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TCU vs. UCLA Incoming: Weekend 2 Preview | Ep. 012 · College Baseball Now

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  Speaker 1: After a bunker's opening weekend, College Baseball rebounded and stabilized
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  with wait, what bunker's mid week? Well we're in mid
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  season four already, it's weekend two breakdown on today's episode
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  of College Baseball. Yeah, there ain't no problems.
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  Speaker 2: Ain't no problems. I don't want problem you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, let me shout to the chat.
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  Speaker 2: They know what was gone for a minute hit a
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  p B.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't grab a couple wins with a D.
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  Speaker 2: It's even known the kid I had to do a
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  p I G news.
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  Speaker 1: I can never be tired Ridge, and they want to
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  problem with the boy. They don't want no statics. I
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  don't need so coach sign run a week God, I want.
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  Speaker 4: To test that to them, with standing to control run
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  the game.
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  Speaker 2: Best believe him signing jobs, counting them my wins.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I love it when they count me, y out,
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  count me, I'm the least shutting shame why wing at jobs?
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  Best believe I run the game? You know, wanta truly
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  let magic.
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  Speaker 2: Out.
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  Speaker 1: Don't want to filmed in front of a live studio audience.
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  It is college baseball now. Glad, Thank you, older, thank you, Okay,
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  that's enough, thank you. Glad to be here with you,
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  and it is, of course your friends, your coaster boy
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  Drew Wheeler, director of amaster Scotty at Prospects Live, joined
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  by your friends and mine, the rest of the crew here,
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  and we're gonna start with the gentleman to my right.
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  It is mister Josh Catlet. Josh, how's it going, sir?
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  Speaker 2: Pretty good? Pretty good? Watched in Samua baseball this weekend.
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  I was in the market for Auburn's game, so I
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  did get to catch a ton of the mid week action,
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  but enough to know what went on. So we're good.
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  Speaker 1: We're good, We're solid, and I mean you got to
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  see quite a few guys. Anybody who's stayed tuned to
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  Prospects Live dot com has gotten to read a little
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  salt salting from me about that game. But we'll get
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  into that a little bit later on. What are you drinking?
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  What's whoa? Whoa? Whoa? What? What's in the cup?
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  Speaker 2: Are you drinking the same water? I have every podcast?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Josh, don't ruin the computer. He's boozing tonight, folks.
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  The takes are gonna be wild. Unnerneath him bottom right,
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  we've got JB. Sebastiano JB.
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  Speaker 4: Hi, how are you doing, Drew?
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I'm great. Thank you for asking. I'm
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  so flattered.
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  Speaker 4: How about yourself, sir, I'm doing great, you know, just
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  excited to talk about this mad week of baseball we
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  got coming in. What happened that we do?
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  Speaker 1: Uh? You know, mister Catlet uh not not intoxicated whenever
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  he made this list of games for us to pick tonight.
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  We've got some mid weeks to talk about, a lot
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  of good stuff. JB. You've got some some looks from
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  the park as well. It's been an active week for
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  you guys already at the park. And speaking of at
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  the park, it is coach Jake Barjorie Jake looking good.
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  Blue blue suits, you pal. I like the blue on you.
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  Speaker 5: I appreciate that I put some thought into it when
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  I put this shirt on that I thought Juror might
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  like the blue.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you're right. It's because my name rhymes with it.
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  That's what it is. Yeah, I like it. I like
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  it a lot. And nice hat of course as well,
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  we matched Josh JB. So you missed the memo. That's
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  too bad. But that's okay. Uh, that's all right. The
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  live studio audience said, you all watching it home. We're
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  gonna have a good time regardless, because, like we said
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  a minute ago, college baseball has well truly fired up,
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  and we are past opening week. As you're listening to this,
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  we are preparing for weekend number two in NCAA twenty
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  twenty six Action and guys, that would mean that we
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  are on the twelfth episode of the show. Happy twelve
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  episodes to all of us. That also means we've got
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  some mid weeks to talk about before we get into
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  the weekend. Pick him? Uh? Starting with week two, Josh,
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  if I'm not mistaken, you and I have the most
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  points currently with three, and then are our co host
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  here have two apiece? Is that correct?
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  Speaker 2: That is correct?
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  Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure I.
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  Speaker 2: Only have one actually think is right?
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  Speaker 4: Sure, Jake? I was gonna let you take that next year.
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  Speaker 3: I was gonna say I was glad, but.
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  Speaker 1: All in favor of an honesty point for Jake.
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  Speaker 4: I'll get the honesty point.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to two point two five votes for yes. Uh.
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  Let's get to midweeks, though, guys, Jake, because you were honest,
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  I can't guarantee the point, but I can tell you.
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  We're gonna start with you to talk about some MIDWEK games. Uh,
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  coastle Carolina, popular team leading into the season. They've got
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  this gentleman by the name cam Fluky leading them from
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  the noun. And yet along came a cheery little team
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  called Charleston, and some nonsense happened. Jake walks through what
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  happened here?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I did get to watch most of this game.
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  It was. It was low scoring pretty much the whole game,
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  you know, going into the eighth inning, it was a
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  Coastal had I think a two to three lead. Charleston
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  ended uploading the bases with I think it was a
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  couple of walks or hitting a couple walks something like that.
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  It got the bases loaded, had a ground out Sackfly
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  both scored runs to take.
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  Speaker 3: The lead in the eighth and then uh just.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, the last play of the game, Uh, Blake and Pato.
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  He hit a hit a groundball deep in the whole
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  shortstop for Charleston, like backhands at first basement, makes a crazy,
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  insane stretch to finish the play. There was like a
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  video review, all kinds of nonsense going on, but uh,
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  the the video confirmed that the play was made, and
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  it was just it was a good upset for Charleston
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  and a good really good road win for them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, name a better name, a better win
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  for the RPI for Charleston that they're gonna hang that with,
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  just like a frame of the first basement in the
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  in the clubhouse for years. You remember that, you remember that.
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  Speaker 4: The one thing that I think is worth note in
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  that game too, and for a lot of us, I
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  guess if you're looking at from a draft perspective, which
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  I know all of us do. Nate Taylor, the left
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  fielder for Stetson, had a pretty brutal night or from
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  stets and he's Stetson transferred to Coastal. Pretty brutal night
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  for him, if anybody watching, which Shake did of course
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  in full defensively. A few miscues out there at the plate.
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  Not a polished knight, so kind of interesting to see.
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  I think one of his heirs did lead to a
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  run for Charleston. I believe he dropped the fly ball
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  on left which then led to a run being score.
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  I think it was the first of the game. So
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  rough night for him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, not an ideal start for him, not an ideal
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  lost for coastal. It's a long season though. This is
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  gonna be when they look back on and say, ah,
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  that was just my first form. We haven't even involved
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  with all the horns and stuff yet. It's we still
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  have more to come. I'll tell you another game, guys,
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  Morehead State in Kentucky. So name team with more bad
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  luck thus far than Kentucky. I'll wait. You know, Morehead, Jake.
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  We talk a lot about the mid major teams, and
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  with Morehead State, they have a gentleman playing third base
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  for them, Aubrey Kurns, who really went off through this
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  game three for five with a double and a home run.
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  But then, Buddy, I gotta give you credit on the
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  Twitter machine. It was a retweet for me. It was
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  a light for me. Devin Costa the closer, it was
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  I believe what we're talking. Mid seventies and this is
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  a deep submarine closer for them. Strikeout, strikeout, flyout to
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  end the game. Sixty five mile per hour changeups. This
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  guy's burning down doors, like, honestly, whatever the opposite of
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  gases solids, solids. This guy isn't throwing gas. He's throwing solids,
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  and it's it's insanity. Big ups to Devin Coasta and
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  congrats to Morehead State. Did Jake I think you mentioned
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  you watched the end of that, Josh or JB. Did
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  y'all see any of that game at all?
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  Speaker 2: I did watch the I caught like the last the
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  last like couple abs. I think I wasn't able to
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  cut much.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so is this the Devin Coast of band Club?
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  Speaker 4: It was pretty awesome to watch. I mean, when you
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  watch the game it was in the box, the last hitter.
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  It was hilarious watching him try to foul off the changeups.
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  He just looked like he had no idea what to do.
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  They couldn't square anything up. It was just frustrating. It
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  seemed love it.
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  Speaker 3: Josh.
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  Speaker 1: It's crazy too, because you know, you got to think
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  velocity's increasing, so a guy like this becomes even more
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  of a unicorn as an average velosity goes.
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  Speaker 3: Up year over here.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, I agree, it tends to be. You know,
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  people want to talk about how, you know, like older
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  people that haven't been in two of the game want
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  to talk about how there's too much VLO talk everywhere
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  with you know, like pictures and prospects and stuff like that.
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  But I mean everything you run, every kind of like
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  whether it be a model or just basic statistical stuff
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  will tell you that like v low has the highest
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  correlation to success for any other metric from a picture
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  for fast bass. There's a reason for it. I mean
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  like there's a there's a very valid reason. Why is
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  the main talk yesterday? It's way hard to hut.
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  Speaker 1: It is absolutely uh when I do drop a video
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  Lance Brodzowski style about why the next big trend in
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  pitching is seventy five miles per hour with sixty miles
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  per hour change up stuff. You heard it here first.
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  That's all I'm gonna say. Jb Uh. Some Florida teams
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  went at it, including Miami maybe more importantly though, well
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  Central Florida walks throw what happened in that one? Pal?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, So Andrew Williams in one of our faves on
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  the prep or Nt double a one hundred, he really
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  really had a nice game three on Homer another double
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  as well. There Matt Saucer for UCF six innings, no runs.
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  He showed out very well. But then it kind of
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  all crumbled apart for UCF. When we get to the
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  ninth inning a five to two lead, they bring in
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  Chandler Dorsey. He hit four batters in the inning, allowed
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  three runs on one hit, tied game. UCF goes an
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  extras They bring in the former South Carolina game cock
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  Roman Kimball, and it all went down from there as
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  Vance Sheehan, the South Carolina upstate transfer, hit an absolute
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  nuke off the scoreboard off of him to cap off
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  an insane game for Miami, which was pretty fun to
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  watch as the parking deck and right field was packed out.
