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Weekend 8 Preview: Big Stakes for the Big 10 | Ep. 024 · College Baseball Now

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  Speaker 1: College baseball was awful tame this week. Nothing major, nothing
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  shocking April fools. Now, who's ready for another weekend of knockdown,
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  drag out brutality in college baseball? Hands up? We're talking
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  weekend today from college baseball.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there ain't no problems.
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  Speaker 3: There ain't no problems.
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  Speaker 2: Don't want problem, you know?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, let me shut the check, send it what was
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  gone for? Then they had to be out beat, didn't
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  grab a couple wins with.
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  Speaker 4: A D I D they even known the kid.
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  Speaker 1: I had to do it be I GDS. I can
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  never be average, and they want to problem with the boy.
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  They don't know, no status, how don't need so? Coach
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  Tim run a week God, I want to test that
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  to them with standing strong run the game. Best believe
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  you shining.
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  Speaker 5: Dogs, counting them my wins.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I love it when they count me yaut.
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  Speaker 3: Counting I'm the least shutting shame why I'm winning dogs?
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  Speaker 1: Best believe I run the game. Don't want.
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  Speaker 5: To leave.
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  Speaker 1: Them out, don't understand. Back in your earbuds, on your
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  television screens, on your mobile devices, it's your friends from
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  college baseball. Now we're glad to be here with you
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  to chop up what's been happening across in cw A
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  baseball and to talk about what we have forthcoming from
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  weekend eight. Uh. Of course it is your friends, your
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  regular host, starting with me and your friend, your host,
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  her boy, Dr Wailer. Glad to be with you, the
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  director of Amateur Scotty at Prospects live here with my friends,
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  starting with the gentleman who is now moved out of
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  the middle back in the top right of your screen
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  as it was meant to be, as God intended. It's
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  mister Josh Catlin, Josh Pillow.
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  Speaker 2: How's it going.
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  Speaker 3: I feel a lot better being back in my normal spot.
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  This is a little more Uh, I'm looking at myself
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  directly under the camera on our screens now instead of
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  over a little bit. It's very just I feel.
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  Speaker 1: At home, you know. I get that you are at
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  home in your native spot there. Josh. It's kind of
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  a big episode for us because the boys, if I may,
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  are back in town, we have not all recorded together
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  since episode.
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  Speaker 3: Oh it was before I was in Mexico, so that
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  would be at least a month.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's more than that then, So for a
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  long time, Josh, I'm curious. It is April Fool's Day,
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  April first. For those of you who have been living
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  under Atchilawski for a minute, Josh funny times, it's April Fools.
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  I'm not gonna ask you guys about your favorite pranks
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  or anything like that. You you were telling us about
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  one you tried to get your roommate with earlier, the
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  old Jim Halpert coffee mug and the jell O trick.
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  Very good. I'm gonna go a different brand of humor though.
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  Who is an actor who's movies or whose shows always
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  make you laugh? Actress, comedian?
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  Speaker 3: I mean the easy answer here, I think is like
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  Adam Sandler for my generation, Kevin Hart IWO, I could
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  be blanking on someone. If we're going strictly movies like
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  the TV shows, yeah, that's it. But if we're going
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  comedians like I feel like these days, people my demographic
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  and my age, Shane Gillis is such a popular answer
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  that dude is just hilarious doesn't do as much like
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  TV and movies, So it depends what you're going forward
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  with your question.
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  Speaker 1: No, that's okay. I mean you gave you gave great responses.
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  Good to know, uh in the bottom right, his husual
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  spot no longer on the far right. It's mister JB.
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  So Wiston yellow JB. Hey, how are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: True?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, it's great to be here with you, buddy, all
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  of you guys. It feels like it feels like a reunion.
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  Everybody's back and there, all here together, gonna chop it up. JB.
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  Same question, you man. It was somebody funny. It's somebody
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  that gets gets your slapping the knee.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm gonna go with Vince Vaughn. I really like
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  the Vince Vaughn usually is like a Vince Vaughn and
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  like I guess like kind of own Wilson, Like those
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  movies are there together are pretty funny, like you know,
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  Night the Museum, any Wedding Crashers anything like that, Like
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  they're usually kind of funny in whatever movies there, And
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  so Vince Vaughan, but Vince Vaughn specifically, I'd say so.
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  Speaker 1: I saw Wedding Crashers in theaters three times, paid to
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  see out of the theaters three times. I liked that
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  movie a lot as a young and so yeah, I
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  could right. I try glad to have you JB. And
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  in the bottom left. It is coach Jake Barjorie. Jake
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  may look a little tired. Uh, if you're watching this
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  on YouTube, that's just because this man has been coaching
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  his butt all the way off Arcadia is on. Where
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  are we at now, Jake?
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  Speaker 6: We've won eleven games now, we just want to walk off.
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  Yesterday I walk off walk where we came back in
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  the last in and tied it up and then walked
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  with the bases loaded.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we're at eleven games in a row now, and
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  so we're.
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  Speaker 1: Rolling absolutely insane and well deserved. Obviously, you guys, we've
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  been talking a lot about it in the group chat
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  about Arcadia's success, and certainly we want to keep waving
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  that big Night's flag here on college baseball Nowye.
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  Speaker 5: I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 6: I'm sure the guys that are that are might be
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  listening to it will appreciate it to Well.
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  Speaker 1: We hope they are, obviously, we hope they are. They're
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  they're playing their butts off, and we hope that they're
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  getting a little bit of getting some chuckles listening to
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  their coach and a couple of chuckle heads chopping up ball. So, Jake,
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  same question to you man, who's somebody that always makes
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  you laugh. Comedian, actress, actor, just a guy who you got.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, well besides besides Drew Wheeler, of course, uh.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, I got that.
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  Speaker 6: You know some people, I've heard people say they don't
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  like Will Ferrell very much, but I'm a big Will
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  Ferrell fan.
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  Speaker 5: I think he's I think he's funny.
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  Speaker 6: Like step Brothers is a movie that, like, I've watched
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  it probably fifty times, and I'll laugh at it every
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  single time it comes on.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, interesting movie almost, it's just hilarious.
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  Speaker 2: I forgot about him. That might be my answer to.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he's very He's He's an eighty comedy actor
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  and that's I think indisputable. And you know, the thing
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  that I've been into with Will Ferrell is the commercials
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  I think he does for PayPal, where like he's on
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  the plane sitting next to the kid and the kids,
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  like I don't the kid just like really snaps on him.
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  I laugh every time I see that. Just he's very
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  giving as a comedian too, to let the kid get
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  to laugh. Just just very funny.
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  Speaker 4: He ruined like that song everywhere for me, you know,
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  like that commercial.
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  Speaker 2: I want to play with you.
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  Speaker 4: That's every time I hear that song, That's all I
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  think about is Will Ferrell as seeing a trying to
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  pay with his card everywhere that he goes.
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  Speaker 1: When I hear that Fleetwood Mac has been ruined and
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  Will Ferrell to blame. Good to know.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know we're back to by the way. Also,
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  when we see Josh drink and rum in the top
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  right corner already, you know he's already got the cut out,
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  he's got the rum going. I mean, it's gonna be
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  a great episode.
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  Speaker 3: This has happened every single week. You just don't pay attention.
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  You just haven't decided to show up.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm just saying, you know, we're really back. You know,
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  everybody's back. We all get to see the rum.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we're never a clear cup, Never a clear cup. Jo,
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  it's always you're gonna pour this all over your computer.
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  Speaker 4: Don't don't waste it, man, we know you got it.
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  Speaker 5: Well.
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  Speaker 1: It is in is old times. The boys are back.
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  Eight minutes in. No baseball yet, but Josh and JB
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  have already been at each other. We've gotten our arcadia, Chatty.
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  It's going great thus far, but we've got Puny to
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  chop up. Let's get to it. Josh, we are gonna
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  start with you because talking midweek games on a little network.
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  You guys might have heard of ESPN. It's apparently this
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  new thing. They show sports twenty four to seven, crazy stuff.
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  A little game I like to watch on Tuesday evening,
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  Auburn Georgia Tech, a meeting of the minds two of
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  the country's most elite teams. Some would say, Josh, let's
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  have you chop up the game before we get a
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  little deeper into the analysis. Please.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm at the point I might not call
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  it two of the country's elite teams.
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  Speaker 2: I mean we're approaching that point.
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad you enjoyed watching it, because boy, I sure
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  that I'm about tired of this offense right now. It
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  just it's so frustrating, and I don't know the situational
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  like typically situationally, we don't really focus on making the
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  smartest pitching decisions in the midweek. And that's kind of
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  like almost intentional, like for example, when like also allow
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  when thirteen runs is one thing we put Christian Chatterton
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  out there to start because a it was giving Georgia
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  Tech a different look than what they saw at the
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  last time they played Auburn, and Andreas Alvarez is going
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  to be the starter on Thursday because it's like the mismatch.
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  We like the weird lining up for the week now.
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  So when they put Justice DeJong in right after Chatterton
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  and the second inning and then I and when it happened,
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  I was like, why is this the move we're making
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  right now?
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  Speaker 2: And I just I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I forgot that pitching is a little bit different than
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  the midweek based on like strategy, and then he throws
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  he hangs a curveball right over the middle of Von.
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  Speaker 2: Lackey for to run home run immediately, and it was
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  just all a downhill from there.
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  Speaker 3: It's you can't deny this Georgia Tech offense. It's i'd
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  say the best in the country. Them are UCLA, but
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  the Auburn offense, if you're I mean, we'll get into
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  it more later, maybe when the Arkansas Auburn series is discussed.
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  But if your name isn't Chase Freleich, Bristol Carter or
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  Chris Rembert, I have a zero faith in you stepping
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  up to the plate right now.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's really reached that point.
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  Speaker 1: It's really sad because I relate so much to what
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  you're saying. For the team, the squadron that I support,
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  the university that I based my feelings and hearts and
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  hopes and dreams on you, I relate a lot, you know,
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  I relate a lot to what you're saying. That said, though, Josh,
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  not the smartest move to leave that curve ball hanging
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  over the plate too, arguably the most in fuego hitter
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  across the United States of America. And Von Lackey, So, Josh,
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  really quickly, what have you liked out of von Lackey?
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  Because I know he was a player coming into this season,
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  we talked about wanting to see him provide a little
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  bit more with the bat. I can't imagine any more
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  being given than what he's done.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, what I've what I've liked is I mean everything.
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  Speaker 3: It's a cop out answer, but it seems like he's
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  gotten at least a little bit better in every relevant
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  area the bat, the ball has gotten better, the power
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  seems to have gone a little better. I assume, like
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  I know, some of the numbers back me up. I've
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  seen some of them, but not all of them.
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  Speaker 2: I assume this is backed up by it like his
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  approach seems to be a little bit better.
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  Speaker 3: It's just I don't know. It's we had him around
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  like the twenty ish range for college prospects preseason, and
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  that's about where it was pretty cons Now it's like
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  if you have him outside the top of the seven
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  or eight, you kind of get weird looks because he
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  just increased his stock so much because he's been so
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  lethal this whole year.
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  Speaker 1: He really has. He absolutely has. As a matter of fact,
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  coach gonna cut to you here talking about Georgia Tech's
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  offense as a whole. I feel like all season. I
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  know Josh and JB kind of they had their their
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  memory early in the season about whether or not this
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  offense is for real, and it is. I think that
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  we're all of the agreement at this point, Jake, this
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  is this is a real, real threatening crew of jackets
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  in Atlanta. But Jake, one guy who I think all
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  of us are almost still looking for a little bit
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  more out of is Drew Burris. I'm curious, Jake, what's
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  the thought on Burris? Certainly not time to ring the
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  alarm bells yet, right, No, I'm not.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not ringing any any bells yet.
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  Speaker 6: But I mean, it is, it is weird when we
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  start talking about, you know, the top guys in this
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  order and he and he comes in at like, you know,
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  numbers wise, you know, he's.
