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Weekend 9 Preview: Lone Star Showdown | Ep. 026 · College Baseball Now

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  Speaker 1: Another exciting week of college baseball has started, and yet
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  I feel like we've got even more excitement coming in
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  the weekend. Who's to say? Where to say? We're gonna
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  talk about it all, plus another great edition of Pick Him,
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  where all of us will hopefully improve, Hopefully we'll see
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  some better results. Hopefully we're in for a weekend of fun.
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  But we're only gonna get to it once we get
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  started with this episode. College.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there ain't no crowds, no problems, don't want yeah,
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  let me not.
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  Speaker 3: Then what was going for?
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  Speaker 1: And then it hit the bed didn't grab a couple
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  of wins.
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  Speaker 3: With a D I D they even know the kid.
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  Speaker 1: I had to do a P I G B.
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  Speaker 2: We can never be diverage and they.
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  Speaker 3: Want to problem with the boy.
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  Speaker 1: They don't know, no status. I don't need so coach
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  time run a week God, I want to test that
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  the standing the game. Believe them shigning dogs. I didn't
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  know my wins?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I love them when they count me, y' out count.
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  Speaker 1: Me, I'm the least such the same. Why men a
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  god believe I run the game?
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  Speaker 3: You know one malea la magic believe I want stand
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  this lam magic you believe I want this dand Scan.
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  Speaker 2: It's that magic leave.
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  Speaker 1: I want It's Dandy knock them out bums. I really
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  don't understand it. Live in Living Color, your host's return
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  for the twenty sixth episode College Base twenty six episodes. Guys,
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  well done, good on us, Good on us. Uh, Glad
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  to be here with you. Started with me and your friend,
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  your host, your boy. It is Drew Wheeler, director of
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  Amateur Draft content at Prospects Live. Hi, how you doing?
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  Glad to be joined by my friends and yours for
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  another discussion of midweek and the weekend to come, Starting
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  with the gentleman on my right in the top right corner,
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  his native spot. Although you have been a center boy
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  here lately, it's mister Josh Catlet.
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  Speaker 4: Josh.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, how's it going.
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  Speaker 1: It's going good, man, it's going good. I think I
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  think the dark color memo that I sent out for
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  the T shirts it looks good. We all got the
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  dark colors going. I'm glad to see you tonight. Man.
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  I know you've had a very busy week, but I
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  appreciate you carving out some time to join us.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're you're telling me that I've had like I
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  had two tests today. I had like group projects due
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  to on Friday, one next week, one the week after.
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  It's it's all like I always knew the semester it
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  was all going to catch up to me at the
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  very end, and now it just is. And it's really
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  not fun, but it's all right. That's why you come
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  on the pod and you take some time away and
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  talk ball for a little bit and go to bed.
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  Speaker 1: Glad to have you here. Hopefully we'll get you out
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  in a decent amount of time for bed. In the
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  bottom right corner holding it down over there next to
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  the Prospects live logo is JB Sebastiano. JB. It's great
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  to see you man.
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  Speaker 3: Great to see you too, Drew.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, buddy.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: We've got a big weekend to baseball coming up. I'm curious, JB.
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  What's on the weekend agenda for you in terms of baseball?
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  You got me think cool?
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, probably gonna be watching a lot of the games,
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  you know. I know UNC is trowing down to Clemson,
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  so that'll be a fun one to try to catch
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  up and watch. I don't know if I'll make it
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  to the park at all, but I'll definitely be watching
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  it a lot this weekend, for sure. I'd say, yeah,
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  maybe some minor league balls too, who knows.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, very good. Yeah, you had a couple of tweets.
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  What's the minor league ball? Getting a little bit of traction? Wye,
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  a little bit of traction, but love in the bottom
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  left hand corner, coach, get Barjarie coach. Things have been going. Uh,
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  they've continued to go for all arcadia, but we've had
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  some bumps on the road since we last chanted.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we we played U.
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  Speaker 6: We were we were kind of tied at the top
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  of the conference and we kind of we dropped two
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  against them. But it's all right, we're gonna bounce Bay.
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  We got another big one this weekend, so right for that.
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  Speaker 1: Who's on the hit list this weekend?
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  Speaker 5: Jake, We're playing Stevens Tech this weekend. Really good. They're good,
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  really good pitching staff. I think we can handle them though.
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  Speaker 1: All right, they're not listening, Jake. Are y'all gonna beat
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  the trash out of these teams. I'm sure.
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  Speaker 5: We're gonna. Yeah, we're gonna beat them.
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  Speaker 1: Very good. All right, guys, now we have chatted a
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  little bit. Let's jump right in mid Week chat.
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  Speaker 4: I know at the end of episode twenty five, we
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  talked about the midweek guys a lot of games that
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  were pretty relevant in terms of action midweek wise. One
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  that I believe, if I'm not mistaken, I highlighted as
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  being a very interesting game a battle in the Sunshine State,
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  Florida taking on Florida State, and guys none other than Doctor.
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  Speaker 1: Florida and Mister Gators show up again as Florida takes
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  a four to three victory over the Seminoles. Look at
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  that game, what do you think the biggest takeaway is
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  for you personally?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's not just that one game sample is
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  the fact that Florida swept Florida State in all the
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  midweeks this year, and they tend to do that like that.
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  Kevin O'Sullivan owns Florida State, and it's just a thing.
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  It tends to be a thing time and time again.
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  I don't know. It was competitive most of the game,
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  but Florida kind of pulled away from it in the
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  fifth little bit, kind of kept them at like arm's length.
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  Pitching looked pretty solid, I mean, like Cooper Wallace had
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  like a pretty decent out and Kate McDonald looked really good.
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  Florida State's bats weren't bad necessarily, they just couldn't really
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  get anything across although Eli Putnam over three to two strikeouts.
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  That's Miles Bailey's replacement, although like he would have played anyways,
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  but he is at first base now. He got moved over,
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  so it is technically the guy like filling in for
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  him with that role. So just just kind of something
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  to look at, kind of something to notice. He hadn't
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  really been terrible since Miles Bailey has been out. But
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  I think Florida State fans, if you're going to be
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  petty about anything in this game, that probably is something
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  you could point to.
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  Speaker 1: It's unfortunate from Florida State. I love that you called
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  it out. He is replacing Miles Bailey defensively, and it's
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  probably expected to step up a little bit to supplement
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  that humongous and I mean, I don't even really know
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  that we give it enough credit in the moment, Josh,
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  but that's a huge loss to Florida State's offense.
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  Speaker 2: That I mean, Yeah, it's the hugest loss. Although there
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  are some people I heard I don't know where I
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  heard it. I heard someone talking earlier about how like
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  y'all know what the ewing theory is, if you're familiar
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  with that, there's a little bit of Florida State, like
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  that happened, a little bit of Florida State. Summary of
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  the ewing theory is like when a team loses its
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  best player and somehow gets better, like what happened in
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  the nineteen ninety nine finals of the Knicks. Become a thing.
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  It's happened in sports over and over again, and it's
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  kind of been happening with the Florida State offense just
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  a little bit, not yesterday, but like you're starting to
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  see things going up a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: So just something to keep your eye on. I guess
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  I'll see what you're going for there. I figured it
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  was reference to Patrick Ewing, but very interesting. Curious to
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  see how that goes for them going forward. Coach, you
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  have long talked about the Florida State pitching. I feel
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  like Trey Beard, if he has no fans, you have
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  sadly passed my brother and yet midweek, both of these
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  teams have had some stumbling blocks in the past. What
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  was your biggest takeaway from this game as Florida, Like
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  Josh said, takes the midweek series of the year.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean you talk about you talk about their
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  pitching like it wasn't the Florida State pitching wasn't you know,
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  it wasn't bad. I mean, this was really just a
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  good game. What it kind of came down to, Like
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  it was just a good, close game. I don't think
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  you can pinpoint one single thing that like necessarily beat
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  either team. It's just like, you know, Florida had the
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  big the big fifth inning there that was somewhat I
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  guess I wouldn't call it a dagger being in the
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  fifth inning, but it was the inning that won them
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  the game.
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  Speaker 5: But like.
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  Speaker 6: You know, they kind of relied on Gabe Nord to
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  come out of the pen there in that inning, and
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  he allowed the two runs, only got two outs. I
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  think that's kind of the the big name to look
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  at there on the Florida State staff. But I mean,
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  you know, there were some good performances from from Florida,
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  like Kyle Jones got things. You know, he had a
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  couple of hits in that one, Sarah Wick and you know,
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  Carson Bowen had RBIs, col Stanford Hayden Jost had RBIs,
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  like you know, I can just hit my cap to Florida.
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  Speaker 5: I guess you know, they just they just got the
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  best of them.
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  Speaker 1: Still, absolutely they did. JB. Coming to you here because
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  I know that with every midweek I think we've hit
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  every trope throughout the young season here. Midweks only matter
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  if you lose, if it's your team midweeks mid weeks
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  that can't affect the stock too much. We talk about
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  midweeks and stock and how it shouldn't affect a lot
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  of things, especially in the early going, but yet in
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  terms of RPI, I think this means a lot to Florida.
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  I think further, we're at the point of the season
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  where even a midweek result, especially to another ranks or
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  ranked adjacent team, might affect our stock a little bit
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  on these two teams. So, JB, my question to you,
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  as looking at Florida and then separately looking at Florida State,
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  are there any major stock shifts here for them?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think it definitely matters. You get
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  a nice quad one win for Florida. I mean, that's
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  a huge thing for them, and then on top of that,
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  you know you kind of add in at this point
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  in the year, you have to take into account, and
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  in most regionals, we're going to go to that fourth game.
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  So a lot of this, you know, a lot of
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  pitching you're seeing right now is going to be pitching
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  you're probably gonna have to see in that game four
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  at some point in that regional to go through all
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  the rounds to win a game, unless if you sweep out,
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  which you know could happen, but a lot of teams
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  have to go to the fourth game. Like Jake mentioned,
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  Gabe Nardo's a guy they brought him from Duke who
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  is a big time reliever for Duke. Last year, big
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  inning eater. This year has not been the case a
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  ten season era right now. He's had multiple outings where
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  he's only gone an inning or less, given up multiple runs.
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  He's kind of gotten hit around. So it's definitely one
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  of the bigger disappointments i'd say, for them in a
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  portal class and also as a team as a whole,
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  to have somebody like that not be what you're looking for,
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  and it's somebody they're definitely gonna have to have step
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  it up down the stretch, i'd say, especially in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 5: I think so too.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe this is it, Maybe this is the turning point
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  for the old Nard dog. He flips the switch and
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  this is where the season breaks for him in a
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  positive way. Right, we can hope for him in this thing. Yeah,
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  either way, let's keep moving. Uh funny that this is
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  written here. Jacksonville State fifteen, Auburn four. Huh Josh, happened there? Look, no,
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  I'll say this. I don't need to. I don't need
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  to ask you a question to cut you off immediately.
