. And then
48:02
the bullpen, I think is the other thing. You know,
48:04
we talked about how you have some pieces coming back,
48:06
but kind of some inconsistency. You know, McDuffie got touched
48:09
up for the first time this year, and then Matthias
48:12
had his own struggles recently when we've seen him come
48:14
in the games. So I think those two are going
48:16
to be the key. The rest of the pieces that
48:18
are kind of to fill the gap did not perform
48:20
either on Saturday, So I think it's honestly just getting
48:24
the bullpen back in shape and kind of the offense
48:28
just to quickly turn the page and get back on
48:30
track this week understood.
48:32
Speaker 1: Understood, Josh, you would see famously your number three favorite team.
48:37
When you look at this, you look at this series
48:40
kind of as a whole with the tie. The tie
48:43
today an odd an odd outcome. What do you make
48:47
as a UNC fan looking at this? And that's kind
48:49
of the same question, what would you like to see
48:51
that team address going into this weekend and beyond?
48:55
Speaker 3: I think JV said it best. I think the bottom
48:58
of that lineup is the real issue. I think that
49:00
guys like Schaffner Kallaher, they're performing at a consistent level
49:05
at the top, but I think it's at the bottom
49:06
of the lineup. You you don't feel comfortable at all
49:10
really going into it right now. If it gets to
49:11
that point in a lineup in a really tough spot,
49:14
you know, I think like there's guys that are changing
49:17
in and out. You're trying to figure out you're established nine.
49:20
If there is anything like close to it, I guess
49:22
we're established nine or ten, because you know, guys rotate.
49:25
But I think that's the biggest question because I don't
49:28
long term, I don't really have many concerns about the bullpen.
49:31
I'm really confident in the guys at the top of
49:34
that bullpen to be able to put those pieces together
49:37
and get some long outings when necessary down the stretch
49:40
in May and June or whatever. So right now it's February,
49:43
it's easy to talk about how you're worried after one
49:46
of the two outing if you've seen a certain guy
49:48
in not go so great. I think down the stretch
49:51
they're gonna figure it out because they have in the past.
49:54
The offense is where the offense where I have real
49:56
question marks. But I mean the transfer class they brought
49:58
in was really good. There's a couple of from that
50:00
are performing pretty well. Will they measure vision eventually? I
50:05
would like to think so, But as it stands right now,
50:08
I don't think. Like I said Schaffner Gallagher, even Paulson
50:12
Paulsons look good to me. I don't really have any
50:16
questions about those. It's the guys that are the newcomers
50:19
trying to measure to see, can we figure this thing
50:22
out before we get into conference playing. They gotta they
50:24
got a tough one coming up early. Virginia is the
50:26
first team they play in conference play. You're gonna get
50:28
a test real early to figure out, you know, is
50:31
this thing going to work out long term? Probably?
50:33
Speaker 1: I think so. Jake want to go to you about
50:36
ECU specifically, Uh, what's the outlook for them going forward?
50:40
After again an odd weekend that was certainly interrupted by
50:44
that tie. I think that would have been a really
50:47
telling thing for this series and for these two teams.
50:51
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's I think it's more of the
50:54
same as what we were kind of talking about with
50:55
North Carolina is like, you know, early season, like teams
50:59
are still figuring every seeing like everything out, figuring out
51:01
what kind of like you know, you're You're gonna see
51:03
a lot of different Batan orders. You're gonna see a
51:04
lot of different guys coming out of the bullpen. You're
51:07
gonna see guys get starts. I think it's just kind
51:09
of figuring that out. And like, you know, they had
51:11
the tough first weekend against Savior and then they didn't
51:14
really get too much of a chance to figure anything
51:16
out against an opponent like North Carolina. You know, they
51:18
just had to stick with what they thought was best.
51:20
So I mean, going forward, I mean they gotta have
51:23
you know, like everybody right now, they gotta have guys
51:25
step up in the in the lineup, you know, like
51:28
Branden Burris Jack carrying Walker Baron is kind of carrying
51:32
them right now. But like they gotta have some other
51:34
guys step up down the order a little bit. Some
51:35
guys are gonna have to you know, maybe someone that's
51:39
not starting right now is gonna get a chance and uh,
51:42
you know, earn a spot. I don't know, they they
51:44
they also have things to figure out like everybody else
51:47
right now.