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  I'd have like two hundred people out there in the
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  parking deck watching this game. So crazy game for Miami
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  to come back and win, showing off the offense, but
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  then he gave us a good glimpse as well to
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  the offense's capability and what it's going to look like
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  against real pitching. After that crazy weekend against Lehigh, it
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  kind of balanced itself out to see that they're going
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  to be more of an average ish offense probably in
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  the long term. So it'd be interesting to see how
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  they play for going forward.
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  Speaker 1: Definitely with you and seeing kind of the normalizing it
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  would be the word I would use it. I like
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  the way you described it. To see Miami's offense normalize
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  in that way was very good. I gotta give props
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  to a kid, Jordan Lodiz. You see, he's been impressive.
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  I mean we're talking first week of the season thus far,
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  but I mean the bloodlines are there, and he's been impressive.
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  A double in that game, if I'm not mistaken, down
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  the down the line and left. Just an impressive hit
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  from him, and he's had a solid career thus far.
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  Credit to him, Cannic Cooke. To you, mister Lodize, and
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  you did attend the game, as we alluded to earlier
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  at the Plainsman Park. I'm curious. Was it a good
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  day for your Auburn Tigers?
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  Speaker 2: Not in the slightest like, not not even not a
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  single silver lining there. Nope. Sorry, Now I have an
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  article out about more of my opinions on certain people
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  in this game, but I'll try and not go on
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  a super big rant here. But let's just say it
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  wasn't a pretty day at the ballpark for Auburn. Timely
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  hitting did not exist. That's the best way I can
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  sum it up. Hitting has been the issue for the
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  whole earth, I guess just the first weekend besides that
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  third game of the Youngstown State series. That wasn't supposed
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  to be the problem coming end of the year, so
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  it could just be like a early slump of some sort.
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  Lord knows what. But they scored two runs and two
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  separate games against Youngstown and got blank yesterday. I don't
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  know what it ended up, as I know, like at
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  one point late in the game Auburn was zero for
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  seven with runners in scoring position. I think we only
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  got one more runner on and the eight that was
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  the I remember freylk got on in scoring position in
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  the eighth and people were making a comment about how
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  that was the first runner on in scoring position since
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  the third Edda, which says a lot too. But it's
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  just it was such a lack of timely hitting. Since
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  these pitchers did a really good job getting out of jams.
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  Like Dylan Schuler, the starter on the Mount, got himself
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  in a couple of jams. He find a way to
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  get himself out. What guys with the best stuff in
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  the world, But they were able to put together the
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  pieces and get the job done. Since he played small
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  ball on the offensive side like they always do. Some
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  guys really stood out on that front. Eight would have
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  just like lay down bunch Jackson Smith Derek Pitt stood
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  out to me in particular. They were able to get
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  a couple bunt singles actually, but they just hit guys around,
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  tried to steal bases. Almer kept trying to pick them off.
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  Did it work and they would still steal the bass?
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  It would It was working just fine. Cincinnati was able
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  to walk into Plantsman Park, play their style of ball
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  and completely fluster Auburn. It was so frustrating. Butch and
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  his postgame pressure said like the same thing I was
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  saying during the game. People were like texting me like
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  what are we doing? What's going on? And I'm like,
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  we just have uncompetitive abs whenever we have a chance
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  to score. And Butch in the postgame was like, I
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  don't know what's going on with our offense. Our guys
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  just look almost non competitive at the plate. He was
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  saying that, like I don't know if they're trying too hard,
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  that's the phrasing he used. But it just it's non
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  competitive and it's very irritating. Hopefully it can be turned
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  around in Arlington this weekend. But shout out to Cincinnati
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  because they did look legitimately good, but I think it
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  might be more of a concern for Auburn at this point.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting, coach, I'm gonna go to you here, I'm curious,
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  do you think that Butch may be on something there?
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  Is it guys trying too hard? Is the early season
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  you want to come out and be impressive and and
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  kind of live up to a lot of the expectations
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  that I mean, the national media US included have put
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  on Auburn Or is it maybe something deeper than that, Jake,
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  what do you think?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean, I mean it could be.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, we see, we've seen it before with teams
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  with high expectations kind of kind of come out the
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  gate a little bit slow.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't I don't really know what you kind
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  of chalk it up to.
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  Speaker 5: But uh, I mean yeah, I mean, and they're just
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  gonna need uh you know, they're gonna need us to
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  make up for the loss of you know, while Chris
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  Rambert's out. They're gonna need us to step up and
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  and uh, you know, hitting this place. I don't really
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  know what to what the point to being the issue,
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  but it could be it could be the expectations that
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  could just be there off to a slow start.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, could be any number of things. Uh
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  with you there. JB wanted to go to you really
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  quickly on this as well. Uh never wanted to prive
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  you of the opportunity to nnanabooboo Josh. So if you
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  want to do that, you may do so.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 4: I think Josh did a great job talking about that
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  that game. I watched the little bits and pieces of it,
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  and he hit the nail on the head. It just
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  looked kind of almost like what he's talking about, like
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  they're trying a little bit too hard on competitive at
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  bats of times they look like they're pressing. Honestly, I
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  guess that's the word i'd use for it. They look
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  like they're pressing as a whole squad.
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  Speaker 3: So very good.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, appreciate that, And Josh, you were being modest. Definitely
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  check out the article on Prospects Live dot com. Josh
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  did a great job writing up a lot of guys
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  you're gonna want to care about for the next two drafts.
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  He's one of the best in the biz for a
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  lot of good reasons, and they're all on display in
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  the article. Go check them out. And Josh, because I'm
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  not tired yet of you talking, I'm gonna have you
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  remind the listeners at home about our weekend pick them,
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  how it works with things like the events, the big
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  series with lots of games over the weekend, how that
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  works towards our scoring and walk us through what inspired
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  you to pick these different games before we jump into
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  picking them and talking about.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, so the scoring is pret self explanatory. If it's
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  just a series between two teams, we're gonna go through
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  and pick the winners. You get a point for whoever
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  wins it. For these multiple team events with four and
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  six teams in them, we picked the team that we
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  think is going to end the weekend with the best record,
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  and run differential will be the tiebreaker there. We tried
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  to pick a ca combo of the most intriguing series
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  from like a like a power rating standpoint, and also
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  just from like a competitiveness standpoint. Some of these A
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  couple of these didn't look interesting at all before last weekend,
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  but all of a sudden they are interesting. So there's
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  that aspect of it too. Even though we might just
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  sweep the board with the picks, I feel like it
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  should be talked about. Yeah, I mean, that's probably about it.
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  Most of the Big Series and most of the big
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  things will be tuned into over the weekends are kind
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  of what we're looking for in terms of what to pick.
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  Speaker 1: Definitely, Hey, well said Buddy, I appreciate that. With that,
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  I guess we should go ahead and start at the top,
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  as you will. We read top to bottom, left to
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  right here in America, as you do with any English
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  thin We'll start with TCU taking on UCLA. Interesting series, certainly.
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  I think we alluded to it before we jumped on
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  and recorded. Made a little bit simultaneously less and more
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  interesting because we're not gonna have Tommy Lapour pitching for
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  TCU on Friday night. We have learned that the big
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  guy has some arm issues that we're trying to be
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  preemptive about taking care of letting him rest. Thus far,
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  nothing announced unless I've missed something fellas in terms of
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  time or surgery. Certainly, nothing like that.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think we've seen it.
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  Speaker 1: Good deal, well, Josh, because you walked us through it,
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  I'm gonna let you go ahead and talk about TCU UCLA.
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  What are you looking at most from this series? What
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  do you think is going to be the lynch pin
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  of the series.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I'd say I think you can look at
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  it from multiple angles on both sides. First of all,
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  this is just an electric series to have this at
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  any point in the year, but especially this early in
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  the year. Tommy Lapour bang out hurts that those are
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  wrench in it. But kind of like we've discussed beforehand,
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  between the four of us, kind of evens up the
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  pitching matchup a little bit because TCU had a clear
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  edge on that before Tommy Lapoor went out, but now
• 18:07
  it's relatively equal. I'd say on Friday, TCU probably still
• 18:11
  does have the advantage with Mason Brassfield over Logan Rediman,
• 18:15
  but it tends to be a pretty level playing field throughout.
• 18:18
  I think another big guy that's gonna matter. I think
• 18:23
  the guy that's gonna matter the most for TCU will
• 18:25
  probably be Noah Franco because we saw what he did
• 18:28
  against Arkansas last week in relief. Three innings pitched, didn't
• 18:32
  allow a single run, four strikeouts, no hits. He might
• 18:35
  actually have to step up into that Sunday role. Now
• 18:37
  that's a possibility, or they just rush Nolan Johnson back
• 18:40
  from his midweek spot. We don't really know that yet.
• 18:43
  I don't know if that Franco could fit really well
• 18:46
  into that role and be competitive. But even if he's not,
• 18:49
  in the closest game they have in the game, they
• 18:51
  need to take the most. He's got to step up
• 18:53
  and be super competitive and do what he did last week.
• 18:56
  UCLA lineup looked pretty good last week, and it looked
• 19:02
  really good in the midweek, so it's just kind of
• 19:04
  like continually like continuously improving upon what they've done. Rock
• 19:09
  was solid last week on the weekend, four for twelve
• 19:12
  with a home run and two doubles. Had a really
• 19:14
  good day yesterday with a couple of home runs. He's
• 19:17
  got to be great. He was good last week and
• 19:18
  needs to be great to take them over the top
• 19:20
  this weekend, along with the rest of that well rounded lineup.