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  But I remember what you said in the group chat.
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  I'm gonna just point that out. Hopefully you recall what
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  you said about Auburn's bats. I don't go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: I'll probably reiterate. I don't know what exactly I said,
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  but I'm probably about to reiterate something similar. I mean, like,
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  I'm actually I'm not gonna take this time to talk
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  about Auburn's bats because I could go over all the
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  stats about hitting with runners and scoring position and like
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  how inefficient they've been. People have been coming for our
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  hitting coach all day, all season, really, but all day
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  it's been really bad. Even BT kind of made like
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  a batcanic comment in the presser. But that's side the point.
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  I'm gonna take this time. Actually, instead of talking about
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  Alburn like I do all the time, to talk about
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  Jacksonville State, because they really needed a big win, like
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  a really impressive win on the year after the resume
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  they've already built. I have them as a ranked team personally,
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  some people do also, like some other national outlets have
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  them ranked. Everyone's at least considering them. That's just like
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  a fun and unique brand of baseball you don't see
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  very much anymore. Like to start that game, they bunt.
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  They bunted a runner on first, They bunted it again
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  and got a second runner on, bunted a third time.
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  He got out. There was runs on second and third,
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  and they had a home run. And just like that,
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  in seven pitches, it is a three zero ball game.
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  So they did that like most of the game too.
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  I think they I don't want to mess up these stats.
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  I know they lead Conference USA at least, or it
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  might be bigger than that. In sackflies and sack once,
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  two guys on their team, I want to say, it's, uh,
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  who is I think it's Caleb Johnson and Cooper Blouser,
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  both are first and second in the Conference USA and
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  stolen bases. They just swipe bags like nobody's business. It's
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  like a fun, small ball brand of baseball. They're not
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  going to be power hitters on the weekend. Their roads
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  like Bobrian's and Eli Pilsbery have been like mowing people
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  down on the weekends. It's like a fun, unique brand
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  of baseball that I would love to see in the postseason.
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  And like an at large spot, it wasn't very fun
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  when it was happening to my team yesterday because it's
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  just not fun to watch. But like from an objective
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  point of view, I'm like, this is cool, and I'm
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  glad it's actually being successful on like a grand national scale.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it certainly was certainly once I think that's
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  the easiest to say. There, Jake, coming back to you here, man,
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  Jacksonville State, in terms of the most recent mid major rankings,
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  can you please access those because I have a question
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  about your bread and butter, your pride and joy. Jacksonville State,
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  as Josh alluded to, certainly has to be among the
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  nation's leading mid major programs right now. They're getting a
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  ton of national attention. So a lot of outlets have
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  been ranked in the also rans section, so to say
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  small balled their way. I mean a poke, a pop,
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  and a blast beat Auburn fifteen to four in the midweek. Jake,
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  my question to you is where did this Jacksonville State
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  currently rank on your mid major rankings and what do
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  you think the steps are to them overtaking the teams off?
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  Speaker 6: So in my rankings, actually swapped one and two. We
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  just had the conversation on the show last weekend or
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  last episode about Coastal and sother miss I decided.
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  Speaker 5: To swap them.
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  Speaker 6: But for jack State there at five. I feel really
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  good about my top, like seven. I think that's in
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  a really good spot right now, and I kind of
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  shuffled a little bit three this week.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, for jack State, I have them. I have
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  them at fifth. I have them at fifth.
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  Speaker 6: They're right behind UTSA, right behind Missouri State for now.
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  I guess as far as jumping one of those teams,
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  I feel good enough about them. I think that they're
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  gonna have to lose for jack State to get over
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  them at this point, I think. But I mean having them,
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  I have them at fifth, I really I really respect
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  what they've done. I don't want to talk too much
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  about jack State because we just might mention them later.
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  But uh, I do like what I'm saying at jack State.
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  Obviously they're on my top five and they're you know,
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  as long as they're playing like they right now, they're
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  going to be there to stay.
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  Speaker 5: Well said.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, very good, JB coming to you here. Because we're
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  gonna talk about Auburn. We have to talk about Josh
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  Sudden a minute ago. He can't talk about this offense.
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  He does it a lot. That's fine. I'm not gonna
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  have him scratch that wound. But JB, obviously Auburn's bats
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  have been a point of contention. I mean we hear
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  Josh talk about it regularly, whether it's on or off
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  the year. You know what, what is this offense doing?
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  Who are they really? And so JB, that's my question
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  to you is who really is Auburn offensive?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, I'll start off with this stat for you.
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  Auburn in this game struck out fourteen of their twenty
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  seven at bats, so over fifty percent of the time
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  they went up there, they didn't even put the ball
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  in play. So that's a great start to this.
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  Speaker 2: For the record, Jacksonville say, it is not like a
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  punch out pitching rotation. That's not how they typically win games.
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  So that's even further to your point. But carry on.
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  Speaker 3: Also the great point made by Josh to carry on
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  with that, and also on top of that, you go
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  back up and they're supposed top draft guy they have
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  right now Chris Rembert went over four or three punch outs.
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  So also is us being a draft worthy podcast that's
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  worth it? Yeah, this Auburn offense, I mean that's brutal.
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  If you strike out more than half the time, it's
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  you're already working an uphill battle there. I mean, it's very,
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  very hard to win a game like that, and especially
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  when you take five free passes in the game. You know,
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  it's just it's tough for you to battle back from that.
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  You know, five free passing the game is great, but
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  you can't battle back from fourteen strikeouts. I really think
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  it's this team trying to find a way to put
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  the ball and play it. Also hitting with runners in
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  scoring position. I'm sure Josh has got some crazy stat
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  on that that he can whip out for us on
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  runners in scoring position, but they need to get something
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  going with that.
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  Speaker 2: I stopped keeping track after it was over eight yesterday.
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  I stopped paying Attentionhow.
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  Speaker 3: It's good enough. Yeah, there you go.
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  Speaker 1: You'll have that. You'll have that. Sorry, Josh, not to
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  keep kicking sand at all.
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  Speaker 2: Hopefully we had to talk about it. It's it's it's relevant. Like, look,
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  according to myself, according to some other people, that was
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  a ranked matchup yesterday. It's a big midweek game, and like,
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  I don't know, it's just the Alverron felt flat on
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  their face and that that happened in midweeks recently, besides
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  that one Georgia Tech game like a month ago. Yeah good,
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  I mean, because like the there's a philosophy within that
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  pitching staff that you don't really throw your best midweek.
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  I mean, you don't throw your best arms in the midweek.
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  And I think we through like seven guys yesterday or
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  something like that, and so like you could kind of
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  see it with the fifteen runs allowed, but the four
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  runs scored is where more of the concern is.
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  Speaker 1: In my eyes. I get that, man, I get that.
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  It's tough, tough going right now, tough sledding. I mean,
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  we've seen we've seen this offense look good, really good
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  at times. It's just like many teams, many SEC teams,
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  it seems this year a little bit, a little bit
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  hot and cold, a little bit. What's a good word bipolar?
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  I think it's the word you've used in the past.
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  Special quote you there, JB. I do want to stick
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  with you, and I'm going to give you your option here, sir.
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  How about we can either talk about things and your
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  current home there on the coast. We can talk Coastal
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  Carolina and Wake Forest, or we can talk to your
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  original home of California and talk you see Santa Barbara
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  and USC. Which would you rather.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with the OG. I'm gonna go with
• 18:13
  Santa Barbara and USC. And I think the topic where
• 18:16
  I'm gonna hit on this is more so quickly hit
• 18:19
  on the people that we know that I love. Santa Barbara.
• 18:22
  Great win for them to get a nice quad one win.
• 18:25
  You know, it's something that they really needed to help
• 18:26
  improve the resume for kind of a struggling Big West
• 18:30
  this year, sadly in my case, but you know they're
• 18:34
  gonna get that together, I think here very soon. On
• 18:36
  the other hand, USC is where I'm gonna hit on
• 18:38
  this now. A team that we hyped up for so
• 18:41
  long about not losing games and winning for a while,
• 18:43
  they lost a few sprinkled in here recently, and then
• 18:46
  we've hit the nice little sweep BTA, if we'd like
• 18:50
  to give it from UCLA that just happened. And then
• 18:52
  we add in Santa Barbara smacking them for a five
• 18:56
  to one win in the midweek. So how do they
• 19:00
  bounce back from this? It's the first time this season
• 19:02
  that USC has truly been put down, and how do
• 19:05
  they fight back from this moment? You know, Iowa this weekend.
• 19:09
  It's a series that realistically, if they want to stay
• 19:12
  in the hunt where they are to host a regional,
• 19:13
  they really need to at least win this series this
• 19:16
  weekend or else if you lose the series to Iowa's
• 19:18
  going to put them in grave danger right now of
• 19:21
  being in a really bad spot. So I think for
• 19:24
  them it's key. Did they win the series, but not
• 19:26
  on top. I'd say they need to sweep this weekend
• 19:29
  for sure to get them kind of in the back
• 19:31
  on the right track and momentum that they had before.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: I agree, Josh, I don't keep receipts, buddy, I don't
• 19:39
  keep receipts. I'm gonna say that in advance. That said,
• 19:44
  we had a conversation about USC's offense. USC as a whole,
• 19:47
  I feel like I was kind of more the I
• 19:51
  think we're seeing the real USC kind of show its head,
• 19:53
  so to say. There was some pushback from you and Jake,
• 19:56
  and that's fair, that's fair. I think it was you
• 19:59
  and Jake. It might have been you in JV. I
• 20:00
  don't anyway two of you said this. I felt like
• 20:02
  the lone guy. That's fine, that's okay. What's what's that?
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: Don't don't find me in this?
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: Sorry, sorry, sorry, okay, either way.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: In this conversation.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Okay, then it was Josh. All right, fine, listen, Josh,
• 20:22
  has your opinion of USC lessoned? Now? Four straight losses because,
• 20:26
  just like jb sentimentedy to go, man, I think we're
• 20:29
  about to find out who this team really really is.
• 20:32
  They have they have just been blowing and going in
• 20:35
  the early of the season. I mean, as almost as
• 20:37
  automatic a pick as you could get early. Now four
• 20:40
  straight losses, this is new territory for them. What does
• 20:43
  this offense really look like?
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know if my opinion has totally changed.