51:48
Speaker 1: Well said Jake, I'm gonna stick with you here for
51:51
this next topic. Uh, Texas A and M. I think guys,
51:56
you guys have said it off air, We've said it
51:58
even on air. I think we're the highest out to
52:00
my knowledge on Texas A and M. However, the offense
52:03
this weekend not what we certainly not what we expected.
52:07
I don't think what anybody would have expected though from
52:09
Texas A and M. Jake isn't a concern? At what
52:13
point should we be concerned? And also cheese down yeah, just.
52:21
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, yeah.
52:22
Speaker 5: The offense was just sound to sleep in Games one
52:25
and two against Penn, right. I mean, I give credit
52:27
to Penn's arms, Jake Moss, Thomas Shirtlift, Marty Coyne. They
52:31
all came in and pitching the way that they did
52:33
in that environment and keeping that offense down.
52:36
Speaker 2: They did a really good job.
52:38
Speaker 5: But for A and M, you know, they got great
52:39
starting pitching from same from Shane Sadale and and Western
52:43
Moss and Aiden Simms, and the bullpen was also lights out.
52:46
Speaker 2: I could name the guys there.
52:47
Speaker 5: But like on the offensive side, like Terrence Keel had
52:52
a pretty solid weekend, Nico Partita did had his moments,
52:55
but like the offense was just super just inconsistent, you know,
52:59
And I think teams like I don't know if it's
53:03
if this is the case for A and M. But
53:04
like teams getting the mindset of like, you know, we're
53:07
going to easily beat this team. They get you been
53:09
coming in and like they think they might start looking
53:12
ahead to the next weekend, and like if there's a
53:15
trap weekend this early on in the season, it kind
53:17
of felt like one for A and M, just the
53:19
way they kind of were moving.
53:20
Speaker 2: So slow, especially to start.
53:23
Speaker 5: But you know, they like they travel to glove Life
53:25
next weekend to face Virginia Tech UCLA and Arizona State,
53:29
which you know, again we're going to talk about that
53:30
later on. But the path isn't getting much easier for
53:33
this Aggie's offense.
53:35
Speaker 1: It is not JB really quickly to you, Jake, really
53:40
a great transition there. The path is not getting easier
53:43
for Texas A and M. JB an easy question, but
53:46
one that I think has deeper context to it. How
53:49
quickly does A and M have to figure this out?
53:54
Speaker 4: I think before sec play. Honestly, I think is kind
53:57
of a hard deadline for them. And you know, the
53:59
one thing that I guess, you know, you give them
54:00
saving grace is no Christicicopian in the lineup this weekend,
54:03
So I mean, that's something that really stings for that offense.
54:08
But yeah, I just think it's you know, them needing
54:10
to kind of regroup and you know, I guess just
54:14
figuring it out after weekend. You know, Jake said, you
54:17
got to give credit to the pen Arms too. You know,
54:19
they did a really good job this weekend and went
54:21
out there and competed in some of those IVY teams.
54:22
You know, they threw out some really good arms as
54:24
we saw Princeton as well. Not to jump the ship,
54:26
but they shut out NC State on one of our
54:28
top twenty five teams in their second game. So I
54:32
think it's something that you know, you got to take
54:34
that into account, I guess somewhat, but also realize that
54:37
you hope that offense performs a little better. So that's
54:41
what I got on that.
54:43
Speaker 1: Yes, two great points there to lead us into Josh,
54:46
I will say beforehand, though, one of those points you
54:48
made is that, yeah, we can't discredit pins Arms and
54:51
that's not Bullpen, that's you Pin, that's Jake's Holmies for Pennsylvania.
54:55
So shout them out, Josh. JB. With another you guys
54:59
are getting really get at these transitions brings us to
55:02
your gentleman, mister Hycopian, Josh, what do you think that
55:06
he would havemit to this offense that has kind of
55:08
floundered this weekend.
55:10
Speaker 3: I mean, it certainly couldn't have hurt. I mean it's
55:12
a very similar thing to I'll put on a different perspective.
55:16
You can say the same kind of thing about Auburn
55:18
with Rimbert. Not to bring it back to that, but
55:21
Auburn was struggling without Rembert early on and then put
55:25
it together this weekend after a weekend of you know,
55:27
having some other guys who'd to fill in there to mesh.
55:30
But I think Adam's offense as a whole has more
55:32
pieces around what Hacopian usually is than and than Auburn does.
