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Weekend 6 Preview: Longhorns Heading to Auburn | Ep. 020 · College Baseball Now

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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: After a week of looking for my car keys, I
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  finally found them. Yet unfortunately, while I was searching college
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  baseball cap rolling along. It is nice to be back
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  in my old podcasting chair. But boy, there is a
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  busy and scary weekend to come for many of the
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  country's top teams.
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  Speaker 1: Fortunately for you.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna break it all down, make it a little
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  less scary for you, if not for the teams at home.
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  On this episode of college Baseball.
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  Speaker 3: Now, yeah, there ain't no problems, no problems, don't want Yeah,
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  let me six yet then know what was gone for
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  a minute, I hit the be out beat, grab a
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  couple of wins with a bed.
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  Speaker 4: This even know the kid I.
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  Speaker 5: Had to do a p igs.
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  Speaker 1: I can never be average and.
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  Speaker 5: They want to pull them with the boy.
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  Speaker 1: They don't want no status. I don't need so coach
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  sign run a week. God, I want to test that Tunn.
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  Speaker 2: Was standing to control run the game?
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  Speaker 1: Best to leave him signing.
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  Speaker 2: Ducks counting now my wins, yeah, I love.
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  Speaker 5: It and win ain't count me.
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  Speaker 3: Y'all count I'm the least sudden shame.
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  Speaker 1: Why being a job? Misbelieve I run the game?
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  Speaker 4: You know one clean?
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  Speaker 5: This la magic to believe.
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  Speaker 4: I stand this La magic to believe.
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  Speaker 3: I want dandin this lad magic to leave out.
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  Speaker 5: Won't stand Speak them on, knock them out.
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  Speaker 1: They really don't want.
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  Speaker 5: To stand it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm back in the saddle again.
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  Speaker 1: Do you guys know that song?
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  Speaker 5: What on Earth?
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  Speaker 1: Here's welcome back to college Baseball Now. We're happy to
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  be back with you.
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  Speaker 2: It is Wednesday, March eighteenth as we record this, and
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  you are joining your friends for another episode of your
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  favorite college baseball podcast, starting of course, with me, your friends,
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  your host, your boy Wheeler, director of amateur Scouting at
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  Prospects Live. Glad to be with my friends tonight and
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  hopefully yours as well, because we've got a lot to
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  have some good stuff to talk about.
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  Speaker 1: Starting with the gentleman who is always on.
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  Speaker 2: My ride on your screen, your friend and mine, last
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  week's host. Gotta give him a brief round of the plots.
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  Thank you, mister Josh Catlet. Hello Josh, how's it going.
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  Speaker 5: I'm I'm very happy to be back in the spot
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  instead of in the hosting chair. It is not as
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  easy as it looks, but it's okay. I think we
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  did fine.
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  Speaker 2: You all did wonderfully thank you again. What do you
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  think was the trickiest.
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  Speaker 5: Thing, Oh, delegating like questions to people instead of just
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  I don't know, just asking answering whatever you asked me.
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  Although I will say it was nice, like to be
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  able to swing questions, just be able to talk and
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  just like yap and then I transition however much I
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  want to. That was kind of cool. That's what I
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  do best.
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  Speaker 2: You You are good with the yapp. You're good with that,
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  so I knew you'd do great. Gosh for the folks
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  at home, I need you to give me, and I'm
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  not talking like your top five, not a top ten.
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  Give me a random movie that people need to watch.
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  Speaker 1: It just a just a good movie, just a good movie.
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  Speaker 5: The best movie I've watched recently was probably Whiplash, if
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  you've ever seen that. I watched it for the first
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  time like three four weeks ago. Really good, better than
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  I expected. My roommates have been. Yeah, my roommates have
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  been in love with the Secret Life of Walter Mitty recently,
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  and I don't know why. Also, I watched it and
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  I thought it was like super weird, But I don't
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  know it's you're into that kind of stuff, I guess,
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  but like you, Whipblash was really good, like a solid
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  nine out of ten.
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  Speaker 2: Love it, Josh, who's your pick in the uh in
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  the March Madness bracket?
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  Speaker 1: Pout?
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  Speaker 5: I have Michigan going all the way. I don't know,
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  I felt that way the whole year, and I just
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  I can't pick Duke so by the fault?
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  Speaker 4: Why?
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  Speaker 1: Why? Why?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, just a just a hunch, I don'tn't know,
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  maybe a certain Well, we'll figure out the duke thing
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  later on. We'll figure that on a different episode.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: Joining us in the bottom right hand corner today, it's
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  coach Jake, Barjerie.
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  Speaker 1: Jake, Hi, good to see you.
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  Speaker 6: Good to see you too, Joe. Glad to have you back.
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  Speaker 7: I'm still kind of thawing out a little bit from
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  when I was spent a lot of time outside earlier
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  in the freezing cold. But we are here and I'm
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  ready to ready to go.
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  Speaker 2: You've had You've had a pretty action packed day, and
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  I'd love it if you can brag on your boys
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  really quick.
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  Speaker 4: Coach.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, my Arcadian Knights. We got we had a
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  home doubleheader today.
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  Speaker 7: I got the got the sweep. Gave up a few
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  more runs, and I think we would have wanted to.
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  But we got the wins, and that's all.
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  Speaker 1: That makes Big Nights.
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  Speaker 2: We're Big Nights boys here, every every one of us
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  Big Big Nights guys at the site.
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  Speaker 1: Anybody that's not you're fired.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, Jake, who have you got in your bracket?
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  Speaker 1: Who's you Champion.
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  Speaker 6: Tennessee? Of course? I mean who else am I gotta pick?
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  Speaker 1: Other than the Ball?
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  Speaker 4: Of course?
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  Speaker 1: Of course?
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  Speaker 2: I figure good random movie. Tell the folks at home
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  we go watch this movie.
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  Speaker 7: Because Jake said it, so, I think we've had this
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  discussion before. I'm not the biggest movie guy, but I
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  do have a I do have a favorite. It's The
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  Pursuit of Happiness is what It's called? A Will Smith movie? Yeah,
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  kind of.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know how old it actually is. It came
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  out a little while ago, but that's that's a personal
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  favorite of mind. If you haven't seen it, it's good.
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  It's a nice, feel good movie if you're in the
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  mood for that.
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  Speaker 2: I shed a tear every time I see it.
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  Speaker 1: It's a deep movie. Love that movie.
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  Speaker 2: And joining us today, our special guest host for the
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  evening is mister Joshua Sogero, Josh, thank you so much
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  for taking time to join.
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  Speaker 4: Us, No problem, hope, just don't cause too much confusion
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  with the two josh Is. But well get.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, we should probably address that now. I think
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  before we started recording, we've we've agreed to for the
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  sake of the folks at home who are used to
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  me referring to uh, to this gentleman over here as Josh,
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  he will be Josh, and for the evening our guest
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  will be mister soel Gear if that's if that's admissible
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  to you.
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  Speaker 4: Sir, sounds very fancy, totally fine.
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  Speaker 1: With, very good, very good.
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  Speaker 2: All right, mister sol Geo. I'm curious have you filled
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  out a bracket? And if so, who's your champion?
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  Speaker 4: I wish I could say I was a huge college
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  basketball guy. Uh not too well versed, and based off
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  the vibes, I feel like I can't say Duke, so
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  I'll stick with him down U c.
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  Speaker 2: L a that you know, okay, based on the vibes,
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  like we have any UNC fans here, I can't, I
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  mean I can't see.
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  Speaker 1: Any so.
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  Speaker 2: Uh so, Josh, I gotta tell you, excuse me, mister
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  sol Garo.
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  Speaker 1: Forgive me, I'm gonna try it.
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  Speaker 2: I have to tell you I'm actually not the biggest
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  college basketball fan as well. But the newspaper we are
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  running a March Madness contest for the first time in
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  the years. People are gonna submit the whole bracket to me,
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  and then I've got to manually score all of these
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  goliaths and it's gonna be a good time.
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  Speaker 4: Though.
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  Speaker 2: It's always something I enjoy and honestly, getting to write
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  about sports for my day job is something that I
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  take advantage of whenever I can, Uh, mister so Garrett.
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  Last question, recommend for the folks at home.
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  Speaker 1: A movie, Just good movie.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to get too basic. Really obsessed with
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  Goodwill Hunting? Sure, kind of like I'll say it's my
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  number two movie, but been very into it, like in
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  the past month or two, rewatched it like a couple
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  of times, so always gonna be like my go to.
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  Speaker 2: So you've rewatched your number two movies several times, what
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  can possibly be your number one?
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  Speaker 1: Then if you rewatched.
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  Speaker 4: Number one's maybe a bit too to on the emotional side.
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  But eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, so that one's
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  less of a rewatch, especially compared a good one.
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  Speaker 1: I think so oh, I think.
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  Speaker 2: I think I've watched Eternal Sun maybe three times in
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  my life. I might could stand it one more time
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  before I die.
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  Speaker 1: It's just so sad.
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  Speaker 4: It's very good though.
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  Speaker 1: It's very well made.
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  Speaker 2: The reason I asked you guys about movies and not
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  to keep talking about movies. Hell, we're eight minutes into
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  the podcast and we haven't yet talked about a college
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  baseball game. I watched Coach Carter randomly last night at
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  like three am when I couldn't sleep. It's a great movie.
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  Like Coach Carter's an awesome movie.
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  Speaker 5: I haven't seen it in a couple of years, but yeah,
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  it's one of the better. It might be Monless. I'm
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  forgetting something my favorite basketball movie. Maybe I could be forgoting.
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  Speaker 1: It's up there.
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  Speaker 2: It's free on YouTube right now, though, Josh, so, I
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  highly recommend you pop boy.
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  Speaker 1: On as you're hitting Hey tonight. Just just a great movie.
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  Speaker 5: I'm bad for the first time right now, So if
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  I'm gonna watch anything as I'm falling asleep, it's probably
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  gonna be that.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think of breaking bad? We have to go,
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  We have to go.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of Breaking Bad, are you enjoying the show?
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  Speaker 5: I am yeah. How are you gonna transition Breaking Bad?
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  And I'm curious, carry on, I believe in you. I'm
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  just wondering.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, you're watching Breaking Bad, and so from one Breaking
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  Bad to another because this Georgia Tech offense that we
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  had so much faith in as broken and it was
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  bad against your Tigers of Auburn, and Josh, I know
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  that you had the privilege of being at the stadium,
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  frozen and all to watch this game. I'm curious if
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  you could walk us through kind of the high points
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  of the game before we break it down a little
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  further and maybe the implications of it.
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  Speaker 5: Well, the high points of the game were everything Auburn related.
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  After the first inning, I mean, in the second inning,
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  when Logan Gregorio and Chris Rembert hit both their home runs,
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  just the gates, the floodgates opened and they poured it
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  on from there. I was hoping for a close game
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  with the top five matchup, after all, with the presumed
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  better team being the road team, and it just didn't matter.
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  Andreas Alvarez looked better than he probably has all year.
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  His breaking stuff was landing for strikes way more than usual.
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  Great pitch ability, didn't allow a lot of hits. I
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  think Jared Adventla had the team's only hits yesterday. I
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  think no one else recorded a hit for the team.
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  So it was just phenomenal outing by Alvarez. Christian Chanterton
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  came in for two afterwards, Pitt really well. Legend Cormier. Yeah,
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  I think the eighth inning eight pitches, eight strikes, three outs,
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  it was something like that. It was very close to that.
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  I remember in the stadium we were all like, let's go,
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  it's freezing, let's get us out of here. So that
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  that was nice to see. But yeah, I mean like
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  this the Auburn offense, especially led by the stars of it,
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  Chris remember Chase Frederick bub Terrell had a combined seven
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  or eight hits yesterday, which looked really nice all the
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  way around. But yeah, yeah, great to see have this program,
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  especially you know with Texas coming to town this weekend. It's
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  really really comforting to say.
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  Speaker 1: It has to be.