• 20:51
  If I had viewed them as like a national title contender,
• 20:54
  then yes, But I think all along, I've just viewed
• 20:57
  them as a team who's like ceiling his own but
• 21:00
  really it's just like get out of a regional. And
• 21:03
  my point still stands, were like that rotation is probably
• 21:06
  gonna be able to carry them through a regional because
• 21:08
  they're not gonna be playing a team like UCLA. It's
• 21:10
  gonna be a assuming they host, which they probably will,
• 21:14
  like they're gonna be playing the offensive, filling the blank
• 21:17
  two seed and three seed and four seed, and I
• 21:20
  think their rotation is gonna be good enough to get
• 21:22
  them through that. Yesterday, they didn't really throw their best
• 21:25
  arms against Santa Barbara, which granted, that's what kind of,
• 21:29
  like JD mentioned earlier, that's what Monday of the regional
• 21:31
  would probably look like. So that is something worth noting,
• 21:34
  I guess. But then again, Santa Barbara through two of
• 21:39
  my favorite and a lot of people's favorite arms on
• 21:42
  their staff, Calvin Prosky and Cole Triba. I mean, when
• 21:45
  you're throwing guys like that against roughly bottom of the
• 21:48
  barrel USC guys, that's kind of the result you're gonna
• 21:51
  get because Santa Barbara probably needs that game more than
• 21:54
  USC does just a little bit. I don't know. I
• 21:57
  would say, like, is it promising to see Allguy Lopez
• 22:01
  and Maximum Martinez performed like that? No, of course not.
• 22:05
  But my opinion on them wasn't the highest in the world.
• 22:10
  It's just kind of now I'm kind of leveled out
• 22:13
  at like I think they peek at making it to
• 22:15
  a super regional that kind of thing.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: Okay, I'll give you this like fun fact two on them,
• 22:19
  like quickly because I just pulled it up. They are
• 22:22
  one in five in Quad one games this year. Currently,
• 22:25
  they are one in five Quad one team, they're eight
• 22:28
  and two in Quad two, and they're undefeated in Quad
• 22:30
  three and Quad four. So they've been feasting on the
• 22:33
  as we illuminated before.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: But to my point, like if you think they're gonna
• 22:39
  make it out of a regional based on the way
• 22:41
  that stuff works, like, yeah, I guess there would be
• 22:42
  one team in there that could be a Quad one
• 22:44
  team maybe, but besides that, it's gonna be a Quad
• 22:49
  two team and a Quad three or four depending who
• 22:51
  they get. Like that's just kind of who they've, like
• 22:53
  you've said, they feasted on, so they could probably do
• 22:55
  it again. That's just how I view them, and I
• 22:57
  think that's how a lot of people view them at
• 22:58
  this point. But I don't want to speak for everybody else.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Will Jake be prepared, because that's where I'm coming to
• 23:06
  you next with the same question. But Josh, I don't
• 23:09
  mean to make and I don't mean to make you
• 23:10
  or Jake either one of the USC guy like I'm
• 23:13
  the one saying no that there's still there's still a
• 23:15
  champion contender. That's not what I mean to do, just
• 23:18
  saying I feel a little justified in saying, you know,
• 23:21
  regardless of if Santa Barbara put their seven eighth the
• 23:25
  ninth best pitchers out there, I still am not sure
• 23:27
  about this USC offense. That was my key concern from
• 23:30
  the jumpiny jump with this team is what's the actual
• 23:34
  what's the actual state of this offense? Either way, Jake
• 23:38
  coming to you, Thank you, Josh coming to you because
• 23:41
  uh USC last week defeated you see Santa Barbara think
• 23:46
  that was their quad one win. JV had referred to
• 23:48
  a minute ago the same question to you, Jake, what
• 23:51
  are you kind of hold USC now in terms of
• 23:54
  your your status for them going forward?
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: I feel like I'm pretty I'm pretty similar to Josh,
• 24:03
  Like when I when I when I when I think
• 24:05
  about them, I think they're ceiling. Like I think we've
• 24:07
  talked about it a couple of times. Their ceiling is
• 24:09
  kind of as as high as the pitching can take them,
• 24:12
  you know, especially the big three that you know they
• 24:14
  have in their rotation every weekend. Like when those guys
• 24:16
  are on, they're really really tough to beat. And we
• 24:19
  just saw them against U C. L A, where I
• 24:22
  don't know, I'm gonna give more credit to the UCLA
• 24:25
  lineup than the fact that those three might not have,
• 24:27
  you know, had their best stuff. But you know, whenever
• 24:30
  they're not whenever they're not pitching, well, like I don't,
• 24:34
  I don't, I don't know that the offense can carry them.
• 24:36
  And that's kind of that's kind of where I see it,
• 24:37
  depending on like who they get matched up with, you know,
• 24:40
  like in their regional whether they end up you know,
• 24:42
  whether they end up posting or whatever their situation might
• 24:44
  be in the postseason, Like it's gonna come down to
• 24:47
  like are they gonna are are they gonna get matched
• 24:49
  up with some high powered offenses, and you know, I
• 24:52
  just I question the thought of them being able to
• 24:56
  keep up with you know, three other teams that can
• 24:58
  also hit, Like I don't know, I've kind of questioned
• 25:02
  their line up from the beginning and then like seeing
• 25:04
  how they you know, they only scored one run. I
• 25:06
  know ucsbus some of their top guys and they really
• 25:08
  wanted to win that game and that that that proved it.
• 25:11
  But uh, you know, they only scored they only scored
• 25:13
  one run against them. And you know, if they're not
• 25:16
  if they're pigeon Staff's allowing five or six runs, like,
• 25:20
  I don't know that they can you know, consistently keep.
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: Up with them. So that's kind of it's kind of
• 25:24
  what I think great points guys.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: I think you're right, Jake, it's it's just and again,
• 25:29
  who am I? Who am I to doubt that pitching rotation.
• 25:33
  It's not me. It's not gonna be me saying that.
• 25:37
  I mean they're great. I mean you go down the list,
• 25:39
  Edward's really good, Govell really good, John's really good. They're
• 25:42
  great on the weekend. It's these kinds of losses that
• 25:45
  I think would have meant a lot more. Now, granted,
• 25:47
  Josh to agree with you, I think Santa Barbara needed this.
• 25:50
  This is kind of their get back from the previous
• 25:52
  While I agree with all of that, but four straight
• 25:56
  losses for USC is a look that I don't think
• 25:58
  they were prepared for right now at the waypoint of
• 26:00
  the season. Josh, I do want to come back to
• 26:02
  you really quick, if that's okay. Talking about Jake was
• 26:05
  kind of referencing what it could be looking at, I
• 26:07
  guess for a regional for them, we haven't really Praisy,
• 26:10
  you're a mid your work. I'd love for you to
• 26:12
  pull up your most recent bracketology and kind of tell
• 26:15
  me what we're looking at in that projection for USC.
• 26:19
  And just while you're pulling that up to let you
• 26:21
  know at home, this is not josh prognosticating the rest
• 26:24
  of the season. He's saying, if the tournaments started tomorrow,
• 26:28
  this is what it would be. And actually this is
• 26:30
  as of Monday, Is that right, dude?
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: Tuesday?
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Technically okay, okay, so this this loss had not yet happened,
• 26:38
  so just keep that in mind.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Go ahead, Joshua, right. It kind of honestly furthers my
• 26:45
  point a little bit. I would have them right now
• 26:47
  as the thirteen overall seed, hosting a regional that consists
• 26:52
  of Oklahoma, CALU, Baptist and Portland, Oklahoma not the most
• 26:58
  firepower field offense right now. Cal Baptist definitely not. That's
• 27:01
  a team carried by their pitching for sure, and Portland
• 27:05
  has their moments. But regardless, it's still a four seed,
• 27:07
  even though they are as we speak, putting up thirteen
• 27:11
  runs on Oregon. But that's that's beside the point. I
• 27:14
  think it kind of furthers your point if you think
• 27:17
  usc the strength of their team as they're pitching. They're
• 27:19
  not going up against the best offenses in that case.
• 27:21
  So I would personally pick them to win that regional
• 27:24
  as I would imagine most people would.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: Curious what would be their super matchup there.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: I think Georgia. Yeah, Georgia, which is uh that that
• 27:36
  might be where the road runs I see.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Anyway, good to know, hyper quick, guys. JB will go
• 27:46
  back to you. Coastal and Wake. Coastal ended up taking
• 27:49
  a two to one win over Wake Forest, keeping it
• 27:52
  on the East coast. In a sentence, JB, what's the
• 27:55
  big takeaway from that game?
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: Keeps rolling?
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: Well? Said Josh a sentence to agree, disagree, throw something else.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: I'd probably say the same thing. Wake's offense needs to
• 28:10
  get it together before this weekend when they play a
• 28:13
  high powered offense.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Indeed, they will jake a sentence to riff on Coastal
• 28:19
  in weak, I mean big win for big win for Coastal.
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: They're they're starting a big stretch.
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: They play it Wake twice in the next five games
• 28:29
  and then Arkansas State series this weekend a big one
• 28:31
  for him.
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: So it's good, good of them to get a win
• 28:33
  to start it out.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Thanks so, too, well sent and uh well done to
• 28:38
  Coastal keeping it rolling over there a couple upsets, we
• 28:42
  should probably riff on real quick. Uh tell you what,
• 28:44
  I'm gonna read through the list and then we'll go
• 28:46
  around the we'll go around the horn and each of
• 28:49
  you can just give a sentence or two on one
• 28:51
  of these. How about Washington State PA zoo put a
• 28:56
  seven to six licking on Oregon State? My word, what happened?
• 29:00
  James Madison eight runs against Virginia seven in a ten
• 29:05
  inning game. Virginia boys, what's happening there? Bethune Cookman ten
• 29:12
  to LSU seven. I'd hate to be a team that
• 29:15
  dropped a series to LSU this past weekend. Abilene Christian
• 29:20
  four TCU one. I was looking at the box score
• 29:23
  for that one earlier. Guys, TCU is looking rough right now, man,
• 29:29
  between their two most capable I mean draft quality bats
• 29:34
  right now. Tons of strikeouts, tons of failure to put
• 29:37
  the ball in play in that game. Just not what
• 29:39
  you want to see from TCU. Texas State put up
• 29:42
  nine A and M eight. Guys, we talked about that one.
• 29:45
  I think we may have riffed on it briefly in
• 29:47
  the last episode. How Texas State's coming hot. It's an
• 29:50
  interesting team and again, as you alluded to, Portland thirteen
• 29:55
  runs to Oregon's nine. It's a high scoring affair in
• 30:00
  the Pacific Northwest. Jake will start with you, any of
• 30:04
  these games, you want to give me a quick sentence
• 30:05
  on the sentence thoughts, maybe your biggest takeaway.
• 30:09
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'll do uh, I'll do the Thune Cookman LSU.
• 30:13
  I mean I couldn't, like you said, I couldn't imagine
• 30:15
  losing the LSU right now.
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: I mean, I don't, I don't know, I don't know.
• 30:20
  I don't know how team less that happen.
