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2026 Regional Recap | Ep. 040 · College Baseball Now

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Speaker 1: It's about thirteen am on Tuesday, June second, and folks,
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we've got sixteen teams remaining in the field. The twenty
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twenty six NCAA College baseball season has reached the Super
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Regional Round after a pair of late night games concluded.
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We're ready to break down the regional round and go
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from sixty four to sixteen all over again on this
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episode of college Baseball.
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Speaker 2: Now, yeah, there ain't no prods, no problems down.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, let it's not yet. They know what was gone
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for Maney hit a bat bah, didn't grab a couple
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of wins with a D I D. They even know
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the kid I had to do a B I gvs.
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We can never beat average, and they want to pull
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them with the boy they don't know. No statics counted,
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So coach time run a week? God when to test
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that s on? The standing troll runs a game that's
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believe them signing ducks, counting them my win, yet love
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it when they count me yacht counting up.
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Speaker 4: The least sudden shame? Why men at believe.
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Speaker 1: I running the game?
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Speaker 5: Believe stand.
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Speaker 3: To believe, stand stand it is that magic to want
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stand the knock them out?
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Speaker 4: Ever, really don't want to stand it.
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Speaker 1: In a podcast that is sure to be all about numbers.
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The podcast itself is a man. It's forty episodes old,
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and we are glad to go from sixty four all
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the way down to sixteen with you at home. Hi,
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we are your your friends. Your hosting teams started with me,
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the College Baseball Now Architect, as it were, the director
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of Amateur Scouting Prospects Live, Drew Wheeler. Hi, how you doing.
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I'm the Baldwin. It's good to be here with you.
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I'm joined by three of my friends, three of you. Wow.
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Rare occurrence to get all four of us in the zone,
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happy to be here with you. Starting with the gentleman
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in the top right, returning to his natural position, it
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is mister Josh Catalan Josh as of roughly one hour ago.
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You're a very happy man. You entered the chat with
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an intrick song of celebration. The Auburn tiger shirt is repping.
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How do you feel it, sir?
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Speaker 5: I'm feeling phenomenal. I just came off one of my
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favorite weekends in a long time, and that weekend consisted
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of me sitting on my couch doing nothing but watch
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baseball for four straight days, so no complaints. It was
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my setup on Twitter got more traction of any post
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I'd ever posted on Twitter that wasn't like directly analyzing baseball,
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So people were appreciative of the setup. And one thing
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I will say, I just I thought about this earlier,
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and I want to mention this off top anyone that's
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watched as much baseball as I had this weekend and
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can probably relate, Like Jake, I think you've watched roughly
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as much as me, I would imagine you can probably
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relate to this. I think Miller Lte needs a new
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marketing strategy because I have seen that stupid Christopher walkin
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Miller Lte commercial two hundred times this weekend, and it
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does not make me want to buy a Miller light anymore.
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I think ESPN has run that commercial literally two hundred times.
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I can quote it word for word that I think
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my biggest takeaway from this weekend is not baseball related.
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It's Miller Lte needs a new marketing strategy.
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Speaker 6: I love it.
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Speaker 1: I'm all for dunking on major corporations wasting money.
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Speaker 6: On that advertise as hire that man.
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Speaker 1: Hatcha hire that man as a guy who spends a
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lot of his time working on marketing and advertising in
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the real world. Nothing burns me more.
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Speaker 5: And Josh, I'm glad you're that's going to be my
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day job starting in about a month, is helping someone
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work on marketing strategy. So so this is just a headstart.
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Speaker 1: Got a boy. I wanted to give you credit as well,
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really quickly. The Friday night stream, the Josh Solo stream
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was phenomenal. I haven't told you because I wanted to
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wait and tell you. I'm they are so proud of you.
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Thank you for doing that. I know the people enjoyed
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it as well. Great job. Thanks back from Europe. The
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man has got the European flair, he has got the
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quaft hair, he's seen Springsteen. He's living his life. The
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recent graduate of the University of North Carolina who, as
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a matter of fact, have clinched a super spot as well.
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It's mister j V Sebastiano JV.
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Speaker 6: Hello, Hey Drew, how you doing better.
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Speaker 1: Than I deserve? Man? We're happy to be seeing you
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and and you had the pleasure of getting to see
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up close and personal every game in the Chapel Hill Regional.
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Speaker 6: I did you know, thankfully, you know due to our
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lovely company. I got a nice little media pass, got
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a nice little cushy seat behind him plate in the shade,
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and got to watch every single inning in that regional,
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which is great, and got to see the first team clinch. Actually,
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so yeah, he's awesome.
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Speaker 1: That's very true. You did, and it was one that
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was very special to you. You're alma mater, the team
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you worked for, a team you're very near and dear too,
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the Pirates. Yeah, a little bit of that, sure, then
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a little bit of sweet revenge for several several others
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of us in this call. We will get to that,
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I'm quite sure. Joining us in the bottom left, it
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is coach, and as it were, I'm cheering for potentially
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a future head coach of a certain team. As we
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said earlier, it's coach Jake Barjorie Jake Hi.
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Speaker 7: As I wouldn't, I'm not. I'm not trying to be
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a head coach. I'll make I'll make that clear. I've seen,
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I've seen the I've seen the responsibilities of college head coaches,
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and at least right now, I really.
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Speaker 4: Don't want any part of it.
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Speaker 7: But uh, portal open today been super busy looking at
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all the every single name within like a six state
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radius of here.
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Speaker 1: Jake, you were telling me earlier that you were scouting
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a an infielder from Methodist University. Is that right?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, there's a guy that went in and he actually
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went in a few years ago.
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Speaker 4: I don't know how.
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Speaker 7: I don't know, I don't know how much he's played ball,
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but uh, I mean, he's got a spot on this
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team if he wants it.
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Speaker 5: I'll just say that there's a reason to stop playing
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college ball. I think I would imagine there's probably some
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underlying traits there that really, uh limited his abilities.
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Speaker 6: Someone flat bat path plus athlete. You know that.
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Speaker 1: I do not say.
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Speaker 5: Bat path. It says a double plus speed, and I
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was I think smooth glove actions. I think that's what
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it says, soft glove actions, dynamic athlete and double plus speed.
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I think that's there.
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Speaker 1: What was your Jake, what was your over under on
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time between getting a recording going with the two of
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them on here before one of them sent an attack
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at the other one, because I was at five and
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a half and I was actually.
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Speaker 7: Under Yeah, I mean, yeah, you're in the under. I'm
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not I'm really not shocked. It's been too long since
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we've talked, since we've talked to JB. And these two
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have been together, so I'm not I'm actually shocked we
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made it that.
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Speaker 6: Far and one of us wasn't with his family at
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the regionals.
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Speaker 5: Say that it started. He brought up JB's playing career.
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If you're gonna give me a softball like that. Sorry.
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Speaker 1: Anyhow, a lot of playing careers, at least at the
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college level, we've seen ended this weekend, guys, because with
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regional transition, sad, the hell of a sad transition. Forty
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eight teams Losers, Losers. I wish I had the sound
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effect to play there, and yet uh, several sixteen as
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a matter of fact, will keep going and we're going
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to break them down one by one. I'm gonna throw
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to you, guys. We're gonna get chatter in on each
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of the regions, but we do need to go ahead
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and get going. Jake, I know, for the college Daily
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sheet at Prospects Live dot com, you got to cover
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the Los Angeles Regional, and Buddy, it was historic. Second
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straight year we saw the number one seed who's in
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the regionals. So UCLA joins the notable, the distinguished Vanderbilt
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Commodores with that honor. What are the main takeaways for
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you from the LA Regional.
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Speaker 7: Jacob, Yeah, I mean this, I mean I got I
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got really lucky to get this one, and I was
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not really expecting this one to be probably the most
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interesting one of the weekend, but it obviously turned out
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to be. But I mean the biggest takeaway I had
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was was obviously from obviously the way cow Poly played, but.
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Speaker 4: Just their pitching in particular.
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Speaker 7: Like they played three games this weekend, one against bot
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Tech and two against Saint Mary's.
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Speaker 4: They avoided UCLA, but they.
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Speaker 7: Only they only allowed five total runs in those three games.
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Griffin Nace, Carson Turnquiz, Josh Vohmertin today Nick bond is
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just lights out at as that closer. Like again, like
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they didn't get to they didn't play UCLA, but they
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held the team that beat UCLA twice in Saint Mary's
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to just two runs. They averaged like eleven strikeouts per game,
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and the three that they played in just just just
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a masterclass on the mound for cal Poley, and that
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was obviously a huge reason why they won those three games.
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I Mean, they hit the ball too, but the way
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they performed on the mail was just awesome. And then
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for UCLA, I mean, I have one of my notes
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just like what happened because I can't I don't even
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really know what happened. Like each of their three games
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were decided by one run exactly, even the one they
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won against Virginia Tech. They needed some heroics from from Lavou,
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Roman Martin, Phoenix Call there at the end, Rock was
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just two for twelve on the weekend. Like they pitched
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the ball pretty well as a group, but it was
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just shocking to see how flat the lineup got at times.
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Like It's like I mentioned Roman Martin, he had he
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had a good weekend, but like he was kind of
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the only real consistent bat. And I mean, they were
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on a historic run and on their way to even
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more historic run, and it just came to a screeching halt.
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And I think we're all probably is still stunned that
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that happened that way.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say, I don't want to speak for
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these guys, but I would say I'm certainly stunned that
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it ended that way. And Jake, I'm glad you got
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to shout out. I was so looking forward to for
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the rest of the year calling him my boy. But
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then after you guys, you and Josh echoed the support
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for Nick bond in the last episode, I could now
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officially say he is college baseball now now's boy, He's
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our boy. Nick Bond Ka might as a closer, Jake.
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This guy is in fuego insane metrics on that fastball,
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one of the sickest heaters I can think of, and
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he's draft eligible as well. So jb your neck of
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the woods, la, Yeah gonna. I'm gonna task you with
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the mighty mighty goal of saying what happened with UCLA? Pal?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, Well, I guess I should start with this. My
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quote of the weekend for this regional is the regional
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of the meltdown. Everybody just seemed to melt down in
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this regional completely, Virginia Tech starting off with them, that
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was a complete meltdown. But I'll hit your question right away.
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Ucla it was just heartbreaking to watch, you know, Chilowski
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kind of fell flat for them, and then you know,
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the offense Hobnoestly, they looked like they were climbing an
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uphill battle from the start of every game, and it
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was kind of just a very strange thing to see,
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and I understand the Gasparino thing and then Redimen being out,
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but I don't think anybody in the country thought these
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guys being out is going to completely derail this entire
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regional for them, And it just did. The pitching, you know,
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despite you know, obviously a lot of power arms and
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a lot of stuff that we've all loved throughout the year,
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their guys just fell flat in the spots that they
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really needed him against Saint Mary's especially. You know, you
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watch the last couple winnings of those games, and their
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guys just couldn't make the last pitch, and it seemed
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like there was a lot of fastballs thrown at the end,
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you know, and a lot of fastballs thrown in the
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heart of the zone. It felt like it was given
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Saint Mary's a chance to really be scrappy and played
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to their strength of putting the ball in play. So
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I think that was kind of one of the downfalls
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for UCLA, that there weren't a lot of swinging miss
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pitches that were throwing lighton counts late in the games.
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But yeah, that's just a sad way to watch it
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go out. We were watching it, we had it on
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as I was sitting in the press conference in Chapel Hill,
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and we were all shocked.
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Speaker 1: Honestly, I found it doubt like you said, man, those
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late counts late. It was sketchy stuff all the way through.
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And I have I have to ask. The streets are
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saying that you and your California kenfolk were very pleased
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to see a three California team come down to the
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three California teams there. It all went according to play
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for you guys on the West coast there.
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Speaker 6: Right, Yeah, we loved it. All I gotta say is
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the Big West is still rocking, which Josh thought earlier
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in the year there is not a chance in hell.
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So they're still rocking and we're going we still got
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to go in here.
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Speaker 5: So hey, there's still some Belt team rolling too. We're
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tied one one right now.
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Speaker 6: I know we're tied, but we're still rocking.
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Speaker 1: So Josh, I'm glad you've chimed in because I want
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to touch base with you really quickly about Virginia Tech.
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They were the first team eliminated, but I know you
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got to see kind of them heat up and really
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kind of stamp their case with a really nice embossed
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beautiful stamp to say, hey, we're a tournament team in Charlotte.
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What happened with the with VA Tech?
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Speaker 5: Here man, the offense just fall fell apart straight up.
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I mean like it was partly in due part one
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of my light I'm losing on my words. It was
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partly due to the fact that they were facing two
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of the better pitching staffs they faced the entire year,
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which sounds weird to say about Polly, but Jake already
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touched on that they were just so lights out this weekend.
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Virginia Tech happened to face them on the Griffin Day start,
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which doesn't go well for many teams, but especially not
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against Virginia Tech. It was just inconsistency throughout, Like really
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the bottom of the lineup fell out a ton. But
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it was like even Ethan Gibson wasn't really great this weekend,
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Like Ethan Ball was all right, but not exactly what
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you'd expect and what you want from those kind of
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like talented guys, Like that's the big thing. It's just like,
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I guess Gibson did well against UCLA, but I mean
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it was just a lot of guys. If I can
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touch on UCLA for a minute here. I think this
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is part of what their issue was. You'll sense a
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theme here with later teams and what was the thing
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that was the driving force for pushing them through this
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regional and it was the stars showing up and showing
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out in a big way. And that didn't happen for
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Virginia Tech and it didn't happen for UCLA. The first
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game against Saint Mary's Rock and Muliva Lavo weren't great
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on the entire weekend. Rock really wasn't great. He was
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two for twelve in the entire weekend. Same thing with
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Virginia Tech. It was really just like the pitching wasn't bad.
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That can't really be where you point fingers. It's just
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the lineup, and that was kind of the concern going
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into it in a sense, but not to this extreme.
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Being held a seven runs over two games is kind
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of alarming. I think that that was probably a big
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part of it. Also, another UCLA thing I just want
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to point out before we move on. I don't think,
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like like JB said, I don't think the retamen injury
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and the Gasparino one game uh suspension, I don't think
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those were the reasons why they lost, per se, but
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like it put other guys into spots they're not used
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to and kind of shifted things around. But like Easton Hawk,
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for example, he was kind of in a role that
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he's typically in. Really like weird stack from him. Before
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this weekend that almost seemed like it wasn't real. He
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had allowed an earned run in twenty five straight appearances,
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and then he allowed an earned run in each of
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the three games he pitched in this weekend. I think
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it was just really all encompassing for how that team
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fell apart in front of our eyes. It's kind of sad, honestly.
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Speaker 6: Yeah. The one thing I'll add in about that hidden
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VT a little bit here. So we watched the ninth
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inning there and we saw Clement come in and I
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was sitting with two mid Atlantic scouts who was with me.
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Clement came in, He had an okay outing and we
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saw him walking. We're like, man, I don't really like
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this matchup. And he hung that curve ball to LaVoo
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and pounded it, and then we're like, for sure, he's
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got to be out of the game here, right with
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Roman Martin now hung fastball that one's hit out of
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the park. We're like, now, surely he's done. And as
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soon as Ethan Graham came through those doors, I swear
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to you, the guy next to me said, are they
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trying to lose the game or like, what are we
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doing here? And that's all I got to say on
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that The chef was not cooking the chef man, he
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wasn't cooking down there in LA. He was sending packing.
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But yeah, that's all I got. On VT. I had
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to let it out there. Ferris Way shout out to him.
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You know, me and him were texting about he's a
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VT guy. Yeah, bad stuff up.
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Speaker 1: Ferris at home, Josh, want to go to you here Atlanta.
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Another team that you definitely got to see your fair
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share of would have been Georgia Tech, and you know
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they had a shot. It all came down to this
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evening and yet no GT one and two both Dunsky,
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just like it was last year. What's the main takeaways
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from Atlanta?