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  Speaker 5: Like the eighth or ninth guy that we end up
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  talking about on this team. It is, it is weird.
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  Speaker 6: I think it's more like because you look at Drew
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  Burris's numbers yet it's not like to the level as
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  most of the other guys in the order, but they're
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  also not like bad. Like he's still hitting for an
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  over one thousand ops this one. I think he got
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  up to that either this past weekend or yesterday's game.
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  I mean, I mean he's only got you know, he's only.
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  Speaker 5: Got five homers right now.
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  Speaker 6: I mean he's he's not he's not producing the amount
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  that we expected him to produce.
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  Speaker 5: But no, I'm not. I mean, we know, we know
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  the tools.
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  Speaker 1: We know.
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  Speaker 6: You have to think it's gonna it's gonna click at
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  some point for him. Uh, he's gonna just go crazy.
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  He may I mean he may not, you know, win
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  the Golden Spikes like we kind of thought he was
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  going to. But like, I'm not ringing any bells and
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  Drew Burris at all. I won't count him out until
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  he gives, you know, us a clear and obvious reason
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  to count him out.
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  Speaker 3: If I may speak up real quick about I mean
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  like Burus, if we're gonna talk down or bad about
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  him right now, I feel like we should say, yesterday
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  he was two for four with three rbi and like
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  a really impactful two RBI double early on. So like
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  he looked good yesterday, and he looked good this past weekend.
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  So he seems to be kind of putting the pieces
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  back together already.
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  Speaker 1: That's a great It's where I was gonna go with
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  JB is that the corner has certainly turned uh and
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  you guys are right, certainly. I guess if you're looking
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  at this as a season at home, don't be alarmed, because,
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  as Jake said, this is still great production, even beyond
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  the fact that Josh alluded to their recent seat has
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  been at that elite level I think we all expected
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  all season long. JB. I'm going to give you an
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  opportunity to win. Bill Dunkong Auburn. I know that this
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  is going to just play into you versus caution. So
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  that's kind of what we're perfectly perpetuating here. Auburn is
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  still in, for my money, a top twenty five team
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  in this country. I don't think anybody in this group
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  would discount that or disagree with that, but JB clearly
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  some work must be done. I think Josh alluded to
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  the answer that I would give. What do you see
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  as being the major hang up for these Tigers right now?
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  Speaker 4: I mean it has to be the offense. I mean, honestly,
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  I don't know how you can talk about the offense.
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  I mean them struggling to hit with runers in scoring positions,
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  struggling with timely hits in general, struggling even with the
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  big swing with nobody on. You know, that's something else
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  that it's kind of just been an offense as a
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  whole has been an issue. The pitching has been fairly solid,
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  you know, it's just shown inconsistencies at times, but it's
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  kept them in the games that they need to be in.
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  And so I think it's honestly an offensive issue. And
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  not to jump off of the topic, and not to
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  you know, lightly slam dunk on Josh like a two
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  hand finish right there, rather than the windmill. Ryan Zuckerman,
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  this is more of a lift both of us up.
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  We did talk about him as a possible top fifty
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  guy in the preseason, and we're talking about Georgia Tech.
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  So I thought, hey, we'll throw Ryan Zuckerman out. There
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  is a name. He is second in OPS on this
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  team right now with an eleven ninety I think it's
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  eleven ninety seven OPS right now for Georgia Tech. So
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  kudos to us a little bit, kudos to the squad
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  here that has talked about Ryan Zuckerman.
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  Speaker 1: So you guys are very bright. That was never in question.
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  I think all of you, all three of you, had
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  talked about how Zuckerman could really pop off amongst the
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  crew in Atlanta, and that he has thus far. It's
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  been a very impressive first half of the season for him,
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  first half of the season. That feels foul to say.
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  I hate that the season needs to slow down. I am.
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  I don't know what I'm gonna do with the other
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  nine months of my year. Anyway. Let's move on though,
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  because Arkansas another team who was among our three SEC
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  teams we were debating on who had the worst weekend.
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  Arkansas's misfortunes have kept rolling into the midweek, Obviously, we
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  say it every single week. We're not gonna beleaguer this point.
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  But midweek games you're gonna lose some you're gonna have
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  some missteps, you're gonna have some things kind of go wonky.
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  And yet, Jake, Arkansas Missouri State, that walk off, that
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  was a good one. I'm curious, Jake, what were your
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  thoughts on that game? Arkansas Missouri State.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, just just a ton of fireworks. Like I
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  don't I don't want to mention a single thing about
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  either pitching staff here, because.
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  Speaker 5: This one was all you know, this was all this
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  was all offense.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, like Arkansas goes up on one early in
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  the first, Missouri State answer to the sixth spot in
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  the second, to let them know that, you know they're there,
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  they're ready to play the ball, they're ready.
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  Speaker 5: To hang with them.
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  Speaker 6: You know, Arkansas six more unanswered back Missouri State, you know,
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  three more that It just kept happening throughout the game.
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  Christian Turner homeward for Arkansas in the fifth, uh Logan
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  Fife for for Missouri State in the sixth, Cam Cozy
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  in the seventh, Gabe Rustler and the with the two
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  run shot in the ninth to tie it up and
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  send it to extras like, well, hold on the one
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  pitching note I'll make is Curry Sutherland for Missouri State.
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  Three innings, zero runners on base, five punch outs in
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  the eighth, ninth, and tenth, and that obviously set the
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  stage for for for Caden, bog and Paul to say
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  that he's had enough of the back and forth shootout
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  and he hit the game winner on the first pitch
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  that he saw in the tenth inning, just electric finish
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  to to a really really fun game and a big
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  win for for Missouri State.
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  Speaker 1: I think Jake, Caden, Bogan, Paul was probably like, look,
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  I got an early morning class. We got to get
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  out of game. I'm calling game here now. Is that's all?
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  That was my head cannon. But we can't prove that. Cayden,
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  if you are listening, let us know what class you
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  got a date in the morning. JB gonna come to
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  you on this one man. Missouri State's offense has been
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  just explosive all year long. I think we've talked about it. Actually,
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  you know, Bogopol, the guy that we had top fifty
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  in our preseason and then I think he actually maintained
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  that spot or just outside it. In our top one
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  hundred update a little bit earlier in the year, he
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  one of the I guess most lackluster lackluster of that
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  offense of Missouri State. But yet Arkansas's offense JB. What
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  is happening there? I feel like we are looking for
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  somebody to step up and be that guy and of
• 18:48
  a crop of dude so I think we you know,
• 18:51
  again in the preseason and leading into the season, we
• 18:53
  talked about ten or twelve that could be the guy,
• 18:56
  and yet there is no guy.
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that's truly the story. I mean, Arkansas
• 19:04
  has really been struggling to try to put together a
• 19:07
  well rounded offense. You know. The guy that we talked
• 19:09
  about a lot going into the season is Ryder Helfrick.
• 19:12
  And on top of that, they had returners like Kocial
• 19:16
  and Alloy and some of those guys that were really
• 19:18
  high on and then the transfers Mike and new TJ. Pompey.
• 19:24
  They also talked about, you know how this offense we
• 19:28
  thought would really merge together very well, and there's a
• 19:31
  lot of veteran presence within the offense and not a
• 19:33
  lot of turnover. Necessarily that was very life changing, I
• 19:37
  guess a good way to put it for this team,
• 19:39
  and it just is not worked or meshed together as
• 19:42
  typical Arkansas teams, So usually it's kind of a more
• 19:44
  consistent city flow. I wouldn't describe Arkansas as necessarily like
• 19:48
  a top offense. Usually every year they're usually a team
• 19:51
  that has a very good offense, and usually I feel
• 19:55
  like they are a better pitching than hitting team and
• 20:00
  general recollection I feel like. But I think it's kind
• 20:04
  of concerning at this point that to see even in
• 20:07
  like a shootout like this, you know, now the pitching
• 20:10
  is faltering and you lose in a shootout.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: Game with a mid major like them.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: And Bogan Pole is obviously been at big piece for
• 20:19
  Missouri State, even though he hasn't played well, he's been
• 20:21
  their main guy for two years now, so it makes
• 20:24
  sense he is the guy to to cap it off
• 20:26
  kind of and send him back.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: And yeah, it's certainly poetic that way. That Again, it's
• 20:33
  it's funny we say it like that though, JV. But
• 20:35
  it is. It's almost like it was written. You have
• 20:38
  two teams who you know, I guess everybody's performing equally.
• 20:42
  The guy you expect to be a star from Missouri
• 20:45
  state steps up and is a star when they needed
• 20:48
  the most. Josh, A lot of very interesting similarities between you,
• 20:54
  her Auburn Tigers and these Arkansas Razorbacks. I don't want
• 21:00
  to bury the lead because we are going to chat
• 21:02
  this matchup later on, but I have a very specific
• 21:05
  game time for you if you're interested.
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: I'm very interested, although I don't. Talking about Auburn is
• 21:11
  a sore spot these days for me. But you know what,
• 21:14
  we'll stomach it. We'll deal with that.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: All of your favorite teams are just kind of in
• 21:18
  a blender right now. Southern miss not doing so that.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Hey, one of my teams fourteen game last night?
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: So which team is then?
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: I don't think that's your team. I don't think so
• 21:29
  that's ALGAB. Let's get it right.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: You shout out LG. We knew you were there, We
• 21:38
  had sources. No, can you hear me?
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we're good. You're on my screen?
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Oh geez man? Uh no, still still here? Man, I'm sorry.
• 21:47
  Your screen is probably just sick of seeing me. Uh, Josh,
• 21:50
  The question is which offense do you trust more right now?
• 21:54
  Auburn's or Arkansas?
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Uh? The team who scored fourteen yesterday. Arkansas easy the answer.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Which pitching staff do you trust more right now? Auburn
• 22:03
  or Arkansas?
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: Auburn definitely.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: I think it's gonna make for a very interesting matchup
• 22:11
  series of matchups this weekend. Is kind of the point
• 22:14
  I'm getting at because again, I think historically, speaking as
• 22:18
  JB alluded to, I'd almost expect those things to be flipped.
• 22:21
  But it's interesting that twenty twenty six is throwing a
• 22:24
  lot of things on its head. Speaking of things being
• 22:27
  thrown on the heads, JB, we're gonna come to you
• 22:30
  for our last midweek game that we want to give
• 22:32
  a little bit of talk to Washington and Oregon State. Now,
• 22:37
  if this were college football, I'd be all in. I'd
• 22:40
  be so invested. I think, you know Washington this year, Jake,
• 22:47
  let me go to you. What's a kind word to
• 22:49
  describe Washington's season this year?
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: A kind word? I mean, I don't know.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Lackluster is the best one I can come up with.
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, that's that's a kind word for it.
• 23:02
  I mean they haven't been like horrible. I mean they're
• 23:05
  they're five hundred in the Big Ten, but like as
• 23:08
  a team, as a whole I would say there, Yeah,
• 23:11
  not one you would expect to do what they did
• 23:14
  to Oregon States.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: That's very accurate and JB, what a wonderful way to
• 23:19
  send that to you, sir, Walk us through what happened
• 23:22
  in the game first, and then we'll get a little
• 23:23
  bit deeper.
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, if you just kind of pull up the
• 23:28
  box score, you see Washington put up a four spot
• 23:31
  in the first and a five spot in the third.
• 23:33
  So that's not what you'd expect from Washington offense, especially
• 23:36
  against Oregon State. And then you go further down the
• 23:39
  line and you see a nice double digit eighteen runs
• 23:42
  and seventeen hits later down the line, so that's also
• 23:45
  not what you're looking for from Oregon State. And a
• 23:49
  little bit more digging only five hits from Oregon State
• 23:51
  two runs on the day, pretty terrible showing from their
• 23:55
  offense that we've harped on a lot this year. And yeah,
• 23:59
  kind of going over the best kind of breakout performers
• 24:02
  for Washington. Colin Bauer had a double on a triple
• 24:05
  for them, Landon Young and Daniel Poross both had homers.