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: But obviously really good win for the Thune Cookman, who
• 30:25
  was a it was a good team. They're probably I mean,
• 30:27
  they're they're the best team in the in the swack
• 30:29
  right now, and they obviously, you know, hung with one
• 30:33
  of the top one of the top dogs. So good
• 30:35
  on them for winning they did.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: They did, mister Catlan, which game you want to talk about.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: Buddy, Uh, I'll talk about actually at the I'll talk
• 30:48
  about Portland, a team that, uh, you know, not a
• 30:51
  team that's gonning getting ups necessarily, but they're about to
• 30:53
  make themselves probably in the next fifteen minutes here, probably
• 30:57
  less than that. Actually, they're probably about to make themselves
• 31:00
  three and oh against the big schools in the state
• 31:02
  of Oregon. That's huge for obviously, you know, they're in
• 31:05
  a conference where winning your conference tournament is really all
• 31:08
  that matters for making it into the postseason. But there's
• 31:11
  gonna be like, as I've done my bracket dodge, as
• 31:13
  I found this out, there's like a neat little race
• 31:16
  between I would say five mid to low majors that
• 31:19
  else like sneak in that three seed line just due
• 31:22
  to you know, sheer amount of teams, and Portland could
• 31:25
  get themselves up there if they keep racking up all
• 31:26
  these squad one wins. So shout out them, I think
• 31:28
  that the pilots is their mascot. Shout out the pilots, right.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: I believe that's right, Pilots. Indeed, jb Any certain game
• 31:37
  you want to you want to riff on for a minutebody.
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I guess I'll just talk about Virginia,
• 31:42
  you know, being the acc Truther. It's kinda they are
• 31:47
  such a very bipolar team, and it's kind of what
• 31:50
  we've seen from Duke in the past I think is
• 31:52
  transferred over to UVA now and they're getting the nice
• 31:54
  little taste of it of just the highs and lows
• 31:57
  of them kicking the crap out of somebody and then
• 31:59
  everybody being excited, and then them playing awful against teams
• 32:03
  that we had no expectation of them losing too. So yeah,
• 32:07
  James their quality opponent, James Madison. But it's just kind
• 32:10
  of a very bipolar team that we've seen from Virginia
• 32:13
  this year.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Tell you what would be a really interesting thing. One
• 32:17
  of us needs to do this in the next week
• 32:18
  or so. I'm going to challenge the forums. One of
• 32:20
  us needs to do this, which team is the most bipolar,
• 32:23
  Like a top ten bipolar team rankings. I think that'd
• 32:26
  be hyper interesting content.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: Personally, I think there's an easy answer already. I mean, like, well,
• 32:32
  I don't know. I have a couple to come to mind.
• 32:33
  We'll talk about it later.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: We'll rip on this later. But Josh, while you've got
• 32:38
  the MIC, I'm gonna let you walk us through the
• 32:40
  results from last weekends. Pick them, tell us a little
• 32:43
  bit about the overall standings, et cetera, et cetera. MIC
• 32:46
  is yours.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so we sucked last weekend. We did at least
• 32:52
  JB and I both went four and four. Drew and
• 32:55
  Jake both went three and five. No. One over five hundred.
• 32:58
  Great job, guys. The standings are kind of pretty now though.
• 33:03
  We're all separated by two games again perfectly JBS thirty,
• 33:06
  I mean, Drew is not JV. Drew is thirty seven
• 33:10
  and twenty six. I'm two games behind him thirty five
• 33:13
  and twenty eight. Jacob is thirty three and thirty and
• 33:16
  JB is thirty one and thirty two.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: Very good. I hadn't had a guest pick in a
• 33:23
  while either. They're sitting at six and ten. Also, all right,
• 33:30
  very good. We've got an interesting set of eight chop
• 33:33
  up guys. Let's go ahead, and get to it. JB.
• 33:36
  You said it a minute ago. You are the acc
• 33:38
  truther among us, so I'm gonna let you walk us
• 33:40
  through Florida State Georgia Tech top ten matchup. I think
• 33:47
  I think that we're gonna see a little bit of
• 33:49
  a different showdown than what we saw with Florida State.
• 33:52
  Florida Georgia Tech's still looking really good. Walk us through.
• 33:56
  What you think the X factor in this series will be.
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's kind of a similar battle of
• 34:02
  pitching versus offense here as we've talked about in the past.
• 34:05
  Georgia Tech one of the hottest offenses in the country,
• 34:08
  Floors State one of the better pitching staffs in the country,
• 34:11
  you know, led by West Mendez, Jakes, Trey Beard. You know,
• 34:14
  it's kind of it's a staff that really can get
• 34:17
  it going in an offense, like you've talked about that,
• 34:19
  or I guess Josh talked about the Ewing Complex where
• 34:22
  it was just you know, they're getting better, so it'll
• 34:24
  be interesting to see if the thing is slow them down.
• 34:27
  You know, I'm pretty sure they're on the road if
• 34:29
  I'm correct, So that'll definitely be another factor in Atlanta
• 34:32
  for them. To kind of play into it, but I
• 34:36
  think it's definitely gonna be probably the acc series of
• 34:38
  the weekend to watch.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: I would agree with that sentiment for sure. I tell
• 34:43
  you what, JB, why don't we go ahead and have
• 34:45
  you make your selection first. We'll get you on the
• 34:48
  board and then we'll go to the other guys and
• 34:49
  get their thoughts on their picks.
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, as much as you know, everybody's gonna laugh and
• 34:54
  it pains me, I'm gonna get Georgia Tech. After, you know,
• 34:57
  the criticism early in the year, I think they've proven
• 34:59
  that they can get it done. And I think this
• 35:01
  year we've also seen in pitching versus offense matchups how
• 35:03
  that's gone for the pitching. So I'm gonna stick with
• 35:06
  the offense here.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: So mister Catlin, coming your way to talk about Forlida
• 35:12
  State Georgia Tech. We've had a lot of talk about
• 35:14
  both of these teams. I'm curious, what do you think
• 35:17
  about your your ewing theory and how's that gonna play
• 35:20
  up against an offense that I don't really know if
• 35:23
  you take away they're one of their best guys if
• 35:25
  they're just not gonna sprout another best guy to come
• 35:27
  and emerge and start hitting four hundred with them.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, even though the offense has, you know, seem to
• 35:32
  not be terrible after Miles Bailey left, it's still been
• 35:36
  underwhelming as a whole, I would say, And that might
• 35:39
  not be necessarily a result of Bailey leaving. It's just
• 35:43
  it's a lot of guys not performing. To be honest,
• 35:46
  like Cal Fisher, John Stutzer, Eli Putnham, like we talked
• 35:49
  about earlier, Miles Belly's replacement or his quote unquote replacement,
• 35:54
  all ops is below eight hundred, you know, striking out
• 35:57
  high rates. Not great, even though like you know, Brandon
• 36:00
  down looked pretty good. Colvin Paulino's look solid. It's just
• 36:04
  overall and not very great. And they're facing a pitching
• 36:07
  staff that it definitely hasn't been the strength of Georgia
• 36:09
  Tech's team, but not bad per se. Tate mckee'sman solid,
• 36:13
  Porter Bursama on Saturdays, has some control issues, but overall
• 36:17
  he's gotten the job done. Jackson Blakely has been great
• 36:19
  on Sundays and a little bit of run that he's
• 36:21
  gotten there. I think they could probably take over floors
• 36:26
  State's offense, and honestly, same thing as JB said, these offense,
• 36:29
  I mean these matchups of really good pitching staffs against
• 36:33
  really good offenses. The offense has come through this year typically,
• 36:37
  so I think that's probably and the home field advantage
• 36:39
  is probably what takes over here.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: Well said, so I assume that that means you're going
• 36:43
  to be taking Georgia Tech. That is correct, Jake an
• 36:50
  early lead against seminals. I'm curious, what are your thoughts
• 36:55
  on this series and who are you.
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: Going to be taking.
• 36:59
  Speaker 6: Yeah, they they kind of hit on all the high
• 37:01
  parts of the series itself. But you know, I'll take
• 37:04
  whatever opportunity I can to talk about the Florida State pitching.
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: I feel like I do it every time we talk
• 37:08
  about them.
• 37:09
  Speaker 6: But like you know, they had another they had another
• 37:11
  strong weekend and it's and it's good that they did.
• 37:15
  While the offense is still like you know, the offense
• 37:17
  got got the job done last weekend, but like you know,
• 37:20
  they're they're still kind of I would I would assume,
• 37:23
  and you know, in the locker room and everything, they're
• 37:24
  still trying to search for whatever, you know, that that
• 37:26
  identity that they're going to try to build around now
• 37:28
  that they're lost their Star, but you know, you know
• 37:32
  Mendez Beard and Bryce Moore, you know, they all had
• 37:35
  pretty good starts last weekend, and it's a tough Virginia team.
• 37:39
  And then one one thing to note here is that,
• 37:41
  like you know, these are these are two of the
• 37:43
  probably you know, including North Carolina in that same tier,
• 37:46
  like two of the three best teams in the conference.
• 37:48
  And like you know, I looked at the standings and like,
• 37:51
  the winner of this series, like unless unless North Carolina
• 37:54
  sweeps this weekend, the winner of this series would be
• 37:57
  first place in.
• 37:58
  Speaker 5: The ACC at the end of it.
• 37:59
  Speaker 6: Not that the standings is like the end all be all,
• 38:02
  but I'm pretty sure that whoever wins this series comes
• 38:04
  out on top there. So that is something to pay
• 38:07
  attention to, I guess. But for my pick, I'm gonna
• 38:10
  I'm gonna I'm gonna go with them. I'm gonna go
• 38:12
  with Georgia Tech.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: H I had the slightest inkling. You may roll with
• 38:18
  your boys, but last the graphic, the graphic will be
• 38:22
  shot early. I've got to go Georgia Tech as well.
• 38:24
  I think you guys alluded to a lot of very
• 38:27
  good things, a lot of a lot of great points.
• 38:29
  I love the concept of the ewing theory that we've
• 38:31
  brought up here with Florida State. But this offense is
• 38:35
  so good. Offense has been kind of the dominating factor
• 38:38
  when you have the irresistible force against the immovable object
• 38:41
  this year, and I think that Land is gonna be
• 38:44
  your deciding factor. I don't think that. I don't think
• 38:48
  Tech can afford to lose this one at home, especially Jake.
• 38:51
  As you said, with a little bit of conference implication
• 38:54
  on the line, all right, let's move forward, Jake. We're
• 38:57
  gonna go to you Texas and Texas A and M,
• 39:01
  a couple of SEC's very best squaring off for several
• 39:05
  of us. This is a top ten matchup, Jake, what's
• 39:08
  the main storyline we're looking for as A and M
• 39:11
  take on the long horns.
• 39:16
  Speaker 6: So so it's kind of similar to the last one
• 39:18
  where it was like Georgia Texas offense versus Florida State's
• 39:21
  pitching staff. It's gonna be, you know, Texas A and
• 39:23
  M's offense versus Texas's pitching staff. And I think specifically
• 39:27
  it's gonna come down to like the.
• 39:29
  Speaker 5: Friday pitching right because like rug Riojas, he.
• 39:32
  Speaker 6: Didn't he didn't have his best stuff against South Carolina
• 39:36
  this weekend. This was kind of like his first you know,
• 39:39
  like real blemish. You know, I think he had like
• 39:42
  a like a not I don't know, he didn't have
• 39:45
  like a phenomenal start, a couple of starts to go
• 39:47
  like this was like this was like his first you know,
• 39:49
  you know, big one and you know him bouncing back
• 39:51
  is going to be huge, especially if like their offense.