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Speaker 5: I think there's a couple main takeaways from me really
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just I mean we talked about it with UCLA, but
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it's in a similar way. Just the collapse from Georgia
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Tech is the only way to describe it. They were
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up eight to two in the fourth yesterday and lost.
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They were up seven to three and the seventh today
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and lost. It wasn't even like a complacency thing. It
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was truly just like, I don't know what happened. It was.
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I mean, the pitching was the thing that we were
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concerned about from them all year, but also the bats
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went stagnant simultaneously, and that didn't help whatsoever. You have
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to give credit to Oklahoma and how well they performed
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to Jackson Cleveland today. Came in and absolutely shut Georgia
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Tech down three and two thirds at the end of
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that game. Didn't allow a single ear and run, no hits,
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four strikeouts against that lineup. It can't be overstated how
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impressive that is. Jackson Willets had a great weekend to
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nine for eighteen six RB. I mean, like also same
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thing with Georgia Tech Stars didn't fully show out. Von
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Lackey was zero for five today. Carson Curse was so
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reliable all the time and he was super consistent. So
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I hate for that guy to go out like that,
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like every time I saw him all through Charlotte, all
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through everything. I hate to see that guy go out.
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One thing too like just broader. I know, in college sports,
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we love upsets and these stories are like fun. A
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couple of years in a row, the one and two
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seeds both lost and that's fun because that's just you know,
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that's what makes the postseason fun. Can I say that
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I don't like this because I think that I, let know, listen,
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like I think a lot of people are not college
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baseball sickos like us, and they pick up on the
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sport and like O maha per se. And I don't
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think it's a hot take to say that UCLA and
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Georgia Tech are the two undisputed most talented teams in
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the country and they've been overwhelming the entire year. And
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these people that are just that just enjoy baseball and
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are picking up to watch this or don't get to
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watch those teams play it all this year. That just
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really stakes in my opinion. So like, I know, it's
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fun and I do enjoy it and seeing some of
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the matchups and the supers are fun, but like, I
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don't want to watch those teams stop playing, Like I
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enjoy myself watching UCLA and Georgia Tech play, you know.
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Speaker 1: One hundred percent, JB. That's that's kind of an interesting thought.
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I do want to kind of go to you on that,
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considering that the casual baseball fan, and that said with
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love on Josh's part, on my part, and on all
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of our part, the casual baseball fan who does kind
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of tune in now that we're kind of getting the
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Supers and to Omaha, they're gonna miss out on some
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very talented teams. I guess I guess she'd be the
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first thought is you know, that sucks, doesn't it? But
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then where does Oklahoma fit into that mix? They were
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definitely a surprise team who early in the season we
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were kind of like, hey, yeah, Oklahoma's a little bit
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undeniable at this point. Maybe it's some of that hot
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cold hot we were talking about.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, Oklahoma. I mean they played really well, and I
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feel like the thing that kind of gets Oklahoma to
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that point is Georgia Tech. I think the pitching was
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so faulted for them that it was just one of
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those things that it was bound to just break at
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one point. This Oklahoma team, I mean, I think they're
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very good. They it's kind of the hot cold hot
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thing you're talking about. I mean, they hit their stretches
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where they really get going, and I think it definitely
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helped them being in a spot where they won that
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game the night before, they're feeling, you know, pretty good
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about themselves. And then they had a couple of arms
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like Catalana three against US last year when we had
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them in the final game. So he's a good arm.
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They had some guys they could roll out there, and
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I think that's kind of what gave him the chance.
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They're compared to GT it was, you know, you had
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a ride Patel and then he couldn't go anymore, and
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then it was it was game over for them. But
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this Oklahoma team, I mean, they're gonna put up a
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good fight. And this the regional they're gonna have to
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play in, you know, against Kansas, there's a chance they
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could definitely win it and go to Omaha again. Kind
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of similar to back in the day when they went
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and they were in the championship final. But yeah, I mean,
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I think they're a good team. It's just sad not
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to see Georgia Tech though. I mean the Georgia Tech,
21:00
you know, they would be more of a superpower, like
21:03
Josh said, so I definitely agree. It's sad that you're
21:05
not gonna see Lackey or Burst or all these guys.
21:07
And I think it's gonna leave a lot of people,
21:09
especially in our community for the draft, wanting more. You know,
21:12
those guys. You wanted to see those guys play in
21:14
Omaha against like a UCLA with all those elite arms,
21:18
the Redamen and you know, these type of guys. And
21:20
I think that stuff does too for our game, not
21:23
to hit on it too much, but quickly. Like Redaiman,
21:25
I think it hurts his draft sockey. It's harder for
21:28
him to jump up the board like a gauge would
21:30
where you go and throw that no hitter in Omaha
21:33
and you know, really jump up the boards. I think
21:35
it kind of leaves some of these guys in more
21:36
of a murky ground with him and fluky and stuff
21:39
like that. So I don't know, it'll be interesting to see.
21:42
Speaker 1: I love that point. You're absolutely right, JB. I think
21:45
that their draft stock specifically is gonna be one of
21:47
the big sufferers for guys like Redamen. You know, even
21:51
though it's kind of I mean you reference Mason Pateel like,
21:54
I mean that stock is just kind of more shifty
21:57
at this anyway, Yeah, Jake, convenient they have not mentioned.
22:01
The other two teams who softball for you are mid
22:05
major expert Illinois Chicago and Citadel. Uh, two teams combined.
22:10
They won a grand total of one games in this
22:13
very difficult Atlanta regional. I know that the Citadel kind
22:16
of got a little bit of surprising amount of love
22:19
from you, me and Josh in our preview. Uh, they
22:22
did knock off Illinois Chicago, but Oklahoma just kind of
22:27
put the smack down on them twice.
22:28
Speaker 4: In a row.
22:30
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean this turned out to be a little bit,
22:32
a little bit more of a top heavy regional than
22:34
I guess we may have predicted.
22:36
Speaker 4: I guess based on our picks.
22:37
Speaker 7: We I think we all had Citadel in the in
22:40
the in the in the second place spot. But they
22:43
were but they were I mean, arguably, I guess besides
22:45
Georgia Tech.
22:46
Speaker 4: I mean, they.
22:46
Speaker 7: Were probably the hottest team coming into this. But I
22:50
mean for for us, I mean, they had they had
22:52
a pretty they had a pretty horrifying game, just to
22:55
put it like that against Georgia Tech to start, but
22:58
they did play well again to Citadel and their second one,
23:01
Ashton Campa had a couple of home runs in that
23:03
one for him, but uh for Citadel, I mean I
23:05
wonder how like Michael Gibson, Uh, he's he's he's a
23:08
lot of fun to watch. He's he's a good ball player.
23:11
He had a lot of a lot of a lot
23:12
of plays out there were just or he just made
23:15
hisself known on the field.
23:17
Speaker 1: Uh.
23:17
Speaker 7: Just that Citadel offense, like you mentioned, just wasn't able
23:20
to wasn't able to keep up with Oklahoma's.
23:22
Speaker 4: And and just one note for Oklahoma.
23:24
Speaker 7: I think everybody kind of talked about it a little
23:26
bit here and there, but like, you know, they they
23:28
ran into some you know, their their offense was obviously
23:30
really good in this in this regional, but like they
23:33
ran into some homers and they're not like traditionally that
23:37
home run hitting team like you know, Dayton. The chance
23:40
Brendan Brock uh Dayton Hockey's home run today I had
23:43
to go at least seven hundred and fifty feet. I mean,
23:45
I don't I don't know how far Man was a
23:47
really far home run, but just the way that they
23:50
were hitting the ball so hard and so far like
23:52
they were, it was it was I mean, it was
23:55
obviously I don't want to say it came out.
23:57
Speaker 4: Of like nowhere completely.
23:58
Speaker 7: But like the way they hit the ball this weekend,
24:00
there's the fact that they were able to out hit
24:03
Georgia Tech, who has been the best offense pretty much
24:08
alone in the number one spot in the best offense
24:10
in the country all year. For Oklahoma to go into
24:13
their place and just out hit them straight up is
24:16
just really impressive.
24:17
Speaker 1: It absolutely was for sure. JB. Let's talk Athens, We'll
24:22
stick to the Peach state and talk about Uga. And
24:27
you know what, this one did not require a seventh game. Georgia,
24:31
they laid the smack down. If I can continue borrowing
24:34
the Rocks vernacular all weekend long, combined thirty runs out
24:40
of these bulldogs, JB.
24:43
Speaker 6: They did, yeah, and for them it was It was
24:45
really an impressive showing for Georgia. Liberty try to put
24:48
up their best fight going through the bracket, which I
24:51
think for some of us, I think it was a
24:52
little bit of a I predicted, but I think some
24:56
of us are more fans of the bird ball than others.
24:59
And BC they put up their best fight that they could,
25:03
but I just didn't. They ran out of magic. I
25:05
guess the best way to put it Liberty also put
25:09
up their best fight, but they just didn't stick up
25:11
to the town level that Georgia has. I mean, they
25:13
could keep rolling out arm after arm that they hadn't.
25:15
We talked about how they struggle to find that rotation
25:18
this year, but when you're playing against you know, teams
25:21
like that Liberty that they weren't really an offensive team
25:23
and when you roll out elite level arms like they have,
25:25
even if they've struggled throughout the year, like Matt Scott
25:28
had a wonderful outing for them. We saw Ioki again,
25:31
all those guys. They played well. And the one sad
25:34
thing I guess to note on for them is the
25:35
ejection of Wes Johnson and Trey Phelps. That's the biggest
25:39
thing that's going to hurt in that next game that
25:41
both of them will be out for a game. So
25:43
that'll be interesting to see in a super especially against
25:45
you know, Mississippi State. That's a big one that they're
25:48
going to have in Missing Phelps for the first game
25:49
will definitely hurt as he was the guy that got
25:51
the ball rolling in that last game for them. So yeah, overall,
25:55
I mean it was uga dominated like we kind of expected.
25:58
I guess, but the supers really where this regional might
26:02
take its head, and some effects will comfort because of
26:05
the ejection.
26:06
Speaker 1: I think so for sure, Josh, I want to go
26:08
to you because my favorite game to watch from this regional.
26:11
I had to cover this region for the Daily Sheet. Josh,
26:14
I'm not sure if you were aware of that. I
26:16
like Game one, man, you got the classic duel Ben
26:19
Blair and Colo Russo. Incredible performance, both of them, quality
26:23
starts in my book, all day long, lots of strikeouts,
26:26
Ben Blair broke a guy's back, crazy stuff in Game one. Josh,
26:31
I'd love it if you could give us a quick
26:33
rundown on both Liberty and BC. What your thoughts were
26:35
on them from this region.
26:37
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think they're both performed about two standard, I
26:40
would say. I mean, like from Game one that you
26:45
particularly talked about. I mean, Ben Blair lived up to
26:48
everything we imagine colorusso didn't look great, but he got
26:52
us in spots, going seven innings, but he allowed a
26:56
lot of runners, but he got himself out of those
26:59
tough spots, always with the punch out, but it was
27:02
in different ways. He like he showed what he's been
27:04
doing all year. Kind of can of fruition, but it
27:06
seemed to not really matter. Unfortunately, Jordan Jeff and Jackson
27:11
Swardson were really good in those games too. I know
27:13
it was like Josh Campos had a phenomenal catch at
27:15
the end of that game to early cap it off.
27:17
It was a fun one in that first slate of Jeez,
27:20
that feels like a month ago. I think it was
27:22
wake Forest, Kentucky. And then that uh TENNESSEECU, Yeah, unfortunate,
27:28
Yeah that was. That was the fourteen inning thirteen or
27:31
fourteen inning four fourteen inning ECU Tennessee game.
27:34
Speaker 1: So yeah, that was.
27:36
Speaker 5: It was awesome. Uh good end of the season for Liberty.
27:39
You know, Regional final is about better than they would
27:43
have expected to start the year, and it still overperforms
27:46
the three seed the committee gave them, and especially the
27:49
last four end placement that the committee gave them. So
27:51
I think it's still props with them.
27:54
Speaker 1: I love your point on col Russo, Josh. In the
27:56
Daily Sheet, my exact writing was aj Colarusso pitched like
28:00
peanut butter because that man was attracted to the jam.
28:04
You feel me playing all right, Jake. I want to
28:07
go to you because JB. Mentioned kind of the unfortunate
28:10
bits with Georgia. Uh, the offense though, really really rolled.
28:15
I know there were several two homer performances over the
28:18
course of the day. Obviously, you know we had the
28:21
delay for Game two that made that a Saturday game technically.
28:25
But what stood out offensively for you, Jake, For Georgia.
28:29
Speaker 7: Specifically, I mean it was it was kind of more
28:33
more of what they've just been just they've.
28:34
Speaker 4: Been doing all year.
28:35
Speaker 7: I mean they hit, they hit home runs, like, they
28:37
hit nine home runs against against Long Island. A really
28:41
really tough weekend for the Sharks. But yeah, George, they hit.
28:45
They hit a lot of homers. I think that, like
28:47
I said, they hit nine against Long Island. They had
28:50
all six of their runs in the second game, I
28:52
think all were driven in by homers. I'm not sure
28:56
off the top of the had how many they hit
28:57
in the third one. But yeah, I mean the third
29:00
game it was and it was their like least explosive
29:04
I guess the offense that we saw in that third game.
29:06
But like JB talked about k Naoki, you know he
29:09
got that he got the start and he went six innings.
29:12
Striker struck out eleven guys one run, like they have
29:15
to feel good. I know they're going they were going
29:16
against Liberty, Like JB also said, they're not the most
29:19
not not the most electric offense, that that's really not
29:22
doing their game this year. But like going to Aoki
29:25
knowing that he can get them go out and perform
29:29
that well against a game that you know, this didn't
29:31
have like the ultimate hype I guess because they were
29:34
Georgia was just kind of rolling through everything. But uh,
29:37
just just for him to be able to go out
29:38
there put up that performance in the championship environment, they
29:41
have to feel good about that as well.
29:45
Speaker 6: Yeah, and one one last thought, I guess there will
29:47
be something to fall from this regional that I know
29:49
is a storyline's kind of ruined right now South Carolina.
29:52
Obviously that job's open. Todd Energnado is a name that's
29:56
been floated heavily there with the resources and everything from
30:00
BC going back home with Wafford for a long time
30:02
sixteen years. Rumored to be two and a half million
30:06
for a head guy and one and a half million
30:08
for assistance to bring in there, so crazy money stuff
30:12
they're trying for schanall too but inner Donado is like
30:15
the name that's floated the most, is like the realistic option.
30:17
So something to fall out of this, but that.
30:20
Speaker 5: Makes sense at this point. I don't think Schanall is
30:22
going I think Enter Donado before even like things started
30:25
to come out, it made the most sense, and that
30:27
was the name a lot of people were talking about.
30:29
And it just kind of seems like that's coming to fruition,
30:32
which might not sound to South Carolina fans like flashy name,
30:35
but that would be a phenomenal higher great.
30:38
Speaker 1: Highre Jake Boston College job may be available. Keep your
30:41
eyes with anyway, let's move on, josh I know that
30:45
you had a very close eye too, very close eyes
30:49
as it were, on the finale of the Auburn Regional.
30:52
This is going to bring us to you, sir. You
30:54
do your thing. We're here to hear about the Auburn Regional.
30:57
Speaker 5: Joshua, what a weekend? I mean, like it did not
31:01
need to be all this. There were the weirdest things
31:03
that happened in Auburn this weekend, the most rain to
31:07
ever rain, and yet four days of baseball got played.
31:11
There was local baseball at one am, fifteen pitch at bats.
31:15
There was a home run that went off someone's head
31:17
and bounced out like The Auburn region was just super
31:20
funky and it did not need to be all that.
