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  Speaker 1: Hey everybody, Hello, Hello, and welcome in. It is time
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  Speaker 1: for three Guys Before the Game. And this is episode
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  Speaker 1: number seven and twenty four. This is WVU Baseball, the
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  Speaker 1: greatest season ever. Unfortunately it has come to an end.
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  Speaker 1: We'll recap our unforgettable trip to Omaha, will break it
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  Speaker 1: all down, what's it all mean?
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  Speaker 1: for all mountaineers, including you. All right, let's jump in.
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  Speaker 1: It has been an incredibly eventful series of days really
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  Speaker 1: for mountaineer Nation. What a run, right. It started with
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  Speaker 1: the Big twelve tournament. West Virginia had success there, advancing
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  Speaker 1: to the title game. And then you get your NCAA
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  Speaker 1: bid and you say, hey, guess what, it's great news.
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  Speaker 1: You get to host a regional and you do, and
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  Speaker 1: then dramatic fashion you win, and then oh my goodness,
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  Speaker 1: what happened out West UCLA? The one is out? You
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  Speaker 1: get to host a super and you get to host
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  Speaker 1: a Super and in it goes and back and forth,
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  Speaker 1: and before you know it, more drama you win the
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  Speaker 1: Super Regional and convincing fashion over cal Poly. And then
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  Speaker 1: that means you get to go to Omaha. And up
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  Speaker 1: until now when you just said College World Series, that's
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  Speaker 1: probably kind of how you said the College World Series
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  Speaker 1: into Omaha. Those are probably the only two things that
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  Speaker 1: you knew. And then you get there and you go, oh,
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  Speaker 1: this is unique, this is different. And again recency bias,
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  Speaker 1: prisoner of the moment, but probably the best sporting event
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  Speaker 1: I've ever been.
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  Speaker 3: To, really and you've been to a ton. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 3: you're saying this is better than a Final four.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah my opinion. Really Yeah, because we Brad and I
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  Speaker 1: will talk about this because in the Final four you
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  Speaker 1: only get to play at most two games, and this
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  Speaker 1: offers you the opportunity because of double elimination, that you
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  Speaker 1: can at least know that you get to stay a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. And the Final four is so condensed. Really,
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  Speaker 1: it's Friday Saturday, and you get your off Sunday. If
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  Speaker 1: you play Monday, that's great. But like to me, this thing.
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  Speaker 1: Someone described this, I forget who it was and what
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  Speaker 1: it might have been. One of you two guys said,
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  Speaker 1: it's a state fair with baseball. Yeah, that's had a
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  Speaker 1: state fair feel with baseball. It's just a spectacle. And
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  Speaker 1: the people in Omaha couldn't be nicer. We made a
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  Speaker 1: lot of new friends, agreed, and the city's fantastic. The event.
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  Speaker 1: They've got to they figured it out after hosting it
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  Speaker 1: since nineteen fifty. They've got the thing down to an
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  Speaker 1: absolute science. And it was just it was spectacular.
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  Speaker 3: It was I can't think of other than the loss,
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  Speaker 3: which we'll talk about, but I we were there for well,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. Five six days, Tony, I can't think
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  Speaker 3: of a downside. I can't think of Well, if they
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  Speaker 3: had done this, I don't There wasn't one. There wasn't one.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, they got it down to a science of
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  Speaker 3: how they do it and how the community embraces it,
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  Speaker 3: and how the police controlled trap. I mean, it was wonderful, wonderful.
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  Speaker 4: A couple of things that jumped out to me. And
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  Speaker 4: it was less about the baseball, although that's awesome. There's
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  Speaker 4: something about baseball that's so fun, like where you just
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  Speaker 4: wake up in the morning and you get to go
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  Speaker 4: to the ballpark, and.
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  Speaker 2: That's for me.
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  Speaker 4: This last three week run was like that, Like it
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  Speaker 4: was like more than every other day, or more often
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  Speaker 4: than every other day, you just woke up and now
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  Speaker 4: there's a game day. We got to go to a game.
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  Speaker 4: And so I'm a big volume guy. I love tournaments.
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  Speaker 4: I love basketball tournaments when you win and place a
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  Speaker 4: big volume guy.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a big volume guy.
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  Speaker 2: Big volume guy.
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  Speaker 4: We've had volume baseball over the last three weeks and
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  Speaker 4: games that mattered, so you were really into it. But
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  Speaker 4: you guys are right on this. The way the city
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  Speaker 4: of Omaha reacts to this, and I said during some
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  Speaker 4: of our coverage out there, the number of people that
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  Speaker 4: would come up to you on the street and not
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  Speaker 4: have any hesitation about what your logo meant, but give
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  Speaker 4: you a let's go Mountaineers, right, They jumped right in
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  Speaker 4: with you, welcomed you to the city. And then just
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  Speaker 4: the attendance at this event, all the fan bases showed
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  Speaker 4: out very well. There were people from every one of
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  Speaker 4: those schools that when their team's played, they were all over.
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  Speaker 4: But the just baseball fans and regular fans that attend
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  Speaker 4: this event. The folks from Omaha are from a couple
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  Speaker 4: college buddies that were there and at this event that
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  Speaker 4: they just go every year. So the way Omaha turns
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  Speaker 4: out to support that there are just not a lot
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  Speaker 4: of empty seats, no matter the time, no matter the opponent,
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  Speaker 4: no matter the game. And that is different from any
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  Speaker 4: other tournament or any other event I have been to
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  Speaker 4: where there's always sessions where there's not a lot of
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  Speaker 4: people there because not the case in Omaha.
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  Speaker 3: Guys, because there are eight teams and because there's this
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  Speaker 3: festival atmosphere around Charles Schwab, the stadium could be packed,
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  Speaker 3: but at all the stuff around the stadium that's packed too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true, you know.
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  Speaker 3: I mean so it wasn't like everybody went in the
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  Speaker 3: stadium and the place was abandoned. There was always activity.
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  Speaker 2: It's a great point.
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  Speaker 4: And what night was it was it Saturday night when
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  Speaker 4: we were walking out of the stadium and the bars
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  Speaker 4: and restaurants around the stadium packed and overflowing. Then we
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  Speaker 4: go up a couple blocks to the area where we
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  Speaker 4: were it let it fly. That was packed, that area overflowing.
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  Speaker 4: Then we walked back to our airbnb and went through
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  Speaker 4: Old Market that was packed and thriving. There were like
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  Speaker 4: these three different areas of Omaha all packed and thriving.
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  Speaker 4: Just a wonderful host city. I'll give that to Omaha.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was fantastic, all right. So on the program,
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  Speaker 1: what's it all mean for I think three tiers here,
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  Speaker 1: what's it mean for the WV baseball program, what's it
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  Speaker 1: mean for the athletic department slash, and what's it mean
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  Speaker 1: for the university. I think it's got long, it's got
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  Speaker 1: lasting effects for each of those each of those pods,
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  Speaker 1: and time will tell. But just a wonderful experience, something
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  Speaker 1: that needs to be embraced and cherished, which I think
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  Speaker 1: the Mountaineers did. I think Mountaineer Nation did, because you
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  Speaker 1: just learned in this tournament how difficult it is to
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  Speaker 1: advance when you think about and I mentioned earlier, the
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  Speaker 1: one seed out before you even got to the super Regional,
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  Speaker 1: the two seed in Georgia Tech they went bye bye
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  Speaker 1: last night. Georgia, one of the favorites to win the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing is eliminated by Oklahoma. I was listening to
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  Speaker 1: the Oklahoma broadcast. Toby Rowlands, their announcer, who's fantastic. He
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  Speaker 1: hit me with a number that made me go, like,
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  Speaker 1: what do you realize SEC Tournament? Oklahoma went into the
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  Speaker 1: SEC Tournament as the eleven seed.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, they were middle of the pack at best. Yeah
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  Speaker 4: they were.
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  Speaker 1: See they were the eleven seed in the SEC and
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  Speaker 1: they're now going to play for the championship, the World's
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  Speaker 1: Championship against North Carolina. So my point to all of
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  Speaker 1: that is, like, you just can't go like this is
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  Speaker 1: our year. You don't know when your year is, and
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  Speaker 1: so you when you get that and you have the opportunity,
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  Speaker 1: you have to absolutely squeeze every single ounce out of
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  Speaker 1: the experience because you just simply don't know when it's
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  Speaker 1: going to happen again, which even the West Virginia did
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  Speaker 1: not get to the championship game, which West Virginia did.
