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- 0:00Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, we welcome you into a special episode of
- 0:03Speaker 1: Three Guys Before the Game Tony Courty Long with the
- 0:06Speaker 1: Dean Hoppy Kerchieval and the Senator Brad Howe in Omaha.
- 0:11Speaker 1: And on this recap we will follow up on West
- 0:13Speaker 1: Virginia's loss to the tar Heels of the University of
- 0:16Speaker 1: North Carolina, falling in the College World Series Game two
- 0:19Speaker 1: for the West Virginia Mountaineers by a final score of
- 0:22Speaker 1: five to two.
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- 1:16Speaker 1: So we are here inside the Letterfly Sports Bar, and
- 1:21Speaker 1: it is early in the morning. In fact, the only
- 1:23Speaker 1: people that aren't us that are here are the incredible
- 1:28Speaker 1: video producer who we've befriended and now is going to
- 1:31Speaker 1: basically attend all of our family functions. That's Veil, and
- 1:35Speaker 1: he has been an absolute godsend. And a couple of
- 1:38Speaker 1: folks that are still cleaning the establishment. They're getting ready
- 1:41Speaker 1: for another busy day here because we've got two baseball
- 1:44Speaker 1: games coming up in Omaha. West Virginia obviously is off,
- 1:47Speaker 1: but the tournament continues.
- 1:48Speaker 3: I think we got the keys to the building. It's
- 1:51Speaker 3: on us.
- 1:51Speaker 2: Yeah, we're here, We're here.
- 1:52Speaker 3: I think also there's a couple of Mountaineer fans down
- 1:54Speaker 3: there that never left still from last night. Yeah, yeah,
- 1:57Speaker 3: never left.
- 1:57Speaker 2: Okay.
- 1:58Speaker 1: Disappointing obviously was at for West Virginia.
- 2:02Speaker 2: The Mountaineers fall five to two.
- 2:04Speaker 1: Quite honestly, it was the kind of game that you
- 2:08Speaker 1: had anticipated extremely close and something was going to turn it.
- 2:13Speaker 1: At one point for either side. Obviously, it's baseball, so
- 2:17Speaker 1: it's going to be some form of a mistake, and
- 2:20Speaker 1: that's how it played out. You know, you went into
- 2:23Speaker 1: that game and you said, you know, in a perfect world,
- 2:25Speaker 1: you would love to see, you know, Max Yale have
- 2:28Speaker 1: command of his stuff, and he certainly did gave up
- 2:33Speaker 1: the two runs in the first inning. But his line
- 2:35Speaker 1: on the night he throws seven innings and going into
- 2:39Speaker 1: the game, Guys, if you just said, okay, Max, Max
- 2:41Speaker 1: is going to give you seven innings of work, you'd.
- 2:44Speaker 4: Go like and give you two runs. You take that
- 2:47Speaker 4: all day. That was the target. You got the Big
- 2:49Speaker 4: twelve pitcher of the year on the year, he was outstanding.
- 2:51Speaker 4: This loss is not on Max Yale. He did exactly
- 2:54Speaker 4: what you wanted him to do. You go back to
- 2:56Speaker 4: those two runs you gave up in the first inning,
- 2:58Speaker 4: and again this happens in base Sometimes you hit the
- 3:00Speaker 4: ball one hundred and eight miles an hour off the
- 3:02Speaker 4: bat and it goes right to somebody. Sometimes you barely
- 3:05Speaker 4: make contact and it finds its way through. And that's
- 3:07Speaker 4: what Carolina did to get that thing started. There was
- 3:10Speaker 4: a hit by pitch and there bounced and then hit
- 3:13Speaker 4: the bat or not even a traditional hit by pitch,
- 3:15Speaker 4: So there were some odd things in credit Carolina for
- 3:17Speaker 4: scratching out too early forced West Virginia to fight its
- 3:20Speaker 4: way back in, which it did, but Maxiel got settled
- 3:23Speaker 4: in after that. A couple of little dinkers in the
- 3:26Speaker 4: first got Carolina ahead, and then he was dealing guys.
- 3:28Speaker 3: That's exactly what you needed.
- 3:30Speaker 4: Got into the late innings, that made it a three
- 3:33Speaker 4: inning game, and you've got a chance to steal it.
- 3:35Speaker 3: This is pretty simple.
- 3:36Speaker 4: We could make this episode thirty more seconds if you want.
- 3:39Speaker 4: It was defensive lapses by West Virginia. That was the
- 3:41Speaker 4: difference that allowed that Carolina runs to score. That's something
- 3:45Speaker 4: West Virginia hasn't done all year. It's been pitching and
- 3:48Speaker 4: great defense. We just talked on the last episode how
- 3:50Speaker 4: the Mountaineers came into this field as the third best
- 3:53Speaker 4: fielding team in it, but only three to one thousands
- 3:55Speaker 4: of a point behind the leader. It was one of
- 3:57Speaker 4: the best defensive teams in the field, and you just
- 3:59Speaker 4: had a couple of timely airs last night that led
- 4:01Speaker 4: to runs by Carolina. That's the difference in the game.
- 4:04Speaker 3: Yeah, and my macro on this would be look, you're
- 4:07Speaker 3: still alive, right, I mean it's a double elimination tournament.
- 4:10Speaker 2: You'll play Troy tomorrow.
- 4:12Speaker 3: But you got to win three one against Troy and
- 4:15Speaker 3: two against North Carolina to get to the championship game.
- 4:17Speaker 3: And we know what West Virginia did in the regional.
- 4:19Speaker 3: But still it's deflating. I mean, West Virginia fans were
- 4:22Speaker 3: so high. We're so high with this team, and we
- 4:26Speaker 3: witnessed this everywhere we went in Omaha and during the
- 4:29Speaker 3: game last night, all the chance, huge crowd, West Virginia
- 4:32Speaker 3: well represented. So look, West Virginia still in it from
- 4:35Speaker 3: but it was deflating because this team had done so well.
- 4:39Speaker 3: And Brad, you're right, I mean this game was this close.
- 4:42Speaker 2: Was this close.
- 4:42Speaker 3: You look at the stats, total bases, West Virginia eight
- 4:46Speaker 3: u n C, ten runners left on base, West Virginia
- 4:48Speaker 3: seven u NC, nine hits eight and eight no home runs.
- 4:52Speaker 3: This game was extremely close. It just came down as
- 4:54Speaker 3: baseball does sometimes. And Coach Dabs talked about that, a
- 4:57Speaker 3: couple of mistakes that's what happened.
- 5:00Speaker 1: You got to give a ton of credit to you're
- 5:03Speaker 1: able as West Virginia to chase their pitcher before right
- 5:08Speaker 1: before Maxielle goes. So that's like one of those the
- 5:10Speaker 1: first things in a game, whose pitcher, whose starter gets
- 5:14Speaker 1: pulled first? You won that category. But yeah, the young fella,
- 5:18Speaker 1: and he is a young fella that came in for
- 5:20Speaker 1: North Carolina McDuffie. McDuffie was absolutely he was the massive
- 5:26Speaker 1: part of this game.
- 5:27Speaker 4: Yeah, one of the best freshmen in America last year.
- 5:29Speaker 4: He comes in this year and he goes three and
- 5:30Speaker 4: two thirds and just gives up three hits.
- 5:32Speaker 3: I thought that was the difference.
- 5:33Speaker 4: You chased Lynch and felt pretty good that you were
- 5:35Speaker 4: into the bullpen there, and West virgin did what it did.
- 5:38Speaker 4: It kept scrapping, it, kept getting guys on base. You
- 5:40Speaker 4: just couldn't push him across. And then he had credit McDuffie.
- 5:43Speaker 4: I thought he was really good in the difference in
- 5:45Speaker 4: that game for Carolina.
- 5:46Speaker 3: He was He was solid. And then when they're closing
- 5:48Speaker 3: out the game, they bring in Gloubert and Cloudberg just
- 5:50Speaker 3: throws gas. I mean he throws ninety six ninety seven
- 5:53Speaker 3: miles an hour for you know, two thirds of an
- 5:56Speaker 3: inning and gets in a West Virginia's swing and you think, okay,
- 5:58Speaker 3: he still got a chance you got two men on,
- 6:00Speaker 3: you got the tying run to plate, and Glaber just
- 6:02Speaker 3: throws heat and that was the difference there.
