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David Murray Interview · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Speaker 1: You can find David Murray at Jean's page two four
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  Speaker 1: seven sports dot Com, get him on X, get their
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  Speaker 1: podcast and more talking Mississippi State sports. David, Happy Tuesday, Sir,
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  Speaker 1: How are you.
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  Speaker 2: Well counting down the days to regional baseball? Although sitting
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  Speaker 2: here looking at the weather forecast, thinking yeah, this is
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  Speaker 2: one of those situations where you never know, but it will.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to get played, no concerns about that. Somehow,
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  Speaker 2: some way, the regionals always get played. I was at
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  Speaker 2: that water logged twenty thirteen super regional in Charlottesville, and
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  Speaker 2: I've been at two regionals at Dunivile Field in ninety
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  Speaker 2: and ninety seven. In fact, I wrote a recap on
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  Speaker 2: all the state's home regionals today that will running two
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  Speaker 2: parts re trying the good, the bad, and the weird,
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  Speaker 2: but sometimes gettinget stretched out today has worked out twice.
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  Speaker 2: That was the key to State's victory by getting the
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  Speaker 2: starting pitcher back. But still I think everything will go off,
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  Speaker 2: if not exactly a schedule close enough to it. And
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  Speaker 2: the main deal is postseason baseball is back at mss
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  Speaker 2: BE State. Exactly what we expected out of this year
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  Speaker 2: and exactly what Brian O'Connors delivered in his first year.
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  Speaker 1: David, is that about where you figured Missippi State would
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  Speaker 1: be as a fourteen seed?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought possibility of fifteen, which would have been
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  Speaker 2: pairing them up with Georgia Tech if you. I know.
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  Speaker 2: The INSTAB this year was trying to go by a
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  Speaker 2: more organized matchup system than they have in the past.
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  Speaker 2: But still geography does play a little bit into the
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  Speaker 2: decisions because again instably has to pay all his travel
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  Speaker 2: and install play needs money. Right now. We all the
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  Speaker 2: court cases them into losing, so a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: stretch in there. And the good thing about being seated
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  Speaker 2: at fourteenth as they were is it puts to rest
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  Speaker 2: the narrative that it came down to purely Mississippi State
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  Speaker 2: versus Arkansas. The fact that State was a fourteen seed
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  Speaker 2: tells the Razorbacks and other disappointed teams that know, you've
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  Speaker 2: got to direct your ire at a couple of other
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  Speaker 2: schools first before you appoint MS State for earning this
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  Speaker 2: fourteenth seed. So that's the affirmation. Of course, it means
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  Speaker 2: they're gonna be paired up with Georgia Regional. But now
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  Speaker 2: that you got to get out of this first round
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  Speaker 2: regional and this is going to be fascinating to me
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  Speaker 2: to see how Brian O'Connor and staff handle things. We
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  Speaker 2: talked last week about what do you do with your
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  Speaker 2: first round pitching, especially if you get up against a
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  Speaker 2: lighterweight team. Well, the Bulldogs have played Lipscomb three times already,
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  Speaker 2: albeit months ago, but still they're not going to change
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  Speaker 2: that much from then to now. See, I have a
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  Speaker 2: better idea of how you can want to pitch them
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  Speaker 2: and what you want to use and try not to
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  Speaker 2: use in your opening game for the potential matchups on
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  Speaker 2: Day two. Now, you can get yourself in big trouble
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  Speaker 2: really fast and regional by trying to think too far ahead.
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  Speaker 2: But I think this one sets up pretty nicely for
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  Speaker 2: the idea of save your best arm for the all
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  Speaker 2: important Day two winners bracket game.
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  Speaker 1: David Marie and your radio talking Missippi State Starbar regional
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  Speaker 1: Bulldog's host team there. Obviously we'll play the first game
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  Speaker 1: on Friday.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I ran into Matt Wyatt here in the building and
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  Speaker 1: he referenced for his show The Weather, and he liked
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  Speaker 1: the idea of Mississippi State playing first, trying to go
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  Speaker 1: ahead and get that in and then let Cincinnati and
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  Speaker 1: Louisiana kind of if that rain becomes a factor, let
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  Speaker 1: them handle that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Ron Polk was always an advocate of play the
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  Speaker 2: second game because it gave fans more time to get
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  Speaker 2: from out of the Starpo area there for the regional
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  Speaker 2: perfectly understandable, but starting about ten years ago or so,
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  Speaker 2: after his experiences in other regionals where the home team
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  Speaker 2: Tallahassee being one example, and if you'll loose anything up
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  Speaker 2: where the home team played the first game, then the
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  Speaker 2: weather showed up and all of a sudden, your second
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  Speaker 2: day is just thrown into a mess, and you face
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  Speaker 2: the potential of playing twice on both Saturday and Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: You're very smart to go ahead and play the first game.
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  Speaker 2: Will it cost some crowd, yes, Will it hurt ticket sales, No,
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  Speaker 2: Those seats will be sold and the turnout will be
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  Speaker 2: as good as possible for a one o'clock game on
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  Speaker 2: a Friday, And people have been so starved for postseason
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  Speaker 2: baseball in start well now for four years, they're going
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  Speaker 2: to turn out anyway. So that is the absolutely correct
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  Speaker 2: way to play it, because then again, you have more
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  Speaker 2: rest if you win to get to the night game
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  Speaker 2: on the next day. You have a full day's rest
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  Speaker 2: if you lose to fall the next day, and you're
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  Speaker 2: not putting yourself at the risk of being jammed into
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  Speaker 2: playing too many games the second day, especially if you
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  Speaker 2: lose your first one.
