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The Purdue Report with Jake Dunn ... with Guest Kyle Charters (2.255.3) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

• 0:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: You are listening to the Purdue Report with Jake Dunn.
• 0:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: Every week on the Central Indian Esports Report.
• 0:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome Purdue fans to the Central Indian Esports Report for a special edition of the Purdue Report with Jake Dunn.
• 0:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm joined by Jake Dunn right now here to talk a little Purdue baseball and then we're going to be joined by boilermaker play by play guy Kyle Charters talking about Purdue baseball which doesn't get a lot of talk around the state of Indiana.
• 0:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: Jake this year they got off to a really good start and they kind of made his pay attention from the beginning.
• 0:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, they did.
• 0:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: They had some good win to get to Baylor, ranked Oregon State, or at number 11, the time they played.
• 0:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: Also, to start the conference season here, got to win against Oregon, back in March, so that they've played and beaten some really good teams.
• 0:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: They'd be Ohio State since the first time since I think the invention of the World Wide Web.
• 1:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: So, they've had a really good season here so far.
• 1:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: They've still got work to do for sure.
• 1:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, to get themselves in a great spot for the NCAA tournament and the big-ton tournament on the big-a-take care business against Indiana and Iowa, as well as the play at Ball State and between there, certainly got to put themselves in a great spot.
• 1:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think they won five consecutive series at one time and we're fourth place in the big ten most of the season to this point now they're fifth after they got swept at USC, but even in that series they were competitive for all three games and just rare that I have been drawn into a Purdue baseball season, but I really have been this year.
• 1:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: 2.1 of the first seasons where it's actually kind of been worth paying attention to because it seems to have been really good.
• 1:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I made the NCAA term in a couple of times in history.
• 1:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: Hopefully, they can do it again here inside and see what I'll have to say about the team.
• 2:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: And starting tomorrow, big series against IU and West Lafayette, and we're expecting a sweep right.
• 2:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I would think so.
• 2:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: And we welcome in his central Indiana Sports Report debut, Kyle Chargers, the Purdue baseball play by play for the last 22 years.
• 2:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: Kyle, I am a huge Purdue fan have been since I was a little kid and about once a year I looked to see how the Purdue baseball team is doing and almost every year, I say, well, that's not worth bothering, but this year's been a lot different.
• 2:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: Tell us a little about this Purdue baseball team making history this year.
• 2:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, produce playing well and, you know, the reality is produce had good records the last few seasons, but I think this one feels a little bit different and that Purdue is not only playing well and winning, but it has some real signature wins to this season also, which has put it in a position to be in the conversation for the NCAA tournament and, you know, that has not happened tremendously frequently.
• 3:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: uh, and produce baseball history, so to be in that position, I think speaks to the job the great golf company have done, uh, this season, but produce playing well.
• 3:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: Its offense is great.
• 3:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's been fun to watch.
• 3:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: But the pitching staff has really come together.
• 3:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: Um, I think it matches well.
• 3:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: It throws strikes.
• 3:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: It works quickly.
• 3:26
  [SPEAKER_02]: It does all the things as a baseball fan that you love to see a pitching staff do.
• 3:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: So it's been a fun season, and Purdue is, uh, you know, has what sweeps in three of the last four weekends.
• 3:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: Now, at that fourth weekend, it did get swept at a very good U.S. team, which is really good at home, but per who's playing well, and it'll be an exciting last couple of weeks of the season.
• 3:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: Is this something we saw coming?
• 3:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: Is this something that was expected?
• 3:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't think to this level, I think that Purdue thought that it was better than what the preseason projections were.
• 3:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: The preseason projection was not great.
• 4:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think it was 16 out of these 17 team team, Big 10, I think that Purdue thought it was better than that.
• 4:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think that I probably thought it was a little bit better than that, what a team that could compete for a big 10 tournament slot.
• 4:14
  [SPEAKER_02]: Be one of those 12 teams that gets to Omaha for the conference turning.
