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Will This Change Baseball as we know it.... · JustIN Time

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Welcome back to another edition of the Justin Time Podcast.
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I'm your host, Justin, and with me is.
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Will what's going on? What's going on?
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Come on, brother. You was you showing you showing
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me showing me around with that stuff.
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Really. Yeah.
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I had an extra element. I love that.
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Hey Riverside plug, this bugged the show.
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Real sad but but you do stuff. Today we have we're going to be
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talking about transfer portal for ILSU Tigers and then hit a
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little bit on the World Series and Oklahoma Sooners and we will
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talk about the new changes they laying out for the MLB draft and
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see where that goes. But.
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Yeah, I got a lot of stuff to talk of, like as far as like the
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College Cosworld series, you know, I made a post on Reddit,
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you know, a lot of people weren't too happy about it, but
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you know, people are miserable. Some people are unfortunately
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miserable so. What did you put that you want
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an Arkansas to win or Kansas? Well, and they jump down your
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throat. So like, as you know, we had you
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and I had talked about previously, first and foremost,
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shout out to the to Oklahoma for when I think it's their third in
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program history. So shout out to the program.
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So yesterday I well, it was a Monday night, but just I put on
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the college baseball Reddit, you know, make that seven 90s in the
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row for the SEC and really it's like 8-9 years.
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You know, outside of like it's for the one that beat us in 17.
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It would have been nine in a row fortunate for Arkansas.
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I didn't finish to finish it off.
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But you know, a lot of people weren't too, a lot of people had
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a lot of the exceptions to that because, you know, just I'll
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read you a few comments real quick.
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Let's see if I can get to, you know, a lot of people I was
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saying like, you know, just, you know, I've always, you know,
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even though I don't like when SEC teams beat us, I would much
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rather see SEC team win the championships because like it's
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just go is just another example of we have the preeminent
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conference. Exactly.
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And if you think about it, you know this looks better for LSU.
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Yes. That Oklahoma won it because we
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split the series in was a botched double play away and
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keeping Gavin Guidry in just a little too long away from taking
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the series from the would be national champions.
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And Cason Evans also showed us what he can do.
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And now that performance that we gave him, the performance of the
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year looks even better with him because Oklahoma was a national
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champion and what he did in that lineup to that lineup.
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And also gives me more hope for Devin Sheeran coming up because
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he shut him out and when we eliminated them from the SEC
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tournament. You're right.
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And The thing is like The thing is and like, like to your point
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is just, I mean, we had a lot of people talk about, well, y'all,
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you guys keep saying they're the most talented team.
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A lot of LSU fans were upset about that.
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Just like, well, when the winds weren't acquainted.
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Yeah, I understand when is the production ultimately matters,
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but you can't sit here and tell me we didn't have talent.
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You know, it just didn't come together on a consistent basis.
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You know, I looking to decide. You know, when I made this post,
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you know, it said a lot. A lot of fans that are support
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other conferences and programs, they don't understand the
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concept about us. Not it's not about us like me
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being so obsessed with other teams in my conference.
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It's just I because we have like, I don't like them beating
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us. You know, we always say like,
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you know, I always said before about when Alabama was running,
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you know, was on their football tear with during Nick Saban's
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era. I always said the fact that I, I
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ultimately respect him because people here in Louisiana, a lot
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of people, they just supported them because they hate LSU.
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They have no really knowledge of the sport.
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They don't keep up with recruiting.
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They don't keep up with the history.
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They just hate LSU. But see, I, I ultimately just
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support the conference because if I'm a lose to anybody, I'd
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rather lose to somebody from the best conference.
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But I see a lot of these comments saying like I could
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never support or be a fan of a team in my conference and stuff
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like that. I said, listen, it's not about
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being a fan of those teams. I'm not a Florida fan.
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I'm not a Bama fan of Arkansas. I'm not a.
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Look, I just hate Florida, but. Yeah, it's but that's the thing.
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That's my thing is listen, as much as you guys talk trash
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about the SEC in every sport, I I love to see when y'all get
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exposed on the biggest stage because you guys you guys are
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obsessed. You guys are the one that's
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really obsessed with the conference.