• 19:23
  The starting pitching looked all right like Logan renovand Landon
• 19:27
  Stump looked alright. Michael Barnett had a good outing five finnings, pitched,
• 19:31
  one earn on, two hits and four strikeouts. He's got
• 19:33
  to keep that up again. I think if those pieces
• 19:35
  work together for UCLA, they should have enough to overcome
• 19:38
  a depleted TCU team early in the year.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: Interesting. Hey, I'm with you, man. I definitely am with
• 19:44
  you all know Franco being a pivotal guy for TCU
• 19:50
  in that series. Jake gonna go to you when you
• 19:51
  look at this series TCU UCLA, what jumps out as
• 19:55
  being kind of a deciding fact or something pivotal that
• 19:57
  you're noticing about this series.
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I just think we're gonna I think
• 20:01
  we're gonna learn a lot in this series. This is
• 20:03
  a couple of teams that, uh, you know, we've we've
• 20:06
  we've given a lot of hype to and at least
• 20:08
  in the preseason and even in.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: After week one.
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: Uh, like Josh talked about, you know, TC's pitching pitching
• 20:14
  depth is gonna be tested a little bit with with
• 20:15
  Lapoor not being able to go. Uh he mentioned, you know,
• 20:18
  it could be uh, I mean, it could be a
• 20:21
  number of guys get that get that start. It could
• 20:23
  we haven't seen the freshman Julie Fernsleer yet this year.
• 20:26
  I'd like to I don't know that he would get
• 20:28
  a start, but i'd expect him to see him at
• 20:29
  some point this weekend.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: I think that would be pretty fun. But then you.
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: Know, they do lose their their midweek game to U
• 20:36
  T Arlington or last night, and then like from last
• 20:39
  weekend and then losing that game, they haven't really come
• 20:42
  out the gate looking like just the hottest team in
• 20:44
  the country. And then but neither is U c l A.
• 20:46
  You know, they dropped a game last weekend. U see
• 20:48
  San Diego. It's a good program and it's had success
• 20:52
  in their conference. But you know, for us to call
• 20:54
  U c l A, you know, a top three team
• 20:56
  in the country, you'd you'd expect them to take care
• 20:58
  of business at home against him.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: But either way, I think I could speak.
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: For everyone and saying that, you know, I wish this
• 21:06
  series was televised nationally, just besides just the first day.
• 21:10
  I think the first game's on like FS one or
• 21:11
  something like that. But it'd be fun to be able
• 21:14
  to watch them all. But I'm just looking forward to
• 21:16
  knowing saying what we're going to learn about, you know,
• 21:18
  both programs.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: As we can totally. It is going to be a
• 21:21
  good learning opportunity and we're going to see a lot
• 21:24
  of kind of what makes these teams up from the
• 21:26
  inside out. Jake, that was a good call, JB. Going
• 21:29
  to you, buddy, As Jake kind of alluded to, this
• 21:31
  is between us this group, our number three team in
• 21:34
  UCLA and our number sixteam in TCU. That's a top
• 21:38
  ten matchup that would be like, you know, college game
• 21:41
  day is here and Pat McAfee's doing insane stuff outside
• 21:44
  the campus, probably getting arrested if he went to Pat McAfee.
• 21:47
  What are you seeing as the main driving factor between
• 21:50
  this game that you think is the key that ignites
• 21:52
  either of these teams.
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah. I think we talked a lot about the pitching,
• 21:55
  and the only point I'll hit on is the UCLA
• 21:57
  bullpen being really a very fringy aspect of their squad
• 22:01
  so far this season, So I think the bullpen is
• 22:03
  going to be interesting. Savant's had a really poor midweek
• 22:06
  start and he was a big part of the bullpen
• 22:08
  in the first weekend as well. I expect Justin Lee
• 22:11
  to step up. Chris Grochus had a bad first weekend.
• 22:13
  He's one of their main relievers coming out, so it'll
• 22:17
  be interesting to see who they rely on in that
• 22:18
  bullpen going forward. But to go to the TCU side,
• 22:21
  we kind of hit on the pitching. I'll get more
• 22:23
  offensive in my takes here. The big X factor I
• 22:26
  think for them is Lucas Franco. I think Lucas Franco,
• 22:30
  he showed up really big in the first game. He
• 22:32
  had a homer, the triple deep fly out. Everybody was
• 22:36
  talking about, you know, how great and polished he looked
• 22:38
  at the plate that first game, and then he kind
• 22:40
  of fell off and has gone over since. So it's
• 22:42
  really something that if he can figure it out and
• 22:45
  do some damage for TCU in the middle of that order,
• 22:47
  he's a big X factor for them, along with Slorria Strassninder,
• 22:50
  who's kind of been quiet since that first game. He's
• 22:52
  played okay, So I think it's Strawsneider and Franco will
• 22:55
  be the big pieces they need. Chase Brunston needs to
• 22:58
  keep up the production like he's been doing a row
• 23:00
  along with Rob Littington and UCLA. It's kind of the
• 23:03
  same deal. They're gonna have to rely upon Rock, but
• 23:05
  if he can't do it, they really really need Melvill
• 23:08
  Lavo to really step up as he has already and
• 23:11
  Gasprino as well, two guys that have played well. Roman
• 23:15
  Martin needs to maybe get a little bit more production
• 23:17
  in there. It's gonna be Martin and Dean West are
• 23:19
  probably the two guys they need to get going, especially
• 23:21
  against TCU this weekend. So for me, I think it's
• 23:25
  watching the offenses. It's really the guys that are not
• 23:27
  the star players in the order trying to come together.
• 23:29
  In Franco and Roman Martin. I think for maybe the
• 23:32
  two key players.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Running support to the guys that you're expecting. I love
• 23:37
  that JB good call, good call, and Josh. The time
• 23:40
  has come to pick them, my friends. So I'm curious,
• 23:43
  TCU UCLA who you got.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: I still can't fully decide. I've been sitting here mulling
• 23:49
  over what I'm gonna do here, and I really don't know.
• 23:51
  I think I'll just go with UCLA. They're the home team.
• 23:57
  I think they're a slightly better team overall. I feel
• 23:59
  like it's the same pick, but it could go either way.
• 24:02
  Those are two stacked lineups. I mean, like any number
• 24:08
  of outcomes, I don't really think anything would fully shock me.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: Truly.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: I'll go with UCLA just because I think they're a
• 24:14
  slightly better team overall in the home team. So it's
• 24:17
  a it's a cop out.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Pick, okay, all right, copping out? Love it first selection, Jake,
• 24:23
  what are you thinking for this one man.
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I'm also gonna go UCLA similar pretty
• 24:29
  much the same exact reasons as Josh mentioned. They're the they're
• 24:32
  the home team, and I think they they're they're they're
• 24:35
  not having to face the poor on Friday really really
• 24:37
  kind of sets the edge for me picking UCLA.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: I think, so JB, this is like it's actually harder
• 24:45
  for me than you'd think being from there. I know
• 24:47
  that how poor the environment is in Westwood as a
• 24:50
  baseball environment, it's not going to be a crowd intimidation
• 24:53
  at all. I really have a gut feeling about TCU here,
• 24:58
  which is like kind of surprise and if you know
• 25:00
  my takes about West Coast baseball, but it feels wrong
• 25:03
  to go away from UCLA. So I'm gonna take UCLA.
• 25:06
  But I'll leave it on record that I have a
• 25:08
  somewhat gut feeling that TCU could do some noise, but
• 25:12
  I'll take UCLA officially.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Crazy reference to gut feeling, JB. Because I have one
• 25:17
  of those myself, and I think I may have to
• 25:19
  save the graphic here and take tc I'll go. I'll
• 25:21
  take TCU, but I will say I don't think we're
• 25:24
  talking enough about at least on air. Muliva Lavou who
• 25:28
  I think Josh JB Jake, one of you guys said earlier,
• 25:31
  this is arguably the hottest bat in America right now.
• 25:35
  And I'm not going to dispute that the guy is
• 25:37
  just on literal fire likes. He's a safety hazard at
• 25:42
  this point.
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: Hasn't tracked that once ninety six percent z Con and
• 25:45
  we talked about that one O eight max and one
• 25:48
  O six ninety percent all ev I mean, can't beat that?
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: What one more time? Run through those numbers?
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, one O eight max exit velocity is one
• 25:57
  eight one oh nine, one O six ninetieth sentaiw within
• 26:00
  ninety six percent in ze Coon and he hasn't struck
• 26:03
  at once, only twenty played the Kansas.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: But yeah, what do you what do you mean you
• 26:11
  knew it was coming?
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: Predictable? That's all I say, predictable.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: If I'm so predictable, then what series are we talking
• 26:19
  about next?
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: Josh?
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: Uh?
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: The amigy College Baseball Series amagen Bank? Is that what
• 26:24
  it's called? Amigi Bank?
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: I think you know whatever? Find the Amigy Bank College
• 26:31
  Baseball Series. One of the big events this weekend is
• 26:34
  loaded guys. Again, interesting that you said, Josh when you
• 26:38
  were kind of describing it a minute ago. But several
• 26:40
  of these teams now immensely more interesting following a big
• 26:44
  first weekend. But you're looking at a pool of Florida State, Auburn, Louisville,
• 26:50
  Kansas State, Nebraska, and Michigan. I mean, let's talk about
• 26:55
  some teams that have either impressed, looked impressive, but had
• 26:59
  some question marks and then outright ben superstars offensively, this
• 27:03
  is a loaded pool. And Jake, we're gonna start with
• 27:05
  you on this one. Uh, looking at these six teams,
• 27:08
  what's the biggest X factor for you?
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: Biggest X factor?
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: I feel like it's just that Florida State kind of
• 27:18
  looks like one of the best teams in the country
• 27:19
  to start the season. You know, they get the they
• 27:23
  win five to one over JMU to and their seeing
• 27:26
  their season opener, and then they get back to back
• 27:28
  runawole victories over JMU and then Jacksonville in the midweek.
• 27:32
  They're hitting for like a I looked it up before
• 27:34
  we started here. They're hitting for a nine to seventy
• 27:36
  team ops and they've scored thirty four runs in three games.