• 24:10
  Those are kind of the main standouts for Washington. They
• 24:12
  kind of led the ship. They had one, two, three, four,
• 24:18
  five guys with multiple hits. That might be the only
• 24:21
  time the season Washington's had five guys with multiple hits
• 24:24
  in the game. So I mean, it's something else that
• 24:28
  we definitely didn't expect.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: No, I certainly didn't expect it at all, And yet
• 24:34
  here we sit with another interesting midweek to talk about. Josh,
• 24:39
  Gonna come to you Oregon State. JB really put it
• 24:42
  out there again in a great way for of the
• 24:44
  natural transition. Way to go, JB, Adam, Way to you, Josh.
• 24:48
  We talked earlier in the season a little bit add
• 24:52
  nauseam actually about how Oregon State's offense was so poor,
• 24:58
  so bad, to the point where, if I'm not mistaken,
• 25:01
  we spent probably five minutes of an episode asking if
• 25:04
  we'd rather have various mid major offenses with that team.
• 25:08
  And that was such a great segment. We need to
• 25:10
  chop that up somewhere and put that on socials. But Josh,
• 25:13
  what's the current state of the Oregon what's the current
• 25:17
  outlook on the Oregon State offense? I was gonna say,
• 25:19
  what's the current state of the Oregon State offense? Oregon
• 25:23
  is the answer, But what's the current outlook?
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: Not good? I mean, like it's still not good.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: And it's even a little more concerning in mid weeks
• 25:32
  when you see these kind of performances, because that's when
• 25:34
  you get the worst pitching typically. I mean, Washington only
• 25:37
  through three guys. They had Liam Leerman go out there
• 25:39
  for five and a third in relief and just kind
• 25:42
  of shut him down a little bit. That's just not
• 25:45
  a pitching staff who's done much at all this year,
• 25:47
  and so it's really more worrisome to see it in
• 25:50
  that game than a lot of others we've seen this year.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: I mean so many of the guys.
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: I mean, I feel like what I'm about to say,
• 25:57
  I've said so many times this year, but it's like
• 26:01
  Easton Tall and Adam Hate and like Bryce Hubbard and
• 26:04
  these guys, no hits just didn't come through at all. Really,
• 26:08
  no one at all was a like a consistent, really
• 26:11
  like big performer last night. Besides Paul Vasquez, it was
• 26:15
  just across the board poor. And I feel like we've
• 26:19
  seen this somewhat often from them. It's gotten a little
• 26:21
  bit better recently. I mean, the the bars blow like
• 26:24
  it's a really low standard there. But I mean they
• 26:27
  they scored nineteen in a game against Mercer this past week.
• 26:30
  They scored twelve in the midweek against USC's ten armed
• 26:34
  bullpen game, So I mean, we've seen flashes here and there,
• 26:37
  but like still, they scored I think it was three
• 26:40
  in the in the last game on Sunday against a
• 26:42
  Mercer pitching staff, which I mean, obviously Mercer good team,
• 26:45
  that's a postseason team, but nothing fancy.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: So I don't know, I feel like I don't really
• 26:54
  have a lot of hope for it to turn around.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: To be honest, I had conversations preseason about putting Organ's
• 27:00
  state lower than a lot of people because I just
• 27:02
  don't see this offense taking them to distance as good
• 27:05
  as the pitching staff is, and I still kind of
• 27:07
  stand by that opinion.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: I think that. And now, granted, this is just one
• 27:12
  guy in the in the college based one now echo chamber,
• 27:15
  if we want to call it that, but I think
• 27:17
  that's apt. I think you have a very realistic outlook
• 27:20
  on this team who has proven to be inconsistent, And
• 27:23
  that's probably the nicest word we could say for this offense,
• 27:26
  because poor is also right on the tip of my
• 27:28
  tongue Jake gonna come to you to talk about Washington
• 27:32
  really quickly. We said it a minute ago. I think
• 27:33
  lackluster was the word that I used to describe their season.
• 27:37
  But you said, man, they're five hundred in the Big Ten.
• 27:39
  It could be a lot worse. I'm curious, man, we
• 27:41
  haven't talked a lot about Washington. Shout out some of
• 27:44
  the guys that are killing it for them this year,
• 27:46
  or let me rephrase, shout out some of the guys
• 27:48
  that are not doing off of for them this year.
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: No, they they do have some some bright spots. I
• 27:54
  mean the brightest spot on their team is Jackson Hodge Case.
• 27:57
  I mean he was the guy that you know, I
• 27:59
  think coming into the year, if there was a guy
• 28:01
  that you could have predicted to kind of be the
• 28:04
  guy for Washington, Like they don't have a lot of stars,
• 28:06
  a lot of names on their on their team, but
• 28:09
  he was.
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: He was kind of the one. I think he's sophomore
• 28:11
  this year.
• 28:11
  Speaker 6: He's I think he was also injured at the start
• 28:13
  of the year, but he's hitting four O nine in
• 28:16
  the seventeen games that he's that he's played in, uh
• 28:19
  thirteen hundred ops. He's leading the team in homers. He's
• 28:22
  I think it looks I think he's like third on
• 28:24
  the team in RBIs after missing like you know, like
• 28:27
  eight or nine games this year, Like I don't know,
• 28:28
  he's he's pulling a lot of the weight. Daniel poris
• 28:32
  Is also is also doing well. I think he had
• 28:34
  a he had a big game against Oregon State.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: UH.
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: He's got He's got six homers on the year as well.
• 28:41
  Speaker 6: And on the pitching side, Noah Kenney, he had a
• 28:44
  good start last weekend against Northwestern UH seven innings, nine strikeouts,
• 28:48
  three hits, one run. Gunner Nichols UH and Hayden Lewis
• 28:52
  is their other starters. Lewis hadn't had a strong start
• 28:55
  against Northeast Northeast Northwestern as well. So yeah, those are
• 28:59
  the guys to kind of pay attention to for Washington.
• 29:02
  I really like Hotchkis. I like watching him play.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Hotchikus is the guy that I had highlighted as well.
• 29:06
  Glad you brought him up and he was overdue to
• 29:09
  come up on the show. And I think there's several
• 29:10
  guys that we haven't just haven't had the opportunity to
• 29:13
  talk about that have done really, really great and so
• 29:15
  Hotchkiss certainly one of those hats off Cannic coat to you, buddy.
• 29:19
  You know we talked about a couple of games already, guys,
• 29:22
  several other games worth mentioning, Josh, as we said just
• 29:25
  a minute ago, your second favorite team, Southern miss still
• 29:28
  in the blender broke. Southeast Louisiana put up five on them, boys.
• 29:33
  The Eagles only scored one. Portland put up three runs
• 29:37
  on Oregon in the midweek. All those who have Oregon
• 29:41
  is not really that great propaganda, go and love to
• 29:45
  see it. Jacksonville and Florida. Man, I love this joke.
• 29:50
  I say it just about once every episode, but I
• 29:53
  think at this point it's not Doctor Arizona and mister
• 29:56
  Wildcats anymore. It's Doctor Florida and mister Gators. What team
• 30:00
  are we gonna get every time that this group comes
• 30:04
  to the Dome? Fan, I don't know. It's it is
• 30:07
  truly a mystery. Uh. Liberty seven. NC State five another
• 30:13
  team that you know I expect a lot out of
• 30:16
  n C State. I think that we talk a lot
• 30:18
  about them, and they're they're bright, sponsor, incredibly great and
• 30:20
  then Hi point winning a one oh squeaker over wake. Uh,
• 30:26
  A lot of a lot of upsetting stuff here, but
• 30:28
  again we we don't want to believe it. None of
• 30:32
  these teams are just absolutely bar none. This is this
• 30:36
  is awful. This team sucks, but maybe there's calls for concern.
• 30:42
  So that's gonna bring us to our another another game
• 30:44
  time really quick before we get into pick them. Josh,
• 30:48
  which one of the five teams that I guess we
• 30:50
  expected to win that lost are you most concerned about?
• 30:54
  You can only answer in one sentence, and I will stop.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: You NC State because they seem to be falling apart
• 31:04
  at the SAMs.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: Oh that's a great sentence. Leaves me wanting more, but
• 31:09
  alas I said, the one sentence, we'll have to talk
• 31:11
  about it later. JB, which of these teams in one
• 31:14
  sentence concerns you the most?
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: I'll go with Oregon. I think it's a show of
• 31:23
  what we've all been scared of about Oregon.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: In the offense, it's very good. I can I want
• 31:29
  to hear more, but you guys are doing great to
• 31:31
  titillate me, but leave me with just a taste. Jake,
• 31:34
  which of these five teams are you most concerned about?
• 31:36
  In one sentence?
• 31:37
  Speaker 6: Sir, most concerned about I guess, I guess Wake Forest.
• 31:46
  I mean, we've seen them kind of be up and
• 31:47
  down this year at certain points and then scoring zero
• 31:51
  runs against Top Point. That is I think that nonetheless,
• 31:54
  we talk about midweeks and how much they matter to
• 31:57
  certain teams, but scored zero runs Top Point is I.
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: Think it is a concern.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: It is, It absolutely is. I'll jump in and say that,
• 32:06
  you know, we were riffing a lot at Josh about
• 32:09
  you know, like the misfortune fifth teams right now, but
• 32:10
  Southern miss it is really worth calling out that this
• 32:13
  was a team who came into Startville for like a
• 32:16
  top fifteen matchup. We're blank there, went into and lost
• 32:21
  a series with app State last weekend, and now one
• 32:24
  run to five against SELA. If I was going to
• 32:29
  ring any alarm bells on these teams, that would be
• 32:31
  the one that I am absolutely just hammering at the moment.
• 32:34
  But I think that that's a quality team. We've said
• 32:36
  it all year, quality ball club. Just play the game
• 32:39
  the right and this is such a such a BS
• 32:42
  thing to say that they play the game the right
• 32:44
  way and they play good baseball. I expect better out
• 32:47
  of them I'm really disappointed now that now the proud
• 32:49
  Daddy's coming out of here. Anyway, let's move on to
• 32:53
  pick them, Josh, I would love it if you could
• 32:55
  recap us on last week, what the big story leins
• 32:58
  of our pick them were, what the score, and where
• 33:00
  we're at overall this.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: Well, of course you would love it if I updated
• 33:04
  the people, because you won last week, so of course
• 33:07
  you want to talk about it. You went six and
• 33:09
  two last week. Jake had another winning week doing five
• 33:12
  and three.
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: JB and I, who had the exact same picks, went
• 33:16
  four and four, so we probably should have gone with
• 33:18
  y'all a little bit on some more stuff on the year.
• 33:22
  Drew has a three game lead on me, and second
• 33:25
  Drew is thirty four and twenty one.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: I have thirty one wins. I have a one game
• 33:30
  lead on Jake. He is gonna get closer and closer
• 33:32
  by the week. He's thirty and twenty five and JB,
• 33:36
  we don't need to talk about it. To twenty seven
• 33:39
  and twenty eight is really bringing up the rear there.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: Wait, man, you really laying it on thick for JV
• 33:47
  there I make better picks.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: I don't know, geez all.
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, I didn't take it. You know that I
• 33:54
  had my vacation.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: You know, I have my fun, you know.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: Sorry, No, it's time to get serious, you say.
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, it's time to take Josh's butt.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Ooh, and and the butt shall be kicked. But enough
• 34:06
  about joshus. But we've got plenty to talk about because
• 34:08
  we've got eight great series to chop up and break down. JB.
• 34:13
  We're gonna keep it with you as we go out
• 34:16
  west because we've got some Big Ten action USC and UCLA.
• 34:22
  I don't think that we're out of out of the
• 34:24
  realm of reality to say these are the top two
• 34:28
  teams in the Big Ten and now we're gonna throw
• 34:31
  them into the throw them into the ring and see
• 34:33
  who comes out standing.
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I agree with that statement right now.