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And like somebody comment on the my post said who cares?
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I said clearly you do because you commented.
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Yeah, so it was. Just like first and foremost and
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like and I was saying like a Georgia Bulldogs person said
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like, wait, how does this post equate to support the headlines?
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Just a fact. I see no celebration.
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I just said like, listen, these guys are just miserable.
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Some Virginia Cavaliers post say like how a bunch of cold, a
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bunch of miserable losers like us here in the SEC, we don't
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lose. We want 7 as in a row guy who
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just made the posters point. I said, listen, like I said, you
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guys are miserable. Yeah, you guys are absolutely
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miserable. And like, I mean, it's just, but
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they just don't understand that concept clearly, you know, just.
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Just the point just on there was a post made and I can't find it
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for the life of me about SEC teams winning in the major 3
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sports, football, baseball and basketball since 2000 and it is
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on there multiple Times Now. Take it.
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Oklahoma and Texas are on there too and they weren't in the SEC
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when they win those championships.
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But you know what, they're here now.
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So we claim and. That and that's and that's
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that's and that's another point with the tag because so they had
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a Texas fan just if I could pull it up, but he was just saying
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the exact same thing or and same thing with Oklahoma and stuff
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like that So it was not really like ACC school.
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I said listen, it's been 2 years brother, like you all in it just
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like business is business, see and this is what it is like
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your, your beloved school joined the conference, Yeah, like and.
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Look, it's all about. It's about it's money.
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That's. That's what it is, but it's also
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Kyle Peterson and Chris Burke and them were talking about on
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Monday night. You know, what could these other
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conferences do to catch up to the SEC?
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Is there any way they can catch up to the SEC?
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The SEC is running it, you know, and they were saying, look, you
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can talk about the money in all of this, but Oklahoma is on the
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lower side of the NIL money deal with college baseball.
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Yeah, good point. It's.
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Just that the SEC puts more into college baseball than any other
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conference because they know it's important you know it.
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Is but, but it's like they don't understand those concepts
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because they they just hate the conference all together and they
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mock the conference. But listen, the results are
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there. They have a Florida State fans
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say like there are generally more comments and posts about
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the SEC winning and Oklahoma winning who has been in the
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conference for like 3 years. It must be exhausting being in
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two Colts at the same time. I just said loli said listen
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y'all just again, y'all just miserable because you guys play
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in a big conference and you guys can't get it done.
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Yeah. What like what else do?
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What else do you need to see like?
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Do you know the only other? Yeah, you know, the only other
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team that has been to Omaha more times than North Carolina
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without winning it who they are. Well, not our Kansas, but yeah.
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But Florida State actually has more.
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That's true, yeah. College.
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World Series appearances without winning the national
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championship than it I think any other school is what they were
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saying. Yeah, that you're right because
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my Co worker just tell me about that yesterday.
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Yeah, so let them Florida State fans talk.
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Let them ACC fans talk. Miserable.
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It's like yellow miserable, yellow obsessed with the SCC as
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I just pray you do get healed. I just pray that the Lord heals
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you. If y'all y'all need it, it is
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well. They can't beat us and they
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can't join us, so that's why they hate me.
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Man, that's this laugh. They hate me from outside of the
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club. That's it.
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And they can't. Get in.
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And I'm thinking I was like, you know, because it was like
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instead of being on my under my comments, talk to your school
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about getting some more money because like you got, you have a
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situation with your football coach who I respect.
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I mean, but they were they were trying to get rid of like focus
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on the priority. That nursing home they went.
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Remember when we talked about them in a nursing home a couple
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of months ago? Yeah, I've got one thing for
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y'all. Man, but I just I just wanted to
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bring that up. It's just like it's just the
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same. I like what else do y'all need
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to see at this point, bro? It like you said, it's going to
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your point real quick. Just it's about people talking
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about money. It's about ultimately about
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priority because I believe schools have nothing but money
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and endowments, but they don't prioritize athletics like other
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schools do. And that's totally fine.