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  Speaker 2: I think, I think that's a good transition. And we'll
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  go to mister south Garo for that one. Josh, you
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  get a chance to write, mister south Garo you get
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  a chance to write a lot about teams. You've gotten
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  to write about the ACC a good bit. Does Georgia
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  Tech offense, though, even beyond your role on the daily
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  sheet as a college baseball fan, the Georgia Tech offense
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  is one that's impossible to.
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  Speaker 4: This, right, Yeah, of course, I'm personally, I'm still trying
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  to buy it into that offense. I believe everyone in
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  that starting lineup has like an OPS over eight hundred
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  eight fifty something like that, but a lot of their competition,
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  like early on in the year, has been against like
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  week pitching mid major teams, like even the power for
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  competitions kind of I don't know. I'm still trying to
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  buy into. I know Burrist has had a slow start.
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  I'm still trying to fall into like that Von Lackey
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  top ten hype, which I believe he's still a first
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  start talent, but I don't know if he's quite at
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  that like super high level just yet. One person that
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  has like caught me off guard, to Carson Cercy, there's
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  been like a little bit like of an uptick of power.
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  It's still nothing like too impressive, but it's like high
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  average very well, like on the contact part. So that's
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  a great bottle of nine order. And I believe he
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  was the only guy to not strike out against Auburn too,
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  But like still trying to buy into it. Yesterday, of course,
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  not a good showing, but over the weekend there were
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  still that glimpse. So it's still more of a like
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  wait and see for me.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I think there's gotta be something with brains for
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  people named Josh and not buying the Georgia Tech offense
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  that has.
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  Speaker 1: Done nothing, in my mind but prove it.
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  Speaker 2: But you guys make a good point because I mean,
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  now we see that whenever they meet opposition, they're not
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  busting through it.
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  Speaker 1: That's definitely cause for concern. Jake, gonna go to you here.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, Josh really set it up well because Auburn excelled
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  and I think that's the kind of the bottom tier
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  of the word we could say excelled against Georgia Tech.
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  But now I think it's an undisputed tougher test coming
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  to town in Texas, right.
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  Speaker 7: I mean you would say that, but Texas also took
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  took a not so great loss in their uh in
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  their movie. But yeah, it is definitely a I mean,
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  I guess I guess undisputed.
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  Speaker 1: I don't.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know if you if you.
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  Speaker 7: Say that with that much conviction right now, really Auburn
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  and pressed, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's an interesting comparison to say, Texas and Georgia Tech.
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  We trust these offenses, we trust these guys. And then
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  and I mean certainly saying Jake may have you bring
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  up an interesting point. Who would you rather have a
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  loss to on your record, Charleston State or Auburn.
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  Speaker 7: Well, certainly a loss on your record, certainly to Auburn.
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  But uh, but yeah, that is that is a good
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  point the the Texas.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's interesting, isn't it. Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, for sure, though we're gonna see him, obviously down
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  the wretch battle it out with a bunch of you know,
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  common opponents. I'm not sure if well hold on never
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  min Yeah, we'renna say we're gonna see in battle against
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  common opponents, and it's gonna be those two are gonna
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  be at the top and in the end for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, Jake, Going forward, what do you think you want
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  to see out of Auburn? If, if anything, before you're
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  willing to say this is a team, a top five
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  team in the.
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  Speaker 7: Nation, top five I mean, I don't I think they're
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  I think they're pretty close close to that already. To
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  be honest, like the pitching is has really been better
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  than what you know, at least at least what Josh
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  kind of hype him up to be in the preseason,
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  but what kind of kind of what we all thought
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  that was gonna be like a question mark, and that's
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  really proved to be like a major strength of this team.
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  And like with Rembert coming back, kind of shoring up
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  this this line up a little bit.
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  Speaker 6: Like, I mean, I don't know, I don't. I don't think.
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  I don't there there are some some teams that I
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  do like.
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  Speaker 7: A little bit better still, But like I don't think
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  you get too many arguments if you said that they were,
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  you know, a top five I'm.
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  Speaker 5: About to say, I feel like, I mean, yeah, I'm unbiased,
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  but I feel like we're already there. I mean, like
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  in most rankings will back you up. I know ours
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  have them at like seven, but every other mainstream ranking
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  has them five, six or higher. So I feel like
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  we're already there at that point.
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  Speaker 2: So Josh, you jumped in and that that is kind
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  of where we were going with this is I mean
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  from Jacob, I think is going to give us a
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  I think a relatively unbiased answer to you who we
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  know you are biased and that's okay, not not anything
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  wrong with that.
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  Speaker 1: What do you identify as.
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  Speaker 2: Being like, what what could Auburn do to say no, no,
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  we are top five without question marks, without guessing we're
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  a top five team in the country.
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  Speaker 5: If anything, I really I can't point to anything in
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  particular that's been negative this year because like the top
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  of the lineup's performed super well. The middle of the
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  lineup with the mccrane brothers stepping in and Guavarro is
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  typically in that range, they've performed way beyond expectations. The
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  bottom is kind of a rotating door a little bit.
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  I didn't even mention Bristol Carter at the top of
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  the lineup pitting near five hundred, Like it's been a
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  rotating door at the bottom, but typically it's good pieces
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  that fell in there. The starting rotation has been leaps
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  and bounds better than we could have ever imagined. And
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  the bullpens I'm pretty reliable too. Now, granted Drew Whalen
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  out for a bit of time at least, so that
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  that's gonna hurt a little bit, But there's been enough
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  bullpen arms that I've come and then you know, shown
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  that they can do with ask of them. So I
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  really don't even know where the negative would be, like
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  I guess like keeping it up like that's all I know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, if that's what we're going to punish Albert for,
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  I mean, who are we not getting furnished?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Josh uh, you didn't seem too biased at all
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  during that. I'm proud of you.
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  Speaker 5: Am I wrong? Like I'm just like you're not.
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  Speaker 2: That's my Seinfeld impression. Thank you all at all. All right,
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  let's move on because these guys have really done a
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  good job of kind of paving the brick road to
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  our next topic. Texas sure won in the midweek, right,
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  what's that? Oh, mister South Gero? Texas who we said
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  in a couple episodes ago kind of universally top tier,
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  even beyond kind of that tier we just labeled off
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  for the top five. I think Texas is one of
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  those ones that you could say, are they better? Is
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  UCLA better? This is the top two. A lost to
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  Tarleton State, though.
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: What happened, I wouldn't put it as a hamper on
• 17:28
  them too much, Like personally, I'd still have the number
• 17:31
  two right behind UCLA because like looking at Tarleton, like
• 17:34
  in the most recent series, a weekend series they played
• 17:38
  at New Mexico. They kind of took that series and
• 17:42
  like looked good doing it with the offense. Pitching did
• 17:45
  enough to keep them at bay and playing in like
• 17:47
  any kind of Mountain West stadium like on the road,
• 17:50
  that's always gonna be like a heavy offensive series. So
• 17:53
  to go out and do that, and like earlier series,
• 17:55
  I believe it was Yes Arkansas, they kind of held
• 17:58
  their own against them. They didn't come away with a win,
• 18:01
  but like they looked good both on the pitching, like
• 18:03
  on the pitching side and kind of like with those
• 18:06
  same guys they showed up in the Texas series. I
• 18:09
  know I did point out one guy on the daily
• 18:11
  sheet coming up. Let me get his name real quick.
• 18:15
  I believe it was like Pinto, but they had Pinto.
• 18:18
  They had a jackass each like showed up three scoreless innings.
• 18:22
  It could just be like a different of like the
• 18:23
  pitching that they're kind of used to facing like SEC squads,
• 18:27
  power four squads, so like kind of facing like going
• 18:30
  from that to like more junk ballies. It's always gonna
• 18:32
  be a bit tricky, and like that even showed with
• 18:34
  like the pitching side of Charlington. They walked nine guys,
• 18:37
  they did strike out twelve, but like effectively wild, it's
• 18:41
  kind of how you put it. And while like they
• 18:43
  couldn't get hit, they were getting on base, it was
• 18:45
  just untimely hitting. So I just say, as like midweek bumps,
• 18:49
  I'm not too worried about it. Don't blame them at all.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: Nothing nothing too concerning for you. Then that's that's interesting.
• 18:56
  I'm glad you picked up on that because I know,
• 18:59
  for those of you at home that haven't read the
• 19:00
  College Daily Shot yet, mister Solgaro regularly writes up our
• 19:03
  mid majors. I know that between he and Jake, we're
• 19:05
  gonna be able to talk all the mid major squads
• 19:08
  until the cows come home. Jake, that is a good
• 19:10
  transition to go to you here with Tarleton State. I
• 19:13
  think mister Selgharo really drove the nail in as far
• 19:17
  as we need to go with them. In your mind, Jake,
• 19:20
  what does this mean for Texas to have.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: Taken this loss?
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: I think I think I would resonate with what Joshua
• 19:27
  said in that I think this is not a this
• 19:31
  is not a nail through the heart. I mean, shoot,
• 19:33
  we gave LSU a ton of leeway.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: Before we dropped them.
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I agree. I don't.
• 19:38
  Speaker 7: I don't think this is is too you know, concerning
• 19:41
  about losing to Charleton State as like like mister Soeulgaro mentioned, like,
• 19:48
  you know, they they competed with Arkansas. Charleton State did
• 19:51
  competed with Arkansas earlier in the year. They they played,
• 19:54
  they played some pretty good teams. They've played Creighton, Texas
• 19:57
  State both not too bad teams. They have a win
• 19:59
  again Baylor, and they've you know, they they he just
• 20:03
  mentioned they swept a new Mexico team that I think
• 20:06
  at that point maybe like either game they were like
• 20:11
  twelve and oh or something crazy, like they were one
• 20:12
  of the last like undefeated teams to Mexico. So like
• 20:15
  that those are not like Charleton State as a whole
• 20:18
  isn't like a mid major team that you think is
• 20:20
  like a household name that's like one of the best
• 20:22
  in the country. But they've definitely held their own against
• 20:24
  solid competition and for Texas, Like I don't, like I said,
• 20:28
  I don't think it's too much of a concern, Like,
• 20:30
  I mean, they won what eighteen games in a row
• 20:32
  before they they lost an extra ending game to Ole
• 20:36
  Miss Like like, yeah, I mean at some point they
• 20:39
  are going to lose games as as good of a
• 20:41
  team as they are, and I think, you know, there's
• 20:43
  a lot they can take from this Charlton State loss,
• 20:46
  and they can. I think they have some stuff to
• 20:48
  build on. But yeah, yeah, props to Charlton State holding
• 20:52
  this Texas lineup down to only two hits in the
• 20:54
  game though.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Absolutely absolutely, Josh, We'll go to you and Jake again.
• 20:59
  Beautiful transition. You knew where I was going. I'd have
• 21:02
  a feeling here, Josh. Are there any of the Texas
• 21:04
  hitters that you can look at and say, I'm a
• 21:07
  little concerned acus with how this guy's played. I don't
• 21:10
  think I can name one. I think this again, to
• 21:12
  kind of steal mister Sougaro's line. Just a bum, just
• 21:15
  a midwek, nothing serious.
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: I mean, the only guy in the Texas lineup that
• 21:22
  has below a nine hundred OPS is Adrian Rodriguez, which
• 21:25
  is probably considered to be their best prospect between like
• 21:29
  you know, this year and next year, So I wouldn't
• 21:32
  say I'm really concerned about him long term. He went
• 21:34
  over to yesterday but drew a couple of walks. I'm
• 21:37
  not really concerned about any of that. Like in the
• 21:39
  grand scheme of things, yesterday there were more specific performances
• 21:43
  that were issues, like Ethan Mendoza went over five, guys
• 21:46
  like Carson Tini had three strikeouts, went over three. I mean,
• 21:52
  like that's really not anything that I'm concerned about long term.