- 6:03Speaker 2: Very good.
- 6:04Speaker 4: He was eleven and zero on the season. A lot
- 6:06Speaker 4: of decisions for a guy that only made three starts.
- 6:08Speaker 4: That's one of the Freshmen of the Year finalists. I mean,
- 6:10Speaker 4: he's a live arm and you saw it. So they
- 6:12Speaker 4: did a great job on the back end of their
- 6:13Speaker 4: bullpen getting there. And again we'll go through some other
- 6:16Speaker 4: parts of this. There were certainly missed opportunities for West Virginia,
- 6:19Speaker 4: but defensively, West Virginia's got to make plays. When it
- 6:22Speaker 4: makes plays, it generally wins games. And last night, unfortunately,
- 6:25Speaker 4: was one of those that did not.
- 6:26Speaker 3: And that overshadows the two airs and seventh overshadows some
- 6:29Speaker 3: really good defensive plays before that, right like Hall made
- 6:33Speaker 3: a great play catching a shot and then throwing, and
- 6:38Speaker 3: then Guzaman stretches out and just keeps his foot on
- 6:40Speaker 3: the bag and makes a play. That was a great
- 6:42Speaker 3: defensive play. So it was uncharacteristic defensive breakdown that cost you.
- 6:46Speaker 4: You know, we often say, and you hear coaches that
- 6:48Speaker 4: you know, the other team gets to play too, Yes,
- 6:50Speaker 4: the other team gets to do things on Gallaher's triple
- 6:53Speaker 4: that with the deciding hit, Go back and watch where
- 6:56Speaker 4: that pitch was by Maxiel.
- 6:58Speaker 3: You'll take that pitch ten out of ten time.
- 7:00Speaker 4: It was down in the zone and Gallaher did a
- 7:02Speaker 4: nice job of going down and getting it and driving
- 7:05Speaker 4: it into that big outfield grass there here at Charles Strawfield.
- 7:08Speaker 4: That's a really good pitch. Sometimes the other guys just
- 7:10Speaker 4: do things too, and they did in this case.
- 7:12Speaker 2: You need breaks, you need the ball to go your way.
- 7:15Speaker 1: And West Virginia had a call at third base on
- 7:18Speaker 1: an Armani Guzman steel attempt that goes to review, it
- 7:22Speaker 1: doesn't go your way. So that will also be a
- 7:25Speaker 1: footnote to this game that you'll always put in the
- 7:27Speaker 1: category of what if. What if the call on the
- 7:30Speaker 1: field was upheld and he remained safe and he's at
- 7:33Speaker 1: third base?
- 7:34Speaker 2: Game of inches.
- 7:35Speaker 4: The phrase was developed because of baseball. That's a great example.
- 7:39Speaker 4: And listen, we're not here to complain about officiating or umpiring,
- 7:42Speaker 4: but that's a tough one.
- 7:43Speaker 2: Man.
- 7:43Speaker 4: That's a tough one to swallow there when you look
- 7:45Speaker 4: at it as long as you do and you overturn
- 7:48Speaker 4: the call, hop We complain about that in football all
- 7:50Speaker 4: the time. If it takes more than what a basketball
- 7:53Speaker 4: shot clock takes, it's probably the definition of indisputable. And
- 7:56Speaker 4: that was a close I thought we could argue that
- 7:58Speaker 4: either way. Unfortunately it goes against West Virginia and you're right,
- 8:01Speaker 4: you're talking about second and third. If they called they
- 8:03Speaker 4: leave the call as they called it on the field,
- 8:06Speaker 4: as the guy that's standing over the play called it
- 8:08Speaker 4: safe before they.
- 8:09Speaker 3: Went somewhere else where they go it go to some
- 8:11Speaker 3: other state to check that out.
- 8:12Speaker 2: How get control?
- 8:14Speaker 4: So the guy that's over that call and staring at
- 8:17Speaker 4: the base gets it taken out of his hands.
- 8:18Speaker 3: He did call it safe, I believe changes the game. Yeah, second, third,
- 8:22Speaker 3: less than two outs? Here you go. And as you said,
- 8:24Speaker 3: I mean, if he had been called out, we'd quibble
- 8:26Speaker 3: about that and go, well, it was how could you
- 8:28Speaker 3: overturn it?
- 8:29Speaker 2: Tough?
- 8:30Speaker 3: So it gets called safe and we watch it, watch
- 8:32Speaker 3: it a bunch of times. I think Mountain New fans
- 8:34Speaker 3: will always remember that it did not look like those
- 8:36Speaker 3: inspitual evidence to overturn the call, right, I mean, it
- 8:39Speaker 3: was so close, so how do you overturn it? But
- 8:42Speaker 3: you know, again, you that's the thing that that that's
- 8:45Speaker 3: a footnote to this game. Didn't cost you the game,
- 8:48Speaker 3: but certainly certainly didn't didn't.
- 8:50Speaker 2: Help you a point on that, Brad.
- 8:52Speaker 1: So let's talk about some folks are making the case
- 8:55Speaker 1: that the third baseman's foot was covering the bag, as
- 8:59Speaker 1: Guzman was sly.
- 9:00Speaker 4: But the rule is you've got the ball, you're allowed
- 9:02Speaker 4: to be in front of the base. So I think
- 9:04Speaker 4: if you wanted to go back and look and quiverle
- 9:06Speaker 4: it when he caught the ball. But I think there
- 9:07Speaker 4: were a bunch of people I was around, said he's
- 9:09Speaker 4: got the ball there as his foot goes in front
- 9:11Speaker 4: of the bag, so I need to see it again.
- 9:13Speaker 4: But that's that's the interpretation was he had the ball,
- 9:16Speaker 4: therefore the foot can be it was a great throw.
- 9:18Speaker 2: Oh, it was a perfect throw.
- 9:20Speaker 1: Well, as they say, game of benches, you've got to
- 9:23Speaker 1: give a just unbelievable credit.
- 9:25Speaker 2: That was a rocket shot, right, a laser beam. Right.
- 9:28Speaker 1: They couldn't have thrown it better. No, could not have
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- 10:49Speaker 2: Did you already do did you.
- 10:50Speaker 1: Slide in Hoppy's obvious observations without a without a call
- 10:54Speaker 1: to it, or do you.
- 10:55Speaker 3: Have others without to call me? Most of what I
- 10:58Speaker 3: said we are obvious, we already already kind of talked about.
- 11:01Speaker 3: But it just it tells you too that the you know, baseball,
- 11:07Speaker 3: at this level, the margins are so so so close,
- 11:11Speaker 3: and against a lesser team, you might have been able
- 11:14Speaker 3: to survive that you might have been able to survive
- 11:16Speaker 3: a couple of mistakes and you know, get a couple
- 11:18Speaker 3: of runs late off maybe a lesser relief pitcher, and
- 11:21Speaker 3: at this at this level, you just you just can't.
- 11:24Speaker 3: Number One. The second thing is that how much have
- 11:27Speaker 3: we talked about Steve Savans just being level headed? And
- 11:29Speaker 3: last night I listened to the postgame press conference and
- 11:32Speaker 3: he's he just explains what happened, and it's got the
- 11:35Speaker 3: same tone in his voice, guys, and he's saying, well,
- 11:37Speaker 3: it's baseball, and you know, mistakes happen, and you know,
- 11:41Speaker 3: credited Max Yell for the job he did, and you
- 11:44Speaker 3: know we've come back before and when we've been down
- 11:46Speaker 3: in the loser's brack. It just he's the same guy,
- 11:48Speaker 3: which is the approach you need now because you really
- 11:51Speaker 3: do have a tough road to ho Yeah, that's the thing.
- 11:53Speaker 4: And we were talking on the way home last night.
- 11:55Speaker 4: The nice thing about this event is that was listen.
- 11:58Speaker 4: That was a massive game last night. Used this stat before.