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  Speaker 3: I think they squeezed. I think he got everything out
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  Speaker 3: of this team, and I think got everything out of
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  Speaker 3: his fans. I think you got every last little bit
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  Speaker 3: and more out of this team in this season.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll get into the game from yesterday, but I
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  Speaker 1: hate the loss, but I love the way they finished,
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  Speaker 1: like you could have laid down and those guys, like
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  Speaker 1: that was the perfect definition of the season and of
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  Speaker 1: what this program is built on. Like it was twelve
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  Speaker 1: to one and you went like goodness, gracious, and they
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  Speaker 1: just went like we're playing and they just they may
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think that. I don't think North
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  Speaker 1: Carolina went North Carolina went into a full, complete, you know, tightening.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm telling you what, they got some perspiration going
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  Speaker 1: there when the old boys got that thing down to
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  Speaker 1: five and it's like, okay, here, we're still coming. And
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  Speaker 1: I thought that was a perfect definition of this too.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that's that's what I was gonna say that That's
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  Speaker 4: exactly how this team should have ended its season, even
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  Speaker 4: if it's on a loss.
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  Speaker 2: They have been. They have been.
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  Speaker 4: Exquisite at bouncing back and putting things in the past
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  Speaker 4: and moving forward and having perseverance. And the fact that
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  Speaker 4: it came because of an infield single because Cooper Nicholson
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  Speaker 4: from Carolina part of the problemly went to Dalling High
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  Speaker 4: School in West Woint, so that I'm not sure they
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  Speaker 4: know how to field and onload quickly there. So Cooper
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  Speaker 4: Nicholson took his time, took about six extra steps, looked up.
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  Speaker 4: I'monnie Guzman says, is that right?
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  Speaker 1: Is right?
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  Speaker 4: I'm just gonna beat you out on a routine ground
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  Speaker 4: ball to short. And the fact that it started on
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  Speaker 4: beating out a routine ground ball, I thought that exemplified
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  Speaker 4: this team. And then you were coming. And by god,
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  Speaker 4: if they weren't tight, they were tight when that ball
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  Speaker 4: came off Ben Lumpson's.
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  Speaker 2: Bat, Because that is that on.
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  Speaker 4: A normal day in Omaha, when it's four billion percent humidity,
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  Speaker 4: that thing sitting in right field. The fact that it
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  Speaker 4: was so so much cooler and it needed a couple
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  Speaker 4: extra feet and it just didn't get there. I think
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  Speaker 4: there were some tight folks in Carolina Blue at that moment.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's jump in time now for Hoppy's obvious observations.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, that's right, but that things were already.
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  Speaker 1: Already knew it bomb.
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  Speaker 2: Ready, take it quick before.
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  Speaker 1: Flatter situationvation, before you start. Yes, I do want to say,
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  Speaker 1: after traveling with Hoppy, perhaps for the longest period that
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  Speaker 1: I've ever traveled with them, did not see the lip
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  Speaker 1: bomb come out once in our entire Do you not
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  Speaker 1: go with it in the summer where you go, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you were momming? Yeah, okay, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That was it. So a couple of things. First of all,
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  Speaker 3: there are and I couldn't get the exact number, there's
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  Speaker 3: either three hundred or three hundred four Division one baseball teams.
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  Speaker 3: WVU ends up being in the final four. That puts
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  Speaker 3: the Mountaineers in the top one percent of D one
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  Speaker 3: college baseball teams top one percent. It's estimated that throughout
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  Speaker 3: the season, including the playoffs and tournaments, et cetera, that
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  Speaker 3: these teams will play about nine thousand games, and West
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  Speaker 3: Virginia was playing in the final five or six games
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  Speaker 3: of the season. So that's a Instead of thinking of
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  Speaker 3: the loss, think of the perspective of what that means.
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  Speaker 3: WU fan support We've gone on about that at nauseam.
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  Speaker 3: But that was a national story. I mean, West Virginia
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  Speaker 3: was quoted, Tony, you were quoted. West Virginia was featured
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  Speaker 3: in a fan story in the New York Times, New
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  Speaker 3: York Times by the Athletic.
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  Speaker 1: But what you give you a double New York Times
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  Speaker 1: on that.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean that is that's significant.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I'll tell you something. And I said on the
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  Speaker 1: New York Times.
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  Speaker 3: I said in the commentary today, and I talked about
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  Speaker 3: this in the commentary today which is posted at wv
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  Speaker 3: metro news dot com. I mentioned you guys in the factory.
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  Speaker 3: You guys were interviewed No Mahaw Television and in one
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  Speaker 3: of the highlights, and we talked about the fact even
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  Speaker 3: when you're down twelve to one, you know West Virginia.
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  Speaker 3: You know Guzman be I mean you could have just
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  Speaker 3: run to first but guzmand sprinted beat the throw. I
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  Speaker 3: mean that was that was that was incredible, just again
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  Speaker 3: summarizing how this West Virginia team has been. And I
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  Speaker 3: said this, you guys were teasing me. But the word
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  Speaker 3: that came to mind throughout the week was his joy.
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  Speaker 3: It was his joys. Everybody we came in contact with
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  Speaker 3: was just happy. That's a good point. I mean we
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  Speaker 3: met hundreds of people, maybe thousands, maybe thousands, Yeah, and
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  Speaker 3: nobody was like, I don't.
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  Speaker 2: Know, well, but none of that. You're right.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody was absolutely joyous and you don't you don't often
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  Speaker 3: get that, so just like, oh, this is just roll
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  Speaker 3: with that. We talked about Omaha while they did such
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  Speaker 3: a such a great job, said he was clean, the
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  Speaker 3: city was safe, the city was welcoming. You go in
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  Speaker 3: someplace they don't know you from Adam and you buy
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  Speaker 3: some Hey, thank you, you're welcome. Enjoy your stay. That's nice.
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  Speaker 3: That's that's Midwest nice. Uh, there are Brad, you'll get
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  Speaker 3: more into this. There were re memborable performances, a lot
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  Speaker 3: of them in this. I think of Maxiell and the
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  Speaker 3: performance he turned into being Corn Dawson. Montesa's performance, I
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  Speaker 3: mean he was just massive. Ben McDougall, I think we'll
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  Speaker 3: always remember to the Ben McDougall. Those two outs he
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  Speaker 3: got in that first game, I mean that was amazing.
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  Speaker 3: Armani Guzman just was owned it. How many times was
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  Speaker 3: he on base one thousand? Like the whole tournament. It
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  Speaker 3: take every time you looked up Armoni Guzman was on base.
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  Speaker 3: He had himself attorney, but you better look because pretty
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  Speaker 3: soon he's on the next base and then the next base.
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  Speaker 3: How many stolen bases.
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  Speaker 2: Did We'll get to that.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, you got that? Yeah, so Guzman Gavin Kelly started
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  Speaker 3: slowly but then got hot, blistering, hot, blistering hot. Four
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  Speaker 3: to twenty eight. That home run, there was no doubt
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  Speaker 3: about that home run. I mean the left fielder turned
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  Speaker 3: and looked at it and it bounced up. It was
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  Speaker 3: I think it hit the Missouri River. It was so far.
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  Speaker 3: Matt Gravelin was four or four against you UNC in
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  Speaker 3: the game yesterday, tyvers Hall had that two run single
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  Speaker 3: on the eighth end. I mean there were performances, right,
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  Speaker 3: not just your guns, but performances by a lot of
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  Speaker 3: different players that kept you in that tournament. So that
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  Speaker 3: that stowed out to me. WU went into this tournament
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  Speaker 3: ranked sixteenth, right or seeded sixteen sixteen, see sixteenth you're
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  Speaker 3: gonna I was doing some research on this. If you
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  Speaker 3: make it to the semifinals like West Virginia did, and
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  Speaker 3: depending on what North Carolina does against Oklahoma, you should
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  Speaker 3: you should be in the season rank three, four five,
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  Speaker 3: right should be. And I find myself in the unusual
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  Speaker 3: position of rooting for North Carolina because it's a non
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  Speaker 3: SEC school and it looks better for West Virginia. North
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  Speaker 3: Carolina would be to Oklahoma. So I'm in on North Carolina.
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  Speaker 3: So those are just some obvious, obvious observations about the game,
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  Speaker 3: the experience, et cetera.
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  Speaker 1: Those are all really good. Brad and I, I think,
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  Speaker 1: speaking on behalf of Brett, We're just happy that one
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  Speaker 1: of the continuing themes that will come out of it
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  Speaker 1: is that you found joy.
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  Speaker 3: I think a lot of people found joy.
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  Speaker 1: I know, but you announced it during one of our
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  Speaker 1: podcasts there in Omaha that I have found joy.
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  Speaker 3: It was joyous.
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  Speaker 2: He was an early joy color. He called joy early early.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't you didn't you feel it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 4: There was no There was not a single complaint. Didn't
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  Speaker 4: hear a complaint all week about about an Everybody was
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  Speaker 4: just happy.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, even when people had these incredible circuitous routes
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  Speaker 3: to get there, they were joyous because they just they
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  Speaker 3: got there.
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  Speaker 1: I guarantee you like they travel.