• 21:57
  But yesterday, I mean like that was a big issue
• 21:59
  for yesterday and particular eight and Robbins has been their
• 22:02
  best guys in here probably, but he does it happens,
• 22:07
  It happens.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: I think that's that's exactly right. These kinds of things happen.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: It's it's not gonna be something that we see on
• 22:14
  a regular basis. I don't want to get into it
• 22:17
  because I know we're gonna chop it up, Josh. But
• 22:20
  let's play worry a meter with you, specifically, how worried
• 22:24
  are you for Auburn this weekend? One being I worried
• 22:28
  this trash team coming in. Ten being I have no fingernails,
• 22:31
  they've all been chewed.
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: Off, worried that we're gonna lose the series, or.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, worried you get embarrassed.
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: Five.
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: I don't know, Like it's weird to say that you're worried,
• 22:45
  because like, even if they do come in and sweep Auburn,
• 22:49
  it's like it's the number two team of the country.
• 22:52
  You can stomach that. I guess it's weird the jutt
• 22:54
  it's weird to gauge that, I guess.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: I don't know, definitely, I don't. I don't think. I mean,
• 22:58
  and I'm just gonna use the kind of the realistic
• 23:01
  thing that we just saw recently. I mean, Mississippi State
• 23:03
  loses a series to Arkansas, they don't fall.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: I mean, they're still in the top ten.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: I think for us for sure, for me, I know
• 23:10
  for us as well, now that I think about it,
• 23:11
  I think that's probably a safe thing to say.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, Auburn's not gonna fall tremendously. You lose to Texas, but.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: We are getting the cart before the horse, and we're
• 23:21
  not gonna do that.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Here. We've got one more matchup.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: Mid week's talk about Oklahoma mister Barjorie, Oklahoma took on
• 23:29
  Southeastern Louisiana and brother that had to have gone the
• 23:32
  way we thought it would coming in.
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: Surely, Yeah, not quite.
• 23:37
  Speaker 7: I don't think most of us would have predicted SELAW
• 23:40
  to shut out Oklahoma after they got that big, that
• 23:44
  big series winning as the A and M last weekend.
• 23:46
  But again, I like to defend my mid major teams.
• 23:49
  SELAW is not a bad program. I think they're a
• 23:51
  little bit down this year from like last year, maybe
• 23:53
  the year before, but they are a good program. And
• 23:56
  what I mean obviously what really impressed, like they shut
• 23:59
  them out like they're they're pitching. They had only six
• 24:03
  strikeouts on the game, but you know, four hits, no runs,
• 24:07
  They played good defense, they pitched seemingly to their strengths,
• 24:12
  and you know it is. It was kind of weird
• 24:15
  after watching Oklahoma really really slug the ball against A
• 24:19
  and M and to get to come into this midweek
• 24:21
  and kind of instantly get kind of shut down by
• 24:23
  this pitching staff. But but all my all the all
• 24:26
  the props to see Law forgetting this win.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, uh, mister soul Gerow, just based on the transitive property,
• 24:35
  I mean, and who can argue with that Seela better
• 24:38
  than Oklahoma, better than A and M. Yeah, I'll watch
• 24:43
  you think on that when we're off there. But you
• 24:46
  have you written about Southeastern Louisiana much and was this
• 24:49
  a surprising outcome?
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: If not, I don't believe I've covered them at all
• 24:54
  this year so far. They haven't been a bad team,
• 24:57
  but I just haven't seen like any Outfiger perform. It's
• 25:00
  more like collective. But I didn't see it as a surprise.
• 25:04
  Even the guy who kind of stood out to me today,
• 25:06
  Nick Toobs against something miss earlier in the year, had
• 25:09
  like another kind of similar performance. I believe it was
• 25:11
  like three shutout innings, like good amount of strikeouts on hand,
• 25:15
  and it's kind of what he replicated against like Oklahoma,
• 25:17
  So not necessarily comparing the two offenses, but like two
• 25:22
  good offense is probably better than Louisiana's. So that's not
• 25:27
  nothing like too much of a surprise, but like Oklahoma's strikeout,
• 25:31
  kind of a little concerning. But again, midweek, midweek madness,
• 25:36
  you kind of expect those bumps.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: Expecting the bumps, Josh, I did see your ears perk
• 25:43
  up when your favorite team, so the miss was mentioned,
• 25:44
  So I'll go to you here now, Oklahoma, we have
• 25:49
  I think between you, Jake and myself JB.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: As well. Shout out to JB by the way, what
• 25:54
  a dog. Uh.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: I think we've all kind of talked about the fact
• 25:57
  that Oklahoma has been a pleasant prize for us. We
• 26:01
  certainly did not expect this kind of performance out of them.
• 26:04
  Does this damage them too tremendously a loss to See
• 26:08
  Law or is this kind of again like Georgia Tech
• 26:12
  like Texas just maybe to a lesser degree.
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: Not really, I think it's just midweek mad. That's kind
• 26:17
  of like sunk Caero just said, it happens. I mean,
• 26:20
  I don't really want to dock anybody for one performance
• 26:23
  in a mid week and See Law is not a
• 26:25
  bad team like truly, especially like Oklahoma going on the road,
• 26:28
  and you know they got a big series against LSU
• 26:30
  coming up this weekend they got to go to so
• 26:32
  I mean, you can kind of just get lost. Everything
• 26:34
  gets lost in translation when trying to prepare for it.
• 26:37
  I mean, you can't really make excuses for the Bats
• 26:41
  being as poor as they were against you know, mid
• 26:43
  major midweek pitching. But it's I really don't like to
• 26:47
  draw any big conclusions after they just had a big series,
• 26:50
  went over A and M last week, could go on
• 26:53
  the road do the same against LSU this week. That
• 26:55
  would be where more my takeaways would come from.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: If college Baseball Twitter is to be believed it is not, then,
• 27:01
  I mean, the only time mid major excuse me, the
• 27:04
  only time midweek games matter.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Is if your team wins. So exactly remember that at home.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: Don't remember anyway, Guys, let's talk about pick them because
• 27:14
  we have got a I mean, if I may be
• 27:17
  so bold, a hellacious slate to look over here, mister Solgaro.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: You are going to be joining one mister.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: Will Dodge in our guest tier of the pickers. But
• 27:29
  before we get to that, mister Catle, I wish that
• 27:32
  you would please recap us on last week's picks.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: How did it go?
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah, last week you won. The week you went six
• 27:41
  and two, Jake went five and three, getting over five hundred,
• 27:48
  Dodge and I were both four and four, and JB
• 27:50
  below five hundred went three and five. You'd love to
• 27:53
  see it. Overall on the year, we got like a
• 27:57
  two win gat between all of us. You're twenty four fifteen,
• 28:01
  two games behind you with twenty two wins? Is me
• 28:03
  two games behind me with twenty wins as JB? And
• 28:06
  then two games behind him with eighteen wins being eighteen
• 28:09
  and twenty one is Jake, and then I guess the
• 28:11
  guests reachion of it is four and four.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: Dodge currently in the leaderboard. Because he is the only
• 28:16
  man on the leaderboard at this point, mister Salgaro will
• 28:20
  look to ascend past him. It will take a five
• 28:23
  and three mark fill of mister sol Garo. That's a
• 28:25
  I mean, that's a steady week in these in these waters.
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: Not to sound too egotistical, but I feel like I
• 28:32
  got it even when it comes to guessing stuff.
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: That's what they all said.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: Usually oh my god, we'll see at the end, but
• 28:40
  will Dodge at home, shivering somewhere, holding tightly to his
• 28:45
  spot at number one. Uh well, shall we go ahead
• 28:49
  and break it down, guys, because we have we have
• 28:51
  buttered the bread, we have.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Frosted the cake.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: All it takes now is the candle's going in, the
• 28:57
  light's going out and we're singing Happy Birthday before this
• 29:00
  thing really blows up Texas and Auburn.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: We have really really set the stage for this. Josh.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: We are going to go to you to walk us
• 29:08
  through this game. What do you think is going to
• 29:10
  be the deciding X factor for either squad in this
• 29:13
  humongous SEC weekend series.
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: If I had to pick one thing, I would say
• 29:19
  it's probably kind of like I hinted that earlier with
• 29:21
  Texas in a little bit with Auburn, I think the
• 29:24
  bottom of the lineups executing is probably the best thing
• 29:27
  because there's clear star power at the top of both
• 29:29
  of these lineups with recognizable names across the board, But
• 29:33
  it does kind of bottom out a little quickly. I mean,
• 29:36
  guys have been picking it up at the bottom of
• 29:38
  that Texas lineup all year. Like Casey Borba has an
• 29:40
  eleven forty seven OPS this year with six home runs.
• 29:43
  I got Tim Obersara or best Era sorry, has a
• 29:48
  three twenty four average with a ten forty seven ops
• 29:50
  five home runs. Those guys need to keep up that
• 29:52
  kind of stuff, along with guys like Tienny and Aiden
• 29:55
  Robbins and a Rod who hasn't been as great this year,
• 29:58
  but really being able to work through or given the
• 30:01
  picture an ability to not you know, have an easy
• 30:03
  part of the lineup to work through, have to work
• 30:05
  through an entire one through nine and it'd be difficult. It's
• 30:07
  probably gonna be the biggest thing for me because I
• 30:10
  don't really have tons of questions about any of the
• 30:13
  six starting pitchers we're gonna see in this matchup. They've
• 30:15
  all proven themselves this year to this point. So I
• 30:18
  think that's what the lineup can do is gonna be
• 30:19
  the most important part, I think.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: So, I mean, hey, it's it's gonna be interesting.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: I think you did kind of lay that out very
• 30:26
  well earlier into to kind of come back to it.
• 30:29
  I think in Hammer's Home, what an important thing it
• 30:31
  is to keep in mind as these as these three
• 30:33
  games are going on, Jake gonna go to you. I
• 30:36
  want to know, specifically as it comes to Texas, who
• 30:41
  needs to stand out and lead the Longhorns to a victory,
• 30:46
  a series victory on the road.
• 30:50
  Speaker 7: So if I'm looking at one part of the one
• 30:53
  part of this team, like Josh talked about, just talked
• 30:56
  about their lineup just now, I think it's I think
• 30:58
  it is kind of the pitch to kind of just
• 31:00
  keep the momentum that they've kind of built on all year.
• 31:03
  I mean we've talked about this this Texas pitching staff
• 31:06
  pretty recently, but like like Luke Harrison was, you know,
• 31:10
  very good last weekend Rigeri Ohias was decent, had strikeouts,
• 31:14
  gave up three runs in like four innings. Dylan Vollanis
• 31:17
  was excellent once again. Like all three have a sub
• 31:20
  like two to two e RA on the year, and
• 31:22
  they've all struck out like more than twice as many
• 31:25
  as they've walked. And you know, the bullpen was also
• 31:28
  really good. Outside of like a couple of innings last weekend,
• 31:31
  they've the team's pitch into like a like a sub
• 31:33
  three ERA somewhere in that range. Like, the pitching is good,
• 31:37
  It's proven itself at the start of the year, and
• 31:39
  I think, you know, if there's one thing that needs
• 31:41
  to kind of keep the momentum going, I want to
• 31:44
  say it, it's just the pitching staff as a whole.
• 31:46
  With this Auburn offense was kind of caught fire here recently.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: I found a doubt I think that it is.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: It is going to be a battle of almost two
• 31:55
  pitching staffs that have been hyper compelling and the Texas offense.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: This week.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: Not the week to kind of have a road bump
• 32:07
  either way. Mister so Garreo, I'm gonna give you the
• 32:09
  opposite question. In your opinion, which player or I guess.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Like Jake did. You could say a group of players.
• 32:15
  I guess if you wanted to.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: Which player or group needs to step up and lead
• 32:19
  the Tigers to defend the turf and stave off the
• 32:23
  long ones.