• 39:54
  You know, their offense didn't just just light it up
• 39:57
  against South Carolina all weekend, So like if that, if
• 39:59
  they come out slow again, he's gonna have to really,
• 40:02
  you know, pitch his best back back to the way
• 40:05
  he wasn't. Similar to A and M with Shane Todeal,
• 40:09
  like he's coming off of kind of a not great start,
• 40:11
  like five innings, he allowed, you know, four runs, he
• 40:15
  struck out of toll guys, but he had a couple
• 40:16
  of walks, got hit around a little bit like that.
• 40:18
  That Friday game is gonna be one that we're paying
• 40:20
  a lot of attention to to see kind of how
• 40:22
  the how the pitching bounces back and if if Riojaus
• 40:26
  is able to hold down this h this A and
• 40:29
  M lineup that I think you have to go back to,
• 40:32
  like March twenty fourth.
• 40:33
  Speaker 5: I did look this up, so I know this is true.
• 40:36
  Speaker 6: The March twenty fourth midweek game against Houston Christian from
• 40:40
  to find a game where A and M didn't score
• 40:42
  at least eight runs. They're on their Their offenses is
• 40:46
  going pretty crazy right now, so it's gonna be fun
• 40:48
  to watch that staff go against him.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: Jack, look at you digging in the history books. Their
• 40:54
  impressive statistical finding. Buddy, love that, all right, coach, So
• 40:58
  who are you gonna go with? Who's your pick?
• 41:03
  Speaker 5: I don't know. I'm gonna pick A and M. I'm
• 41:05
  gonna pick A and M.
• 41:06
  Speaker 6: I'm gonna go with their offense rolling Texas's offense, like
• 41:10
  I said, didn't look phenomenal against.
• 41:12
  Speaker 5: Carolina South Carolina. So I'm going I'm going A and
• 41:15
  M at home.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I love it. Starting it off with
• 41:18
  a spicy one, Jake, I love it. JB gonna come
• 41:21
  to you. What are you thinking here?
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: Of course I gotta go second here. I was waiting
• 41:27
  on the good old roll of the dice to see
• 41:30
  what happens with everybody. I'm going to second that, and
• 41:33
  I will rock A and M. That was my original
• 41:35
  gut feeling.
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, okay, well, oh I put that on Josh.
• 41:41
  Excuse me, that is good.
• 41:43
  Speaker 5: Josh.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: Why don't do you want me to go first?
• 41:45
  Speaker 5: Or should you?
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: I think I'm going to. I really thought, Okay, look,
• 41:52
  first of all, I think I was gonna make a
• 41:54
  similar point to Jake about the A and M offense,
• 41:57
  a similar stat They're averaging eleven point four runs a
• 42:00
  game over the last ten games, ridiculous. But even though
• 42:04
  you've got the power versus power going up in this game,
• 42:09
  you have the weakness versus weakness too. I think the
• 42:11
  Texas offense looked rough left week against South Carolina, and
• 42:14
  the A and M pitching staff has been rough that
• 42:17
  there's really getting nothing out of their rotation, especially today
• 42:20
  and Western Moss. Texas really needs to put the pieces
• 42:24
  back together. They kind of did yesterday against Incarnate Word,
• 42:27
  but that's still just Incarnate Word. I really thought, y'all,
• 42:31
  we're both gonna go in Texas because they haven't lost
• 42:34
  the series all year. But look, this is the one
• 42:38
  series since last offseason that everyone's been looking forward to
• 42:42
  for over a year and a half. Shlashnagels finally coming
• 42:45
  back to A and M and them's not losing that series.
• 42:47
  There's just no way. There is no way Bluebell Park
• 42:50
  allows them to lose that series. I don't care how
• 42:52
  good Texas is. Well, I need you to because there
• 42:58
  is no way we can pick As. We can sweep
• 43:00
  this one.
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: You think, you think I. You guys know me well
• 43:04
  enough to know I never pick in Schlasnagel, not against AMM,
• 43:08
  not after what he did to the journalists of the world,
• 43:11
  the statisticians of the world, the Texas A and M's
• 43:15
  of the world. No, I, my heart says, My head says, Drew,
• 43:20
  take Texas. This is easy points. My heart says, you
• 43:24
  don't pick Schlasnagel. Let's go all right, I'll save the graphic.
• 43:28
  I'll take Texas against my heart, against my heart, and
• 43:32
  against my better instincts. And I want all of you
• 43:35
  at home to know, Drud, Drud, don't like Jim schlasnik
• 43:39
  Now guaranteed the first the first college to hire me
• 43:42
  ever will be Schlasnegel, and it'll be I don't like.
• 43:45
  It's never gonna happen. He can care less either way. No,
• 43:49
  don't mess with Schlasnagel. I don't care for him. I'll
• 43:52
  put Texas down to save the graphic. All right, Josh,
• 43:57
  I'm gonna let you talk about my twelve metsup of
• 44:00
  the week because we've got two of my favorite squads
• 44:02
  to watch. You se F and Kansas. Talk about some
• 44:07
  offenses that have come out a lot lately. Buddy, what
• 44:10
  are you thinking of this one and who's your pick?
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: I was about to say this is number one and
• 44:13
  number two in the Big twelve, and the offenses that
• 44:16
  have been red hot, I mean as long as as
• 44:18
  well as the team as a whole. UCF has won
• 44:20
  sixteen of their last twenty. Kansas has won thirteen of
• 44:23
  their last fifteen. Their offense has been lethal. Tyson LeBlanc
• 44:27
  has really started to step things up this year. Twelve runs,
• 44:31
  walking fifteen percent of the time, Brady Ballinger like solid
• 44:34
  walking eighteen percent of the time. Augusto I can't even
• 44:37
  pronounce his last name.
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: I'm not.
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: That Yes, ups with ten home runs. Their offense as
• 44:45
  a hole has been putting up double digits left and
• 44:47
  right against the UCF pitching staff, which is pretty solid.
• 44:50
  I've dealt with some injuries in the rotation. But the
• 44:52
  bullpen has been really good. H do you want me
• 44:56
  to make my pick or do you want to come back.
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: Around make your pick?
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: What's going Yeah, don't let him off the hook. Everybody
• 45:04
  else picked first that talked about it.
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: So this is this is the first episode we've had
• 45:09
  where I haven't come into the pod like knowing who
• 45:12
  I'm gonna pick. So I'm doing this on the fly.
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: Uh new meta.
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: It's yeah, last week didn't work for me, so I
• 45:21
  gotta switch.
• 45:22
  Speaker 5: Something up.
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: Since the guy that tied her best last week. Jeez,
• 45:28
  that the bar is at hell in hell admittedly, but
• 45:33
  we've been hating to get that freezing.
• 45:37
  Speaker 5: I'll go u c F.
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: I just overall, like, even though they're going on the road,
• 45:41
  I think they're overall such a better team. No matter
• 45:45
  how good the Kansas offense has been, you have to
• 45:47
  look at it's not the best teams in the world.
• 45:49
  They've been doing it against not the worst, but not
• 45:51
  the best teams.
• 45:52
  Speaker 5: In the world.
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: So I think they might come back down to earth
• 45:55
  a little bit this weekend and they might take one.
• 45:57
  But I think you Seef takes it and kind of
• 45:59
  grows their lead on the operats interesting.
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: Jake gonna come to you next, man. Who do you
• 46:04
  have in Joru's Big twelve matchup of the week.
• 46:08
  Speaker 5: M I don't know. I've gone back and forth.
• 46:15
  Speaker 6: I'm like trying to type my my picks in on
• 46:18
  my like personal thing here, and I've changed it like
• 46:20
  four times since we've been discussing this this series. Yeah,
• 46:24
  I think I am gonna go. I think I am
• 46:27
  gonna go with UCF as well. I just the only
• 46:31
  thing that worries me about them right now is just
• 46:33
  like the questions you know, obviously in their in their rotation,
• 46:37
  you know, like I haven't seen an update about Braden
• 46:39
  Smith or Matt Sousser, but like I assume we can
• 46:42
  prepare for them to be without both of them again,
• 46:45
  given there hasn't been much of an update, but like
• 46:47
  one thing for them though, mateo Gray, I think he
• 46:50
  got hit a little bit against West Virginia, but I
• 46:52
  mean he stepped up for them in a huge way.
• 46:54
  Speaker 5: He's gone six innings in each of his starts, and.
• 46:56
  Speaker 6: Like with with with how like they're losing a little
• 46:59
  bit of pitching death with him having to start and
• 47:01
  all that kind of stuff, like him being able to
• 47:03
  shorten the game and get more out of their bullpen
• 47:05
  in bigger spots along with Camden Wicker, who's been just
• 47:08
  awesome since since he's uh been pitching all season, he's
• 47:12
  been really good.
• 47:14
  Speaker 5: So I'm gonna go with I'm gonna go.
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: With mm Okay, JB coming your way. Uh, we've got
• 47:21
  two UCF's on the board already. You think you're gonna
• 47:24
  make it three or we gotta rock shaw.
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: I I gotta go UCF again. I mean, they did
• 47:33
  me right last weekend, so I gotta take him again.
• 47:36
  And I, you know, not a Kansas guy, so I
• 47:39
  gotta I gotta rock him. Yeah, I gave you the
• 47:45
  softball Drew, so you know.
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: I really wanted to go UCF here, and I feel
• 47:52
  like this is another opportunity to make some points up.
• 47:57
  I'll take u CF. I think that's the smartest game
• 47:59
  move to make here. I got I gotta look at
• 48:01
  this as a game. That's how I do this. Kansas
• 48:04
  is a good offense. I think that Kansas could really
• 48:06
  I think, like Josh said, I think they can at
• 48:08
  least take one. Sunday may get interesting, though, And like
• 48:13
  Jake said, I was just looking I don't see anything
• 48:14
  about Braden Smith or Matt Sauser. So we're gonna need
• 48:17
  a third straight gym from old Caden Wicker to see
• 48:22
  you see, I really put the hurting on Kansas, but
• 48:24
  I think they can do it all right. Moving on
• 48:27
  to a Big ten battle, Jake, I want to come
• 48:29
  back to you for this one Oregon and Nebraska, Oregon
• 48:35
  and battle of a Big Ten Like what what is?
• 48:37
  What is twenty twenty six? Confidence? This is Jake? What
• 48:40
  what are we looking at with this game? And who's Youny?
• 48:45
  Speaker 6: So first of all, about about Nebraska. This is a
• 48:47
  team that's been like quietly performing really really well. We
• 48:51
  haven't really talked about him too much on here, like
• 48:53
  you know, like last weekend, like they came away with
• 48:57
  the sweep against a pretty struggling pen Sate team.