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  Speaker 2: The travel is a problem.
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  Speaker 4: You could do a series, yes, because I'm not sure
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  Speaker 4: anyone had a smooth travel experience. It was difficult for
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  Speaker 4: nearly every person we talked to.
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  Speaker 2: We went, it was the easiest.
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  Speaker 4: We got there four weeks ago, and we had a
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  Speaker 4: three hour delay getting out of Chicago when it was
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  Speaker 4: sunny and ninety on each end.
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  Speaker 1: But that was joyous. It was. It was a joyous
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  Speaker 1: three hour wait in Chicago.
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  Speaker 3: And how many people did we run into that had
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  Speaker 3: these crazy experiences like got there just in time for
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  Speaker 3: the game.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, there are people are getting there like
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  Speaker 1: literally like where do I'm not even putting my suitcase down,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just going.
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  Speaker 4: So most people running into the stadium, said our guy
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  Speaker 4: Joe from Michigan came running in during that first game
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  Speaker 4: against Troy. He was sprinting along the concourse.
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  Speaker 1: When he arrived. So yeah, the travel, the weather was
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  Speaker 1: not conducive last weekend to get folks there in West Virginia.
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  Speaker 1: Fans I would say to me, hoppy, the joy the field,
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  Speaker 1: the vibe that you got was similar to John Beeline's
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  Speaker 1: run from Big East Tournament to Cleveland to Albuquerque. It
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  Speaker 1: felt like that, and then obviously the Big East run
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  Speaker 1: in ten that got you to Buffalo and then to
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  Speaker 1: Syracuse and then to Indianapolis that had that same vibe,
• 17:34
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  Speaker 2: Chuckles?
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  Speaker 1: I think what it leads us to, now that the
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  Speaker 1: baseball portion of it is over, is that this is
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: an inflection point for WVU athletics. Okay, this It doesn't
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: get much better than this when it comes to being
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: recognized on the national map. So now that perception needs
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: to be propagated. You need to grow this.
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  Speaker 3: Now I know where you're going.
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  Speaker 1: So you could just you don't want this to become
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  Speaker 1: a one off. Hey, they had a nice little story
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  Speaker 1: in the month of June and they made it to
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  Speaker 1: the World Series and it was nice, and NBC did
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: a little feature in New York Times did a little
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: feature and all of this kind of stuff. You can't
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: let it be a one hit wonder of one sport. Correct,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: That's where I'm going. Okay, what this all means now
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  Speaker 1: is if you really want to build on it, that
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: football needs to be very good. Now, okay, right, you
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: can't have football like go six wins or five wins.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: Now you need to again on Saturdays this fall, they
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: need to be talking about West Virginia. They need to
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: be talking about did you see what rich Rodriguez is doing?
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, did you see this? Or did you
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  Speaker 1: see that? That needs to be good. Basketball on the
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• 20:27
  Speaker 1: nibbled right on the NCAA tournament. You got close, you sniffed,
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  Speaker 1: you get a buy into the Big twelve tournament, didn't
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: get it done, but you won the You won the
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  Speaker 1: World's championship there in Las Vegas. Now you need to
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: be again in the winter, and they need to be
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: talking about you. I'm not even saying women's basketball because
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• 21:06
  Speaker 1: to boats, it needs to be Liu Wendell. When it
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: comes to sports, WVU needs to be at a high
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: level of tuma. Why because we have no idea what
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: the next generation or level is going to be when
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: this crazy mass of college craziness blows up again, which,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: as Dion Sanders will say, we coming, right, we coming,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: And so West Virginia University needs to continue to do
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: these types of things. I mean, folks were saying and
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: you probably heard it from the SEC people like WVU
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: acts like an SEC school, Like do you see their
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: rabid fans? Do you see that they're SEC like? People
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  Speaker 1: are saying that, And that's a good thing to have, right,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: That's a good thing to have because when all of
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  Speaker 1: this the musical chair starts on the deck of the
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Titanic again, you want to make sure that you can
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: sit down and you know Wren is leading this ship
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: and you're doing all of the right things at this point,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: but you can't let this be a one hit wonder.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: You need to just can say like, whoa, they got
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: it going on. That's another thing. And I do say
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: that everything is in order right now for this to happen.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Also one other thing, and I'll leave it at this.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: There's been a philosophical change with the new level, with
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: the new coaches at WVU. That is something to be embraced,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: and that is these teams that are having success, whether
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: it be Steve Sabans or Ross or Mark Kellogg, they
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: operate in an attack mentality and not a complaint mentality.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Steve said it on multiple occasions when when crap hits
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: the fan, we say advantage West Virginia. That's what they say.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: They don't sit around and bitch about the travel of
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: the Big twelve. They don't complain about this or oh
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: woe is us? They go like, what is it okay?
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: In long term that is what gets you forward. You
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: don't sit back and wallow around as oh, we play
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: in a league that's far away. We have to go
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: on plane. And it's like they don't put that seed
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: in their kids. They just go like, no, what was that?
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Why why would that be a You know what they do,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: they give you a oh is that right? Is that right? Yeah,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: that's what we're gonna do.
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: Steve and the boys shovel off snow on the baseball
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: field in time thank you. All right, you're going to
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: complain about something that would be the complaint.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, And don't cut players. Don't come here if
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: you don't want to be part of that.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: See I thought that was really good. Yeah see you
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: know what I'm talking about.
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: It wasn't a non complaint. It was a challenge. He
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: flipped the thing around and put it back on. Was
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: that right you want you can't handle that? Okay, fine,
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: you're not for us. He flipped it and made it
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: a challenge.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Correct, exactly. So to me, that needs to be not
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: only the athletic department's mentality, it needs to be the
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: university's mentality. And right it's the state's mentality. Like what
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: is it? Okay, Like stop freaking making excuses and complaining
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: about stuff and just go like, yeah, we'll get that's
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: what we do. We're going to go through this. And
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Rich has done it. Rich does a masterful job of
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: us against the world mentality. Right, that's what he builds.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: It's us against the world, and that needs to be
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: continued because then you become tough, you become resilient, and
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: you don't have soft ass excuses of why things didn't
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: go our way.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: It's will sid Steve did it.
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: He talked about it again in the press conference after
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: the last night's game, and I thought this was interesting,
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: and this is a semi complaint by me. I'm not
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: sure why the NCAA can't get it together. That in
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: you got together and put a rule in that the
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: basketball transfer portal should not open until the season ended.
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: Very logical, intelligent move by all of the schools to say, yeah,
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: that's kind of weird. But you didn't do it for baseball.
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: So the very next sport that comes along, the portal
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: is open while the games are going along. But Steve
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: said last night's press conference, he said, would I have
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: rather not been on a zoom call the night after
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: our first win in the College World Series while preparing
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: for another win about transfer portal? Yeah, I'd prefer not to,
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: But then but then it was great. To your point,
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: he spun it and said, but a pretty good backdrop
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: on that zoom call is to be sitting at the
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: College World Series saying would you like to be a
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: part of this? So he did flip it around, but
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: just a little side note, non understanding of why you
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: do this for one sport, but it doesn't carry to
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: other Why can't the portal just open when your season ends?
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: Why is that hard?
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: It would because it would make too much sense. But
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: you did make a good point that coach Sabans could say,
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: I'd like to spend some more time with you, but
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: we're playing in the World Series tomorrow, right, And so to.
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: Your point, he took one that should be a complaint
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: and spun it right back into advantage west.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: Virgiday Tony, I think you make an excellent point there
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: in that is what is the look? There are two
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: major things you want to be in this environment college sports.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: One is you want to be elite, right, and by elite,
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: I mean there's a few schools now in baseball you're elite.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: It's not like, oh you're No, you're elite. You've established
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: that everybody else.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: You want to be.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: Relevant nationally, relevant nationally you know in football you need
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: to get there. You're not relevant now. You need to
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: get there.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and pieces are all in place to do it.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: But I just think now is a moment where you
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: can put another flag down and say this is who we're.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: Going to be.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: This is who we are, this is who we say
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: we are. Now let's live it every single day.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: I wrote. From a cultural perspective, I wrote in a
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: commentary today, I mean there's a lot of cutaways of
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: guys and gals with coonskin caps with like raccoon faces
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: on the front, and there was a time when it
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: was raccoon. There's a time I think that some some
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: folks would cringe at that. And I look at that
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: and I say, now, that's that's who we are. We
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: are the people along the country roads. So we embrace that.
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: That's our identity. We're not going to apologize for that's
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: our identity. And it's an identity that when it comes
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: to sports like baseball has produced results.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, you're you're spot on. And Reren did that
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: from Wren did that from day one. Like when Ren
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: got here, Like one of the first things he told
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: me is like, let's not pretend who we are. Yeah,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: let's not pretend we're somebody else. So like when he
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: gets the opportunity he presses the red button, he plays
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Sweet Caroline, he goes, that's who we are, man, that's
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: who we are. Let's face it, that's who we are. Like,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna pretend we are who we are And
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: that's who we are and that's a dog gun flag down.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: There's a comfort with that. We know we're not like
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: Boston College.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Right stop, so stop pretending around.