• 4:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: battling for one of those four buys in the tournament and on the verge of an NCAA tournament bid.
• 4:30
  [SPEAKER_02]: So it has exceeded at least my expectations.
• 4:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if it's exceeded produced.
• 4:34
  [SPEAKER_02]: But the nice thing about this, Purdue team is that it the players believe that they can win.
• 4:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: They think they can beat anybody anywhere.
• 4:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: And oftentimes with teams, especially in baseball, I think it's just about belief, right?
• 4:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: and confidence and feeling like you can go win a baseball game.
• 4:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: And so this team, I think early in the season had success.
• 4:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: It'd be Bailer, it came back and be Bailer.
• 4:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: It'd be Oregon State, you know, in the second weekend of the year.
• 5:01
  [SPEAKER_02]: It played a very good Portland team and the first weekend of the year and took two of three, took one.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: game from Oregon in the opening weekend of the big 10 season.
• 5:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: So while you lose that series, I think you show yourself that you can compete against the top 25 team.
• 5:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: And so I think that Purdue just had a lot of confidence and that has been building throughout the season.
• 5:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then you've gotten star performances from some guys.
• 5:30
  [SPEAKER_02]: Pretty much one of those teams I know it's a little bit cliche to say, but it's the sum of its parts, right?
• 5:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I think if you took each one of those individual parts, there's no like first round draft pick on this team.
• 5:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: There might not even be a top 10 round draft pick on this team, but they have a lot of really good gamers and guys who grind and work hard and how to play the game and those type of things.
• 5:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: So it just has a been a squad that has really meshed well and they've got,
• 5:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: a good offense and the pitching and particularly the bullpen has been much better than anticipated and I think those are the reasons why producing games.
• 6:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: Kyle, like Greg, who's pretty fan graduated from Purdue, but just don't really pay much attention to baseball outside of, you know, falling on social media and stuff like that.
• 6:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: For our listeners who may not know, how does the Big Ten tournament work?
• 6:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: Because I know there's kind of a funky set up with that a little bit.
• 6:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: and also like if Purdue needs to kind of, I know they're kind of a bubble right now to make the anti-double-a term that maybe kind of give a preview here of the rest of the season and what Purdue needs to do to finish the regular season and maybe an Omaha for the big-to-entermate to solidify their spot in the term it.
• 6:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, let's start with that question first.
• 6:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think that Purdue's path to getting in the NCAA tournament is likely to win
• 6:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: this series and the series at Iowa.
• 6:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: So beat Indiana 2 out of 3.
• 7:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: Take 2 out of 3 against Iowa, which is actually at the Triple A Park in Des Moines.
• 7:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: The law.
• 7:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: If you can do that and then win a game or two in the first part of the big 10 tournament, I think you have a real good opportunity.
• 7:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: You will at least be in the conversation if that happens.
• 7:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: You need to not slip up.
• 7:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: There's the game at Ball State.
• 7:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: this year and the midweek next week.
• 7:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: You don't want to slip up in that game and take a bad loss this late in the season.
• 7:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: So I think that that is important as well.
• 7:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: But I think there is a path there.
• 7:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: You just should get in this plan really well here recently also.
• 7:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: So if you start to, and I know the committee will tell you it doesn't do this.
• 7:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: I just, I don't believe it to be honest with you, that they look at things from a conference point of view, right?
• 7:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: You know, four teams from the big center gonna make it in.
• 7:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: You know, you see like clearly it's the best team in the country.
• 7:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe one of the best teams all time in college baseball of USC Oregon and Nebraska are in.
• 8:01
  [SPEAKER_02]: Michigan is playing really well lately and probably now has a slightly better resume than Purdue.
• 8:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: Will the NCAA committee take six teams then from the big 10 or does Purdue have to find enough to get back ahead of Michigan.
• 8:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: and be that next team up from the big 10.
• 8:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: I know the NCA will tell you, well, we're just looking at teams and not their conference as well.
• 8:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't believe you.