• 27:40
  They're also pitching to a to A three three eight
• 27:42
  team Era A. We're also going to go the first
• 27:46
  look at I got Trey Beard against Michigan on Sunday.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: He hasn't pitched yet this year. I'm assuming he's gonna
• 27:51
  go Sunday against Michigan.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: But you know, FSU looks like the kind of the
• 27:55
  overall favorites coming into it. Josh talked about Auburn, you know,
• 28:00
  and their struggles so far. Also, you know, we have
• 28:02
  them in Louisville who kind of came out the gate
• 28:04
  a little bit slow. But we got two of the
• 28:06
  hottest teams right now in Kansas State and Michigan.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: So, I mean there's a wide variety of teams.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Like you mentioned early season baseball too, the hottest teams
• 28:15
  in the country Kansas State and Michigan. Just like we
• 28:18
  drew it up JB. Look at this one man six teams,
• 28:22
  and Jake put it very eloquently. There's teams that have
• 28:25
  stumbled out of the gate, teams that have exploded out
• 28:27
  of the gate, and arguably one that's been the best
• 28:30
  team in the country thus far. I'm curious when you
• 28:32
  look at this, what catches your eye of the most.
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: Well, I'll leave the Tigers aspect of this to Josh
• 28:38
  to talk about since he's Willmerst, and I'm going to
• 28:40
  hit on the Louisville Cardinals. Louisville start off really slow
• 28:44
  against Michigan State, then they put up nine runs, and
• 28:47
  then in a game where it looked like Xavier had
• 28:49
  a chance to knock them off, they put up twenty
• 28:50
  three yesterday. So it's a very very interesting spot to
• 28:55
  see them. The pitching has been the biggest issue, and
• 28:58
  you know, we talked about how we were surprised Peter
• 29:01
  Michael wasn't in the rotation that he goes in the
• 29:02
  midweek has a poor start. Their weekend rotation looked awful
• 29:06
  besides on Sunday, so it's kind of a roll of
• 29:09
  dice what happens. I think the biggest thing to see
• 29:11
  is how does this Louisville pitching staff look and if
• 29:15
  Zion Rose is ready to play. Those are the two
• 29:17
  things that I think are going to be the biggest
• 29:18
  keys for Louisville, and I think they're honestly one of
• 29:21
  the more interesting teams to follow, especially with their schedule
• 29:24
  as they will have Nebraska, Michigan and then aforementioned Tigers
• 29:28
  as the last game, so they have a path to
• 29:31
  win at least two, if not three games in this tournament,
• 29:34
  and it all depends on kind of how the pitching
• 29:37
  holds up and if the offense continues the recent form.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Love it, Love it, Josh. We've set the ball on
• 29:44
  the tee for you. I know you're gonna want to
• 29:45
  talk about Auburn a little bit more here, but looking
• 29:47
  at it, maybe from that perspective, and then from a
• 29:50
  broader one, what do you think that the largest kind
• 29:53
  of tell about how this tournament, if that tournament is
• 29:56
  going to go, what do you think that it might
• 29:57
  be for any of the teams.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: That's a great question, Drewe thank you. I think how
• 30:08
  do I put this? I have a concept in my head,
• 30:10
  I just don't know how to word it. There have
• 30:12
  been a lot of teams coming into this field that
• 30:14
  had really impressive offensive performances the first weekend, and other
• 30:19
  teams the exact opposite Auburn and Louisville being the opposite end,
• 30:24
  Kansas State, Florida State, a little bit of Michigan on
• 30:28
  the upper end of offensive performances. If those teams that
• 30:33
  I just mentioned with really really good offensive showings can
• 30:36
  keep that up smooth sailing. If Auburn and Louisville can
• 30:40
  make strides to improve to the point where we kind
• 30:42
  of thought they were at least near it, I think
• 30:45
  it could very well be smooth sailing for them too,
• 30:47
  based on how other things have turned out to this point.
• 30:50
  I think a big key before I talk about Auburn,
• 30:53
  I won't even talk on them for long because I
• 30:54
  really don't want to talk about them. I'm just gonna
• 30:56
  be so honest. I think the some some interesting points
• 31:01
  with Nebraska here. I think Carson Yassa, who I've talked about,
• 31:03
  I think I drafted him as my Big ten picture
• 31:05
  of the year. He might have fixed his control a
• 31:08
  little bit. That's kind of what he showed in that
• 31:09
  first inning. The stat cast data showed that he threw
• 31:12
  sixty four percent strikes, although thirty seven percent with which
• 31:15
  means it probably wasn't as great of a zone rate,
• 31:18
  but that's still such an improvement from what he's done
• 31:20
  in the past, and that was good enough to get
• 31:22
  him let him go five innings, only only three earned runs,
• 31:26
  but he struck out nine guys and only walked one.
• 31:29
  Nine strikeouts is what he can get at his max
• 31:31
  potential with how good his stuff is. The one walk
• 31:34
  is the really promising part, because if he can fix
• 31:36
  that control and reel in some command a little bit,
• 31:38
  he'll turn a corner and he'll be really good. I
• 31:40
  think they had some guys that stood up for them
• 31:43
  offensively to Dylan Carry, Will Jeski, Josh Overbeak. Carrie went
• 31:47
  nine for twenty last weekend with one double, one triple
• 31:51
  and one home run. Just did a couple of home runs.
• 31:54
  Josh Overbeak went eight for seventeen with four double, seven
• 31:58
  RB and those guys was all performances way I talked
• 32:04
  those first teams. I think they have a chance to
• 32:07
  pick off a couple of games Auburn. It is the
• 32:10
  same stuff that I've talked about already. I mean, it's
• 32:12
  it's pretty simple. Can the starters do at Can the
• 32:15
  starters do as well as they did last weekend? No,
• 32:17
  like objectively that was such a good performance is really
• 32:20
  not replicable, replicable against this kind of competition. But can
• 32:24
  they have similar production? I think is important. And the offense,
• 32:26
  it's just guys besides bub and Freelik. Can they step up?
• 32:30
  Can like guys at the bottom of the rotation actually
• 32:33
  put together some solid abs which we haven't seen so far.
• 32:36
  I think that's a really big key for Auburn and
• 32:38
  like that they still have potentially tons of life and
• 32:40
  if that pitching staff can perform this week at least
• 32:44
  similarly to how they did against Youngstown State, they got
• 32:47
  a shot to pick off a couple of games too,
• 32:48
  if not win all three.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Definitely. I think it kind of goes back to what
• 32:52
  you were saying, admitted to go that coach Thompson was
• 32:54
  saying in his press are about how the Abs just
• 32:58
  haven't been competitive. It's sticking to that theme that you
• 33:00
  were going at earlier. It's there has to be a
• 33:03
  mental shift for the Tigers, and I think that maybe,
• 33:05
  I mean, on your behalf and on Aluburn's fan's path,
• 33:08
  maybe it'll be this weekend. Right, I'll shout I'll shout
• 33:13
  out a guy that we haven't talked about. My favorite
• 33:16
  hitter of the year thus far. I'm gonna say the
• 33:18
  hottest hitter in the country right now, maybe not named
• 33:21
  Lava la vou D Kennedy of Kansas State has been
• 33:26
  literally in fuego. I mean, we're talking about a guy
• 33:28
  that thus far has got three home runs, fifteen steaks,
• 33:32
  five stolen bases. I think he's rocking like a five
• 33:35
  hundred average right now and has hit multiple balls over
• 33:37
  like one hundred and five miles per hour exit velocity.
• 33:41
  We're talking obscene talent out of a guy that it's
• 33:44
  had the puzzle pieces all on the table, just not
• 33:46
  in the right order yet. Is this him connecting the
• 33:49
  puzzle pieces? Has he gotten the sides down and now
• 33:52
  he's put in the center. Maybe I don't know if
• 33:55
  you understood that reference at home dropped me a comment.
• 33:57
  But it's time to pick, and Jake, we're gonna start
• 34:00
  you with the Energy Bank College Baseball Series.
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: Who do you like? I think? I think I am
• 34:06
  gonna pick Florida State. I mentioned them.
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: I thought they were kind of the favorites coming into it.
• 34:10
  They just looked like the most established team right now.
• 34:14
  And you'll notice I'm taking I'm taking a more conservative
• 34:17
  approach with my picks this week. After only getting one
• 34:20
  right last weekend, I gotta try to get points on
• 34:22
  the board, so I'm gonna go.
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna go Florida State.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Conservative. Jake got it, I got it. I got it.
• 34:28
  JB will go to you next, buddy. What are you
• 34:31
  thinking in this big event?
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm gonna go against the obvious choice of Florida
• 34:38
  State and I'm gonna take Louisville for the fact that
• 34:40
  I like the scheduling of who they have, and I
• 34:43
  also like how the offense is progressing right now, especially
• 34:46
  if they can get Zion Rose back, which is there's
• 34:48
  a chance that is huge for them. And even without,
• 34:51
  the offenses looked great with Slanker and Lucas Moore really
• 34:54
  picking it up. So I'm gonna take a chance on
• 34:56
  the pitching staff and go Louisville.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: Slinker has had an impressive set so far despite kind
• 35:01
  of the slump. I'm glad we could shock him out there,
• 35:03
  good shot. Josh, what are you thinking here? Man? Six
• 35:06
  teams and we've laid it out. It's it's a loaded
• 35:09
  field that really it feels like anything could happen.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: With Yeah, I'm probably gonna go with the chalk pick
• 35:13
  here too with Florida State, but it's not necessarily just
• 35:16
  because I think they're the best team. I think a
• 35:19
  part of it is the scheduling and how the scheduling
• 35:21
  lines up with the pitching matchups, specifically, I mean West Mendes.
• 35:25
  We like all my West Mendoes. Hight looked really really
• 35:28
  positive in that first outing from him. He's going on Friday.
• 35:33
  Bryce and Moore was our Saturday guy. He's facing Auburn
• 35:36
  on Saturday, and that's probably like, at least to this point,
• 35:39
  the worst offensive team in the field. So if he
• 35:41
  struggles again like he did last week. Last week he
• 35:43
  had he went one in two thirds innings, allowed three
• 35:46
  earned runs and four hits. That kind of showing against
• 35:49
  an offense like Auburn has just been stagnant right now,
• 35:51
  he can get away with it. And we haven't even
• 35:53
  seen Trade Beard yet, who will be on Sunday and
• 35:55
  we all believe in So I think it kind of
• 35:57
  lines up really well for Florida State to have like
• 35:59
  a really cushiony path uh this weekend to take this day.
