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LSU's Historic Season · JustIN Time

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  Welcome back to another edition of the Just in Time podcast.
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  I'm your host and as always, we got Will.
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  How you doing brother? My God, what's up?
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  How you doing? Well, would be doing a lot
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  better if I had something to watch this weekend.
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  Yeah, I mean, well, me because they made playoffs.
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  I mean, you're not a basketball guy, but you know, make the most
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  of your time. You know, you got you got the
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  NCAA tournament still. And that is?
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  Look, I'm not Jay Johnson said it best.
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  You know we. Talked about it.
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  Last night, I'm not going to pay too much attention to the NCAA
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  tournament this year. I have a lot to work with, a lot
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  of all this stuff work that I'm working on so.
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  Hey, probably disrespected. For next year, so I watch a
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  little bit of it, but my team's not in it this year, so I've got
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  some other priorities I need to take care of for the next couple
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  weeks. Yeah, I mean, listen, I mean, as
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  we go, we have different priorities.
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  I respect the, as you know, my, the the host, the the patriarch
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  of the show, you know, just alluding to it's no secret
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  anymore. So I, I beloved LSU Tigers did
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  not make the NCAA tournament in the sport of baseball for the
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  first time since 2011. So this is only the going back
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  to the mid 80s. So basically when Skip Berman
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  took over in 981984, we've missed the tournament about five
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  times total since then. Yeah.
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  So just to put it in context, you know, we so since first time
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  since 2011. So to put it in context, just
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  And I were juniors in high school, so when the last time we
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  missed the tournament, so. That was that long ago.
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  Yeah, and and listen, like and junior year was my least
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  favorite year of high school by far, with all the A/C, A/C, T
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  prep and stuff. Worst academic year person was I
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  was like it. It was a one to forget.
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  And baseball, Yeah. You know, before that, the time
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  before that, that they missed the NCAA tournament.
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  They even missed the SEC tournament.
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  Yes. Was 2007, but even into as bad
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  as 2007 was, they still had twelve wins in the SEC.
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  Yes, that's true. This is the first time in 50
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  years that all three major men's sports have been a let down with
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  losing records. In the SEC.
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  We had football go 3:00 and 5:00, basketball, just I don't
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  even think they won an SEC game. Then baseball.
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  Went nine and what, 21? Yeah.
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  Including so there to that point, we got split five times
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  this season or finished the regular season 29 and 27 with
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  the 921 conference record. So.
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  We allowed eleven plus runs in seven straight conference games
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  and six straight games in general.
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  So including like the mid we gave so out of seven, seven
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  straight 11 plus runs allowed in in conference.
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  So we talked about like some uncharted territory historically
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  for the program, especially in conference.
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  But so they finished it direct the the the season in total with
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  the 1 playoffs, so 30 and 28 because they want did we beat
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  the Oklahoma? I'm sorry, it would be.
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  Oklahoma in the first round lost.
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  Lost. Auburn, yeah.
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  Their hearts just wasn't in it this year.
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  You had guys like Derek Curio more looking forward, I think to
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  the draft towards the end of the season.
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  Once they figured out that they had tough times, they had to win
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  the SEC Tournament, you know? Yeah, I don't know.
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  I will say this, the SEC tournament, they did a lot of
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  things right. One thing they need to do is get
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  rid of all the mikes on the field.
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  I personally. OK, so me and my sister and my
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  cousin was talking about it. Our top five SEC tournament
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  moments. My top five would definitely
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  have to be it coming in at #5 is Sharon running off that mile and
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  yell at FU in the umpire going to tell him something when he's
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  walking up the mound and he just hits him with the he keeps
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  walking. Yeah, and The funny thing about
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  that real quick is just they, you know, they do without the
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  profanity. But like I just well, I will say
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  when I was watching that rewatched, like I love the fire
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  like you and do or die man, just like he's pumping up these guys.
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  I love the fire and that and granted I know it's a do or die
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  moment but still. Like that's something they
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  really need in that moment. Yeah.
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  I love that, especially with the offense wasn't rolling.
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  I love that, and I also love the thumbs up to the umpire when
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  he's walking back to the dugout when he's getting yelled at.
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  See, listen, I can be and I can be composed to.
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  That's it. Cool bro, got.
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  You that's that is top that's number five on my top five list
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  #4 is when we played Auburn, I think it was four years ago in
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  the SEC tournament, they had us beat and then the catcher
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  completely lost the ball on a pass ball and we end up winning.
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  But because of that number 3 is in 24 when we were playing South
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  Carolina and they had that catches interference and Hayden
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  Travinsky called the protest and they protested #2 is when
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  Brightman caught that ball off the christening bars head for
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  the out. And then #1 is just that whole
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  Todd Peterson hitting the double 203 run double off the wall and
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  telling pulmonary coach I hit nukes in high school.
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  You know, I mean, that was so hilarious.
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  Man, those are my top five LSUSEC.
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  And The thing is, I see that clip periodically pop up on the
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  feed, and it is so funny, Yeah. And then my 6th and honorable
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  mention is when Vandy had killed us during the regular season.
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  And we tend to unload them, yes, at the SEC tournament.
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  They got to get your payback and it's time to do it.
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  I respect that. Yeah, but, you know, didn't this
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  season didn't turn out that way. Yeah.
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  But I like our head guy and I like his response.
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  I love, love the NCAA tournament and that live for Omaha.
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  But we've got too many problems to figure out for next year.
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  I got to get to work, so I'm not going to watch it too much.