55:37
So you would expect them, on paper, you would expect
55:41
them next week to get things to like pull things
55:44
together better than they did this weekend. The issue with
55:47
that being, you know who they're playing next weekend. They're
55:50
in Arlington and they gotta face UCLA and they gotta
55:53
face Arizona State, and it's a really tough ramp up
55:56
in competition from Penn. So I mean this past weekend
55:59
was when you wanted to see it sure they didn't
56:01
have a copying, but the other big guys didn't perform
56:04
super well either, like Sorel Grahovic didn't have phenomenal weekends.
56:08
It's I mean, if the if the guys at the
56:10
bottom of the lineup aren't gonna perform, you need the
56:12
guys at the top of it too. And they just
56:14
did it so you didn't see it at all. Need
56:16
things to turn back around, Russe. They're gonna get molly
56:18
wopped by UCLA and Arizona State. A couple teams were
56:21
pretty high on what a verb well, thank you, thank you.
56:26
Speaker 1: They certainly will be molly wopped. Let's kind of put
56:29
the accelerator on here, guys, talk about some more of
56:31
our quick news highlights and storylines from the weekend. Two
56:36
teams A Top our rankings, Top five teams LSU are
56:41
number one, Georgia Tech our number five. Uh. The offenses
56:45
are really rolling. When I think about offenses that I
56:48
just like pretty well top to bottom, these are two
56:50
of the ones that jump to mind. Josh, I'm gonna
56:53
give you one sentence on these two offenses. You could
56:56
pick one you want to talk about. What is it
56:58
about them that really just show this weekend.
57:02
Speaker 3: One sentence is rough the stars for Georgia Tech because
57:08
burd has had a great day today, but all weekend,
57:12
you know, Von Lackey had a phenomenal weekend. Alex Hernandoz,
57:16
Jared and Vic. Those guys are performing at their very
57:19
peak right now. And sure they're not playing great competition,
57:23
as JB says, they're playing the sisters of the Deaf
57:25
and the blind. But like, look, averaging sixteen runs a
57:29
game is averaging sixteen runs a game, and that is
57:31
what it is. So take it for what it's worth.
57:34
Speaker 1: It is what it is, as my dad says, quote
57:37
Josh Catlet, quote my dad, jb Uh, you have been
57:41
an active, an active critic of Georgia Tech's schedule. Early on,
57:45
I believe earlier you said that their first test was
57:48
when they are going to be and I'm quoting you
57:50
forced to play Clemson or no Northwestern North Northwest. Excuse me,
57:54
I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry.
57:58
Speaker 6: Forced in a play to play, forced into acc that's ridiculous. Okay,
58:02
So Jab, I'll let you talk about LSU. Give us
58:05
a sentence on what worked for LSU this weekend in Jacksonville.
58:09
Speaker 4: I think it's just the most impressive thing is offense
58:11
by committee. I think the whole team. Honestly, you've seen
58:14
it throughout the year, the whole team. One guy's picked
58:16
up where someone else left off. If somebody's off, you know,
58:19
Jake Brown had a hot start, kind of cool down
58:22
this week, and then you see Kate r Andbdi and
58:24
you know some of the other guys really step up
58:26
this week. So I think it's just by committee, honestly,
58:29
is what you talk about them?
58:31
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, said Ann Beatty had a moon shot at
58:34
one point this weekend. I don't remember what day it was.
58:36
Jake will go to you. You can choose whether you want
58:38
to give us a sentence on Georgia Tech or LSU, Sir.
58:42
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I think, I mean a lot of
58:43
the same can be said about both. I mean they
58:45
both scored a ton of runs this weekend. I mean
58:47
LSU scored thirty four on Indiana Notre Dame, and you
58:51
see f in three games.
58:52
Speaker 2: We named the names that got things going.
58:55
Speaker 5: Carry on, mylum kind of got things going a little
58:56
bit this weekend as well, I mean.
58:59
Speaker 2: Pitching back to up. It was just a really good weekend.
59:01
For Milisu.
59:02
Speaker 1: It was a solid weekend in Jacksonville. Did you gotta
59:06
see the graphic of the sign there at the park,
59:08
But it was like between the teams, we've got all
59:10
these different things, and somebody's like, it's when you do
59:12
all the work on the group project and everybody's name
59:14
is on there. That's what that was. Let's look at
59:17
two other guys individually performing at a high level this weekend,
59:22
certainly at the top of draft rankings. Liam Peterson Justin Lebron,
59:28
who had the more impressive weekend with five words? Josh,
59:34
we'll start with you.