• 49:01
  Speaker 5: You know, Ty Horn needs needs a bounce back.
• 49:03
  Speaker 6: I don't think he had a great starting his but
• 49:06
  but Carson Yassa and Cooper Katski were really good and
• 49:08
  they've both been really solid for them all year. And
• 49:11
  the pitching has pretty much has has has held up
• 49:14
  pretty strongly.
• 49:15
  Speaker 5: For Nebraska all year.
• 49:16
  Speaker 6: But then on the other side for for Oregon, like
• 49:19
  you know, the Ducks they took a shocking series lost
• 49:22
  to Michigan last weekend, and they could really use, uh,
• 49:25
  you know, a pick me up after that tough walk
• 49:26
  off loss and the other one in the in the
• 49:28
  in the rubber match, and then you know we're talking.
• 49:30
  We just talked about it right before we started going
• 49:32
  here about them losing to Portland.
• 49:34
  Speaker 5: Right now. You know, Oregon's kind of on a.
• 49:37
  Speaker 6: On a downhill slide a little bit, while Nebraska's kind
• 49:40
  of kind of on their way up. But uh, but
• 49:43
  for the Oregon offense, you know, the lineup's pretty balanced. Uh.
• 49:46
  In conference play, they got uh six guys hitting over
• 49:49
  three hundred, and there's one guy that's you know, now
• 49:51
  I'm not gonna mention here, uh, but there they had,
• 49:54
  you know.
• 49:54
  Speaker 5: Drew Smith, Jack Brooks, Fryan Cooney.
• 49:57
  Speaker 6: Uh, Dominic Hellman, jaciment As, Angel Live is the guys
• 50:01
  that's all hitting over three hundred conference play.
• 50:03
  Speaker 5: For him, it's that's a pretty good group.
• 50:05
  Speaker 6: When you have six guys in your line up hitting
• 50:07
  that well in conference play, that's usually a pretty good sign.
• 50:10
  But the one guy I didn't mention is Maddix Maloney.
• 50:13
  You know, I don't I don't know What's what's going
• 50:15
  on with him? You know, he just it just hasn't
• 50:18
  been great. You know, he hasn't had a good approach,
• 50:21
  not really hitting for for for much power. He's only
• 50:24
  hitting one sixty seven, Like at some point they're gonna
• 50:27
  need him to pick it up a little bit. But
• 50:32
  you know, Will Sanford had a tough start last weekend,
• 50:34
  but otherwise it's been solid. Colin Clark's consistently like one
• 50:37
  of the best starting pitchers in the conference. I think
• 50:40
  it's gonna be a fun series against two teams. I
• 50:43
  think they I think they're gonna match up pretty well,
• 50:45
  to be honest, but I will I will make my pick.
• 50:49
  I'm gonna go with Oregon home team, even though they're
• 50:54
  you know, I just talked about them in the Gloss funeral.
• 50:56
  Speaker 5: But uh, I'm gonna go with Oregon playing at home.
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: I like it interesting. Okay, very good, Josh, Gonna go
• 51:03
  to you next for this pick. I do want to
• 51:05
  call something out to you guys that I'm not sure
• 51:07
  if any of you are gonna bring up, but I
• 51:08
  am gonna bring up a midweek game we didn't reference.
• 51:12
  Kansas actually beat Nebraska this midweek five to three. Yesterday,
• 51:15
  two very interesting teams for the middle of the country.
• 51:20
  Curious if we're gonna we're gonna see a double scuck
• 51:23
  here or what Josh going to you though?
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: For your pick here, I'm actually glad that Jake mentioned
• 51:32
  that Oregon's at home because it made me do a
• 51:34
  double take. I thought Nebraska was the home team here.
• 51:37
  They are not. Jakes correct doesn't change my pick, though,
• 51:42
  I'm still going Nebraska. It'd be a super college baseball
• 51:46
  thing for Orgon to win this series because these two
• 51:48
  teams are going wholer opposite directions. That Portland Oregon game
• 51:52
  just wrapped up. Finally, Portland did win thirteen to nine.
• 51:56
  Oregon just dropped a series to Michigan, you know, dropped
• 51:59
  one of the three games, as UC said of Barbara,
• 52:01
  and Nebraska's won twenty one of their last twenty three.
• 52:04
  So those are two teams going the complete opposite ways.
• 52:07
  Nebraska has a sneaky, really good rotation, so does Oregon.
• 52:11
  But you know, Ty Horn, Carson, Jiassa, Cooper Katski is
• 52:14
  a sneaky, like really solid, really good, big ten rotation.
• 52:18
  I think they can probably overwhelm the Oregon bets that
• 52:20
  have been you know, primarily the concern of that team recently.
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: I'll go ahead and make my pick next, Josh, can
• 52:27
  you repeat that stat? It was how many games? Of
• 52:30
  how many games Nebraska's won.
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: Recently, they've won twenty one of their last twenty three.
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: Run it give Drew Nebraska. Yeah, and that's gonna bring
• 52:39
  us to JB JB two Nebraska's to one Oregon on
• 52:42
  the board. What do you think, in pal.
• 52:46
  Speaker 3: That's tough. I'm gonna I'm not gonna leave Drew hanging here.
• 52:52
  I'm gonna take Oregon. You know, I was going through it.
• 52:54
  Nebraska on the road this year has had some of
• 52:57
  their little bit of scuffles. They've got a lot of
• 52:59
  home Big Ten series. He's in a lot of home
• 53:00
  games in general, they've been playing on that twenty something
• 53:04
  game winning streak. So I'm gonna rock with Jake. And
• 53:08
  Oregon also hasn't lost a home series this year so far.
• 53:11
  So I'm gonna rock with that and rock with them.
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be an interesting showdown with ramification.
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: Who have they played at home? They haven't played anybody
• 53:21
  at home.
• 53:21
  Speaker 3: I'm just like, well, you know they played, you know,
• 53:27
  they played who they got?
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: You know, I'll see here.
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: They played Indiana.
• 53:33
  Speaker 3: Northwestern who and uh yeah, the had Xavier for a two.
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: Game mid week, so they did have Xavier there.
• 53:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know they had them. But you know, we're
• 53:48
  rocking with the I'm rocking with Jake. You know, I'm
• 53:49
  rocking with my guy.
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: So, uh, you guys in the bottom corners against the
• 53:54
  guys in the top corners. We'll see what happens there. Josh,
• 53:58
  figure out a way to sabotag game. I'm gonna put anyway.
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: I'll do my best. I'll call my guys.
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know, no doubt Jake gonna
• 54:07
  come back to you for this one man. Jacksonville State
• 54:10
  and Liberty a couple of the mid major powerhouses squaring off.
• 54:14
  Curious what's the take on on this series and who's
• 54:19
  your pixeir.
• 54:22
  Speaker 6: Uh yeah, So, first of all, the the cus A
• 54:24
  is is very strong this year. They have you know,
• 54:27
  Missouri State, Dallas Bad Best, and then jack State and
• 54:30
  Liberty like those are all four like really really good teams.
• 54:34
  And this series is gonna be a heavyweight fight on
• 54:37
  you know, especially Friday and Saturday when they both have
• 54:40
  have their guys going like for jack State, you know,
• 54:43
  on the mound, they have a they have a they
• 54:45
  have a two seven to four uh team e r
• 54:48
  A on the year and a rotation lit uh Cash
• 54:50
  Steven and Eli Pillsbury. Both of those guys have been
• 54:55
  really pitching the ball. Uh Pillsbury a one nine nine
• 54:58
  e ra A uh and Stephen uh uh Stephen Cash
• 55:02
  sorry as a two two nine three.
• 55:06
  Speaker 5: ERA A on the year.
• 55:06
  Speaker 6: And then with Liberty, you know, they have they have
• 55:08
  their guys going as well with Ben Blair and Bradley Zayak,
• 55:12
  who have been absolutely rolling through uh t u s
• 55:15
  A play. Ben Blair's got a one ERA A in
• 55:18
  his four starts in conference play and Zaya's got a
• 55:20
  one nine uh in his four starts and conference play.
• 55:23
  And this kind of feels like a series that is
• 55:26
  gonna just come down to the whoever performs the best
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  on Sunday, uh, just because I feel like, you know,
• 55:31
  this is just gonna go back and forth on Friday
• 55:33
  Saturday with the pitching and everything. So uh, I'm gonna
• 55:36
  pick Jacksonville State. I like, I think I like them
• 55:40
  top to bottom better. They're they're they're undefeated conference player
• 55:44
  right now.
• 55:45
  Speaker 5: Uh. So I'm going with them. I think they're gonna
• 55:47
  keep rolling.
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: Very interesting. JB Gonna throw to you next man, Jacksonville
• 55:52
  State and Liberty. It's gonna be a big one. Just
• 55:54
  like Jake was saying, Uh, c us a heavyweight, sir,
• 55:57
  gonna be punching all weekend.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, in this one, I'm gonna I'm gonna have to
• 56:02
  rock with my guy Micah who works equipment. There go Liberty,
• 56:07
  you know, give me Liberty or give me death. That's
• 56:09
  that's where we're going.
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: Oh, very good, look at that. Josh gonna come to you, man,
• 56:15
  Curious what you're thinking. Man, this is another two teams
• 56:17
  that you've been talking about. You you've obviously gotten a
• 56:19
  really close look at Jacksonville State this week. Do you
• 56:21
  think they keep it rolling or do you think Liberty
• 56:23
  can't shut them down?
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: It's tough. This is a tough one. Both these teams
• 56:28
  are red hot. Liberty has won eight straight. Pitching is
• 56:31
  the strength of this team, as Jake alluded to. But
• 56:34
  the pitching is also with the strength of Jacksonville State
• 56:36
  as I alluded to earlier. I mean, they and they
• 56:39
  induce a lot. They're not just like necessarily a strikeout team.
• 56:42
  They induce a lot of ground balls. Bo Brian has
• 56:45
  a sixty percent ground ball right on the year, Stephen
• 56:47
  Cash fifty six percent, Pillsbury fifty one. They have some
• 56:50
  good ras they've been running to mattt S. Mc dougalls
• 56:53
  a really good arm out of the pen that Auburn
• 56:55
  saw yesterday, but they'll probably run him back this weekend.
• 56:57
  He's a decent that's all. A Baseball America has him
• 57:01
  in their top one hundred and twenty seven draft prospect guys,
• 57:03
  which at first I thought was if he look into
• 57:05
  it more kind of makes sense. So they have some
• 57:08
  solid arms there that they can put the pieces together
• 57:10
  and have a really good, you know, pitching weekend. It's
• 57:14
  tough because Liberty's pitching is so good too, and they've
• 57:16
  they've beaten some high level teams. I'll stick with I'll
• 57:21
  stick with track record here. Not only is Jacksonville State
• 57:23
  undefeated in conference, they're twenty two and two on the weekends,
• 57:27
  and they're eleven and two on the road. So I'll
• 57:29
  stick with my Alabama boys, and I'll take the game Cocks.