• 34:38
  I definitely think they're the two hottest teams at least
• 34:40
  for sure. You know, there's no denying that it's the
• 34:45
  first true test for USC. I mean a lot of
• 34:47
  people have had a lot of questions about all this
• 34:49
  all season, playing kind of so so competition, and you know,
• 34:53
  you can make the argument for the Oregon State game
• 34:56
  is like it's our first true opponent. But they did
• 35:00
  lose that game in Oregon State twelve to four, so
• 35:03
  I mean, and we talked about that Oregon State offense.
• 35:05
  So not going to go any further on this, but
• 35:08
  you know, it is a good challenge for them, and
• 35:10
  we'll get to see Mason Edwards and Grant Govell kind
• 35:13
  of figure out what they really got there in those
• 35:15
  front two in the rotation we've talked a lot about
• 35:17
  and how great they've been. For UCLA, it's just another weekend.
• 35:20
  It's kind of go show why you're the number one
• 35:23
  team in the country. Basically, it doesn't matter who they play,
• 35:25
  they got to perform. It's not really a prove it
• 35:27
  scenario for them. So I think it's a big proven
• 35:29
  weekend for the Trojans and for UCLA it's kind of
• 35:32
  just fighting off whatever they throw at him.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: So too, Josh. We talked earlier in the year, and
• 35:38
  I don't remember who the other pitcher that we used
• 35:40
  in this sort of comparative property was, but we talked
• 35:45
  about how UCLA arguably their toughest pitching test earlier in
• 35:50
  the year was Tennessee's Tegan Koon's. I think we referenced
• 35:54
  how USC you know, obviously they have got a one
• 35:58
  to two against anybody in the country. With Edwards and Govell,
• 36:04
  I'm curious, what do you think they are going to
• 36:07
  need to do, Josh, how are they gonna need to
• 36:09
  execute to overcome UCLA this weekend.
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: I mean, I think it's stick to their bread and butter.
• 36:16
  Mason Edwards, his stuff has looked much better this year,
• 36:19
  and he's striking out forty seven percent of batters because
• 36:21
  of it. I think if you if he continues the
• 36:23
  command the way he has been and his stuff continues
• 36:25
  to play the same way, I'm not gonna say it's
• 36:28
  gonna work like a charm because we know the lineup
• 36:30
  he's going up against, but I mean it'll put him
• 36:33
  in a really good spot. Grant Govell, on the other hand,
• 36:36
  that's a strike thrower. He's been filling up the zone
• 36:38
  all year, only walking three percent of guys. If you
• 36:41
  can see to fill up the zone, it's dangerous.
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: I get it. Guys like Rock Chulowski, Will Guesprino, Mulavi
• 36:46
  La vou Like they can take you yard. They can
• 36:48
  get a hold of one. But his stuff is also
• 36:50
  good enough, and it plays off each other well enough.
• 36:52
  That we've seen, you know, throughout the rest of the
• 36:54
  year already that I think it's gonna be fine. I don't,
• 36:56
  I don't. You know, your definition of fine in this
• 36:59
  case could depend.
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: But I mean, like, even though they both have a
• 37:03
  they have eras of zero point sixty seven and one
• 37:06
  point two respectively. Like I think even if you go
• 37:10
  five innings and allow two three runs, like that's so reasonable,
• 37:15
  I would consider it a win. Like in general, No,
• 37:18
  but against this specific lineup, I would consider that a win.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Against the hyperpower and offense like this. And there are
• 37:24
  a couple of other ones we can we can identify,
• 37:26
  and I'm sure you at home you can think of
• 37:28
  the two or three I have in mind. Yes, Josh here,
• 37:31
  one hundred percent right, Jake, gonna come to you here
• 37:34
  on a point that Josh alluded to just a moment
• 37:36
  ago with with Edwards specifically, he has such nasty stuff
• 37:41
  that he'll let it kind of dance off the zone,
• 37:44
  off the black. He'll have some guys trying to chase.
• 37:46
  But that does incur, if I'm not mistaken, somewhere north
• 37:50
  of a fifteen percent walk rate, obviously, when you get
• 37:53
  this strikeout rate, that Josh one more time that was
• 37:55
  forty six percent forty forgive me Mason Edwards four seven
• 38:00
  percent strikeouts. It's all gonna come out in the wash, Jake.
• 38:03
  But I guess my question for you is two pronged, Jake.
• 38:06
  First of all, which which guys for U C l A?
• 38:11
  And if it's an easy answer, Jake, it's an easy answer,
• 38:14
  which guys are gonna show out against Edwards specifically who
• 38:17
  can wait for their pitch and execute? And then who
• 38:20
  is going to maybe take advantage of Govell living in
• 38:22
  the zone.
• 38:26
  Speaker 5: I feel like that can be answer.
• 38:28
  Speaker 6: Both of those questions can be answered the same way,
• 38:30
  like I don't I'm going this is this isn't.
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: This is a cop out.
• 38:34
  Speaker 6: Answer to your questions, but I think there's truth to it.
• 38:36
  Like can I can I say like can I say
• 38:39
  almost everyone for UCLA? Like like like Malva La who
• 38:44
  is crushing the ball? Well, Gus Birno's crushing the ball right, Chelaski,
• 38:47
  Rum and Martin, Like we've named these guys over and
• 38:49
  over again and like they continue.
• 38:52
  Speaker 5: Uh to to do it like and.
• 38:55
  Speaker 6: That led that's led to UCLA being on a twenty
• 38:58
  game winning streak any games that's insane. Like the next
• 39:03
  highest win streak in the country is is a is
• 39:05
  Mississippi State and high Point tied at nine. Uh, and
• 39:09
  that's obviously more than double with that. Yeah, I mean
• 39:13
  to answer your question about who's gonna come through, I mean,
• 39:15
  I don't think there. I don't think there's a guy
• 39:17
  in that lineup that I don't trust right now. I
• 39:19
  love Mason Edwards, I love what he's doing and Grant
• 39:22
  Opella and what he's doing, but like it's not it's
• 39:25
  not gonna be an easy task going up against pretty
• 39:27
  much anybody in this lineup.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: It is gonna be tricky. I think. I think you
• 39:32
  did a great job of kind of explaining what I
• 39:34
  was hoping to get out of that, and and great job, man,
• 39:37
  because like you said, this is a gladed lineup, and
• 39:41
  as good as US's one two has been, this is
• 39:44
  the test for them on the flip side, and this
• 39:46
  is more to all of you just thought. Uh, you see,
• 39:49
  LA's pitching not slouches by any means. Logan Rediman has
• 39:54
  been just as good as I think. You know, Jake,
• 39:56
  you talked about him. I think even in our very
• 39:58
  first or maybe the second episode of the podcast. We've
• 40:01
  all been encouraged by him and wanted to see stuff
• 40:04
  out of him. Michael Barnett has also pitched very, very
• 40:07
  well in his seven starts. I'm curious, guys in uh,
• 40:11
  from one to ten. Let's say one is deeply worried.
• 40:14
  This is gonna be tragic. Ten is nothing to worry about.
• 40:17
  I think they're gonna do just fine. USC's bats, guys
• 40:21
  like Adrian Lopez, guys like Kevin Takucci. What do we
• 40:25
  expect them to do against UCLA's pitching that again, is
• 40:28
  not a walk in the park. Josh will start with you,
• 40:31
  just how do you expect they'll do?
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: You said one is really good and ten is not good.
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: Just however you want to interpret that? How do you
• 40:39
  think they're gonna do it? One is I think they're
• 40:41
  gonna struggle. Ten is they're gonna exceed.
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: I mean, well, this leads into my pick, So I'll
• 40:47
  go ahead and just make my pick by saying it too.
• 40:49
  I'm gonna take you Ucla because I think that the
• 40:52
  story that might come from this is not that usc
• 40:56
  is pitching really gets touched on a little bit. But
• 40:58
  I think it's the bats can't really keep up because
• 41:01
  they've shown signs of struggling. There really aren't a lot
• 41:04
  of stars in the lineup that have really come through,
• 41:06
  So I think it's gonna be a little bit of
• 41:09
  an issue because you know, guys like Logan Reddiman and
• 41:12
  Michael Barnett have kind of been rushing to the rug
• 41:14
  after you know, as much as as well as his
• 41:17
  offensive done, they've done just as well.
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: So I think we'll be able to take care of things.
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: Also, I think, to add onto my pick, I guess
• 41:25
  like USC, I think even if their starters do get
• 41:27
  touched up a little bit, there most are the guys
• 41:30
  in their bullpit that have gotten the most innings consistently
• 41:33
  have been good, not great, like Chase Harrold, Gavin Lawrenson. Like,
• 41:37
  I think they can be touched up a little bit
• 41:39
  with this lineup and it could end up hurting them
• 41:41
  a little worse than they're expecting.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: Interesting, Jake, gonna go to you for your pick, coach,
• 41:46
  What are we thinking here? We've got one UCLA on
• 41:49
  the board.
• 41:51
  Speaker 6: Uh, yeah, we're gonna We're gonna have two UCLA's on
• 41:54
  the board. I'm going with them as well, Like, uh uh,
• 41:59
  we're kind of We're kind of giving UCLA a very heavy,
• 42:02
  heavy favoritism here, but like, this is this is the
• 42:05
  battle right now for the Big Ten.
• 42:07
  Speaker 5: These are the two best teams in the conference.
• 42:09
  Speaker 6: And this is the series that you know, we all
• 42:11
  got our Big ten plus subscriptions for. And like, how
• 42:14
  on earth is this series not on like Fox, ESPN
• 42:17
  somewhere big for everybody to watch it.
• 42:19
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 42:19
  Speaker 6: I don't make the rules for that, but uh, I'm
• 42:22
  going I'm going UCLA. I like them at home, and
• 42:25
  they're on the twenty game win streak. I don't I
• 42:27
  don't see them slowing down yet. I got UCLA.
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: We need to put you in charge of what games
• 42:32
  are on major network stick that'd be a lot easier
• 42:37
  being gonna go to you here to UCLA's on the board,
• 42:41
  the graphics starting to look kind of risky.
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well it's gonna be three. And I'll say it
• 42:48
  here in a different light than everybody else. I think
• 42:52
  usc definitely has the ability to make an upset here.
• 42:57
  Speaker 5: Now.
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: Also, just for fun fact, here, the last time that
• 43:00
  UCLA loss was on February twenty fourth against San Diego
• 43:04
  State in the midweeks, so it's been over a month,
• 43:07
  so kind of crazy to think about. But I think
• 43:11
  the biggest factor here is just the fact that if
• 43:14
  USC's offense does strike at any point, UCLA has the
• 43:17
  ability to strike back with anybody in the lineup almost
• 43:21
  one through nine pretty much. I mean, it's a snap
• 43:23
  of the finger and they could be right back in
• 43:25
  the game. So I think that's the biggest thing compared
• 43:27
  to the USC is gonna have a few guys that
• 43:30
  might be able to help them do that, not one
• 43:32
  through nine. So I think Ucla is just the depth, honestly,
• 43:35
  and I think that's why they get there.
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, guys, I am going to be taking a university
• 43:41
  from California with my pick. It's gonna be slough. The
• 43:47
  graphic is, the graphic is shot. We're we're one series in,
• 43:50
  but JB is correct. I think that USC can hang
• 43:53
  in there. The deciding factor here, though, is that as overpowering,
• 43:58
  as rather good and even well matched as the pitching
• 44:02
  stafs are, UCLA's offense is just otherworldly dominant. In twenty
• 44:07
  twenty six, all right, let's go on. We'll go kind
• 44:10
  of quickly through this one. Coach Georgia, Mississippi State two
• 44:15
  hyper power offenses. Curious, Jake, what do you think the
• 44:19
  story of this series is gonna be? And then wrap
• 44:21
  that into your pick, sir.