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But they don't complain about it because that's their identity.
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But see, so it's just like, but but just to bring that point up,
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just ultimately at the end of the day is about college sports
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is about priority in a pro sports about parity, college
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sports about priority. You know, and I think that's a
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perfect transition and what we wanted to talk about in this.
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Yes, Sir. So.
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There you go. And we're going to go right into
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talking about the new proposed MLB rules that'll try to help
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the college game, in my opinion. Yeah, for sure.
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You know, so they got this rule now where they want to change
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the draft eligible age to 20, which would have sent guys like
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Colt Emerson, Max Clark, Thomas White.
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Yep. Walter Jenkins, Bryce Rayner and
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Connor Griffin would be at LSU instead of the Pirates right
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now. Yeah.
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You know, television ratings would probably climb up because
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you get to watch those guys for two years at least, maybe 3.
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You know, hopefully college baseball attendance, you know,
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for LSU that's up every year and for SEC schools.
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Hate to harp on the SEC Ness of it all, but.
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Don't, don't, don't. They'll be all right.
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You know, SEC normally brings in a lot of baseball.
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Fans, if you build it, they will come brother.
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Some of the. Biggest baseball college
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baseball stadiums I've seen are in the SEC.
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That's another point somebody made in the comedy were
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complaining about like, but you got these big league state.
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I said, brother, it's college is about business is about money.
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Like just and it's like it's about business.
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You guys are so caught up in all this other stuff and like,
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brother, it's ultimately about the dollars.
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That'll say like the the pattern tree doesn't have value, but
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first and before anything else is money.
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You don't just magically get there just because I have LSU on
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my name tag. Well, after all, at work they
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put it in the 90s. LSU just brings in a bunch of
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money because they're LSU. Yeah.
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And that's The thing is it's like, I mean that like just we,
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we because we talked about this last year, reading the book,
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Skip Berber's book, like in the mid 80s, like this is not LSU,
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not where it is. They weren't back then.
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They weren't where they are today.
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Somebody had to build it. Somebody had to prioritize.
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That's the whole point. But you're not to get off the
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beauty paths. I'm sorry.
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No, you're good. It just is a good point, you
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know, So you know, that's the rule changes.
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Oh, and unlimited undrafted free agent signings, tradable draft
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picks in mandatory combines for medical evaluations or added in
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this proposal. Wow, that's good.
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Basically what the MLB is trying to do is have the draft where
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now these, the best amateur players can play in college.
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They'll have a draft be kind of like the NFL and NBA drafts
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where they can enjoy their college careers and then get
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into the professional. Yeah.
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And like you said before we went on and just I feel like it's be
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multi beneficial for both sides. You know, just like there's a
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lot of people talk about a lot of people don't like change,
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especially in the college landscape.
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And I'm not going to sit here and tell you it's a perfect
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system. None of it's perfect right now,
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but that's a whole other topic. But just you want we all, you
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and I, we always talk about, you know, this is America's pastime,
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baseball's America's pastime. And it's not reflected at the
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college level historically. But even with all the great
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programs we have, it's just not going to do the numbers.
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It's not even hardly on TV until the tournament, right?
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So, so it's just like if you have the continuity with like
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people staying in college, the pro players get more the pro
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leagues, they have a more polished product more time than
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not. Now to say all these guys are
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going to be all, all like all world players in the pros, but
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just feel like you have a more polished product.
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I know that the college, the college basketball, you know,
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for 20 years, you know, one and done era.
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So it's still 1 and done, but at least more you have more
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experienced players. Like this year, the NBA draft
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took place yesterday, just like just the first round.
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This was like the most celebrated draft board in like
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several years, in numerous years because like a lot of these
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guys, they were all, not only were they top talent, but
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there's a lot of experienced guys that were more polished
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because even though they transferred different to
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multiple places, you were in college, the college landscape
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longer. Yeah, and it this article says
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why is this proposed now? And it just points to the thing
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where college baseball has dramatically changed over the
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last decade. That's right.