• 36:03
  I don't know the sleeper team, Kansas State. I'll throw
• 36:05
  that one out there.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: We we we we we we. I'm gonna go Okay State.
• 36:13
  I think teams that wear purple did well for me
• 36:16
  last weekend. I all seriousness, though, Like I just I
• 36:20
  just would like to see if this offense can stay hot.
• 36:22
  I mean aj of Osco is doing some things. I
• 36:24
  mean my guy Gallagher from ETSU is doing stuff. I'm
• 36:28
  gonna ride this offense. I am well aware, well aware
• 36:32
  that there are better teams that I like more, but
• 36:35
  right the hot hands and I don't think Kansas State's
• 36:37
  giving me a reason not to trust them yet. And
• 36:40
  if I can be honest, I'm kind of taking the
• 36:43
  the opposite of Jake's approach here. I'm gonna I'm gonna
• 36:46
  lean into the chaos and see what happens. So all right, JB,
• 36:50
  We're gonna go to you for the lead on this
• 36:52
  one because we're talking about none other than the North
• 36:55
  Carolina tar Heels hosting the East Carolina Pirates, and curious, JB,
• 37:01
  this is a this is a pretty marquee matchup. But
• 37:06
  looking at the teams thus far, what exactly are we
• 37:10
  looking at happening with this series? Because ECU was, what's
• 37:15
  a polite way to say.
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: JB, they played pretty poor to start the year. They
• 37:20
  did win in their midweek today as we're recording this,
• 37:23
  they did beat who did they play today? I was
• 37:27
  I was watching early. I honestly forget it is somebody
• 37:29
  in red but tea, Yeah, sure, we'll.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: Go with that.
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: I forget who they played today. They played somebody today
• 37:37
  earlier today that was Illinois, Northern Illinois.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: That's who it is.
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: Sorry, sorry to the MAC people out there. I just
• 37:44
  that's based on that one. But yeah, for ECU, it's
• 37:49
  really gonna come down to how the pitching looks.
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: I'm curious to see if Sean Jenkins gets to go
• 37:54
  at all this weekend, maybe moves into a starting role.
• 37:56
  He did pitch in this game in the midweek, so possible.
• 38:00
  Not because of that, but he was a really intriguing
• 38:03
  arm for them last year. It's really gonna come down
• 38:06
  to Norby on Friday night. You know, playing at ECU
• 38:08
  on Friday night, it's gonna be packed. It's gonna be
• 38:09
  different than last year. We played there on a Sunday.
• 38:11
  It was dead, nobody's in the crowd. This year Friday night,
• 38:15
  it's going to be packed out. Everybody's gonna be going crazy.
• 38:17
  And the thing with Norby, I think that team to
• 38:20
  start to notice and I know it will be a
• 38:21
  big focus that going into the week is you've got
• 38:24
  to try to slow down the tempo on Ethan Norby
• 38:26
  when he gets going and in his role, he just
• 38:28
  catch the ball, get back up on the mound, throw.
• 38:30
  That's his thing, and he speeds you up as a hitter,
• 38:32
  and that's how he really has a lot of success.
• 38:34
  So for us, it's really going to have to be
• 38:37
  slowing down Ethan Norby as a team for UNC to
• 38:40
  have success on Friday night and really just dealing with
• 38:42
  the crowd. I think that the offense has looked really
• 38:45
  good so far. Shout out Jake, Jake Schaffner, Gosh, he's
• 38:49
  looked really really good. Gallaghers look good, making winslows look good.
• 38:52
  Those guys keep going. Owen Holes one that I want
• 38:54
  to see take a step forward in sixty three to start,
• 38:57
  you know, if he can take a jump forward along
• 38:59
  with Cooper Nicholson, those two guys should really propel you
• 39:01
  and see through the weekend. But ECU hasn't looked great
• 39:04
  so far. I think they have a chance to maybe
• 39:07
  pick off one on the weekend on Friday night if
• 39:09
  they do really well in that environment. But should be
• 39:11
  a weekend that UNC has a chance to go eight
• 39:13
  to o to start the year.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: Love it, Jake, We're gonna go to you. Obviously we're
• 39:18
  big fans of guys named Jake on this podcast, Schaffner Bargerie.
• 39:21
  They I haven't met a Jake I don't like this year,
• 39:24
  So I'm curious, man, what do you think is gonna
• 39:26
  be the tale of the tape with you and.
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: U n C.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: What do you see as being the dividing factor there?
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think, like JB kind of talked about, it's
• 39:36
  gonna be, it's gonna be a strong start from eating
• 39:39
  Norby to set the tone for them on the weekend.
• 39:42
  You know, obviously, you know we talked about it a
• 39:43
  bunch already. They didn't start out very sharp to start
• 39:46
  the season. They lost to Xavier, loss to Campbell in
• 39:48
  their midweek. But I don't want to undermestimate a team
• 39:51
  that's got, you know, one of the best arms in
• 39:53
  the country and eat the Norby and their rotation and
• 39:55
  they got bats like Braden Burris, Jack Herring, Walker barn
• 40:00
  and Herbian others. But they sure are slipping out of
• 40:02
  the gate, but they'll have a chance to to try
• 40:05
  to make it right against the UNC team that's looked
• 40:07
  really good. Jake, like Jake, like JB just talked about, Uh,
• 40:10
  they obviously swept Indiana and they got a couple of
• 40:14
  midweek victories. But the starting pitching is really you know,
• 40:17
  it's looked as advertised for you and C with the
• 40:19
  Carol Lynch and bow As all having strong starts, the
• 40:22
  bats are hitting, you know, it's it's gonna be a
• 40:25
  tough matchup for you know, a struggling ECU team who's
• 40:28
  who's desperate for something to celebrate early on this year.
• 40:31
  But I think like, like the X factor is going
• 40:34
  to be how the Norby goes on Friday.
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: Very very true. I think that it's gonna be interesting,
• 40:39
  especially with the home field advantage that you alluded to
• 40:43
  with JB alluded to with Norby specifically, if they get
• 40:46
  behind him and he can get on his uh, you know,
• 40:48
  start with his shenaniganst it may be tricky and I
• 40:51
  think we're gonna have to see some maturity out of
• 40:52
  this UNC team to really kind of play their brand
• 40:55
  of ball and not fall into his tricks. We'll see
• 40:57
  what happens, though, he's, like you said, one of the
• 40:59
  best in the country. Josh, going to you pal ECU,
• 41:03
  You and C again kind of what's going to be
• 41:05
  the straw that starts the drink for one of these teams.
• 41:07
  That makes it a better end result.
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think it's the rest of the lineup beside
• 41:13
  the top guys for ECU being competitive and being better
• 41:16
  than they were last weekend. I think that's kind of
• 41:20
  as you said, that starts to drink. I think that's
• 41:22
  probably the key for them. This is always such a
• 41:24
  fun series every year doing the home and Hall and
• 41:26
  then JB is it is it in Durham this year?
• 41:29
  Is that the neutral site? It's Durham again? Yeah on Saturday? Okay,
• 41:34
  I know it used to rotate around. Yeah, I mean
• 41:36
  it's just always it's always such a fun series. But
• 41:39
  like eastu's top guys, Jack Herring, Braden Burrows, Austin Irby
• 41:43
  all had ops's over one thousand for the opening weekend,
• 41:46
  but the rest of their lineup didn't really show up
• 41:48
  and that was kind of their Achilles heel against Xavior.
• 41:52
  I think if they can step it up, that's a
• 41:53
  big key for them. Also, Gavin Van Kempen, the Saturday
• 41:57
  guy for East Carolina, I think he had a phenomenal
• 41:59
  start the year, going four innings nowhere and runs on
• 42:02
  four strikeouts now walks I think if you can have
• 42:05
  a similar performance going up against Folger bow As on
• 42:07
  that Saturday against a way tougher lineup, I think that
• 42:11
  could be a key for them to pick one off
• 42:12
  at that new well quote unquote neutral site Durham's essentially
• 42:16
  Chapel Hill. Let's be real here, you.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: Know, I'm glad you brought up Van Kempen, Josh. That
• 42:21
  was my only note to have as well. And I
• 42:22
  think that Boas van Kempen is going to be kind
• 42:25
  of a deceptively sickening pitching matchup there. JB, you've you've
• 42:29
  sang the praises of Folger bow As for a minute
• 42:31
  now this season so exciting to see what those two
• 42:35
  dudes can puur a deuce on Saturday. But shall we
• 42:38
  get to the picking and JB, I will start with
• 42:41
  you for your most obvious selection of the weekend. You're
• 42:44
  going pirates right.
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: I don't know if you can see it, but there
• 42:48
  you go. I think we know what's going down, so
• 42:50
  I'll just leave it to that. That's that's all we.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: Can see that. For those of you at home, JB
• 42:56
  is not wearing a shirt. He referenced a U n
• 42:58
  C tattoo on his chest, So pretty cool stuff, pretty
• 43:01
  cool stuff. Jake, going to you for your pick? Man,
• 43:04
  what are you thinking?
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 43:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah, JB mentioned he said a couple of wheeze in
• 43:07
  there when he was talking about UH, North Carolina, so
• 43:10
  I wasn't he wasn't shocked with that pick.
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: I'm also gonna go North Carolina.
• 43:15
  Speaker 5: I mentioned, you know, I think Norby's gonna have a
• 43:17
  good shot at UH, and JB talked about it too,
• 43:20
  maybe maybe getting that Friday game, but I think the whole,
• 43:22
  the weekend as a whole is going to be too
• 43:23
  much for him.
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: I'm going North Carolina.
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: Jake, are you a wee now too? I'm not no, Okay, okay, okay, Josh.