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: I'll go with the group partner and kind of piggyback
• 32:27
  you off of what Jake said, I would stick with
• 32:29
  the bullpen. The bullpen's been pretty much elite like the
• 32:32
  entire season so far, so both pitching staff is, both
• 32:36
  offense both on fire for both teams, ignoring the Tyler
• 32:39
  Tek game aside, but they've both been like elite. So
• 32:44
  to me, it comes down to like once you get
• 32:46
  past the starters, both bullpens have been like good. Auburn's
• 32:50
  been on the slightly better side. But it's gonna be
• 32:53
  like who handles that pressure kind of like the most
• 32:55
  because to me, it's the number two and number three team,
• 32:58
  number three teams going at it, so there's gonna be
• 33:01
  a bit of that pressure. Bullpen is kind of way
• 33:03
  it all focus the late innings, So to me, it's
• 33:05
  gonna be Auburn's bullpen pretty much put it.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: Put it like that, Yeah, Miss so Gero, you used
• 33:14
  the magic word.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: I was gonna use first.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: The word I have defined in my head for this
• 33:19
  series is pressure. Who can stand up to the pressure? Josh,
• 33:23
  I do want to ask you one last thing before
• 33:24
  we make our picks. Can you think of a non tournament,
• 33:28
  non event setting in which a team has had to
• 33:31
  face back to back tougher opponents than Auburn will this week.
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: I've actually thought about this a lot, and I don't.
• 33:39
  I don't know, like there have been so many talks
• 33:43
  around campus, like the other day was the first top
• 33:46
  five matchup in the history of Plansmith Park, and now
• 33:48
  we have three more coming in this weekend. So I mean,
• 33:52
  I feel like it's a relatively common thing around the country.
• 33:54
  I don't. I don't think. Uh No, the Southern miss
• 33:59
  that we did not line up with the Arkansas series
• 34:01
  for them, so like for Mississippi State.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: So I was trying to think of it.
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean that's that's the closest thing,
• 34:11
  I guess, And that was a tournament setting, so they
• 34:12
  Missisippi State only played UCLA once. This is as tough
• 34:16
  of a week as it gets in college baseball, point
• 34:18
  blank period.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: That was my thought is I can't think of a
• 34:21
  tougher week for any any single squad thus far this year,
• 34:25
  and now there may be some to come, but without
• 34:27
  knowing all the schedules. Either way, let's go ahead and
• 34:30
  make picks. Josh, this may be the easiest one you
• 34:32
  make in your lifetime. And since you are the keeper
• 34:34
  of the picks, or rather since he did it for you,
• 34:37
  I'll let you go through JB's picks as well.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: So give us your pick and then give us JB's pick. Uh.
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: JB is gonna be a trader. He went with Texas.
• 34:46
  I don't know why. I probably just despite me, I
• 34:47
  don't know, better team that's probably not It probably have
• 34:50
  something to do with me.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: I can't.
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: I can't not take us in the spot after being
• 34:54
  in that ballpark yesterday, seeing these fans last week and
• 34:58
  this week yesterday, like the way that ballpark gets rocking
• 35:01
  when a team comes to town like this, and the
• 35:03
  way the teams were playing, so I can'tnot think against them.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: Well one Auburn one Texas. As we go to you, coach,
• 35:11
  what are you thinking?
• 35:13
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 35:14
  Speaker 7: I mean these are I mean, I don't know, those
• 35:16
  are both super well rounded teams. I went. I kind
• 35:19
  of went into this like playing on this being like
• 35:21
  a game time decision for me that this is this
• 35:25
  is definitely a series that whoever comes out on top
• 35:27
  is is likely to be considered, you know, the best
• 35:30
  team in the SEC right now. Like, I don't know,
• 35:32
  I think I'm I think, I think I am gonna
• 35:35
  go Texas. I'm no disrespect to Auburn there, I'm just
• 35:39
  not ready to pick against Texas yet could be prooved wrong.
• 35:43
  I'm going Texas, love it.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Love it, mister sol Gero.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: Two Texas is on the board and an Auburn, I'm curious,
• 35:51
  are you gonna heap on or are you gonna even
• 35:54
  the score?
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: Gotta stick with fellow, Josh, I'm gonna go with Auburn
• 35:59
  right over here, just a little more of a believer
• 36:01
  in that offense, a little more contact that I see
• 36:05
  less of a strikeout. So I'm hoping personally, hoping that
• 36:09
  it's gonna perform better against like that rotation and like
• 36:13
  coming off like the high of like beating Georgia Tech
• 36:16
  like handily. I think it will carry over too.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: I couldn't have said it better myself. I think it's
• 36:24
  gonna be Uh, Josh, should I give a war eagle
• 36:27
  I can't.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: I just I just can't.
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: Just about to say, give me a war Eagle Drew, I.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: I just can't, I just can't.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: I will take Auburn, and I think that it is
• 36:37
  coming off of such a humongous win.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: Like you said, Josh, the.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: Pressure, I think it could be negated by Hey, let's
• 36:43
  play at home in front of a crowd who's gonna
• 36:45
  be hyped for the biggest series in the history of
• 36:49
  this program.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: Arguably, Let's run it. Let's run it, and I'm gonna
• 36:54
  go with the Tigers.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: Shout out my boy bub Terrell since his name had
• 36:57
  got mentioned yet. All Right, moving on, mister Soulgaro, I'll
• 37:01
  have you walk us through this one. It is an
• 37:03
  acc matchup of two very well respected teams. Especially when
• 37:08
  it comes to our poll, it's gonna be n C
• 37:11
  State and Florida State. Can you give me the X
• 37:14
  factor for either team walking into this humogous showdown?
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: I think it would be hard to ignore kind of
• 37:21
  what like Florida State did this past weekend with the
• 37:24
  rotation Beard amendus both going off I mean kind of
• 37:27
  expected from the two of them, but like against like
• 37:29
  an actual good offense for just unhittable, So I feel
• 37:34
  like that should be able to carry over, especially against
• 37:37
  like Anti State in which that offense very high average,
• 37:42
  but it's not too much slugging within like that group
• 37:45
  of guys, so being able to I guess make contact.
• 37:48
  But with the strikeout stuff, with being amendus, I feel
• 37:51
  like it might be a little too much, so heavy
• 37:54
  on the Florida State pitching.
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: Not to be not to be a stir of the
• 38:00
  feces here, but I'm gonna try to set up some
• 38:03
  Josh on Josh crime here.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: Josh.
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: I know, mister Sougerow just kind of said that the
• 38:07
  NC State offense may not be able to stand up
• 38:09
  to this pitching staff, But I know you're a big
• 38:11
  fan of this NC State squad and especially of one
• 38:13
  mister mcew. Do you want to speak about what you
• 38:15
  think their offense needs to do to stand up against
• 38:18
  a pitching squad that I don't think any of us
• 38:20
  can say is anything less than jaw drumming.
• 38:23
  Speaker 5: I think what they've done this year has beyond exceeded
• 38:26
  my expectations for that offense for sure. I think kind
• 38:30
  of like I mentioned earlier, with watching know the opposite
• 38:33
  of what I mentioned earlier with Auburn. I think it's
• 38:35
  the top guys performing can continue to perform as kind
• 38:38
  of what would be in NC State's best interest to
• 38:40
  really do well this series. Like Chris mcque tie Heads
• 38:43
  had a good year. Sherman Johnson's looked really good this year.
• 38:46
  He's a four to twenty average only striking out eight
• 38:48
  percent of the time, way better than we expected from him.
• 38:52
  I think that's probably the best way to stand up
• 38:56
  to the Florida State rotation because if we're being honest,
• 38:58
  like it's going to be tough for these guys who
• 39:01
  have been strokling this year to get their get back
• 39:04
  and get on track against one of the best rotations
• 39:07
  in the country, top three, top five rotation in the country,
• 39:10
  especially after what we saw them do last week. And
• 39:12
  it's wake Forest. So I think it's the Stars Christmas
• 39:15
  Hugh tie Head. Did they really step up and continue
• 39:17
  to do what they've been doing. It should give ANTI
• 39:19
  State a good leg up.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: Well, said Jake.
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: My format here just says, let Jake talk about Florida
• 39:27
  State pitchers.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: So Florida is your sir.
• 39:32
  Speaker 6: I kind of got the Florida do that. In our
• 39:34
  last episode too.
• 39:35
  Speaker 7: I mean, and then mister Salgaro really covered him pretty
• 39:39
  well just in his in his part too. But I mean,
• 39:41
  I'll take any opportunity to talk about Trey Beard. I mean,
• 39:43
  he was just I mean, he was just he was crazy.
• 39:46
  Last weekend, I mean, all three of their starters was
• 39:49
  you know, lights out against wake Forest, which you know,
• 39:51
  I think we expected them to be good to that extent,
• 39:54
  I think consecutive games. I mean that I don't want
• 39:57
  to say shocked, but it was just really impressive what
• 40:00
  they were able to do against that team. And they're absolutely,
• 40:03
  you know, looking like the staff that we thought they
• 40:07
  would be coming into the season. I had high expectations
• 40:09
  for him. I know, Josh is a big West Mendez guy.
• 40:12
  Him and JB both like we had high expectations in there,
• 40:16
  and they are exceeding those expectations even more than what
• 40:19
  we thought they would.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: I think.
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: So all right, boys, another another tough one. We've got
• 40:26
  n C State and Florida State and mister Barjerie, I
• 40:28
  think we'll start with you here.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: Who are you gonna take?
• 40:33
  Speaker 7: I'm gonna pick I'm gonna pick Florida State. I mean,
• 40:37
  they've looked like They've looked like one of the best
• 40:38
  teams in the country, and like n C State's also
• 40:41
  looked really good, but they haven't, you know, they haven't
• 40:43
  been tested too terribly much this year so far. So
• 40:46
  I'm gonna go I'm gonna go with Florida State very good.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: Mister SOUGARO, curious which direction are you gonna go?
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: With one Florida State on the board. I have a
• 40:56
  feeling it might be two.
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: It's also gonna be a Florida's. I know I did
• 41:00
  dog on the NC State offense, but I think they'll
• 41:04
  hold their own. I think more like the focus will
• 41:07
  be like kind of how like the NC State pitcheres
• 41:09
  hold up. I know, dude didn't struggle like his last
• 41:11
  start against Boston College. Good offense in their own right,
• 41:14
  but still like a struggle. Marlin's been solid, Andrews has
• 41:18
  been solid, but they're going to need to keep that
• 41:20
  up against like a more powerful like lineup. So still
• 41:23
  going to lean Ploymada State.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: Yes, we definitely didn't talk about that, but I mean
• 41:28
  the the NC State pitchers who we expected. I think
• 41:31
  I think we expect them to be pretty good, would
• 41:33
  you say, guys, I mean leading into the season at
• 41:35
  least uh stumbley maybe the weirdest I don't know if
• 41:40
  that's the word stumbley against Boston College and Florida. They
• 41:44
  didn't know Boston College, so it's gonna be interesting to
• 41:46
  see what happens there. Josh, we're gonna go to you first.
• 41:50
  Let's hear from JB. Then let's get your pick.
• 41:53
  Speaker 5: Uh JB. Where is this? Oh? JB is also taking
• 41:57
  Florida State along with the rest of y'all. Look, the
• 42:01
  NC State rotation has been lights out, lights out, but
• 42:06
  I still trust Flora State's a little bit more. And
• 42:08
  not only is the rotation good, they have a lockdown
• 42:11
  relief arm in John Abraham they can use wherever they
• 42:14
  want to. He's pitched thirteen innings this year with a
• 42:17
  point sixty six ERA, only one walk to twenty strikeouts.
• 42:20
  Whenever they're on a spot where they need their best
• 42:22
  relief arm, they can throw him out there. And I
• 42:24
  have all the confidence in the world that could win
• 42:26
  them a game at this point. Honestly, so, I I'm
• 42:30
  risking a sweep on the graphic here. I don't know
• 42:32
  what you're gonna do, true, but I will take Florida State.
• 42:36
  I trust them just a little bit more.
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: Oh gosh, I was hoping you'd stick with NC State
• 42:42
  because I think we're gonna break the broom out.
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: Going forward to State.
• 42:45
  Speaker 6: I just.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: I don't think.
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: I think almost kind of the like we talked about
• 42:50
  with Texas and Auburn. I don't think a loss for
• 42:52
  either of these teams to the other is going to
• 42:54
  damage them.
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: But so n C State's not gonna be just.
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: You know, plummeting in my brain for losses to Florida State.