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Top programs have pitching and hitting labs, and, you know,
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it's got LSU listed as as got Schools listed as LSU.
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Georgia, Wake Forest, Oregon State, North Carolina and Ohio
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State have embraced player tracking systems, bio mechanics,
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backtracking, force plates and advanced pitch design enveloped
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in their development of these players.
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You know, yeah. So I think personally this will
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get past, you know. Yeah.
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I don't think should I think for the overall game of baseball
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this is the way to go and I think the rules coming up for
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transfer Portal that they're trying to get past will also
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help keep these players in one place.
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Yeah. You know what, the only thing I
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can see, the only knock against it that I can see is unlike the
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NFL, in the NBA, baseball has the most opportunity for drafted
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players. Yeah, just the farm system and
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stuff like that, which I always love, which I always love.
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I always like the now the NBA, the G League, but it's not like
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the D league, the development league in the NBA is not as
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versed and deep as obviously baseball farm systems.
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That's one thing I always appreciate about baseball is
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like more multiple avenues just to really just to get in the
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door and the and the big show. So.
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Yeah. But see, I also don't think that
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it's going to necessarily hurt it.
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You still have the same players that are in the farm system
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right now and you still have the ability to sign undrafted free
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agents to the farm systems, you know, But I think a shorter
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draft by rounds along with making high school players go to
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college is just the best thing all around for the game.
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Like you said, ESPN doesn't cover it nearly enough.
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I mean, they have it on that ESPN app and everything for you
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to watch it every game. But as it being on a major
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channel, it's not always on, you know.
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But, you know, I think this will be a good thing.
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It'll put more coverage on baseball that we've already
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started this year with the Diamond Sports app.
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Yep. That's right.
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And like, you know, guys very big on that.
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Yeah, they've done incredible job.
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Those guys have done an incredible job.
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They even have it to where you can track the summer ball
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leagues. Yeah, it's amazing, man.
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You know, one thing I would like for them to do is to continue it
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and make it a year round thing and post news stories on.
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And you know how LSU does those, those scrimmages, not
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intramural, but the scrimmages, those exhibition games during
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the fall, if they would cover the exhibition games in the
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fall, you know, but also something they did and this is
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another good transition is they have a transfer portal tracker
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now. Yeah, that's right.
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So to close out the show, this show, I would like to hit on the
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transfer portal. So LSU's lost.
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LSU's lost seven guys in the portal so far with Maverick
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Rizzi. He's the only one who's actually
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committed at the moment to Ole Miss.
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We are losing Trent Carraway, Jaden New DJ Primo, Daniel
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Harding, Ethan Klaus and John Shadar.
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I don't know, never heard of him.
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I don't think he's popped up this season.
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We are getting Landon Hood who finished with 78 KS this year.
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His ERA was 248 and he's got a three in one record.
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He gave up 15 earned runs in those 54 innings pitched.
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You know he's walked 21, which isn't bad.
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He's fielding perfectly with two attempts, which is something was
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much welcomed and appreciated. LSU at the moment.
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Then we have Bino Waters. He batted 362.
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Ten home runs, 51 RB is his fielding percentage, 967.
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He committed 2 errors. That's not terrible.
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We can work on that. Kate Curlin from Florida, he's a
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listed as a second baseman. He hit 279, nine home runs, 33
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RBIs. His fielding fielding percentage
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is 994. He made one error.
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I like those numbers. Let's see.
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I got it pulled over here too. You got Diego Vasquez or what?
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I'm sorry if I butchered that last name.
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Velazquez, Velazquez. Velazquez.
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Got an all around player here. He batted 167 with one RBI, 426
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ERA, 5 and 134 KS. He walked nine and gave up 15
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earned runs. Fielding percentage.
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But he's a pitcher so I'll give him.
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I'll give him. It is 9. 52 Let's see, Jason
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Walsh from Tulane is an outfielder.
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Batted 327 with nine home runs and 54 RBI.
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This is where we need to work on a little bit.