• 44:26
  Speaker 6: Yeah, these these so right now, there's three teams in
• 44:30
  the SEC with a seven and two rescer it's Texas
• 44:34
  and then these two teams. You know they're both coming
• 44:36
  off of sweeps with Mississippi State sweeping on miss on the road,
• 44:39
  Georgia sweeping South Carolina at home. Not sure if Roan
• 44:43
  McPherson's gonna be back this weekend.
• 44:45
  Speaker 5: I haven't seen any news come out on that. You
• 44:50
  think he is okay?
• 44:53
  Speaker 6: So right now, it was, well, I guess the way
• 44:55
  the matchups look, if McPherson is back, it's going to
• 44:59
  be him versus Joey Volchko on Thursday, Thomas Valencias versus
• 45:05
  Dealing vig Yu, who only lasted like one out on
• 45:08
  his on his start last Saturday on the Friday game,
• 45:11
  and then Duke Stone versus Kenny Ishikawa, who did not
• 45:14
  look good in his start last weekend in the potential
• 45:18
  rubber match this Saturday. Like I guess, I guess, just
• 45:20
  just talking about those matchups, that's kind of that's kind
• 45:23
  of what I'm facing a lot of my picks off
• 45:26
  of I think the starting pitching for Georgia last weekend
• 45:31
  was was not great. Volchko was was solid, but he
• 45:34
  kind of got hit around. But Vigu in Ischikawa. You know,
• 45:37
  they combined for just one and one third inning h
• 45:41
  six walks, too strikeouts, and just forty nine total pitches
• 45:46
  in their starts, and that they're just not gonna be
• 45:48
  able to get away with that, especially pitching at Mississippi State.
• 45:51
  So just just kind of going off of that, I'm
• 45:54
  going I'm going to Mississippi State. I think they can
• 45:56
  really take advantage of this Georgia is starting pitching if
• 45:58
  they come out flat again. I don't want predict that
• 46:00
  they're gonna come out flat again, but just going off
• 46:03
  the way they looked last weekend, I'm going I'm going
• 46:05
  with Mississippi State.
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: Very good, very good. JB coming to you here a
• 46:10
  big SEC action, arguably the second. Well, two teams that
• 46:14
  would think they're the second best team in the SEC.
• 46:16
  They're gonna figure out which one's better. Who do you think?
• 46:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm gonna take Mississippi State kind of for a
• 46:22
  similar reason. You know, they're rolling hot, and also I
• 46:24
  just think this offense too, has been very, very good
• 46:28
  and not talked about a lot by a lot of people.
• 46:30
  So I think Mississippi State kind of rolls into it
• 46:32
  and they'll be the winner of the weekend.
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: Well, so, Josh, coming to you, two Mississippi States on
• 46:38
  the board, are you gonna take? Well? I guess it's
• 46:41
  a battable Bulldogs which brand is yours?
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: Unfortunately the ones from Starkville. I hate to make the
• 46:47
  graphic look like this, but like the story is probably
• 46:52
  the pitching for Misissippi States but lights out lately. I mean,
• 46:55
  they're on a nine game one streak and they're allowing
• 46:57
  two runs a game and win. Georgia is losing games.
• 47:01
  It's because they're pitching crumbles. It doesn't really help that
• 47:04
  their starters are walking guys at high rates. Vultchko's walking
• 47:07
  twelve percent of batters, Viggy's walking twelve percent, is Chikaga
• 47:10
  is walking thirteen percent, and he's got almost a ten ERA.
• 47:13
  The bullpen behind them has been if he But I mean,
• 47:17
  as good as that offense is, I'd love to pick
• 47:19
  them just to try and have some belief in this offense.
• 47:21
  But the pitching has been iffy kind of here and
• 47:23
  there recently, and Mississippi State is just pitching the lights
• 47:27
  out of the ball and I'm gonna trust that, especially
• 47:29
  if McPherson comes back. I'm gonna trust that over everything.
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: I think. So, uh well, another clean sweep. It's gonna
• 47:36
  be Mississippi State for Drew too. I oh, man, guys,
• 47:39
  I'm telling you that atmosphere is just a different animal.
• 47:43
  I think that, like you said, if the difference comes
• 47:46
  down to the pitching staff, I think, even into the bullpen,
• 47:49
  Mississippi State has shown they have got weapons that can
• 47:52
  be deployed any place, and we can't get over the
• 47:57
  incredible performances. I mean, even if mcpheer comes back a
• 48:00
  little rocky Thomas Valencias on Friday, excuse me, he's gonna
• 48:05
  be the second starter typically Saturday. I mean that slights out.
• 48:08
  He has been an absolute shutdown arm for Mississippi. Cate,
• 48:12
  I nearly said for the Bulldogs for Mississippi State, all right, JB, Yeah, JB.
• 48:18
  Walk us through Florida State and Virginia the ACC two
• 48:22
  of their top teams also gonna be colliding. And I'm curious,
• 48:25
  what do you think is gonna be the deciding factor
• 48:29
  in that series.
• 48:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess the biggest storyline, which you already hit on,
• 48:33
  is Miles Bailey. You know, he will no longer be
• 48:35
  with the team obviously because injury. So you know that
• 48:38
  sucks for Florida State. That's a huge loss for them.
• 48:41
  That's the opening note there. UVA coming off of a
• 48:45
  bad weekend in Chestnut Hill when they played Boston College.
• 48:49
  It just wasn't great for them. They went one and
• 48:52
  two on the weekend. They salvaged the last game three
• 48:55
  to one, but they got blown out in one of
• 48:57
  the games. It's just kind of a bad showing for
• 48:59
  a team that got into the top ten recently. Florida
• 49:02
  State is kind of trying to see how they can
• 49:04
  survive without Miles Bailey. The offense has sputtered at times.
• 49:07
  It's kind of been something for them that they've been
• 49:09
  inconsistent with, and they want to show more consistency throughout
• 49:13
  the end of the season, especially going into ac They
• 49:15
  see tournament time and all that that's gonna be very
• 49:18
  big for them. So I think it's kind of figuring
• 49:20
  out what type offense they're gonna have for the rest
• 49:22
  of the way. And for me, I guess I'll just
• 49:24
  lead it off. I'm gonna be going with UVA. I
• 49:26
  think they bounce back. I think it's just a big
• 49:30
  weekend for them and that they obviously I think they'll
• 49:32
  get in line and kind of bounce back into the
• 49:35
  shape that we've seen then for the early part of
• 49:36
  acc play.
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll actually go second. I never go second. I'm
• 49:41
  gonna go second here. I'm gonna take Virginia as well.
• 49:44
  I think that Florida State's pitching as excellent as they've been,
• 49:47
  I mean truly just outstanding stuff from their top two
• 49:52
  fellas and really from their bullpen as well. I think
• 49:55
  this is really kind of an interesting mirror of the
• 49:57
  USC UCLA series. Don't know what one offense is gonna
• 50:02
  look like. And even if you say the pitching is leveled,
• 50:04
  the other offense we trust a whole lot more. And
• 50:07
  that's gonna be uv A for Drew as well. Josh,
• 50:10
  gonna take it to you. There's two Virginias on the board.
• 50:13
  Are you gonna make it three?
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: I had not.
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: I'm actually gonna kind of push back on something you said,
• 50:18
  because I think I trust that best huge offense more
• 50:20
  than UVA right now, because the offense for UVA was
• 50:23
  really what was rough for them last weekend. As a whole,
• 50:27
  they have three guys with an ops over a thousand
• 50:29
  that have, you know, a decent number of plate appearances,
• 50:33
  but that's really about it. A. J. Grassio, Sam Harris
• 50:35
  and Eric Viaker are the driving forces of this offense,
• 50:38
  and then it.
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: Kind of drops off. I trust the Forest.
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: Offense to be able to continue things, you know, kind
• 50:43
  of ads they've been doing like it hasn't been the
• 50:46
  best offense all year. Besides Miles Bailey, Brandon Daln looked
• 50:49
  really good. Calvin Pollino Jr. And John Stutzer have looked
• 50:52
  pretty solid too. I think they'll be able to carry
• 50:55
  the load. Eli Putnam seems to be who that for.
• 50:58
  They gonna put at first base in place of Miles Bailey.
• 51:02
  I think he can hold on that spot pretty well.
• 51:04
  And I think Florida State's pitching just has a real
• 51:06
  chance to dominate this weekend. Westmndez Trepard Bryson Moore is
• 51:09
  one of the best rotations in the country without a
• 51:12
  shadow of a doubt, and the Virginia offense has been
• 51:15
  rough lately. It seems so I think they can probably
• 51:17
  keep things going and you.
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: Know, persevere and get a nice big big road win
• 51:21
  series Road Series win and the ACC this weekend.
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: Great points, man, Hey, I think you're right, and good points, Jake,
• 51:29
  two to one. Right now, now you are in my seat.
• 51:33
  What are you gonna do here, Jake?
• 51:37
  Speaker 5: Did Josh?
• 51:38
  Speaker 6: Josh kind of just took all the words right out
• 51:40
  of my mouth. I'm going Florida State too. I mean,
• 51:42
  this is a this is an interesting series.
• 51:44
  Speaker 5: You know, both have.
• 51:46
  Speaker 6: Specific issues with you know, we mentioned how they fill
• 51:49
  the whole of with Miles Bailey and everything. But like
• 51:51
  you guys know how I feel about this Florida State
• 51:53
  pitching staff. I think they give the offense who who
• 51:56
  Josh just said was doing just fine, a chance to
• 51:58
  a chance to keep things wrong, a chance to find
• 52:01
  their footing without their star. I think the pitching staff
• 52:04
  keeps going and I'm going I'm going Forward State.
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: Interesting split. Wow, finally this graphic gets a little bit
• 52:11
  of sauce. Love it all right, Josh. Of course we're
• 52:15
  gonna take it to you. We've talked a lot about
• 52:18
  these two teams, Arkansas Auburn. It's gonna be an interesting series,
• 52:22
  they've been flipped on their heads a little bit. Give
• 52:25
  me just like a sentence or two about what you
• 52:27
  think is gonna be the deciding factors. Start us off
• 52:29
  with their pick.
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna start us off with a meme actually, because
• 52:32
  there's been a it's kind of it's a very basic meme,
• 52:35
  but it's floating around recently. I think it's hilarious for
• 52:37
  no reason. The YouTube viewers can get a glimpse of this. Hello,
• 52:41
  whoever's dog that was trash versus garbage? Yeah, that is
• 52:49
  the Arkansas pitching staff and the Auburn offense recently just
• 52:54
  just straight up, I mean, on this losing streek, Arkansas
• 52:56
  is on they're allowing nine point five runs a game.
• 52:59
  On Auburn's current losing streak, they are scoring one point
• 53:02
  eight runs per game. It's just it's it's poor. It's
• 53:06
  it's pissed poor across the board.
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: It's terrible.
• 53:09
  Speaker 3: Whichever one of those can bust out of their slump,
• 53:11
  something's gotta give. Unless you know, Auburn scores like what
• 53:15
  seventeen runs in the series, which is like five point
• 53:17
  seven across the board. That's just right down the middle.
• 53:19
  Unless that happens, something's got to give a little bit.
• 53:24
  I have to go with Auburn.
• 53:25
  Speaker 5: I just have to.
• 53:26
  Speaker 3: I think, really my only basis for this because I
• 53:30
  have no faith in this team right now. I am
• 53:32
  curious to see how Andreas Alvarez does in the Thursday
• 53:34
  spot instead of the midweek and how that pushes back
• 53:37
  the rest of the rotation. There's been some people that
• 53:41
  have been really vocal about that move need to be
• 53:43
  made because Andrea's is the sub one er, although he's
• 53:46
  only been in midweeks.
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: Very curious to see how that goes. But look, at
• 53:51
  the end of.