• 43:02
  I think they can take one of three. I feel
• 43:03
  very comfortable they can take one of three. But I
• 43:06
  think I trust Florida State more. I think that offense
• 43:09
  is going to be certainly in C State's pitching's toughest
• 43:14
  test for guys like Dudent and Maron and their crop
• 43:19
  of pitchers.
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: I just I feel a little bit a little bit.
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: Better about Let's move forward, though, mister Varjorie. We will
• 43:27
  let you lead this one off, because it is going
• 43:29
  to be Georgia taking on Texas, A and M a
• 43:32
  couple of SEC schools that have had I've had questions
• 43:36
  about both, but I feel like the last couple of
• 43:38
  weeks I've had a lot more answers coming about, and now.
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: The collision course has led them into one another.
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: What's the X factor for either of the Aggies or
• 43:46
  the Bulldogs this weekend.
• 43:48
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm always one that loves to talk about that
• 43:52
  loves to talk about pitching on these shows. But I
• 43:54
  think for this matchup, all the eyes are going to
• 43:56
  be on the two offenses. I mean, like for Georgia,
• 44:00
  like it's homers. They hit a lot of home runs
• 44:03
  at Georgia. Ryan Black had a couple on the weekend.
• 44:07
  Daniel Jackson, Brendon Hudson, Kobe Branch all have double digit homers.
• 44:10
  They're slugging it close to like seven hundred as a team,
• 44:13
  like this team hits for power, I mean they've hit
• 44:16
  for average as well. Like they just they put runs
• 44:19
  on the board and they and they have the power
• 44:21
  ability to put runs on the board quickly. And then
• 44:25
  for for A and M it's it's sort.
• 44:28
  Speaker 6: Of the same. But they're more like well rounded.
• 44:31
  Speaker 7: I guess I can say they don't just rely on
• 44:33
  the long ball a time, not that Georgia relies on it,
• 44:35
  but they don't hit it as as as high of
• 44:37
  a clip as they do. But like Caden Surrell obviously
• 44:41
  really performing this year. Eleven homers, thirteen hundred ops, Gavin
• 44:45
  Grohovic's over one thousand ops, Boston kelendor Bear Harrison, Like
• 44:49
  the list just goes on. I think that these are
• 44:52
  two really, really high powered offenses. I didn't mind George's
• 44:57
  pigeon staff this past weekend, but Texas A and M
• 45:00
  we talked about it. I think in the last episode
• 45:02
  they struggled on the mound, So I mean this could
• 45:05
  come down to which staff or which rotation, you know,
• 45:08
  kind of steps up. But I'm really looking forward to
• 45:10
  watching these two offenses go at it.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: There's gonna be two bulls in a sentence straight. I
• 45:16
  like that you said it's offense versus offense.
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: Mister Southguaro is gonna go to you talking about this
• 45:22
  Texas A and M team and this this Georgia team.
• 45:28
  I guess the main question for me is do you
• 45:32
  think that any pitcher in this group of two teams
• 45:36
  is gonna stand out enough to say I can shut
• 45:39
  down this other offense.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: Who jumps to mind if anybody.
• 45:43
  Speaker 4: I think he will come down to. Like the long
• 45:45
  relief guys like A and M has fresh corn, they
• 45:48
  have Gavin Lyons, So it's gonna be those two guys
• 45:51
  that they're gonna be leaning on. Like, say, some guy
• 45:53
  gets hit around West and Moss has kind of been
• 45:55
  struggling a bit lately, So for example, say he last
• 45:58
  two or three innings, one of the thous gonna have
• 46:01
  to come in, like go three four shutdown, just to
• 46:03
  like bring it into like the other guys, to like
• 46:05
  kind of piece it together and keep them in the game.
• 46:08
  The same thing goes for the Georgia guys. With Kenny
• 46:10
  Chikawa back I believe Matt Scott cop pushed back into
• 46:13
  the bullpen, so they're gonna have Matt Scott kidding Aoki,
• 46:15
  say some starter gets hit around a bunch, one of
• 46:18
  those two guys is gonna be needed to come in
• 46:20
  kind of piece it together to the end of the game,
• 46:22
  kind of holding it together. So those four guys are
• 46:24
  going to be like the most important I believe in
• 46:27
  this series. And being like the luxury of having like
• 46:31
  two of those guys on each of those teams, they
• 46:33
  could afford to like pont a game and then piggyback
• 46:36
  on like the other two in order to take the series.
• 46:38
  But those four guys are gonna be key for me.
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: Those are four guys that I would even go on
• 46:43
  to say, Saghero that I think they've all got a
• 46:45
  little bit of gas to them.
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: They can go a couple innings.
• 46:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, totally.
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: So I'm with you that I think that that might
• 46:52
  be a really important thing that I'm not sure gets
• 46:54
  enough credit. Certainly, I'm glad that we're starting the We're
• 46:58
  starting the padding on the back of the long relief
• 47:00
  crew here, miss Sucker.
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: Good job, Mister Catlett.
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna come to you here because there is a
• 47:06
  gentleman playing for Texas A and M that you are
• 47:08
  pretty partial to, if I if my memory serves correctly,
• 47:13
  do you think that any one player playing for maybe
• 47:17
  Texas A and M could I don't know, put the
• 47:20
  team on his back and really shut down probably the most,
• 47:26
  don't I mean coming from a guy who loves a
• 47:29
  power merchant team that's kind of built the name on
• 47:31
  being a power merchant team recently, this power merchant Georgia team,
• 47:35
  I mean, is there any one player on A and
• 47:37
  M who you think could just put him on his
• 47:39
  back and say, let's do this.
• 47:40
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna imagine you're trying to pry the name Chris
• 47:43
  Okopian out of the day and I'll let you do it.
• 47:47
  After coming back from injury, they put him at second
• 47:50
  base because if, for being honest, there's a couple of
• 47:52
  freshmen that have really stood out on the left side
• 47:54
  of the endfield, they're not going to move on from Pope.
• 47:57
  Just as good as we imagine, he is a five
• 47:59
  hundred average, which coming after coming back with a fourteen
• 48:02
  ninety eight ops only striking out nine percent of the time,
• 48:05
  which are similar numbers to what he had at Maryland. Well,
• 48:07
  the strikeout number, not the other ones. But he's carried
• 48:11
  it right over as we imagine he would. Hopefully he
• 48:14
  can keep it up over a longer stretch. You know,
• 48:16
  the SEC is way to up for competition, clearly, But
• 48:20
  if there's anyone that's gonna put his the team on
• 48:22
  his back, it's probably Hiccopian. Soirell probably has that potential too,
• 48:27
  But like I said, like those freshmen on the left
• 48:29
  side of the infield. Nico Partita at third base, Boston
• 48:32
  Killiner at shortstop Partidas betted three Fofty nine This year
• 48:36
  he has four home runs. Boston Killiner's betted or he
• 48:39
  has a ten sixty three ops, four home runs, always
• 48:42
  striking out thirteen percent of the time, just elite stuff
• 48:44
  from young guys like that. So I think they have
• 48:48
  enough talent dispersed well throughout that lineup that they're gonna
• 48:52
  be fine regardless on that front. But yeah, obviously, if
• 48:55
  there's anybody you want coming to the plate in a
• 48:57
  tough situation, it's Akobian.
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: I think so.
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: And similar question, is there anybody on this Georgia team
• 49:04
  that you think can do the same.
• 49:07
  Speaker 5: I mean, to this point of the year, it's been
• 49:09
  Daniel Jackson. I mean, you gotta say him. He's had
• 49:12
  four to eighteen with fourteen home runs to this point
• 49:15
  in the season. I mean, that's gotta be the most consistent,
• 49:17
  reliable guy you've got on that team so far. Henry
• 49:19
  Allen's about in four hundred. Trey Phelps is near that mark.
• 49:23
  I mean, they have they Brendan Hudson has I think
• 49:25
  like ten or eleven home runs. I mean, they've got
• 49:28
  guys across the board that and quote unquote put the
• 49:31
  team on their back. But I guess Daniel Jackson would
• 49:33
  be my short answer.
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: Thanks, all right, let's talk picks, uh, Miss Catley will
• 49:39
  go to you first.
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: Then we'll hear from JB as well Georgia, A and M.
• 49:43
  Who are you taking Joshua?
• 49:45
  Speaker 5: I think I'm gonna take the Bulldogs on the road,
• 49:48
  even though they're coming off an emotional series win last week.
• 49:51
  That offense is just too good, and this A and
• 49:53
  M rotation has been struggling a little too much recently
• 49:56
  for my liking to really be able to trust them.
• 50:00
  Things Algaro said was perfect about the long relief guys
• 50:03
  on both sides for both teams. That's exactly what my
• 50:06
  answer would be for what's the X factor for both teams?
• 50:09
  I trust Georgia's a little more than I do. And
• 50:12
  then to this point, everything is just I get a
• 50:14
  slight edge to Georgia, and even though they are on
• 50:16
  the road, I trust their ability to take over well,
• 50:19
  said mister sol Garo.
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: Will go to you.
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: Josh sets you up pretty perfectly there with a T
• 50:25
  the balls on the tee.
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: Where are you taking it?
• 50:28
  Speaker 4: I'll differ. I'll go with A and M. I'm more
• 50:31
  of a believer in their long relief guys compared to Georgia.
• 50:34
  I'm familiar with Katie and I'll keep from his usc
• 50:37
  D so kind of get an understanding what he brings,
• 50:39
  but also waiting for that Gavin Grohovic like power breakout
• 50:44
  for A and M. I believe I'm hoping this is
• 50:47
  a series ide finally comes, but like that whole lineup.
• 50:50
  I mean, both lineups are great, but huge Kaden Sir
• 50:53
  el Maan, Terrence Kiell's amazing love Terrence kill a lot,
• 50:58
  also banking on that Garlovic and and having Hookopian back
• 51:01
  to I think that lineup's just too good at well rounded,
• 51:06
  at everything. They're just gonna take it interesting.
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: I like that Jake gonna go to you Georgia and
• 51:14
  A and M.
• 51:17
  Speaker 7: I think I think I'm gonna go Georgia. I think, uh,
• 51:20
  I think I like. I think I like the offense.
• 51:22
  I think they like the way I kind of can
• 51:25
  see this going with the way that A and M's
• 51:26
  kind of rotation has been recently.
• 51:29
  Speaker 6: I mean, I could see.
• 51:30
  Speaker 7: A world where Georgia really jumps on them early in
• 51:33
  a couple of these games, and you know, gets out
• 51:35
  to a pretty pretty big lead early, especially if they
• 51:37
  can get uh, you know, good adding from a Vulchko
• 51:41
  and a Vigu. They've kind of both settled into their
• 51:43
  roles pretty good, not like blown away, but they've both
• 51:47
  been good and better than what A and M has
• 51:48
  been getting out of their starting pitching. So I think
• 51:50
  I'm gonna bank on that Georgia offense.
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: Jake, I'm glad to say that you and I both
• 51:56
  aren't holding grudges.
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: I agree, though I think it's Georgia.
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: I think think that I think it is gonna come
• 52:02
  down to how quick can Georgia come out of the
• 52:04
  gate offensively to jump on this an n pitching squad
• 52:09
  who you know, like Sagero said, I think the bullpens
• 52:12
  are gonna be what might stifle Georgia a bit.
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: But I don't know.
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: This is an offense that even I mean to kind
• 52:19
  of touch on what Josh said a minute ago, even
• 52:22
  on the road, I just Georgia's looked like kind of
• 52:25
  a different animal, a bulldog as it were. Didn't intend that,
• 52:30
  but a different animal. I'm gonna go Georgia, and so
• 52:33
  we'll split that one three to two.
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: Interesting graphic this far, all right, Josh, We're gonna come
• 52:38
  to you wake Forest and Virginia. Looking at these two
• 52:42
  teams both very impressive. I think Virginia's kind of the
• 52:47
  rest of the nation's kind of joining us on the
• 52:49
  you know that's right, Virginia train.
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: I think we've kind of I'll give us. We've been
• 52:55
  on that since the beginning of the year.