- 12:01Speaker 4: Rob Anderson, who's director of communications here for Creighton, put
- 12:04Speaker 4: the stat out before the game. Twenty nine of the
- 12:06Speaker 4: last thirty five World Series champions have started too and zero.
- 12:11Speaker 4: So that was an important game. As we know, you
- 12:12Speaker 4: get into that winners bracket, but you're also not done.
- 12:16Speaker 4: You take the loss last night and you're not done.
- 12:18Speaker 4: You got dust yourself off and you got to get
- 12:19Speaker 4: right back up. This is no different than where West
- 12:22Speaker 4: Virginia was in the regional.
- 12:23Speaker 2: Now.
- 12:23Speaker 4: What you need moving forward is someone's got to step up,
- 12:26Speaker 4: as Dawson Montesa did after a loss in the regil
- 12:29Speaker 4: and said, it was that right, give me the ball.
- 12:31Speaker 4: I got it against a very good Wake Forest team.
- 12:34Speaker 4: That's a game, guys, we didn't talk much about. We
- 12:36Speaker 4: focused just on Dawson's performance about that game, which was
- 12:39Speaker 4: elite that's a very good Wake Forest team. They were
- 12:41Speaker 4: just behind West Virginia and the RPI, and Dawson took
- 12:44Speaker 4: it and shoved and went out and won that game
- 12:46Speaker 4: and advanced you on. And we'll get into Troy here
- 12:48Speaker 4: in a second. You're going to get a rematch with
- 12:50Speaker 4: the Trojans. But that's what you need now. Whoever gets
- 12:52Speaker 4: the ball now in game three has to go out
- 12:54Speaker 4: and deliver a gym and get your right back in
- 12:56Speaker 4: a position to go at Carolina guy.
- 12:58Speaker 1: And that is one of the many beauties of this event.
- 13:00Speaker 1: Unlike any other sport that we are involved with, in football,
- 13:05Speaker 1: you go to your bowl game, and you play the
- 13:07Speaker 1: bowl game, and the bowl game is over after four quarters.
- 13:10Speaker 1: Now you know, hopefully thinking down the road, you get
- 13:14Speaker 1: into the college football playoff, you'd have multiple opportunities to
- 13:17Speaker 1: play more than one basketball. The finality is like a gunshot.
- 13:22Speaker 1: It is over, and your season is immediately done. If
- 13:25Speaker 1: it's the tournament, or if it's the NCAA tournament, your
- 13:27Speaker 1: conference tournament.
- 13:28Speaker 2: It's just instantly over.
- 13:30Speaker 1: This at least gives you an opportunity to take a
- 13:32Speaker 1: deep inhill. Not that you wanted to drop one at all,
- 13:35Speaker 1: but at least you're not done, and so now you
- 13:38Speaker 1: battle through. And because of the way West Virginia had
- 13:42Speaker 1: to come through in the regional, at least they can
- 13:44Speaker 1: lean on what you just said. Hey, we've done this before,
- 13:48Speaker 1: let's do it again.
- 13:49Speaker 3: And you're playing a team that you've defeated, so you
- 13:52Speaker 3: know you can be However, this Troy team is at frightening.
- 13:55Speaker 3: They are frightening, and we worried about their bats in
- 13:57Speaker 3: West Virginia was able to manage that when they met
- 13:59Speaker 3: the first but they got hot against Ole Miss. They
- 14:01Speaker 3: scored twelve runs in that game and just you know,
- 14:05Speaker 3: sent Ole Miss back home. So this is a Troy team.
- 14:07Speaker 3: Now it's got a little confidence. They're coming off a win.
- 14:09Speaker 4: Yeah you know what, they were also coming off of
- 14:11Speaker 4: a loss, right, they also lost, so they got back on.
- 14:14Speaker 3: The horse and right game.
- 14:15Speaker 4: So this also isn't the greatest team ever assembled, all
- 14:18Speaker 4: they respect of course to Troy. They took a loss early.
- 14:21Speaker 4: So now it's a matter of which of these teams
- 14:22Speaker 4: can get a good pitching performance, get some timely hitting
- 14:25Speaker 4: and keep moving in this thing. The path got bumpier,
- 14:27Speaker 4: there's no question about that. But the path didn't end,
- 14:30Speaker 4: you're still rolling.
- 14:31Speaker 1: Ole miss is the first of the eight teams to
- 14:33Speaker 1: be eliminated. And today, I mean you could get some
- 14:37Speaker 1: brand names out of this tournament.
- 14:39Speaker 2: I mean Texas could go by by here. Today. We've
- 14:42Speaker 2: got two more games that are being played.
- 14:43Speaker 1: Obviously, West Virginia as Off Mountaineers played tomorrow at two o'clock,
- 14:48Speaker 1: and so as we record, that would be the Tuesday
- 14:51Speaker 1: game at two o'clock against Troy. Three guys before the
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- 15:35Speaker 1: of lou Wendel references. As a matter of fact, Lossouri
- 15:38Speaker 1: River there, talk to a lot of people that brought
- 15:41Speaker 1: lou Wendel boats in from West Virginia. In the locks
- 15:45Speaker 1: that they had to go through in certain canal systems, unbelievable.
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- 15:56Speaker 2: I tell you what.
- 15:57Speaker 1: Every place we've gone to or walked around since we've
- 16:00Speaker 1: got here and we had our last episode on Friday,
- 16:04Speaker 1: and Chavon gave us her story. But I have met
- 16:07Speaker 1: about eight Chavns who have these mind numbing stories about
- 16:14Speaker 1: how hard it was to get here because of bad
- 16:16Speaker 1: weather and mountaineer fans who don't know each other. The
- 16:20Speaker 1: only thing they have in common is that they're wearing
- 16:22Speaker 1: the logo and they say, hey, are you going? We're
- 16:25Speaker 1: you're going to the Yeah, well would you mind if
- 16:28Speaker 1: we okay, we'll cancel that. Rene car and I spoke
- 16:30Speaker 1: to a lady yesterday from Pensacola, Florida, her and her husband.
- 16:34Speaker 1: So they ended up with it was either eight or
- 16:37Speaker 1: nine people in a fifteen passenger van and like they're
- 16:41Speaker 1: at the renta car line and they're literally going like, Hey,
- 16:45Speaker 1: if we get this.
- 16:46Speaker 2: Van, you guys in, are you guys in? Do you
- 16:48Speaker 2: have cash? You have cash?
- 16:49Speaker 1: Yeah, one hundred, give me a hundred, give me a hundred,
- 16:52Speaker 1: K just give it to the guy.
- 16:53Speaker 2: And they just they drove all night. Three guys.
- 16:55Speaker 1: So anyway, most people boating got here quicker. Lou Wendell
- 17:00Speaker 1: Marine Sales is the largest pontoon boat dealer in the
- 17:02Speaker 1: state of West Virginia, the only Honda Marine premium dealership.
- 17:05Speaker 1: And obviously we're in the midst of voting season. Their
- 17:08Speaker 1: inventory right now is stand out. If you need sales, service, supplies,
- 17:13Speaker 1: whatever you might need, it's Lou Wendel Marine Sales. And yes,
- 17:16Speaker 1: I have privately confirmed that every James Bond movie where
- 17:21Speaker 1: you see a pontoon boat is a Lou Wendell pontooned.
- 17:25Speaker 1: Gud told me it was true.
- 17:26Speaker 3: I'm confirmed. We have talked about this at nauseam, but
- 17:31Speaker 3: it deserves even more discussion. Two things Mountaineer Nations showing up,
- 17:36Speaker 3: showing up with great enthusiasm, passion, joy, verve, everything associated
- 17:41Speaker 3: with the team. It's winning number one number and number
- 17:43Speaker 3: two and Brad you've been here before.
- 17:45Speaker 2: It's new for us.
- 17:45Speaker 3: In the atmosphere, it's incredible. I just can't I walk
- 17:49Speaker 3: around a gate. My mouth is hanging open.
- 17:51Speaker 2: Jape. You gave it an a gape.
- 17:52Speaker 3: It gave me just all that is going on and
- 17:56Speaker 3: associated with this. This is a This is a I've
- 17:59Speaker 3: been the games, been the final fours. This is a
- 18:04Speaker 3: this is a special event.