• 53:52
  Speaker 3: The day, the big premise behind Auburn baseball the past
• 53:56
  couple of years of building up that atmosphere, and so
• 53:58
  many people that have been there recently, like national people
• 54:01
  have said that is a top five atmosphere in the
• 54:03
  SEC now, which you know by default means it's a
• 54:05
  top atmosphere in the country. Auburn's like really stood behind
• 54:10
  the whole. If you build it, they will come mindset,
• 54:13
  and the fans are coming in full force. Auburn's only
• 54:15
  lost one series at home dating back to the end
• 54:18
  of the twenty twenty four season, in which we went
• 54:20
  eight and twenty two in conference play, and that was
• 54:23
  the last home series against Texas, but they still took
• 54:26
  one against the number two team in the country. So
• 54:28
  I would say it's a pretty pretty you know, established
• 54:32
  track record recently there. So I'm gonna I'm gonna trust
• 54:35
  that atmosphere, trust them getting back home, get adjusted a
• 54:38
  little bit, and get their feet underneath them and get
• 54:40
  a solid series when to get back on track.
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: You painted the picture very well, Josh, Thank you, sir.
• 54:47
  J B. H As as expected. I'm hoping you're Are
• 54:52
  you gonna go Auburn, You're gonna go Arkansas? What's the
• 54:55
  pushback here?
• 54:56
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna go Arkansas in the daily direction, and you
• 54:59
  know it's it's got to be what happens. And obviously
• 55:02
  you know. My reasoning behind it is, like we talked
• 55:05
  about earlier, I trust the Arkansas offense more and also
• 55:08
  coming off of a series sweep at home against the Gators,
• 55:13
  I think it's a fire underneath their butt to go
• 55:15
  do something right now, to prove that there are season
• 55:17
  is something, and I believe in that pitching staff to
• 55:19
  turn around too. They got all the talent in the world.
• 55:21
  So I think Arkansas for me, and I think they
• 55:24
  break this curse that Josh is talking about on home
• 55:27
  series losses for opposing team. So that's what I'm rocking with.
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: Do you not think the team that just got swept
• 55:33
  on the road against their arch rival has some fire
• 55:35
  under their butt too?
• 55:38
  Speaker 4: I mean, they probably do, but I just know they do.
• 55:43
  But I just believe more in Arkansas.
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: Don't I hate coach? Don't do this coach. We've got
• 55:50
  one Auburn and one Arkansas.
• 55:52
  Speaker 4: And the coaching track record I think is better.
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: I'll leave it at that.
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: Don't disrespect like that? How dare you? That's my guy?
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: I gotta say, Jake, I'm begging you to make a
• 56:03
  pick here. These guys stop.
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: I was.
• 56:07
  Speaker 6: I was just about to mention how when JB said
• 56:10
  that the fire was lit under Arkansas after losing to Florida, Like,
• 56:13
  why was how was it? How was Auburn's fire not
• 56:15
  lit after getting swept at Alabama? But I'm I'm gonna,
• 56:19
  I'm gonna, I'm gonna pick. I'm gonna pick Auburn. They're
• 56:22
  thirteen and four at home. That's that's just kind of
• 56:26
  how I feel. I'm going Auburn playing at home.
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: Oh, this is tough.
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: No, it's not.
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: It is tough. It's very tough.
• 56:37
  Speaker 4: Oh this one guy's in Omaha coach, and one really isn't.
• 56:41
  That's what I'm gonna leave it at.
• 56:43
  Speaker 3: Listen to Omaha twice in the past six years, seven years,
• 56:47
  something like that.
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: How dare listen?
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: Listen? This is Both of these teams need to get
• 56:54
  it together right here. These are these are elite teams
• 56:57
  we expect to be topping our twenty five on a
• 57:00
  regular basis. I expect that of both these teams. Oh man,
• 57:07
  I am gonna go Arkansas by like a very thin
• 57:11
  hair here. Josh, you make a very compelling argument. It's
• 57:16
  difficult to win at Auburn. It's difficult to take a
• 57:18
  series there right now. But Arkansas needs this very badly.
• 57:22
  And I think this might if they let me down here,
• 57:25
  this might be the nail in them until they show
• 57:28
  me something. They could be getting into LSU territory. So
• 57:30
  you'll see what happens U c F West Virginia. Two
• 57:34
  of Drew's darlings in the Big twelve are going at it,
• 57:36
  and I'm gonna jump out and say, right off the rim,
• 57:39
  I'm picking first here, guys, give me West Virginia or
• 57:43
  give me death. I love this team. They have got
• 57:46
  all kinds of guys. When you look when you watch
• 57:50
  a game, Gavin Kelly's playing someplace. Hey, tune in tomorrow
• 57:52
  because he's gonna be at another position. Paul Schoenfeld has
• 57:55
  been incredibly consistent. I think he was on like a
• 57:58
  ten ten hits week at one point earlier this year.
• 58:01
  And not to mention the guy that Josh said I
• 58:04
  was a crazy person last episode for thinking he was
• 58:06
  one of the best lefties in the class. Mister Max
• 58:09
  Yell loved that guy. I think a top fifty college
• 58:13
  prospect for this draft.
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: Apparently West Virginia fans think so too. They let me
• 58:17
  know it.
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: Well, I guess I'm a West Virginia fan because I'm
• 58:20
  with them on that. Give me the Mountaineers, Josh, we
• 58:23
  will go to you, a known West Virginia hater. What
• 58:25
  are you thinking here?
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: Uh? I'll can you go to them to make their
• 58:29
  picks before coming back to me. I've a really impressed.
• 58:32
  I will talk. I will harp on West Virginia though,
• 58:34
  I'll just go to them first.
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, okay, since you since draft so well, that's odd.
• 58:39
  For sure, Jake, Jake, I'm gonna go to you. Then
• 58:43
  what are you thinking? A Big Twelve matchup two of
• 58:45
  the better teams in the Big Twelve thus far?
• 58:49
  Speaker 6: Yeah, they they sure are you know, you know, Drew,
• 58:52
  you gotta be chomping at the bit to just to
• 58:54
  watch to talk about. I mean, we might look up
• 58:57
  Friday afternoon and you're just in more Town because you're
• 59:00
  so excited about the series. I mean, what I'll say, like,
• 59:04
  I hope, what I really hope is that the Saturday
• 59:08
  game is I hope Matt Sauser is back for UCF,
• 59:12
  and I hope that it's Matt. That it's Matt Sauser
• 59:15
  versus Maxield. That is gonna be like one of the
• 59:17
  best pitching matchups that we've seen probably this year, in
• 59:20
  terms of guys that have been hyping us, that have
• 59:22
  been performing on the stage that they've been on. If
• 59:28
  Seusser was guaranteed, I think I'd be more.
• 59:31
  Speaker 5: Enticed to go with UCF.
• 59:33
  Speaker 6: But between that and West Virginia being at home, I
• 59:36
  think I'm gonna go West Virginia.
• 59:38
  Speaker 5: I think they pull this one out.
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: I love the shout out for Souser because that's that's accurate, Jake,
• 59:44
  I mean he has been. I mean, for my money,
• 59:47
  another top three four pitcher in the Big twelve this year.
• 59:51
  So JB gonna go to you. At the request of
• 59:54
  mister Catt, he will go last. So two West Virginia's
• 59:58
  on the board, JB. Are you you gonna take it
• 1:00:00
  to Central Florida or you are we sticking with the
• 1:00:02
  Mountaineers here.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna go with Central Florida, And you know I'm
• 1:00:06
  gonna take the other end here. I think they are well.
• 1:00:10
  Both teams are coming in very hot, but they have
• 1:00:12
  beat down an Arizona team that has rightfully been awful
• 1:00:16
  coming into this, so they gave them a nice beat
• 1:00:18
  down as a warm up for this game. I think
• 1:00:22
  UCF they got the tools really to make this an
• 1:00:25
  interesting series. I think it's really a coin flip, honestly.
• 1:00:27
  But you know, I'll take the shot here to go
• 1:00:28
  the opposite of you.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: Guys, you got you you need to take shots. We're
• 1:00:32
  talking aboute Ago. This would be a great series for
• 1:00:34
  you to take the win. And like you said, they've
• 1:00:37
  got the tools to get it done. They've got some
• 1:00:38
  really credible players on that offense. I know we talk
• 1:00:41
  a lot about Andrew Williams and the man John Smith
• 1:00:43
  third is absolutely accelerant right now in that outfield for UCF,
• 1:00:48
  Josh gonna come to you actual requests, sir. The platter
• 1:00:52
  is yours two to one right now in favorite West Virginia.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 3: What do you think I did that just to see
• 1:00:58
  what their picks would be, because if it was a
• 1:00:59
  Westvirginia sweep, I was gonna take the shot and go
• 1:01:02
  with UCF because there are reasons why I think they
• 1:01:04
  could win this. But Duke Down, I think West Virginia
• 1:01:07
  is going to I mean, they've won nine of their
• 1:01:09
  last ten. They're hot, the offense coming unable at this point.
• 1:01:13
  Gavin Kelly, Paul showing Field, Matt and I. I think
• 1:01:16
  those guys have been so consistent for them. It seems week,
• 1:01:20
  like you said, Gavin Kelly, wherever they decide to put them,
• 1:01:23
  I think they have some pitching advantages on if they
• 1:01:27
  probably won't, but if it does line up this week
• 1:01:30
  like typical Friday, Saturday Sunday, I think West Virginia has
• 1:01:33
  a clear Sunday advantage, a little bit of a Friday advantage,
• 1:01:36
  definitely not Saturday, but I think they can They can
• 1:01:40
  do enough in the home field.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: They should have a good crowd out there.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 3: Because this is some people are saying it's probably the
• 1:01:45
  big twelve series of the year. If if the West
• 1:01:48
  Virginia Arizona State wasn't last week, you know, so, yeah,
• 1:01:52
  I was gonna take the shot if it was all WVU.
• 1:01:56
  But I'll just play it safe, and somebody decided to
• 1:01:59
  mix up the graphic little bit. I'm not complaining.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: All right, very good, All right, these last three, let's
• 1:02:05
  rip through them kind of quickly. Jake will start with you.
• 1:02:08
  Alabama and Oklahoma another two teams who I think are
• 1:02:13
  pretty pretty good matchups for one another. Right now. Alabama
• 1:02:17
  almost the Oklahoma of the month of March, whereas Oklahoma
• 1:02:22
  surging through February, Alabama surging recently. Who do you think
• 1:02:26
  comes out on top of this matchup.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 6: Sir, I'm gonna pick. I'm gonna pick Oklahoma. Look so Alabama, Like,
• 1:02:36
  I'll talk about Alabama for a second. You know, they've
• 1:02:38
  won eight games in a row. You know, they shocked
• 1:02:39
  everybody sweeping Florida two weeks ago. They shocked everybody about
• 1:02:43
  twenty times more by sweeping Auburn right after, Like the
• 1:02:47
  only note I have to say about those is and like, look,
• 1:02:50
  so here I am. I'm a Tennessee fan looking to
• 1:02:53
  say something, you know, negative about Alabama.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 5: But like I've defended them.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 6: I've defended them and talked good about them, like the
• 1:02:59
  last like two times I've talked about them, and since
• 1:03:02
  we started the show, I don't think I've ever said
• 1:03:04
  I don't think I've ever said anything nice about Alabama.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 5: In my life.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 6: And I drafted them in my Omaha eight draft, so like,
• 1:03:11
  I've paid my dues for the Alabama fan base. But
• 1:03:16
  the only note I have about those last two weekends
• 1:03:18
  is that they were both in Tuscaloosa, So I mean Alabama,
• 1:03:23
  They're seventeen and one at home, three and five on
• 1:03:26
  the road. You know, that might not mean anything, but
• 1:03:29
  because of that, I am going to go with Oklahoma.
• 1:03:32
  Obama hasn't proven they can win on the road, so
• 1:03:35
  I'm going with them.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: Interesting, what was that record? Seventeen and one at home?