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: But wait, an interesting challenge for the certainly in the
• 53:01
  pitching department at least. It's gonna test this Virginia squad
• 53:05
  and Josh, I'm curious what's the X factor for this series.
• 53:10
  Speaker 5: For both teams. I think it's the arms, because both
• 53:13
  the lineups have not been flashy per se. Besides, I
• 53:16
  guess Gracia for Virginia and like I guess Luke Cosel
• 53:20
  for wake Forest too. But I think there's a certain
• 53:25
  I think Uva has a little bit of a leg
• 53:26
  up on the pitching side. The rotation hasn't been stellar
• 53:30
  per se, but like the top bullpen arms really have been.
• 53:33
  Lucas Hartman in particular, he's got a one to forty era,
• 53:36
  especially like twenty five innings for them this year. He's
• 53:38
  been stellar, and a bunch of other names have to
• 53:41
  Wake Forest recently. I don't know what's going on with them.
• 53:45
  Like Duncan Marston had a good start of the year.
• 53:48
  His last two outings have been terrible. He's only one
• 53:51
  six and a third innings over two outings with an
• 53:54
  eighteen forty seven ERA allowed thirteen hits, four walks. I
• 53:58
  don't really know what like, I guess the uptick and
• 54:01
  play probably is a big part of it. For being honest,
• 54:03
  Blake Morning Star. No one knows what's going on with
• 54:06
  him on the whole year. He is at seven twelve ERA.
• 54:09
  His FIP is even worse as an eight twenty if
• 54:11
  you're under that kind of stuff. So I don't really
• 54:14
  I can't really put my finger on it, because this
• 54:15
  stuff has gotten a little bit better. He just can't
• 54:18
  control it the right way. He's getting hit around a
• 54:20
  little bit, and it's kind of concerning, And I think
• 54:22
  that might linger just a little bit into the series,
• 54:25
  especially when facing a lineup like UVa's, where you know,
• 54:28
  guys like AJ Grascia, Sam Harris have been really performing,
• 54:31
  They're probably gonna get hit around a little bit. If
• 54:33
  I had to guess, MM, think you may.
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: I think you may be onto something there.
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: All right, let's hear the picks, Josh, Let's hear you.
• 54:42
  Let's hear JB on Wake in Virginia, yeah.
• 54:47
  Speaker 5: Also on the last one JP haad A and M
• 54:49
  I don't think we mentioned that. On this one, JB
• 54:54
  has uva and I'm going to join him for the
• 54:57
  same reasons I just mentioned.
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: Or rewind thirty seconds.
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: Uh, so Garo, I'm gonna go to you, Uh who
• 55:08
  are you picking?
• 55:09
  Speaker 4: And give me one sentence as to why I'm gonna
• 55:12
  be going with Wake. I believe they're pitching Staff has
• 55:15
  like a better chance of kind of balancing back, I know,
• 55:18
  like the last weekend and for a couple of them,
• 55:20
  like the last few starts have been like kind of rough,
• 55:23
  but like looking at Virginia Staff, it's nothing like to
• 55:26
  outstanding or nothing like short to dominate really, So I'm
• 55:32
  still like a believe in morning Star Marston. I don't
• 55:36
  know what's gonna make of him, but having like morning
• 55:39
  Star having Levonis, I believe they're gonna come back and
• 55:42
  like take it probably two one, but yeah, two to one.
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: Man, so girls putting this putting the final score on
• 55:49
  the board. Uh, Jake, who are you thinking? We've got
• 55:53
  a two to one split favoring uv A.
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: What are you gonna do here, Jake?
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, Before I make the pick, I'm glad he mentioned Lavonas.
• 56:02
  Every time we talk about Wake Forest, I just want
• 56:04
  to mention Chris Lavonas and what he's doing recently. I mean,
• 56:07
  twenty five innings one seven, five, You all right, That's
• 56:12
  that's insane. I mean, could he be on his way
• 56:14
  to becoming you know, the Friday Starters.
• 56:16
  Speaker 6: I mean it could be.
• 56:17
  Speaker 7: I don't know, uh, but I mean that that doesn't
• 56:20
  really set up my pick very well. I'm going to
• 56:22
  pick Virginia, but I want.
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: I wanted to.
• 56:24
  Speaker 6: I did, I did want to mention.
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: I didn't want to mention.
• 56:26
  Speaker 7: Lavonas though, because he's he's earned the recognition.
• 56:29
  Speaker 5: If we are going to mention Lavonas, I think it's
• 56:31
  I think it needs to be mentioned. Also, he's strucking
• 56:34
  out fifty two percent of batters this year. Fifty two
• 56:37
  that's just that's just a number that needs to be
• 56:40
  thrown out into the abyss. That through through one or
• 56:42
  two weeks, that's you know, impressive whatever. Through five six
• 56:46
  weeks of play, that's we're getting into the absurd range.
• 56:49
  So just I'm glad you touched on Lavonas. I just
• 56:51
  want to throw that out there too.
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: Josh, can you hold up five fingers, Jake, can you
• 56:57
  hold up two fingers? It's that percentage you at home
• 57:04
  for Yeah, you visual waters at home. Lavonas is going
• 57:08
  absolutely nuclear right now. Yeah, I gotta say I like
• 57:13
  Morning Star as well, so Ghara, that's a great point.
• 57:15
  I'm still a believer Lavonas, As you said, kind of
• 57:18
  go a nuts. It's hard to argue with what Marston
• 57:21
  has done. I'm not exactly sure what I think of him.
• 57:24
  I think it's gonna come out in the wash this season,
• 57:25
  but neither here nor there. And to piggyback off Jake
• 57:29
  say all those kind of things to say, I think
• 57:30
  I'm taking the NBA as well. I just man, that
• 57:34
  offense is just good. We have not said Eric Becker's name.
• 57:38
  That's a first round pick, that's a professional hitter, and
• 57:41
  I just I gotta get it in there once per episode.
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: To keep the propaganda flowing.
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: All right, Josh, We're gonna go to you, Florida Alabama
• 57:50
  one more time. Walk us through, Josh, what you think
• 57:53
  the major sticking point for these two teams are Alabama
• 57:58
  needs a win pretty bad, and I think Florida maybe
• 58:00
  shaky enough to pull it out unless we see the
• 58:03
  Gators really chop down and make a statement for a
• 58:06
  second Street week.
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: What do you mean?
• 58:09
  Speaker 5: This seems like super surface level analysis, But I really
• 58:12
  do think it's true. I think both teams have a
• 58:15
  star on offense and the rest of the team has
• 58:18
  yet to really step up consistently around them. They have
• 58:21
  to do so. Brendan Lawson's like phenomenal this year for Florida,
• 58:25
  and so has Justin Lebron for Alabama. I mean Brendan
• 58:28
  Lawson's running a sixteen to fifty seven ops this year
• 58:30
  with ten home runs. He's walking twenty seven percent of
• 58:33
  the time for Bama. Justin Lebron's eleven twenty four ops
• 58:37
  with nine home runs. He swiped twenty bags at this
• 58:40
  point in the year. It's just the guys around them
• 58:42
  that haven't really really put on a show that much.
• 58:45
  Brady Neil, Jason Torres have looked pretty good for Obama.
• 58:48
  You know, they're taking walks at a pretty high clip.
• 58:51
  I just think it's more of how do those guys
• 58:56
  step up on a game to game basis, because we
• 58:58
  have no doubts about them. The pitching staff at least
• 59:01
  have started for Florida. I had no doubts about them
• 59:03
  either Bama little more iffy. But I think it's just
• 59:09
  a matter of who. I mean, I've said it twice
• 59:12
  three times at this point, who steps up around the
• 59:14
  main stars, Because you know, Florida is, especially against South
• 59:17
  Carolina last week, really really struggling at the plate pretty consistently.
• 59:22
  So I think that's like, if there's gonna be one
• 59:24
  main X factor, that's probably it.
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: I like it.
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: Hey well said man. And it might be surface level analysis.
• 59:31
  Sometimes you don't have to scratch any deeper than that.
• 59:33
  I think that it's almost being I don't know, being
• 59:38
  deep for the sense of being deep whenever the number
• 59:40
  we're looking at you right in the face is just
• 59:42
  as effective. What's it going to be the pick for you, Josh?
• 59:45
  Speaker 5: I can't think Bama. That's gonna be Florida for me.
• 59:48
  I mean, the analysis part of it is the one
• 59:50
  two punch of Peterson King is ridiculous. Peterson's striking up
• 59:54
  forty four percent of batters at this point, Aidan King
• 59:56
  is not allowed to earn run by the way, and
• 59:58
  it's March eighteen as we're recording this. That's I think
• 1:00:03
  he's the only one in the country if I remember correctly,
• 1:00:05
  with like you're right, more than more than seventeen eighteen
• 1:00:07
  angs pitched, It's ridiculous. I don't think Bama's gonna be
• 1:00:10
  able to match up with that, especially the way Tyler
• 1:00:12
  Face been pitching on Fridays.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: Jake, in an ultimate battle of let's hate ourselves for
• 1:00:19
  having to pick one of these two teams, I'm curious
• 1:00:22
  who you're gonna pick between Florida and Alabama.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 7: I'm also gonna go Florida for pretty much the same
• 1:00:29
  exact reasons as Josh mentioned. I was, I was gonna.
• 1:00:32
  I was gonna also make the point of Aiden King
• 1:00:35
  having not allowed and earned run yet to this point,
• 1:00:37
  which is just absurd. I'll say it again, I guess.
• 1:00:39
  But yeah, him and Liam Peterson give him as good
• 1:00:42
  a chance as anybody really right now to win two games.
• 1:00:45
  And I trust them a lot more than I trust
• 1:00:47
  really any any pitcher on that Alabama staff.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: So give me, give me Florida.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: Well, so, mister Solgaro, go into you three Floridas on
• 1:00:55
  the bord. Are you gonna save us? Save the graphic?
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 4: I don't think I can. Both Josh and Jay kind
• 1:01:01
  of stole the words, right, out of my mouth pretty
• 1:01:05
  much gonna be about like the guy surrounding the stars
• 1:01:07
  in the lineup, and I think Florida's pitching is way
• 1:01:10
  too good, Like even Alabama yesterday's matchup against South Alabama,
• 1:01:15
  they got shut out kind of how they handled that
• 1:01:16
  was just pitching around Lebron and no one else around
• 1:01:19
  him could like step up, So more of the same thing.
• 1:01:22
  I think it's gonna be Florida.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: Well said, well said, all right, and that brings us
• 1:01:28
  to me and I guess uh, I'll chomp begrudgingly.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: We're gonna go Florida.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: I considering the guy that we're giving so much credence
• 1:01:41
  to being a quality offensive player, and justin Lebron, I
• 1:01:46
  don't know how he's going to stand up to Liam Peterson.
• 1:01:49
  I really truly don't. And that's not even talking about King.
• 1:01:52
  That's not even talking about guys out of this bullpen
• 1:01:55
  that I.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: Think will give Lebron a really tough time. I agree,
• 1:02:01
  I agree, and I'm gonna go with Florida.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: The clunk of the desk was absolutely correct, mister, so Garrow,
• 1:02:08
  gonna give it to you here to walk us through
• 1:02:10
  what the X factor could be for Kentucky and Ole Miss.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 4: I'll start with the Kentucky. I mean kind of the
• 1:02:18
  big thing is Tyler Bell being back and kind of
• 1:02:20
  getting right back into the swing of things, kind of
• 1:02:22
  supplementing that offense, which has been pretty good to start
• 1:02:25
  the year two. Pitching slowed down a bit, but that
• 1:02:30
  offense is like too good. I think I'll be like
• 1:02:32
  good enough to like supplement hit and then going with
• 1:02:35
  Ole Miss. A bunch of heavy hitters in that lineup,
• 1:02:38
  So like going against Kentucky kind of what they're slowing
• 1:02:41
  down pitching might be a little too much, but I
• 1:02:43
  think it's kind of an even matchup with like opposing strains,
• 1:02:46
  opposing weak miss. I think it'll be kind of like
• 1:02:48
  fun to watch.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: It's definitely gonna be fun to watch for sure, And
• 1:02:52
  I'm curious who are you gonna take there, mister Garrow.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 4: The one's a little harder decision. I think I will
• 1:03:00
  go with Kentucky. I love Tyler Bell. I think that's
• 1:03:03
  just like a shot of energy into that lineup as
• 1:03:05
  a whole. Like anytime like a team gets a start
• 1:03:08
  back moves where all's gonna be up. It's kind of
• 1:03:11
  been like how they've been so I think that would
• 1:03:14
  be enough to give Kentucky at least felt like another
• 1:03:16
  week or two.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: But who was that player you said you loved.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 4: I don't think I said his name quite yet. Tyler Bell?