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  I was saying like, just The thing is now, as you can see,
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  I'm wearing my Gomaha shirt. I just, I know we're not going
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  to Omaha, We're not going to Algebra N this year.
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  We're taking over from the beach house up north.
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  But listen, this is I didn't want to wear this shirt today
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  because this is still the standard for this program.
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  Yeah, it's still the standard and it's a good shirt.
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  So yeah, why not? We're so I'll be I.
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  Mean look right there, got the cup right there, the other cup
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  right there, you know, and then all if you look in behind me,
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  you got all the national championship stuff, you know.
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  Yeah, it's just I'm gonna back. I'm gonna back up for you.
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  I'm. Back up for you the camera back
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  up, but it won't. That will be cute.
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  Though, yeah, but oh, it's fine. But I would say like it's it
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  definitely the disappointing year.
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  Obviously they had their their high moments, but it was just it
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  what I wanted to say was just like most of this, this whole
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  season felt like it was such a fight.
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  You know, it was just such a struggle.
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  It was not granted you going to I'm not naive to think you're
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  going to just go undefeated in baseball.
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  It's just wildly unrealistic win every game about 10-15 runs.
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  But but it's just it was this year was something, it was just
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  such a fight and a struggle even in the series that you won in a
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  conference like Kentucky was such a struggle.
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  Tennessee was a struggle. Like it was just, it was nothing
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  like when they was really pulled away that you just like you just
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  fully confident in them to make a huge run.
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  Even when you have momentum, it's just like it almost
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  immediately just vanished. Exactly.
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  It was such a struggle this year.
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  And you know, the pitching still led the CC and strikeouts.
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  That that still blows my mind. You know, it reminds me, you
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  know, that's that reminds me of like the NFL example, just the
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  2010 San Diego Chargers. They had the number one offense
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  in the league that the NF LS #1 defense and still missed the
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  playoffs. Yeah.
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  Because their special teams was the worst in the league.
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  I'm like, that is impossible. Not apple to Apple, of course,
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  but it's just as bad as as so far as the the mile was this
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  year. And that was my biggest question
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  coming into the year was the mound as we did our yeah, go
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  ahead. You know, we led the SEC in
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  strikeouts, but the thing that got us is we also led the mile,
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  led the country, but we definitely led the SEC in walks,
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  hit by pitches, free bases. Yep, the the free passes Dennis
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  in this year big time man, you just and when, when and it's
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  disappointing because you already have a struggling
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  defence in the field and there was like the worst in the in the
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  conference, I think, but just if not one of the worst, at least
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  for sure, but just. For sure.
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  It's just like you just you have to complement each other.
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  Team sports is all complementary at least, like especially even
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  more so. We don't have any, any lead unit
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  anywhere. Yeah, At least if you have an
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  elite unit, like whether it's offensively with the bats or
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  whether it's, you know, in the field or on the mound is at
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  least you can have something to fall back on more times than
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  not. But that was not the case at any
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  point this year when the pitcher was strong in the middle of the
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  year. Offense has not existed.
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  OK, so I just pulled it up. That's what I've been doing.
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  We ended up building with the better fielding percentage than
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  I thought we would. We had a 967 fielding
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  percentage. Still not stellar, but it'll
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  suffice. It'll suffice, you know.
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  Derek Curiel led the team in batting average at 3:53.
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  It really came on the last part of the year.
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  Man, that is incredible. Aaron Beauty was the second one
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  with three 1718 home runs, then Mason Braun, then Jake Brown
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  with 16 home runs, Omar Serna, which I think hurt us when he
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  went out after that first game, Yeah, in the SEC Tournament.
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  And Stephen Marlin fought his average all the way back up to
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  296. Yeah, he just fell short.
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  I remember like my seat regular scene there, like he had got to
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  300 on the dot. I like the stuff they even to
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  his credit like he really finished.
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  He was very steady, especially in the second-half of the year,
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  but just especially with the long shots.
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  So, yeah, I think just there was some, you know, perseverance
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  throughout this year, but just, it just was not enough.
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  They didn't dug themselves in too many holes, man.
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  It was and like just and. Just they did all of that.
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  They only struck out 468 tons, you know, with out of 19138 at
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  bats, but they only batted 282 on a season.
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  And for reference, last year's team, if it pulls up, and I know
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  comparing us to last year's team is like comparing apples to
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  oranges. Yeah, but strikeout wise, this
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  team had 525. Team had 520 strikeouts and
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  22165 at bats, but we batted 296 as a team.
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  Yeah, you know, so our pitching, our ERA was 373.
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  And let's see, strikeouts, we had 760 strikeouts.
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  We only walked 269. And here's one that we didn't
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  talk about wild pitches. We only had 67 last year.
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  This year again, I'm waiting for it to load.
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  And I'm listening. That yeah, wild pitches.
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  We had 90. Wow, That's the big difference
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  between. Yeah, that's the difference
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  right there. Now, part of that is for a long
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  part of the season, our catchers couldn't catch a cold.
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  Right. But, you know, that's what
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  happens. You know, it happens.
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  You got to have down years after you win championships.
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  It's, you know, it's numbers, it's statistics.
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  You can't win. Everybody can't win all the
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  time. You can't win all the time.
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  You got to lose, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  It's just. Math yeah.
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  Then The thing is like, and it's not just about, you know,
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  winning every year, you know, you got to go 50 and and 50 and
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  2 and 12 or something like that every year and on the
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  championship, is this like, is this so wildly?