- 18:05Speaker 4: The reason it's been here, what fifty six since nineteen
- 18:08Speaker 4: fifty Yeah, the reason it stays here is because of
- 18:10Speaker 4: what you just said. It was again last night. There
- 18:12Speaker 4: are two teams playing that aren't local, and that thing's
- 18:15Speaker 4: packed out. There's very few, if any empty seats. This
- 18:18Speaker 4: community supports this event. It's it's yeah, it's been a
- 18:20Speaker 4: blast to be here. And you're right on the Mountaineers.
- 18:23Speaker 4: That was a whole second shift that arrived for yesterday's game.
- 18:26Speaker 4: There was in and they were here, but the first
- 18:30Speaker 4: shift didn't leave. They did not They just worked over
- 18:32Speaker 4: was overtime and then the second shift came in. That
- 18:34Speaker 4: event we had here with the Mac and Golden Blue
- 18:36Speaker 4: enterprises in the Alumni Association.
- 18:38Speaker 3: It was our second one.
- 18:39Speaker 4: Friday was pretty busy up here, pretty crowded yesterday we
- 18:43Speaker 4: were overflowing. So again, great job Mountaineer fans showing.
- 18:46Speaker 3: Up in Omaha.
- 18:47Speaker 2: You got some spreads on Stonts.
- 18:48Speaker 4: Yeah, I got a couple. We we've given most of
- 18:49Speaker 4: our numbers. I think here's a here's a couple others
- 18:52Speaker 4: that jumped out, and I'll lead with the one outside
- 18:54Speaker 4: of the two errors on the score line. As you
- 18:57Speaker 4: look through it, you mentioned left on base. Carolina actually
- 18:59Speaker 4: left more on base than you did. You were right
- 19:02Speaker 4: there for a win, guys, you were right there. But
- 19:03Speaker 4: here's one that got you runners on third less than
- 19:07Speaker 4: two outs. West Virginia goes oh for one. North Carolina
- 19:11Speaker 4: three of three. So timely hitting and a couple of
- 19:14Speaker 4: key mistakes by West Virginia.
- 19:16Speaker 3: Changed the face of this game.
- 19:17Speaker 4: And unfortunately, as we said, Max Eale gave you exactly
- 19:20Speaker 4: what you were hoping out of your starting pitcher, out
- 19:22Speaker 4: of your ace all season, and you just couldn't get
- 19:24Speaker 4: over the hump there and find a way to get
- 19:26Speaker 4: a win.
- 19:27Speaker 3: And now it.
- 19:27Speaker 4: Sets up a big game against Troy. You have got
- 19:30Speaker 4: to line up and go get this one. But you've
- 19:32Speaker 4: got some pitching options, right Dawson Montesa That we just
- 19:35Speaker 4: mentioned is available. Ben McDougall is available. You haven't seen
- 19:39Speaker 4: Carson Estraz yet.
- 19:40Speaker 2: Get in.
- 19:40Speaker 4: Reese Passenger is available, And don't be surprised if you
- 19:43Speaker 4: see Chance and Cole come back here pretty early. Right,
- 19:45Speaker 4: he didn't throw a lot of bitches. Yeah about fifty
- 19:48Speaker 4: five I think it was when he in the first game.
- 19:50Speaker 4: You will see him return there. So you've got all
- 19:52Speaker 4: your pitching available to you outside of probably Corn and Yale. Otherwise,
- 19:57Speaker 4: I think you got your staff and you got to
- 19:58Speaker 4: go get a win and see if you can get
- 19:59Speaker 4: into the A Carolina Series.
- 20:01Speaker 1: In essence, it'll be really interesting for me to see
- 20:04Speaker 1: what happens in that game because so Troy obviously now
- 20:08Speaker 1: they're three games in, right, this is going to be
- 20:11Speaker 1: Game three for them, and the one thing that won't
- 20:14Speaker 1: change with them is their ability to hit the ball.
- 20:16Speaker 1: And they have been scoring runs at a frenetic rate
- 20:19Speaker 1: and throughout their postseason. I mean, just like numbers that
- 20:22Speaker 1: make you go like ooh, that's frightening, but like where
- 20:24Speaker 1: is their pitching? Does this next game become you know,
- 20:28Speaker 1: one of those high scoring games. You don't know what
- 20:31Speaker 1: they have at their three spot. What's Virginia have it,
- 20:33Speaker 1: it's three spot.
- 20:35Speaker 4: Well, they're going to have to go deep into their pen.
- 20:37Speaker 4: They used a bunch of guys yesterday to get through
- 20:38Speaker 4: that Ole Miss game, which you have to in a
- 20:40Speaker 4: do or die, So yes, you would hope that's the advantages.
- 20:43Speaker 4: West Virginia hasn't had to go deep in the pen,
- 20:45Speaker 4: and you've got some guys that have already proven themselves
- 20:48Speaker 4: in this postseason in high leverage situations. This is just
- 20:51Speaker 4: a matter of who steps forth and has one of
- 20:54Speaker 4: those games that you're talking about on the back end,
- 20:56Speaker 4: like we did in the regional.
- 20:57Speaker 3: You know, Brad spreads one stats. I think think and
- 21:00Speaker 3: Dan Leman I were talking about this. I think West
- 21:01Speaker 3: Virginia hit it into two double plays in that game,
- 21:05Speaker 3: so that takes you know, your runners off base, So
- 21:08Speaker 3: you had opportunities and did not. We're not able to
- 21:09Speaker 3: get timely hits when you need it with runners on bass.
- 21:12Speaker 1: You mentioned Dan Lowman, but like as if people know,
- 21:15Speaker 1: I mean, you need to explain who Dan Lohman is
- 21:18Speaker 1: my neighbor? Okay, at your names, you just talk to
- 21:21Speaker 1: your neighbor or that no d Dan Lowman.
- 21:23Speaker 3: Dan Lowman is handling our video production while we're here,
- 21:25Speaker 3: and he has done some pieces if you follow him
- 21:27Speaker 3: on social media, he has done some art. He's done
- 21:30Speaker 3: some art, which if you really want to know what
- 21:33Speaker 3: the scene is, if we want to get a vibe
- 21:36Speaker 3: about what this is all about, you watch Olman's piece
- 21:39Speaker 3: and you might get a littleteriod. Even me, who's a
- 21:41Speaker 3: cold fish, you might get little tiriod, a loof and
- 21:43Speaker 3: distance self and distance. Yeah, but I mean, where do
- 21:46Speaker 3: we see his stuff?
- 21:47Speaker 2: Okay? Very good?
- 21:48Speaker 1: So you'll be able to see all of the things
- 21:50Speaker 1: that he has put together on either Twitter or on Facebook.
- 21:55Speaker 1: And if you just follow three guys on social it's
- 21:59Speaker 1: probably the easiest to do it. They've been retweeting or
- 22:02Speaker 1: posting it. And what he does is a little bit
- 22:06Speaker 1: of a special combination of audio sound bites married with
- 22:11Speaker 1: still photos and video and music. And the piece he
- 22:16Speaker 1: put out yesterday, which was Sunday, was a synopsis of
- 22:20Speaker 1: Steve Sabans's comments about just Steve, in the most eloquent way,
- 22:29Speaker 1: explained to the general media about the definition of toughness, grit,
- 22:37Speaker 1: you could call it hard edge, that West Virginian's proclaim.
- 22:41Speaker 1: And this team has had so if you go watch that.
- 22:44Speaker 1: I think you'll like it, plus a lot of really
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- 23:22Speaker 4: Thanks to our guy Phil at Daniels as well, who
- 23:25Speaker 4: has kept us outfitted in the latest mountaineer gear that he's.
- 23:28Speaker 3: Got a little problem right now.
- 23:29Speaker 2: Been a little problem for me.
- 23:30Speaker 3: What do you you had some help?
- 23:33Speaker 1: No, then a little problem. People can't keep coming up
- 23:35Speaker 1: to me and going like where'd you get that? Where'd
- 23:38Speaker 1: you get that shirt? Where'd you get because they're walking
- 23:40Speaker 1: in these tents. They're walking, they're walking in the tents
- 23:42Speaker 1: and they're going like but they see me, they go
- 23:44Speaker 1: like dude, where'd you get that one?