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: Well, hey, one last thing on that. This was kind
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: of nice as well. Saw some social media traffic over
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: the last day or so from some non West Virginians
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: that were that were asking for ESPN to stop playing
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: Country Roads so much.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: We'll have times have changed, yes all people, Oh you're sick?
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Was that right?
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: Your second Country Roads? Great? Hit it again? Played again.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: So there was so much over the last year that
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: was great.
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: Others complaining good that Country Roads was getting too much airtime.
• 28:24
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  Speaker 3: How about our business expenses on this trip? Can they
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• 30:09
  Speaker 1: We can?
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: Somebody? Can we outsource those?
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: Can we? We spend a lot of money. We spent
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: a lot of money, but you know what it was,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: It was absolutely worth it. But yeah, we we feel
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: budget buster. You know what though, man like everyone there
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: spent a lot of money, I mean mountaineer fans to
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: get there. But you know what, you do it and
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: you eat it. Yeah, we were not corporately sponsored bootstrapping.
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  Speaker 1: We three guys that yeah, we.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: Like attached myself to homeless and had him pay for
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: having him pay for everything.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: Out of three guys, homeless Dave had the three guys
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  Speaker 1: airban the first time I'd ever done that.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: Same is that right? Same with me?
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Had it?
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: I did walk away on the last night with dinner
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: because I wasn't sure how much that card could hold.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: So I didn't want to be He didn't want to
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: be a party to that.
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: We were pushing that card that was on my great
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: performance is Dawson Montesa pushed in a couple of games.
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: So did our credit card on this trip.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: That last meal wasn't good.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: It was okay, let's go, do we do numbers?
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Wasn't good. I'll start this disappointing. You go with disappointing.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: I would President Stafs go.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: Ahead, I'll start with this.
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: You know you don't have hoppy, unbelievable historic seasons without
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: historic individual performance. You've heard me so many times. I
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: think baseball is the most individualistic team sport there is.
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: At the end of the day, when Gavin Kelly's up
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: to bat, ain't nobody coming to help. Gavin Kelly's got
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: to got to handle his business, right, boy, did he
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: handle his business? As you mentioned earlier, he finishes six
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: of eleven in his final two games with those couple
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: home runs and that one yesterday against Glauber. You talk
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: about big boy on big Boy, those are probably two
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: guys we see in the major leagues coming up at
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: some point and it goes three and two, And Gavin
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: sat at this desk and this exact seat and told
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: us the difference in him this year versus last season.
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: Why he hit one hundred points higher this year was
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: because he wasn't worried about striking out with two strikes.
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: And I thought that a lot during this run from Gavin,
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: the number of two strike hits that he had, as
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: he sat here and changed that mentality to I'm not
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: worried about striking out. I'm going to go up and
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: punish you with two strikes. And he got that bat
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: through the zone and crushed that ball. So I was
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: glad not only just that he finished with two good performances,
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: but as you talk about setting up for some added
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: confidence as you head into next season. What a stage
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: that guy's going to have as we head into next year.
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: Already proclaimed by Baseball America is the number one draft
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: prospect for twenty twenty seven, the hype around him next
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: season is going to be insane and well deserved. What
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: an unbelievable player name We have not talked about this.
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: Gavin was named an All American at two different positions.
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: Just think the first team All American had two different
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: positions catcher on second base. Think about that for a second.
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: How hard that is to do a different position. One
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: of them's catcher.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: Analogous if you were in football as a wide receiver
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: and as a d back.
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: Amazing, just simply amazing for Gavin. So he finishes the
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: year with nineteen home runs that ties Jed from twenty
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: ten and Mark Landers ninety four for the most in
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: a single season, which is incredible, more incredible. When he
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: sat here with us, he was at five. That was
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: in mid May, guys. Oh yeah, that was in mid May.
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: The power surge he put on from that point to
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: the end of the season in a month was unbelievable.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: To finish with nineteen.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: You remember when we talked with Jed when West Virginia
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: practiced on that field in Omaha for the very first time.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: So it was the day before the.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: Game, Wednesday, Jersay, Thursday, Thursday, Thursday.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: So Jed Jerko has seen a player or two in
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: his career. He's seen the greatest of the greats as
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: a major leaguer. And he told us, he says, I'm
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: just telling you, guys. He says he has it. He's
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: got a mentality that he's going to play in the
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: bigs for a long time. And you can see it
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: when he goes to the plate it's just like there
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: is no he just got a locked in mentality, right,
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: and what is that from? That's the that's the residue
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: of all of the preparation that he puts in. So
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: when he goes into that, when he goes into the box.
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: It's just like supreme confidence exactly. And he's got as
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: we often say, you can't fake confidence. You have to
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: have results in order to get it. And he's got
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: the results now, right, He's come through time and time again.
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: Is the kids often say he's got aura like when
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: that when you just look at that guy, you could
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: know nothing about him when he walks to the plate
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: or behind the dish like he's got some swag to him.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: Did you see at the very end of the player's
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: portion of the press conference yesterday, it was awesome. Any
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: further quest for anyone? No one has any further questions, and.
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: The guy was already the moderator was thanking ever.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Any other further questions. Okay, guys,
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: thank you very much for being with us. For Gavin,
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: excuse me, I've got one other thing to say, and
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: he said, I just want to thank everyone associate with
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: our program, our staff, our assistance. They've got ninety they
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: got what ninety nine managers suiting.
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: He went behind the scenes, He went behind me. He
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: said that, he said, everybody behind the scenes that makes
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: this thing go.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so he took that time to say thank you.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: That's an awareness, awareness, and so he gets it. And
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: obviously he will be the focal. Oh yeah, he'll be
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: the face of the program. Getting ready for next You
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: go to the leadoff bank, what next season? Hopping jak
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: Now he'll be front table this year with his feet up.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I hope it's not when we're on the bridge
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: for PA.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: I'd like to be nice if it was a home
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: basketball game that day.
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: One last thing on Gavin and if I've done my
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: math right. Doesn't look like the stats are quite updated yet,
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: but if I've done my math right, given his performance
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: with a home run and a triple against North Carolina
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: on Wednesday, I think he just passed Jed and JJ
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: for most total bases in a single season.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: That's not bad.
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: If you pass Jed and JJ and you tied Jed
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: in another category, you probably had a pretty good season.
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: So congratulations to Gavin specifically was wonderful on our program
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: and thankful for all the time he gave us, not
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: only that day but throughout the year in our conversations.
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: Another record breaking performance, Hopy. You mentioned Armani Guzman the
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: other day. Single season record for stolen bases with forty two,
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: he passes the great Victor Scott, who talked to earlier
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: this year when he was in Pittsburgh.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: Right, he's a major leaguer.
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: In Guzman's interesting, guys, you talk about the build for
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: next season, this is a guy that has a decision
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: to make. He certainly got an opportunity to enter professional
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: baseball and start his climb to the major leagues. His
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: star has never been brighter. You can't teach speed, as
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: they say, And so I think he's going to have
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: a tough decision of whether to enter major league baseball
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: or certainly has the opportunity to come back here. And
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: what a boost to this program if he chooses to return.
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: And Brad, you made the point a number of times
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: is that he is a threat not just at the play,
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: but when he gets on base, where everybody has to
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: pay attention to him. Yeah, and you know a lot
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: of players get on base and and a couple of
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: teams West Virginia player just weren't weren't based stealing teams.
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: So Guy's on first, Okay, you pay attention to him,
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: I mean Guzman. That was action. That was you had
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: to keep an eye on him. And then stealing home
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: for the first time that a player had stolen home
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: in a World Series game since was it?
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: That will be an everlasting name.
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: Not only did you do it, not only did you
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: do it because you just don't do it. People don't
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: do it West Virginia does. That's kind of complex. You
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: to do it in the first inning of game one,
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: like Game one you've just arrived at almost it does
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: every ever going to steal home on you?
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: It was awesome.
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: So HARMANI tremendous and if that's the last we see
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: of him in a West Virginia uniform, tip of the cap.
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: Just a wonderful season for him. A couple other quick
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: ones that we know, Chance and Cole all season long
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: was about as good as you could get and serving
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: as your one or one a whichever you want to
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: put him as a starter, got ten wins on the season.
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: That were only seven guys in West Virginia history that
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: have had more wins in a season than Chance and
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: Cole did. You weren't playing in Omaha without the performance
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: that young man gave you. By the way, one of
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: the fame D two guys that West Virginia has found
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: and nurtured and come here and performed on the biggest stage.