• 8:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think that there is sort of a cap on what the NCA committee would take from the big 10.
• 8:36
  [SPEAKER_02]: So I think that is a little bit of something to watch for as a Michigan, Michigan.
• 8:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: Until we need Michigan to lose as well as Purdue winning.
• 8:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: I personally think that would be helpful to produce resumes
• 8:51
  [SPEAKER_02]: We always like lose.
• 8:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, not hard to cheer against Michigan for some.
• 8:56
  [SPEAKER_02]: Biggs and tournaments format has changed, so hopefully I can get fit for right.
• 9:02
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's changed a couple of times over the years, but this is the most significant of the changes.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: 12 teams make the field.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Four teams get a buy.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Those seated five through 12 are in a double elimination bracket.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Tuesday, three Thursday.
• 9:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: Those teams can peat until the field is reduced to four, I believe.
• 9:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then those teams play, join the other four in a single elimination tournament to join the bracket, to join the single elimination that the BD auto bid to the NCAA tournament to crown a champion.
• 9:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think if you're, you know, to sort of wrap all this up a little bit,
• 9:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: If you're a Purdue and you can win back the back series against Indiana Iowa and then advance to that second big ten tournament, the single elimination top eight tournament, I think I think you got a good chance to be certainly in the conversation and I think at that point you would have a good chance of being one of the last four teams in and I think putting can be teams like I think it pretty gets in the tournament, it can win it can win in the tournament.
• 10:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: a surprise for sure.
• 10:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: But I think Purdue could win a game in the tournament as beaten NCAA tournament quality teams.
• 10:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: And if it gets on a roll, could it win more than one game perhaps a good, but it's got to get there.
• 10:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's still got some work to do.
• 10:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: I need you to stop talking about winning two out of three against IU because they
• 10:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: That's a sweep of ever there why I think Indiana is I think Indiana is talented.
• 10:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know why their record is where it is.
• 10:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: So to me that's it's a concerning series because Indiana recently has had success against Purdue.
• 10:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: Indiana has had by its standards not a very good season it has made the entire tournament.
• 10:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think every season since.
• 11:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: 11 or 12.
• 11:03
  [SPEAKER_02]: And it is in danger of missing us.
• 11:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: Excuse me, I don't know if I said the big tournament.
• 11:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's made a big tournament every season since 11 or 12.
• 11:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's a danger of not making a big tournament this year.
• 11:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: This is a big series for Indiana.
• 11:15
  [SPEAKER_02]: All of them, I would expect that Purdue will get the Hoosier for that shot.
• 11:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: And so, you know, if you're Purdue, you've got to not produce not in a situation where it can expect the coast these last two weekends and get in the NCAA tournament.
• 11:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's got to win hands and play it's way in, rather than play it's way out.
• 11:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: Kyle, you've been the play by play, brought a caster here for 22 years.
• 11:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: You've seen at least one Purdue team to make them to the play tournament.
• 11:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: Are there any similarities between those teams that you've seen succeed in this team?
• 11:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: Or is there something that's different about this team?
• 11:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: What do you think is helping this team have the successful season that's had to far?
• 11:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: produced by the tournament twice during my era in 12, which was expected, where he was the best team in the big tan, it was the best team in the preseason, in the conference, and it played like the best team, the whole way through.
• 12:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then made the NCAA tournament as a host, even though it didn't get the host at Purdue because it's new stadium was not yet being not yet completed.
• 12:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: And the old stadium literally was pouring down the day off of the regular season.
• 12:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: That 12 team was, that was expected, right?
• 12:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: We knew that they were very good at three majorly players on that squad.
• 12:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then some other guys who were very good collegiate baseball players.
• 12:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: The 18 team, the maybe in say tournament, was not expected.
• 12:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: In fact, pretty was a middle of the pack team, maybe at best.
• 12:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: through the middle of that season.
• 12:56
  [SPEAKER_02]: Had a home series that it just got absolutely folk race by Minnesota, a very good Minnesota team.