59:34
Speaker 3: You guys stop doing this to me. I'm sorry, I'll
59:42
say Liam Peterson, Okay, we got five words.
59:50
Speaker 1: He real good at ball.
59:52
Speaker 3: I guess I don't know. Twelve strikeout, twelve strikeouts in
59:57
five innings.
59:57
Speaker 1: Boom, look at you see you got it. Jake will
1:00:02
go to you who had the more impressive weekend, Lebron
1:00:04
or Peterson and your five words to say? Why?
1:00:09
Speaker 5: I mean, I'll take Lebron since he took Liam Peterson
1:00:14
five words.
1:00:16
Speaker 2: Uh, he hits balls really hard, perfect, y'all are.
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Speaker 1: Good at this game. JB break the tie. Who was
1:00:25
more impressive this weekend Lebron or Peterson and you got
1:00:28
five words to say?
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Speaker 4: Why, I'll go Peterson and five and a third one
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hit twelve K's.
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Speaker 3: That's wait time.
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Speaker 1: So if he's doing numbers, I'll give him five.
1:00:42
Speaker 3: You know what you know, you'll know the Charles Barkley
1:00:45
clip where it's like that, you know, and they're like,
1:00:49
I got, I had two words for you, Steve and
1:00:54
Chris Paul must see TV and then like like words.
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Speaker 1: I love it. I mean it's facts though it's a
1:01:07
stat one that it is JB. That it is okay.
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All right, one last game before we talk midweks quickly
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we'll do the worry neater. All right, guys, if ten
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is again as Jake and I played earlier, no worries.
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This is totally fine and zero is utter panic. The
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alarm bells have been ringing for a minute. Now. Where
1:01:30
are we at with Arizona? JB?
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Speaker 4: You might be at a ten. I mean they've won
1:01:35
one game, the offense looks absolutely terrible, and they've lost
1:01:39
to bad teams as well, since some of them not
1:01:42
not great. You know, you kind of came in in
1:01:44
three not good and the pitching we hyped up not
1:01:48
good either, so has that hasn't been good? Both of them?
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Speaker 1: Ultimate ultimate panic.
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Speaker 4: You're saying, yeah, it's a ten out of ten right now.
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It's sinking ship fast.
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Speaker 1: And I see that you're also getting off board of
1:02:00
your boy Smith Bailey too, then, is what you're saying.
1:02:03
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean all the pods boy Smith Bailey, you know,
1:02:06
down the ship, a lot of people's draft boy own
1:02:09
Kramkowski sinking real fast too. It's it's not a good
1:02:12
look indeed.
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Speaker 1: Uh, Jake, the warrior meter with Arizona, What's what are
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you saying?
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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm right there.
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Speaker 5: I mean if we can go more worrisome than the scale,
1:02:24
I think we can, we can go past it. Like
1:02:26
they're just there's just nothing really, there's just not much happening.
1:02:29
Like the offensive players that you expect to hit are
1:02:32
just not hitting. The JB just talked about. The pictures
1:02:34
are not doing well. Smith Bailey's has like all right
1:02:37
stat lines, but like it can't be the only guy
1:02:39
that's doing anything all weekend, right, Like, I don't know
1:02:43
that's true. I'm I'm very I'm pretty worried. I'm pretty
1:02:46
worried about Arizona.
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Speaker 1: All right, Well, Josh it is up to you. What's
1:02:51
the warrior meter with you in Arizona? You feel good
1:02:53
about this, right?
1:02:54
Speaker 3: I don't want to be super overreactionary, so I'll go
1:02:57
like nine point five because that Yeah, oh that as
1:03:01
crazy as it sounds, I don't think is that is
1:03:04
that ridiculous at this point? I mean the offense has
1:03:07
no redeeming qualities. It's been their past six games they've
1:03:11
scored five runs at the most, and usually they're put
1:03:14
trotting out one and two run performances like they got
1:03:16
nothing going for him on that front. It's really concerning.
1:03:20
Speaker 1: Tony Lera is batting over three hundred. That's what you get, Arizona.
1:03:27
That's a thumbs up for me. Baby, You hold that.
1:03:29
Put it on your resume. Thumbs up from Drew Wheeler.
1:03:32
All right, midweek, guys, we've got some series to talk about.