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: Very good. You brought up my stats. I thought I
• 57:35
  was gonna go unmentioned. But the weekend numbers for Jacksonville State.
• 57:39
  I just don't think I can pick against him right now.
• 57:43
  It's tough to it's tough to get that image out
• 57:45
  of my head of the bloop and the toke and
• 57:48
  the blast they put on over I don't know it's
• 57:52
  gonna be a battle, though, And I think even if
• 57:54
  Liberty takes Friday, I think jack State can. I think
• 57:58
  they can settle down and and hammer a Saturday Sunday
• 58:02
  to take the series. Josh want to come to you
• 58:04
  now for another big mid major game. A lot of
• 58:08
  really intense games this week South Florida UT San Antonio. Josh,
• 58:14
  what are you thinking for this one?
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: And Phosh pick uh Yeah, this is a really interesting one.
• 58:19
  This is one of those big American conference series I
• 58:22
  keep talking about, between those big four or five teams
• 58:25
  matching up against each other. Both teams need this one
• 58:28
  at this point. I means a UTSA has been interesting recently.
• 58:33
  There's been questions about the state of the rotation. They've
• 58:36
  only got really one established guy in Ryan's self, and
• 58:39
  then it's usually some tvas like Orlowski has been out
• 58:42
  for the year, so that hurts them. But run prevention
• 58:45
  has been really great for them lately. I mean they've
• 58:47
  they've allowed one point seven runs per game in the
• 58:49
  last two weekends, which is way better than you'd expect
• 58:52
  that pitching staff to do. That said, the offense speaks
• 58:57
  for itself. It's filled with firepower that liftsend Cayden Miller Land,
• 59:02
  I mean Lane Hayworth. You know that team goes as
• 59:04
  they go, but you know, on the other side of it.
• 59:07
  Even though there's been a lot of questions about Utsa's rotation,
• 59:10
  the same thing I just said about UTSA, Sam goes
• 59:13
  for USF. This team goes as the offense goes. Offense
• 59:17
  hasn't been going great lately though, that's the thing they
• 59:19
  don't really I don't think they have anybody with an
• 59:21
  ops over a thousand. It's really not great. Rotation isn't phenomenal.
• 59:27
  Michael Seney has been great, like really really really great
• 59:30
  on Sundays, And besides that, it's kind of rough. Bullpit
• 59:33
  isn't phenomenal, But they found ways of beasts together wins
• 59:36
  and that program tends to do that. As for my pick,
• 59:40
  I think UTSA is a better team and they're at
• 59:44
  home or I think they're at home apparently I don't
• 59:46
  know that stuff anymore. I'm gonna take I'll take the
• 59:51
  who I think is the home team and who I
• 59:53
  think is the better team. Pretty simple.
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: I'll take UTSA, said, well said, JP, gonna go to
• 59:59
  you next. Curious, what's your take on this series? Who's
• 1:00:02
  your pick?
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna rock with the same thing. I'm gonna
• 1:00:05
  take UCSA too, just I think the track record has
• 1:00:08
  been there a little bit better than USF. And to
• 1:00:11
  be granted, I did look it up and they are
• 1:00:12
  the home team. So oh good, they are the home team.
• 1:00:15
  Don't worry, You're right.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: Good job, Josh, you haven't lost it yet, old buddy,
• 1:00:19
  You're still pulling it together. Coach is gonna come to
• 1:00:22
  you another two teams that you get to think about
• 1:00:24
  a lot for your mid major rankings. Curious, first, if
• 1:00:27
  you don't mind updating us on where these two teams
• 1:00:29
  fall on your mid major rankings, and then I'd love
• 1:00:31
  to hear who your pickings.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 6: So, as I mentioned them earlier, u TSA is at
• 1:00:38
  four right now you you and SF they're at ten
• 1:00:44
  or there at eleven.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 5: Sorry, they just they just fell out of the top ten.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 6: They've just I just worry about I worry about their
• 1:00:52
  ability to hit for power in this one. Like I'm
• 1:00:56
  gonna mention Michael Sen and now he's been doing because
• 1:00:59
  he's been balling and for them on the mountain.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 5: But like I just I just worry about them being
• 1:01:03
  able to hit for power.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 6: And that's something that you know, UTSA is no doubt
• 1:01:08
  going to do. But like you know, USF, they have
• 1:01:12
  serious winn against Illinois and UCF, so we know what
• 1:01:15
  they're capable of doing when they're when they're playing at
• 1:01:17
  their best. But like offensively, like UTSA, they've scored the
• 1:01:21
  second most runs in the conference, and.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 5: I think they're going to keep it going. I'm going
• 1:01:26
  with UTSA.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: I fear that we are We're gonna have a sweep here.
• 1:01:32
  I'm also going to take UTSA. USF is a team
• 1:01:36
  that's impressed me looking from a ten thousand foot view.
• 1:01:39
  This year today, as you guys are deluded to, today
• 1:01:41
  has been electric. I mean it's it's like a not
• 1:01:44
  a two V are quite less than that for certain
• 1:01:47
  USF's bats, though, curious, I'm just gonna pull the audience here,
• 1:01:55
  guess is off the top of your head team leader
• 1:01:57
  in home runs this season? What's the number for USLF?
• 1:02:01
  Anybody have a guest without looking.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: Two, best guess, I'll say three.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 5: Bank, I already have it. I already know the number.
• 1:02:15
  I don't I won't answer, but it's not.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: Does it surprise you though, that it is three? And
• 1:02:19
  I mean the next most two and then a litany
• 1:02:22
  of guys tied with one. I mean, I forget what.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 6: Given the fact that they've they've they've won a lot
• 1:02:31
  of games this year, and they've been doing they've they've
• 1:02:33
  been competing in games and winning games without hitting, you know,
• 1:02:37
  not hitting for much power, much less home run.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 5: So I mean, yeah, that is shocking.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: It is and I mean even I forget which one
• 1:02:43
  of you alluded to it am to go, but I
• 1:02:45
  mean not as a player on the team with a
• 1:02:46
  NOPs over one thousand. Uh, I don't know how they're
• 1:02:51
  going to stack up against ut s A, who can
• 1:02:53
  do a little bit of everything well, and I think
• 1:02:57
  UTSA keeps the ball rolling and Jake, I think the
• 1:02:59
  whole their spot in your mid major rankings, Josh, do
• 1:03:03
  want to stick with you here? We're talking sec lsu
• 1:03:08
  ole miss curious curious grouping here two teams. So I think, really, frankly,
• 1:03:17
  who can who can lose this one? More like who
• 1:03:20
  can stand to lose this series?
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 4: More?
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: These two teams desperately need a win. Who's gonna take it? Josh?
• 1:03:26
  What's the story?
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah? This is a fun one because I mean, somehow
• 1:03:30
  this is a ranked matchup. It's twenty four four versus
• 1:03:33
  twenty five. That's what you'll see on your TVs. At
• 1:03:35
  least two teams also sort of going in opposite directions.
• 1:03:40
  Old Missus lost six of their last ten and LSU's
• 1:03:43
  won two straight series after losing three straight series. Granted,
• 1:03:46
  they did lose that game to Pathoon yesterday, but that
• 1:03:48
  could just be a Sandwich SEC series look ahead spot
• 1:03:51
  kind of thing. Same thing with l I mean, like
• 1:03:54
  polar opposite things with these offenses. LSU's offense kind of
• 1:03:58
  seems to have kicked it into gear a little bit,
• 1:04:00
  you know, like Kate Aaron b did we saw what
• 1:04:02
  we did heated last week? Jake Brown's been good all year,
• 1:04:04
  so I know you saw what happened last week. Don't
• 1:04:08
  be shaking your head said. Dard has been good all year,
• 1:04:13
  whereas we're Old miss The offense is slumping hard, like
• 1:04:16
  the offense really cannot seem to find it right now,
• 1:04:18
  although the pitching is picking them up enough. That's what
• 1:04:21
  happened in Gainesville last week. I meand Elliott's got it
• 1:04:24
  back together. Taylor Rabe has been way better in a
• 1:04:26
  starting role than I figured. Kate Townsend's Kate Townsend. We
• 1:04:30
  know that at this point, everything is pointing towards LSU
• 1:04:34
  being the better team right now. And that's why I'm
• 1:04:37
  going ole miss because the SEC is a stupid conference
• 1:04:40
  that makes absolutely zero sense, and home field matters way
• 1:04:43
  more than it should, so I'll take the ropes. It
• 1:04:49
  is nothing makes sense ever no weekend. Does it ever
• 1:04:52
  make sense in that conference?
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: Jake, isn't a stupid conference? Or does it just mean more?
• 1:05:00
  Making this one.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 5: So obviously drew me?
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 6: And you you know, we watched l s U pretty
• 1:05:08
  pretty closely, uh unfortunately last weekend, but uh you know,
• 1:05:13
  I mean, but like LSU they've they've they've won back
• 1:05:16
  to back series against Kentucky and Tennessee and like, I mean,
• 1:05:21
  I don't want to say that, I don't want to
• 1:05:22
  ask the question are they back?
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 5: But are they I mean, like they're.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 6: They're they're winning games now like and and something they
• 1:05:28
  have to feel really good about is is Derek curielluh
• 1:05:31
  picking it up and hitting the ball like he's he's
• 1:05:34
  he's batt in four forty four in their in their
• 1:05:37
  last two series. I mean, he's driving in, he's driving
• 1:05:40
  in runs, he's finding a little bit of power in
• 1:05:41
  his swing. And this is just what they've been looking
• 1:05:43
  for all season. I know Josh talked about, uh, the
• 1:05:47
  the ole miss arms.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 6: You know, they've they've been They've been pretty good here recently.
• 1:05:53
  But like you know, last weekend, Tayler Raven and Hunter Elliott,
• 1:05:56
  you know, they were they were solid, but neither of
• 1:05:58
  them made it to the fifth inning in their starts,
• 1:06:01
  which is something that I'm you know, I'm kind of
• 1:06:03
  taking into.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 5: Consideration a little bit. Though.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 6: That might not matter if they keep getting starts like
• 1:06:07
  Kate towsand gave him last weekend. But for my pick,
• 1:06:12
  I think I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go with LSU.
• 1:06:15
  I'm gonna go with LSU. I think they're gonna keep
• 1:06:16
  it rolling, They're gonna stay hot in the sec So
• 1:06:19
  give me them.
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: I'll leap for ag you now, JB, and I'll pick.
• 1:06:27
  It's interesting, Jake, that you brought up the guy I
• 1:06:29
  was gonna talk about. And that's why I'll just go
• 1:06:31
  ahead and make my brummy point just to pack you up,
• 1:06:34
  just because you made it for me.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: Derek curry Ell clearly has started skipping showers because that
• 1:06:42
  man is no longer washed. I think he may be
• 1:06:44
  putting it a little bit back together, twiddling the yard
• 1:06:48
  to kind of rebuild his draft stock and climb his
• 1:06:50
  way back up the list just as we're about to
• 1:06:52
  release a list and rocket him downward. I still think
• 1:06:55
  he's gonna have to take a pretty precipitous slide. But
• 1:06:58
  what if he's back, What if l SU is back?