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  I don't listen to do that every year after year, but just in 20.
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  323 we were 54 and 17. Yeah.
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  Then let's see that 24 record and in 23 we were 43 and 23, you
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  know, yeah, can't win every game, but you can win a lot of
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  them. Yeah, of course.
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  All right, let's go ahead and just run down for the the last
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  week of the season, including the SEC Tournament.
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  I mean. This is how the powerhouse poles
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  broke down, and then I'll share the screen with the spreadsheet
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  and we can go over the winners. Come and Dad, just I know I for
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  light. So yeah, our final week we did
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  like Justin just said, we did the we accounted for the Florida
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  Series and the two games in the tournament since they only
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  played two games. So A5 we accounted for the last
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  week of the polls for like the five games that ended their
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  season. I'm going to start off with my
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  pitching. Pitching #1 I got Devis Sheeran
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  #2 I got Grant final and #3 I got Case in Evans.
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  You know, Sharon threw 7 K's in his last two items by the
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  season. You know, Fondo had minimal
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  damage in his two games, but he did it.
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  The thing with with Fondo, he did it on he played two games on
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  three days rest. So just a quick turn around for
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  him is just the fact that for yes, you have minimal damage,
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  you have some damage, but guy played on like 72 hours.
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  I was like you need longer rest in that and like just for him to
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  just even produce that much like with his with a worn out arm.
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  I think that's so impressive, especially in the time that it's
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  in which they needed it. And lastly, you know with Cason,
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  you know, despite allowing two runs in the walk versus Auburn,
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  he threw 8 KS. He was dealing for most of the
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  game, which is the most by any pitcher, LSU pitcher in the last
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  five games to end the year. But just so even though he gave
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  up the two runs, that was the difference of the game.
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  Understand that he limited the damage to keep LS US offense to
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  give them opportunities to end and advance in the tournament.
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  Yeah, You know, I've got the same three guys, just a
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  different order. I put thought no, first, because
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  also he got that win against Oklahoma.
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  Yeah, he found out he was the starting pitcher 20 minutes
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  before that game. It's fair enough.
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  Because William Schmidt went down, so not only did he pitch.
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  That's right. Three games and 72 hours.
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  He also threw that last game. I think he went 4 innings, yeah,
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  20 minutes. He found out 20 minutes before
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  the game he was starting. Yeah, yeah, just you can't you
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  you can't ask for more than that.
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  And the fact that you gave your dad, man, just yeah, I'm with
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  you. Damn, brother.
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  Then look, yeah, I give Sharon's my number two guy.
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  I mean anytime you come off the mound and get get yelled at by
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  the umpire and give him a thumbs up, you doing something right?
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  Man, just to find the intentible stuff, man.
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  Just like, you know, the guys needed it, you know, just to
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  really, I mean, you just got to lift you guys up and he did in
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  that moment. He was dealing in that stretch,
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  man, just they they had it. I mean, they could have had it
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  for the taking offense, but you know, the pitching as far as the
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  Auburn game, you can't you can't necessarily bring the pitching.
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  They held him three runs, but like, just and.
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  That's why I put Cason Evans is my third guy for this week and
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  the last one because he did a good job and Jay Johnson picked
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  Auburn to win the national championship.
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  After watching them, it kills me.
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  Actually, it doesn't kill me because that's that's a
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  misdirect. That's not who I picked to be my
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  the national champion. I picked Mississippi State.
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  Yeah, because they're getting a lot of heat right now because
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  people think Arkansas should have hosted or been a national
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  seed. You know, honestly, to me, I
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  don't know how they're not a national seed.
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  And it's no disrespect to Mississippi State.
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  It's just Arkansas went to the championship game in the SEC
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  tournament. Yeah, normally that does enough
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  for you. They went 39 and 20 and I went
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  percentage of 66 conference record was 17 and 13.
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  So my only guess is that that played a role.
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  But just but again like you won you darn near 20 games you won
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  in conference that's two nearly 2/3 of your conference slate.
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  So I'm just. Well, we'll get we'll get into
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  all of that after we finished this powerhouse pole rundown
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  because, you know, I got something to finish off the
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  baseball stuff. So I did my offense with Curio.
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  Curio just finished the season on a hot streak.
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  You know, he started off slow and then really came into his
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  body. I think he's ready to go.
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  I think he's ready to get out of college, but if he falls in
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  peace by something in there that they drop him down to the second
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  round, yeah. And we keep him at LSU, that
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  would be a big keep, big get for us.
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  I don't think it's going to happen.
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  I think we've got a better chance to get my second
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  offensive guy back, and that's Steven Milan.
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  Yeah. And.
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  What you do? And a lot of that plays into,
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  you know, nil. This is where nil comes and
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  helps you. That's right.
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  Because I think Steven Milam can end up winning, getting more
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  money from NIL that he can from a low A or A2 a contract.
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  And then Sarno was on fire until that Oklahoma gang sliding the
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  home and he messed his hand up. And that's my guys.
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  Yeah, so for me office, I got, I got two of the same guys you
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  got, I got Steven Milam at #1 you know, I said, you know, he
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  expelled to play with eight hits and 10 ribbies plus a home run
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  during the F during the UF series and the two tournament
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  games combined. But just, you know, I got Derek
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  Curiel, you know, second place. He finished with eight hits over
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  the last five games of the year. Then I put Kate Aaron BD at
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  third because he was great against Florida and against
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  Oklahoma and Auburn as two of his sixth, his wins for homers.