31:23
Going into the weekend, we thought one of the easiest
31:26
regionals should be not necessarily a cakewalk. But Auburn handled
31:31
the regional at home as the number four overall seed
31:33
last year relatively with ease, winning every game by I
31:37
think three plus runs might have been four plus runs.
31:40
This year was not the case. There are some signs
31:43
stealing allegations out there about Milwaukee, which kind of makes
31:46
sense considering they scored thirteen runs in the first couple
31:49
of games and then combined for four and the last
31:52
two I think is the numbers, so kind of makes sense.
31:55
But nonetheless, it was a fun Cinderella story. Auburn was
32:01
the offense came through so much this weekend, and it
32:04
was the stars that showed out one pretty much from
32:07
each year level you could talk about kind of stuck out.
32:11
The freshman Ethan dinghaman nine for twenty on the weekend
32:14
with four home runs, two doubles, eight RBIs, and two walks.
32:19
Junior Cad Bleu six for sixteen with three home runs,
32:22
a double, six RBI and two walks. He'd only had
32:25
one home run the entire year prior to this, and
32:28
he had three this weekend. He hadn't even played a
32:30
ton this week I mean this year, so it was
32:33
kind of shocking that he was in the lineup, him
32:35
and Trevor Belza. But he made it and he made
32:39
himself known. But let me tell you, folks, the hottest
32:42
player in the United States of America right now is
32:46
Chase fraylok indisputably this weekend. He was nine for twenty
32:51
two with six home runs over the weekend, two doubles,
32:57
fifteen RBI, Auburn regional record or Auburn record for any
33:02
regional actually in three walks, also a stat This just
33:07
sounds ridiculous. I gotta make sure I say it. Wow,
33:11
I can't talk. I have to make sure I say
33:13
this correctly. He is the first player in the twenty
33:17
first century to have two separate five five game home
33:24
run streaks. So he has had a home run in
33:26
five straight games at two separate points in the season.
33:29
It has not happened in a year where it started
33:31
with the two ridiculous I mean, like the I mean
33:36
the Auburn fans. The Auburn family showed out. It was
33:38
awesome this weekend. That stadium was rocking. They set a
33:41
record tonight for a single game of attendance and most
33:44
beer sold in a game at playing Swim Park. So
33:47
shout out to him. Almost got to five thousand beer sold.
33:49
Speaker 6: That's good stuff, Josh with two ESPN stats in the
33:52
first five minutes of him talking. Right there, you know,
33:54
we got right there.
33:56
Speaker 5: Actually I have I can get hold up the exact
33:59
beer number. Forty there were go oh wait, we booke
34:02
the number for hot dogs sold. To look at that
34:06
records being broken everywhere. Part of the attendance thing is
34:09
but yeah, part of the attendance thing is just a
34:12
cool thing that's probably not going to get mentioned, but
34:14
I think it's cool, just as an Auburn thing. The
34:20
all the coaches for like various sports or like. Butch
34:24
Thompson said today that he was going to pay for
34:26
the first five hundred student tickets to come into the stadium,
34:29
so all the first five hundred students that would click
34:31
on this link would get in for free.
34:33
Speaker 1: And then.
34:36
Speaker 5: Alex Golish, Steven Pearl, Larry Vickers, the women's basketball coach,
34:40
Chris Malvo, the softball coach, all piled on and bought
34:42
like one hundred tickets of their own, so pretty much
34:44
every student got in for free tonight. That was cool,
34:47
but the environment was rocking ready for Olemiss to come
34:51
to town. That's going to be an interesting one sec matchup.
34:54
But yeah, the offense was lights out. Chase Frelik, you
34:57
are my hero, and we'll see if we can take
35:01
it in the next weekend. The same thing happened last
35:03
year and got swept at home, so let's hope we
35:05
don't have a repeat of that.
35:07
Speaker 1: Wow, I'm in this place to leave it. Josh crazy work. Yeah,
35:11
Chase Freylerk responsible for thirty percent of Auburn's runs. Impressive
35:17
stuff feels like it feels like more. Yeah, I think
35:20
I might have done that math wrong, but I'm a
35:22
word man, not a number man, so I'll leave that
35:25
to one of your number people. JB gets you a
35:28
swig of water because I'm coming to you to talk
35:30
about NC State drop two games. They scored thirteen in
35:34
that second one where Auburn kind of you know, decided
35:37
to bully them around. But nine to three to UCF,
35:40
I would have said, personally, n C State was far
35:43
and away my choice for the better team here versus UCF.
35:47
And yet no, no, I don't think so what happened
35:51
with with NC State JB.
35:53
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, I'll start that off with and that's shocked
35:55
to hear that from our big twelve truth there, because
35:58
as our acc truther, I would have not gone in
36:00
that direction at all, and as you saw my pick
36:02
that they were not there for a reason. This Wolfpack
36:06
team didn't belong in in the first place. It was
36:08
the retirement tour is what got them in in the
36:11
first place. Their top two arms were out money and
36:16
had a third out at that point. Dudan and Marone
36:21
both not there, so that's an automatic you're in a
36:24
bad spot. And then from there it was just basically
36:29
a mess of a weekend. It looked like they weren't prepared,
36:31
like they didn't really think they were going to make
36:33
it there, and then they ended up there. And to
36:36
cap it off, the funniest part is their early and
36:38
rollie freshman Eli Cirano's younger brother Christian, goes up there,
36:43
strikes out on a pitchclock time violation, and even gets
36:46
to send himself off into the sunset yelling at the
36:48
umpires off the field, trying to get thrown out one
36:50
more time. So I can't write it up any better
36:53
as a Carolina fan. Send him Pack in arguing with
36:56
the umpires and basically they just put him in too
36:59
embarrass himself. So that was kind of a sad story.
37:02
I said, they should just let him go out in
37:03
peace before they put him in for that. But yeah,
37:06
poor wolf Pack man. I mean, you know you, I
37:09
would say you feel bad, but really don't. But yeah,
37:11
it's shame, honestly, a shame for a guy's had such
37:15
a great career. That's that's how it went out.
37:17
Speaker 1: Absolutely, Jake, I want to come to you because we
37:20
we glossed over it. But one of the cinderellas of
37:23
the whole tournament was Milwaukee. Obviously Josh kind of alluded
37:27
to it. There may be some controversy piddling around here
37:31
with Milwaukee, but still a four seed coming out of
37:35
relative obscurity in nearly every sense of that word. Man,
37:40
they made it to a region final, they beat the host,
37:43
they beat UCF, These are big wins. What do you
37:46
think the future looks like for Milwaukee, man?
37:50
Speaker 7: I mean, from from a future standpoint, I don't I mean,
37:53
I don't, I don't know, but I mean that this weekend,
37:55
I mean this weekend, regardless of if they were stealing
37:58
signs or whatever it was. I mean, if you're not cheating,
38:00
you're not trying, you know, you know what I mean.
38:02
But like they they scored, They scored a lot of
38:05
runs in those first two games, like Josh talked about,
38:07
and like Charlie, Charlie Marion, Grant Ross Delan O'Connell. They
38:11
put together some really fun performances. That top three, that
38:14
order was was was making some making some big splashes
38:17
in those first two games. They also got some good pitching.
38:20
Eric Eric mke in that in that U c F game,
38:23
he he pitched, He pitched pretty well. They made some
38:26
you know, they just they just made some noise this weekend.
38:28
In my opinion, maybe maybe not Josh is as much
38:31
at the beginning of the weekend, but uh, it made
38:33
it made a lot of fun, a lot of time,
38:34
a lot of fun to watch. And like he talked about,
38:39
you talked about the concessions, sal sales.
38:42
Speaker 4: You bring a team from Wisconsin and.
38:45
Speaker 7: You get weather all weekend, you're gonna sell a lot
38:48
of beer and hot dogs. So you had you had
38:50
the right crowd to do that.
38:51
Speaker 5: Fair enough, I lived there for all last summer. I
38:54
can attest to this that they will they will drink,
38:58
that they.
38:59
Speaker 1: Will speaking of drinking out of things, Uh, Tennessee got
39:03
absolutely back broken. Uh so jb uh. I'm gonna leave
39:08
with you here because you got to see all of
39:10
these games. I would love it if you could walk
39:12
us through the Chapel Hill Regional. You were there, you
39:14
got to see it. What's the major takeaway? Because I
39:18
have several thoughts I want to get them from you first.
39:21
Speaker 6: Yeah, so we'll walk through it. The first game of
39:23
the day we thought was never gonna end. Honestly, it
39:26
was a fourteen inning marathon, back and forth battle between
39:30
the scrappy pirates that we all talked about and your
39:33
volunteers and the volunteers we thought they were out of it.
39:37
Three to two ball game. It got to a point
39:39
where Davin whitakerated the huge homer or I think it
39:41
was two two. Actually it was two to one. Whittaker
39:45
at the homer for ECU, and then Henry Ford backs
39:47
against the wall, hit the mammoth moonshot and That's when
39:50
I thought, you know, Tennessee's gonna win this thing, like
39:52
they they got their mojo back. But it just wasn't
39:56
meant to be the pirates. You know, Tennessee scored ECU
40:00
truck right back then, right after that squeeze, and it
40:04
was game over. After the squeeze, it was just kind
40:06
of downhill for the volunteers. So sadly Appenzeller, they brought
40:10
him in supposed to be the secret weapon. He the
40:12
first doubting. He just didn't have it, and EASU got
40:15
the w Then we moved on to the Nightcap. Obviously,
40:18
Ryan Lynch stellar performance, seven strong innings from him. The
40:23
UNC offense did its thing and they're up three to
40:27
nothing for a while, put up four extras later on
40:29
in the game. They take that game, and then we
40:32
move on to the Tennessee elimination game against Virginia Commonwealth,
40:37
where Elias Holbert had the game of his life, punching
40:40
out ten dudes, his career high for him in Tennessee,
40:43
they just they couldn't figure it out. So poor volunteers.
40:47
I know, Teagan Koon's had the flu. He went out there.
40:49
He battled for sure, but Tennessee's offense just couldn't figure
40:53
it out. And after the game I did go down
40:56
there and watch the press conference. Coach e Lander kind
41:00
of looked like he was a deer in headlights. Loss
41:02
for words. But right after that they had to bounce back.
41:06
UNC played ECU that first game. De Caro got knocked
41:10
around a little bit, three and two thirds three earned
41:13
for him, but Kaden Glauber came in and was great
41:15
as usual, four and a third strong with eight punchouts
41:19
to put down the Pirates. Next day, EASU came back
41:22
beat VCU ten to nothing, and after that EASQ was
41:26
just simply out of pitching, and we got into that
41:29
last game and they just didn't have anything left. Folger
41:33
Bowaz three and a third strong, Jackson Rose closed out
41:36
with four strong innings and McDuffie came in between. So
41:39
tar Heels recruising it was. It was probably the easiest
41:42
regional winning. The fun fact, it was actually the first
41:44
time in Forbes' tenure that they swept out a regional,
41:47
and the first time since twenty nineteen we've swept out
41:49
a regional. We've always had to go to the Monday game.
41:52
But as Eric Paulson said, I'll leave it at this.
41:55
Everybody said it was the region of death, but it
41:57
was the region of death for everybody else. So yeah,
42:01
it was a good weekend for the Eels.
42:03
Speaker 1: Oh, I really liked it, Eric Parson for a long time. Awesome.
42:07
Uh kidding, that's actually a super hard quote, Josh. I
42:11
want to go to you and I'm gonna ask uh
42:14
East Carolina VCU A couple of really really strong games
42:20
from these two teams. I'm curious man, focusing on those
42:23
two squads specifically, what stands out as being most impressive
42:27
from either team.
42:30
Speaker 5: I'd say ECU. I mean, like even making it there
42:33
that I thought there's not a chance to be the
42:35
year where like, you know, you don't expect EACU to
42:39
finally make that Omaha run, and it was looking like
42:42
they had a chance to finally do it. So they
42:44
put together some competitive games and didn't pan out that way.
42:48
But it is what it is VCU. I think most
42:51
of most in particular, we kind of talked about this
42:54
Elias Holbert, but they kept saying Eli on the broadcast.
42:57
I don't know if the as is silent or something,
43:00
but regardless, he had a really really strong performance this
43:04
weekend against Tennessee. I'm sure y'all are well aware of that.
43:08
We were kind of talking amongst ourselves. He probably worked
43:10
his way into some senior sign territory for the draft purposes.
43:14
He was really he was really impressive as a whole.
43:18
It was gonna be tough for either of these teams
43:20
to get out of the regional anyway, but nonetheless stolid
43:27
showing from VCU not being the fourth place team in
43:29
this region. Honestly, East Carolina, I know, like, there's no
43:34
moral victories here, losing the Carolina twice in a weekend
43:37
and being like not making it out of Chapel Hill.
43:39
With the way that rivalry is, there are no moral victories.
43:43
But I thought this had the chance to be the
43:45
year that Cliff Godwin. That kind of sneaks out, especially
43:48
after that first game against Tennessee. Although honestly, shout out
43:51
to them for working their way kind of competitively into
43:55
games with how weird that pitching staff situation got because
43:57
they were throwing Norby out there in relief and towers
44:00
a couple of times in a couple of days just
44:02
to start, so they were kind of running low and
44:04
they were trying not the same dudes in there in
44:06
odd spots and worked worked out for a little bit
44:09
until it did and it all came crashing down. But
44:12
you know, Regional final overperformed their seed good enough, I guess.
44:17
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with you, Jake. I'm gonna leave this
44:21
to you to talk about Tennessee. I can't think of
44:25
anybody better, So I'd love it if you could break
44:28
down our valls give your thoughts on them to wrap
44:32
up the twenty twenty sixth season for Tennessee.
44:36
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean this was just I mean, this was
44:38
just a disappointing performance. But Tennessee, I mean I think
44:41
they were the only the only SEC team this weekend
44:43
to goh to two. Evan Blanco great, he deserves a
44:49
lot of recognition for his for his performance seven innings,
44:52
one run aloud, But unfortunately, like JB said, that was
44:56
only half the game that he pitched. Tennessee didn't have
44:58
a pitcher in that game going to that game that
45:03
didn't allow a run at some point. Henry Ford obviously
45:06
came up massive uh with with the big home run
45:09
and the ninth Grimmer came through a couple of times
45:11
with with RBI hits and in that thirteenth inning homer.
45:14
But like, besides that, Trent Rindlinger had had two hits.
45:18
Nobody else in fourteen innings had multiple hits besides him. Uh,
45:22
and the and the ones that I that I mentioned,
45:26
I don't know, Like in the second game against PCU,
45:29
I mean, shout out Eli Hobert. I guess is his name. Uh,
45:32
he was good. Zach Peters was really good out of
45:35
the pen. But for Tennessee, obviously something was wrong with
45:38
Tiking Koons. Apparently he had he had the flu or something,
45:41
but that was just not the same Coons that we've
45:44
seen this past month as well as he's been pitching.
45:48
That was just not the same guy. The bats were
45:50
still asleep Reech Chapman, Stone Lawless Homer, but you know,
45:54
they just didn't put together a full offensive performance in
45:57
either of those two games. And it was just I mean,
46:00
I don't want to leave it on a negative note,
46:01
but it was just it was just disappointing to watch.
46:03
As I thought they were, they were really hot. I
46:05
thought they were trending up coming into this regional and
46:08
you know, it just it just wasn't the case.
46:11
Speaker 6: Throwing to Elander those are sec arms though, so don't
46:14
worry about it. So okay, guys, okay.
46:19
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, And to not leave it on a negative note, Jake,
46:22
because I'm with you there. Of all the teams to
46:24
go to and Q so to say, I think that
46:29
Tennessee's the run differential was very short. I think I
46:33
might have told you guys this. I saw that stat
46:34
where Tennessee was five runs. I think the next closest
46:38
was Missouri State at maybe eight or nine. So I
46:41
take a lot of solace in that. Of all the
46:42
teams to kind of get, you know, first eliminated from
46:45
their fields, Tennessee played the closest games, which in the
46:48
moment I certainly didn't feel like they were close games.