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: Oh okay. I just wanted to drive the propaganda.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 5: He's such a good jus.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: He's doing, he's doing, he's doing.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: The Bell propagada is really rolling right along.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 4: I love It's just call energy.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: That's what that's what it does.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 4: That's what it was.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: Jake, curious, what do you think in here Old Miss
• 1:03:38
  or Kentucky?
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 7: You know they're these two teams are close. In my mind,
• 1:03:46
  I do like what Old Miss is doing offensively, I
• 1:03:50
  think I think that's what I'm gonna take. I think
• 1:03:51
  I'm gonna take Ole Miss uh defending their home turf
• 1:03:54
  against Kentucky.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be a tight one. I think it's gonna
• 1:03:57
  be interesting. Josh, who are you taking? And then who
• 1:04:00
  has mister JD selected.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 5: I'm glad Jake saved the graphic there because JB took Kentucky,
• 1:04:06
  and so am I. I think the concerns with the
• 1:04:10
  Old Miss rotation right now, just the questions are a
• 1:04:12
  little too much for me because especially with the Ka
• 1:04:15
  Townsend injury. He apparently the MRI came back and it's
• 1:04:18
  not as bad as they thought at first, but he'll
• 1:04:20
  probably still miss this week. Hunter Elliott's kind of had
• 1:04:24
  a concerning start of the year. I mean, he's running
• 1:04:26
  a four three eight ERA, which isn't awful, but bad
• 1:04:29
  for his standards. He's walking eighteen percent of guys. That's
• 1:04:32
  bad for anyone's standards. I think it's just a matter
• 1:04:35
  of I don't know how well he's gonna be able
• 1:04:39
  to reel that, and he's one of the more trustworthy
• 1:04:41
  guys in the country, but it's been week over week
• 1:04:43
  at this point that I just kind of start to
• 1:04:45
  raise my eyebrows at a certain point, and I don't
• 1:04:47
  know what that say. Role looks like, like who ole
• 1:04:50
  miss puts in there this week?
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: Guy?
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 5: Assume they're gonna move Will Livert up to the Saturday spot.
• 1:04:54
  You know, it's like Taylor Rabe, that guy who they
• 1:04:56
  put in there. He's looked way better than usual, especially
• 1:04:59
  after last year as poorly as he looked at times.
• 1:05:01
  It's been good to see him step up this year
• 1:05:03
  and perform a little bit better. I don't know who
• 1:05:06
  they're gonna put in that Sunday spot. I'm not sure
• 1:05:08
  it matters because you know, Nate Harrison look pretty solid
• 1:05:10
  on Sunday. I don't know who's gonna go to outperform him.
• 1:05:14
  We'll see. I'll take Kentucky.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: I think I'm with you.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: You you hit all of my major points, Josh, I
• 1:05:21
  and I do like Jake.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: I like the old Miss offense. Beseta has looked so good.
• 1:05:25
  You remark has been solid again. I just m I
• 1:05:29
  don't know. I think the Townshend injury may have tipped
• 1:05:32
  me the other way.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: Earlier this week when we talked about these games, I
• 1:05:35
  wanted to pick Ole Miss, but I just don't. I
• 1:05:37
  don't think I can today. So game time decision got
• 1:05:40
  me again. All Right, gonna talk about Oklahoma l s
• 1:05:44
  U Jake, Gonna jump to that one really quickly. Uh curious,
• 1:05:48
  what do you think the X factor for these two
• 1:05:50
  teams are? Both of them could certainly who's a win? Yeah?
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 7: You got you, You're you are right about that. I'm
• 1:06:00
  at the thing I'm looking at here really is like
• 1:06:04
  how does Oklahoma's pitching staff kind of bounce back? Like
• 1:06:08
  like Cam Johnson's outing last Friday was kind of disastrous,
• 1:06:11
  you know, as he kind of completely lost his own there,
• 1:06:15
  But the rest of his season has been pretty impressive.
• 1:06:17
  So I mean, we'll see if he's able to bounce
• 1:06:19
  back against this LSU lineup that you know, it looked
• 1:06:23
  better this past weekend. They scored runs against Vanderbilt, but
• 1:06:26
  like it's still not to the caliber that you want
• 1:06:28
  to see it if you just look at their overall numbers.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 6: Also that LSU, you know.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 7: The rotation they just the three starters are just not
• 1:06:39
  giving the Tigers what they need. And the bullpen is
• 1:06:41
  also still a concern. Somebody's got to be able to
• 1:06:43
  stop the bleeding, and they haven't really found a guy
• 1:06:45
  that's been able to consistently do that yet.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 6: Both teams have.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 7: Concerns, So I think I guess I'll say the Oklahoma
• 1:06:57
  pitchers versus this LSU offense is kind of the thing
• 1:06:59
  that I'm paying attention to a little bit.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: They haven't found somebody yet to stop the bleeding. Jake,
• 1:07:06
  what a beautiful way of saying that, Like, totally totally
• 1:07:10
  indicative of the LSU season. It ad nutshelled beautiful, beautiful
• 1:07:15
  way of saying that. Now, Jake who are you gonna
• 1:07:16
  pick of these two squads? You know it?
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 7: It feels so weird still picking having the thought of
• 1:07:25
  picking against LSU at home. But I think I'm going
• 1:07:28
  to I think I'm gonna go Oklahoma.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: I just I don't know the l S.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 7: The pitching for LSU just concerns me a lot right now,
• 1:07:36
  and I just think I'm gonna go Oklahoma.
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I understand, mister sol garo Oklahoma from Jake even
• 1:07:45
  on the road at alex Box.
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: I'm curious. So you're gonna make it too Oklahoma's are
• 1:07:48
  we gonna eave it up?
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna go with LSU. I Oka before the season
• 1:07:54
  loved Cameron Johnson's stuff. I was a big believer in
• 1:07:57
  like l J. McCurry's breakout. But even with like their
• 1:08:00
  success to start the year, it hasn't been like elite
• 1:08:03
  level teams they've been playing and they finally pace kind
• 1:08:06
  of like a respectable team, and they both kind of struggled.
• 1:08:09
  Cam Johnson reverting back to like the command problems like
• 1:08:12
  playing them beforehand, and LS was kind of like the
• 1:08:15
  patient team. Off my account, it was like five guys
• 1:08:19
  in that lineup running walk percentages over ten percent, So
• 1:08:22
  I think they have enough to like just wait it
• 1:08:25
  out and like as Jake mentioned, Bullpen still looking for
• 1:08:29
  that guy to like help out and just keep them in.
• 1:08:32
  So I think LSU can might make for a boring
• 1:08:35
  game with a bunch of walks, but I think ls
• 1:08:38
  will take that battle offensively.
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: Might be I don't think these two teams can put
• 1:08:44
  up a boring game. I hope not at least, and
• 1:08:46
  it's a yeah energy wise, absolutely absolutely not. Alex Box
• 1:08:51
  will never be boring. Josh gonna go to you and JB.
• 1:08:54
  I'll let you speak for JB first before you give us.
• 1:08:56
  You give us short thoughts.
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 5: JB is gonna arrivee with Garo and take LSU. In
• 1:09:04
  terms of me, both these guys just stole every bit
• 1:09:07
  of analysis out of my mouth that I was gonna say.
• 1:09:10
  This Oklahoma rotation is full of punch out demons to
• 1:09:14
  this point. They're all running strikeout rates over thirty percent,
• 1:09:17
  but they've had walk issues in the past and it
• 1:09:20
  kind of showed up again last week. LSU seems to
• 1:09:23
  have a really like across the board. They do anything
• 1:09:25
  well on offense, they seem to take walks well, have
• 1:09:27
  pretty solid approaches, disciplined approaches. So if Oklahoma can't reel
• 1:09:32
  that back in, it could cause issues against you know,
• 1:09:35
  an underperforming LSU lineup. Trent Carroway, Stephen Milom, Derek Currile
• 1:09:40
  all haven't really looked great this year compared to what
• 1:09:42
  we thought. None of them have an OPS over nine hundred.
• 1:09:45
  Curiel's only one over eight hundred. I think I just
• 1:09:50
  I cannot bring myself to take LSU until they showed
• 1:09:54
  me something over the past couple of weeks. I'm gonna
• 1:09:55
  take Oklahoma it like like you said it. It really
• 1:10:00
  hurts me to pick against LSU with Alex Flock, but
• 1:10:04
  they just they've showed me nothing like over the past
• 1:10:07
  two three weeks. It's just been dead lifeless. Besides the
• 1:10:10
  Sunday against Vandy last week, I just can't bring myself
• 1:10:13
  to do it until I see it first.
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 2: I'm really stuck here, guys, because this whole I was
• 1:10:20
  gonna take LSU.
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: I said, this is it.
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 2: Sunday, like you said in Nashville, was the turning point.
• 1:10:26
  This is where they turn it on. But do I
• 1:10:29
  really believe that?
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: Do I think?
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 2: What do I think the difference is between Vanderbilt Sunday
• 1:10:35
  pitching and Oklahoma Friday and Saturday pitching.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: I think it is a big difference.
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 2: I think we've seen, as so Gero mentioned just a
• 1:10:43
  moment ago, I think he and I might have been
• 1:10:44
  the only two people in the world on the l
• 1:10:45
  jbccurious breakout very and prior to the season.
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: But I'm glad we were there. Cam Johnson's been incredible.
• 1:10:51
  I just I don't know.
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 2: But again, it's alex Box, this is LSU. Are they
• 1:10:57
  gonna let Oklahoma come in and beat them? I mean,
• 1:11:01
  I'm genuinely stuck here, guys. I'm genuinely stuck. I I'm
• 1:11:07
  gonna go. I'm gonna I'm gonna take LSU. I'm gonna
• 1:11:10
  take LSU begrudgingly though.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: This Oh, this is a tough one.
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 2: That's gonna be that and the one that we're about
• 1:11:18
  to get into. I've saved my favorite for last. Let's
• 1:11:21
  talk Big twelve baseball on the show. Okay, all right, guys.
• 1:11:26
  I think this might not surprise Jake or Josh to know,
• 1:11:28
  but mister Solgaro, I will tell you, I think my
• 1:11:31
  two favorite teams to watch this year have been Kansas
• 1:11:34
  State and Arizona State two incredible teams, and I know
• 1:11:38
  one of them. Kansas State has certainly had a buoy
• 1:11:42
  of a lifetime this season in shortstop d Kennedy. He
• 1:11:46
  has turned to the corner, is actually done a lot
• 1:11:49
  of what I think the major knock on him was
• 1:11:51
  is he's a bit aggressive.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: It gets to be a bit of a free swinger.
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 2: And yet this year we've seen a little bit of
• 1:11:56
  refinement out of this kid, to the point where I
• 1:11:58
  think on Twitter earlier this past week I even said
• 1:12:01
  I could stand for him to swing a little more.
• 1:12:03
  Are you but at the top of the Big twelve
• 1:12:06
  charts at least top five for sure without having looked
• 1:12:09
  at that list today, in both home runs and stolen basis,
• 1:12:12
  He's a dynamite catalyst for this team. And then when
• 1:12:16
  you're talking about catalysts, you got to talk about for
• 1:12:18
  Arizona State, Dean Toygo, who has been absolutely nuclear lately.
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: I think the other day hit his ninth.