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  You know, just obviously Kate, Aaron, BD really and I'll get
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  into this little later, really finish the season strong offense
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  with likewise for, well, all three of these guys really and
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  just, you know, needed like their best to come alive and
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  which they did in a major way. Yeah.
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  Yeah, defense, again, I don't even need to say the number one
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  guy. The number one guy is Milam
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  Curiel has some nice diving plays out there and what finish
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  up the season. And then Mason Braun just really
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  set the tone for next season. Him and him and Patrick and
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  Rucker just gave us a bright look at what we have coming back
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  for next year. Without question, yeah.
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  You know, just like for my defense, listen, the same exact
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  order, you know, Mylan Carrillo, Braun, you know, death tax and
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  just Steven Mylan playing defense.
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  Listen, he he he has my bull, you know, best, best defensive
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  source stop in the history of the program.
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  That's just for my, for my vote, you know, just so steady.
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  Just so steady this year, so unbelievably reliable.
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  Derek Curiel if if, if it wasn't Steven Milam on his team, you
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  know, Derek Curiel would have been the best defense player on
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  the on the roster this year. This I will get into that with
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  the like the final tallies on the polls, but this both of
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  those guys are just the anchors defensively in a in a subpar
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  defensive unit. And then like I finally got
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  ladies and gentlemen, I finally joined Justin.
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  I found he was on the bandwagon before me, the Mason bar.
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  I finally got on the bandwagon the end of season.
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  It's like the last film. I know it's the last couple of
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  weeks I had, I didn't put him on the pole because I had I put
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  Jack Rucker on a couple of the last defensive polls for me
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  because I'm this he was active even with a couple of the
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  errors, very active in the field.
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  But you know, Mason Brown likes Chris Stanfield.
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  They were both very versatile. They play play defense in
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  multiple spots. And you know, Mason Brown was
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  just like, like you said before, just really just a stellar into
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  the season with those young guys.
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  They have a very bright defensive future.
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  Yeah. So I can't complain there.
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  And, you know, still doing the least valuable player.
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  Which? For the year, I'll give it to a
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  group of and it's no, no diss on them.
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  It's just they didn't come in and do what they we were told
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  they were going to do and they didn't perform like they were
• 21:29
  the transfer portal class, with the exception of exception of
• 21:35
  Cooper Moore, the transfer portal class just didn't.
• 21:39
  That's our least valuable players of the year, you know,
• 21:42
  but we've got some awards. Yeah, the box award maybe.
• 21:47
  In this one, I just, we've got the Warren Morris Clutch Player
• 21:51
  of the Year or Clutch Play of the Year.
• 21:54
  Yeah. And I know it says play, but I'm
• 21:56
  going to give it to, you know, you could plug in any Steven
• 21:59
  Marlin play ever made. Yes, into the Warren Morris
• 22:02
  Clutch Play of the Year. I'm going to give it to Kate
• 22:04
  Aaron Beatty with the four home runs in the Tennessee game.
• 22:07
  Come on, I love it, but I'm Bluetooth.
• 22:09
  Then we've got the best team performance of the year.
• 22:13
  Yeah. Oh yeah.
• 22:14
  And honestly, you've got to go back to February for that.
• 22:18
  Yeah. And it's the Central Florida
• 22:21
  game for me in Jacksonville. Yeah, that's the last time they
• 22:25
  actually look like a baseball team.
• 22:28
  You know, and like dating back to because we started the year I
• 22:30
  think, you know, and like dating back to the pre last year in the
• 22:33
  tournament we we had won thirteen straight before we had
• 22:36
  lost yeah, just like they were really even in like they they
• 22:40
  were losing this most of those games early this year, but they
• 22:43
  really just took the lead and pulled away and the.
• 22:46
  Central Florida game is the only time that they didn't come from
• 22:50
  behind, right? And you know, I think that come
• 22:53
  from behind mentality at the beginning of the season, I think
• 22:57
  I told you this and I told my dad, I said that coming from
• 23:00
  behind, it's going to come back and bite them in the ass because
• 23:02
  they can't. They're always playing from
• 23:05
  behind. They don't know what it's like
• 23:06
  to keep A-Team and keep their foot on the throat.
• 23:09
  That's what and look, we like we said that for many times this
• 23:13
  year. I said, listen, I mean the
• 23:14
  cardiac cats routine. I hear you.
• 23:17
  I mean, it's it's exciting to see, but I I'd rather team
• 23:21
  dominate more times than not because it shows you that you
• 23:25
  can like you can complete all phases of the game on a routine
• 23:29
  basis because you just the ball come bounce this way.
• 23:34
  Ball may not make it over the 5th that time, but you know, say
• 23:37
  like you just playing like too close to the vest or I'm not
• 23:40
  close to the best, but just like too close for comfort.
• 23:42
  I say, but this. But yeah, I'm with you.
• 23:45
  In that weekend, I thought Jack York was going to be something
• 23:47
  good for this team because he hit a home run. 2 dead, one dead
• 23:53
  center, but it was right center until you hit that home run.
• 23:57
  You had to hit it out by 600 feet.
• 24:00
  No. And because the way the stadium
• 24:03
  was, the wall was like some the wall was so much higher back
• 24:07
  there because it's minor league park.
• 24:10
  They had a bar in the back and he hit it and he hit it right on
• 24:14
  that line. You know, then I'll go with the
• 24:21
  best game of the year. I just went off the most
• 24:24
  exciting game of the year. And that was the Easter miracle.