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 5: Yeah, seventeen and one at home and then three and
• 1:03:44
  five on the road.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: Those are some interesting numbers. Man. That percentage jumped pretty
• 1:03:49
  radically from in the ninetieth ninety percent or more to
• 1:03:53
  thirty three. What is that thirty whatever math percent less
• 1:03:57
  than forty percent on the road, JB gonna come to
• 1:04:00
  you here, looking at Alabama, Oklahoma, who do you like?
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 4: I'll be taking Oklahoma too. I think the pitching staff,
• 1:04:08
  just you know, is a lot better than what Alabama's
• 1:04:11
  gonna throw out there. And you know, Alabama has been
• 1:04:13
  very hot. But I think this is a chance to
• 1:04:15
  the Oklahoma team to kind of rebound from kind of
• 1:04:17
  sputtering a little bit right now and get back on
• 1:04:19
  track with a good series win.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: Well said Josh, going to you here too, Okays, are
• 1:04:25
  you gonna be the one to take a team from Alabama?
• 1:04:29
  Surely you will.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 3: I mean, look, jav took the exact word I was
• 1:04:34
  gonna use to describe Oklahoma's offense out of my mouth.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 2: It's sputtering right now. They're a two point five the.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 3: Last eight games, and just everything is clicking for Obama
• 1:04:43
  right now. They'reing an eight game win streak. That said,
• 1:04:47
  I cannot take those guys. I can't do it. I
• 1:04:49
  would hate for us to have a sweep because it's
• 1:04:51
  gonna be another bad look if we have another sweep against.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 2: Obama for the second week in a row.
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 3: I think we've did. We sweep Florida Obama too. I
• 1:04:59
  think we So this is gonna be week three in
• 1:05:01
  a row. But as cliche as it is, it's very true.
• 1:05:05
  It is so difficult to win a road series in
• 1:05:07
  the SEC, especially teams of these caliber or of this caliber.
• 1:05:12
  I think, oh, you gets it done. As bad as
• 1:05:14
  that offense has been recently, the pitching might be able
• 1:05:16
  to come through, you know, going back home, getting their
• 1:05:18
  feet underneath them.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: So you said it will be three weeks with a sweep.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: Against sweeping against Bama.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, forgive me God, I'll pack Alabama.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 4: Then.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: I think this is a good instance that if I'm
• 1:05:33
  in the lead, I can I can play with this
• 1:05:36
  this point and say, what if, right, I mean, what
• 1:05:40
  if this Alabama offense that's kind of putting it together
• 1:05:43
  behind justin Lebron can keep it up and can do
• 1:05:48
  the statistically improbable as Jake Vovino. What if they can
• 1:05:51
  win on the road, And what if Oklahoma maybe lets
• 1:05:55
  them get a Friday or a Saturday win and then
• 1:05:58
  they pick it up on Sunday. I will begrudgingly roll
• 1:06:03
  with the tide. God save me for that.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: You didn't have to say that phrase. You can just
• 1:06:08
  say Alabama, how dare you? How dare you?
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: That's fair? Yeah, I need to be I need to
• 1:06:15
  I need to go to church for that one. Josh,
• 1:06:18
  while I'm baptizing myself in holy water. I'm gonna let
• 1:06:20
  you walk through what you're thinking for Charlotte and ECU
• 1:06:24
  and make.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: Your pixere Yeah, this is a super fun series. I'm
• 1:06:27
  glad we're talking about it.
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 3: All of these big series in the American and Conference
• 1:06:31
  USA I think need to be talked about, and this
• 1:06:33
  is one of the big ones. Charlotte had a huge
• 1:06:35
  series win against South Florida last week, which was another
• 1:06:37
  one of these. East Carolina came close to pulling it
• 1:06:41
  out against UTSA but didn't. Those are the four big
• 1:06:44
  teams in that conference this year. They both have another
• 1:06:47
  big series this week back to back after it.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 2: The thing is, I don't know what to expect from
• 1:06:52
  either team because they are so inconsistent across the board,
• 1:06:56
  pitching and offense. It seems to be.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 3: I typically this is really hypocritical considering everything I've said
• 1:07:03
  on this episode, but it would be really easy for
• 1:07:06
  me to pick East Carolina because they're playing in the
• 1:07:08
  Jungle and all team in these kind of situations, especially
• 1:07:12
  when you have that kind of home field advantage in
• 1:07:14
  a mid major environment, it's huge. But I am gonna
• 1:07:18
  take Charlotte. Actually, I believe in that team as a
• 1:07:20
  whole better. Ethan Norby has started to come back around
• 1:07:23
  for East Carolina, but I mean Eddie Copper for Charlotte.
• 1:07:26
  It's been really good on Fridays to Drew Mun's been
• 1:07:28
  solid on Saturdays.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 2: They have a really good reliever in Joseph Taylor. I
• 1:07:32
  think they could take advantage of this ECU offense, which
• 1:07:35
  no player with more than five plate appearances, so the
• 1:07:38
  bar is super low. No player with more than five
• 1:07:41
  played appearances has an OPS over one thousand, not one.
• 1:07:45
  I am being a little nitpicky here because there are
• 1:07:47
  three guys with an OPS over nine point fifty. But look,
• 1:07:51
  there's no one dots anywhere, and there's been there's been
• 1:07:55
  consistent inconsistency. How about that, there's been consistent inconsistency from
• 1:07:59
  the East care line of offense, and I think it
• 1:08:01
  might stay that way this week.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: Very interesting. I think you make a great point. Jake.
• 1:08:07
  Gonna go to you man. A couple of your beloved
• 1:08:10
  mid majors are gonna punch each other in the face
• 1:08:13
  this weekend. Who do you like better to come away
• 1:08:15
  with les bruises?
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 6: So I'm glad Josh brought up about how Eddie Copper
• 1:08:21
  has been doing.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 5: He's got a.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 6: He's got a two four five e r A and
• 1:08:26
  seven starts and that Friday matchup with him and Ethan
• 1:08:29
  Norby is gonna be It's gonna be awesome. But like also,
• 1:08:32
  like Josh was talking about for Charlotte and that in
• 1:08:35
  that offense, they got like eight of their top nine,
• 1:08:38
  like at back getters are are hitting over three hundred,
• 1:08:41
  with like Dylan Coots, Cody Gunderson, Todd Hudson all hitting
• 1:08:45
  for over a thousand. Oh ps uh, you know, I foresee,
• 1:08:48
  they still have their guys like Braden Burr's Kobe Wallace
• 1:08:51
  came off of coming off a pretty big weekend. But
• 1:08:54
  for my pick, I'm gonna go Charlotte. I like the offense, uh.
• 1:09:00
  I like the offense a little bit better. You know,
• 1:09:01
  they hit for more power, higher average. They've scored more
• 1:09:04
  runs in you know, less games than what He's to
• 1:09:07
  us played in. I just think that the you know,
• 1:09:10
  obviously Norby's gonna give ECU a chance in the Friday game,
• 1:09:13
  but I think the offensive Charlotte kind of can kind
• 1:09:16
  of outlast the rest of what they have on the
• 1:09:18
  Pitcheon Sop.
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: Very good, JB. H. East Carolina currently without a selection
• 1:09:26
  on the board. We know that you like teams that
• 1:09:29
  end in Carolina. East Carolina not a state. Curious if
• 1:09:33
  you're gonna go with them, or if you're going to
• 1:09:34
  keep the love for Charlotte and keep it in you
• 1:09:36
  keep it in North Carolina.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, sadly, I don't think that's gonna happen. As
• 1:09:42
  much as it pains me. As we talked about the Tide,
• 1:09:44
  East Carolina is like my version of the Tide when
• 1:09:47
  it comes to baseball. I mean, it's just despicable. But
• 1:09:51
  you know, you learn to kind of not bet against
• 1:09:55
  the jungle in a sense at some point. And you know,
• 1:09:59
  especially with John Jenkins out there in the pen, I
• 1:10:01
  mean that dude's been a weapon for them. The starting
• 1:10:03
  pitching has been good enough, and just the way they
• 1:10:06
  are exactly when you think they're out of it, they
• 1:10:09
  are not. They will find a way to scratch and
• 1:10:11
  claw and get back into it. And that Charlotte team.
• 1:10:14
  Nothing against them. I've seen them quit over the years
• 1:10:16
  multiple times in a lot of games we played against them,
• 1:10:19
  So I just don't think they're on the level that
• 1:10:22
  East Carolina is. With that, I'm gonna use the word grit.
• 1:10:25
  I don't think they got that grit that East Carolina's got,
• 1:10:28
  So I'm gonna take the Pirates.
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: You use the word I was gonna use grit, I'll
• 1:10:33
  use scrappy. Then how about scrappy? And especially like you said,
• 1:10:38
  man in the jungle, it's difficult to go against ECU
• 1:10:41
  against a against an opponent that I think they can
• 1:10:47
  can use that home field advantage to make up gaps
• 1:10:50
  in their offense. Specifically, I think the pitching is pretty handily.
• 1:10:54
  In my that's a mean thing to say, because because
• 1:10:57
  Charlotte does have talent, talented pitchers like ECUs pitching better,
• 1:11:02
  particularly in jungle. So I will take ECU in a split.
• 1:11:05
  But as Josh alluded to a minute ago, this is
• 1:11:08
  a great and as a matter of fact, an excellent
• 1:11:11
  mid major selection we made here, So it's gonna be
• 1:11:14
  a good one. I'm glad we split it because that's
• 1:11:15
  two teams that deserve more love than we've given them lately.
• 1:11:19
  Boston College, North Carolina jb uh, walk us through what
• 1:11:25
  you're thinking here, because these are two teams who have
• 1:11:28
  been on the upper plime. I think was it, Yeah,
• 1:11:31
  it was you Wednesday, who excuse me someday who said
• 1:11:34
  we're learning something about bird ball. But I don't know that.
• 1:11:37
  I don't know that you're gonna take bird ball over
• 1:11:39
  you and see will you?
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 4: No, not a chance, you know, there's just no way
• 1:11:45
  that that was gonna happen. But you know, a lot
• 1:11:47
  of respect to them. They played great lately. They're one
• 1:11:50
  of the most popular teams in the country right now. Honestly,
• 1:11:53
  one of the hottest names in the country is Boston
• 1:11:56
  College and baseball. You know, just because of that series,
• 1:11:58
  everybody's kind of taking notice of what they put up
• 1:12:00
  this season. Sadly, I don't think it stands here at home,
• 1:12:04
  and there's no way I would allow myself to pick
• 1:12:06
  them over the tar Heels. So I definitely think it's
• 1:12:09
  the tar Heels all the way. They're coming off of
• 1:12:11
  another impressive series win at Notre Dame. You know, that's
• 1:12:14
  then the laugh at after Clemson got walloped by them
• 1:12:18
  the weekend prior, so I definitely think it's Carolina all
• 1:12:22
  the way this weekend.
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: Outstanding verb walloped Josh, We're gonna go to you. We
• 1:12:28
  know that your family really loves the University of North Carolina.
• 1:12:31
  I'm curious if you're gonna roll with your family and
• 1:12:35
  the school that you have very little tattoo, or if
• 1:12:37
  you're gonna take the bird ball Josh.
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 4: Way twiceink twice. If it's okay for you.
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 2: To take them?
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: Who you got?
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 3: I was waiting for you to find a way to
• 1:12:47
  work and they're the joke of me not being a
• 1:12:49
  Carolina fan at heart, but you got it in there.
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 2: I know you would. I will be taking Carolina.
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 3: I mean, this series I feel like just had to
• 1:12:56
  be talked about because it was like it had to
• 1:12:58
  be on here because it is the end of the day,
• 1:13:00
  a ranked matchup, bird balls getting respect across the country.