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 2: I believe it's his ninth home run, could have been
• 1:12:26
  the tenth, but I'm gonna say ninth on the show,
• 1:12:27
  So check me at home and let me know in
• 1:12:30
  the comments if I'm wrong. But Toygo has been absolutely
• 1:12:32
  in fuego. This team has not lost a step since
• 1:12:36
  losing nine, thank you. Josh has not lost the steptions
• 1:12:39
  losing a new contrades. And it's been guys step up,
• 1:12:43
  whether it's my old friend Dominic Longo, whether it's it's
• 1:12:47
  guys like Landon Harrison, who has I think reached a
• 1:12:50
  new level of his astronomical power. It's gonna be for
• 1:12:55
  my money, offense versus offense. And that might be putting
• 1:12:59
  a little bit too much of shade towards mister a
• 1:13:03
  pitcher that I know Josh really loves mister Carlin, But
• 1:13:06
  I just I.
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: Don't I don't know.
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 2: I don't really think that any one picture in this
• 1:13:13
  series can overcome the offenses that's gonna be facing it.
• 1:13:17
  And so I am gonna wait. I need you guys
• 1:13:20
  to sway me on which to pick of my two
• 1:13:22
  favorite squads, and Josh, We're gonna go to you first.
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: Arizona State Kansas State.
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 5: I mean, I can swear you want a picture at
• 1:13:30
  Col Carloon. I mean like he's far and away the
• 1:13:33
  best picture in the series. He might be the best
• 1:13:35
  pitcher in the Big twelve. I think if anyone can
• 1:13:39
  I put it this way. Jake Marceono, the Friday guy
• 1:13:42
  for Alburn, he tells Kansas State to one run the
• 1:13:45
  entire game, and we've done to the entire year. Carlos
• 1:13:48
  put up similar numbers. He is a better future than
• 1:13:50
  Marceiano in my opinion and most people's opinion. If anyone
• 1:13:54
  can shut it down, I think that. I think that
• 1:13:56
  Carloan probably can't. Also, like I'm just gonna I'm taking
• 1:14:00
  my time to mention this because I just like saw this.
• 1:14:02
  I thought about this earlier before the season. If you
• 1:14:05
  would have asked someone like, what do you think is
• 1:14:07
  the best outfielder unit in the entire country, I would
• 1:14:10
  have said either and LSU Florida sneaky, Oklahoma State, Arizona
• 1:14:17
  State wouldn't have crossed my mind. It It might be
• 1:14:20
  a Zona excellent, the Arizona State. I mean all of
• 1:14:24
  them have ops is over one thousand. Landon Harrison has
• 1:14:27
  eight months as nine, Don Longo has six. I mean,
• 1:14:31
  it's consistent offensive production. Those have been their best guys
• 1:14:35
  besides Controttos, who's injured right now. I just I just
• 1:14:38
  want to throw that out there. I feel like I
• 1:14:39
  haven't heard anyone mention that there's a real, real argument
• 1:14:42
  for them to have the best outfield unit in the
• 1:14:44
  entire country.
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 2: You guys at home reading the daily sheet every day,
• 1:14:48
  know that your friend d w is talking about this
• 1:14:51
  in Arizona State offense don't do it enough on the
• 1:14:53
  pod though, Josh, that is absolutely right and that's all
• 1:14:55
  me so.
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: Thank you for calling it out. Josh, who are you
• 1:14:59
  going to be taking?
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 5: It's gonna be Asu, It is gonna be I mean
• 1:15:02
  I've been high on them for a while. Just talked
• 1:15:04
  about the offense, just talked about how I think Carloans
• 1:15:07
  can single handily win them a Friday game. I mean,
• 1:15:09
  there are other starters like Overbank, Clicker looked really good too,
• 1:15:13
  sub three e rs. I think they'll be I would
• 1:15:16
  have hold it down for a weekend.
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: Clecker was excellent last weekend. I'm curious to roll it over.
• 1:15:22
  What about JB? Who's JB taking?
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 5: I think he took Kansas State? Hold on, Yes, he
• 1:15:28
  did the Kansas State very good.
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: Miss Sagero, what are you thinking here? It's Big twelve season?
• 1:15:35
  Where are you gonna go with this?
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 4: One's probably the hardest one yet. Both offenses have been
• 1:15:40
  like amazing top to bottom. I think it's gonna come
• 1:15:43
  down to like pitching dath just like having enough guys
• 1:15:46
  to last. I'm also big on Carlo and as Josh said,
• 1:15:50
  so I think he could win them a game. But
• 1:15:52
  like kind of in that opposition, I think Kansas State
• 1:15:55
  with Tanner dude kind of like holding down a potent
• 1:15:58
  Mike Houston lineup last weekend, I think he could balance
• 1:16:02
  it out on Saturday. So it'll probably just come down
• 1:16:05
  to like that Sunday again with the pitching dep I
• 1:16:08
  believe Arizona State has a little more on that kind
• 1:16:11
  of like facet so hauling towards.
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 2: Them, all right, Very good, Jake. We've got Kansas State,
• 1:16:18
  two Arizona States. Which state are you riding with?
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: Coach? What are you thinking?
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 7: I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go with the majority and
• 1:16:26
  go Arizona State. I mean, both offenses are going going
• 1:16:30
  pretty nuts right now, as you all just covered very well.
• 1:16:34
  I like the I like the two coals in the
• 1:16:36
  in the ASU rotation all right now, giving them a
• 1:16:39
  better chance to win both of their games. So I'm
• 1:16:41
  gonna go with the Zona State.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 2: You know what you get when you have a couple
• 1:16:45
  of coals together, right, Jake, what's up? You get a fire,
• 1:16:51
  especially in the sun devil.
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: We're going ASU. I'll take ASU as well. That's wordplay, Josh,
• 1:16:59
  that's we're shaking your hands.
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 5: I knew, I knew something something super. But I totally
• 1:17:04
  could have seen that one coming. I thought you were
• 1:17:05
  hit like a hit, like a Santa joke like Cole
• 1:17:08
  for Christmas kind of.
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: Oh okay, okay, okay, the direction that was no, that's okay,
• 1:17:15
  I definitely.
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 2: I mean, if if we were rocking kind of second
• 1:17:18
  half of the year, Santa and Cole would have certainly
• 1:17:20
  been That's where I was gonna more charcoal. Anyway, that's
• 1:17:26
  gonna be the show. That's gonna be the show for
• 1:17:28
  this week. It's been a good one and we've had
• 1:17:30
  a good time. I don't want to speak for our guest,
• 1:17:33
  but it was certainly a pleasure for us to have
• 1:17:34
  you joining us. Mister soel Garow, you've been incredible. Uh,
• 1:17:37
  we'll have to have you come back.
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: Thank you again so much for joining us.
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 4: Appreciate having me on too. Thank you absolutely.
• 1:17:44
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  know who you're taking in this weekend's matchups. Also want
• 1:18:18
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• 1:18:21
  having fun on your trip. We Misschapal. You've been filled
• 1:18:24
  in for very well though, mister Solgaro did an outstanding
• 1:18:27
  job and Quinn on Sunday Night did an outstanding job
• 1:18:31
  as well. Before we go, though, mister Shelgaro, why don't
• 1:18:35
  you tell the people at home where they can find
• 1:18:37
  you between your episode appearances on College Baseball Now and
• 1:18:40
  what you're working on right now?
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you can find me on Twitter slash X
• 1:18:45
  at Jcell three zero seven. Gonna be a bunch of
• 1:18:48
  like live looks coming up and with like the probably
• 1:18:52
  next two weeks, and then Twitter, I usually focus on
• 1:18:55
  like prep guys I kind of stand out to me,
• 1:18:57
  mainly so Cal Area. But yeah, very big drop now,
• 1:19:02
  aren't we all? Man?
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be a good one. It's gonna be a
• 1:19:05
  good one. I'm heating up with it, man, coach. Tell
• 1:19:08
  the people where they.
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 2: Can find you in between our adventures on college baseball
• 1:19:12
  now and what you are working on.
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 7: You can follow me on Twitter at Jake Barge. The
• 1:19:19
  thing that I'm working on right now, it's the it's
• 1:19:22
  the mid Major top thirty. Those are getting harder and
• 1:19:24
  harder to put together each week as we as we
• 1:19:27
  go on. It seems like it's a pretty impossible task
• 1:19:29
  right now, but it's been a lot of fun getting
• 1:19:31
  to getting to cover all these different teams and kind
• 1:19:33
  of study and see how they're how they're doing weekend
• 1:19:36
  and week out. The only other thing I'm working on,
• 1:19:39
  I'm probably gonna have maybe a live look come out
• 1:19:42
  that's like a combination of like the different games that
• 1:19:45
  I've been to because I haven't been able to get
• 1:19:46
  out too many full series. But like I've been to
• 1:19:49
  a few games here and there covering some teams up
• 1:19:51
  here in the Northeast, so I'm probably gonna put something
• 1:19:53
  together like that. So on the written side, that's all
• 1:19:56
  I got.
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be great. Can't wait.
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 2: Always good for you to get back at the park
• 1:20:01
  when you're not coaching at least mister doublehead or victory
• 1:20:05
  shout out them nights one more time, man doing it
• 1:20:08
  big And Jake.
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: It's it's the coaching.
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 2: I know you're not you're too modest, you won't say it,
• 1:20:13
  but it's the coaching leading this team to the victories today.
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 6: You could say that I.
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: Will thank you. I will. Uh, mister Catlett, where can
• 1:20:23
  they find you on social media? And what are you
• 1:20:25
  working on right now?
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 5: You can find me on Twitter at Josh Catlet three.
• 1:20:30
  I'm having the same dilemma as Jake right now with
• 1:20:32
  the website because over the next couple of weeks I
• 1:20:34
  will have been to three games, but I will have
• 1:20:37
  seen Auburn twice, Georgia Tech twice, the n C State
• 1:20:40
  and Texas wants each and so I'm trying to figure
• 1:20:42
  out how to do like a combo live looks thing.
• 1:20:45
  Try and figure that out, but we'll see Twitter. I'm
• 1:20:47
  putting out different content each day, various things by rankings
• 1:20:52
  every week. You know, bracketologies here and there. I brought
• 1:20:55
  that bracket thing earlier today. I don't know how. No
• 1:20:59
  one else said I had not seeing anyone else do that.
• 1:21:01
  I don't. I really don't know how I had not
• 1:21:02
  seen anyone else, but like the idea just came to mind.
• 1:21:04
  It was super easy. The only issues I had were
• 1:21:07
  like Florida Clemson I to think about, well, I would
• 1:21:11
  State at Tennessee State was an issue because neither of
• 1:21:13
  them have programs. I'm trying to think. What were the
• 1:21:17
  I think Georgia Virginia I had to think about for
• 1:21:19
  a little bit. And there was something else that I'm
• 1:21:22
  blaking on. But it was pretty easy. Honestly, it was
• 1:21:24
  just I don't know. It was fun to look at without.
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: A doubt, without a doubt. Check that out for sure.
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 2: Definitely check out the College Daily Sheet if you are not.
• 1:21:32
  I know mister Sugaro and I are regulars on there.
• 1:21:35
  If I'm not mistaken, Joshua, I think you and I
• 1:21:38
  are the ones who have carried the the most issues
• 1:21:41
  of that thus far, So thank you for your hard work.
• 1:21:43
  Want to shout out all the other college sheet boys.
• 1:21:46
  They're doing amazing, amazing stuff. Thank you all again. If
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• 1:21:59
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• 1:22:02
  More for the twenty twenty six MLB drafts coming out soon.
• 1:22:05
  I'll definitely check out this weekend's episode of College Baseball
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  now because we're gonna be talking about the games we've
• 1:22:10
  just picked how they've.
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 1: Ended up, as well as all the other mews around
• 1:22:14
  the country. So thank you so much for joining us.
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 2: Want to remind you all please be nice to yourself,
• 1:22:18
  be nice to each other. We will see you next time.
• 1:22:20
  Thank you for joining us. Tutalou and bye bye
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 7: Bye bye