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: Max Yale, what a season. He had twelve big twelve
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: pitcher of the years we know. He had nine wins
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: on the season, so she had one started with ten
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: to one with nine. It's only about ten players with
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: more wins in their career in their single season.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: Than Max did. He was tremendous the other night.
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: It's unfortunately you couldn't get him home in that first
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: game against North Carolina because he gave you a pitching
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: performance that was worthy of a win. Ian Korn another
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: Division two guy, awesome season. Gave you those six innings
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: in Game one that should always be remembered that helped
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: get you the win there in Game one. Mention Dawson
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: Montesaw just electric stuff for that guy. He came in
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: with electric stuff throwing ninety seven to ninety eight and
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: for the season to be on the line, literally on
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: the line, losing go home two different times against Way
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: and against Troy, a team sitting in the College World Series,
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: and he shoves against both of those teams and just says,
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: get on my back. I got you, I'm carrying you
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: of the wins and did both times. A lot of
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: credit to Dawson Montesa.
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: And opportunities for him to bag out during that because
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: it was not an every everyday role for him. He
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: changed his position in the order of West Virginia pitchers
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: changed during the course of the season, and it could
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: have been very easy for him he was the Friday
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: night starter. Yes, could have been very easy for him
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: to say, woe is me. He just kept doing his
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: work and kept doing his work and when he absolutely
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: had to shine, that was a while.
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: Steve talked about that in a couple of different press
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: conferences and actually referred to his pitchers not as pitchers
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: but just out getters. They weren't defined by where the
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: Friday night starter, where the closer, where the long reliever.
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: They were defined as guys when called upon, they go
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: in and get out. And I thought Dawson exemplified that,
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: You're right, Tony, no longer the Friday night starter. What
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: he needed me to do? You need me to pitch
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: and day. Okay, fine, I'll be the starter there. You
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: need me to come in relief as he did in
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: the regional and close that thing down after a great start.
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: Fine, I'll do that.
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: You need him when you absolutely have him at the
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: College World Series, he's got to get you at least
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: five innings.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: He does.
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: He goes five and a third and was outstanding. So
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: another one of those d two guys. That doll fight
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: was awesome, just awesome. So credit to him. We'll always
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: remember the name Dawson Montesa. One last number and it
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: relates to our friend fine looking fill over at Daniels.
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: You're wearing one of the nice new shirts.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: I was going to bring him up. I've got about
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: four texts on the text line. I didn't even use him.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: People keep asking like, where'd you get this shirt? Where'd
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: you get that? Well, number one, I don't remember what
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: shirts I was wearing because we changed a lot of clothes.
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: There's just one answer.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: My short answer is when I wear like nice stuff
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: like with a collar and that stuff, it's from Fine
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: Looking Phil. So that's your best place to it. If
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: I'm wearing a T shirt. If I'm wearing a T
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: shirt or something, then it's and then the hat. People
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: keep asking about the hat, the white hat with the
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: oldbe not for retail. Team, it's team issue.
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: That'll that'll come. It's not for retail yet.
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: But Daniels.
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: So the final number of today and spreads on stats today,
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: and I know this is this. I don't know when
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: you're going to listen to this, but today is Thursday
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: June eighteen. Thursday June eighteen. Hop So if you're listening
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: to this on Thursday June eighteenth, and you have the ability,
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: get over to Daniels.
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: Anything you purchase today.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: By the way, there's a promotion.
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: There's a ton of new West Virginia stuff out there.
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: So if you want to celebrate this, get ready for football,
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: get over there. Fifteen percent of sales today go back
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: to the Championship Resource Fund with Gold Blue Enterprises. Today
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: only fifteen percent Friday, Thursday June eighteenth. Today, if you're
• 41:40
  Speaker 4: listening Thursday June eighteenth, If you're listening.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: You can do that online.
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: I think you can do it online too. If not,
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: you probably just did because we said it. Go on
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: and buy anything today from Daniels. Fifteen percent of that
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: all is West Virginia gear. Goes to the Championship Resource
• 41:54
  Speaker 4: Fund to help find the next Dawson, Montesa Chance and
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: cole Than Kelly, et cetera, et cetera. Okay, outstanding, I'd
• 42:04
  Speaker 4: say that's June eighteen, Thursday, June eighteenth.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Phil was there. Phil went to a game.
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: He brought by big baseball guy. Yeah, played right, Big
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: baseball guy Yeah.
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: Played uh three guys before before the game. Brought to
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: us by the good folks at go Mart. How about
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: this deal during Go Marks Go Marts. I gotta turn
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: my headphones on. During Gomart's Snackadelic Summer promotions called a
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: Snackadelic Summer Promotion, Hoby collect all seven tokens and earned
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: thirty cents off every gallon of gas up to thirty gallons.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: I mean you can't bring up airplane in Participants must
• 42:44
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• 42:48
  Speaker 1: Utts Chips single serve you get two hundred bonies, two
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: hundred bony points, Monster twenty four hounds Drink three hundred
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: and fifty bonus points, Jack Lynx six hundred bonus points.
• 43:00
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• 43:04
  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty there's a bunch of stuff. Get you go,
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: get the snack more, save thirty cents off a gallon,
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: download the app and you will be a uh you'll
• 43:11
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• 43:12
  Speaker 2: You know what Go Martin did there.
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: They Charlie from mid Lothian proofed the promotion.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: What does that mean?
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: I remember Charlie used to go to that big grocery
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: store chain there and take about forty seven different canisters.
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: To fill up the gas and then go sell it
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: at mark Charlie, is that right? We're gonna prove this, gotcha?
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: Only thirty gallons, yeah, Charlie, some for others, is what
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: they're doing.
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Charlie. Charlie's a good guy. Charlie's one of the
• 43:38
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  Speaker 1: thing before we do textual healing? So have you guys
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• 44:31
  Speaker 3: Sure yes, so.
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: Dolly Parton Imagination Library started by Dolly Parton and it's
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: involved in here in West Virginia at least in Morgantown, Montagelia,
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: Preston County, United Way, does it? And what it is
• 44:43
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  Speaker 1: How about that?
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  Speaker 3: It is great, that's fantastic.
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: So my wife is involved in the Dolly Parton Imagination
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  Speaker 1: Library in Montengeia Preston Counties. And what they do is
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  Speaker 1: they raise the dollars so that the books can be
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  Speaker 1: free and we've got our event next week. It's their
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: big fundraiser every week. But the auction for that event
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: goes live starting tomorrow, June nineteenth, and one of the items,
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: one of the items hobby is a chance to attend
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: a live recording of Three Guys before the game. So
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: if you would like to do that, come in and
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: hang out with us when we tape. The winning bidder
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: comes in, we'll do we'll get your picture made with us.
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: Just basically, we'll show the value. They put the value down,
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: like I saw they what isn't it was a ridiculously
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: low number. I think they started at like two hundred.
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: This is a thing that has done an excess of
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: a couple thousand dollars in the past, so they have that.
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: They also have two tickets to a Steelers Broncos game
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: in November. They also have a Gucci bag that's valued
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: six hundred dollars. This whole thing is about purses, This
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: dinner that they do, it's a perse thing. You people
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: buy purses anyway. So on Three Guys Social this weekend,
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: you'll see I'll have Dave put the link out there
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: so that you can get a look at the items.
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: And then you can bid on this.
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: We let the attend to our business meeting prior to
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: our taping.
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: Probably, yeah, the heavy business meeting before I do textual healing.
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: One other thing. Since we've gotten together, the Brendan Soresby
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: situation has its new level of resumption to this moment.
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: But did you see the commissioner of the Big Twelve
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: Conference issued a statement, Brad, It was quite short, three sentences.
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: Read it please, from the commissioner. It's been a challenging
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: week for both our conference and the college athletics landscape.
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: The Big Twelve looks forward to moving ahead as sixteen strong.
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: We wish Brendan Soresby's success in his future endeavors.
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: Two things. That says nothing number one. Second thing is
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: The second thing is nothing is resolved. Okay, that's not true.
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: He's not gonna play for Texas tex that's.
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: Resolved, okay, But that doesn't resolve the bigger the bigger issue. Okay,
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: he's gonna go into supplemental draft. But the issue remains,
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: are there any rules or can you enforce any of
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: the rules in this case, specifically about gambling, Because it
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: doesn't it doesn't address.
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: That he's right, doesn't address that.
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: It's just like, oh, I'm glad here here's the reaction
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: see this. Glad that went away? I mean, but it doesn't.
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, that's a that's a good point. Glad
• 47:44
  Speaker 4: that went away from a full big twelve pr perspective.
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: That would have been a disaster and a cloud over
• 47:50
  Speaker 4: every school and every game all season, right, that would
• 47:52
  Speaker 4: have been the talking point. That's a point like the
• 47:55
  Speaker 4: sigh of relief that that's not hanging over. That's that's
• 47:57
  Speaker 4: a good point.