• 1:13:04
  I mean, they've won, to know, their last eleven, but
• 1:13:06
  Carolina's won thirteenth their last fourteen. So if one team's hot,
• 1:13:10
  the other's hotter. North Carolina's pitching looked awesome before the
• 1:13:13
  North I mean the fourth Notre Dame series, it kind
• 1:13:15
  of looked a little rough, but in gymal this year,
• 1:13:18
  it's just been awesome. Jason de Caro, Ryan Lynch Friday
• 1:13:21
  Saturday guys, Kenny Glauber out of the bullpen. Fulgerbow has
• 1:13:25
  been a little little rough, a little you know, uh
• 1:13:27
  followt All on Sundays, but I think you can still
• 1:13:30
  outlast uh, you know, I don't think it's gonna matter
• 1:13:33
  at that point. Brady Miller on Sundays has been really
• 1:13:36
  good for Boston College with the sub one e RA
• 1:13:39
  guys only batting one thirty seven against him. You know,
• 1:13:41
  that could be a real Yeah, that could be a
• 1:13:43
  really good spot for Boston College to take a game
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  if they haven't already lost, you know, the two prior games.
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  So if it's a rubber match going into Sunday, watch
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  out there actually couldn't er Is this a Thursday to
• 1:13:54
  Saturday series or is it.
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  Speaker 2: Friday Sunday Friday Sunday? Okay, Yeah, if.
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  Speaker 3: Going into Sunday, if it's a rubber match, like genuinely,
• 1:14:01
  look out, Boston College could pull this off. But I
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  still trust Carolina's offense a little bit more and all
• 1:14:05
  those transfers that have been clicking the entire year.
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 2: Paulton chafter Winslow. I trust them to carry the load
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  a little bit more.
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  Speaker 4: Actually, know, you're right, you're right. It's Thursday, Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: You're right.
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  Speaker 2: I know there's a lot of them this week that
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  are like half are half on.
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 4: I got mixed up because Friday's firework nights, so you know,
• 1:14:22
  I thought it was a little a little deal.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: But Thursday, we're celebrating the birth of Risa on Sunday,
• 1:14:29
  so imagine baseball.
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, us on Sunday though, So.
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  Speaker 1: That's true, that's true.
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  Speaker 4: That's California, progressive state, California.
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  Speaker 1: Unreal, Jake, Jake, We've got two U n C fans
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  uh taking you and C thus far, I'm curious, are
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  you going to take Boston College? Or we're going to
• 1:14:50
  have another threat for a late sweep here and pick
• 1:14:52
  them listen.
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 6: So I wish I would have realized this, But going
• 1:15:01
  back to just our our pick'em game, I'm one game
• 1:15:05
  behind Josh in the standings for second place, and so
• 1:15:09
  far me and haven't made every single same pick this episode.
• 1:15:12
  I wish I would have noticed this earlier, because I
• 1:15:17
  probably would have went somewhere else earlier. But for the
• 1:15:20
  sake of the game and for the sake of me
• 1:15:22
  wanting to get Todd for second place.
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna pick Boston College, and I.
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 4: Would defend I know we're going I know we're going a.
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 5: Little bit long, but I would like to defend this.
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: Please. This is this is good.
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 6: Aj Colrusso and Tyler Mudd our dudes on that pitch
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  and stuff.
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 5: They are good.
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 6: This is not like a slouch Boston College team. This
• 1:15:41
  is They're too legit starting pictures, Brady Miller and too
• 1:15:44
  shabby either. He had like the best start of the
• 1:15:46
  of the three last weekend in the on the offensive side,
• 1:15:50
  Nick Wang, Julio So, Julio Solier, I hope I said
• 1:15:54
  that name right time, Mayophie and Jack Toomey. That's a
• 1:15:57
  dangerous top four in that bat order. They've all put
• 1:15:59
  up numbers. They're all hot right now, you know. I
• 1:16:04
  don't I don't think the series is going to be
• 1:16:06
  as one sided as like, you know, I'm assuming that
• 1:16:09
  Drew will probably go North Carolina here as well. I
• 1:16:11
  don't think it's going to be just a one sided series.
• 1:16:14
  But I'm gonna go Boston College and I want to
• 1:16:17
  get I want to get those points there.
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 5: I don't think that. Uh, this is gonna be an
• 1:16:21
  easy one for North Carolina either.
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 4: Drew's got that bird ball looking his eye right now,
• 1:16:25
  He's got that that look in his eye that I
• 1:16:27
  think it's going to be there.
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: Dude, Jake, So you you made good points you did.
• 1:16:34
  I mean, like you said, this is not a slouch team.
• 1:16:38
  Boston College has got some town town offensively down on pitching.
• 1:16:45
  So let's roll right, We'll do it. We'll do it.
• 1:16:51
  We'll make this graphical more interesting. I can't believe my
• 1:16:53
  boy Jake out all on his own out the cold
• 1:16:58
  bird ball it is. We'll see what we'll we'll see
• 1:17:00
  what goes down.
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 4: Oh chat, Josh is finally back on the good side
• 1:17:05
  this weekend. We left to come back to the good guys,
• 1:17:09
  and he's ready to rock.
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 2: I'll be honest.
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 3: I was already like before coming on here, I gotta
• 1:17:13
  start to put together the graphic a little bit, so
• 1:17:15
  I didn't have as much to do afterwards. And I
• 1:17:17
  went ahead and put four logos all the way down
• 1:17:19
  at for two different series U C L a USC.
• 1:17:22
  I was correct about that, and then this one, and
• 1:17:25
  it's two and two, So boy was I wrong?
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: We had to make it fun and I'm proud. I'm
• 1:17:30
  proud of this for doing that and because we went
• 1:17:32
  a little long. Let's keep this to just a pick
• 1:17:36
  and move on. There's another series I've got my on
• 1:17:39
  this weekend. We've talked about We've talked about Josh's favorite team,
• 1:17:44
  We've talked about JB's favorite team, but we have not
• 1:17:46
  talked about Jake and On's favorite team. Knox was gonna
• 1:17:50
  be rocking this weekend. Guys, they have got ls. Who
• 1:17:55
  who do we pick? Josh unofficial off the ballot?
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Both these teams stink right now, Doctor Gosh.
• 1:18:12
  I'll go Tennessee.
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 3: I guess these are the two defending or the last
• 1:18:16
  three national champions technically, so it's a high stake series,
• 1:18:20
  but I'll trust the whole atmosphere.
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 2: I don't really trust either team in general though.
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: JB.
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I'm gonna rock it with the Orange too.
• 1:18:32
  You know, I don't want to get my pay doc
• 1:18:33
  this week, so you know, go to Tennessee.
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: It's an easy thing to do. I mean, you just
• 1:18:38
  say the word Tennessee and then be like, hey, it
• 1:18:40
  was unofficial, Jake. Any thoughts what does Tennessee need to
• 1:18:43
  do this weekend?
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 5: Well, what they need to do? I guess they need
• 1:18:50
  to I guess I guess they need to hear it.
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: But I get gb O vfl l F gee all
• 1:19:00
  day long. Thank you and you're welcome. Let's see it
• 1:19:04
  this weekend. All right, guys, A great episode. We've had
• 1:19:07
  a lot of fun talked about a lot of great series,
• 1:19:09
  and we've got a hick Em graphic for the ages.
• 1:19:13
  Lots of good stuff on that. We got a couple
• 1:19:15
  of sweeps, but there's some interesting stuff as well. It's
• 1:19:18
  gonna be an interesting weekend of baseball leading in to
• 1:19:21
  Easter Sunday. But while we get ready for our next episodes,
• 1:19:26
  while we get ready for this weekend, I want to
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  Jake tell the fine folks at home where they can
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  find you to in our episodes. What're working on?
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 5: Man?
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 6: Uh?
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 5: You can find on Twitter at Jake Barge.
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 6: So last last week I had to take kind of
• 1:20:10
  a week off of my mid major Top thirty crazy busy.
• 1:20:15
  We had some schedule and stuff moving around with Arcadia,
• 1:20:17
  a lot of a lot of a lot of games
• 1:20:19
  being being switched around and everything. But by the time
• 1:20:22
  this episode comes out, I'll probably have the newest rankings out.
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 5: So I hope you guys enjoyed that. It'll be a
• 1:20:29
  two week update.
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 6: And besides that, I'm trying to get out to maybe
• 1:20:33
  get up to games this weekend. But I will have
• 1:20:36
  a lot of Looks article coming. I've got the video
• 1:20:38
  done for it, and I just got to get the
• 1:20:40
  get the words put on the put on the article
• 1:20:43
  for us, but I will I will have that coming
• 1:20:45
  out soon as well.
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: Let's go gonna be awesome. JB. Where can they find
• 1:20:49
  you between our episodes? Sir? What are you working on?
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 4: Yes? JB underscores to Ostiano on Twitter right now. Probably
• 1:20:58
  just going to have a couple more little live ideas
• 1:21:00
  in there somewhere in there. Probably a lot of stuff.
• 1:21:04
  Probably we'll get some stuff going on Twitter actually with
• 1:21:06
  some video I've gotten recently. So yeah, fun stuff that'll
• 1:21:09
  be good, be.
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 1: Great, looking forward to it. And mister Catlett, where can
• 1:21:14
  the folks find you in between? Well? Better better question? Yeah,
• 1:21:18
  what are you working on? Then we'll get into where
• 1:21:19
  they can find you? Because I have another question for you.
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 3: Well, I'm working on Well, I'm working on same stuff
• 1:21:25
  like usual, bracketology, prospects list right like righte ups for
• 1:21:31
  our college top whatever they're What are we doing next
• 1:21:34
  two hundred? Yeah, I mean I put out my college
• 1:21:36
  top fifty prospects us on Twitter yesterday. It's my biggest
• 1:21:39
  Twitter post ever. I think forty seven thousand people saw it,
• 1:21:42
  and I got to follow from Logan Hughes. I got
• 1:21:45
  a repost from him and his mom.
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 2: You know, Alex.
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 3: Hernande show a little love. But I mean, I think
• 1:21:52
  LSU fans want me to kill myself at this point.
• 1:21:54
  So there's that West Virginia fans aren't happy with me either.
• 1:21:58
  It's you get the wrath the ends on my comments.
• 1:22:01
  I got the wrath of fan bases who are just
• 1:22:02
  delusional to no end.
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: Wow, Okay, I'm gonna I was gonna give you a
• 1:22:09
  minute to risk on those people, but on your on
• 1:22:12
  your responses, but I'll give you instead thirty seconds.
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 2: Go oh cheez.
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 3: All right, West Virginia fans Max Yell and Gavin Kelly
• 1:22:19
  are not.
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 2: Top fifty prospects. I'll tell you that much.
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 3: And Miles Bailey, Look, a lot of people have him
• 1:22:25
  ranked tyly could be a first round prospect. He's putting
• 1:22:27
  up great numbers. He is not top fifty. We can
• 1:22:30
  get there, but he is not like a first round prospect.
• 1:22:32
  There's too too much swing and miss still JB Jake Brown.
• 1:22:37
  That one could be on me. He could be in
• 1:22:38
  the top fifty. He's just on the outside.
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 2: For me. I get the version of l It's not
• 1:22:42
  that deep promise.
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: Thirty seconds good show. All right. Well, then, if you're
• 1:22:48
  interested in following me between our episodes, you may do
• 1:22:50
  so on the Twitter machine, on Instagram, on Blue Scott
• 1:22:52
  at Drew is okay. I have been working on the
• 1:22:55
  Mississippi State Southern miss Live looks that I promised you.
• 1:22:58
  While we are working on the Top two hundred. As
• 1:23:00
  alluded to, the daily Sheet continues to roll right along.
• 1:23:03
  I get to write about Land and Harston all the time. Who,
• 1:23:06
  as we learned this week on Twitter, not eligible for
• 1:23:08
  the twenty twenty sixth draft, but pretty good. Also, Maxshell
• 1:23:13
  is a top fifty college prospect. Josh, we all know
• 1:23:15
  that anyway that's gonna do it, that's gonna do it.
• 1:23:18
  For this week's episode of College Baseball Now, want to
• 1:23:20
  remind you all be nice to yourself, be nice to
• 1:23:23
  each other, have a wonderful, wonderful Easter, and we will
• 1:23:26
  see you next day. Take care, Bye bye,