46:51
I felt like it was one hundred run deficit at
46:55
all times. Just insane pressure during those and crazy crazy stuff.
47:00
Speaker 6: But in the building, I'll say if it felt like
47:03
they were one hit away both games, I felt like
47:05
they were one hit away and it was just they
47:07
couldn't get there.
47:08
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean that's you guys said it. You
47:12
you have all these bats who you know, so few
47:15
of them with multiple hits. That's that's what you're going
47:18
to have.
47:18
Speaker 4: Happened.
47:18
Speaker 1: So either way, Uh, crazy stuff in Chapel Hill, JB.
47:23
Glad you were there to see all of it. There's
47:24
some great articles at Prospects Live dot com if you
47:26
want to see some more of JB's thoughts on that. Anyway, Jake,
47:30
let's move on from the real UT to the fake
47:32
UT Austin. What have they got going on? Man? Because
47:36
they had a lot of Texas teams as well as
47:38
the Gauchos joining them in Austin. What's your major takeaway
47:42
is is Texas defends their turf.
47:46
Speaker 7: Yeah, we didn't get the you know, we didn't get
47:48
the Jackson Flora versus Texas matchup that we were that
47:50
we were really all looking forward to. But I mean
47:53
this this regional I mean it was fun. Nonetheless, you know,
47:55
the Texas they did what they were supposed to do
47:57
against totally Cross on Friday. They didn't miss run and
48:00
bit and that one. They also did what they were
48:02
supposed to do against Tarlaton. I mean, I kind of
48:04
like Tarlaton coming into it, but Texas, Texas didn't miss
48:08
rounding that one either. So just just getting straight, just
48:10
getting straight to Sunday Rugary. Ohas pitched and he pitched
48:14
really well. Kelun Montgomery was also good on the on
48:18
the U C. S B side, But that that that
48:20
gaucho line up, they got everything that Texas had to
48:24
offer on the Mount Riojas to a few to Crossland,
48:29
to Walker to I mean the Burns, Cozart, Luke Harrison
48:32
closed it like they were throwing every single guy that
48:35
they had available to throw, and they did not want
48:37
to risk this, uh, this getting getting going going any.
48:40
Speaker 4: Other day longer.
48:42
Speaker 7: There was also a ton a lot of big offensive
48:45
performances in those first two you know, blowout games, but
48:48
it was you know, it was Aiden Robbins that came
48:49
through with the big with the big go ahead homer
48:52
in this one to get Texas uh over over out
48:57
of this region one onto a super but uh also
49:00
real quick because I don't know that anyone else is
49:02
going to have a ton to say about holy Cross.
49:04
I feel for him. You know that the two starters
49:08
that they had to face were Luke Harrison and Jackson Flora.
49:11
And and to come from the Patriot League and go
49:14
straight into a regional and see those two arms, I mean,
49:17
just a really tough draw for him. Ryan Grundy congrats.
49:21
He got the home run for Holy Cross off of
49:23
Jackson Flora, So I'm sure he'll remember that one.
49:25
Speaker 4: For for quite some time.
49:27
Speaker 7: But you know, they were they were just they were
49:28
just overmatched, especially on the pitching side. You can almost
49:32
see it coming coming into it. It was just a really
49:34
tough draw for the for the Crusaders.
49:37
Speaker 6: Definitely not to hit on it too, but knowing that
49:39
they were in our regional last year. They got the
49:42
a SEC Pitcher of the Year last year for game one.
49:44
So Holy Cross has drawn a pretty bad luck.
49:49
Speaker 1: They're gonna come in and they're gonna face some pitching.
49:50
We know that much for sure.
49:52
Speaker 4: Jab.
49:53
Speaker 1: I want to go to your another of your specialties,
49:55
beyond you and see beyond that kind of stuff. I
49:57
want to talk about California teams so love them, including
50:00
one we'll talk about here in a little bit in
50:02
another Texas regional offense showed up for Santa Barbara in
50:07
this regional. Man, I'm curious kind of what was your
50:09
thoughts on how UCSB performed through the regional. Obviously, you
50:13
know we knew what Flora was gonna do whenever he
50:16
came out, and boy did the offense back him up
50:19
and that entire pitching staff of this region.
50:23
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's kind of I feel like it could have
50:25
gone a different way if that Game one was different.
50:28
I think the Game one is really what kind of
50:30
screwed them in this regional and you know, Triba and
50:33
Prosky kind of went out there and they didn't have
50:34
their best outings of the year and that kind of
50:36
set them back. But you know, Flora dominated after that,
50:40
of course, and beyond that then the next game, Nathan
50:43
and Sevius had to really get outing too. So it's
50:45
kind of one of those things that's really unfortunate because
50:47
by the time they got to the championship game, they
50:49
kind of just were running out of steam. They didn't
50:51
have anything left, and it was one of those things
50:55
where they had the lead for a while. Montgomery was
50:57
pretty much the only arm that they had that was
51:00
one of their normal guys that was left over here
51:03
they get put out there. So Montgomery threw a gem
51:06
and once Montgomery was done, it was kind of like,
51:08
where do we go from here. It's our pick and
51:10
choose the guys with over five the arras that we've
51:13
used some this year, and that's what they had to
51:16
go to so Yeah, it was unfortunate. You know, they
51:18
look great for a little bit in that game. You know,
51:20
they looked like they had a chance, and the offense
51:22
broke through kind of late to make it close again.
51:24
But Santa Barbi, they're impressive, but Texas had just there's
51:28
too much to handle.
51:29
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, and that what a wonderful transition. Josh, you
51:32
were doing some research earlier and you you said it
51:35
kind of the piggybocker fort Jake said a minute ago.
51:37
Tons of offensive explosions for Texas, but the one I
51:41
want to ask you about, Josh, We're not looking at
51:43
twenty six or twenty seven. I want to talk Anthony
51:45
Pack junior buddy. What happened there?
51:48
Speaker 5: Well, he went five for eleven this weekend with four
51:51
home runs, seven RBI and three walks. I would say
51:55
that's a half decent performance if you ask me that
52:00
kids put himself in early high first Round Conversations twenty
52:05
twenty eight. The guy he walks to the super high clip.
52:08
He has great bat to ball to be his age,
52:11
I mean he's great in the field. I mean it's
52:14
like above average run time athletic guy. I think he's
52:17
really put himself in an early category for that. But
52:19
I mean it's great to see Texas have guys at
52:23
all levels be able to do that at all ages.
52:26
I mean, they got Valantis next year. It's a great
52:28
twenty seven guy, Robbins and Tenny twenty six guys this year,
52:32
and then Packer is a twenty eight guy, and whoever
52:35
else they decide to pick up in the portal because
52:36
inevitably we know what's gonna happen. Because there's so many
52:39
interesting portal entry names that have been happening or have
52:42
been coming out so far. You know a lot of
52:44
them are going to be Longhorns, so by the fact,
52:47
a lot of fun stuff. But it's good for them
52:48
to see for the team right now.
52:50
Speaker 1: For what it's worth too. As you alluded to earlier,
52:52
as we were chatting several who are already used to
52:55
playing in Texas, potentially.
52:59
Speaker 5: It's late. I'm blank, I know who, No way, no who?
53:03
Speaker 6: Who?
53:03
Speaker 1: Do you see you guys?
53:05
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, I'm when I brought it up, it's late.
53:08
I don't know. My brain isn't working. I would imagine
53:11
they will get one of the TSU guys, probably because
53:14
as we've learned, big figures in college baseball don't have
53:18
a problem going from a large Texas school to the
53:21
University of Texas, So I'll just put that out there.
53:24
Speaker 1: Yeah, some scumbacks in Texas every way. Uh uh, let's
53:30
talk about test schoolers, man, because this was a regional
53:33
where I think a lot of us wanted there to
53:36
be some upset potential here and there, and just at
53:39
every stop it seems like nothing was really doing. Alabama
53:43
kind of had their foot on three simultaneous throats all weekend.
53:47
Speaker 6: Yeah, they did Oklahoma State, I think was our favorite.
53:51
Picked upset there. Oklahoma State. You know last year they
53:55
upset Uga, so it kind of felt like a fitting,
53:58
you know, come back to an SEC team that we
54:00
thought was kind of sputtering, YadA YadA type of deal,
54:03
but just didn't work out that way. Alabama they put
54:06
a stomp down on their HBCU little brother in the
54:09
first game, so that one was not pretty. Upstate got
54:13
a nice little upset upset, and I think that kind
54:16
of threw Oklahoma State off from the get go. I
54:18
think that's what kind of screwed him, just like we
54:20
talked about with Santa Barbara. But Alabama played a tight
54:23
one with Upstate, but once Upstate was out of pitching,
54:25
it was kind of game over for them. Alabama, obviously,
54:28
even though they're not our favorite SEC program, they got
54:31
a lot more talent than USC Upstate is going to
54:33
be able to bring in, So that one went through,
54:35
and then obviously after that, Oklahoma State, through the losers bracket,
54:39
finds their way in the championship game. Played a tight
54:41
game with Alabama, but they just couldn't really get it
54:43
all together. They were playing from behind most of the game,
54:45
and even when they closed the gap, Alabama found a
54:48
way to scratch and claw to get another one. So
54:50
Alabama they find their way through. We'll see more justin
54:53
Lebron sadly, but you know see how it goes.
54:59
Speaker 1: Whoa, wait, don't get Georgia Tech. We don't get UCLA.
55:03
Let's watch justin Lebron. Yipie, Josh, Tuscalusa, you love all
55:08
things Alabama. What was your major takeaway from Tuscalusa, Bud?
55:13
Speaker 5: How on earth they're gonna end up getting a draw
55:16
to go to Omaha of Oklahoma State, USC, Upstate, Alabama State,
55:20
and Saint John's that's Alabama's path too, Omaha. Whereas like
55:25
I seem like Ole Miss for example, I know one seed,
55:28
but just like they're gonna have to go through Nebraska,
55:30
Arizona State, and Auburn, Like come on, now, I'm not
55:34
Obama hasn't made it to Omaha in I think twenty
55:37
seven years and so like, sure does that program if
55:42
I'm taking the blinders off, does that program deserve one
55:44
trip in that span? Probably? Sure, But just the being
55:48
this way is irritating a little bit. I thought Oklahoma
55:52
State was gonna have a chance there at the end,
55:54
or they did have a chance. I thought, like my
55:56
boy Alex Conover and Garrett Shulman kept having opportunity, and
56:00
they almost had. They almost came through at the end.
56:02
It was really scary at the end there yesterday, but
56:05
they couldn't pull through. We do have to give credit
56:07
where it's due. Justin Lebron had like a pretty solid
56:09
weekend six hits, two home runs, six RBI. Good for
56:14
at this point his standards in terms of college production,
56:17
Like it's betting three seventy five it would be on
56:21
the weekend. Is good for him. Bryce Faller in a
56:24
pretty good weekend. Zane Adams had a good Saturday, went
56:27
six innings didn't allow our earn run kept finding himself
56:30
in really tough spots. We kept weaving his way out
56:32
of them. That was good from him. The starting rotation
56:35
is what we kind of figured would be. What was
56:37
the driving force and that team if they were gonna
56:40
end up winning the regional. The offense seemed to be
56:43
the main point. Oh, the pitching was still really good. Granted,
56:47
USC Upstate in Alabama State aren't exactly the offenses that
56:50
are you know, aren't exactly top tier offenses that you're
56:52
having to face this tough competition. You know, maybe they'll
56:55
face some better competition the super regional. Oh wait, no,
56:59
if they're facing a big because of course they are.
57:02
Although we'll talk later maybe about the Saint John's offense.
57:04
That's no slow Saint John's offense. The pleasure to speak.
57:08
Speaker 1: That they did, and we are going to obviously, like you,
57:10
we're gonna talk about them in a little bit. Jake,
57:15
I don't know what kind of moron would pick Alabama
57:18
State in any way to place in this regional, but
57:21
I mean, upstate, Alabama State, they are in their spot here,
57:25
just like give you the other sixty two teams. What
57:28
what was your major takeaways from taught school. If anything,
57:31
you don't have such other mid major schools. I trust
57:33
that you could.
57:35
Speaker 7: No, Yeah, I can talk about them a little bit.
57:36
Like like in that first game, obviously, you know Upstate.
57:40
You know they took out they took out Oklahoma State,
57:42
you know Brent Dukes, some other.
57:46
Speaker 4: Who else was it.
57:47
Speaker 7: Jacob Kirby, Max beyond Keeney. I think I might be
57:51
saying that right. I might be completely wrong.
57:52
Speaker 4: I don't know.
57:52
Speaker 7: Those two guys out of the bullpen though, in that
57:55
game against Oklahoma State were awesome. They went for four
57:59
combined innings, struck out a few guys. No no earned
58:02
runs is the big number there for them in that one.
58:05
But also for Upstate, like they had a chance, Like
58:08
they had a chance in that game they played against Alabama.
58:11
Bama had like like Zant Adams and Hyberger pitched really
58:15
well in that game, but like there were zero earned
58:18
runs by Alabama's pitchers in that game. They had six
58:21
errors in that one, And like, if you're Upstate, you
58:24
have to walk away from that, like you can't feel
58:27
great about not finding a way to win when the
58:28
opponent had six errors on the other side. But for
58:33
Alabama State. I mean they they gave every They gave
58:36
Oklahoma State everything they wanted in that elimination game. Alabama
58:39
State did trade power really good out of the bullpen.
58:43
For for Alabama State, they had some they had a
58:46
few guys with some hits. Nik Well Jennings three for four.
58:53
They just obviously they just they just ran out of
58:55
steam there. But I wouldn't I want to give I
58:58
would give Alabama State the credit where it's due, because
59:01
I mean, they put they played well against Oklahoma State.
59:04
They had they had a chance there at the end.
59:05
And that's not an easy first two games for Olahoma State,
59:08
either to go down to Upstate and then have that
59:11
one one run game against Alabama State.
59:14
Speaker 6: No, certainly not one quick note true that I'll hit
59:17
on real quick because I was curious. I was in
59:19
our sheet from our Omaha draft that we did back
59:23
in the day. There are eight teams in there that
59:27
we picked that are still in Me and Jake both
59:30
had three. You and Josh both have one, Drew, can
59:34
you guess the team that.
59:35
Speaker 1: You have left left alive?
59:39
Speaker 6: You have one left alive? Yeah, and we won't. I'll
59:43
let you think on it. When we get to them,
59:45
you will get there.
59:48
Speaker 5: I do want to mention, if we're on that note, weirdly.
59:50
Speaker 6: Great segment to transition, say.
59:53
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that's who I thought it was. But also
59:55
I weirdly enough we noticed this. It doesn't matter in
59:58
hindsight after regionals, but the the fact that we went
1:00:00
through that Omaha draft and we somehow let rounds one, two,
1:00:04
and three all go by, and Jake snagged UCLA, Georgia Tech,
1:00:08
and Georgia the top three season. The thing is crazy,
1:00:11
and weirdly enough, only one of them even made the supers.
1:00:14
That's I don't know which part of that is stranger.
1:00:17
Speaker 1: All all parts of it are stranger. Josh, glad you're
1:00:20
chatting because we have come to Gainesville and I have to.
1:00:25
I have to give some quick quotes. They're comesing into
1:00:28
all things. The most capacious measure is filled at last,
1:00:32
and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance
1:00:37
of a team's soul. Here then, as we lay down
1:00:40
the pen and proceed to seal up our confidence, we
1:00:43
bring the life of that unhappy doctor Florida and mister
1:00:47
Gators to an end. Quote Robert Lewis Stevenson from Doctor
1:00:53
Jekyl and Mister Hyde. Long standing. We've had this conversation
1:00:59
all year long, Josh, I want to lead off with
1:01:01
a question, because you've got Troy on the mind. Obviously
1:01:04
it's an Alabama team. I want you to talk about them.