- 23:46Speaker 2: Where'd you is that? Horned legends? Peter Mali. They're pulling
- 23:48Speaker 2: on the back of my shirt. They're giving me.
- 23:50Speaker 1: They're giving me the collar check. And I don't know
- 23:52Speaker 1: who you are, but you're giving me. But anyway, so yeah,
- 23:54Speaker 1: if I looking you ever have the college? Hey, I
- 23:57Speaker 1: don't even know you, sir. You're checking the back of
- 23:59Speaker 1: my shoe.
- 24:00Speaker 3: Sure too.
- 24:01Speaker 4: The one you're wearing today and the one I'm wearing
- 24:02Speaker 4: today are available right now in store.
- 24:04Speaker 3: They just arrived at Fills.
- 24:05Speaker 2: Head over to Phills A University.
- 24:07Speaker 4: I can also go online Daniels of Morgantown, so you
- 24:10Speaker 4: don't have to just come to Morgantown.
- 24:11Speaker 3: Go to the WV shop Daniels of Morgantown. You can
- 24:14Speaker 3: get it there. By the way, Conley's CPA. Tell them
- 24:16Speaker 3: that we come back. We have went to it like
- 24:17Speaker 3: a bunch of like balled up receipts expenses. Do have
- 24:22Speaker 3: a few receipts from this, Throw to them and say
- 24:25Speaker 3: here are you do have a few receipts business related? Yeah,
- 24:28Speaker 3: you guys are ready to do some spreads on stats.
- 24:30Speaker 1: So since we're already did all the spreads on sets.
- 24:33Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we have meant textual healing. Textual healing is
- 24:35Speaker 1: brought to us by the good folks at WUVU Medicine,
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- 25:24Speaker 1: when we do spreads on I keep saying spresident says
- 25:27Speaker 1: textual healing. But anyway, thanks for the opportunity to give
- 25:33Speaker 1: me an excuse. But no, it's just not so.
- 25:35Speaker 2: Normally we do.
- 25:36Speaker 1: Textual healing and we write it all down and we
- 25:38Speaker 1: have it on our sheets. But I'm just doing this
- 25:40Speaker 1: on the hot fly. Someone said, have you had a
- 25:44Speaker 1: runza yet we have.
- 25:46Speaker 4: Not, and that's a miss by us. Runza very popular
- 25:50Speaker 4: here in Nebraska bleeds over into Iowa as well. It's
- 25:53Speaker 4: basically bread with meat inside it.
- 25:56Speaker 2: And it's it's called the sandwich.
- 26:02Speaker 3: Calzoni, Calzoni.
- 26:05Speaker 2: I've heard of that. It's a sandwich. That's no, that's
- 26:08Speaker 2: my son.
- 26:09Speaker 1: Actually, my son sent me that, not Andrew, the other
- 26:12Speaker 1: the other kid that I have. He said, you got
- 26:14Speaker 1: to get a runzo.
- 26:15Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's a miss. We're still here, I haven't
- 26:19Speaker 3: seen any What do you do and we'll get We'll
- 26:21Speaker 3: find one.
- 26:24Speaker 1: Matthew, Matthew and Grafton Rights. I was in Kingwood, that's
- 26:29Speaker 1: in Preston County, recently decided to eat at Monroe's restaurant.
- 26:32Speaker 1: When I got there, looked down, saw they had chicken palm.
- 26:35Speaker 1: So what did I tell the waiter?
- 26:37Speaker 2: Oh? Very good, I said, you guessed it.
- 26:39Speaker 1: Can I get some alfredo on that instead of marin
- 26:42Speaker 1: error And unlike the Kentucky pitcher didn't even balk. Brought
- 26:46Speaker 1: the food out and it was delicious. Keep up the
- 26:49Speaker 1: great coverage from Omaha and let's go. That's Matthew via Grafton. Okay,
- 26:56Speaker 1: that's kind of catching on popularity. One person said, planes, trains, automobiles, yes,
- 27:03Speaker 1: and pontoons. Mountaineers have used every kind of opportunity to
- 27:08Speaker 1: get here.
- 27:09Speaker 2: Let me see here.
- 27:10Speaker 1: Donan Virginia writes, and I'm doing these like I'm reading
- 27:13Speaker 1: these for the very first time, so hopefully I don't swear. Well,
- 27:18Speaker 1: maybe I'm late to the game. But studying the throwback
- 27:22Speaker 1: baseball logo, I noted that the W and the V
- 27:26Speaker 1: where they intersect form a diamond, as in a baseball diamond.
- 27:31Speaker 1: Was that intentional or by design? Anyway? Pretty unique? Yeah,
- 27:37Speaker 1: good observation it is? That was that was intentional?
- 27:42Speaker 2: Oh?
- 27:42Speaker 1: It was sure? Yeah, Okay, let me see here again.
- 27:47Speaker 1: Reading this, I'm literally reading this for the first time. Hey,
- 27:50Speaker 1: three guys loving all the stuff from Omaha. Mike and
- 27:52Speaker 1: Saint Albans. A couple of things. Daughter Zoe, boyfriend playing
- 27:55Speaker 1: in college league in Omaha this summer. He's a dn
- 27:58Speaker 1: E player and he's playing in the college league here
- 28:00Speaker 1: in Omaha. Yesterday he got his host family to all
- 28:04Speaker 1: wear West Virginia shirts.
- 28:05Speaker 2: Pretty awesome.
- 28:07Speaker 1: Zoe and Candice, my wife, an originator of the ren
- 28:10Speaker 1: Fredo Way, claims his wife is the originator of.
- 28:13Speaker 3: The Wren freedom to tangle with rent On.
- 28:16Speaker 1: Then are planning to come out for the championship series
- 28:19Speaker 1: when we get there. Lastly, I believe we are entering
- 28:23Speaker 1: the next golden era of WVU athletics. We are primed
- 28:27Speaker 1: with great coaches across all sports, building a national reputation,
- 28:31Speaker 1: unbelievable facilities, upcoming and coming upgrades. Pay Ren whatever he
- 28:36Speaker 1: needs to stay here. He's the difference. Have fun out there.
- 28:41Speaker 1: There is no doubt that West Virginia's athletic department as
- 28:46Speaker 1: it sits today is in a tremendously plus position, like
- 28:53Speaker 1: if you were now there on the stock market, like
- 28:56Speaker 1: you're gonna buy it, You're gonna sell it, You're gonna
- 28:58Speaker 1: hold it. This is at This was for various reasons
- 29:02Speaker 1: as things have transformed over the last couple of years
- 29:06Speaker 1: with hires and with a bunch of other decisions in
- 29:11Speaker 1: regard to funding. You're right, you're in an absolute plus
- 29:16Speaker 1: positive mode right now.
- 29:17Speaker 4: Agree, And you've been winning, right if you If you
- 29:20Speaker 4: take the winner season and you roll from women's basketball
- 29:23Speaker 4: into men's basketball, winning the crown, into a world championship
- 29:27Speaker 4: for rifle, into this baseball experience, you are experiencing an
- 29:30Speaker 4: uptick right now.
- 29:31Speaker 3: When I was and I've talked a lot about being
- 29:33Speaker 3: at that leadoff baseball banquet where they wear a coach.
- 29:36Speaker 2: Or did you go to that?
- 29:37Speaker 3: I was in attention. You know that the first time
- 29:40Speaker 3: hearing we first time we heard you went to the
- 29:41Speaker 3: lead and we mentioned that about twenty times. But when
- 29:44Speaker 3: they talked about the goal of getting to Omaha and
- 29:46Speaker 3: again you think, oh, okay, can you get to Omaha?
- 29:48Speaker 3: And a collegeural cheris now, what is it next year?
- 29:52Speaker 3: Get back to Omaha? I mean that's that's that's a
- 29:54Speaker 3: that's a big change, okay in your program and how
- 29:58Speaker 3: you present your program is we're going to get back
- 30:00Speaker 3: to Omaha, not get there for the first time and
- 30:02Speaker 3: maybe it's out there somewhere in the ethereal and we
- 30:05Speaker 3: try to get there. No, let's get back. We've been
- 30:07Speaker 3: there now we want to go again. You know how
- 30:08Speaker 3: hard it is.