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We do need to keep on the accelerator talking about
1:03:38
the midweek games. Uh, Jake, We're gonna start with you
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what mid week's Uh? What mid week is just kind
1:03:45
of catching your eye the most?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I want to talk about Troy versus Georgia this week.
1:03:51
The pitching for Troy hasn't hasn't been too great this
1:03:54
year so far. Last midweek, you know, they sort of
1:03:58
went pitching by committee, and that could be the route
1:04:00
they take again this week. But like hitters for them,
1:04:04
Sean Darnell, Drew Nelson, Jimmy Janicky, Josh Pine, Aaron Psk
1:04:09
are all hitting well. But the midweek pitching has me worried,
1:04:13
especially against Georgia. Zach Brown started for Georgia last midweek
1:04:19
against Upstate. He went two innings, two strikeouts, one run.
1:04:22
But it was also a similar approach where they just
1:04:24
used a ton of a ton of guys to see
1:04:27
kind of what they had there. But this Georgia offense,
1:04:32
I think is on a different level than even what
1:04:34
Troy is doing right now. They got six starters with
1:04:37
an OPS over one thousand. You know, the offense as
1:04:40
a hole is hitting for a ton of power right now.
1:04:41
I thought, I think this game's got is gonna be
1:04:44
a slug fest, and I'm ready to see what the
1:04:45
offenses can do.
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Speaker 1: Love it. I can't wait to see it. JB. I
1:04:50
imagine there's some kind of an interesting midweek going on
1:04:52
between some California teams.
1:04:53
Speaker 4: What do you got, yeh, San Diego State and UCLA
1:04:57
will be playing. I think we obviously have a favorite
1:05:01
in the matchup. You know, I guess the biggest storyline
1:05:04
is going to be watching if Angel Savantes goes again
1:05:06
and you know how good he looks compared to his
1:05:09
last outing, and kind of just watching The Rock Show
1:05:12
and Gasprino.
1:05:13
Speaker 1: I guess The Rock Show featuring its opener Gasparino. Love it. Josh,
1:05:21
where are your focus towards in the midweek? Surely it's
1:05:24
not one of your favorite teams.
1:05:26
Speaker 3: I'm never being in the allegations at this point, it's
1:05:29
out of hand. Well, I got a little bit different
1:05:33
rooting interest in this one too. Alabama travels to Hadsberg
1:05:36
to play Southern Miss this weekend, and I mean more
1:05:40
than just a personal rooting interest. From that perspective, I'm
1:05:45
really interested to watch this matchup, just mostly because these
1:05:47
are two teams known for their offense, but the pitching
1:05:51
looked really good in the midweek last week for Alabama.
1:05:53
J T. Blackwood went out there and through six scoreless
1:05:56
endings only allowing two hits. Camden Sunstrom first other Miss,
1:06:00
through three innings of scoreless ball, only allowing one hit.
1:06:04
It struck out five guys, but they kind of had
1:06:06
like more of an opener role for him. It was
1:06:07
more of a committee approach. But they still held up
1:06:09
really well. So something's got to give. The really good
1:06:11
pitching that we've seen from both teams in the midweek,
1:06:14
really good offense, game over game, something's gotta give. Should
1:06:17
be fun, should be a fun environment.
1:06:19
Speaker 1: Absolutely, man. I think so you were actually trying to
1:06:22
bring down Alabama from the inside or later last week
1:06:25
you were at Bright Denny and I saw you like
1:06:28
throwing some some stink bombs or something. You were you
1:06:30
were doing some crazy stuff there on campus. So good stuff.
1:06:34
Final midweek game we'll talk about. Guys. We just finished
1:06:37
our top twenty five, and two of our top twenty
1:06:39
five teams are actually playing in a midweek series Tuesday
1:06:42
and Wednesday. We're gonna get Arizona State team, a Drew
1:06:45
Wheeler team taking on maybe the surprise banger of the
1:06:49
season in Oklahoma Tuesday and Wednesday. I know what we're
1:06:53
doing watching those games, am I right? Guys? I know
1:06:56
that they're not on because we don't do picking for
1:06:58
the midweek, but I'm just curious, who would you pick
1:07:01
between these teams? JB. You're gonna go Arizona State or Oklahoma?
1:07:05
Speaker 4: Surprisingly against my West Coast obligations, I'm taking Oklahoma.
1:07:10
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Jake, who would you take?
1:07:14
Speaker 2: I think I'm also gonna go Oklahoma.