• 1:07:01
  And what if it took an electric atmosphere and a
• 1:07:04
  beautiful ballpark and some cool uniforms across the diamond to
• 1:07:08
  fire them up again? I'll take L s JB. What
• 1:07:12
  are you thinking here, pal?
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 3: It looks like me and Joshua riding together. I will
• 1:07:17
  be taking the good old Reds.
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: So we're rocking with it now. Let me really hyper quick.
• 1:07:23
  Did you guys think that Jake and I would take
• 1:07:25
  L s U after they put a licking on that
• 1:07:27
  unnamed team last week?
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 5: Or oh.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what, fun? You know what the fun
• 1:07:33
  all right whatever, JB Gonna come to you here again.
• 1:07:37
  Book ended very beautifully the acc Truther walk us through
• 1:07:41
  Wake Forest in Miami, give us your pick, yeah, Wake Forest.
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 3: Right now, it's a team that's kind of been bipolar
• 1:07:49
  once again. As we've talked about, they are eight and
• 1:07:52
  seven in conference. They're on a two game loosen streak
• 1:07:56
  right now. They've just kind of been all over the place.
• 1:08:01
  That being said, they will be my pick on the weekend.
• 1:08:05
  I'll preface with that before I get into the Miami set.
• 1:08:09
  I do believe in the pitching staff from them a
• 1:08:11
  little bit more than I believe in Miami Miami. On
• 1:08:15
  the other hand, they're another team that has been very,
• 1:08:19
  very very up and down this year. We saw them
• 1:08:22
  get off to a really hot start this year and
• 1:08:24
  then the offense kind of sputtered off for a bit.
• 1:08:28
  They've kind of come back to life recently. They absolutely
• 1:08:31
  smoked Virginia Tech, but right now, that's not necessarily a
• 1:08:35
  huge accomplishment. They also smoked Clems in the weekend before,
• 1:08:39
  so I think we're seeing more of this Miami offense
• 1:08:42
  coming back to life right now. I do think the
• 1:08:45
  wake Forest pitching is just that good, though, going against
• 1:08:48
  everything we've talked about. Right now, I do really believe
• 1:08:51
  in that wake Forest pitching staff and thinking that they
• 1:08:53
  can stop that offense enough for wake Forest's fasts to
• 1:08:56
  get going. This weekends gonna kick it to you.
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: I know that you're traditionally not a big ACC baseball fan,
• 1:09:04
  and I'm curious what you're landing with this one.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 2: I don't know, to be honest, I mean, my head
• 1:09:10
  and heart are telling me different things. Like my head
• 1:09:15
  is telling me go with Miami because that offense has
• 1:09:18
  been awesome lately. I mean they've won ten of their
• 1:09:21
  last twelve. They're averaging eleven point five runs a game
• 1:09:24
  in that stretch, which is a pretty big sample size
• 1:09:27
  to have that high of a number. Derek Williams, Daniel Kove,
• 1:09:31
  alex Osa have looked awesome. I the pitching staff for
• 1:09:39
  wake is really good. My heart's telling me to pick
• 1:09:43
  them because I they're a better team, and like you
• 1:09:48
  know what, home field advantage hasn't really mattered much for
• 1:09:50
  Miami this year because they have lost home series to
• 1:09:53
  Boston College and Florida. And if my head and heart
• 1:09:57
  are telling me different things. I should probably go with
• 1:09:58
  my heart because my head is pretty stupid most of
• 1:10:00
  the time. So I'm gonna go with Wake.
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: You could have quoted Drew Wheeler saying that right there,
• 1:10:06
  my friend, you kind of quote it.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: Self awareness is a really key thing around here.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: It's a big thing, buddy, It's a big thing. Jake,
• 1:10:14
  your name rhymes with Wake Is that a side?
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 5: I mean, I don't know if that's the sign I
• 1:10:22
  am gonna be picking Wake Forest. Something. You know, something
• 1:10:26
  weird here in this one.
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 6: Like you know in the preseason, when if we were
• 1:10:30
  discussing this this uh this series in the preseason, we
• 1:10:33
  were probably gonna mention the pitching matchup between A. J.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 5: Ciscar and Blake morning Star.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 6: But you know, we're really talking about every other starting
• 1:10:42
  pitch that's probably gonna go in this series. Like Chris
• 1:10:45
  Lavonis and Cam Bagwell for Wake Forest and then Rob Evans,
• 1:10:48
  lazarro Kolara for Miami.
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 5: They have all four been really good for their teams.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 6: They all have sub three e ra's in conference play,
• 1:10:56
  and you know, as weird as it might be, it
• 1:10:58
  they come down to which offense kind of produces the
• 1:11:01
  most in that you know, if we get the CISCAR
• 1:11:03
  Morning Star matchup, you know which which offense comes through
• 1:11:06
  the most in that one and who can kind of
• 1:11:08
  get to the bullpen first or whatever it might be.
• 1:11:10
  But for all the points that they mentioned earlier with
• 1:11:13
  their picks, I'm gonna go with wake Forest as well.
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: Oh wake Forest has broken my heart so many times
• 1:11:22
  this year, guys, but I'm nothing if not a hopeless romantic.
• 1:11:26
  Let's run it one more time, guys. I trust you
• 1:11:29
  not to hurt me again, and this is just this.
• 1:11:31
  I'll say this is strictly for my boiler bonus.
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 2: Dude.
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: I feel like we've been ringing the bell on pretty hard, insane,
• 1:11:38
  insane talent. I'll take wake better not hurt me again, though,
• 1:11:43
  because I'm only giving them one more chance after this.
• 1:11:45
  All right, another outstanding pick them weekend, guys. It's gonna
• 1:11:50
  be fun to see how that would goes. But we've
• 1:11:52
  got a couple of days before the weekend, a couple
• 1:11:53
  of days before we see how this all goes. Plenty
• 1:11:55
  to do, plenty of stuff we're working on, and I'd
• 1:11:57
  love to hear more about it. Josh, please tell the
• 1:12:00
  people at home where they can find you between our episodes.
• 1:12:02
  What's working on, sir?
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: You can find me on Twitter at Josh Catlet three
• 1:12:07
  posting the same stuff there. Typically I might get some
• 1:12:10
  mock drafts out soon.
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 5: I know.
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 2: I got the bracketologies coming every week, along with a
• 1:12:14
  Prospects Live cumulative bracketology coming out soon within the next
• 1:12:19
  week probably, so there's a little teaser for that. Stay tuned,
• 1:12:22
  as well as our college top two hundred list as
• 1:12:26
  a company coming out within the next two to three
• 1:12:28
  ish weeks. We have at combined three thirteen lists, which
• 1:12:32
  is the top ten rounds. It sounds like a weird number,
• 1:12:34
  I know. So yeah, I'll be involved in all that writing,
• 1:12:37
  scouting reports, putting the list together, all that fun stuff,
• 1:12:41
  so you can keep up with me.
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: There. It's all that Will Dodges fault. He had to
• 1:12:45
  go and say top three to thirteen would be the
• 1:12:47
  top ten rounds. And what you know me? You know me,
• 1:12:51
  I'm gonna take a weird thing. If it's put front
• 1:12:53
  of me, it's all that Will Dodge's fault. We're gonna
• 1:12:56
  blame it on you. I might put Will Dodgers' picture on.
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: The in the graphics that will get us some engagement.
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: I think I think so too. I think so too. JB.
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  Please tell the folks what you're working on and where
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  they can find you on the socials between ourbisens.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's at JB underscore Bostiana on Twitter. Recently, as
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  Drew mentioned, I did make it out to the park
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  to watch a little minor league baseball, which was awesome.
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  I saw Columbia and Hickory. So there's some video of
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  the good old GBO A J Russell going at it
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  on the mound and also Sean Gamble, Josh Hammond and
• 1:13:29
  Paulino Santana were the three hitters. Got some film on.
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  Outside of that, hopefully maybe make it out to another
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  game soon, hopefully something definitely will be some reports, a
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  new report of my guy Tyler Bell. We'll be in
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  our new list hopefully and outside of that. Yeah, that's
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  about it.
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  Speaker 1: Good stuff. As always, coach, tell the folks where they
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  can find you between our episodes, what you're working on.
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  You my friend are going to be going to the
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  ballpark as well this weekend.
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  Speaker 5: I am.
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  Speaker 6: You can follow me on Twitter at Jake Barge mentioned
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  it last episode and I'm shocked I haven't mentioned it
• 1:14:06
  already it's one because of how excited I am about it.
• 1:14:09
  But Rock Chilowski, Muliva, Levu, Roman Martin, all of the
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  UCLA boys. I think I'm probably gonna get Landing Stump
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  on Sunday. They're gonna be joining Peyton Bonds and the
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  Rutgers fellas in New Jersey this weekend, and I'll be
• 1:14:25
  there for that Sunday game, and I can't I can't wait.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be awesome. I can't wait to hear all
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  about it. Man, you're gonna have to keep us posted
• 1:14:32
  in the old GC on that one man looking forward
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  to it. If for whatever reason you want to follow
• 1:14:38
  me on the socials, you may do so at drew
• 1:14:39
  Is Okay, that's Twitter, that's Blue scot that is Instagram.
• 1:14:43
  I too, will be at the ballpark this weekend, and
• 1:14:45
  I am excited asterisk because I'll be traveling to Duty
• 1:14:50
  Noble Field to watch the Tennessee Volunteers take on the
• 1:14:53
  City State Bulldogs. Lots of guys I'm looking forward to
• 1:14:55
  seeing a lot of draft guys I'm looking forward to
• 1:14:57
  seeing as well. Very curious. It'll be uh, myself, my brother,
• 1:15:02
  my dad, all chilling out at the park. If you
• 1:15:04
  happen to be there and you happen to see me,
• 1:15:06
  say what's up. I'd love to see you anyhow. Yeah,
• 1:15:10
  we're working on the top two hundred NCAA for twenty
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  twenty six draft. As Josh alluded to, We've got the
• 1:15:15
  top three thirteen shout out will Dodge again coming up soon.
• 1:15:19
  I will also have Team Gripes coming up with that.
• 1:15:21
  We will have a mock draft coming Veries very soon.
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  a line or check out the website Prospects Live dot com. Anyway,
• 1:15:42
  for the twenty sixth episode, guys, I think we did
• 1:15:44
  pretty good. A lot of great discussion, a lot of
• 1:15:45
  good stuff, a fun pick them as always want to
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  remind you all at home, be nice to yourself, be
• 1:15:51
  nice to each other. For Josh, for JB, for Jake
• 1:15:54
  I'm Drew and that's j r Ue, So I don't
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  not fit in with the boys. We'll see that time.
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  College baseball Take care by