1:01:07
What really was the benefit for Florida the better team?
1:01:11
Was it Doctor Florida when they're playing well? Or was
1:01:14
the chaos of mister Gators what we needed? All that'll
1:01:20
get that'll keep scholars up at night.
1:01:23
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it became the story of their team,
1:01:26
But honestly, I mean like it was the downfall of it.
1:01:29
I mean, it was so indicative of what happened the
1:01:33
whole season, what happened this weekend, And we keep saying
1:01:36
that over and over again, it happened. You could the
1:01:39
Rider game on Friday was a microcosm of their season
1:01:41
as a whole. Today, not so much. I'll leave some
1:01:47
Florida meat on the bone. I'll touch on one minor
1:01:49
thing with them later. I do want to give props
1:01:51
to Troy.
1:01:51
Speaker 6: I do.
1:01:52
Speaker 5: I want them to win their super regional so bad
1:01:54
because I want to pull out my receipts on Twitter
1:01:56
of in November when I said Troy Ceiling is Omaha
1:01:59
and I want to be would pull that out. And
1:02:01
the reason I said that even back then was because
1:02:03
of that offense, and the offense is fully showed up
1:02:06
this week. Their lack of pitching depth didn't seem to matter,
1:02:11
and their weird mismatching of the way they go about
1:02:16
utilizing that pitching staff didn't seem to matter. Three guys
1:02:20
really stood out. Aaron pire Seki had eleven hits this weekend.
1:02:23
Jimmy Janicky twelve RBI. That's ridiculous. Jay Boroff was the
1:02:28
main story though, because not only did he put up
1:02:30
good numbers, he came up in huge spots too. He
1:02:32
was eleven for twenty on the whole weekend, four home runs,
1:02:36
one of which being the dagger today and two of
1:02:37
which coming against Miami in huge spots, had a couple doubles,
1:02:41
two eleven RBI walked ridiculous weekend from him, which is
1:02:46
kind of like an unsung hero of that team. He
1:02:49
could be a catcher, but he's never gonna catch on
1:02:50
that team because Janicky is behind the plate. So he
1:02:53
just kind of cemented himself in the DH roll. So
1:02:56
that's a really bulldog mentality, passionate guy on the field,
1:03:00
like he'd love to see that guy win. He was
1:03:02
a lot of fun to watch. Small Florida thing. I'll
1:03:04
touch them real quick. I think the story coming from
1:03:09
this weekend besides just some bullpen implosions, well, I guess
1:03:13
this is a bullpen implosion in a way. The story
1:03:16
of the handling of Cada McDonald today I think should
1:03:22
not be swept under the rug. I don't think it
1:03:23
will be within Florida fans today. He pitched four and
1:03:28
a third, didn't allow a single run, only a couple hits,
1:03:33
didn't walk a guy on forty eight pitches, and that
1:03:35
was the most pitches he had thrown in and outing
1:03:37
this year because he was not in any kind of
1:03:40
long relief position the entire year. But he was dealing
1:03:44
and it was I think going into the sixth thning,
1:03:47
I want to say, and they pulled him just because
1:03:49
he hasn't pitched that much and they thought he might
1:03:51
implode although he was dealing well. They put in Russell
1:03:55
Sandeffert and immediately he went three batters and walked three
1:04:00
straight guys. Of those three batters, and then they put
1:04:03
in I think it was Lugo Kenchola. I think, what's
1:04:06
the next guy they put in? And he allowed to
1:04:08
earn runs that inning? And Florida fans have to be asking.
1:04:13
I don't know who makes that call in particular, I
1:04:15
don't know if it's Sully or someone else on the staff,
1:04:18
but you have to ask, like what the thought process
1:04:22
was behind that besides just expecting an implosion from Canada McDonald,
1:04:25
although I feel like you have to at least see him,
1:04:28
You have to at least see it out a little bit,
1:04:30
in my opinion, because you're down to one at that point,
1:04:33
close game and a guy is absolutely shoving on the bump,
1:04:37
and sure Santa fe is a guy you trust, But
1:04:40
I don't know it's gonna be a big talking point.
1:04:42
I feel like maybe not nationally, but within those circles
1:04:45
for sure, and just needs to get some kind of publicity.
1:04:48
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think that's a fair statement to make, Jake.
1:04:51
I want to go to you, looking at Gainesville as
1:04:54
as a complete region, Now, what sends out the most
1:04:58
to you from any team? Curious? What what catches your eye?
1:05:03
Speaker 4: Yeah?
1:05:03
Speaker 7: I mean obviously Troy, you know, the way that they
1:05:08
played this weekend was really really impressive.
1:05:10
Speaker 4: I mean, they they they they they definitely earned it.
1:05:15
Speaker 7: But if it's okay with you, guys, I want to
1:05:18
talk about Rider. There's there's a if there's a if
1:05:20
there's a mid major team. Well there's probably one more
1:05:23
a little bit later that I'd love to talk about.
1:05:24
But it's my writer, my writer Bronx. You know, they
1:05:27
were really close to winning that first game against Florida.
1:05:30
Uh PJ Craig. He was awesome on the mound. He's
1:05:34
he's been an AUMAC pitcher for for I think the
1:05:37
last like two maybe three years. He's been on that
1:05:39
for the first team All Conference team there Matt Lahy
1:05:43
uh he entered the game with a with a sub
1:05:46
sub six hundred ops on the year and zero home
1:05:50
runs and came through with the biggest hit of their season.
1:05:52
It was a game time solo home run right after
1:05:55
Nick Swittt hit a hit a game tying grand slam
1:05:58
in the eighth. They just they just couldn't finish it
1:06:01
on the mound in the night unfortunately. Brendan Laws and
1:06:03
put it into that all those all those thoughts, but
1:06:06
uh yeah, I just I just want to talk about them.
1:06:09
They were really close to taking that first one from Florida.
1:06:10
Troy just kind of ran away with the second game
1:06:12
for Rider, But I was really I was really hoping
1:06:15
they could have They could have set themselves up in
1:06:17
the in the winner's bracket a little bit, gave him
1:06:19
a little bit more cushion. But that they're the last,
1:06:22
the last, the last MAC champion that there ever will be.
1:06:26
I think they're the Metro Conference now, So no more,
1:06:29
no more.
1:06:29
Speaker 4: M a a c rep.
1:06:32
Speaker 1: Hate to hear it, man, but uh that is that
1:06:35
is true? Uh JB. I want to go to you, Uh,
1:06:38
what thoughts prevail in your head when you talk about
1:06:41
this games? Will regional? Buddy?
1:06:44
Speaker 6: Yeah, there's only one thing that I'll talk about, and
1:06:46
I've been the person to bring up the draft thing.
1:06:48
So I'll hit this point once again and they'll be
1:06:50
my only point. Liam Peterson this weekend complete implosion. Everybody
1:06:55
I talked to. Fastball play has been the biggest concern
1:06:57
with him. You know, throws gas but seems to find
1:07:01
the bear all the time, and it sure did against Troy.
1:07:03
Five innings, pitch ten, hits, nine earned runs. Brutal outing
1:07:09
for Peterson, especially going into the draft cycle. That being
1:07:12
your last one. It's really gonna damage his stock going
1:07:16
through the rest of this. But yeah, that's all I
1:07:19
got is Lee and Peterson. What do we get in
1:07:21
at him? And that's for them. They probably felt great
1:07:23
having him go into that championship game and nothing going.
1:07:28
Speaker 1: So yeah, nothing going on the topic of draft stock
1:07:32
really quickly. We did reference last episode Daniel Coovey. Had
1:07:36
he had Miami continued playing, this would have been kind
1:07:38
of his arrival point back with the team. What does
1:07:41
that draft stock look like now, because you know, we
1:07:42
haven't seen him play quite a while. Just some interesting
1:07:45
questions on that draft stock perspective.
1:07:47
Speaker 4: JB.
1:07:47
Speaker 1: Love that you brought that up. Jake. Let's talk Hattiesburg.
1:07:52
Lots of talk about Southern Myss this year from a
1:07:54
certain one of our hosts. I'm not going to point
1:07:57
any fingers at that person, but but either way, anyhow, uh,
1:08:04
what comes out of Hattie's Burke Jake, It is a
1:08:07
trojan horse that emerges as it were.
1:08:11
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I mean, congrats congrats to Little Rock.
1:08:15
I mean, but based on last year's performance in Baton
1:08:18
Rouge and this year's performance now in Hattiesburg, which is
1:08:21
you know, more impressive in the end. But like we
1:08:23
can safely say that, you know, you don't want little
1:08:26
rock in your in your favorite team's regional. They're gonna
1:08:28
come in and they're gonna messing things up for you.
1:08:31
Speaker 4: Uh.
1:08:32
Speaker 7: Well, there's a there's a lot of bats, a lot
1:08:34
of hitters that you can point to for them. But
1:08:35
Blake Simpson knowing front, Uh, we're so much fun to
1:08:39
watch in the box that they they think. They kept
1:08:42
coming up in in big spots, and they kept coming through.
1:08:45
They had a productive bat bat just about every time
1:08:47
they came up.
1:08:48
Speaker 4: Uh.
1:08:49
Speaker 7: Brandon Westmoreland, I think I talked about him a little
1:08:51
bit on the uh the regional preview thing. He's like,
1:08:54
he's their ace, and he gave him a really great
1:08:56
start against Southern Miss.
1:08:58
Speaker 4: Uh.
1:08:59
Speaker 7: Tag Andrews was nails out of the pen in their
1:09:01
first two games.
1:09:03
Speaker 4: And then for for.
1:09:04
Speaker 7: Southern Miss, I mean, obviously they go to and done
1:09:06
in their in their home regional. They got, you know,
1:09:10
uncharacteristically bad outings from some of their most trusted arms,
1:09:15
Graydon Harris, Kobe Allen, Carls, Sibley, Cameron sums From. None
1:09:19
of them were really effective when they pitched Uh, they
1:09:22
were also out hit by like ten total hits in
1:09:25
they're in the two games that they played, they showed
1:09:27
off a little bit of power. Uh you know, just
1:09:30
in game one, like the bats just left a little
1:09:33
bit to be desired in terms of run production, but
1:09:35
like in there, but not not so much in their
1:09:37
second game. But it's just it's just not the same
1:09:40
team that we've seen all year long in a Southern miss.
1:09:42
They were also another team that was really hot coming
1:09:44
into this and we you know, we we had a
1:09:46
conversation where they ended up with the non seed.
1:09:48
Speaker 4: We had a we had a conversation.
1:09:50
Speaker 7: We thought they potentially earned one of those national top
1:09:53
eight seeds in the end and they and they didn't
1:09:54
get it. But going to and done is not not
1:09:56
a great look for them. And it was just just
1:09:59
kind of weird seem perform the way that they did.
1:10:01
Speaker 1: It was weird, Uh, Jake super quickly overall takeaway for
1:10:06
Jacksonville State as well.
1:10:08
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean I was feeling I was feeling good.
1:10:11
Speaker 4: I was feeling good.
1:10:12
Speaker 7: About this jack State team after after that first game,
1:10:14
you know, they put up they put up fifteen runs
1:10:16
against Virginia and then they just came back with an
1:10:18
eight hit performance against Little Rock. They bounced back, they
1:10:23
got Virginia again, but then lost to Little Rock again.
1:10:25
It was I mean, Little Rock, I guess was just
1:10:27
their kryptonite in this one, but it was another It
1:10:31
was it was more performances from Jack State that we
1:10:34
didn't necessarily haven't seen too much from them this year.
1:10:38
They've they've been they've been winning every time they've been
1:10:41
on the field, and they just you know, obviously they
1:10:44
just didn't Jack Little Rock just was too much for him.
1:10:47
Speaker 1: Yeah, jb Uh University of Virginia man. Obviously better than
1:10:54
not being the tournament, but at the same point, you know,
1:10:58
disappointing to see their season in this way.
1:11:00
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, Gracia, he was eight for thirteen on
1:11:03
the weekend. He did everything that he could possibly do.
1:11:06
I know. One storyline was Eric Becker getting hurt at
1:11:09
the start of the weekend and then obviously him not
1:11:11
playing until the third game again, so that kind of stinks.
1:11:14
There's also the ejections with Kyle Johnson and Pione you know,
1:11:18
the whole thing that happened once again, more ejections, all
1:11:21
that stuff. So that's something on the weekend. I think
1:11:24
is definitely the topic of the weekend and what we
1:11:26
need to change in the sport. But yeah, it was
1:11:31
brutal for UVA. I mean, the pitching staff, all the
1:11:33
flaws that we've talked about in the past and how
1:11:36
you know flawed they've been this year really showed up
1:11:38
and they just couldn't find ways to put together innings
1:11:41
when they needed. The offense just had to do so
1:11:43
much to try to come back in these games. I mean,
1:11:45
obviously you saw that Southern mist game was a fifteen
1:11:47
to eleven game. They only win in this regional. It
1:11:50
was kind of the offense had to do everything that
1:11:52
they could just somehow scratch and claw their way back
1:11:55
into these games, and they just couldn't do enough, and
1:11:57
the pitching staff couldn't find any way to misspare. Also,
1:12:01
it's another year of Pollard just kind of not being
1:12:04
able to figure it out.
1:12:06
Speaker 1: Unfortunate as it were. Josh Man, I'm sorry, Uh you win,
1:12:11
saw you lose somebody. You had two of your favorite
1:12:14
teams come away with victories in their regionals. Southern Myss
1:12:19
could not complete the troff acta though, I'd love it
1:12:21
if you could give us some wrap up on Southern
1:12:23
miss season and how they performed here.
1:12:25
Speaker 5: Yeah, speaking of guys not being able to come through
1:12:28
the postseason, it seems like Christian Ostranders really getting that
1:12:31
reputation at this point. You hate to see it. The
1:12:35
hot cold hot theory did not work for Southern Myths
1:12:37
this year. We thought they were a great candidate because
1:12:40
they caught a cold strutch in the middle of the
1:12:42
year after starting out great, and they started to ramp
1:12:45
up again. But it just all bottomed out pretty fast.
1:12:48
And it sucks to see because the pitching staff that
1:12:51
had been so good all year just really sold the weekend.
1:12:55
Jake touched on a little bit, Colby Allen let it
1:12:58
get let it get away from him the night on Friday.
1:13:01
Graydon Harris did not look good in his start on Saturday.
1:13:05
Had all allowed nine runs in the three innings that
1:13:07
he pitched. I mean, like same thing in the tenth
1:13:11
inning on Saturday. I guess it was yet that same
1:13:14
game Kendn Sunstrom, he allowed three runs in the one
1:13:19
ending that he pitched in a couple of hits, walked
1:13:21
a guy like those are the guy, those are your
1:13:25
go to guys. The entire year that just fell apart.
1:13:27
And it stinks to see because some of the offensive
1:13:30
guys really came through, some of those veterans, and you know,
1:13:33
they laid it all out there and contented, like Tucker
1:13:36
stock Man had a big home run late in the game.
1:13:38
It was unfortunate to see that the thing that was
1:13:42
the driving force for them the entire year was the
1:13:45
thing that made them fall apart, especially against two teams
1:13:49
not really known for their well, yeah, two teams not
1:13:52
really known for their offense. Doesn't don't really help. But
1:13:57
it's sad, especially for krishianash Friender. This had to be
1:14:01
your year. It felt like to really push through and
1:14:03
make it back to Omaham and just didn't happen again.
1:14:05
You kind of start to raise eyebrows at a certain point.