• 24:26
  And not to do. Hey, can't, no need to argue
• 24:30
  there again. They need it.
• 24:33
  They were trailing. They needed it so.
• 24:35
  Yep, and I'll let you do the next two.
• 24:40
  All right, so I got a so I put Kate Anders like when the season
• 24:45
  started, like, you know, the season didn't go as well as we
• 24:48
  planned. So a lot of that, a lot of the
• 24:49
  stuff we had planned that before, like it kind of like
• 24:52
  we're just kind of thrown off. But you know, we didn't going
• 24:54
  off the way over here. So I named like Kate and the
• 24:57
  Kate Anderson best pitching performance of the year.
• 24:59
  Or like Justin mentioned, more historical.
• 25:02
  Regardless of how you want to frame it, it's the same spirit
• 25:05
  of the the the honor. I put case in Evans in game one
• 25:08
  versus Oklahoma in the regular season 15 strikeouts only
• 25:12
  allowed three in the walk in seven and 2/3 pitch.
• 25:15
  I think you know occasion had his struggles this year, but he
• 25:19
  had the best peak performances because he had also had another
• 25:22
  double digit K game against SAC state.
• 25:25
  But I I gave him the edge with this one because in Oklahoma,
• 25:28
  because it's in conference, granted it's at home, but
• 25:31
  regardless, it's. At.
• 25:33
  That time it was a massive, massive game.
• 25:35
  Absolutely. So just like he had the the two
• 25:38
  best peak performances, but I don't think he was the best
• 25:40
  pitcher this year. But we're going to definitely
• 25:42
  get into that. And I put like as far as the
• 25:45
  best batting performance of the year without question.
• 25:48
  Kate Aaron BD and game three at Tennessee in the rubber bats a
• 25:52
  record, a program record for homers in the rubber mats.
• 25:55
  Like you can't get more clutch than that, brother.
• 25:57
  And you know, it's funny, like soon before that it was we were
• 26:00
  talking about Jake Brown almost had that same outing.
• 26:03
  So just like but you know this because he was on the heater on
• 26:06
  the at the plate as well, but just K there BDA clutch a
• 26:11
  historic game for him and the program in that spot.
• 26:15
  That's the formula for just this, that honor and that
• 26:18
  acknowledge. It and then before we go into
• 26:21
  the last, you know three that just brings me to this, you
• 26:26
  know, because I feel like these next ones are powerhouse
• 26:31
  offensive player of the year, powerhouse defensive player of
• 26:33
  the year and the powerhouse MVP all come from this beautiful
• 26:40
  spreadsheet right here yes Sir, so I'll let you break that down.
• 26:45
  Yeah, so when we talk about the spreadsheet, you know, we've
• 26:47
  been just not been keeping track of these the powerhouse poles on
• 26:50
  the Google she shout out to Google.
• 26:52
  But just, you know, just we broke it down, you know, during
• 26:58
  the season. So originally I put like you, I
• 27:00
  gave points originally for East pole appearance, but you know,
• 27:04
  just for the sake of math and time, you know, I took that
• 27:06
  away. So the points I awarded for
• 27:08
  guys, if you finished third place, I mean if you finished
• 27:11
  first place on whether it's beaten by pole just in polls,
• 27:14
  you would get awarded 3 points for that, for that appearance.
• 27:18
  And 2nd place is 2 points, 3rd place is one point.
• 27:21
  So we broke it down, you know, we got the pitches, the starting
• 27:23
  rotation, we broke it down to bullpen and the others in the in
• 27:27
  the pitching area for offense. You got the batting order and
• 27:30
  all the other guys who made appearances.
• 27:32
  And last we got of course we got the defense.
• 27:34
  So in the first column we got the combined pole appearances in
• 27:39
  for the player in that category right next to it.
• 27:42
  We got the total pole points they amass for that season, for
• 27:45
  the season. You know, we just been adding
• 27:47
  and we just broke it down by week.
• 27:50
  So, you know, the first week was the week of February 18th.
• 27:53
  As you can see, we didn't do any polls for the weeks of April
• 27:58
  15th and May 20th. And obviously I made a couple
• 28:02
  notes where it was adjusted only adjusted only episode.
• 28:05
  So he did, he did his takes and then we had some notes, some
• 28:10
  funny notes in the top, you know, from March 18th, you know,
• 28:15
  Justin didn't submit anything for pitching because they didn't
• 28:17
  deserve anything. You know, Justin sets a
• 28:19
  standard, you know you, that's This is why you got to subscribe
• 28:23
  2 days. It's like he instead applied the
• 28:25
  pitching points to Stanfield. So just as a radical guy guys,
• 28:29
  so you got to understand like, you know, the standard is the
• 28:31
  standard. So if you don't like it, that's
• 28:34
  too bad. So you shouldn't be watching if
• 28:36
  you don't like it. I like it.
• 28:37
  So that's what I'm here. We didn't do the pitching that
• 28:40
  week and then the very next week we debuted the LVD for negative
• 28:45
  points. Like the the least valuable
• 28:47
  players. So listen, I mean, we're just
• 28:49
  not going to give you something just we, we didn't give it to
• 28:52
  you. But you know, but this but we we
• 28:55
  have fun with this season. You know this, but you know this
• 28:58
  even as bad as this. Season was, yeah, as bad as this
• 29:01
  season was, we had fun with it. Yeah, just like really keeping
• 29:04
  up with it, you know, I just did like, you know, I've watched a
• 29:07
  good bit of baseball, just like the most I've really watched the
• 29:10
  game, the game. I mean, there's like a lot down
• 29:12
  the stretch, a lot to watch, a lot of highlights.