• 43:33
  I'm assuming you're gonna be a wi here as well.
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah. My family might kill me if I'm not a
• 43:38
  wei right now, so I'll refer to him as we
• 43:40
  for the moment. Yeah, I'll go. I'll go with you
• 43:44
  and see. I think that offense is just going to
• 43:46
  be too much for East Carolina to overcome. I really
• 43:48
  do think ECU could probably pick off that Saturday game.
• 43:51
  But I mean, coming end of the year, we liked
• 43:53
  Carolina way better than we did ECU Carolina started five
• 43:57
  and Oh East US two and three. I don't think
• 43:59
  that sways my opinion much towards the Pirates right now,
• 44:02
  so I'll take I.
• 44:03
  Speaker 4: Know, Pirates faithful isn't liking you right now, Josh, especially
• 44:06
  on Twitter.
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what I got to I didn't send
• 44:10
  anything to them personally, but I did a little mental
• 44:12
  victory lap considering they were the team that came for
• 44:15
  me the most on one of my Twitter posts for
• 44:16
  having them all the way down as a three seed
• 44:19
  to start the year in a bracketology and then you
• 44:20
  lose a series to Za, you're like that. I'm not
• 44:23
  saying I knew what I was talking about, but I
• 44:24
  might have been onto something. I don't know. We'll see.
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: Well, Uh, guys, you heard me just a minute ago
• 44:30
  saying that I'm going with a theme. I'm taking teams
• 44:33
  in purple. It stopped a minute ago. I guess it is.
• 44:36
  We I'm gonna I'll complete the sweep. We'll get the
• 44:39
  rooms out for you in c All right, Josh, I'm
• 44:42
  gonna let you take the lead. Here is we're gonna
• 44:44
  talk about one of your Oh he's got the got
• 44:46
  the stadium coaster.
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: My water is sitting on a Carolina Stadium coaster right now. Actually,
• 44:50
  so I think I can claim the wead water good deal.
• 44:55
  I reckon tilt it and you can see it. No,
• 44:56
  you still can't see it.
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: You just got that's a that's a clear liquid. Nothing
• 45:00
  can be Josh, I'm good. Yeah, exactly. I'm gonna let
• 45:05
  you take the lead on this one. Since we're talking
• 45:07
  about one of your favorite teams, Dallas Baptist, They're gonna
• 45:10
  take it on UTSA and what could be a deceptively
• 45:13
  entertaining matchup this weekend.
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think UTSA is a sneaky good team that
• 45:18
  they got a really good Friday guy and Robert Orlowski.
• 45:21
  I'll focus on DBU because I've been trying to lead
• 45:24
  that trend a little bit. They had great weekends from
• 45:26
  their big names that were kind of expected. Jake Bennett
• 45:29
  with three for nine with two home runs six RBI
• 45:32
  got walked five times. Keaton Grady and Dylan Cupp both
• 45:35
  also got walked four times. They've shown great great play
• 45:38
  discipline to start the year get into knocks too. A
• 45:42
  big question is ken Jared Schaefer there. I think Saturday
• 45:46
  guy can he replicate that performance he had last week.
• 45:49
  He went five innings, not allowing a single run, six strikeouts,
• 45:53
  only two walks. If you can replicate that, that's probably
• 45:56
  enough to win a game against the UTSA lineup. The
• 45:58
  way it's looked right now. I'm not sure what happened
• 46:01
  with Ryan Borberg in that opening matchup, because that's their
• 46:04
  best pitcher on paper. He only went two thirds of
• 46:06
  an inning because he allowed three runs, allowing two and
• 46:10
  walking to guys and they yanked them. He's got to
• 46:13
  step that up to be able to compete with Orlowski
• 46:15
  on Friday if they want to have any kind of
• 46:16
  a fighting chance. I mean, the Utsa's offense looked really,
• 46:21
  really good this past week, and they averaged fourteen point
• 46:23
  three runs a game. I think that this is gonna
• 46:26
  be overall. My overarching take is this is going to
• 46:30
  be a super super offensive series, and I really don't
• 46:33
  see how it's not. You can probably assume who I'm
• 46:35
  gonna pick, but overall, just expect to see a lot
• 46:38
  of runs, lots of overs in these two really high
• 46:40
  powered offenses.
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: With you there, I think that's the key for me
• 46:45
  as well, is that we saw a lot of runs,
• 46:47
  and I imagine that's going to be duplicated, especially like
• 46:50
  you said, if Borberg can't ring it in. So I
• 46:53
  guess what we were expecting right now, specifically JB going
• 46:56
  to you here, DBU, UTSA, A lot of letters, a
• 47:00
  lot of initials there. What words can you make with
• 47:03
  those letters?
• 47:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean they both start off four to oh.
• 47:07
  I'll just quickly glance over because Josh is the one
• 47:09
  that really drove the ship on being passionate about these two.
• 47:12
  Kendall Dove he started, had four innings, no runs, five
• 47:16
  strikeouts for UTSA. That's one to keep an eye on.
• 47:19
  For Dallas Baptist Jake Bennett hit five hundred with four
• 47:23
  homers and eight RBIs. That's a guy that's gone off
• 47:27
  to a really good start to the ear with four homers.
• 47:29
  Might be leading the country with that honestly right now.
• 47:31
  Probably is. So yeah, those are the two. I think
• 47:33
  they're the extractors there. But like Josh was saying, it's
• 47:36
  gonna be high powered offense, I.
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: Think, so, Jake, any reason for you to kind of
• 47:42
  dissuade this thought that it's gonna be offense. The offense
• 47:46
  pitchers are also invited, but I mean, I see what happens.
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: No, not not really.
• 47:52
  Speaker 5: I mean this is a I mean this is a
• 47:54
  battle between numbers five and six and my mid major rankings.
• 47:58
  You No, BBU looked really sharp out the gate against
• 48:00
  Binghamton and their midweek versus Able and Christian. They've outscored
• 48:04
  their opponents forty five to nine. And those four games
• 48:06
  are you know, they're obviously swinging it well, but you
• 48:08
  know they they're they're facing the UTSA staff that opponents
• 48:12
  are only hitting two twenty one against them to start
• 48:14
  the year, and UTSA also started four and oh but yeah,
• 48:19
  I think it's gonna be, like everyone's saying right now,
• 48:22
  there's gonna be a lot of a lot of runs scored.
• 48:25
  But you know, if you can't make it up to
• 48:27
  Globe Life and you want to watch some other good
• 48:28
  baseball in the Dallas area, this is the is the
• 48:30
  place to be.
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: I would agree with that sentiment for sure. Josh gonna
• 48:35
  let you go first, because, like you said, I think
• 48:37
  we know where you're going here. But what are you
• 48:38
  what's your pick here?
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: It's DBU. I can't hop off the train now. Offense
• 48:44
  is good enoughing it will be able to carry on
• 48:46
  UTSA starters had such a good week last week. There
• 48:48
  maybe due to regress a little bit, and Ryan Borberg
• 48:51
  is probably due to regressive the mean in a positive way.
• 48:54
  So I'll take I'll take DBU with some conviction.
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: If you jumped off a train, it would probably hurt
• 48:59
  you too, Josh, and that way to prohibit you from
• 49:01
  doing podcasts. So not a good.
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: Idea that I have a chance to do it off of.
• 49:05
  So maybe we'll see one of these.
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: I know, I believe we are. We are well aware
• 49:10
  of You're trained, JB. Who you got this series, buddy.
• 49:14
  Speaker 4: I'll take dB I'll keep it short and sweet. You
• 49:16
  know they're the more established power that the team is
• 49:18
  coming in, you know, playing at home. I think they
• 49:20
  got it.
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: Jake, where are you leaning here?
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm going with them.
• 49:25
  Speaker 5: I'm going DBU mostly uh, mostly due to them playing
• 49:29
  at home. I think I think that UTSA is a
• 49:31
  good team, and I'm going I'm going Dallas Baptist.
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: I'll be interested. I'll take you TSA. We'll go road Runners.
• 49:37
  I think that this is an offense that looked good.
• 49:40
  The pitching looked really sound. I hold these teams in
• 49:45
  close enough regard at this point that it's it's a
• 49:48
  bit of a toss up. So if you can call
• 49:49
  it balancing the graphic, if you want to at home,
• 49:51
  I'm not going to fight you on that. Whatever, all right,
• 49:54
  Uh for a graphic that I'm going to suspect in advance,
• 49:57
  maybe a little bit less balanced than the three one
• 50:00
  split we just had, meaning I'm almost certain that we're
• 50:03
  gonna have a clean sweep. Let's just let's just cut
• 50:06
  it short here, shall we. Is anybody not gonna pick
• 50:09
  Arkansas over Xavior?
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: Nope?
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: Okay, then let's do this, Jake. We're gonna start with you.
• 50:16
  Which player for Arkansas needs to step up to lead
• 50:20
  this team towards a three to zero sweep potentially over Xavier.
• 50:26
  Speaker 3: I don't. I mean, I don't know.
• 50:27
  Speaker 5: I don't look at it as someone that needs to
• 50:28
  necessarily step up. I think Gave Gackle is going to
• 50:31
  need to have a good start because he's going up
• 50:34
  against the legit Ace and Ryan Peach. I talked about
• 50:36
  him going into last weekend when they were going to
• 50:40
  play ACU. Ryan Peach is a good pitcher. He's he's
• 50:44
  one of the better mid major aces I think.
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: And then gave. Gackle is just gonna have to hold
• 50:48
  us on and I think he's going to word.
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: Jb same question to you man, looking at this Arkansas
• 50:54
  team that we're all expecting to win this series if
• 50:56
  nothing else, who do you want to see big things
• 50:59
  out of to see a big series win for the Hawks.
• 51:03
  Speaker 4: I guess I'll start. The guy I want to see
• 51:05
  the most is TJ Pompey. He's had an okay start,
• 51:08
  but I would love to see him mark it up.
• 51:09
  But the guy that I think is the key is
• 51:11
  Carson Brumbau. He's been the freshman starting shortstop for them.