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: It's like that brat you know it rained this morning
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: in Morgantown. If it rained and you had a leak
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: in your roof and it stopped raining and stop waking
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: with who that's over? I mean, it doesn't change anything.
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: Well, it's kind of here's the deal. It's kind of
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: like watching a car accident. This thing isn't over in
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: the sense. Now, what is Texas Tech's reaction and how
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: do they roll with Cody Campbell going forward? Does Cody
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: Campbell now put the big doner, the big donor for
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: the big I'm sorry you have the big donor? Does
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: he put does he put the hit out on Brett
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: your mark? He will try, but there might be fifteen.
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: Others go like, no, not doing anything, Brett your mark,
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: But that will be the attempt. So I find it
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: to be dramatic, fun theater to watch. I really do
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: all right. Time for textual healing. You guys ready for
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: the song? Yeah, got some good textual healings in there
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: by the way. It's gonna be good. We missed music
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: when we were in when we were out there, we
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: didn't have text We didn't I think we did it
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  Speaker 1: without music. It runs together. Yeah, it's kind of three
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  Speaker 1: a thousand thank yous to those folks. That was where
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: all the WVU people met and they were just great.
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: This was interesting. Texter says. I'm not sure if anyone
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: else caught this, but during the interview with our current
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: mountaineer resettling out of Bridgeport, it was done by ESPN
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: reporter Jake DeLong Champs. He shared the that his grandfather
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: was the nineteen sixty two Mountaineer mascot. The reporter his
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: grandfather was the sixth it was was the Mountaineer mascot
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: in sixty two. Amazing, of course he was hey fellas
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: Dougie Dougie Fresh from Merle's Inlet there in Myrtle Beach.
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: Great to see in Omaha. Brad, you and I can
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: take full credit for the win and the positive mojo
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: and the victory over Troy by not leaving our spot
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: on the concourse during the comeback. So is that what
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: you were doing? He locked in and said, I'm not leaving.
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: Well, it wasn't going well.
• 51:34
  Speaker 4: Got up from my seat, Hobby went back to the concourse,
• 51:37
  Speaker 4: shortly thereafter, joined by Dougie Fresh, and we enjoyed the
• 51:41
  Speaker 4: the Troy game.
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: The rest of the Troy game from the concourse.
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: You got up from the seat, and then the rally
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: started and he never came back, and I knew exactly
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: what he was doing. He got superstitious. Stay in here.
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: Rad's a baseball guy, and he's he's so superstitious that
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: we let it fly and someone took off with his
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: lucky hat and they he almost had a meltdown.
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: Hey, if you stole Brad's gold hat during that first
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: Mountaineer reception before a game, bad on you.
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: Please return, no questions and actually ask a lot of
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: questions if you returned it.
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: Texter, Hello, three guys. I wanted to take a moment
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: to share my appreciation for this year's baseball team. My father,
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: my son, and I made the trip to Omaha to
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: see the North Carolina game Sunday. Monday morning, we're visiting
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: the tents around the stadium. We saw a few players
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: from the team. My nine year old son asked if
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: I would ask them to get a picture. I was
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: a bit hesitant since this was the morning after a
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: tough loss, but I approached them. They were kind enough
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: to take the pick, which made my son's day. I
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: couldn't be more grateful for the experience this team has
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: allowed my family. Going to the College World Series was
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: a once in a lifetime opportunity we'll never forget. Thank
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: you WV Baseball. Thank you three guys for providing great coverage. Sincerely, John,
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: WV Class of four and eleven. There you go.
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: So there's this little I, Moni and Gavin.
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: There you go.
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: Uh, those guys were out and about.
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: They were out and about, and those are just one
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: of the gazillion tents that they have there. I never
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: knew how absolutely addicted Brad is to ball caps.
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: He went and stolen so I had to replace it.
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: He went in and uh, he went in and he
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: went heavy.
• 53:23
  Speaker 3: He went heavy, sweat, you went heavy. Swag purchase.
• 53:25
  Speaker 4: Well, you know, of my many things. One of my things,
• 53:29
  Speaker 4: I love gear from events.
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: Okay, I just love that's a thing. I gotta, I
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: gotta go get gear.
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: You're not alone because there's a lot of people, a.
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: Lot of people.
• 53:39
  Speaker 4: When my daughter was little and participating in karate, I
• 53:41
  Speaker 4: mean we'd go up to Weir and be at an event.
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: I have a T shirt.
• 53:45
  Speaker 4: We got the T shirt for good T shirt. I
• 53:48
  Speaker 4: just love love gear. Yeah, love gear at events. And
• 53:52
  Speaker 4: there was a lot of gears, a lot, yes.
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: Anything and everything. Texter, whatever you do, please do not
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: let Tony comment on shore daylight hours after June. Firstly,
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: it's after June twenty.
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: First already done.
• 54:06
  Speaker 4: It's already happened many times, not just publicly. Because you
• 54:08
  Speaker 4: were amazed that Omaha had the light even a little
• 54:12
  Speaker 4: bit longer that Midwest you get it a little bit.
• 54:13
  Speaker 4: I mean we were in the pushing nine thirty.
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: We were pushing nine thirty and it was light. Yeah, Texter,
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: this is a good one. Hey, guys. Quick story on
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: wv's new baseball commit Jack Cannon, who just committed a
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: couple of days ago. He's currently playing for the Mahoning
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: Valley Scrappers in the MLB Draft League and he's staying
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: with a host family right around the corner from our house.
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: There's a group of kids that play whiffle ball right
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: across the street from the host family. Jack has come
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: out and played with the kids, ages eight through ten
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: in the yard multiple times and he's been absolutely incredible
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: with them. I hope his time at West Virginia will
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: be special as he has made a huge impact on
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: these kids here. Let's go Mountaineers, John and Courtland, Ohio.
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: So Jack Cannon just committed to WV. One of the
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: highest profile portal guys out there. Played at Lemoinne College
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: and Syracuse. He was a Lemoyne Dolphin and now he'll
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: be a West Virginia Mountaineer after he finishes his summer
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: tenure with the Valley Scrappers in Mahoning Valley.
• 55:09
  Speaker 4: Can run and hit, he'll be a perfect edition. It
• 55:12
  Speaker 4: sounds like personality wise, he'll fit right in with the
• 55:14
  Speaker 4: scrip too.
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: Just out there throwing wiffleball curves to the eight year olds,
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: deer scopes and Center first time Texter longtime listener response
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: responsible for consumption data emanating from Kentucky, Ohio twice to Texas, Alaska, Minnesota,
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: and Wisconsin since episode one. The experience in Omaha was
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: for the ages. I've had the fortune, fortunate opportunity to
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: travel to and attend Bowl games and other notable events
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: during the most recent golden era of WVU sports. Maybe
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: it's the result of being the first, but the College
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: World Series hosted by this wonderful city fans and residents
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: of Omaha was special. My young son, Reese, and I
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: began watching West Virginia baseball semi regularly last year semi
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: fervent lea this year, the Reds and the Soupers led
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: to many moments of joy, a tip of the cap
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: to Hoppy's new mantra as soon as Ben McDougal threw
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: the final strike to send the team to Omaha. I
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: booked an airbnb in the Old Market district and purchased
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: tickets to the series. The fellowship with other mountaineers who
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: made the trek to Omaha was worth the trip atself.
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: My son and I had a morning routine in Omaha,
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: grab a kool aid, and coffee and head out to
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: the brickstreets of the Old Market district, grab some breakfast,
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: head to the stadium. What happened to experience We happened
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: to experience convergences with none other than the three guys,
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: none of which time were they together. We were introduced
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: to homeless Dave and Dan Lohman. This process seemed to
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: repeat with Tony and Brad and separately Hoppy several times
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: over the weekend. Each of you could not have been
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: more relatable, whether it be Tony drilling down to what
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: town in Marion County I was from, to my son
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: Brad chatting West des Moines where we stayed overnight on
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: the way down. While listening to you guys, we couldn't
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: be more proud of the team, excited about the future
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: of the program. Let's go Reese's dad also known as Josh,
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: and there you go. There is Brad. Yeah, with the
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: little guy that was it. Let it fly.
• 57:18
  Speaker 4: We had a great time. Saw Josh and Reese more
• 57:20
  Speaker 4: than I saw you too. They were everywhere, which now
• 57:25
  Speaker 4: makes sense that they were staying right in the Old
• 57:27
  Speaker 4: Market and they all walking up and now, which is
• 57:28
  Speaker 4: close to where we were staying. So they were wonderful
• 57:31
  Speaker 4: and it was it was fun to see those guys.
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: Texter morning fellas just a layman chef from the first ward.