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  Speaker 1: Any thoughts, I know ron O'Connor people inside that clubhouse,
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  Speaker 1: A're not going to talk about it weekend, being matched
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  Speaker 1: up with the Georgia and the Athens regional.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think he'll discuss that subject at anytime soon.
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  Speaker 2: Missus by Satan and Georgia know each other really well
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  Speaker 2: by now. Obviously all of it's gone to the other
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  Speaker 2: dog sides, of course, but no, they're going to play
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  Speaker 2: this win the game when the inning, when the pitch
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  Speaker 2: in front of you right now, Offense are defense, and
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  Speaker 2: that's the only way to play it at this point,
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  Speaker 2: because again, you get yourselven trouble if you try to
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  Speaker 2: think too far ahead, even during the course of a game. There.
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  Speaker 2: I've seen too many coaches try to milk their pictures
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  Speaker 2: a little too long in regionals because they think, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: let's go ahead and set up for next day or
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  Speaker 2: two and get backfire on them. I've seen coaches make
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  Speaker 2: substitution decisions which by the book looked good, but in
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  Speaker 2: reality he came back to bite when games went longer
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  Speaker 2: than expected. Yes, I'm talking about twenty sixteen super regional.
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  Speaker 2: So regional baseball is when you play it by the book,
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  Speaker 2: but you know when to throw the book aside, and
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  Speaker 2: if anybody knows how to do it, it's I mean
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  Speaker 2: an old dog like Brian O'Connor. I've mentioned before that
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  Speaker 2: at times you'll put the analytics aciety and go with
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  Speaker 2: a gut feeling, and at times he will go strictly
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  Speaker 2: by what the records, what the analytics, what the matchups say.
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  Speaker 2: So this guy is going to play it both ways,
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  Speaker 2: and he's going to make the best decisions he knows
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  Speaker 2: how to do during the course of it. And then
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  Speaker 2: it's up to players to do what they're told. Because
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  Speaker 2: if ever there's a sport where so little happens of
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  Speaker 2: what's called in a dugout takes place on a field,
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  Speaker 2: it's baseball. Something fans, whatever level little league to professional,
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  Speaker 2: never seemed to grasp. The difference between making a play
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  Speaker 2: and then that pitch being thrown is like it's in
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  Speaker 2: a different universe sometimes, But that's one of the glories
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  Speaker 2: of the sport, and it's why it's fun to have
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  Speaker 2: it back in town here. I know ticket sales will
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  Speaker 2: be good, and I go ahead and throw the number
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  Speaker 2: out there. At the all time record for an instable
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  Speaker 2: A Regional game is fourteen, three hundred and eighty five
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  Speaker 2: and that was the first round regional game super Regional
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty one. I think that Mark's definitely in
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  Speaker 2: danger this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: There is no doubt, David. We can't let you go
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  Speaker 1: withoutntioning Mississippi State softball with the epic upset of Oklahoma.
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  Speaker 1: Now in the College World Series, they're in the bracket
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  Speaker 1: one with Texas Tennessee, Texas Tech in Missippi State almost
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  Speaker 1: an all SEC you know, final four there on the
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  Speaker 1: bracket too, it's Alabama, Nebraska, UCLA, and Arkansas. Your thoughts
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  Speaker 1: on the Lady softball Dogs, Well.
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  Speaker 2: First come there, you made it. SEC softball it is
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  Speaker 2: the best sport the SEC has. Is not even close.
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  Speaker 2: Everything else is really good, but softball is at a
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  Speaker 2: literal another level. What they put in the postseason every year,
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  Speaker 2: and when a down the line SEC team knocks off
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  Speaker 2: a national power, albeit another SEC team itself on their
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  Speaker 2: home field where they're practically unbeatable. It tells you a
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  Speaker 2: lot about this conference, but also tells you about how
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  Speaker 2: Samantha Rickettson's staff have played this At the end, for instance,
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  Speaker 2: for the decisive Game three, they run a girl out
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  Speaker 2: there who started some games last year but has not
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  Speaker 2: started a single game this year, and then Delandy Eerbert
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  Speaker 2: up and pitches the game of her life. They made
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  Speaker 2: all the defensive plays, they didn't make any serious mistakes
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  Speaker 2: at the plate, they made contact when they had too,
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  Speaker 2: They got a little lucky when they had to, because
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  Speaker 2: that's the nature of the sport, And they shut up
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  Speaker 2: Oklahoma in their own setting, which I would have thought
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  Speaker 2: would be just about impossible to do. But the Lady
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  Speaker 2: Bulldogs did it, and they have earned their way to
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  Speaker 2: Oklahoma City. I nearly sent Amahab into Oklahoma City, and
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  Speaker 2: in fact, they stayed there. Decided instead of hitting back
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  Speaker 2: to campus, just hang around the state of Oklahoma and
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  Speaker 2: heading over to ok City and get ready for your
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  Speaker 2: start of your first ever college rule series for Bulldog softball.
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  Speaker 2: So epic achievement. I know Zach Selman and Stafford gonna
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  Speaker 2: be torn. You know, what do you do? Do you
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  Speaker 2: fly back and forth real fast from those games there,
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  Speaker 2: because both of them absolutely deserve the support. And oh,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, did we mention that you've got top
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  Speaker 2: dog plenty this weekend in the first real round of
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  Speaker 2: official summer football visits. So campus is going to be
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  Speaker 2: a very busy place this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: David, thank you as always. Make sure to get him
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  Speaker 1: at Geen's page two four seven Sports dot com. David,
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be a busy but a fun week enjoyed,
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  Speaker 1: my friend.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk soon, Jake Ben talk to you next week.
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