1:14:08
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess so, man. It is unfortunate, to say
1:14:11
the very least. Uh, Jake, I want to go to
1:14:14
you with Tallahassee. We've had to contend with weather in
1:14:17
the South this entire weekend, and yet a certain storm
1:14:23
rolled into Tallahassee. Did it not?
1:14:27
Speaker 4: It Sure did?
1:14:28
Speaker 7: Uh? The Johnnies and Johnny's got it done. Getting to
1:14:32
say that, getting to say Saint John's sweat this regional.
1:14:36
It just it and going to a super it just
1:14:38
it just makes it makes me happy to say it.
1:14:40
You know, Liam O'Leary, Victor, Frederick Evan, Evan Hokeel, I
1:14:45
think we're lights out. In that first game, John legrand A, Jada, Reefstanger, Dealing,
1:14:51
Fitz Simmons, they all had multiple hits. They scored four.
1:14:55
They scored four out of their six runs in that
1:14:58
in that game in the eighth and night the innings,
1:15:00
they just won by one. And then, uh, the second game,
1:15:03
I'll try to I'll keep that one a little bit shorter.
1:15:05
They scored three touchdowns against Northern Illinois. I mean, they
1:15:08
had twenty hits and that one only one home run,
1:15:11
so that they really just uh they really just hit
1:15:13
the Huskies to death. And that one the pitching was
1:15:17
so so, but uh, you know who cares when when
1:15:20
you score that many runs you don't need to pitch
1:15:22
at all. And then that third game today was the
1:15:26
third game Today was awesome. Man Adam mcgresty grand slam
1:15:30
Is his nineteenth homer of the year, was the biggest
1:15:32
one of I think I can safely say the biggest one.
1:15:35
Speaker 4: Of his life. They scored what end and we ended up.
1:15:39
Speaker 7: Being the winning run on a wild pitch and and
1:15:42
uh instead of despite despite Cayl Fisher trying to ruin
1:15:46
their party a little bit there at the end, Victor
1:15:48
Frederick finished the job and got sent Saint John's to
1:15:51
a super in Tuscaloosa.
1:15:54
Speaker 1: Absolutely he did. And yeah, Gresty, I think it's safe
1:15:59
to say the biggest honor is like plus far at least, Uh, Josh,
1:16:03
I want to go to you here, man, teams went
1:16:06
to a q all weekend. Coastal though, man, like, I
1:16:11
think we all knew this was not the team who
1:16:14
made the final. This is not the this has not
1:16:16
been a team who has had an easy go this
1:16:19
year at all. But still there's an element of shock
1:16:24
to see Coastal being the first team booted from this region.
1:16:28
Speaker 5: Not really to me, there's gonna be honest, like, well,
1:16:31
they have been falling apart for a long time and
1:16:33
this was kind of inevitable. You would naturally think that
1:16:36
the four seed would be the first one to go,
1:16:38
but if it's not, I probably would have picked Coastal
1:16:41
to go first over Northern Illinois. They had nothing going
1:16:43
for him at this point and They lost two very
1:16:45
different games too. They lost a high scoring one and
1:16:48
a pitcher's duel, and Flukey looks solid when he came back,
1:16:51
and Luke Jones looked pretty good too. After the weird
1:16:54
second game like start at one night, start again the
1:16:57
next day, and yeah, Florida State, you had West Mendes
1:17:00
and Trade Beard both throwing I think four innings in
1:17:03
the same game like that just goes to show you
1:17:05
what kind of game that was. Nonetheless, Coastal just couldn't
1:17:10
get anything going. The offense was stagged in against Florida State. Granted,
1:17:15
you know, if you're going up against West Mendoes and
1:17:17
Trade Beard in the same game, that does tend to
1:17:20
happen to other teams. Regardless. It stinks after the year
1:17:25
they had last year. I've been making a point to
1:17:27
say it for a while. Mid major teams that make
1:17:29
it to Omaha don't make it back the next year.
1:17:32
It just doesn't happen. It's a shame that it fanned
1:17:34
out like this though, because it was kind of like
1:17:37
a slow collapse. It was kind of like the entire season.
1:17:40
You could feel the impending doom coming more and more
1:17:44
as the season went on and then it just crashed
1:17:46
all at once. It seems even more of the fact
1:17:50
that they had the one run game and then you
1:17:52
would go to bed that night and start up again,
1:17:55
and after four innings you're just going home when you
1:17:56
could have the day before. That stinks.
1:17:58
Speaker 1: But yeah, I don't know.
1:18:00
Speaker 5: Regardless sex to see it go out like that, but
1:18:02
I feel like it, honestly, you could have seen it go.
1:18:05
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's totally fair, Josh. That's totally fair. JB. One
1:18:10
thing that I don't think you could have saw coming
1:18:12
was Florida State dropping this opportunity in Tallahassee. What's the
1:18:16
tale of the tape for Florida State this weekend as
1:18:18
we conclude the season for the.
1:18:20
Speaker 6: Sounds, Yeah, for them, I just think it was the
1:18:23
offense really letting him down. I mean the offense they
1:18:26
just couldn't seem to find a rhythm. You know, obviously
1:18:28
without Miles Bailey, that's definitely a big part that hurt,
1:18:31
But a lot of the other pieces really struggle to
1:18:32
get going this weekend and today especially. The thing that
1:18:35
stood out was John Abraham just not being his normal self.
1:18:38
Abraham just that was their guy that in any situation
1:18:41
that's who they had to go to and twice this
1:18:43
weekend he really let him down. So I think that's
1:18:45
something that kind of hurts for them. It's definitely gonna
1:18:49
sting the offense thing kind of hurts, and I think
1:18:52
it's gonna shape how they're gonna build their club for
1:18:54
next year a little differently. But it'll be interesting to
1:18:57
see what they bring back next year. I think Florida
1:18:59
State is definitely one of the more disappointing regionals I
1:19:02
can remember in a little bit, so it'll be tough.
1:19:05
Speaker 1: It will be tough for sure. Man. I'm with you there, Josh.
1:19:08
Let's talk Eugene. We'll take it to the Pacific Northwest
1:19:13
as we had a cluster of teams plus Yale, as
1:19:17
our buddy coach Jack Barjorie said, the smart kids from
1:19:20
Yale will travel so much easier because they are so smart.
1:19:24
I'm curious what was your thought on the Eugene regional
1:19:26
As Oregon handles business, they're gonna be moving on.
1:19:30
Speaker 5: First of all, peace out Oregon State. We will not
1:19:33
miss you. We will not be uh, we will not
1:19:36
miss having to protect you. Might be a good teams,
1:19:41
barely be anybody good this year showed this weekend, I'll
1:19:44
say that much. The one organ point is we have
1:19:48
not given this pitching staff enough props all year, and
1:19:51
we should have even coming into the tournament. They were
1:19:56
seventh and whip eighth and strike up percentage of fifteenth
1:19:59
in er in the entire country, and we just weren't
1:20:02
talking about that like we should have because their starters
1:20:05
continuously dealt even though it was against the Big ten.
1:20:07
That's still better than a lot of these mid major
1:20:09
conferences that could have been putting up those similar numbers.
1:20:13
Will Sandford on Saturday, good lord six and the third
1:20:18
innings pitched, no earn runs, one hit allowed, and fourteen strikeouts.
1:20:23
Just a ridiculous showing. And on Sunday against Oregon State,
1:20:27
just the dagger game, Miles Godstola went six innings, only
1:20:31
allowed one earned on five hits and eight strikeouts. Toby
1:20:35
Twist also, he had a really good outing on Friday
1:20:37
and relief too. It's a freshman guy you should by
1:20:39
a lookout for. Just overall really impressive and they've been
1:20:44
doing this for a while and we just kind of
1:20:45
swept it under the rug because of the offenses they
1:20:48
were facing. Granted, we know how bad Oregon States offenses
1:20:52
to Washington State's not phenomenal. Yale also not phenomenal, so
1:20:57
I guess it could apply here too, But it's a postseason.
1:21:00
We'll see what happens against Texas next week because we
1:21:02
know how good that offense can be. But nonetheless, the
1:21:05
pitching staff continues to show up and show out every
1:21:07
time Orgon goes out there, and it just needs a
1:21:09
little more national recognition.
1:21:11
Speaker 1: I guess, yeah, that's totally fair JBH. Continuing on just
1:21:16
talking about Eugena open rain to you, what stands out
1:21:20
from you looking at this one?
1:21:22
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it's funny that Josh shit on it
1:21:25
the whole Oregon State point. I think all of us
1:21:27
the whole year with them being independent, it's kind of
1:21:29
the most obvious thing. And I know a lot of
1:21:31
us and Josh especially got a lot of flak from
1:21:35
their fan base, and now we see it what happens
1:21:39
to them without Whitney. This team was just especially cooked. Yeah,
1:21:45
I think the only reason why they made it to
1:21:48
the end is they got kind of lucky with the draw.
1:21:50
You know, we talked about Yale a little bit, but
1:21:51
obviously they were going to stand up to a team
1:21:53
like that, and then Wazoo is kind of a Cinderella
1:21:56
story type of deal there, and there's their best year
1:21:59
in a whe I picked him. But Oregon State, you know,
1:22:02
if they got any sort offense, they could really take
1:22:04
care of him. So yeah, that was kind of the
1:22:07
story in Oregon. You know, I'd say they cruised through
1:22:09
the weekend. You know, we kind of saw like Josh
1:22:11
had the strength of the pitching staff, that offense did
1:22:14
enough them. Playing Texas is kind of scary because you're
1:22:17
facing a really elite offense and an elite pitching staff.
1:22:20
So that'll be a fun test. But so far, so
1:22:24
good for the Ducks.
1:22:25
Speaker 1: Fun test with you there, JB for sure. Jake. Unfortunately, Man,
1:22:30
your theory about the intelligence the bright IVY leaguers traveling
1:22:34
well did not come to pass. Twelve run deficit to Oregon,
1:22:41
seven run deficit to Oregon State. Man, if you've got
1:22:45
anything on Yale, I'd love to hear it. Jack Omen
1:22:47
not his strongest performance either.
1:22:51
Speaker 4: It wasn't just this year as a whole.
1:22:54
Speaker 7: I mean just statistically Jack Omen was much better last
1:22:58
year than he was this year. And then he this
1:23:00
was one of the more more more highly anticipated matchups.
1:23:04
I think just because we wanted to see Jack Omen
1:23:06
who is this top twenty seven draft guy, you know,
1:23:09
go up against a really talented team and working on
1:23:13
the road.
1:23:14
Speaker 4: In this environment.
1:23:15
Speaker 7: And he, you know, he obviously let us down a
1:23:16
little bit for and two and two thirds, ten hits,
1:23:19
seven strikeouts, was was not was not bad. You know,
1:23:23
walked a few guys, was getting was getting hit around
1:23:25
a little bit. Just wasnt Just wasn't his day. This
1:23:28
season honestly hasn't been a great season for him in particular,
1:23:32
but uh, I mean I like the stuff still, just
1:23:35
it just didn't play super well in his outing. But
1:23:40
another arm I'd like to mention real quick is a
1:23:43
guy that I've kind of kind of fell in love
1:23:45
with a little bit for Oregon State, Albert Roblez.
1:23:48
Speaker 4: Uh. He was he was a lot of fun this
1:23:50
weekend to watch.
1:23:51
Speaker 7: I mean, I'm not like trying to throw him up
1:23:53
our boards or anything like that, like, but he was
1:23:55
just fun to watch. It's really unique, really unique delivery.
1:23:59
And when I was one, I want him take the
1:24:00
mount and he was throwing from that extremely high slot.
1:24:04
I think I texted in our group message like this
1:24:06
Albert Robless guy, this is like the highest lot I've
1:24:08
ever seen. I think the long hair. He's got it
1:24:10
going for him. There three innings on the weekend, no
1:24:14
runs allowed. He struck out I think like five guys, So,
1:24:17
like I mean, it was a lot of fun to
1:24:19
watch him. And then one more Nick Lewis for Washington State,
1:24:23
complete game against Oregon State, nine innings, two runs allowed,
1:24:28
only one strikeout in those nine innings, so he was
1:24:30
throwing strikes, letting his letting his defense work. But a
1:24:34
good good performance from Nick Lewis too.
1:24:36
Speaker 1: Absolutely it was and good call man, definitely robust and
1:24:40
Lewis some strong performances as well. Worth mentioning with the
1:24:43
on Robless, maybe we ought to bump him up a
1:24:45
little bit. JB. Let's go to college station, shall we?
1:24:50
Just like we drew it all up all year, Just
1:24:52
like I've said all year, USC fraudulent offense non existent.
1:24:57
This team is going to crumble in front of actual tea. Wait,
1:25:00
no USC won this regional Now WHOA what has happened?
1:25:04
And what have you done with the real USC?
1:25:07
Speaker 6: Yeah? No it it was kind of insane. So just
1:25:10
to give this stat they lose to Texas State, who
1:25:12
I chose to be the runner up in this one
1:25:14
five to four in the first game. After that, they
1:25:16
scored fifty five runs to their opponents fourteen fifty five
1:25:22
to fourteen and four games is incredible, including a nineteen
1:25:26
fifteen fourteen and seven run performance in the championship. Absurd.
1:25:30
If any of us said that USC wou was scored
1:25:33
fifty five runs in four games in regional play before this,
1:25:36
I think you'd say it's a dream, like nobody would
1:25:38
believe you. But sure enough, this offense found a way
1:25:41
and they really kind of dialed into that West Coast
1:25:44
style offense that we talked about and playing the small ball,
1:25:48
moving guys over getting the occasional big hit, which they
1:25:50
had tonight, that three run homer huge for A and M.
1:25:54
I think it was just kind of the wheels all
1:25:57
fallen off at one time. Injuries started biting him on
1:26:00
the pitching side, you know. Tonight, Fresh Corn game everything
1:26:03
they can, and he had one pitch that really just
1:26:06
put him out of the ball game right away. But
1:26:09
for A and M, it was just the offense. They
1:26:11
had a hot start to the weekend and then just
1:26:14
completely faded out against USC Govell had a nice outing
1:26:18
tonight against them. But yeah, it's kind of a sad
1:26:21
way to see them go. But we'll see again. You know,
1:26:24
it's another West Coast team coming to Chapel Hill for
1:26:26
a super and what does that mean. We don't know,
1:26:29
but we'll find out.
1:26:31
Speaker 1: We shall find out. Indeed, it's going to be interesting.
1:26:34
That's that's a compelling matchup for you specifically, Josh. I
1:26:40
want to go to you next with College Station to
1:26:42
talk about Texas A and M specifically, if you don't mind.
1:26:47
It's a team that you've had a lot of stock
1:26:49
in that I've come around. Don I think all year
1:26:52
long am m's offense has been something that's been almost
1:26:56
a site to the whole curious shipbots on A and
1:26:58
M as their season.
1:27:00
Speaker 4: In the region.
1:27:02
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, it's super weird because the offense was the
1:27:05
big thing that was the driving force on that team,
1:27:07
and besides that Texas State game, it was just nowhere
1:27:11
to be found this weekend, which is super odd because typically,
1:27:14
you know, an environment like Bluebell Park can rattle an
1:27:17
opposing pitcher and whatnot, and that's kind of where your
1:27:19
offense thrives the most. But there was just none of
1:27:22
that and super weird to see. I know, like a
1:27:25
Cope ended a solid the weekend. He came through in
1:27:27
a couple of big spots, Soiroll and Grohovac wasn't enough.
1:27:31
Bar Harrison had the sole home run tonight. Just pieces
1:27:37
weren't put together this weekend for the offense, and it
1:27:40
just really stinks to see because that is, you know,
1:27:43
like we talked about last year, coming into last year
1:27:46
of the twenty five season, that was seen as the
1:27:47
best offense in the country and it just didn't pan
1:27:51
out at all, partly mostly impart due to injury. That's
1:27:55
besides the point. This year it wasn't seen that same way,
1:27:59
but it started to become that at a certain point,
1:28:01
and then it fanned out when they needed it the most.