• 29:14
  But just like most of the scene, just like watching the pitch to
• 29:17
  pitch bat to bat, bat like a pitch batting appears.
• 29:21
  I'm sorry, played appearance, Excuse me, and you're just like
• 29:23
  trying to just keep a closer eye on it.
• 29:26
  So because like when you keep a closer eye on it, like, you
• 29:28
  know, even shout out to wheels by by the way, you know this the
• 29:31
  wheels account on YouTube guys are unbelievable job.
• 29:35
  You know, just doing the college baseball highlights, You know,
• 29:39
  really come in clutch the most clutch that YouTube the college
• 29:41
  sports wise, probably on on the platform, because college sports
• 29:45
  is just college baseball is just not covered enough.
• 29:48
  Even ESPN doesn't do a good job of it.
• 29:50
  This like I know we got the new the new diamond app, so that's
• 29:54
  what I was about to. Give a shout out to.
• 29:55
  I was just making sure I have. Yeah, go ahead.
• 29:57
  Yeah, Yeah. Go ahead, go ahead.
• 29:58
  You know the Diamond sports app, Shout out to them because they
• 30:03
  helped me and you know you can pick.
• 30:06
  Your. You can finish your bracket up,
• 30:10
  you know do your bracket with them and do you know do your
• 30:17
  bracket? I am doing mine right now.
• 30:20
  You know, as we speak, I'm putting mine in right now to
• 30:24
  submit my entries for this year's, you know, bracket.
• 30:28
  I submitted mine. You pick the regional and you
• 30:32
  pick the regional champion, the runner up.
• 30:35
  Then you go to the Super regionals and you pick your
• 30:38
  winner. I mean you don't have to pick
• 30:39
  runner up for that. Then you go to the they bring
• 30:43
  you to the Omaha and you get the size of the bracket.
• 30:47
  You pick a runner up for both sides of the bracket in the
• 30:49
  bracket champion and then you pick the national champion.
• 30:52
  And if I am not mistaken, my bracket champion for this one is
• 31:01
  I picked Tennessee and Mississippi State to make it to
• 31:04
  the national championship game. Yeah.
• 31:08
  And I got Mississippi State winning it all coming up.
• 31:12
  You know, I just like I do it would be was it nice?
• 31:15
  But just like this would be a good opportunity for Arkansas to
• 31:19
  pull it off now to say just their best team they've ever
• 31:22
  had. You know, I haven't watched too
• 31:24
  much this year, but just like it's I mean, LSU is out.
• 31:28
  You know, our guys are out. So but like, like Justin said,
• 31:30
  Miss Superstay going to be tough out, going to be tough out, man,
• 31:33
  just like good luck to them. But at least you want to deal
• 31:36
  with the Tigers. So I mean there's any personally
• 31:39
  can do it this year? Personally, out of all the games
• 31:41
  I've watched, you know Georgia would be an easy one to say.
• 31:45
  Yeah, them too. They have it, but I think
• 31:50
  Mississippi State has the most complete team.
• 31:55
  Mississippi State and Auburn have the most complete team.
• 31:57
  Auburn doesn't necessarily have that history of Omaha like
• 32:01
  Mississippi State does, you know, in Tennessee.
• 32:03
  Turned it on at the end. That's why I have them being
• 32:07
  runners up. You know, I might make another
• 32:09
  one and put some, you know, not using the things, but using NCAA
• 32:16
  baseball tournament logic and how teams like who was it last
• 32:21
  year? So who was it last year?
• 32:22
  Was that who? Made it to Omaha.
• 32:27
  Don't tell me I know like we got coastal.
• 32:31
  Carolina, Carolina. Carolina.
• 32:34
  Those are the chandeliers they don't like to call.
• 32:38
  Yeah, but you know not. Even talking man stuff.
• 32:41
  Yeah, but you know, you got it like that.
• 32:43
  It's stuff like that that but shout, look, shout out to West
• 32:47
  Virginia. You know, we said last year
• 32:49
  they. Were yes, yes, they on the come
• 32:51
  up they. Were you put key players away to
• 32:53
  come back in? They're hosting a regional this
• 32:57
  year. They got the 16th national seed.
• 32:58
  Yeah, good. They on the come up man, just
• 33:00
  like because I remember like when we beat them last year, a
• 33:04
  lot of like the good bit of tiger fans was in their
• 33:07
  comments. I said listen, y'all want to
• 33:08
  come up y'all state stay in the course.
• 33:10
  They had a couple guys just like the couple of West Virginia fans
• 33:15
  like you know they just got a clean house.
• 33:17
  I'm like brother, like your program has not peaked like this
• 33:20
  before like at least stand back for a few years.
• 33:23
  I mean, now we can take that from us now we the eight time
• 33:27
  champions. So I mean.
• 33:31
  Now, William Schmidt was our powerhouse.
• 33:35
  Champion for the pitchers? Yes, Sir, He was.
• 33:39
  So William Schmidt. Casey Evans was second, Yeah.
• 33:45
  And then Sharon was third. Yep, out the bullpen.
• 33:51
  The best bullpen. Missed it by one point.
• 33:54
  Yeah, so as far as like just, you know, William Schmidt, he
• 33:58
  had 16 total appearances, the most on the pitching staff this
• 34:01
  year, which account is is whole total at 33 points.