- 30:09Speaker 2: Not one of the teams that was here last year
- 30:11Speaker 2: came back.
- 30:12Speaker 3: And North Carolina has been here thirteen times and hasn't
- 30:15Speaker 3: won it. We'll go further. We've used this dat a lot.
- 30:17Speaker 4: There's three programs that have made three straight super regionals.
- 30:21Speaker 4: Because you know where you need to get before you
- 30:22Speaker 4: get to the College World Series, and you better get
- 30:24Speaker 4: to the Super Regional. Carolina and West Virginia, the two
- 30:26Speaker 4: teams that played last night, are the only two in
- 30:29Speaker 4: the country that have made three straight supers.
- 30:30Speaker 1: Hard hearted Waverley from Hurricane just an observation. West Virginia
- 30:36Speaker 1: became a state June twenty, eighteen sixty and three. The
- 30:39Speaker 1: championship series of this tournament begins on June twentieth. The
- 30:44Speaker 1: script is written. It is a sign, says Waverley, formerly
- 30:49Speaker 1: of Hurricane. Do okay, Charlie from mid Lothian instead of video,
- 30:57Speaker 1: I can't see the video.
- 30:58Speaker 3: Writing the lead right now was made in eighteen cent
- 31:01Speaker 3: and history was made again.
- 31:02Speaker 1: Hoppy in Oma happy, thanks for stopping guys. There you go,
- 31:06Speaker 1: Oh there he was a picture of us. Well we
- 31:08Speaker 1: can't use there you go. I had a picture of you.
- 31:10Speaker 1: You've been doing a lot of pictures, Hoppy, and yesterday
- 31:14Speaker 1: I was I was giggling. I was truly gigging. You
- 31:17Speaker 1: didn't see this. When the Mountaineer Athletic Club events started
- 31:21Speaker 1: here they have us landing where you come up the
- 31:23Speaker 1: steps to get to the second floor, and my boy
- 31:26Speaker 1: I walk in. My boy is at the middle of
- 31:29Speaker 1: the landing, shaking hands like a Walmart greeter as the
- 31:32Speaker 1: people were coming there. It was unbelievable.
- 31:34Speaker 4: Oh, I'm aware because I tried to go downstairs to
- 31:37Speaker 4: talk to everybody, and the line was so backed up
- 31:39Speaker 4: trying to get to Hoppy I couldn't get through. I
- 31:41Speaker 4: had to turn and retreat back upstairs.
- 31:42Speaker 3: I saw himantas I'll get back to my job back home,
- 31:45Speaker 3: get the blue vest back on him. You know what, though,
- 31:51Speaker 3: it's and you guys tease me. No, we're totally serious.
- 31:54Speaker 3: It's not teasing, calling me out. It's just it's just
- 32:04Speaker 3: it's just fun. You know. It's just us meet people
- 32:07Speaker 3: and you talk to them, you make a connection with them,
- 32:09Speaker 3: and uh, and everybody was so I'm into joy?
- 32:14Speaker 2: Okay, is this something new? Who's this is this new?
- 32:19Speaker 2: Where did that start? This?
- 32:22Speaker 3: Is this is a new phone? Who's this moment from? Happy?
- 32:25Speaker 2: You said, what? Joy? I'm sorry, that's a T shirt.
- 32:28Speaker 3: That's a T shirt?
- 32:29Speaker 2: I'm into joy? When did that begin? Yesterday?
- 32:33Speaker 3: Yeah? Everybody was so happy. Everybody was so happy. Well,
- 32:38Speaker 3: now here's the thing. Okay, serious, okay, we've been trying
- 32:41Speaker 3: to tell you for years.
- 32:42Speaker 4: If you would just come out with us once in
- 32:44Speaker 4: a while to these events, this is what it is like.
- 32:49Speaker 4: So welcome aboard. We're glad you're having fun. We're glad
- 32:51Speaker 4: you're now into joy and you've turned a new leaf. Welcome,
- 32:55Speaker 4: it's good to be well.
- 32:56Speaker 1: Welcome and that moments during this trip, and this has
- 32:59Speaker 1: been kind of we could to a whole show on
- 33:01Speaker 1: like because we normally don't travel together, right, Brad and
- 33:04Speaker 1: I travel in basketball. Hoppy used to travel years ago, right,
- 33:10Speaker 1: my fears, And so it's really the first time that
- 33:13Speaker 1: like we've literally traveled. We're not staying in a hotel,
- 33:16Speaker 1: we're staying Airbnb. And like if there have been times
- 33:19Speaker 1: where it's been like taking Hoppy to a zoo, Like
- 33:22Speaker 1: look over here, Hoppy, you see you see that one?
- 33:25Speaker 1: Now that now that is now what they do there.
- 33:28Speaker 1: That's a mountaineer fan there. Now he's from Charleston, he's
- 33:31Speaker 1: from Logan. Now they how do you know that guy? Well,
- 33:33Speaker 1: that guy knows this guy. And there's been so many
- 33:37Speaker 1: the West Virginia connection thing is just bizarre.
- 33:40Speaker 3: Tell them you're the woman who took forever to get here.
- 33:44Speaker 3: In the connection to Gary Mertens, you're gonna tell tell
- 33:47Speaker 3: that story.
- 33:47Speaker 2: I'll tell you this show.
- 33:48Speaker 4: I know.
- 33:49Speaker 1: I so Chavan told us detailed their story in Friday's
- 33:53Speaker 1: episode I Get A.
- 33:54Speaker 2: We have a guy that.
- 33:55Speaker 1: We worked with for many years named Gary Murtens, who
- 33:57Speaker 1: was a sales manager and now lives in Florida.
- 33:59Speaker 2: He text me last night.
- 34:01Speaker 1: And says, the lady that you interviewed that had the
- 34:05Speaker 1: travel problems was the flower girl in my wedding forty
- 34:10Speaker 1: one years ago.
- 34:10Speaker 2: Tomorrow.
- 34:11Speaker 3: Of course she was.
- 34:12Speaker 2: Why wouldn't she have been? Why? Yeah, that's it exactly.
- 34:15Speaker 1: Texter Joe from bo Az This one is for the Senator.
- 34:19Speaker 1: I'm watching the Texas Georgia game. They just referred to
- 34:22Speaker 1: the hit as a Baltimore chopper. Yeah, have you ever
- 34:25Speaker 1: heard the phrase. I've been watching baseball for sixty years,
- 34:28Speaker 1: first reference I've ever heard of a Baltimore chopper.
- 34:32Speaker 4: We can go back and do some research, but yeah,
- 34:34Speaker 4: that's a common phrase, is back in the eighties. Yeah, absolutely,
- 34:37Speaker 4: Baltimore chopping. And there's been some that dirt is in
- 34:40Speaker 4: Charles schrob Field is hard. That happened to West Virginia yesterday.
- 34:43Speaker 4: There was a chopper that went over Tyris hallshead. So yeah,
- 34:46Speaker 4: and Hall had one in the first game against Troy
- 34:48Speaker 4: that was in a big moment.
- 34:50Speaker 2: Baltimore shop that is a good one. Yeah, Yeah, that's
- 34:52Speaker 2: a good one.
- 34:53Speaker 3: The Baltimore chopper just refers came from the Orioles of
- 34:56Speaker 3: the late nineteenth century. With runs hard to come by
- 35:00Speaker 3: in the dead ball era, the Orioles hatched to plan.
- 35:03Speaker 3: They instructed their groundskeeper to pack the dirt in front
- 35:07Speaker 3: of home plate. Legend has it he once even put
- 35:09Speaker 3: down a concrete slab so that speeches like John mcgral
- 35:14Speaker 3: and Willie Keeler couldn't wig out infield singles.
- 35:18Speaker 2: Yeah, that's good to see.
- 35:19Speaker 3: Baseball's got this.
- 35:19Speaker 2: It's more chopping, right.