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: Here with all the hoopla around the Renfredo hooplo as
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: in universally accepted, aside from scopes, the moral compass of
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: Italian cuisine. I'd like to get the sauce. Sheriffs's take
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: on this beauty, A classic cutlet with a side of
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: homemade Elfredo. So he goes Sheriff. So there you go,
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: there's a bifurcation of the recipe. He's got a classic
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: parm with Maren there and then he's got the Alfredo
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: on the side.
• 58:07
  Speaker 4: I will say, our friends over it over at Cafe
• 58:10
  Speaker 4: a Lavario, Ray Lynn, Shilyn Patrick, all of them, everybody
• 58:13
  Speaker 4: over there.
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: They will do that for you too.
• 58:15
  Speaker 4: They will had somebody the other night when I went
• 58:18
  Speaker 4: full Renfredo, of course, as I do, they weren't sure
• 58:20
  Speaker 4: they wanted to come all the way in the Renfredo waters,
• 58:23
  Speaker 4: so they mixed it. Now Cafel Averio actually mixed it
• 58:26
  Speaker 4: up so it came out pinkish.
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: He ends his comments, Boss Sheriff. He also comments also
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: has me thinking, what other hot takes do you guys
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: have regarding food? Pineapple on pizza, question mark beans and chili,
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: question mark crazy? How worked up some people get over
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: other people's plates. I'm pretty open minded myself.
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: Did I write this? Did I send this in? Well said,
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: don't get worked up over other people's plates.
• 58:55
  Speaker 3: If that's what you enjoy, what you want.
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: Thank you chef. From the first word, this other guy said,
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: fifty to fifty mix of red sauce and the alfredo
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: is the best of both worlds.
• 59:07
  Speaker 3: I tell you this. We were in the Midwest, where
• 59:09
  Speaker 3: you would expect meat. By the way, Omaha in the
• 59:13
  Speaker 3: nineteen fifties tour passed Chicago for the largest stockyards in America,
• 59:17
  Speaker 3: so you would expect great beef, and we had a
• 59:19
  Speaker 3: wonderful steak. But I think you had a steak. Tony
• 59:23
  Speaker 3: had lamb. I mean that one night, whatever night that was,
• 59:26
  Speaker 3: that was really good.
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 59:27
  Speaker 4: But the surprise of the trip, and they may have
• 59:29
  Speaker 4: passed the stockyards in Chicago is the number one beef producer,
• 59:32
  Speaker 4: but the shock was in beating every coastal town in
• 59:35
  Speaker 4: this country. Apparently Omaha the best seafood place in the
• 59:39
  Speaker 4: entire world.
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: It was Yes, I did have a good sayd on there.
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: I know you did that to me was the upset
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: of the week, all the all the seafood.
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: Talks, you just continued to make fun of their seafood designation.
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: New York Times has it has one of their places
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: there is one of the best sushi restaurants in the
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: United States.
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: I don't know why that Times does or not.
• 59:58
  Speaker 4: I'm just saying, fifteen different people from Omaha told us
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 4: you got to get seafood.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: That is not what I expected.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 3: And it was wonderful. Right.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: The sam and I have was very good, fantastic. This
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: next person is I want you to listen to this one. Okay,
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: how do college umpires not know a rule? Legally caught
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: third strike has to hit mitt or hand first. The
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: call on Gavin went bat to chest, protector to leg
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: It did not touch the catcher's mitt. It's the little things,
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: get it right?
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: Did you know that?
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 3: I did not.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: I didn't know that.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: He's pretty in the weeds for me, this person seems
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: to be pretty.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Pat knows that.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: Texter. I'm loving all the Omaha content. Sorry to have
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: missed you in person. That's the one person we missed.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: Do you know where I can buy jerseys and hats
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: like they wore in the first game against Troy, the
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: white ones with the old school script West Virginia, I
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: asked my mac contact.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 3: He did, No.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: I didn't see anything on shop WV your your clothes.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 4: Just not that stuff's not in retail in in those
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 4: particular forms. I would think that hat will be out
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 4: here pretty soon. There's some other there's some other places
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 4: that have items with that throwback logo on it, but
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 4: not necessarily that hat that everybody's referring to, which is
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 4: the which is like cream colored with navy, not the
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 4: one the team wears, right, but it's the it's the
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 4: unstructured one. Yeah, somewhere to my gold one that got taken.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 3: Boy, that's gonna You're never going to get over that.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 4: The fact that the fact that West Virginia won the
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 4: game and I didn't have it, that's okay. Yeah, now
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 4: I'm just annoyed. Now I'm just annoyed somebody took my hat.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 4: I would have been beside myself had West Virginia lost
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 4: that game and I didn't have that hat. I truly will,
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 4: like I thought, I held I hit it pretty well
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 4: from you guys, you have no idea how how my
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 4: insides were going ahead?
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, yes I do, because we saw you
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 3: Tony were, I mean he was, we were kind of
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 3: you were very upset.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: Let me, I'm still telling you. You have no idea
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: how upset it was.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: Okay, well, let me ask you. This was your stress
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: level at that point, higher or lower than when you
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: thought you lost your license the night before we left.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: It was close, Yeah, it was tight. It was this
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: next one, this next, This gentleman is very upset. Okay, hey,
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: three guys, isn't this fun? Once again? I claim, divert
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: the football money to men's basketball, women's basketball, and baseball,
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: and we can enjoy championship events on a regularly, on
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: a yearly or regular basis. Football is a lost cause
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: and has been forever. Sign JD from the Southern Coal Fields,
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: a lifelong Mountaineer fan who is tired of swimming against
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: the eft up financial stream of college sports that is
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: nothing more than a pissing contest between mega donors who
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: can't wait to drain their bank accounts. So he's very upset. JD.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: I would say this to you over this microphone. And
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: I would say you face to face, that is not
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: the route to go. If you were to take money
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: from football, Football is think of it as a body.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: Football is the heart. If you lessen the flow to
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: the heart, everything else would suffer. You would not have
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: the ability to fund other sports if you took money
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: away from football. And while that may sound counterintuitive to you,
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: the money that is pushed toward football from donors and
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: everything else to fund for seats and everything else, that
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: funds the entire body. And if you were to do that,
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: what would happen over a period of time is that
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: the body would die.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 3: You would not be in a powerful confidence, No, you would.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: Just you would wither. Uh. Towards the end here question
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: for Brad from Brad and Saberton, borrowing your havoc statistic
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: from football, what would a HAVOC rating be for Armani
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: Guzman on the base?
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 3: Great question?
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: Really high?
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 3: So havoc grade let's say the havoc grade is the
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 3: highest is ten thirteen. He is he is dynamic.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and so what we mean by that not only
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 4: just that that you have to keep watching him, but
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 4: this goes back to back of like the eighties and
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 4: Major League baseball great bass dealers. It gives the guy
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 4: behind him, So Gavin in this case a lot of
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 4: postseason better pitches to hit because you can't screw around
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 4: as much right, right, can't throw as many off speed
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 4: pitches because it's even easier to steal.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: So theoretically you get more more pitches.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 3: And the great thing about about baseball and then is
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 3: Guzman gets on first. Gavin Kelly's up and the picture
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 3: starts to get it starts to get a little tight, right,
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 3: and the pictures looking at Guzman, and Guzman's like dancing around.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 3: I mean, there's no.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: Second second basement.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 4: Then once he steals second second basement, shortstop have to
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 4: come over and there's.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 3: No unlike other sports, there's no play going on, but
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 3: there's drama. Yeah, right, so you gotta watch. You're watching
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 3: the picture watching Guzman, you' watching the second basement. You're
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 3: watching it. I mean, it is it's fun.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 2: It is fun.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: It is fun. Well, nothing for me, nothing will ever
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: take away to steal a home because we were sitting
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: on the third baseline and we're watching it, and he's
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: like parallel to us, he's halfway.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: Down and you you could see it coming.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: You could see it almost like a car accident, like, well,
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: what do you did? And then it made it was
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: it was a national story.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 4: And to your point when the third basement again, I said,
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 4: this one had happened. Afterwards, we talked about this. The
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 4: third baseman didn't didn't stay up. In fact, he went
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 4: back and I said to David was sitting next to me,
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 4: I said, I think he's stealing home here at third basement.
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 4: Went back and Guzman came off even further and then
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 4: then took off.
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 2: You could see it. Yeah, that was awesome. Was that
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: was awesome.
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: That was a highlight. Last couple in Canton, Ohia. Best
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: team in one hundred and thirty five years of WV
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: baseball and we got to enjoy them. What a treat
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: Hats off to every player, coach and the support staff.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: Last one, actually last two. Thank you out in your
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: baseball for a great run and thank you three guys
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: for great coverage. As always Jeff from Sandyville. We enjoyed
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: covering that.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we did it.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: It was aside for us like a career highlight.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 4: It was.