• 34:06
  Like justices said. Second place was Cason Evans, 13
• 34:10
  appearances to accumulate 23 points and like you said, just
• 34:14
  missed, devastating, just missed off casing by one point.
• 34:18
  But considering he came out the bullpen is very impressive.
• 34:22
  You know Zach Cowan, he had AI mean excuse me, Gavin started
• 34:26
  off really strong for us. He had two very first week.
• 34:29
  He both appeared on our second place poles and then like but he
• 34:34
  just kind of tapered off and then came back finished really
• 34:37
  decent. Zach Cowan really started off
• 34:40
  slow, but he had picked it up in the second-half of the year.
• 34:43
  Even his total with 20 points out of eight appearances.
• 34:46
  But you know Cooper Moore started strong for us.
• 34:49
  He was like he was started really dominant.
• 34:51
  He we both gave him first place after the first after the first
• 34:55
  week and he has several 2nd place finishes went down to 3rd
• 34:59
  place, but injuries just it was a massive loss for him.
• 35:03
  You know, just for us on. That was a massive loss for this
• 35:06
  season for us, losing Cooper more, and I think if he comes
• 35:09
  back, he doesn't get hurt. He's got my back next year.
• 35:12
  We have a whole starting rotation.
• 35:14
  That that's that is like the biggest thing they can take from
• 35:18
  this year. You know, and I would say side
• 35:21
  note, like our starting pitching wasn't the best this year.
• 35:25
  You're right. But it's like they said, you
• 35:28
  know, you're asking these guys to come in and do new stuff that
• 35:34
  they nested, They didn't necessarily do last year.
• 35:38
  Jason Evans was a bullpen pitcher last year.
• 35:41
  He came in, he was like closer. Sure, he started a few games
• 35:45
  Sunday games, but then you know he started one or two Sunday
• 35:48
  games and then he was delegated back to the bullpen.
• 35:52
  Yep. William Schmidt did start last
• 35:54
  year, but he started midweek games, you know, and there's a
• 35:57
  difference between competition between midweek and SEC.
• 36:01
  And I think Cooper Moore was a starter wherever he came from.
• 36:06
  Because I think he was a transfer.
• 36:07
  Yeah, Candace. Yeah, Speaking of Kansas, they
• 36:10
  get to host the regional and they get to host Arkansas and
• 36:16
  Battle of the Kansas, Kansas. Kansas classic baby.
• 36:21
  Yeah. And then we had Aaron DD number
• 36:27
  one for offense. Yeah.
• 36:30
  Who only beat Jake Brown out by two points and Jake Brown missed
• 36:34
  the whole the last quarter of the season.
• 36:37
  Yeah. And Jake Brown came in at 26 and
• 36:41
  then Derek Curiel pulled the 3rd place spot with 24.
• 36:45
  Yeah. So just like it just goes to
• 36:47
  show like Jake Brown, if he was healthy all year, I think it
• 36:50
  would have been the clear favorite to win.
• 36:52
  He should have won because he was so he was so dominant to
• 36:56
  start the year, even though even with him cooling off a bit, but
• 36:59
  he was still the your most steady offensive product
• 37:02
  productor. And just the fact that,
• 37:06
  especially in the middle of the year when the office was such a
• 37:08
  rut, you know, just like he was like the only bright spot.
• 37:11
  But like just shout out to Kate Arbedi because if you look at
• 37:14
  the polls, like he started off hot for us, you know, in the
• 37:17
  first pole, the weekly polls, Justin, I had him second place.
• 37:21
  Justin on the on the second pole, Justin had him first place
• 37:24
  and but he didn't appear offensively again until it was
• 37:30
  that the week of April 8th. So when he both he finished
• 37:36
  first place exactly the Easter East America, when he finished
• 37:40
  first place for both of us and he appeared on every pole since
• 37:43
  then. It's at least one or one of our
• 37:45
  poles every so from the East from Easter onward.
• 37:49
  The following week he had second place for both of us.
• 37:53
  The the week after that, Justin had him first.
• 37:55
  I had him first after that and then like Justin, the previous
• 38:00
  poll week just had him first. I had him third and then this
• 38:04
  most recent one, I had him third.
• 38:05
  So really was a steady producer in the second-half of the year
• 38:09
  after that rough middle stretch. Like, I mean, he they needed his
• 38:13
  Med in such a major way. And but it's just, it's also a
• 38:17
  testament to hit him, but it's also a testament to Jake Brown's
• 38:21
  dominance throughout the year for him to only be edged out by
• 38:25
  two points. Yeah.
• 38:27
  And then, you know, this says something and speaks volumes
• 38:30
  about our defense this year, you know, Yes, Steven Milam got 73
• 38:36
  points for first place. He was first place.
• 38:39
  And I think I changed it up a couple of weeks.
• 38:42
  Yeah, just because. Just because.
• 38:48
  You. Know, just shake it up a little
• 38:51
  bit. At the beginning of the season
• 38:52
  he went, he was both of our first guys.
• 38:55
  Then in week two he was my first guy, your second guy.
• 38:59
  Week 3, he was my second guy, your first guy.
• 39:03
  You know, we swapped for a couple of weeks going second and
• 39:05
  then it was a consistent first until we got to the week of
• 39:10
  February 29th. You've had him ranked at you
• 39:13
  second guy. Then Derek Curiel got 37 points
• 39:18
  to come in second. You know, he was pretty
• 39:21
  consistent on the polls all season long.
• 39:25
  But then you look at it in a guy who missed almost half the
• 39:31
  season due to injury. Now he did get helped out.