- 35:21Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 35:22Speaker 1: I had a great conversation in this room yesterday afternoon
- 35:25Speaker 1: before the game with Rick Wagoner. Rick Wagoner is the
- 35:30Speaker 1: gentleman whose name is on the field at Kendrick Family Ballpark.
- 35:35Speaker 1: Pitched for West Virginia late sixties in Dale Ramsberg's first
- 35:40Speaker 1: year as the head coach. He's going on and become
- 35:42Speaker 1: an incredibly successful businessman, but he's an incredibly successful nice man.
- 35:48Speaker 2: And he was.
- 35:49Speaker 1: Telling us, I said, you know, back then, no radar
- 35:51Speaker 1: gun and he played professionally after West Virginia. I said,
- 35:55Speaker 1: how fast do you think you threw it?
- 35:56Speaker 2: You know? And I thought he would go like back
- 35:58Speaker 2: then he'd go like, yeah, maybe I hit ninety. I
- 36:01Speaker 2: don't know.
- 36:02Speaker 1: He goes like, oh, he said easy, mid nineties or
- 36:06Speaker 1: upper he said, Rusty Stob. Rusty Stob told me fastest
- 36:12Speaker 1: pitcher he's ever faced in his career. And here's a
- 36:15Speaker 1: Rusty Stob of Major League. So yeah, all time great
- 36:18Speaker 1: pinch hitters, Rusty Yes he was. Ye, yes, you knew
- 36:20Speaker 1: that York New York Metropolitans.
- 36:22Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, and also expos Yeah.
- 36:25Speaker 3: I think he probably played for the exit big red hair.
- 36:27Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, big red hair. Do you know you pointed
- 36:29Speaker 3: out to me? And I'm catching up on some of
- 36:31Speaker 3: these things. And now with the stats where every pitch,
- 36:35Speaker 3: oh jeez.
- 36:36Speaker 2: So we were in the press box.
- 36:37Speaker 3: Do you show him track man?
- 36:38Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 36:39Speaker 1: Guy in front of us had track man on and
- 36:41Speaker 1: his eyes almost went like no other cartoons where your
- 36:44Speaker 1: eyes go like he saw RPM spin ro spin rates,
- 36:49Speaker 1: he saw.
- 36:49Speaker 3: Exit via vertical drop drop exit vlow welcome on board
- 36:54Speaker 3: spreads on stats.
- 36:54Speaker 2: Yeah, that'll make your it was, but it was.
- 36:56Speaker 3: I mean, and when you look at ball movement where
- 37:01Speaker 3: the ball, you want to like, how does anybody hit anything?
- 37:04Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 37:04Speaker 3: Ever, like why didn't he hit that pitch? Well it
- 37:06Speaker 3: dropped eleven inches and it's well, go ahead.
- 37:10Speaker 4: The movement's everything, right, I mean, you can catch up
- 37:12Speaker 4: to ninety seven. People alway say if you're flat ninety seven,
- 37:14Speaker 4: they're going to hit you. It's the movement, it's the
- 37:16Speaker 4: it's the vertical and horizontal break. That's the whole, the
- 37:19Speaker 4: whole game.
- 37:19Speaker 2: Wow.
- 37:19Speaker 1: As I said, I'm reading these on the fly, but
- 37:22Speaker 1: this one is super duper great. Several months ago we
- 37:27Speaker 1: talked about a ten year old from Grafton who was
- 37:29Speaker 1: battling cancer, and this text writes update on Cayden, the
- 37:34Speaker 1: ten year old from Grafton. Like a lot of mountaineer
- 37:37Speaker 1: fans experiencing Omaha, he's here and he says, they say
- 37:41Speaker 1: he is close to ringing the bell.
- 37:44Speaker 2: Oh, so you all know when you get cancer treatment,
- 37:46Speaker 2: when you finish, So that would be wow.
- 37:50Speaker 1: Okay, Mike from Oh, Mike from Saint Albans.
- 37:55Speaker 2: So we'll have to explain this.
- 37:57Speaker 1: The story of Brad and Tony being a couple of
- 38:00Speaker 1: randoms on the street telling a reporter what the fan
- 38:02Speaker 1: experience is like. Had to be the highlight for you
- 38:05Speaker 1: and me, Tony keep the beard by the way. So
- 38:09Speaker 1: we had a situation. We went to the farmers market
- 38:12Speaker 1: Saturday morning. There was a young girl, a young reporter
- 38:15Speaker 1: from a television station here that was just you know,
- 38:19Speaker 1: we call it mos man on the street. She was
- 38:21Speaker 1: just out there getting a feature done of trying to
- 38:24Speaker 1: marry their great farmer's market and I mean great with
- 38:27Speaker 1: a capital G here and the fans coming in and like,
- 38:30Speaker 1: how did they like it? So we're just walking, uh,
- 38:34Speaker 1: just Viger. What was that thing that I was eating?
- 38:36Speaker 1: What was that called it? What's that bowl?
- 38:38Speaker 2: Ebul a sie? I was having my first ever a
- 38:41Speaker 2: si e bowl. You ever had one of that? No,
- 38:43Speaker 2: Holy cow, is that you've never had one? First?
- 38:45Speaker 1: One first? Anyway, just finished it, set it down on
- 38:50Speaker 1: the ground. That young lady comes up and says, hey,
- 38:52Speaker 1: would you guys be willing to do an interview about
- 38:55Speaker 1: being here in Omaha?
- 38:56Speaker 2: And I went like, we went, yeah, we weren't. Jack
- 38:58Speaker 2: and her weren't going to try to be.
- 38:59Speaker 3: Funny and you're not dressed up, you gott I got
- 39:02Speaker 3: We're just walking backward, just the whole thing, and so
- 39:06Speaker 3: your camera ready.
- 39:08Speaker 1: So she puts microphone on him and she stands there
- 39:11Speaker 1: and she gets behind her camera. She goes, if you
- 39:12Speaker 1: would please state your name and sell it, spell your
- 39:16Speaker 1: name and say your name, and so we did that
- 39:19Speaker 1: and then she said, okay, now.
- 39:20Speaker 2: That was great.
- 39:21Speaker 1: She goes, just look at me, don't look at the
- 39:22Speaker 1: camera while you're answering the question. I go, okay, we
- 39:25Speaker 1: can do that, and so she goes, okay, so first question,
- 39:29Speaker 1: how long have you guys been fans? And like at
- 39:34Speaker 1: that point you go like, well, and then we told
- 39:40Speaker 1: him who are in the poor the poor little buddy.
- 39:43Speaker 2: She felt so embarrassed.
- 39:45Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 39:45Speaker 2: She just went like, oh, I feel so embarrassed.
- 39:48Speaker 1: And I go, well, why would you know what we do?
- 39:51Speaker 4: We couldn't look less like somebody in an official right,
- 39:55Speaker 4: So we restarted.
- 39:56Speaker 3: So, okay, we're because we said we're fans too. Oh
- 39:59Speaker 3: we got it.
- 40:00Speaker 1: But here's the thing. The always the West Virginia connection.
- 40:03Speaker 1: Of course, I said where did you go to school?
- 40:05Speaker 1: And she said Auburn And I said, so you know,
- 40:08Speaker 1: Shelley Poe. Shelley Poe was the longtime sports information director
- 40:12Speaker 1: at WVU, then Ohio State, then Auburn, and she goes, oh, absolutely,
- 40:16Speaker 1: I know Shelley, so always a West Virginia connection.
- 40:18Speaker 3: So then I sent the picture. We did a picture,
- 40:20Speaker 3: I said to Shelley.
- 40:20Speaker 4: She responded and said, yeah, I know Sidney babb is
- 40:23Speaker 4: the young reporter of the coach. And Shelley said, yeah,
- 40:25Speaker 4: very talented reporter. But I don't think I told you
- 40:28Speaker 4: this part of this, the rest of the story.
- 40:30Speaker 3: So I got a text.
- 40:32Speaker 4: Later that night from my sister who lives out west
- 40:36Speaker 4: and her whole side of the in law family is
- 40:38Speaker 4: out west. Her father in law has recently moved to Omaha,
- 40:42Speaker 4: and my sister said she got a text from her
- 40:44Speaker 4: father in law saying, am I looking at your brother
- 40:47Speaker 4: right now on Omaha local TV? And my sister said
- 40:51Speaker 4: it to me saying, what possibly are you doing right
- 40:53Speaker 4: now that you're on Omaha TV?