• 13:07
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think I'd outscored in three games, 46 to 15.
• 13:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, it was crazy.
• 13:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: And you're just like, what is going this team is done?
• 13:15
  [SPEAKER_02]: Like, they're cooked.
• 13:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then go to Maryland,
• 13:22
  [SPEAKER_02]: And I'm watching that practice before that trip to Maryland, I'm like this team, this team is just a bunch of knuckleheads and you know, they don't want to be here.
• 13:30
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then we'll have their sweet Maryland at Maryland and then they went like, I don't know how to admit what was a dozen games in a row or whatever was and man ended up making it to the championship game of the big gen tournament, lost in Minnesota.
• 13:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: not like 15 to two like it had that at the home, but like five to three or whatever the score was.
• 13:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: And maybe the intake tournament won a game in North Carolina.
• 13:55
  [SPEAKER_02]: This this team this year reminds a little bit of that team and that that 18 team had
• 14:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: a bunch of guys that were grinders and gamers and sort of had an attitude and and those things they showed up in practice, but then when when they got between the white line, you really could turn it on.
• 14:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: So I think this is a little bit similar to that team that really just caught fire and got a lot of confidence and you know, carried that into the postseason.
• 14:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: They responded 18 and it's been fun again this year.
• 14:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: Before we let you go, Kyle
• 14:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: He's great.
• 14:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think the guy's like him.
• 14:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think that he relates to the players.
• 14:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: Well, I think that he really cares about their success.
• 14:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: And I think that that shows.
• 14:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: Now, he's not a push-over by any means either.
• 14:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: He'll get into him if he feels like they're not doing something the right way.
• 14:52
  [SPEAKER_02]: He's big on.
• 14:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: The game is to be played in a certain way.
• 15:01
  [SPEAKER_02]: You run out pop-ups at first date.
• 15:03
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's all of those things.
• 15:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: And you see it when Purdue plays, like, if you're watching closely, you'll see all that little stuff.
• 15:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: And it matters.
• 15:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: Purdue beats teams that don't execute.
• 15:19
  [SPEAKER_02]: Even if you're talented, Purdue will beat you if you do not execute.
• 15:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: And that is showing up a ton this year.
• 15:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: Purdue will force you in the mistake
• 15:30
  [SPEAKER_02]: it will move batters.
• 15:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: It will go first the third on an outfield hit.
• 15:34
  [SPEAKER_02]: And that sort of pressure at times will rattle teams.
• 15:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: And you know, it's it's GG style to try to keep teams off balance.
• 15:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: And this team fled that way.
• 15:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think that he and Purdue and Brace is sort of the underdog mentality and going out there and proven people wrong and knowing that it might not have the
• 15:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: go out there and do battle.
• 16:00
  [SPEAKER_02]: So they sort of emulate the head coach and just coaching staff to you I think is a good mix that really has you know something here with Ferret Sarato and Josh Newman and Jimmy Brennan.
• 16:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: There really likes that mix that it has and I think it's been a good combination for the board of makers here the last couple of years and really it started to come together this year.
• 16:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: Kyle, thank you so much for your time.
• 16:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: Where can we in our listeners
• 16:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: on social media and also like how can we start with some of these games.
• 16:30
  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm on Twitter, Excent, and Pile Charter 79 where I thought the little bit of baseball there occasionally and also then the games are streaming on pretty sports.com on the schedule there and also on the Purdue Sports app.
• 16:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: We're also on the RC Sports Network as well so you can find
• 16:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: Kyle, thanks again so much.
• 16:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: We really appreciate it.
• 16:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: Hopefully we can talk again as Purdue progresses through the Big 10 and the NCAA tournament.
• 17:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, thanks, guys.
• 17:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's always wanted to talk a little bit of baseball, especially when the board of makers are playing well.
• 17:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks so much to Jake, as always, for joining me in an extra special thanks to Kyle Charters for coming on and talking some Purdue baseball with us.
• 17:25
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• 17:38
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