• 39:35
  He did get helped out in March when he came back and the
• 39:38
  pitching was so terrible. I gave it gave me the pitching
• 39:42
  points to him. But Chris Stanfield comes in at
• 39:45
  third with 9, and this should say something because other than
• 39:49
  Derek Curiel and Steven Milam, there was nobody who had double
• 39:53
  digits. Yeah, and it and that's and
• 39:56
  that's to go to the show. That's another it like had us
• 40:00
  missing Stanley all year. That was a massive blow.
• 40:03
  Like he got hurt the second game of the year sliding the home and
• 40:07
  he missed 16 games. That was the big and The thing
• 40:09
  is if you look back. Even with the wins, that was the
• 40:12
  biggest story of the team. That was like, OK, so because
• 40:15
  you hear it in the in the from a tiger rag, like they would do
• 40:18
  the press conferences, the post game conferences and stuff like
• 40:21
  that. They said like, you know, what's
• 40:22
  the status of Chris? What's the status of Chris?
• 40:24
  My offense was rolling and they were they weren't losing.
• 40:27
  So it was just like without the biggest story of the team for
• 40:30
  the first several couple weeks. But like just like having him
• 40:34
  missing the most a year, just you could tell he wasn't right.
• 40:37
  So like it just like for most of the year, but it's just like
• 40:39
  that was a massive loss for them.
• 40:41
  But just like to but to justice point God, just the fact that he
• 40:45
  missed all that time, he still finished third place.
• 40:49
  Like you said you got help but I mean.
• 40:51
  Look in that help he only got I think 2 points.
• 40:55
  Yeah. So he would have still been tied
• 40:58
  with Mason Braun for 3rd if he wouldn't have gotten points.
• 41:03
  Yeah, that's true. That's my point.
• 41:05
  Like other than Steven Milam and Curiel, defensive production for
• 41:11
  the Tigers was atrocious. It was all year long.
• 41:16
  You know we've got pitchers on this list with higher numbers
• 41:22
  than some of the everyday players on the team.
• 41:27
  You know diamond. Our starting second baseman for
• 41:31
  the season has two. You know, Cason Evans has two
• 41:36
  points, Cooper Moore has four points on this and Cooper Moore
• 41:42
  has more points than one. I can not count Patrick because
• 41:46
  he was, you know, for Jake Brown and he didn't play a lot, right?
• 41:50
  Right. But Cooper Moore has more points
• 41:53
  on this defensive pole than Brayton Simpson, Zach York,
• 41:59
  Tanner Reeves. I don't count Rucker account
• 42:01
  account Rucker. He's got more points than
• 42:03
  Rucker. He's got more points in Serna,
• 42:06
  you know, and he's got more points than Caraway.
• 42:09
  That shouldn't happen, you know. In the circumstance.
• 42:12
  Yeah, but, you know, in the sake of just finishing this episode
• 42:17
  up, the MVP of the season, Drum roll, Steven Monster Milan.
• 42:21
  Not. Not even close, brother.
• 42:23
  There was literally no one else it could be.
• 42:25
  I don't know why you people are surprised, you know, but you
• 42:29
  know. Closing thoughts for this
• 42:30
  season. I'll let you give yours first.
• 42:34
  Yeah, so just real quick on my on the monster.
• 42:36
  So he on offense, he accounted for 22 points and defense he
• 42:41
  counted for 73 of the poll points.
• 42:44
  So his his season total was 95 points between offense and
• 42:49
  defense as far and on a grand total of what was that 26 + 14,
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  you know, so on 40 pole appearances he counted for 95
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  points. And I put that on defense.
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  He had 21 first place finishes out of his 26 pole appearances.
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  He appeared on every one of our poles for both of us on defense.
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  And then like, it's just goes to show you how steady each of our
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  one of the most steady contributors in the history of
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  this program. Like however, like I said
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  before, he has my vote for the best defensive short sightedness
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  programs ever seen. The some of the plays that he
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  made this year was this phenomenal and it just a
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  testament like think about how poor this defense would have
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  been without him on the on the roster 100% Derek Curio was
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  incredible too, but just like. I failed him.
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  Percentage might have been in the eights, it might have been
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  like 89895 or. Something like that without mine
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  that may and that may be generous because like because
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  they were just that bad at in the field this year.
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  Man, it was so rough, but just like having like Derek shout out
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  to Korea because even if and any other team pretty much he would
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  have probably been your guy, but just Steven Mayer was just like
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  a on a different planet this year.
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  Man. This this like and justice ran
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  them through the polls. We went back and forth like the
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  first couple weeks, like it was like there was 123456788 weeks,
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  8 poll weeks we did for episodes where we both had them first
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  place. So it's just like, and Derek
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  Creo was 1234566 weeks where Derek Creole was second place
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  for both of us. You take those guys out, it's
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  just an atrocious defense. It's a choice with with them on
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  the on the on the field, but it wasn't their fault, so it is.
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  You know, and it's like Jay Johnson said, we got a lot of
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  work to do for next year, but we're going to get it done.
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  And, you know, like, comment, subscribe and share, yes, and
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  help us build this thing up. And I will leave you with this
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  for this episode. You know, have a great night,
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  great day, great morning. Whatever you have, make it a
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  great. But just the Tiger, LSU, Tiger
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  baseball team for next year. We coming, we coming and we
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  ain't backing down. And that'll do it from us.
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  Have a good day. Have a good one.
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  Yeah.