• 51:14
  He's really struggled, So for him to get going and
• 51:16
  be huge for Arkansas.
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: Love it.
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: That's a great shot for sure, Josh, same question to you, buddy,
• 51:22
  who do you think is gonna be the one driving
• 51:23
  the bus from Arkansas looking for a big series win here?
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: I'll say it'll be the reliever that really showed out
• 51:30
  the most last weekend in Arlington, Tate McGuire. He went
• 51:35
  five innings last year, five perfect innings last week not
• 51:39
  last year. He didn't know a single run, not a
• 51:41
  single hit, not a single walk. I think they're gonna
• 51:45
  one of these games, at least is gonna get into
• 51:47
  a really tight situation and they're gonna need to put
• 51:49
  their best guy out there. They'll probably roll with it
• 51:51
  again in maybe a long release spot like they did
• 51:54
  last weekend. He obviously isn't going to replicate a perfect
• 51:57
  outing again. But if he can go out there and
• 51:59
  do learn things and really like put the game away
• 52:02
  the way they expect them to, I think that's gonna
• 52:03
  be critical. And maybe getting a sweep here, I think a.
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: Lot of a lot of that might be the confidence too,
• 52:08
  even if it's not the exact same perfect outcome, having
• 52:10
  the confidence that you can be that level of players.
• 52:13
  What we're gonna need to see? Excuse me, that's not
• 52:15
  a week What Arkansas is going to need to see.
• 52:18
  I'm wearing Breton's black Oh my god? What am I doing? Okay,
• 52:23
  let's move on, Yeah, I sure do. I'm gonna have
• 52:28
  to go break for hours now. Geez great, all right,
• 52:31
  Michigan State in Texas, Guys. A week ago, we probably
• 52:36
  would have poop pooed this matchup even being here, let's
• 52:39
  let's be frank, we would have been like, what's happening here?
• 52:41
  Josh is clearly drunk as we've alluded to a minute ago,
• 52:45
  but no, Michigan State has truly stepped up. I mean,
• 52:47
  we saw them kind of show out to the point
• 52:49
  that our buddy Mitch Statschnik was calling us out in
• 52:53
  the draft chat, the team chat and saying, you know, guys,
• 52:56
  this is what you get from Delton Sparti. And there
• 52:58
  they came. Spartans came out really impressive in the opening weekend.
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  Certainly a more significant test in the form of Texas. Guys,
• 53:07
  who is our number two team as a group? JV
• 53:11
  will start with you here, Michigan State, Texas. What's the
• 53:14
  driving force here?
• 53:16
  Speaker 4: I think Texas. You know, it's just gonna be the
• 53:18
  continuation of seeing the offense progress with Robbins and Timney
• 53:21
  and Asian Rodriguez and all those guys. You know, you
• 53:24
  just want to see them keep progressing forward. I think
• 53:26
  is the biggest thing for Texas.
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, Jake, the same question to you, Pal looking at this,
• 53:31
  What's what's the act factor?
• 53:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's I think it's gonna be the
• 53:35
  I think it's gonna be the pitching for Texas. We
• 53:38
  saw Michigan State pen up a lot of runs against
• 53:40
  Louisville without much help from Ryan McKay, who was supposed
• 53:43
  to be their their star on offense. But uh, it's
• 53:46
  gonna be you know, Valantes, Harrison and Riojas continuing to
• 53:51
  drive the force on the on the starting pitching.
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: All right, Josh, that leaves up to you to say
• 53:56
  something positive about Michigan State.
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: That's actually where I was going Anyway, I'm gonna take
• 54:00
  the other end of the same side of the wall
• 54:02
  y'all were talking about, And uh, Michigan State's pitching I
• 54:05
  think needs or aid and Donovan specifically needs to have
• 54:08
  a similar performance they did last week. He only allowed
• 54:11
  one earned run in five innings. I think he needs
• 54:13
  to be able to go hand in hand with Ruger
• 54:16
  Riojas on Friday night for them to have a chance
• 54:19
  because those Saturday Sunday games are probably gonna be hard
• 54:21
  to pick off. So I mean the offense was more
• 54:23
  of a like the some of their own parts last
• 54:25
  weekend instead of like a certain guy really stepping up
• 54:29
  besides like Parker, like besides I guess Parker Pico or
• 54:33
  Randy Seymour. But I think they need to have more
• 54:35
  of those big guys step up on offense, so it's
• 54:37
  not just kind of everyone scrapping here and there and
• 54:40
  like maybe coming up in a big spot. There needs
• 54:42
  to be a more definitive guy this week, and Aid
• 54:44
  Donovan really needs to, like I said, step up on
• 54:46
  Friday night and do the same kind of thing to
• 54:48
  be able to have them compete.
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: I think.
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: So it's gonna be an interesting one. Jab will start
• 54:53
  with you. Who you got Michigan State in Texas.
• 54:56
  Speaker 4: Texas saving Oh, okay, percent, says Jake.
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: Where are you thinking.
• 55:04
  Speaker 3: I'll go? I'll go Texas?
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna add ninety
• 55:10
  nine percent. Since you said that, Josh, what are you thinking.
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: I'll go hook them poorly and Michigan State will now sweep.
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll add fuel to the fire. I'm so sorry, Mitch,
• 55:24
  we're picking against Michigan State sweep again. But it's it's Texas,
• 55:30
  it's Texas. This is a loaded squad in every regard,
• 55:34
  and like JB said, if they accelerate, if they continue
• 55:37
  to do what they're doing, then it's gonna be trouble
• 55:39
  for a lot of teams. Before moving on Jack's College
• 55:43
  Baseball Classic four teams we're gonna throw them together, shake
• 55:47
  up the hat, they're gonna play each other and it's
• 55:49
  gonna be something good. Well, you've got an interesting field, guys, LSU,
• 55:54
  Notre Dame, UCF, and Indiana. A couple of teams that
• 55:58
  made headlines this first weekend, some for more, you know,
• 56:03
  long lasting reasons than others, but an interesting and interesting
• 56:07
  grouping of teams. Nonetheless, lots of teams here who I
• 56:10
  think have more questions to answer than we would have
• 56:13
  assumed heading into the season. And then there is also,
• 56:17
  of course the Juggernaut just waiting to see how many
• 56:20
  runs they could put on the board. If if what
• 56:22
  we've seen for the first week says anything, Josh, what's
• 56:26
  the We'll go quickly through this one. What do you
• 56:28
  think is the main driving force in this foursome of teams.
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: I think LSU is I mean, very very clearly the
• 56:35
  front runner here. The team that I think has the
• 56:38
  best chance to pick them off actually might be UCF.
• 56:41
  I mean guys like their catcher, Zach Skinner. What a
• 56:44
  weekend from him. He went five for eight with two double,
• 56:46
  a triple, a home run in seven RBI. That's ridiculous
• 56:49
  numbers Andrew Williamson had another phenomenal weekend, batting four hundred
• 56:54
  six RBIs. I think they're starting pitching was awesome. Then
• 56:57
  a couple of guys goes six innings, not a single
• 57:00
  starting pitcher allow more than one to earn run. They
• 57:02
  got to keep up that kind of stuff if they
• 57:03
  want to compete with these better offenses. They could have
• 57:07
  a potential emotional letdown from the midweek spot, which is
• 57:10
  like really not a common thing, but with it being
• 57:12
  an end state rivalry or or quote unquote rivalry early
• 57:16
  in the year, thirteen inning game, really emotional game, they
• 57:19
  could like kind of have a little trouble recovering from that.
• 57:22
  But I think if they do, they could really give
• 57:24
  these teams some fits could be.
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: Well, said Jake, going to you, now, man, looking at
• 57:29
  this Jack's College Classic four teams, I'm assuming you're gonna
• 57:34
  say LSU is the kind of the heavy favorite here.
• 57:36
  But Kevin, the same thing as Josh brought up. Is
• 57:38
  there one that you see as being more likely to
• 57:40
  knock them off than the others.
• 57:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I do agree that LSU's obviously the favorite. I
• 57:47
  like I like what Josh had to say about UCF
• 57:49
  I'll talk about Notre Dame though. You know, Jack Ordell
• 57:52
  he didn't, he didn't have his best stuff in Game
• 57:55
  one against FAU last weekend, but Caden Croyle and Ty
• 57:57
  Uber both did in their next two games. It's it's
• 58:01
  gonna be interesting because I feel like Radella has has
• 58:03
  the stuff to keep them in any game on Friday,
• 58:05
  and then if Crowell and Uber put up performance like
• 58:07
  they did, you know, you know they could they could
• 58:10
  get a couple of wins this weekend as well. But
• 58:13
  you know, Cornell transfer mark with TRONDI was huge for
• 58:17
  for the Irish.
• 58:18
  Speaker 3: He's he started out really hot.
• 58:19
  Speaker 5: He's hit like five point fifty six. He's, uh, five
• 58:23
  for nine is what I'm saying. Three walks, he's he's
• 58:26
  he's really driving force to that offense with Jas, with
• 58:29
  Jason Lee and Bino Waters both home and over the weekend.
• 58:33
  As a team, they scored twenty two runs against FAU,
• 58:35
  and that offense is you know, gonna need to keep
• 58:37
  it up against UCF on Friday, they get LSU on Saturday,
• 58:40
  and then Indiana to finish it off on Sunday.
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: Well, said JB. The guys have said a lot. I'm
• 58:48
  curious though, looking at this, uh, this set of three
• 58:50
  teams there, Dame, U see F, Indiana, if any of
• 58:53
  them had the shots of knockoff LSU, who would you
• 58:55
  put your money.
• 58:59
  Speaker 4: I mean, I think UCF on Sunday's probably got the
• 59:02
  best chance out of the group, just from the fact that,
• 59:06
  you know, I think it's great to have Cassan Evans
• 59:10
  to go against Indiana.
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: It's a very.
• 59:11
  Speaker 4: Passive team as we saw against UNC. That's a great
• 59:14
  bounce back start for him. Cooper more against Notre Dame.