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Speaker 1: Josh, don't leave me alone here.
1:07:20
Speaker 3: Don't worry, Drew, I got you. I've been on the
1:07:22
Arizona State stay train for a while too. I'll say
1:07:25
they'll probably split it for being honest, but I'll take
1:07:27
Arizona State with a better chance to sweep.
1:07:30
Speaker 1: Probably I expect to split myself, but I'll stick with
1:07:34
the Sun Devils. They have been immensely impressive thus far
1:07:37
this season. The offense looks great, guys. It feels like
1:07:40
kind of what you said a minute ago about LSUJB.
1:07:42
That really is the same with Arizona State. I feel
1:07:44
like if it's not you know, new contrade us, then
1:07:47
we've got you know. It's just such a deep lineup
1:07:51
and they go off at different points. Toygo has been
1:07:54
really so it's just a great lineup out there in
1:07:57
Arizona State. Guys. What a great episode. We've talked about
1:08:00
A ton of stuff, got a lot of fun in
1:08:02
a lot of jokes, a lot of a lot of
1:08:03
good games that we played in the midst of the episode.
1:08:05
Hope you guys enjoyed it, of course, but do want
1:08:09
to let you guys know where you can find us
1:08:11
in between our episodes, starting of course with mister Catlet
1:08:14
tell them much you're working on. Where they can find
1:08:15
you between episodes College.
1:08:18
Speaker 3: You can follow me on exit Josh Catlet three. I
1:08:21
have my rankings up on there for the week by
1:08:23
the time this releases. Didn't work for the Daily Sheet
1:08:26
on the website today, so go check that out. Wrote
1:08:28
up on some acc guys got my Live Looks article
1:08:31
from a few days ago, so yeah, that's most my
1:08:33
new stuff. Go check that out.
1:08:35
Speaker 1: Josh. Did you notice on the site that I referenced
1:08:38
you in two daily sheets this weekend?
1:08:41
Speaker 3: No, you should go.
1:08:43
Speaker 1: You should go read a little closer.
1:08:45
Speaker 3: As should everybody listening to this good good You're getting
1:08:51
very good at this, Jake.
1:08:52
Speaker 1: Where can people find you between episodes and what you're
1:08:54
working on?
1:08:57
Speaker 2: You can follow me on Twitter at Jake Barge.
1:09:00
Speaker 5: The snow is still up here in Pennsylvania, like it
1:09:04
just went away yesterday with the rain and then we're
1:09:07
getting like.
1:09:07
Speaker 2: Nine more inches of snow. Tonight, like it's unbelievable.
1:09:10
Speaker 5: There's no baseball going on at all, so it's it's
1:09:13
really hard for me up here. But as far as
1:09:15
things I'm I'm actively working on. I have my mid
1:09:17
major rankings that should come out updated in the next
1:09:21
couple of days. Might have a pretty cool draft interview
1:09:23
coming up, so be on lookout for that. But other
1:09:27
than that, that's what That's what I got.
1:09:29
Speaker 1: Very nice. We'll have new teams next week to compare
1:09:32
to Oregon States offense, so that's gonna be good to know.
1:09:34
Thank you, coach, Appreciate you always. JB. Where can they
1:09:38
find you between episodes? What are you working on?
1:09:41
Speaker 4: Yeah, I JB Underscores and Bostona on Twitter, I'm gonna
1:09:45
have some live looks coming out, kind of like compounding
1:09:47
at this point. I guess the ECU and Indiana and
1:09:50
so have a lot of that, some midweek stuff too,
1:09:53
so you on the lookout for that.
1:09:55
Speaker 1: Definitely do and if you're interested, you can find me
1:09:58
on the Twitter machine, on Instagram and on Blue Sky
1:10:00
at Drew Is Okay. Love to talk with you about
1:10:03
ball there as much as I can, trying to fill
1:10:06
you in on what's going on with the team at
1:10:08
Prospects Live. As Josh alluded to a minute ago, the
1:10:11
daily sheet is really rolling right now. I think we
1:10:13
have put out six of them boys as of when
1:10:17
you're reading this. So a lot of writing, a lot
1:10:20
of writing about players in college baseball. There's all kinds
1:10:23
of good stuff coming out. We're going to have more
1:10:24
list updates, all kinds of stuff, and of course College
1:10:27
Baseball Now is going to be rolling all season long.
1:10:29
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1:10:44
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