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: It was really the first time that we've done one offs,
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: like we go to a place and do a one show.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: But this is the first time we ever traveled for
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: a long period of time together, and I would like
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: to be the first to say that that'll never happen again. No,
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: we did come to the conclusion, and it was difficult
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  Speaker 1: for Hoppy to accept. We had this dinner the last
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  Speaker 1: night we were there. It was me and Brad and
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  Speaker 1: homeless Dave and by a three to zero vote, Hoppy
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  Speaker 1: has been deemed to be peculiar. Peculiarly. I can't even
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  Speaker 1: say it. You're peculiar. I can't say peculiar.
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  Speaker 3: Say it peculiar.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, peculiar, you can't say and he and he refuted
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  Speaker 1: it and it was three nothing no. And then he said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, my wife says the same thing. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the votes are your wife said it you your wife
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  Speaker 1: says it. Oh yeah, well it's four.
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  Speaker 2: Oh dude, tell him. We all have our things that
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  Speaker 2: we all tell you we all do.
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  Speaker 1: That is the one thing we came away from her
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  Speaker 1: on that trip. We all have our things.
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  Speaker 3: Can I say one thing about that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: And I told you this on the NILA yesterday. Peculiar.
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  Speaker 1: Peculiar is that I had.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I'm at the latter stages of my career.
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  Speaker 3: I had a historically wonderful time on two levels. One
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 3: was covering an amazing event, not only what WV was doing,
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 3: but just the event. Right had an amazing time covering that,
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  Speaker 3: and I enjoyed the fellowship. It was a win win
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  Speaker 3: for me.
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  Speaker 2: It was just fun as heck, hey.
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  Speaker 4: One last shout out. We got a shout out our guy,
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  Speaker 4: Brody Kresser, a friend of this program. I walk away
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  Speaker 4: from this being absolutely giddy for him. Yain, we'll tell
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 4: the story. He and I can't believe he did this,
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 4: but he always said, just being four hours away from
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 4: that ballpark, knowing what a great event it is, said
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 4: he would not go to one until he played in it,
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 4: which is just an unbelievable statement from a kid from
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 4: smalltown Iowa to think that that was possible. And lo
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 4: and behold, he finishes his career a guy that helps
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 4: set the foundation of this program on this latest run.
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  Speaker 4: Thrilled that Brody got to play on that field.
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  Speaker 2: Talk to his.
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  Speaker 4: Parents before the Troy game, before the first pitch, they
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 4: were overjoyed he had something ended like twelve former teammates
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 4: from the d MAC and other play in jess up
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 4: that were there watching him, so really happy for a
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 4: friend of this program, Brody Krusher.
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  Speaker 3: Guys, absolutely, And it was something about the stadium, the
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 3: grass field, the dirt infield, and the organists which were
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 3: fantastic here.
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  Speaker 1: Mind did you see my note on that?
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  Speaker 3: But I thought they used two different ones, which is
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 3: one of the dudes. I mean it was the organists
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 3: just add to it and to the vibe. Right, just
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 3: felt like baseball.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, last text, great season for the baseball team, one
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  Speaker 1: of the final four teams standing. Congrats to the players, coaches,
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: everyone involved with the program. You all made us proud
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  Speaker 1: and it just makes me ready to see what we
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: can do next year. Sign by Jeff and Scott Depot
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  Speaker 1: And uh we got to go because they use the
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: studio for a flea market and they got to set
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: up the tables. But Brad and I you tell memories.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: We were sitting, we were getting coffee Saturday morning and
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: this dude walks in and I had we had a
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: ninety minute conversation with this guy from Carolina. That was
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: one of the most remarkable conversations in my life.
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 3: Wow, and you talked to everybody.
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: I talked to everybody twice, right, Yeah, this guy I
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: blew our minds. Retired American Airlines captain, thirty three years
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: flying internationally, but besides doing that, knew everything about anyone
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: and everything and could get every place every place. He's
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: telling me things about my hometown that I had no clue.
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 4: Hoppy to the point. The greatest comment made about this
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 4: conversation was Tony said, I think I am more likely
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 4: to believe we were just on hidden camera and somebody
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 4: was feeding him all this stuff than I am to
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 4: believe this guy actually exists and knew all this stuff
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 4: in people.
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  Speaker 2: It was remarkable, mind blower.
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 4: Everything we said he came back with something else, and
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 4: not in a name dropper, braggadocious way, just as a
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 4: as a relatable kind of way.
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: It was amazing. So that's what you can know.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 3: You that meant something you've mentioned several times. It meant
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 3: something to you, like now you're stalking him. You want
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 3: to track him down and have another conversation.
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: While he's going to visit Brad because he lives in
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: Greensboro and the Mountaineers, Uh, yeah, he lives in Greensboro
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: right now now, and anybody's gonna come see you.
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 2: When we talked about the North Carolina.
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: He's gonna come see Brad when the Mountaineers played basketball
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: at North Carolina this year. And he also was Michael Jordan.
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: I chartered Michael Jordan before and the whole thing. But
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: it was just it was it was. But those are
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: the things. You have, these conversations. My point to it
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: is you have conversations with people and you just have
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: zero idea when you're crossing paths with someone, like what story?
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: Everyone's got an unbelievable story.
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 4: One last note speaking of that, one of the final
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 4: groups of David Hagen's dad, it was awesome, was the
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 4: was in the coffee, the whole family was, their mom
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 4: came over. They were wonderful. But we had a chance
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 4: to talk to his dad with a marvelous story and
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 4: glad he's on the end and doing better. But it
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 4: was wonderful to meet them as well.
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: Yep, absolutely, all right, that'll be it. So what's it
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  Speaker 1: all mean? Now?
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  Speaker 3: What do we do?
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: Now?
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 3: I tell you what we doo cock off next week?
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 2: So as you let's talk Carolina Visits next week preview episode.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: Coming as you all, if you're a regular, If you're
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: a regular, you know that normally this time of year,
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: we would be into the midst of our summer series
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: of interviews.
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 3: Now we go every day.
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: We interviewed Michael Hawkins four years ago when he was
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: in high school and still hasn't you haven't used it.
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: So next week we'll finally release our Michael Hawkins interview
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: Mountaineer quarterback prospect. Right, we had Scottie Fox on and
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: now we're gonna have Michael Hawkins on. We've got another couple.
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: We've got Wren Baker will be coming on as well
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: in the next couple of weeks. So we're into our
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: summer series. But like blink, blink, folks, summer's over. There's
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: six weeks and it's going to be football practice times.
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: Do you hear what I just said? Hockey?
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 4: I know?
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  Speaker 3: I said six weeks and it's going to be football
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 3: practice when the baseball team plays till the fourth of July.
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: I know. Which is a good thing to do it
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: every year every year. This was great, all right, We're
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: out special thanks to our producer Jake. Jake was wonderful
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: as well, and Harris and Lewandowski as well when we
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: were on the road, and Danny Loman and Ben Loman
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: because there were a lot of pieces.
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that was our headquarters, so.
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 3: Oh, go on it.
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: I wanted to use those earlier. That's inside the Let
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: It Fly Sports Bary. We did a screen overturned there.
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: We took all over all over their screens. It's a
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: massive place. It was great place. There's a little picture
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: of one of the significant statues in front of the
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: Charles schwab Omaha Baseball Complex there the celebration. That was
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: a picture right there where Brad's hat was stolen right
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: at that table minute. That could be evidence that was
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: an event that the first day that we were there,
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: before the first Mountaineer game, Mac took it over. The
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: Mountaineer Athletic Club took it over, and that was just tremendous.
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 4: Sorry, it's hard to tell because everybody's in gold. It
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 4: looks like one big person.
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: That was packed. Yeah yeah, two levels, yeah, double level.
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: And it was just a great, great place. And there
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: it is views from a fantastic place. If you ever
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: get an opportunity to go out there, even if your
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: team's not in, go ahead and do that. And there's
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: a whole nother story. Brad and I came across two
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: guys all right, I'm gonna stop the music. Brad and
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: I came across two guys because the podcast you can
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: do that. There were these two guys that were cheering
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: on the concourse when we were watching Georgia Oklahoma Oklahoma
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: two nights a couple of nights ago, and they're standing
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: and I mean every pitch was a movement, and we
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: I started talking to guys and we go like, what
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: who's cheering for?
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 4: Here?
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 2: He goes, So you said, Georgia fans.
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 4: They reacted on a Georgia near home run. The one
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 4: guy went to his knees like a catcher squat down.
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 4: We would do it on Ben Lumpston's.
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 2: Georgia.
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: And the guy said no, He said, we hate both
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: of these teams. We're from Auburn. We hate cheering.
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 4: This means a little bit more, and said we hate
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 4: Oklahoma a little bit less and been around as well.
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 2: We were here earlier. I hate watching Alabama.
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: So get to the College World Series. All right, we're
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: out next week. Michael Hawkins on the show. Have a
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: good week and we'll see you