• 59:17
  He's a guy should give them quality innings there, and
• 59:19
  then it's really a test for William Schmidt to bounce
• 59:21
  back after kind of a rocky first outing against a
• 59:24
  good UCF offense. So I think that's really the chance
• 59:26
  for them to see what they really got.
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: I agree, well said, looking forward to seeing what Schmidt
• 59:31
  can do. I think I told you guys maybe in
• 59:32
  our maybe in our group chat, I really like William
• 59:35
  Schmidt as a start at this season. So not the
• 59:38
  best start from him, but Lsu has been just ridiculous
• 59:41
  as you would imagine Josh starting with you, what are
• 59:43
  you picking here, sir, Lsu?
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: Chalk pick I bet.
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: Jake, what do you think?
• 59:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm going LSU.
• 59:54
  Speaker 4: You have to take LSU, JB, LSU.
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, you guys are gonna make me take somebody, right,
• 1:00:03
  I've got to do something crazy. No, I already told
• 1:00:05
  you I'm picking teams that were purple this week. I
• 1:00:07
  love you all right. Looking at our final one, guys,
• 1:00:10
  the Round Rock Classic. It's a classic. Nobody can argue
• 1:00:15
  four teams in this one. Oregon State, Southern Miss, Baylor, Purdue,
• 1:00:21
  Odd Collective, Odd Group here, bizarre teams assorted. This is
• 1:00:26
  very much a I'm gonna click random on the team
• 1:00:29
  selection screen four times and just do what it says.
• 1:00:32
  Looking at you, though, JB to walk us through, what
• 1:00:34
  do you think the X factor is for the Round
• 1:00:36
  Rock Classic?
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 4: For any of these teams, I think the most interesting
• 1:00:40
  one will be to see Oregon State against Southern Miss
• 1:00:43
  on Saturday. I think it'll be interesting to see Client
• 1:00:45
  Schmid go out there and try to prove himself again
• 1:00:48
  with another good outing following up the last one against
• 1:00:51
  the Southern Miss team that comes off of beating Santa Barbara,
• 1:00:53
  and they beat a very good Nathan Assavis last week.
• 1:00:56
  So I think it's gonna be a really really interesting matchup,
• 1:01:00
  most interesting in the weekend.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: Honestly, I think I think that's a fair assessment.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: JB.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: With you there, Josh gonna go to you man, looking
• 1:01:07
  at these teams, who's the straw starting the drake for
• 1:01:10
  any of these teams specifically.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: Uh, I think the top of Baylor's rotation. If they
• 1:01:16
  do the same kind of thing they did last weekend,
• 1:01:19
  that could be like a real key in picking off
• 1:01:20
  one of these games against the bigger teams. Lucas Davenport
• 1:01:23
  and Ethan Calder are both their Friday and Saturday guys.
• 1:01:26
  They went four and two thirds and three and two
• 1:01:29
  thirds specifically, neither allowing a run, both having at least
• 1:01:32
  five strikeouts. If they can perform that same way against
• 1:01:35
  tougher competition, I think that they'll probably be able to
• 1:01:37
  pick off one of those teams, considering how the offense looked. Also,
• 1:01:42
  I know we're probably not gonna talk much about Purdue.
• 1:01:44
  Did y'all see what Zach Erdman, their Saturday guy did.
• 1:01:46
  Y'all see his stat line from this past week.
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: It was impressive.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: He went eight innings, not allowing a single run, only
• 1:01:55
  three hits, seven strikeouts and didn't walk a single guy.
• 1:01:58
  That's nuts. I don't know if he's gonna be able
• 1:02:00
  to keep that well. He definitely won't be able to
• 1:02:01
  keep that up. But like you know, Cole Cole van
• 1:02:04
  Asam was supposed to be their Friday guy and like
• 1:02:06
  he still is gonna be and he looked really good too.
• 1:02:08
  So I mean, if those two guys can look as
• 1:02:11
  relatively as good as they did last weekend, Oregon State
• 1:02:13
  and Southern Mess could be ends on trouble.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: Imagine if Erdmund did just pitch eight innings of three
• 1:02:18
  hit ball every time? Or Purdue, what a what a story?
• 1:02:25
  What a story? Mark Jake, looking at you man, looking
• 1:02:28
  at these teams, what's catching your eye the most?
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think the I think the must watch game
• 1:02:34
  is gonna be that Saturday game Southern Miss and UH
• 1:02:37
  Oregon State. But I'm also I'm gonna watch the Oregon
• 1:02:39
  State Baylor game as well on Friday. We're gonna get
• 1:02:42
  you know, it's gonna be Dax Whitney against the Baylor
• 1:02:44
  offense that Josh just talked about, is is hitting well?
• 1:02:47
  Tys Armstrong went crazy in that first game, the three
• 1:02:50
  Grand slams. UH Travis Sanders, Jay or uh. Yeah, they
• 1:02:55
  have a couple of other guys that's hitting like five
• 1:02:57
  hundred to start the year as well. I think it's
• 1:03:00
  gonna be an interesting matchup. I like the thought of
• 1:03:02
  Dex Whitney going against that offense as a whole. But
• 1:03:04
  it's gonna be fun to watch.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna pitch this to you guys. What are
• 1:03:11
  the odds, and I'm looking for you guys to like
• 1:03:13
  set odds of some sort. What are the odds that
• 1:03:16
  Tys Armstrong hits at least one Grand Slam move the weekend.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: I mean, if we're getting super technical with it, plus
• 1:03:24
  two thousands, like not that high. I'm thinking like plus
• 1:03:29
  oh man over the weekend, like plus seven eight hundred.
• 1:03:32
  Probably that's the technical answer. I think.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 5: I don't know that in that game that he came
• 1:03:39
  up again later in the game with bases loaded, but
• 1:03:41
  like walked or got hit with the pitch or something,
• 1:03:43
  so he had like another chance to hit another one.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, would not have been insane, and it's truly insane.
• 1:03:48
  All right, let's get to picking here, guys, round Rock Classic.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 3: Jamie.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: We're gonna start with you, who do you like.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 4: In this one, I'm gonna take Oregon State. I mean,
• 1:03:55
  it's kind of the chalk pick, but you know, I
• 1:03:57
  just believe in the pitching staff really overwhelming a lot
• 1:03:59
  of other teams there.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: Coach, where are we leaning on this one?
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 3: I feel the same exact way for the for the
• 1:04:06
  same reasons. I'm going to Oregon State.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: Josh, what are you.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 3: Thinking here, buddy?
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: You can probably guess where I'm going here. I'll go
• 1:04:12
  Southern Miss. That starting pitching has to improve for that
• 1:04:16
  offense is why I fell in love with that team,
• 1:04:18
  and they just seem to step up when needed most,
• 1:04:20
  so I'm gonna bank on them doing it for a
• 1:04:22
  second weekend in a row.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: Love it, good shot, I admire that pick. I thought
• 1:04:26
  about taking Southern Miss, but I think I think I'm
• 1:04:28
  gonna go Oregon State as well. It's just that's a
• 1:04:30
  pitching staff that I could set my watch too. I
• 1:04:34
  hate it because I really wish I could ride with
• 1:04:36
  you in Southern Miss for a second straight week, So, uh,
• 1:04:38
  you still got time. No, I'm gonna I'm gonna stick
• 1:04:41
  with Oregon State. Here'm gonna stick Oregon State, all right, guys?
• 1:04:44
  That does it for our weekend pick them. It should
• 1:04:47
  be another interesting weekend fellas, and I know that. For
• 1:04:49
  our next episode, obviously we're gonna be breaking down what
• 1:04:51
  happened through this weekend series is Uh, we've got to
• 1:04:55
  have a lot of interesting things talk about, obviously from
• 1:04:57
  around the game beyond just these eight groups, but lots
• 1:05:01
  of stuff going on beyond that. So we're gonna talk
• 1:05:03
  about that really quick. Jake, I'm gonna ask you tell
• 1:05:06
  the folks at home what you're working on. Where they
• 1:05:08
  can find you between our episodes of college Baseball.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 5: Now, Uh, you can follow me on Twitter at Jake Barge.
• 1:05:15
  It's still there's still ice and snow all over the
• 1:05:18
  ground up here at my house. There's not much baseball
• 1:05:20
  going on, so it's it's tough for me to get
• 1:05:22
  out and watch anything. But as soon as as soon
• 1:05:24
  as that goes away and we get ball up here,
• 1:05:25
  I'm gonna be I'm gonna be up to the ballpark
• 1:05:28
  and getting some getting some love looks, getting some video
• 1:05:30
  and all that good stuff.
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: Can't wait for that, JB. What are you working on
• 1:05:35
  and working the folks find you between episodes?
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a Jbunscus of Bostian on Twitter. You know,
• 1:05:41
  got a live looks coming out for the Indiana UNC
• 1:05:43
  series soon, and then we'll have another one this week
• 1:05:45
  that kind of goes over the Richmond UNC game and
• 1:05:48
  then E C U U NC this weekend kind of
• 1:05:50
  as a combo, so you'll get a little bit of that.
• 1:05:53
  So some more live looks, some video too, that'll be it.
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: Video. Love that. Okay, to mister Catlett, where can the
• 1:06:01
  folks find you between episodes and what are you working on?
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 2: You can find me on Twitter at Josh Catlett three.
• 1:06:07
  I don't have as many live looks articles coming out
• 1:06:09
  as JB, but I do have the one that'll be
• 1:06:11
  out by the time this release law, so you can
• 1:06:14
  go check that out. I think it's pretty good work.
• 1:06:16
  I enjoyed writing that one up. Yeah, that's probably about
• 1:06:19
  it right now. Nothing like terribly new for me in
• 1:06:21
  the next few days.
• 1:06:23
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• 1:06:26
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• 1:07:10
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• 1:07:12
  It is a labor of love. And I think I'll
• 1:07:15
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• 1:07:19
  What did he say? The Big twelve really stinks sometimes?
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I just said, think.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: So, I'm get ready, Drew, You're learning Big twelve baseball
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• 1:07:31
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• 1:07:32
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