1:28:04
Granted USC pitching staff goes without saying, we know how
1:28:07
good they are, but nonetheless they've done this against some
1:28:10
of the best SEC pitching staffs all year and it
1:28:13
just didn't translate for whatever reason. And it is a
1:28:15
one weekend sample size, so you hate to make any
1:28:18
big conclusions from it, but regardless, it just I don't know,
1:28:22
it's weird. I was kind of looking forward to the
1:28:26
UNC pitching staff against Texas A and m offense matchup
1:28:29
next weekend. But I'll take two of the country's top
1:28:33
pitching staffs both going at it. I'll take a couple,
1:28:36
you know, we'll honestly, we'll probably get a similar thing
1:28:38
in Auburn. But I'll take a couple UNC USC games
1:28:42
and like three to one or something that that'd be
1:28:44
just as cool.
1:28:45
Speaker 1: Yeah, be pretty sweet for sure, Jake. I want to
1:28:49
go to you, and I'm not gonna I'm not gonna
1:28:51
harp on mid major stuff specifically because I want to
1:28:54
go to a separate thing here. Every preseason, you do
1:28:57
a wonderful job with our conference previews at Prospects Live.
1:29:00
And next year you're gonna have a new conference, or
1:29:03
I guess a returning conference as PAC twelve baseball is back,
1:29:07
baby woop woop hot hype. Uh And and one of
1:29:11
these teams is gonna be joining the new PAC twelve.
1:29:13
It is not USC. It's obviously Texas State West Coast powerhouse.
1:29:18
That is Texas State. Uh. That being said, though, between
1:29:21
the last two regionals, we're gonna have Oregon State finally
1:29:24
nutting up and joining a conference. Whoops, say that and
1:29:27
Texas State in a conference as well. Uh, Currius, your
1:29:31
thoughts on Texas State this year and as they do
1:29:33
move into the PAC twelve next year. Pack seven excuse.
1:29:36
Speaker 7: Me, Yeah, I mean they had a I mean they
1:29:39
had a they had a pretty good I mean they
1:29:41
had a pretty good year overall.
1:29:42
Speaker 4: Obviously they got into this regional.
1:29:44
Speaker 7: I think in the end, you know we were talking
1:29:45
about on the when it comes to selection stuff and
1:29:48
all that, all that. I mean, arguably they maybe shouldn't
1:29:50
have been in this regional, but uh, I mean they
1:29:53
they they won, they won games down the stretch and
1:29:55
they they ended up they ended up doing pretty well.
1:29:59
The thing for them is just like I'd like, I'd
1:30:02
like for them to pitch a little bit better like
1:30:04
they have. They have some guys like Jesu's Tovar and uh,
1:30:10
you know like Ryan Mark Watt today or yesterday pitched.
1:30:14
They just didn't. They just didn't really have a guy
1:30:15
like step up and like become like an ace of
1:30:18
this rotation.
1:30:19
Speaker 4: Like they hit.
1:30:19
Speaker 7: Most of their wins this year came from their offense.
1:30:21
Guys like Chase Mora, Many Sallis, Jacquey Stewart had a
1:30:25
good year for them. But uh, like you saw it
1:30:27
in this regional like it, it came down to where
1:30:29
they just they just kind of they just kind of
1:30:32
didn't They didn't pitch up to the standard that it
1:30:34
was gonna take to win a regional like this. But
1:30:38
you know, they're going to a new conference, different competition.
1:30:41
It could be a little bit different out there.
1:30:44
Speaker 1: Sure could. We'll have to wait and see what happens there, Josh,
1:30:48
gonna go to you. Lincoln, Nebraska, we saw it lived
1:30:55
up to the hype. I would say, I I watched
1:30:58
a ton of Lincoln game, especially after you know, Chapel
1:31:01
Hill fizzled out. I had disappointment and rage for me.
1:31:06
The Lincoln Regional is almost where I kind of settled
1:31:09
in and found my home base. Ole Miss ended up winning.
1:31:13
We know you've referenced it earlier. Ole Miss is going
1:31:15
to be taking a trip to Auburn for that Super.
1:31:19
I'm curious your thoughts on the Lincoln Regional as a
1:31:21
whole thoser.
1:31:24
Speaker 5: Yeah, it didn't go down to a game seven like
1:31:26
we probably thought it would have. But let me tell you,
1:31:28
Ole Miss in Arizona State might be the two most
1:31:31
evenly matched teams in the country. Two extra running games,
1:31:34
and one of them I started the I just start
1:31:36
the live thing early on Friday night because I refused
1:31:39
to watch the end of that game. I thought it
1:31:41
was gonna go until three am. It was ridiculous for
1:31:46
Nebraska quickly, it mostly was just the offense kind of
1:31:51
their stars didn't really fan out, I mean pan out,
1:31:54
Jet Buck, Matt Moyer didn't look really good, and their
1:31:57
losses just kind of stars like that talking about the
1:32:00
stars have come through for a lot of those bigger teams,
1:32:02
and that's what propelled them to win in their regional. Nebraska,
1:32:06
the complete opposite happened, kind of like some of the
1:32:08
higher seeds. Stinks to see on the old miss front. Look,
1:32:13
the reason why I didn't pick them to win the regional,
1:32:16
and I would assume the other three of you two
1:32:19
was because that offense. I sided the bottom of the lineup,
1:32:23
like their lack of depth in the offense would really
1:32:25
hurt them, and it didn't seem to matter because that
1:32:28
pitching staff is just so good right now that like
1:32:31
I was kind of right in a sense, not fully right, obviously,
1:32:34
but I wasn't like the fact that the lineup does
1:32:39
lack such depth kind of showed in some areas, especially
1:32:42
those really long games, but the pitching staff is just
1:32:46
so dang good that it didn't matter. I mean, like
1:32:49
Taylor Ray but had an awesome outing on Saturday, and
1:32:52
like Will Libert in relief on Sunday looked awesome. JP
1:32:56
robertson the same thing. Those guys and that extra ending
1:32:59
game really came through and slammed the door. Didn't allow
1:33:02
Arizona State to have much of an opportunity to do
1:33:05
anything except they were pressing for a little bit at
1:33:07
one point, but they got them out of spots and
1:33:09
that's what matters. I'm a little I don't want to
1:33:13
say scared of that pitching staff, because Auburn's face better
1:33:16
pitching staffs this year for sure, and I know that
1:33:20
we've got one that matches right up with it. But
1:33:24
it does make you a little concern considering how well
1:33:27
they've done against offenses like Arizona State. They kept them
1:33:29
in check, and I would pretty confidently say Arizona State
1:33:34
has a better offense than Auburn, maybe not recently, but
1:33:37
as a whole definitely, So it makes you think they
1:33:39
have a good chance to actually push through and go
1:33:41
to Omaha. I would say if they keep pitching in
1:33:43
this way they have been, because the offense is going
1:33:46
to be very hit or miss, no pun intended, but
1:33:48
the pitching staff is probably gonna be able to propel
1:33:51
them as far as as far as I allow themselves
1:33:53
to go.
1:33:55
Speaker 1: I like that point a lot. Jake. I want to
1:33:58
go to you here to talk about the Lincoln Regional.
1:34:01
What was your major takeaway from this one, buddy?
1:34:05
Speaker 4: Uh?
1:34:06
Speaker 7: Yeah, just just some things about about Arizona State. You know,
1:34:10
we we we thought, we obviously have been really high.
1:34:12
Speaker 4: On Arizona State this year.
1:34:13
Speaker 7: The the RPI whatever is what kind of landed them
1:34:16
as a three C, but we thought that they could
1:34:17
play well well above that. That seeding that they got,
1:34:22
they went to and two. Both of their losses came
1:34:25
against Ole Miss. Cole Carlon got roughed up a little
1:34:28
bit in his start, but the bullpen was was great,
1:34:31
and that fourteen inning game just Ole Miss came through
1:34:33
with the with the big hit before they did, and
1:34:36
then they just they kind of dominated South Dakota State
1:34:39
included an eleven run fifth inning, and that one they
1:34:43
put up some big numbers against Nebraska. But uh, you know,
1:34:46
big thing to note was that uh Landon Harriston was
1:34:51
ejected in that game. I mean, and that was one
1:34:53
at first glance, I kind of thought maybe he deserved.
1:34:56
I mean, that was a pretty that was a pretty hefty,
1:34:58
pretty hefty bat flip that he had there on that strikeout.
1:35:01
But the bigger thing from that is that obviously meant
1:35:04
that he couldn't play in that championship game, in which
1:35:07
they only lost, you know, by one run. Like you
1:35:10
never know, like we'll never know if him being in
1:35:12
there would have made that difference or not. But I mean,
1:35:14
the way he's been swinging the bat all year long,
1:35:17
we would assume that he would come up in some
1:35:19
spots to have more opportunities to give them at least
1:35:22
one more run there. South Dakota State, you know, Sam Schleck,
1:35:28
Ty Maddison there. They pitched well in that first game,
1:35:32
but that was just that was just kind of it
1:35:34
for them.
1:35:34
Speaker 4: We kind of knew going into.
1:35:35
Speaker 7: It that this was not only just a regional of death,
1:35:38
but also one that you don't want to be a
1:35:40
really really low major going into it facing these these
1:35:44
powerful teams.
1:35:44
Speaker 4: But they made it there.
1:35:46
Speaker 7: If they came out of nowhere when their conference, So
1:35:48
shout out, Shout out South Dakota State.
1:35:50
Speaker 1: Shout them up for sure, JB, bring us home on Lincoln.
1:35:53
Any outstanding thoughts you've got to share?
1:35:56
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think you guys said most of the only
1:35:58
thing I'll get is Ti Horn. He had a great
1:36:00
outing against Old Miss, going for himself and then just
1:36:03
one pitch that he couldn't get out of it and
1:36:05
then he was out of the game and Ole Miss
1:36:06
kind of ran away with it. But yeah, you guys
1:36:09
kind of hit the point the injection thing again, third
1:36:11
time this weekend that affected a regional so and Cuba,
1:36:15
what are we doing? But yeah, that's kind of the
1:36:19
thing of all. Fourth time, I guess really, But yeah,
1:36:22
that's that's the thoughts. I think everybody else did it.
1:36:24
Speaker 1: Yeah, Hey, thank you man. I appreciate it either way.
1:36:27
Jake talk Starkville. Please the Bulldogs, man, they kind of
1:36:32
just they kind of just rolled. Yeah.
1:36:36
Speaker 7: I have a feeling we're gonna be able to keep
1:36:39
this one relatively short. I mean, this was a sweep
1:36:42
by Mississippi State and they made this one. To be honest,
1:36:45
they made it look really easy. Duke Stone Tomas felinkas
1:36:48
Ryan McPherson. We're all really really good. I think that
1:36:52
everyone in that lineup at some point this weekend produced
1:36:56
something at the plate. Vius Valencius, Eric Frey, Eric Fry,
1:37:02
Ace Racett. I can't talk Jacob Parker. You know that
1:37:05
they all stood out. They had h they had three homers.
1:37:08
Speaker 4: Part.
1:37:09
Speaker 7: Jacob Parker had three homers in three games. Roder Woodson,
1:37:13
Red Stallman also had good weekends at the play. They
1:37:15
just kind of won. They just kind of want all
1:37:17
all these games in like more non dramatic fashion. I
1:37:21
don't have a ton of a ton of takeaways. There's
1:37:24
not one certain certain thing that stands out, but just
1:37:26
Mississippi State really rolled through and and one that I thought,
1:37:30
I think we all thought it would be a little
1:37:31
bit more competitive than it was.
1:37:33
Speaker 1: I think so for sure, Uh JB, I'm gonna come
1:37:36
to you here. Jake said it. Man, it was with
1:37:41
some teams that can really play, the Cajuns, the Bearcats
1:37:45
in Cincinnati and Mississippi State. It's like he said, they
1:37:50
made it look easy in startle right.
1:37:54
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean they are. They're playing hot as it
1:37:58
gets right now. And honestly, you know this is kind
1:38:00
of what we expected, I think from A and M.
1:38:02
We thought this A and M offense would kind of
1:38:04
pull something similar and just start steamrolling teams and the
1:38:07
pitching would be good enough. But Mississippi State, their offense
1:38:09
is the one that really got it done and the
1:38:11
environment really played like Bluebell Park how we thought that
1:38:14
would play. But down there in Duty Noble it was rocking.
1:38:17
So yeah, I think Mississippi State they're in a good
1:38:20
spot now, especially with the Phelps ejection in Wes Johnson two,
1:38:25
to have a chance to really go get it and
1:38:27
we'll see what happens. They were one of our favorites
1:38:29
for Omahon and we'll see if they can actually get
1:38:31
it done.
1:38:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, Josh, I know you like the ESPN stats. I'm
1:38:35
gonna give you one, buddy. I believe, if I read correctly,
1:38:38
this is the first time we're gonna have Bulldogs v. Bulldogs,
1:38:41
Trojans v. Trojans in a Super. Not only is this
1:38:45
the first time for two of them that's never happened
1:38:47
before previously in a Super to have the same mascot
1:38:51
going at each other. Ever, I may have misread it.
1:38:56
It's nearly two am for me, nearly three AM for Jake,
1:38:59
So I could have misread that, but I'm just fair.
1:39:02
Speaker 5: No, it's like your work for that's just odd. Also,
1:39:05
weirdly enough, another ESPN set that I saw that's pretty
1:39:08
much the same thing as that. There are only three
1:39:11
D one programs at all whose mascot is the Trojans,
1:39:15
and all three of them are into supers right now.
1:39:19
I know, right, beautiful, I know, right. We should know exactly.
1:39:24
We should have been onto something when they were all
1:39:26
in the field. We should have known.
1:39:28
Speaker 1: Yeah, dude, there's there's a very obvious company that needs
1:39:32
to step up and uh and sponsor some stuff in
1:39:35
the supers because man, this this tournament is wrapped in Trojans.
1:39:41
It's right there. It's that easy. That's all I'm saying, Josh,
1:39:44
what was your major takeaway from the start of Regional.
1:39:49
Speaker 5: I mean, besides this year dominance, I think that really
1:39:55
Ryan McPherson coming back and looking good as good as
1:39:57
he did was probably the most prompt the same thing
1:40:00
moving forward from Mississippi State. He's been battling the injuries
1:40:03
and he's been looking in each performance since really coming back,
1:40:07
and he looked really good on Sunday. He threw five
1:40:10
innings two ironed runs, which is a little better than average,
1:40:15
but for his standards, worse than average compared to you know,
1:40:18
where he was at the beginning of the year, compared
1:40:20
to where he's been over the past month, definitely better
1:40:23
than what we've been looking at. He also struck out
1:40:26
seven guys, didn't walk one guy, not walking anyone as
1:40:29
a big thing. Coming back with an injury and really
1:40:32
really in that control is a really good sign moving
1:40:34
forward for them to be able to have a solidified
1:40:36
third starter to step up for them when I guess
1:40:40
besides Omaha, you're like the first part of Omaha, you're
1:40:44
really only gonna be in these three game series again,
1:40:46
that's probably come for them to see. Alongside with Duke Stone,
1:40:50
who performed really well in Tomas Malenkas, which we know
1:40:53
what he can do, that's a good sign for them
1:40:56
moving forward, as well as the bats that you know
1:40:59
showed up and showed out as always.
1:41:01
Speaker 1: They sure did. I think the biggest story for me
1:41:03
with Mississippi State this weekend was, yes, you've got that
1:41:06
pitching rotation that looks solidified, especially with McPherson playing as
1:41:10
strongly as he did. Stone with an incredible performance ten strikeouts.