- 40:57Speaker 3: So thank you?
- 40:58Speaker 1: Wow text. Poor Max Yale didn't really give up any runs.
- 41:04Speaker 1: The mist call on the first thing led to two runs.
- 41:06Speaker 1: Two airs led to the last runs. He did not
- 41:08Speaker 1: deserve that.
- 41:09Speaker 3: No, that's might be a strikeout there in the first
- 41:11Speaker 3: thing that gets you.
- 41:11Speaker 1: Out in baseball terminology as you've probably seen it before.
- 41:15Speaker 2: You know what he's called a hard.
- 41:16Speaker 1: Luck loser, right, That's what it's called a hard luck loser,
- 41:19Speaker 1: and that is the game of baseball.
- 41:21Speaker 2: All right.
- 41:22Speaker 1: So that's the deal for this episode of Three Guys
- 41:26Speaker 1: Before the Game, and again, super special thank you to
- 41:29Speaker 1: the folks that let it fly, Sports Bar and our
- 41:32Speaker 1: guy Veil for being a veil a ball throughout the trip.
- 41:37Speaker 1: Super a job by Dan Lowman. Dan's sun Ben has
- 41:40Speaker 1: also been here for production assistants. Didn't seem to be
- 41:42Speaker 1: totally engaged in today's episode recording.
- 41:44Speaker 2: Do you notice that, Brad, He's been pretty good.
- 41:47Speaker 3: He's got other things going on. He's got a bunch
- 41:48Speaker 3: of things happening here.
- 41:49Speaker 2: What do you mean by that?
- 41:50Speaker 4: Just a bunch of things happening? He's busy kid, What
- 41:52Speaker 4: does that mean? Well, soccer starting, he's involved in the
- 41:54Speaker 4: WU soccer.
- 41:55Speaker 1: He's the director of soccer operations for WVU soccer team.
- 41:58Speaker 1: So he's going to be getting a phone call here
- 41:59Speaker 1: from Dan Stratford saying you bet there is yeah, get
- 42:02Speaker 1: him on video d let me let's let's just.
- 42:04Speaker 2: Lay it down.
- 42:05Speaker 1: Things are going well with Ben since arriving here in Omaha,
- 42:08Speaker 1: he made a.
- 42:09Speaker 3: Friend, meeting new friends, meeting new friends, and a.
- 42:12Speaker 4: Lot of times that's what traveling is about, meeting new friends,
- 42:14Speaker 4: expanding your horizons. And Ben is certainly taking advantage of
- 42:17Speaker 4: that here and.
- 42:17Speaker 2: Putting down, putting down roots, Yeah, putting on roots.
- 42:20Speaker 3: And let's not go too far. So now I've moved on,
- 42:22Speaker 3: I'm ready for the sending out to save the date.
- 42:26Speaker 4: Flow down, pull the ball back out, slow down.
- 42:30Speaker 1: Our next episode will come your way on Wednesday. We
- 42:35Speaker 1: will do another episode coming up on Wednesday. And I
- 42:39Speaker 1: mean this thing, this thing of what we've been doing.
- 42:43Speaker 1: I just looked at my computer right here to see
- 42:45Speaker 1: what the date was, because I haven't been I have
- 42:47Speaker 1: no idea. I mean, it's June fifteenth. We are six
- 42:51Speaker 1: weeks from the start of football practice. So once baseball
- 42:56Speaker 1: comes to a conclusion, we're gonna go obviously straight into football.
- 43:00Speaker 1: And we have an interview with WVU quarterback Michael Hawkins,
- 43:06Speaker 1: which is now I think gaining dust.
- 43:09Speaker 2: If it were a wine, it would be maturing.
- 43:11Speaker 1: We recorded it several weeks back, but obviously baseball is
- 43:15Speaker 1: front and center. As soon as baseball comes to a conclusion,
- 43:18Speaker 1: we'll get you, Michael Hawkins. We've got another Mountaineer football
- 43:21Speaker 1: player that we'll be doing as well.
- 43:24Speaker 2: Can we say we can say right, no, we're efforting.
- 43:27Speaker 1: We have another Mountaineer football player that we're we're going
- 43:30Speaker 1: to have on there as well, So we're going to
- 43:31Speaker 1: make that transition.
- 43:32Speaker 4: But what's really fun is when we get back and
- 43:35Speaker 4: baseball is over the Hawkins interview, when we play it,
- 43:37Speaker 4: we'll serve as the pregame show for Coastal Carolina and.
- 43:40Speaker 3: It'll go right into Coastal Getting closet this This has
- 43:44Speaker 3: been one of the great things about being at an
- 43:48Speaker 3: event like this and doing what we're doing because we
- 43:50Speaker 3: have other responsibilities associated with this, is that this has
- 43:53Speaker 3: been our world. We've just been in baseball. So I'm
- 43:57Speaker 3: in golf, like, how did Troy?
- 43:58Speaker 2: Do you know? What's their Troy?
- 43:59Speaker 3: What's their batting? So you just get focused on this
- 44:02Speaker 3: and you I have tuned out the rest, you know,
- 44:05Speaker 3: I kind of checked the news and stuff. I'm missing
- 44:07Speaker 3: doctor's appointments. I'm like not answering emails. I'm just in
- 44:10Speaker 3: this world and I enjoy that. And I think the
- 44:13Speaker 3: Mountaineer fans are enjoying it as well as you're locked
- 44:15Speaker 3: into what Jenicky's exit.
- 44:17Speaker 2: Vels exactly exactly, He's right.
- 44:19Speaker 1: And by the way, just one last last recruiting wise,
- 44:23Speaker 1: West Virginia literally has been recruiting and doing deals with
- 44:27Speaker 1: players while they're still playing. I saw a stat yesterday
- 44:31Speaker 1: there was a stat top transfer portal players available based
- 44:35Speaker 1: on a certain statistical category, and West Virginia had three
- 44:39Speaker 1: of the top six or four of the top six players.
- 44:41Speaker 2: It's it's been in the country.
- 44:43Speaker 4: It's been a productive portal class. That class almost done,
- 44:46Speaker 4: only a couple of slots left.
- 44:47Speaker 3: I believe.
- 44:48Speaker 4: And one of the great names, one of the great names,
- 44:51Speaker 4: one of the stars of the transfer portal coming in
- 44:54Speaker 4: from Lemoine, Jack Cannon.
- 44:56Speaker 3: Jack Cannon is in Oh.
- 44:57Speaker 4: Boy, has a bunch of tools, hoppy, fifty stolen bases,
- 45:00Speaker 4: can hit home runs.
- 45:01Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's going to be. It was a good
- 45:02Speaker 3: off season for.
- 45:03Speaker 2: Where do you say when the school?
- 45:04Speaker 1: Where do you go to Schoolmoyne so always a West
- 45:06Speaker 1: Virginia connection. Where Lemoyne is Syracuse, New York, who coached
- 45:12Speaker 1: at Lamoyn John John Beeline, So once a dolphin, always
- 45:16Speaker 1: a dolphin, As they.
- 45:17Speaker 3: Say, did you see a former West Virginia interim head
- 45:20Speaker 3: coach here yesterday? Josh Eiler here here.
- 45:24Speaker 4: Good to see Johnson. Yeah, it came made the drive
- 45:26Speaker 4: up with the family, so it was great. Great to
- 45:28Speaker 4: see him.
- 45:28Speaker 3: I'm still here supporting them out.
- 45:30Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, just absolutely fantastic to see all those familiar faces.
- 45:33Speaker 2: All right, that'll do it for us.
- 45:35Speaker 1: Special thanks to the guys back in Morgantown producer Jake
- 45:39Speaker 1: Harrison Lewandowski uh putting it together because believe it or not,
- 45:43Speaker 1: this is kind of hard to pull off when you're
- 45:46Speaker 1: far from home. And we have been really just delighted
- 45:50Speaker 1: with everything that we've had contact with in this studio
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