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He's building percentage was 963 and he had three errors as an
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outfielder. We can't be having that, but
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they can work on that. Yeah, that can be polished up.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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I just like, you know, we talked about, you know, Jay, Jay wastes
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no time in the offseason, especially like, you know, this
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is he's been on a tear, especially since they had seen
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they ended normal earlier than normal.
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So you've been on a tear. So, I mean, I had not committed
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for really getting after it. And we stand.
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We got one more Dawson Park from Texas State battered 3 O one
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with 13 home runs and 52 RB OS and a fielding percentage of 987
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with three errors. That's not bad.
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I like it. See all these other guys is to
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sit there and straight tell you that and not talk about our
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underlying issue from this year. They'll just tell you their
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offensive numbers and stuff. We got to tell you their
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defensive numbers because at this point that's what matters
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most is defence. Yeah, there there's a, it's a
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defensive sport. As I always say, it's a
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defensive sport. Like I'm an offensive guy.
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But I mean, baseball is uniquely structured on the defensive side
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of the. Ball.
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I mean, look at it this, look at it this year, how many games did
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we score? 8 to 10 runs a game is still
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lost. More than ever.
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Because we couldn't field the ball, you know?
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But more pressure on the pitcher Extend the innings.
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Yes, it's a bad formula. I can see, OK, this is just me
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this year for next year, I can see our infield looking like
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Mason Braun at first. Either Rucker at second, Milan's
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going to be your shortstop, yes, then either curling at 3rd or at
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2nd and Rucker at 3rd instead, or Pearson being at 3rd.
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But I could also see Pearson being moved to the outfield.
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Yeah, because I know like he really settled in that third, in
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that third base spot down the stretch.
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Yeah, yeah, is what you get, get the elite fielders on as much as
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possible. So like just yeah, I think I'll
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just whatever you can do to get the elite defense on the field.
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Can you? Do that and you know, since we
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don't know who that last pitcher is because I don't think he's
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pitched the game at LSU. We're losing 6 and we brought
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6IN. You know, we are losing a lot of
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pitching and I think we only brought in two pitchers.
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But we do have that guy, that guy that declared he was coming
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out, he took his name out of draft and he's coming to LSU.
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That's the pitcher. So we should be good on the
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pitching standpoint. But you know, Jay loves his left
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handers and I think we need a few more left handers and a few
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more left-handed bats in the lineup.
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And you know. That's a cool man right there
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and with. As far as Curiel goes, who knows
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what's going to happen with him? Yeah.
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You know, the only thing to going back to the potential
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draft changes is if there was 12 rounds and no high school
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players in the draft this year. Yeah.
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He would definitely be going, but with the inclusion of high
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school players, if he doesn't go in the first round, which there
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was a You never know how these things are going.
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You are going to go, yeah, you know, you might think you're a
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first rounder, but these teams might want, let's get this high
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school kid. You know, that happened last
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year with Kate Anderson. We all thought he was going one.
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I think he went like 5. Yeah, I think, yeah, I was.
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I was just thinking that. Let me.
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Let's see. Think it was third I think.
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It might have been. I thought, I thought it was,
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yeah. Third overall, because they're
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like high school? Possibly, yeah.
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Yeah, it was just, you know, he went, but he went.
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Lower I thought I was as a foreground conclusion he'd be #1
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And that's yeah. But that so you never know what
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these teams need, you know, who never know how these agents act.
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And do some of these agents act in the best interest of their
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players, you know? Right.
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So who knows what's going on, but that'll do it from us will.
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Do you have any Closings? You know, I'm just like, you
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know, just great episode as always, brother.
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You know, just I'm eager to see what how this rest is offseason
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going to shape out, you know, just like the decisions coming.
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So, you know, we'll definitely just keep you posted and we're
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ready to talk about it. Just because we're only we're
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covering, we're going to start covering more of the football
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side. Baseball nowadays is year round,
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so we'll be covering baseball almost every single episode.
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We'll mention it. You know, we got a bunch to
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mention with the draft coming up.
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We'll keep you guys posted on some summer ball stuff for our
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Tigers, but that'll do it from us here.
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