1:41:15
If I'm not mistaken, Valencius the same thing. All three
1:41:19
draft eligible for twenty twenty seven MISSSIPI State's Rolling and
1:41:22
Jacob Parker Don't look now, was absolutely insane in Fuego
1:41:27
over the weekend, in a spot where you think it
1:41:30
would be Ace Reese. You think it might be you know,
1:41:32
the Aidenteals, the Brice Chances of the world, the elder
1:41:35
statesman of this bulldog lineup. No, no, no, no no,
1:41:38
it is, of course the pride of Purvis, he who
1:41:41
hates Baseball's Jacob Parker leading the way in startful, JB,
1:41:46
let's go to you to talk, Lawrence. Finally we get
1:41:50
to where the committee has decided that the Big twelve
1:41:53
hosts can finally just shush in there with their erasure.
1:41:57
And yet out of this another very offense heavy regional
1:42:03
Kansas came away with the victory. And JB, I'm curious,
1:42:06
what's your major takeaway from Lawrence?
1:42:08
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, I guess I'll start with this. Nine of
1:42:11
the sixteen regionals had the regional host win, and shockingly,
1:42:16
two of them are the two that we're gonna be
1:42:18
talking about next. So somehow that happened, and that's how
1:42:22
that worked out, and the two at the top were
1:42:24
not in there, So somehow this all worked out in
1:42:28
a weird way. But Kansas regional da Van Horn sad
1:42:33
once again he's gonna have to wait another year after
1:42:36
that brutal way to go out. Last year, once again,
1:42:38
Kansas just took over these games. We really saw the
1:42:41
power from them come out and it was a big
1:42:44
part of the game. LeBlanc massive homer for them in
1:42:47
a big spot there. And this Kansas offense is just
1:42:49
something that's getting going. So it'll be really interesting to
1:42:52
see how they play going up against Oklahoma team that's
1:42:55
coming off of a huge upset as well. And the
1:42:58
offense look really good for Oklahoma there too, So it
1:43:00
will definitely be a battle the weekend to see, you
1:43:02
know what, pitching staff can hold each other to a
1:43:05
somewhat reasonable run total. But yeah, that'll be it.
1:43:10
Speaker 1: Well said, I love that, Jake, want to go to
1:43:13
you to talk Lawrence man. Uh we kind of said it.
1:43:16
In terms of mid major representation. Uh, some interesting stuff
1:43:20
here because Northeastern pretty historic squad for baseball. Missouri State
1:43:26
showed up and showed out this year. Uh, and yet
1:43:30
one two the big Kansas's Kansas and ar Kansas, We're
1:43:35
coming for him.
1:43:37
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, we knew this was gonna be a
1:43:40
tough regional and someone had to end up going on
1:43:43
and two in it. It just happened to be. It
1:43:45
just happened to be Missouri State. You know, they put
1:43:47
up they put up runs in their in their first game,
1:43:51
but uh, Robbie O'Connor uh of Northeastern was just too
1:43:54
much for him in the in that second one. And
1:43:56
then for them, Carmelo Masaccia, ajas Asentino, Harrison Farnberg, Harrison
1:44:03
Farmer didn't play in their last game. I think he
1:44:05
had like a leg injury or something. But they were
1:44:08
all three really good with the bats for Northeastern, and
1:44:10
they just ended up a little unlucky with their star
1:44:13
getting injured in the and the pitching not holding up.
1:44:15
But uh, I mean a really good season for both
1:44:17
of them. Northeastern, they came out of nowhere a little
1:44:19
bit when that when that Coastal Athletic Association not conference,
1:44:24
but took that away from took that away from CAM
1:44:27
one the last minute. Obviously, Missouri State has been at
1:44:29
the top of the mid major world for for most
1:44:33
of the season. They've had a really good, especially offensive season.
1:44:36
Just their stars also didn't didn't really come to play.
1:44:39
Cayden bog and Paul hasn't had quite the season that
1:44:43
everyone expected him to have.
1:44:46
Speaker 4: Just unfortunate for those two.
1:44:47
Speaker 7: But I mean Arkansas and Kansas proved to be proved
1:44:50
to be the two best teams in it by far.
1:44:52
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think that's totally fair. Josh, I
1:44:55
do want to go to you to talk about Lawrence
1:44:58
just a little bit. We can talk about, you know,
1:45:00
your regions of death. We can talk about the you know,
1:45:02
the tricky difficult regions to face and to emerge from.
1:45:07
This is certainly one of them. What do you think
1:45:09
Kansas maybe the outlook for them heading into like we said,
1:45:13
a tough matchup with Oklahoma, very midwestern matchup now that
1:45:17
I kind of think about it.
1:45:19
Speaker 5: Yeah, former Big Twelve matchup and Southwest Conference from like
1:45:24
way back in the day, I think, Yeah, I believe
1:45:26
for my time, I just think so. Time traveler Josh
1:45:30
Catlet uh college sports artist Josh Catler is, let's be real, Yeah,
1:45:37
yeah'll be honest. If they can keep this offense going
1:45:42
they're gonna hit their way right to Omaha. Simple enough.
1:45:46
Oklahoma's offense did enough, I mean Oklahoma's pitching did enough
1:45:51
to alleviate damage from that Georgia Tech offense that was
1:45:54
pretty much indisputed the best in the country. But Kansas,
1:45:59
the way they've been hitting recently, especially this weekend, they
1:46:02
can overwhelm any pitching staff with that offense. Tyson LeBlanc
1:46:06
in particular was probably the big star this weekend, but
1:46:09
Bungarieta looked really good this weekend too. Some of the
1:46:12
other stars didn't really fully show out, but some guys
1:46:15
picked up when they needed to Arkansas just to quickly
1:46:20
hit on. Some of their relievers really underperformed in ways
1:46:26
they haven't all year, like Ethan mceilvean looked really bad yesterday,
1:46:31
Cole Gibler looked rough, Colin Fisher looked rough. You can't
1:46:36
really blame guys on offense, like you can't blame Ryder Helfrick.
1:46:38
I mean he homeered twice yesterday. I think, like, you
1:46:41
can't blame guys like that. But kind of the bullpens
1:46:44
what fell apart, and that's weird because it's a really
1:46:46
talented bullpen in terms of like, I don't know, I
1:46:50
have no idea what the bullpen e RA and whatnot
1:46:52
numbers shape up like against the rest of the SEC.
1:46:55
But I know in terms of sheer talent, it's about
1:46:57
as good as it gets. So really weird to see that.
1:47:00
Just as another point and another bullet point on the
1:47:03
resume of that Kansas offense. Yeah, I don't really think
1:47:08
they should be scared of the Oklahoma pitching staff based
1:47:11
on what we've seen so far. And I mean, shoot,
1:47:14
who would they be matched up against in them hot
1:47:16
be uh Bama or Bama or Saint John's or whatever.
1:47:20
They can probably take care of them too, which is
1:47:21
a really good outlook. I think if they keep up
1:47:23
what they've been the resume they've been putting together over
1:47:26
the past month or two and especially this weekend at Pete,
1:47:29
it is.
1:47:30
Speaker 1: Full steam ahead. I'm with you completely on that one.
1:47:34
Let's round it out, Jake, Morgantown, West Virginia Mountaineers. They
1:47:40
sang country roads, it was beautiful, it was electric. College
1:47:44
sports is very cool. West Virginia takes this one in Morgantown.
1:47:49
Despite some chicanery early in the early in the regional
1:47:54
what was your major takeaway from West Virginia.
1:47:58
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I mean, this whole weekend was good,
1:48:01
but uh, this whole region I should say was good.
1:48:04
But but that Sunday and Monday in particular is where
1:48:06
things This one just just got crazy. Especially those last
1:48:09
two games. There was just there was just back and
1:48:12
forth in both of those. Paul Schoenfeld was the hero
1:48:15
in the first one. I could only imagine how loud
1:48:18
that place was when he hit that home run. To
1:48:21
send this one to a Monday game, I mean on
1:48:23
TV it sounded loud. I couldn't imagine being in the
1:48:25
stands at that game. That would have been awesome. But
1:48:28
he did send this one to a Monday game, and
1:48:30
and that and that one there. There wasn't a lot
1:48:32
of great pitching in that first one. Tyler Bell homer twice,
1:48:36
but nonetheless in the in Monday's game, it was just
1:48:39
fireworks all over again. You know when when the first
1:48:42
run scored on a drop third strike, you knew this
1:48:45
one was gonna be a wild one. Hudson Brown had
1:48:50
had a massive game homer and twice. Ethan Ethan Kendall
1:48:53
came through game time home run in the eighth for
1:48:56
Kentucky and then obviously Harmoni Goozman was the was the
1:48:59
ultimate hero in that one. But I mean we saw
1:49:02
we saw Jackson joking and relief. We got like like
1:49:05
I talked about with Texas earlier, we got all the
1:49:07
West Virginia's guys Maxell started in corn Chance and Cole Dawson, Montesa,
1:49:12
all of them pitched in this game for West Virginia.
1:49:15
This was this was just everything you could have wanted
1:49:17
from a from a from a winner take all game.
1:49:20
We got all the all the excitement, all the pictures,
1:49:22
everything we wanted to see.
1:49:24
Speaker 1: It was a It was an awesome game. One I
1:49:27
was really really tickled to have a chance to watch,
1:49:29
especially in a very busy day of the week for me.
1:49:32
J B gonna go to you talking about Morgantown. There's
1:49:34
a lot of different routes I could go with this
1:49:36
to ask you some questions. I could ask you about
1:49:39
some propaganda you want to push for a certain player
1:49:41
in this region that I know we're very fond of.
1:49:43
I could ask you about wake for us. I'm just
1:49:45
gonna let you, Griff, tell me what you want to
1:49:47
tell me about Morgantown.
1:49:49
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'll say. The thing that immediately popped out to
1:49:52
me was this felt very, very very similar from a
1:49:56
demon deacon perspective on Wake to twenty twenty four with ECU.
1:50:00
It felt like the same thing. And when this came out,
1:50:02
I saw you guys pick Wake for us, and I
1:50:04
immediately went, I don't think that's happening this group. Just
1:50:08
knowing how it's been for them recently, I didn't think
1:50:10
they stood a chance and that was just kind of
1:50:12
how it was. And they're so talented, but Wake recently
1:50:15
when it comes to postseason play, it hasn't been there
1:50:18
for them, and this just felt exactly similar to when
1:50:20
I picked them in twenty four and I just couldn't
1:50:23
do it again. But yeah, you know this Wake team,
1:50:27
it was a good season for them overall, after kind
1:50:30
of having some ups and down some bumpy roads, they
1:50:32
get to this point. But Kentucky, this was kind of
1:50:35
what we thought could possibly happen, you know, Kentucky getting hot.
1:50:38
At least for me, I thought Kentucky could get hot
1:50:41
right here, especially after sneaking in, and it would be
1:50:43
a duke between them and West Virginia, and we got
1:50:45
to see it, which was awesome. This West Virginia team.
1:50:49
They played really well. Tyler Bell, like you're alluding to,
1:50:53
played amazing, which is what we love to see. And
1:50:57
me and Josh, you know, it's gonna come down to
1:50:59
the wire and draft. We're gonna see what happens between
1:51:01
our boys. But you never know, you never know. T Bell.
1:51:06
Nice little weekend, but we'll see what happens. But yeah,
1:51:10
overall it was It was a great, great series, probably
1:51:13
one of the better ones. I think overall, one of
1:51:14
the better regionals that we got to see most popcorn,
1:51:18
but yeah.
1:51:19
Speaker 1: Hard agree on that. I would say that Morgantown beyond
1:51:24
Lincoln definitely the region that I spent the most time,
1:51:27
and especially like I said, after My Heart was Broken
1:51:29
and Chapel Josh round us off any major compelling thoughts, arguments,
1:51:35
joshisms to bring us from Morgantown.
1:51:39
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've got one. Also, something I just saw, like
1:51:41
in real time that I want to mention. I think
1:51:43
it's cool. On the entire weekend, four seats as a
1:51:47
whole walked less, walked less matters than the two seeds
1:51:53
and the three seeds, which is really weird considering mid
1:51:55
major arms typically have a lot of control issues. I
1:51:58
just saw that. Though I mentioned I think it's cool
1:52:01
from this, I want to just talk about one guy
1:52:03
in particular from this regional, Dawson Montesa. Talk about a
1:52:09
showing because against Wake Forest seven in inks, not even
1:52:14
a great outing through one hundred and twenty two pitches,
1:52:17
comes in today out of the bullpen a day later
1:52:20
after throwing one hundred and twenty two pitches and closes
1:52:23
out the game. Nut. That's nail stuff. That's what you
1:52:26
want to see in college baseball. That is that is
1:52:28
regional weekend at its finest. I couldn't believe it when
1:52:31
he was warming up he threw one hundred and twenty
1:52:32
two pitches yesterday. I mean, like, shout out to him.
1:52:36
It's been a great guy for them all year, a
1:52:37
great Sunday guy, and I mean he came through and
1:52:40
they needed them today. He really wasn't great against Wake either,
1:52:44
but it was, you know, still good enough because you
1:52:48
know the Wake pitching staff was terrible in that game too,
1:52:50
but regardless, super impressive. Should be a super fun regional
1:52:55
for them, hosting Polly next weekend. A couple of fun
1:52:59
pitching staffs in different ways, very different cultures. With those
1:53:04
two schools. That should be That should be a fun
1:53:07
super I'm looking forward to that one.
1:53:08
Speaker 1: Sure should guys. That's it. We did sixteen regionals under
1:53:14
two hours. I'm proud of us. Well done. Do want
1:53:19
to bounce it to you guys, because I know that
1:53:21
we are We're very late. It is. It is past
1:53:25
three am for our man, coach, Jake. You can see
1:53:27
it in that man's face. Comment down below and thank
1:53:30
Jake Barjery coach for staying up so late. Jake, Tell
1:53:34
the folks at home where they can find you between
1:53:36
episodes and what you're working on.
1:53:37
Speaker 7: Right Yeah, you can follow me on Twitter at Jake Barge.
1:53:42
I'm posting over there occasionally. Have some have a little
1:53:46
bit of writing and get caught up on I should.
1:53:47
I should have that out hopefully pretty soon if I can.
1:53:51
If I can figure out some time, then I'm able
1:53:53
to do it between portal stuff and everything going on there.
1:53:56
But right now, what I'm working on, I'm just I'm
1:53:59
gonna be getting some sleep. I've been I've been up
1:54:01
since past two am, including this recording, for like four.
1:54:05
Speaker 4: Days in a row now, watching baseball.
1:54:07
Speaker 7: I'm not going to complain about it, but I'm looking
1:54:09
forward to recharge in a little bit this week and
1:54:11
getting and preparing for some of these super regionals next weekend.
1:54:15
Speaker 1: Good for you, Good for you, and thank you man.
1:54:17
Incredible stuff as always from you, Jake JB. It's been
1:54:21
a pleasure to have you back on the show Man.
1:54:23
It was it was overdue. As a matter of fact,
1:54:25
we're glad to have you back though. Curious sir, if
1:54:29
you tell the folks at home where they can find
1:54:31
you between episodes and what's your work?
1:54:33
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's at JB Underscore. Sebastiano on Twitter, a lot
1:54:37
of tweets some stuff from the weekend. I got to
1:54:39
finish up some writing of the finishing up touches of
1:54:42
the weekend, and probably after the game recaps are finished up,
1:54:45
probably a little article on basically live looks on the
1:54:48
guys that stood out from the weekend, and then from
1:54:52
there it'll be Super's time. So I'll have another weekend
1:54:55
of coverage with the Trojans and the Heels this weekend,
1:54:58
So yeah, be on the lookout for that.
1:55:00
Speaker 1: Gonna be awesome. Can't wait for that. Mister Catlet, You've
1:55:04
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1:55:08
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1:55:16
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1:55:19
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1:56:32
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1:56:35
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